The group stage is over, followed by a five-day training period. At this time, there are very few training matches that each team can invite. In addition to two games with fw, which is in a different group in the knockout round, edg basically spent the rest of the time with their own team.
Second team training.
EDG has the advantage of home court resources and cannot invite professional teams who are on vacation to be sparring partners. The other three teams lack channels for training matches and can only keep ranking to save their status.
In the past few days, there are posts all over the Internet analyzing the ranking results of various players. For a while, [Faker is training Riven mid laner, maybe it is the secret weapon of the semi-finals], [Benji has ten ranking games in one night, and he is probably warming up to start in the knockout rounds]
, [The strength of all members of the Flash Wolves as kings cannot be underestimated], [CLG top laner Darshan was crazily sniped by the anchor, stuck in the national server, and became the lowest rank among knockout players] and other discussions can be found in various forums.
At the same time, the most explosive news about edg has nothing to do with rankings, but the photos of daily life posted by mika on social software.
The protagonist of the photo is not mika herself.
But it was Haidilao staff who performed handmade ramen noodles, and coach Abu who sat opposite mika with his face covered and his eyes wandering!
"I'm super, Abu didn't know that SKT's condition suddenly changed after eating Haidilao before, but he actually took Mika to eat it."
"Is edg looking for death? If you are going to eat Haidilao at this time, why not eat beef noodles?!"
"Don't you read Mika's caption above? It's clearly written [I begged the coach for a long time and finally took Mika to eat Haidilao after the game.] Can you blame Abu?"
"Haha, today Mika agreed to go eat Haidilao after begging twice. Could it be that tomorrow Mika asked Abu to choose Teemo as the mid laner in the competition and he agreed to it? The day after tomorrow, I don't dare to think about what Abu will agree to Mika's request..."
"Abu will agree to let Mika fall in love with me the day after tomorrow!"
"Sorry, mika's parents have already agreed to marry mika to me."
"I saw a lot of clowns..."
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The Haidilao controversy in edg gradually faded away with Abramovich sighing from time to time. Five days passed, and the semi-finals of the MSI Mid-Season Invitational began grandly.
The Oriental Stadium was packed with people on Friday evening, and hundreds of green and white fluorescent sticks were waving left and right in the stadium.
The live broadcast camera moved from outside the field to the host's desk. In the semi-finals, there were still two groups of off-field analysis and on-field event commentary, and the off-field team was expanded from the original three to four.
They are Su Xiaoyan, Changmao, Zhizi and Su Xiaoluo.
After the four people introduced themselves, the big screen showed the detailed results of the two teams in the group stage.
From the bottom of his heart, Changmao supports the formation of the fw team next door, but on the surface he has done a good job, "Okay, the much-anticipated China-South Korea showdown between edg and skt is about to begin!
Judging from the data of the two teams in the group stage on the big screen, EDG seems to be in the absolute lead! Regardless of KDA or average economic lead per game... Wow, especially Mika's kill data, it is gorgeous! By the way...
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As Changmao paused, Su Xiaoyan next to her answered with understanding, "Well! Although everyone has probably already heard the news of the launch, it still needs to be announced again...
In today's EDG lineup, mika returned to the starting lineup. At the same time, on skt, everyone speculated that benji would replace blank in the starting lineup, but it did not happen."
Changmao said, "Mika performed brilliantly in the first round of the group stage, but was benched in the second round. Now he has returned to the starting lineup in the knockout round, and SKT jungler Blank clearly seems to be in average condition, but SKT has a substitute idiot.
He was still allowed to play despite the situation. It seemed that the rotation of the two teams was very unpredictable...
As the leader of the professional team, Su Xiaoluo, can you give us a detailed analysis of the reasons for EDG's substitution today?" Gu Hui
Su Xiaoluo based on his own private guess, Abramovich probably wanted to suppress Mika's popularity and avoid the opponent's salary increase after MSI. The subtext is that it doesn't matter if you are missing from the team, so don't ask for excessive prices. SKT coach kkoma seems to have received the jungle benefits.
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But you have to behave professionally on the commentary stage. He analyzed seriously, "Team changes usually depend on the player's condition. Maybe Mika was in average form before, but he adjusted back during the offseason, and Benji may not have been as good as Blank in training matches.
.In short, the factors that determine the rotation of the coach must be more complicated than the audience thinks!"
As the controller, Changmao continued to guide the topic and enhance the atmosphere, "That's right! Okay, so now that Mika is starting, what kind of tactics do you think EDG and SKT will use today?"
Starting from Su Xiaoyan, the other three analyzed each one.
"EDG is definitely mainly focused on laning and mid-field coordination. Mika's laning ability is really outstanding, which can be seen from the single kill data in almost every game."
"Yes, Mika and Pawn on EDG have different styles. Although she has performed well in Dragon King Tsar recently, even if she gets a mage, she mostly has a fighting style, and she rarely runs the game beyond thirty minutes."
"Then let me analyze skt. I feel that skt's recent state is too bad. It may be difficult for them to gain an advantage in the early stage of the match by relying on operations. If they want to win, they can only stabilize in the early stage and drag the game to the late stage."
There was no direct statement in the words, but the tone of several commentators unanimously favored that EDG's early level was better than SKT, and its overall strength was stronger than SKT, which is currently in a sluggish state!
It’s not just the commentators and viewers in the LPL division who think EDG is better than SKT.
Even LCK's local commentators and English streamers find it difficult to have hope for SKT. After all, SKT lost all their faces after losing to edg and clg in the group stage. After losing clg, they lost to fw and then to g2.
Lck’s commentator Jin Yongjun, who is known as the Roaring Emperor, is trying hard to make the audience in the competition give confidence to the team, “Although SKT did not replace Blank today, let us believe in Faker and coach KKoma!
This team that has won two world championship trophies will never give up easily. They are fully prepared for this bo5 and will make every effort to win!"
Jin Dongjun, another long-faced LCK veteran commentator next to him, nodded, "Yongjun is right, but I must also say in advance that if SKT loses in the MSI semi-finals this time, it will be a pity that they will not advance, and I hope everyone can relax... After all,
Last year, SKT also lost the MSI finals, but in October the World Championships, they won the championship with a new attitude."
Of course, Roaring Emperor didn't want to say something unfavorable to Europe before the game, "Haha, that's all for later! The game hasn't started yet. Let us, the tens of millions of viewers of lck, support skt together, chant skt together, and convey everyone's thoughts.
Give it to Faker who is playing away from home in the Magic City of China!"
More than 30 million viewers from all over the world stood in front of the live broadcast and screamed silently from the bottom of their hearts, while the deafening shouts rang out in the Oriental Stadium in Shanghai.
edg!edg!edg!
Loud voice!
skt!skt!skt!
Although the Chinese audience will not boo the opponent, the cheers will naturally become dull.
The stanza is followed by Edg wearing a black and gold jersey.
And SKT in red jersey.
One left and one right walked into the center of the stage together!
