In the afternoon of the same day, EDG arrived at the Chicago Grand Theater, the competition venue. This landmark building has a similar appearance to the San Francisco venue, with white walls and broken glass windows.
But entering the theater, the interior decorations of the two are obviously different. The former is solemn and solemn, while the latter, as one of the earliest movie theaters in the United States, originally used luxury and elegance as its concepts to attract upper-class audiences. After being renovated into an opera house,
The luxury of the interior has been taken to a new level.
The dazzling golden hall, crystal chandeliers, and bright red seats arranged in a curved three-tiered setting complement each other beautifully. A large electronic screen hangs in the center of the stage, as if the venue has restored its original function and is playing blockbuster movies.
Of course, the premise is that you can ignore the almost boiling cheers when you see the big-screen pre-game promo!
The strongest cheers before the start of the game came from the moment when the players appeared in the promotional video!
Due to the tight preparation time, only the mid laners of the two teams appeared in the promotional video, with less than five seconds of footage each.
First up is ROX mid laner Kuro, walking on the sidewalk in Chicago.
Unlike the high-spirited little peanut, his tone was very gentle, "Our team is ready to face edg, and we should be able to advance to the quarterfinals smoothly."
After a wonderful performance in the ROX group stage, it was Mi Xia's turn to take the camera.
She was wearing an edg black and red jacket, a plaid denim skirt and leather boots, sitting with her legs crossed on the Chicago subway, staring forward, and she had the temperament of a comic book female character.
At the same time, Sakura Girl's voice appeared in the background.
His tone is much more confident than Kuro's, "Rox is the No. 1 seed in LCK, and our EDG is also the No. 1 seed in LPL. I think the No. 1 seed in LPL is better than the No. 1 seed in LCK, and I will prove it in this game!
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The lck viewers who were watching the game in South Korea were all shouting "hard words!" in the live broadcast room. After all, not only did edg lose the second seed skt in the group stage, but also the wild card team intz lost the lpl first seed. They are not qualified to compete with lck.
Comparison of seeds.
At the scene, only the audience cheered wildly after hearing Mika's voice.
The promotional video switches to her solo show in the group stage, with commentary in English.
"Mika is like the heroine in Japanese animation. She pursued her dream from LJL to EDG, and fought with the idol director. Now the team has once again come to the moment to change the fate of the top eight, and she will do her best for this!"
This ends the promotional video for the quarterfinals.
Doll Miller and guest pdd are responsible for the commentary of this focus game between China and South Korea.
"Everyone must have watched the game the day before yesterday," Wawa first said, "rng was a little regretful in the end and lost to the defending champion skt."
"But it doesn't matter. Just as Mika said in the promotional video, we still have the No. 1 seed to help us get back on track today." He said cheerfully.
In his heart, he was not as optimistic as he appeared on the surface. The rng quarter-finals match was not just a narrow defeat, but a disastrous defeat.
edg's performance in the group stage was about the same as rng's, and this bo5 matchup with rox, the first seed, was a disaster.
But there is no way.
LPL is the only one left. No matter how unfavorable the audience and himself are, as an LPL commentator, he has to speak harshly.
Although pdd has a good relationship with edg and mika, his explanation is fair, "Yes, but the strength of rox cannot be underestimated. As the number one seed, they have performed very well in the lck this year, and they performed well in the group stage this time."
It’s actually better than edg.”
Miller said, "I can only say that I am looking forward to edg's adjustments in the past few days and the performance of bo5! If the factory director can maintain his performance against skt in the second round of the group stage, there is still a good chance of winning."
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After the three analyzed the strength and situation of the two teams, the players came on stage and the game officially began.
"Come on, with the enthusiastic applause of the audience, the game BP begins!
On the blue side, rox will first take down the factory director’s signature excavator, on the red side, edg will ban Spider, which has a very high winning rate in the group stage of Little Peanut, roxtiger will ban Poppy, and edg will ban Leopard Girl, who is also good at little Peanut." Watou said in one breath.
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"Rox has been thinking about the last move for a long time. Mika's Syndra was banned, and EDG banned Rat King Pray's Ice." Miller said.
Wawa exclaimed, "So, Faker performed very well in the quarter-finals, and Ryze, who Mika is also very good at, is still out there! How are Rox going to deal with it, are you going to give it to Kuro?"
On the bp interface, rox showed off the policewoman without hesitation.
The reason why they banned Syndra is to give Mika the roaming Ryze, and then let Kuro choose Dragon King or Viktor to mix with her. Rat King Pray uses the policewoman to break through the opponent from the bottom lane!
Ryze is just a trap, not too big or too small!
Mika didn't take the move, because to her, it didn't matter if Ryze was given to Kuro. Instead of taking Ryze, it was better to give the opportunity to her teammates.
So edg immediately chose to fight the blind monk and assist Zyra. While grabbing the blind monk, he also destroyed the opponent's policewoman Zyra combination.
Rox picks Olaf and Karma again.
The former is recognized as a restraint against the blind monk, while the latter can be used in conjunction with the female police officer to push quickly.
When it comes to ROX's second and third picks, Kuro still doesn't pick Ryze!
Meixia was not in a hurry. She first asked the adc to choose Jhin, then called the top laner to choose Jace, and continued to put Ryze out.
It was Rox's turn for the last two choices. The top laner chose Kennen to counter Jayce, and the mid laner Kuro chose Dragon King again, still leaving Ryze to Mika.
The situation is already obvious. Kuro doesn't know Ryze, or to put it more strictly, he has no confidence in using Ryze to fight against Mika! He is more confident that he can restrain Mika's Ryze with Dragon King!
Explain the situation.
Wawa even had a bolder idea, "Mika's last counter position seems to be able to swing mid-to-upper. Let Mika use Jace to face the Dragon King, and Mouse will choose a suitable hero to face Kennen!"
pdd was deeply impressed by Mika's Jace Lucian in the Spring Split, "This is really good. It not only relieves Mouse's laning pressure, but everyone understands Mika's AD mid lane strength!"
Jess swings mid-to-up. He has tried it in edg training matches and it counts as a tactical reserve, so Mouse also asked in the voice channel, "Mika, can you take Jess? It feels like it can swing!"
But Meixia was not prepared to do this.
"If Jace is swayed by me in this game, the top laner must use the mage hero to make up for the magic damage. The current version only has Rambo, and Rambo's fight against Kennen is even more difficult than Jace on the line, so Jace still gives Come on, my laning is not difficult enough to use Jace!"
Swinging just makes it easier for her to line up and transfers the pressure to the top lane! How can she accept this kind of thing!
"What hero do you want, Mika?" Abu asked, "Snake, vampire, Victor or little fish man?"
He focused on the little murloc because mika used the little murloc to counter the Dragon King in the Spring Split.
Meixia herself has a more brilliant idea.
Rox thinks Dragon King counters Ryze, but is it really a counter? In fact, there is no restraint between the two hero mechanisms. Dragon King's only advantage is that he roams faster, and Ryze may even have an advantage in team battles.
On the other hand, if we only focus on the laning, Miha can list a bunch of heroes that can restrain the Dragon King better than Ryze, but if those heroes win, they just win. In contrast, if Ryze defeats Kuro's Dragon King, not only will he have the chance to It breaks Kuto's mentality and can destroy all arrangements of Rox in the BP stage.
"Choose Ryze for me!" she decided.
Then the hero is locked.
For a moment, the audience and the commentators were all speechless.
Wawa smiled and said, "The two teams were fighting back and forth, but in the end, Mika still chose Ryze."
"Kuro left Ryze alone and didn't want to grab the Dragon King. He must have calculated that Mika would choose Ryze. He should be confident against Mika's Ryze. Mika is very strong-handed. She has different hero counter cognition from Kuro. !I just don’t know who can restrain who in Ryze Dragon King..."
pdd smiled and said, "This kind of thing will be known after the game!"
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The lineups of both sides are locked.
Blue square rox, top laner Kennen, jungler Olaf, mid laner Dragon King, adc policewoman and assistant Karma.
Red side edg, top laner Jayce, jungler Lee Sin, mid laner Ryze, adc Jhin and support Zyra.
