Su Chen took Xiaotian with him, and the two accepted the post-match interview with host sjokz.
Probably because it was his first interview with a foreigner, Xiaotian seemed much more nervous than in LPL.
I was hunched over the whole time, not daring to look at Sjokz who was smiling and stumbling even when answering questions.
Today sjokz is still dressed very charmingly. She wears a tight suit skirt and fish-mouth high heels, which perfectly outlines her proud figure.
Seeing Xiaotian's unswerving gaze in the live broadcast, the audience members also ridiculed him for being a tactical suppressor.
"Congratulations to ym for achieving six consecutive victories in the group stage. This is also the best result in the lpl division since the beginning of msi. Is this what you expected before coming to Berlin?" sjokz asked the topic again
It’s Su Chen.
Although Xiaotian's performance today was very eye-catching, breaking the stereotype of him in one fell swoop.
But she was still more interested in Su Chen.
Compared to a young boy, Su Chen, a mature and somewhat mysterious man, is more able to arouse her enthusiasm, well, in all aspects.
"Although the ultimate goal is to win the championship, we will not deliberately strive for any record. We will just prepare carefully for every game." Su Chen replied.
"Achieving this result is not only YM's record, but also the progress of the entire LPL division."
sjokz nodded approvingly: "You are now very leader-like."
In the past few days of the group stage, she watched a lot of Su Chen's previous games.
When he first joined LPL, Su Chen gave people the impression during the interview that he was not sure whether he was too upright or just a newbie, crazy and arrogant.
Looks too sharp.
After winning the league championship and coming to MSI, Su Chen seemed to have matured a lot.
He will always mention the club and the competition region in his words, and will not care too much about his own record.
sjokz couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
This person is a player destined to leave a record in the history of lol.
"Last question," sjokz switched cards, "You have a good chance of qualifying as the top spot in the group stage, and you will have the right to choose your first-round opponent. Which team do you prefer to play against at the moment?
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According to the competition rules of this year’s MSI.
The first place team in the group stage can choose its opponent among the third and fourth places.
Generally speaking, in order to ensure entering the finals, most people will pick the weak team to play, which is basically a matchup of first against fourth.
"I can't answer this question for you," Su Chen smiled slightly, "There are two days left in the group stage, and no one knows what will happen next."
"I don't like to say things too early and celebrate before reaching the finish line. Such behavior is tantamount to suicide."
"But no matter who we face in the knockout rounds, we will treat it with 100% strength."
After finishing the interview, we returned to the hotel.
It's already ten o'clock in the evening.
The dozen or so people who accompanied ym all gathered in a large box that was rented as a conference room.
There were more than twenty plates of various sizes on the long table, all of which were Chinese dishes.
The team members who had not eaten dinner were already hungry, so they rolled up their sleeves and started moving.
Seeing that the atmosphere was in place, Xiao Ma brought over the champagne that he had planned to open during the day. However, under the gaze of everyone, he was unable to open the cap of the champagne bottle for a long time, which made him blush with embarrassment.
"Chess!" Zhang Xiaowen gestured with the cup in a decent manner, then took a sip, his expression instantly distorted.
"What does this smell like?"
"Are you Long Ming? You don't even know how to drink champagne." Xiaotian mocked him unceremoniously and took a sip himself. As a result, his expression also became distorted.
Seeing their reactions, the left hand on the side also sniffed the cup with a suspicious look on his face.
"I'll let you drink Sprite from now on." Xiao Ma said angrily.
Everyone was laughing and enjoying the late night snack.
During this period, the team's boss pdd also made a video call, and his face looked rosy in the camera.
He seems to be recovering well, and the double chin that had disappeared has grown back again.
Meng Ma and Su Chen were discussing the arrangements for the remaining two match days.
"I think we should try to get the first place and qualify. This is not just a matter of recording or not." Meng Ma picked up a piece of boiled fish and put it in his mouth. "When it comes to the knockout rounds...well, I have more initiative."
"Samsung, g2 has already locked two positions. The rest depends on whether it is TSM or Flash Wolf." Su Chen thought while sipping champagne.
If the Flash Wolves advance to the semi-finals, ym will choose him without hesitation.
After all, the only strong point of this team is Hanabi on the top lane.
This kind of competition between the two sides to see who is the best on the road, ym is very willing to play.
However, if it comes from tsm, that is not necessarily the case.
After all, the senior brother in the bottom lane is the best AD player in this year's competition besides Chiku.
If we really want to compete, ym may still be willing to compete with g2 in the middle and jungle, rather than exposing his weakness to tsm.
"Then it seems that it would be better for Flash Wolf to enter the semi-finals," Meng Ma thought, "War Horse has been communicating with me in the past two days. I will go and have a chat with him."
Su Chen nodded.
Group stage day 4.
The first battle will be between Flash Wolves and EVs.
After 34 minutes of fierce fighting.
The Flash Wolves unfortunately lost, and EVS finally won its first victory in the MSI group stage on the fourth day.
In this game, Flash Wolf will lose. To put it simply, there is something wrong with his thinking.
Let’s not mention Kasha, the strongest AD in EVS this year besides ez.
In my own bottom lane, I have built a wheel mother and a Kalma to play with the lane flow.
In the middle maple, there are heroes like Airplane, Ryze, and Enchantress who are strong in the mid-to-late game, and I took Zoe to play poke.
evs directly backhanded out a Morgana mid laner, making Maple invisible for the whole game.
However, this Vietnamese Iron Man finally exploded once. On the road, Jace killed Hanabi's Crocodile twice.
After watching the last five Lightning Wolves fall ill and be wiped out by the group, Su Chen also twitched the corner of his mouth. He turned to look at Meng Ma and found that he was looking out the window and lost in thought.
Day 4 full-day schedule.
The Flash Wolves lost to evs first and then to tsm, falling out of the top four teams early.
After Samsung won G2, they unexpectedly lost to TSM, scoring only six points and failing to overtake YM on the fourth day.
And ym won a complete victory again, leading the pack with a record of 8-0!
The rankings of the group stage are also basically determined.
YM firmly takes the top spot, followed by Samsung, while G2 and TSM fall into the third or fourth place.
As the rankings are established, the day 5 schedule becomes insignificant.
All teams also played very restrained.
Samsung lost to g2, and g2 also lost to Flash Wolves.
In the final game, the teams that entered the top four also played in a secretive manner, trying not to give their opponents a chance to spy on them.
In the last game of the finale against Flash Wolves, ym led for 25 minutes, then the whole team made a wave and was overturned by Flash Wolves, finally giving them a victory.
In the end, YM advanced to the MSI semi-finals with a record of 9-1!
This is also the best result of the LPL division team since the MSI was held in 2015!
After winning the game, War Horse was still very excited. After the game, he went to the ym lounge to say goodbye.
"It's such a pity that I couldn't compete with you in the knockout round." War Horse said with regret, "It's a shame that I studied YM for so long."
"It's okay, it's okay. Didn't you win a game? It's hard to say if we're going to meet in the knockout round." Meng Ma said angrily.
"Don't comfort me. If you can't even see the difference in team strength, I don't need to be this coach." War Horse also smiled and shook his head.
In the past few years in the LMS division, Flash Wolves have been unable to make a breakthrough in international competitions.
MSI failed to make it out of the group stage, which was another blow to Warhorse.
Perhaps, the team building philosophy and tactical direction he has always adhered to are wrong.
Looking at Su Chen in front of him and Xiaotian standing behind him, his left hand.
War Horse couldn't help but have some thoughts in his mind.
What kind of team and players can defeat this ym in front of them?
At the beginning of the year, War Horse had already received an invitation from fpx.
If he still stands still after playing S8 this season, then he should go to LPL to try the waters.
After the war horse left.
The ym team also held an all-hands meeting.
On the one hand, they reviewed the five-day group stage schedule. Meng and Ma also highlighted the problems existing in the team and the style of play that should be continued.
After 10 games, the current ym has mastered three ideas.
The first and most stable one is the double AD routine of mid laner aircraft paired with bottom lane wheel mother/ice/jhin.
The second type, which is Xiaotian’s wild core play style, has male spears/leopard girls/kindred as options.
In the last four games of the group stage, Xiaotian and Su Chen each won two MVPs, which finally made Meng Ma feel relieved and could design some tactics for Xiaotian without any scruples.
If neither of these two ideas can win.
Then Meng Ma can only unleash his trump card.
That is, let Su Chen go!
The top lane is also YM's secret ultimate move.
Samsung, g2, and tsm also all know how ym won in the first half of the group stage.
However, no one knows whether Jiang Keda will have any hidden cards after Akali and Sword Demon.
After all the group stage matches are over.
The four teams that entered the MSI knockout round were all given a two-day break.
During this period, in the domestic lol circle, in addition to the daily battles between black and white players, many people in the circle are also discussing the draw ceremony for the semi-finals.
According to the rules, the top-ranked ym has the right to first select its opponent in the first round.
The current discussion point is whether ym should play g2 or tsm.
Normally speaking, ym and tsm would be a more stable choice.
After all, in terms of strength, g2's overall strength is more than one level higher than tsm.
However, look at the entire group stage schedule.
On the contrary, when it comes to ym and tsm, it will be more difficult to fight.
Because of the existence of the big brother in the bottom lane, ym will pour a lot of energy into the bottom lane on BP.
ez, Kai'Sa, and Xayah are the bovy ones who don't know how to play, but they can't be left to the senior brother, so they all have to be banned.
This makes it difficult for the left hand in the middle and Xiaotian in the jungle to get better options.
When playing g2, the bottom lanes on both sides are pure hybrids.
Even bovy can gain a foothold with functional ads like Ice and Jhin.
ym can safely compete with g2 in the middle and upper jungle.
On the contrary, it will look more stable.
Interestingly.
During these two days off.
On Twitter, g2 and tsm also made harsh remarks.
tsm expressed the hope that ym could select him in the first round, and posted a photo of Bjergsen and his senior brother eyeing each other eagerly, looking like he was about to suffer the shame of being double-killed in the group stage.
On the other hand, g2 showed a strange attitude. If you want to enter the finals, then choose tsm. After all, ym has exhausted all his tricks, and on his side, he still has a lot of things hidden.
After saying that, g2 also posted a picture. It showed five heroes, Qinggang Ying, Gnar, Sword Demon, Akali, and Ornn, on the ban position, and YM's team flag was directly split into two halves.
What g2 means, I don’t know if they are really trying to improve the program, or if they really plan to place orders in five bans.
As for Samsung, which ranks second, it seems relatively cold on Twitter.
Faced with the interaction request from g2 and tsm, Samsung simply responded with an emoticon, as if it had nothing to do with it.
Anyway, when the time comes, ym will finish the selection first and let him pick the rest.
May 17, 20:00 China time.
Inside the LCS studio in Berlin.
The drawing ceremony for the semi-finals has also officially begun.
The four teams that entered the knockout rounds, ym, gneg, g2, and tsm, each sent a representative to participate in tonight's draw ceremony.
After a group stage review video was played on the big screen, sjokz also slowly took the stage. After summarizing the wonderful performances of the past few days, he introduced the representatives of the four teams participating in the draw ceremony tonight.
"The first person to appear is the jkd player from ym!"
Under the introduction of sjokz, Su Chen, wearing a pitch black YM team uniform, slowly stepped onto the stage under the spotlight.
The auditorium immediately burst into cheers. Many Berlin spectators immediately made the shape of a trumpet with their hands and shouted TSM slogans, expressing their hope that YM would select TSM first in the first round.
Next up was the representative of Samsung, Captain An.
Then, there is the smiling perkz, and the bearded Bilson who looks a little weathered.
Representatives of the four teams stood on both sides of sjokz.
She also briefly introduced the rules.
In order to make the lottery more interesting, the organizers of this year's MSI also played a little trick.
Let the four teams choose the team you want to challenge.
Finally, the selection of the number one ym will be announced to re-rank.
This process can also reveal the true thoughts of each team and trigger some discussion.
After sjokz’s introduction, the four representatives also placed the hand cards they had written on them into sjokz’s hands.
sjokz put Su Chen's hand card aside alone, and then thought about the choices of the other three teams.
"The geng team from lck, their opponent in the first round is the tsm team!"
There was a burst of shouts at the scene immediately.
Although g2 either plays Samsung or ym, once the teams in the lck division enter the knockout rounds, they are often in a different state.
If possible, European audiences don't want g2 to face Samsung in the first round.
After reading the three stars, sjokz also went on to read out the choices of the other two teams.
"The g2 team from EU, their opponent is the geng team!"
"As for na's tsm team, they chose the ym team!"
Unexpectedly, g2 actually wanted to beat Samsung in the first round. Combined with the various scenes of them shouting about ym on Twitter, one can't help but sigh that this team is really confident.
On the other hand, tsm wants to beat ym, which also shows that they know their own advantages.
If you beat Samsung, tsm should have no chance at all.
Each team has different ideas, but in the end, the final decision is made by ym.
After drawing Su Chen's hand card.
sjokz first looked around and asked Su Chen beside him in a mischievous manner, saying that it was not too late to make changes now.
After Su Chen smiled and shook his head.
sjokz also read out his choice loudly.
"The ym team from the lpl division, their opponent in the first round is g2!"
When sjokz reads this choice.
Bilson shook his head regretfully, which meant that they were about to face Samsung.
Head An turned his head and glanced at Su Chen, but didn't say anything.
Only perkz, who was selected, was not surprised after confirming that he would play against ym in the first round. Instead, he smiled and clapped.
He looked confident.
After the draw ceremony, the matchups for the semi-finals of the 2018 MSI were officially born.
ym plays against g2, while Samsung plays against tsm.
Tomorrow, these four teams will also leave Berlin and go to the Zenith Arena in Paris to officially start the semi-finals competition!
