The BGM before the kickoff of the knockout round rang out again in the Zenith Stadium.
The g2 fans who watched the game live were disappointed with the result, but they still applauded ym who won on the stage.
After playing four games.
They also have to admit that ym is the better team.
Tonight's b05, ym performance was even better than their performance in the group stage.
Game seats for g2.
Ah P took off his earphones and glanced left and right. Brothers Wunder and Jankos also understood.
The five members of g2 gathered together and roared: "let`s go home! g2!"
Then they started mocking each other, with helpless smiles on their faces.
Won the championship in the spring split and played at home in MSI.
For g2, it would be a wonderful thing if they could win the msi championship.
Before going to the MSI, g2 also seriously considered the teams that needed the most attention on the road to the championship.
lck's geng is naturally the biggest boss.
Secondly, there is the lpl championship team.
Originally, g2 had been studying edg and we for a while, but unexpectedly, a completely unfamiliar team came this year, ym.
But this team easily defeated g2 tonight.
In these four games, g2's mid laner Dao Mei and Nightmare's routines were all resolved by ym one by one.
The super weird swing lineup in the last game couldn't disturb ym's ambition.
On the night of the circus, the demons on both sides danced wildly and fought with each other. G2 did not lose unfairly, but they played with all their heart.
This result can only be accepted.
Su Chen took his teammates to the g2 game booth.
As he expected, people in g2 were not very upset after losing the game. The reputation of Europe's optimistic family cannot be built on.
In 2016, the fledgling Ap led g2 to win the EU spring championship and advanced to msi. He was very high-spirited for a while.
As a result, they achieved a score of 2-8 in the group stage, which established g28's international reputation.
After returning home, Ah P himself often joked about it and didn't care.
It shows how good the mentality is.
"Hey! Are you your real person or your fake one?" Faced with Su Chen's extended hand, Ah P pretended to be very suspicious, and exaggeratedly looked at his back several times, for fear that someone would backstab him.
Xiaotian, Zuo Zuo and others behind him were all confused.
"Don't be nervous, there is no box under your feet." Su Chen also smiled.
Ah P happily shook hands with Su Chen, not caring that the person in front of him had just defeated him at home.
As early as the LPL playoffs, Ah P noticed the player Su Chen.
At that time, in the last game of the LPL Spring Split Finals, edg had a financial advantage of 10,000 and was about to win.
He even posted a message on Twitter in advance to celebrate, but he didn't expect that Su Chen would turn him around.
After watching the game, Ah P played a dozen Qinggang Shadows in a live broadcast, saying that he wanted to get this hero into the mid-range unit on the MSI. In the end, because the probability of this hero being banned was too high, he couldn't do it.
"Promise me one thing," Ah P said seriously, "I will give Samsung a good beating in the finals."
"Huh? There's no result yet in tomorrow's semi-finals, are you so sure that tsm will lose?" Su Chen asked.
Upon hearing Su Chen's words, Ah P, Jankos, and Wunder behind him looked at each other, and then burst into laughter.
"Okay," Su Chen also knew that TSM had little hope of promotion, "but do you have any issues with Samsung?"
Ap shook his head and said seriously: "If you beat Samsung and win the championship, wouldn't it mean that we lost to the championship team?"
"After all this time, we are pretty much the runner-up in MSI."
Su Chen was dumbfounded by Ah P's theory and could only nod in agreement.
On the other side, Jankos also chatted a lot with Xiaotian, expressing his recognition of Xiaotian and his determination to take revenge in this year's World Championship.
In the four games of b05, Xiaotian also performed very well. He did not let jankos take any advantage in the jungle, which also surprised him.
He couldn't understand why this square-faced boy from China suddenly exploded in the group stage and completed his transformation.
The Garlic Bastard pretended to understand the English meaning and nodded seriously.
Because of the large height difference, he held Jankos's hand and looked up at him.
The scene of the two people looking at each other affectionately is quite funny.
Inside the studio of LCS.
The three EU commentators are also reviewing tonight's series.
"Neutral Commentator" Deficio, "G Miscellaneous" Deckert, and "Jiang Ke Big Fan" Yuli appeared in front of the camera.
"Before you review the situation, Decter, you must first fulfill your promise." Yuli said with a sly smile.
"Hey, are you serious? We are live broadcasting now!" Defesio seemed to be blocking him, but in fact he had an impatient expression on his face.
In the semi-finals knockout round, ym won g2.
Decker made a bet with the three of them in the studio.
If g2 can lose to ym.
He could just use his leather shoes as a wine glass, pour red wine and take a sip.
"Deckert, for such a manly man like you, I believe you will keep your promise." Yuli tucked his long pink hair behind his ears and said with a smile.
"Of course!" Decker smiled disdainfully, then took out a leather shoe and slapped it on the table, then poured red wine into it.
"f2!"
Decter picked up his "shoe wine" with a solemn expression and drank it without changing his expression.
Defesio on the side quickly took out his mobile phone to take a video, while Yuli was laughing so hard.
The European viewers in this lively live broadcast room were overjoyed, and they also diluted the loss of the game.
After the three people's fun was over, they also summarized and reviewed tonight's round of b05.
In the knockout rounds, g2 was well prepared and the various routines they came up with were quite novel.
A combination of mid laner Dao Mei, jungler Shen, and Ice Maiden in the bottom lane. These black-tech gameplays would probably have been outperformed by G2 if they were used by an ordinary team.
But it's a pity that ym not only took the trick.
Even more expensive than g2.
I believe that for many years to come, e-sports fans will also remember this circus night tonight.
"I have to admit that jkd is indeed an amazing player. His performance in these four games has refreshed my understanding of the top lane path." Deckert, who had always looked down on jkd, finally came to his senses at this time.
Relaxed.
"Maybe we are witnessing the beginning of a legendary career," DeFesio nodded, "JKD has already shown his strong strength on the international stage, but after all, he still only has one LPL league championship. I believe
, when he wins the MSI championship, he will gain the respect of the world!"
"Bless JKD. Their opponent in the finals will most likely be Geng (Samsung)." Yuli looked a little serious.
Even though she is a big fan of Jiang Ke University.
Even if ym defeated Samsung in the group stage.
She didn't dare to boast about Haikou. If they really met in the finals, YM would definitely beat Samsung.
After all, since the 2015 S-League, the champions of international competitions have all fallen into the lck division.
It’s not surprising that the lck team in the group stage was weak and performed amazingly in other divisions.
Like last year's S-match, SKT stumbled in the group stage, and Samsung was even double-killed by RNG. It seems that the LPL is in a good situation.
However, in the end, it was Samsung and SKT that finally joined forces in the Bird's Nest.
At present, it seems that this era is still dominated by lck.
…
After taking g2.
ym Everyone returned to the locker room to rest and celebrate.
The happiest person to advance to the MSI finals is undoubtedly the team manager Xiao Ma.
He took over the management of YM Club, and in less than a year, it has already reached the level of MSI Finals.
Regardless of whether he wins the championship or not, his income will definitely increase after returning to China.
Xiao Ma's basic salary in ym is 100,000 yuan per month. Although it is not as much as Su Chen, he will receive full-year dividends from the club and will be evaluated based on the team's results.
If you are not careful, you may earn millions.
You know, Xiao Ma is only in his early twenties, one year younger than Su Chen, so he can be said to be the biggest winner.
After popping the remaining champagne from the group stage, everyone walked out of the lounge to complete the rest of the process.
Knockout round, post-game interview session.
The five players from ym, together with the head coach Meng Ma and the manager Xiao Ma, lined up in a row and sat in the interview seat.
In the audience, there were reporters from different competition regions.
"Player jkd, in the third and fourth games tonight, you used the heroes Rengar and Shaco as top laners respectively. Was this unpopular BP decided by the coach, or was it your own idea?"
A reporter from the EU competition asked in English.
This time Su Chen did not take the initiative to answer the question, but waited for the translator to repeat it in Chinese before answering.
After all, many domestic viewers watching the live broadcast do not understand English.
"While preparing for this series with g2, the coach considered that the opponent might have a relatively unpopular BP routine, so we discussed it together and finally came up with these two heroes. In the end, we were lucky enough to win the game." Su
Chen said methodically.
"In the 14 games since the start of MSI, you have used more than ten top lane heroes. Will there be new heroes coming in the future?" the reporter asked again.
"If necessary, I will." Su Chen smiled.
The EU reporters in the audience also nodded frequently at this time.
In this round of the series, jkd’s hero pool is really unfathomable. The depth of the hero pool in this round is already vaguely similar to the “everything can be mid lane” feeling that Faker had in the mid lane in the S5 era.
Lun's dominance on the top lane is not inferior to that of Marin back then.
It’s not unfair for g2 to lose to such a monster.
"I would like to ask jkd players, regarding the game between geng and tsm tomorrow, which team do you think will win? Which team ym would rather encounter in the finals?" a lck reporter took the initiative to ask.
"I think both teams have a chance. No matter who advances to the finals, we will be ready." Su Chen said calmly.
Upon hearing this answer, the lck reporter was stunned for a moment.
He originally wanted to focus on listening to Su Chen's views on geng, but the other party gave an understatement and even said that tsm also had a chance to defeat geng.
Unlike other teams in this MSI, they don’t attach great importance to geng.
"I hope you can still be so calm after the finals." The lck reporter cursed in his heart.
Next, other ym team members also answered the reporter's questions accordingly.
Xiaotian is the ym player who gets the most attention besides Su Chen.
Many people are also curious as to why he, who performed poorly in the first half of the group stage, suddenly rose to prominence and has the potential to become MSI's number one jungler.
Xiaotian himself also found this very miraculous, saying that after learning a set of meditation methods from Su Chen, his condition became better each time.
The journalists who listened to EU immediately began to guess that this meditation method might not be related to various mysterious legends in China.
After the interview was completed, ym chartered a car back to the hotel, held a brief meeting to review the interview, and then asked the contestants to go back to the hotel to rest.
inside the room.
Su Chen took a shower, ate a late-night snack, and read various domestic news on Weibo.
After defeating g2 and advancing to this year's msi finals.
As expected, a series of topics related to ym have become hot searches again.
Reaching the MSI finals is another new high for LPL since 2015.
This kind of history-making achievement is naturally worthy of praise.
Wawa, Miller, Yan Junze and others who were responsible for the commentary also posted on Weibo immediately after the game to express their congratulations.
Other commentators and players in the circle also forwarded their congratulations.
On YM's official Weibo, some photos of tonight's game were also released.
There were local Chinese students in Paris who came specially to support ym.
There are also photos of the players in the competition seats.
Among them, there is a profile photo of Su Chen, which has a high number of likes and has made it to the homepage of the topic section.
In this photo, he is wearing a black uniform and staring at the screen with cold eyes. Due to the lighting, half of his face is hidden in the shadows. Judging from his temperament, he does look like a perverted murderer.
"How the hell was this taken?" Su Chen couldn't help but laugh.
He couldn't even remember what he was thinking at the time.
In the comment area, netizens also made a lot of pranks.
Some have various subtitles, and some have wild guesses about his psychological activities.
Some people even photoshopped this photo and added clown makeup and wig, which made people’s scalp numb.
However, this behavior has naturally been unanimously opposed by female fans.
"Don't mess with my brother's pictures!"
However, a prank is a prank.
Su Chen's poodle in the third game and the clown in the fourth game have basically never appeared in LPL.
To be able to put this kind of hero on the stage of an international competition and win so beautifully.
No wonder the reaction from the outside world is so great.
…
May 20th.
6pm.
Another matchup in the semi-finals knockout round, the match between Samsung Geng and North American TSM, also started at the Zenith Arena.
Because the European home team g2 was eliminated yesterday.
Therefore, the audience at the scene today is obviously smaller.
The entire series process was far less exciting than yesterday's circus night, and even the process was a bit boring.
Samsung eliminated tsm without any suspense with a score of 3 to 0.
The first scene of b05.
The three stars on the blue side have selected the lineup of top laner Gnar, fighting wild boar girl, mid laner Karma, and bottom lane Xiabulon.
As for tsm, the top laner is Kennen, the jungler is Barrel, the mid laner is Syndra, and the bottom lane is Lucian Titan.
Looking at the lineup alone, tsm has a strong offensive ability in the early stage and wants to seize the early rhythm.
However, the first blood did not break out until 9 minutes into the first game.
TSM's auxiliary Titan went around to the middle, and together with the wine barrel, Nosuke dodged with each other, forcing Crown Brother's Karma to get past him, and got his head.
But this is the only highlight of this game for tsm.
Facing several waves of fierce attacks from tsm, Samsung easily defused them as if they were doing Tai Chi.
Relying on Kalma's mobility in the middle, Samsung spread the field of view unhurriedly, allowing TSM's actions to be seen at a glance.
Khan played very steadily on the road, and the opponent's jungler counter-crouched several times, but Gnar could not reach the river, wasting a lot of time on the opponent's side.
At 22 minutes, Chichi's Xia got a three-piece suit.
Samsung launched a team battle and defeated tsm, then easily pushed away the crystal and won the first game.
In the second game, the two sides changed sides and fought again.
tsm grabbed the popular version of ez for the senior brother, and Bjergsen in the middle played the relatively unpopular fatan mid laner Crow.
However, Samsung started to play the upper and jungle linkage in this game.
Khan took out Jace, and Leader An played the blind man.
Within six minutes, Leader An made two waves in succession, giving Khan a huge advantage.
Although the senior brother's ez, in the subsequent wave of team battles, performed such a superb performance as three kills.
However, tsm cannot handle the situation of Khan playing alone on the wing.
Samsung, on the other hand, seized the opportunity to rush away from Baron, and its economic advantage quickly expanded.
Then starting from the middle, at the speed of a high ground in 5 minutes, they slowly eroded away tsm's base.
Although this game lasted 33 minutes, judging from the perception of the game.
It's not that tsm is holding up the game, but Samsung itself seems to have a timetable and is advancing the pace of the game step by step.
After watching the second scene.
Not just spectators from other competition regions.
Even people in North America feel that TSM has no hope of making a comeback.
Relying on the power of Big Brother and Bilson, tsm lasted for one and a half games.
However, there is no way to break through the Samsung Iron Lock Formation.
This kind of competition style that is like boiling a frog in warm water and swallowing the opponent step by step is really suffocating.
In the third game, tsm did a good job in BP. It did not give Samsung ez and Xia, but also got Enchantress for Bilson and the small cannon for Senior Brother.
However, Samsung paid a lot of money, and the only gain was to get Kai'Sa for Ruler Emperor.
In the life and death game, tsm performed very well.
Bilson single-handedly killed Crown Brother's Kalma in the middle, and Khan failed to seize Hauzer's line rights.
Even leader An in the jungle had some problems with his early rhythm.
However, after 15 minutes, Kai'Sa of Chichi Emperor completely became an existence that TSM could not contain.
A wave of team battles in Xiaolongkeng.
After tsm killed Crown Brother in seconds and crippled Leader An, the head-on battle was about to win.
Kai’Sa from Chi Di performed a wave of amazing moves!
First, e [Extreme Overload] accelerates and twists away the opponent's skills.
Then he flashed forward and used q [Icacia Heavy Rain] to instantly drop Pilsen's Enchantress.
When the rest of tsm rushed over, they used their ultimate move [Hunter Instinct] to move outside the wall of the dragon pit and hit the big brother's small cannon to death.
Kai'Sa got a wave of four kills!
TSM only has the wild wine barrel to escape.
However, Kai'Sa's long-distance W [Void Search] predicted the direction and killed him again.
Kai'Sa also jumped out of the canyon and received the "penta kill" prompt.
The scene was in an uproar.
This is another five kills on MSI after Akali from Jiangsu University of Science and Technology!
In a private room of the hotel.
The whole ym team is also watching this game.
After witnessing Chi Di's operation, Xiao Tian couldn't help but say "fuck".
Zhang Xiaowen's jaw almost dropped when he saw it.
"Is this Kai'Sa so showy?" The left hand was also dumbfounded.
On MSI, Kai'Sa also appeared a few times.
Although this hero has high stats and is relatively simple to operate, after today's match with Chi Emperor, the outside world has finally seen how high the upper limit of Kai'Sa is.
And the subsequent wave of team battles.
Chidi's Kai'Sa once again performed Tianxiu's operation. After hitting the big brother's cannon with w [Void Search] in the middle, he flew directly over with his ultimate move and melted the cannon in front of everyone in TSM.
An AD hero was able to bypass the front row and defeat the opponent's C position in the back row.
This is simply outrageous.
And Emperor Chi's blow completely destroyed TSM's last bit of confidence.
26 minutes.
Samsung once again demolished tsm's base, won three cities in a row, and advanced to the finals.
This is how the two teams in this year's MSI finals were born.
From ym from lpl, against Samsung from lck.
The Zhonghan battle will be staged again in the finals.
After watching the three-star rating game.
Meng Ma's expression was a bit serious.
In the group stage, his focus on the bottom lane was more on the hero ez.
However, after watching these three games between Samsung and tsm, the entire ym team has seen how terrifying Kai'Sa of Ruler Emperor can be.
The state shown by Samsung in the knockout rounds was completely different from the past few games.
They hardly make any mistakes.
After winning two games in the group stage, the confidence ym had built up now seemed less than sufficient.
"In the three games, geng used three methods to win the opponent, but I believe everyone can see that their strengths are their control of vision and extremely low turnover rate." Meng Ma wrote on the tactical board.
Writing and drawing.
"Compared to last year's lineup that won the S-League championship, this year's Samsung team is obviously a level higher." Su Chen said.
"Yes, Samsung's victory over SKT last year largely relied on their control of the map's vision." Meng Ma nodded.
"However, after the introduction of Khan this year, Samsung can not only operate operations, but also online. And the ruler's status this year seems to be very popular."
"The next round of the series may be the most severe test we have ever faced in the bottom lane."
After Meng Ma finished speaking, he glanced at bovy in the team.
This move was also noticed by Su Chen.
He knew where Meng Ma was concerned.
Let’s just talk about the matchups of the players.
Top, middle and bottom, plus the four lines in the jungle.
With Su Chen on the road, I am not afraid of Khan.
Xiaotian in the jungle is currently in an equally hot state and may not be suppressed by Leader An.
Crown Brother in the middle is a pure tool player, and the test for his left hand during the laning phase is not that big.
However, this is the bottom lane point.
I'm afraid bovy will have big problems when facing Emperor Chi.
In the two games against tsm, he was at a complete disadvantage against his senior brother in the bottom lane.
And Emperor Chi, who showed his true form in the knockout round, is obviously more than one level higher than the senior brother.
Meng Ma frowned, this will be a problem that he needs to find a solution to in the next few days.