Entering the second round of the Spring Split, the schedule became tighter. After defeating DWG, KT defeated Hanwha again with a score of 2:0 the day after.
Compared to the first round meeting, KT’s victory over Hanwha this time was much easier.
Lin Cheng still had an advantage in the top lane and firmly held the line. Bono drove the rhythm up when his teammates pressed the line, catching people, dragons, and vanguards without stopping.
Aiming in the bottom lane faced Hanwha's part-time AD player and naturally beat him without mercy. Now even Kuro is no longer messing around, and the snake girl's team fight spray makes the opponent completely unable to resist.
Judging from the scene, this is completely a competition between two levels of teams.
KT's performance made the LCK commentators say that KT has completely transformed and they have truly become a force that cannot be ignored in the LCK.
Even Lin Cheng clearly feels that the tacit understanding of his teammates has improved a lot compared to when he first joined the team. They are winning consecutively, but they are also making progress. This has nothing to do with the strength of the opponent.
After this game, KT increased their winning streak to six games. AFS, which was originally ranked ahead of KT, lost to SB and GEN·G in the second round. Now it has the same record as KT and has become 6 wins and 5.
burden.
Since Lin Cheng came on the field, KT’s winning streak was all 2:0, and now they surpassed AFS by a small margin and ranked fourth in the standings.
And DRX, ranked third, has a record of 7 wins and 4 losses, only one more win than KT.
T1, who is in second place, currently has a record of 9 wins and 2 losses, while GEN·G, who leads the standings, has a record of 10 wins and 1 loss.
On Friday, March 29, KT ushered in the Kespa Cup champion team AFS at the beginning of this year.
AFS, the full name is Afreeca Freecs. Because the pronunciation is somewhat similar to the English pronunciation of "Africa", it is also called the "African Team" by domestic audiences. It was renamed after South Korea's largest live broadcast platform Afreeca TV acquired the Anarchy team.
Many domestic viewers’ impressions of this team come from the deciding game of the S8 Intercontinental Tournament.
After RW Xia gave RNG a decisive game and came back, the LCK team that played was AFS.
At that time, this team faced the LPL league champion RNG. The AFS bottom lane duo staged a famous scene of traveling frogs with one car and two lives, and died suddenly, handing the intercontinental championship to the LPL division.
At that time, the AFS traveling frog duo was Lin Cheng’s current teammates Aiming and Tusin.
In fact, this year's AFS was once regarded as a strong contender for the LCK championship, because they showed in the Kespa Cup that their suitability for the version was significantly higher than other teams.
At the beginning of the spring split, AFS did perform as strongly as expected, and was once at the top of the standings.
However, some players disappear after playing hard, and some teams lose money after playing hard.
AFS has experienced success in the early stages of the season and has gradually begun to lack success. Others are getting more and more adapted to the version as they play, but they are less and less adaptable to the version as they play. At present, it seems that the first championship in the history of the team is gradually getting further away.
Today's KT game was held in the midfield. A group of people did not practice in the afternoon, so they gathered together to watch the early game.
The one who played in the previous game was KT’s opponent in the next round, DRX.
There was no upset, DRX easily defeated Griffin, last season's LCK runner-up's current relegation situation is really not optimistic.
It’s almost 5pm Korean time, the LCK referees are already in place, and the players are starting to prepare in the training room.
Kuro: “Everyone plays hard in today’s game and must win. If we win DRX in the next round, we will be ranked third.”
Aiming checked the microphone and shouted: "Come on!"
Tusin: “I agree, I have to win this game, and I have to win the next one too, come on, come on!”
Bono: "I'm scared to death! Please shout louder, why are you so energetic today?"
Aiming defended: “I was testing the microphone.”
Lin Cheng chuckled: "Usually the two of you test microphones and say hello, what? Are you so excited today that you are ready to beat up your old employer?"
The two players in the bottom lane, including Kuro, are both former AFS players. As a professional player, it is of course very satisfying to beat up your old team.
Tusin made no secret of Lin Cheng's words: "I wish AFS would die now."
Aiming and Kuro were lucky. The S8’s AFS results were actually very good, and most of the audience praised the double C.
Tusin received a lot of pressure from public opinion in AFS.
Losing the intercontinental trophy for the second consecutive year was unbearable for LCK fans who still boasted of being the first division at the time.
The keyboard warriors on the Korean Net are no worse than the LPL's trolls. At that time, most of the people were targeting Tusin for his driving that ruined the game in the final game, and they cursed Tusin wildly for a while.
It seems that they have deliberately forgotten the losses of triple crown champion SKT and spring champion KZ. It seems that the responsibility for losing the championship lies entirely with AFS.
AFS itself has much fewer fans than other teams. What makes Tusin sad the most is that many AFS fans not only fail to defend him, but even follow the fans of other teams to attack him crazily.
In this extremely unfriendly public opinion atmosphere, Tusin seemed to have not escaped the shadow of a traveling frog after the intercontinental competition, and his condition was very depressed.
Originally, since the support position is often responsible for starting teams and protecting teammates, it is easy to make some seemingly useless operations. Tusin's various low-level mistakes when he returned to the LCK made AFS fans dislike him even more.
Even for many losses that clearly have nothing to do with him, fans will blame him.
It is really scary for one person to bear the pressure of public opinion from the whole team.
Imagine if all Faker’s fans disappeared and only a large number of black fans were left, what kind of pressure would Brother Li face?
Of course...it's also possible that Brother Li's fans are gone, and his black fans are also gone.
After all, Brother Li is a very pure professional player, and almost no one will hate this player himself.
If nothing else, you must know that the performance of S8 Tusin in AFS is really excellent except for those eye-catching low-level mistakes.
But he received the most scolding from the entire AFS team, which is really outrageous.
From this point of view, one can imagine Tusin’s resentment towards his old club.
Lin Cheng joked: "It seems that Park Yong Hyuk was under a lot of pressure in AFS the year before last."
“It does feel very depressing. Those fans scolded me every day and left messages asking me to get out of the club. I even tweeted at them and was punished by the club.”
Tsuin took a sip of water and said, "In that year, I lost twenty pounds."
Everyone: “???”
With your body type, losing twenty pounds would not be a bad thing at all.
“Don’t worry, we will definitely beat up AFS today to vent your anger.”
Lin Cheng patted Tusin hard on the shoulder, "Although you like to give gifts and always bring Aiming with you, you are still a good assistant."