The contestants from the four teams on the stage returned to the backstage one after another.
However, some shots were inevitably captured by netizens, and spread quickly on external Twitter, Korean forums, crooked black and white forums, and even mainland post bars.
One of the more classic ones is pray’s expression.
When Li Luo announced that EDG's semi-final opponent was KZ, Pray's expression was extremely complicated. His face was originally round, so a slightly richer expression would cause wrinkles on his face.
On the stage illuminated by spotlights, his constipated expression was too conspicuous.
The pray expression is not the most classic.
The real classics are all FNC members.
When Li Luo announced, the five members of FNC smiled in unison, and their top laner bwipo even couldn't help but applaud twice.
Cap King aps also high-fived Rekkles who was standing next to him as if no one was watching. Jungler broxah was the funniest. He leaned forward and looked past his teammates with a presumptuous look, trying to see the expressions of everyone in KZ.
Only Helisan looks more normal, but if you keep staring at him, you will find that this guy's shoulders are shaking.
FNC is so happy.
Of course they knew that the biggest grudge between EDG and them was in this M private event.
If I want to settle accounts, I'm afraid I'll have to go to them first.
But when they thought about KZ's recovery yesterday and then some arrogant behavior during the interview, they were relieved.
The boss of FNC even posted an insinuation on Twitter. The picture above shows Khan's appearance when he said harsh words in an interview, but it was animated in a European and American style.
The level of animation is quite high. Anyone who has seen Khan's face will be able to spot Khan's shadow in this comic-adapted picture at a glance.
This picture was followed by a string of English words: "Some people are smiling and may be going home."
Below, the FNC players responded with prayer expressions, and at the same time, a few people came out.
@mixi.
@reiongver.
@Fe forcedven.
@yellowstar.
@Rekkles.
Rekkles responded with an innocent expression below.
When domestic netizens took screenshots of this scene and posted it to Tieba, the friends in the bar burst into laughter.
"Good guy, the five enemies back then all came out, but there seems to be something strange mixed in here."
"Rekkles started fighting in 15 years? Speaking of which, why can't deft beat him?"
"Perhaps Mr. Dai had already dreamed of becoming a pilot that year, so he chose to enjoy himself by sitting on the lamp in advance."
"This makes me very conflicted. On the one hand, I want the provincial team to win, but on the other hand, I think it would be more comfortable for FNC to enter the finals and beat EDG."
"I don't think about anything else. I just hope that EDG can increase their efforts and beat KZ to 5-0, right?"
"It doesn't matter what the odds are, as long as they can crush KZ, I won't criticize them even if they pull me in this year's World Championship!"
“This is destined to be the era of LPL!”
During the short two-day offseason, netizens' discussions never stopped for a moment.
For fans of the EDG team, the night before the semi-finals is definitely the most unforgettable night.
EDG, announced the roster for the semi-finals.
This big list contains an ID that they are particularly familiar with.
Collier's Dirty Dancing.
No 7.
You must know that in order to train EDG in this spring split, Xiaotian accounted for at least 70% of the games played.
And Mingkai only accounted for 30% of the field.
And starting from the LPL spring playoffs, Mingkai disappeared and never played again.
At first, some people were asking why Ming Kai wasn’t on board.
However, as EDG's performance becomes more and more stable, fewer and fewer EDG fans hope that Mingkai will play.
Mingkai's personal fans will easily be attacked by other team fans if they jump out to question him in this situation.
Moreover, most of the players who still deeply like Mingkai these days are over the age of twenty-five, and some have given up on the alliance and started to face life.
It's hard enough on weekdays, but if they have to work for a day and then interact with young people on the Internet, they really don't have the energy.
Fans have not forgotten Ming Kai.
It's just that they gradually got used to the fact that EDG's jungler is Xiaotian.
In this world, surprises often come when you least expect them.
Many fans couldn't believe their eyes when they saw EDG's roster.
In the blink of an eye, both the hot spots on Weibo and the hotly debated figures on Tieba quickly turned to Ming Kai.
"The hot man is back!"
"Damn it, you didn't play in the group stage, did you really think that Ming Kai was your trump card?"
"Why do I feel that what the club did is a bit disgusting? Isn't this just an attempt to let my factory take the blame?"
"In any case, the factory director's game is one less game to watch. No matter how he plays, I will support him."
"That's true, but for the factory director, this game... is not that simple."
During the discussion, some people were happy and some were worried.
For players who often watch games and are familiar with Mingkai, Mingkai's personal turning point seems to be the kick in S6.
4396.
The source of that kick was the match between EDG and ROX.
And three of the current KZ members are the original members of ROX.
These three people were all the main figures who brought Ming Kai to dust in the first place.
One is the little peanut who said before the game that he was a fan of Ming Kai.
One was the target of Ming Kai's extremely rough kick.
People who are more sensitive may understand.
Mingkai's playing at this time is definitely not just to follow the club's arrangements and play once.
Ming Kai, wants revenge.
But he is old.
Can he... still do it?
Little did they know that just as the fans were talking about it, in KZ's temporary base, the five players who had been training hard all day felt like they were mourning.
They used these two days to change their original training plan and tactics and chose to train according to new tactics.
KZ's new tactic is as they discussed before, intending to release Jin Gong's arry-type hero, and then wildly target the top laner in the early stage while disrupting Xiaotian's rhythm.
In this way, Jin Gong's development will be relatively poor in the early stage, while his own top laner will develop very well if he also chooses an arry-type hero.
Khan has absolute confidence in maintaining this leading matchup despite his own development lead.
And as long as Xiaotian's rhythm is affected in the early stage, then EDG can only rely on the bot lane duo arry. At that time, they will speed up the whole game and not give Jin Gong a chance to develop steadily.
To put it bluntly, they never thought about crushing Jin Gong to death because they also knew that it would be very difficult.
Therefore, they only need to contain Jin Gong's early development, which many teams have been able to do before, but they cannot contain Xiaotian's rhythm.
The version factor and Xiaotian's own condition gave KZ this opportunity.
Therefore, they focused on arranging a series of training plans for the upper and lower fields, and implemented them strictly in the past two days.
And now you tell me you are Ming Kai?
"Hold!"
After hearing the news, my private friend directly commented on the few Chinese words I learned while playing in the LPL.
He was furious.
In the past two days, the players have been training day and night, and the players’ training volume is about eighteen hours a day.
It took a lot of effort to achieve results, but now it was all gone in an instant with the release of the EDG roster.
But the rules of the competition are like this. Teams only need to submit their rosters 24 hours before the start of the game.
This means that in addition to getting enough sleep, they only have a dozen hours of training time left.
Improvise other tactics?
This is difficult, even unrealistic.
Switch back to the previous tactics?
The problem is... they haven't met Mingkai at all this season. In the EDG Spring Split, Mingkai didn't play any outstanding style and seemed a bit ordinary.
However, it is this kind of ordinaryness that makes them panic.
The unknown is the scariest thing.
Private n forced himself to calm down after a brief moment of boredom.
He clearly knew that the only thing they could rely on next was Xiaohua, Pray, and Gorilla's impressions of Mingkai's past games to formulate temporary targeted tactics.
Looking at Private N with a sad look on his face, Little Peanut hesitated for a moment and then said: "Ming Kai's advantages and disadvantages are quite obvious. I'm not that afraid of him. It's just that the tactics we have formulated... I'm afraid there will be some trouble."
"No matter how much his strength has declined, his experience and overall perspective are always there. Against such a player, it is impossible to make him lose a lot in the early jungle through the layout at level 1."
"Mingkai likes to develop, control resources and vision. I can suppress him at this point, but as far as I know, Mingkai can play as a male gun, so we have to grab this hero during BP."
Listening to Little Peanut’s analysis, my brain feels a little painful.
The male gun thing is like a trap in that version of KZ.
The rhythm of their team will slow down every time they are selected.
After all, the male gunman is not a hero who plays an early game. The front line must focus on development.
According to KZ's newly formulated tactics, they originally wanted Peanut to regenerate from childhood, regain his blind monk, regain his confidence, play early rhythm, suppress Xiaotian in terms of rhythm, and thus quickly expand the advantage of his teammates.
But after hearing Little Peanut’s analysis, wouldn’t he just go back?
The problem is that there is really nothing wrong with Xiaohuahua’s analysis.
It is difficult to defeat Mingkai with a fast-paced attack in the early stage.
mlxg in the LPL league has verified this for them many times.
The player Xiangguo's style is there. He dares to say that his early rhythmic ability ranks second, but no one dares to say that he ranks first.
But in the historical confrontation between the two, Xiangguo was beaten to death in most cases.
Using fast-paced early ganks to defeat Ming Kai won't work.
You have to use heroes with strong suppression power in the jungle to suppress Mingkai's development. As soon as Mingkai's development is suppressed, or he is robbed of several groups of F6, he may become confused and not very good at playing this game.
This is little peanut’s understanding.
Private took a deep breath, calmed down for a long time and then said: "Are you confident in defeating him in the jungle?"
"Of course that's no problem."
Little Peanut looked confident: "I am his fan. As long as the fan buff is there, he will never be able to turn over!"
