Chapter 237 The result of the lottery is a cruel choice
Chapter 237 Drawing results, cruel choice
The group stage is over, and the tense atmosphere of the World Championship has also come to an end.
There is still some time before the knockout rounds. During this period, each major team can make adjustments based on their team's performance in the group stage.
This will test the team's ability to adjust. Some teams can reach a higher level in a short period of time, while other teams will stay where they are.
Especially teams with good results in the group stage can easily get lost in the glory of the group stage.
EDG is also facing this test now.
The terrifying record of six consecutive victories has made the outside world's evaluation of EDG reach its peak.
Whether it is external media or domestic media, EDG is far more popular than other teams and has been on the hot searches of major software.
Even many outsiders have begun to form dream collaborations with EDG.
The popularity is so high that countless teams are jealous.
Among them, Yates became famous immediately in one battle.
In the past, people calling him God Z was just a joke, but now, God Z has become Ye Zi's exclusive nickname.
"SKT swim back quickly, the bottom lane looks like shit."
"This year's LPL is really too strong."
"omg, has our LCK division lost its dominance?"
"Why does the LPL have such BT shooters?"
"Alas, teammates really... drag Faker down."
EDG temporary base.
At this moment, the team members are watching the LCK forum.
After seeing the various lamentations from LCK netizens, everyone present couldn't help but smile.
"Hahaha, the LCK side is also complaining."
"It feels good, brothers."
"I have one thing to say, I feel like SKT is not very strong this year."
"Indeed, we played two games with them. Although it was not a crushing victory, there was no pressure at all."
The team members spoke to each other, and recalling the situation in the group stage, more than one word can be used to describe it.
In the past few years, they were crazily suppressed by the LCK team, but now they have finally turned around, leaving the players unable to control their emotions at all.
Only Yates was not as optimistic as his teammates.
He knows that although the situation of the LPL team in the group stage is perfect, the draw for the knockout round is also a magical draw.
However, the result was a civil war in the Bird's Nest LCK.
What does this mean? It means that the strength of the LCK team will not stay in the group stage, but will grow as the game progresses.
Otherwise, how could Samsung, which was educated by RNG in the group stage, win the final championship?
If you take it lightly at this time, the final result may not be too good.
However, Yezi did not express his inner worries.
Everything has to wait until the lottery is drawn.
If they encounter Samsung, then they have to be really careful. If they encounter the other two teams, it doesn't matter.
…
In the blink of an eye, the day of drawing lots finally arrived.
The person LPL sent over to draw lots was icon.
Icon is the mid laner of omg, with a handsome image and a well-proportioned figure.
The lottery scene.
At this moment, everyone is paying attention to the lottery ceremony.
Whether you can draw a good lottery is very important to LPL.
Although qualifying in the group avoids a civil war, if the quarterfinals can avoid the LCK teams, that is obviously the result everyone wants to see.
"A little nervous."
"I would trade ten years of my roommate's life for a good lottery."
"The one in front of you, you sacrificed your roommate, why don't you just change to the champion?"
"There's nothing to pray for in the draw. In my opinion, it's the same for everyone. If you want to win the championship, you have to fight all the way."
"Indeed, those who are afraid of this or that will only be afraid if they don't have the strength."
"This year's EDG feels worthy of meeting everyone, and WE and RNG are not vegetarians either."
The draw hasn't even started yet, but the live broadcast room has already started sending barrages like crazy.
Inside the venue, Icon himself was also quite nervous.
When the host announced that icon was on stage, icon adjusted his little suit, forced a smile and walked up to the stage.
Standing in front of the stage, Icon glanced around, then looked at the cardboard box in his hand.
There is a note written about the team. In a sense, the fate of the LPL team is partly in the hands of icon.
Icon took a deep breath and put his hand deep into the cardboard box.
At this moment, everyone looked at icon's hand and became extremely nervous. There was only one exception, and that was Ye Zi.
"Huh? Icon's hands are pretty good-looking, I haven't noticed them before..."
In the EDG team, everyone present was extremely speechless when they heard that Yezi was saying all these things at this time.
"Yi Zi, you..." Abu: "At such a solemn moment, please be more serious."
"At worst, we'll just beat Samsung." Director: "If RNG can beat them, we can definitely beat them too."
"That's true." Abu nodded. In fact, Samsung seemed like that to them.
The reason why I am more afraid is because Samsung is an LCK team.
Today's Samsung is not as good as its peak, and it is the Samsung at its peak that is said to be stronger. It has even been rumored that the stars will never be separated and will always win the championship.
The reason, of course, is that Samsung was really too strong back then and was the only team to defeat all the teams in the World Championship.
"But I still hope the knockout rounds will be easier."
Yezi understands what Abramovich means. What Abu wants to meet most is MSF. In this way, EDG can win the semi-finals with a minimum guarantee.
Even if they lose the next game, EDG has broken the team history and reached the limit. If they are hacked, they will have a reason to refute.
Yezi felt that Abu's idea was a bit naive... Anyone who can enter the knockout round must have two tricks.
Just like the MSF team that Abramovich looked down upon, it almost overturned SKT in the knockout round.
Therefore, for EDG in this draw, the real good draw is the FNC team.
The player Oucheng is far less famous than him. If he meets Oucheng, Yezi will let him experience what it means to be cruel.
With different thoughts, icon took out a piece of paper from the carton and unfolded it.
"MSF!"
After seeing the lottery results, everyone couldn't help but cheer.
"Hahaha! MSF!"
Abu smiled the happiest smile.
What the hell is MSF? Why are they fighting EDG?
Several other EDG players were also smiling and wanted to open champagne to celebrate.
Barrage——
"Why did EDG lose? I want to write a book."
"It would be unreasonable for EDG to reach the top eight this year."
"God is blessing EDG."
"MSF, tut tut tut."
The result of this draw is undoubtedly satisfactory.
Soon, the results of all team battles appeared.
The knockout rounds are divided into upper and lower halves.
The half-districts will first compete against each other to determine the strongest team, and the last two teams will compete for the championship.
The competition system can only be said to be...reasonable.
Top half teams: RNG vs. FNC, SKT vs. LZ.
Teams in the lower half: EDG vs. MSF, WE vs. Samsung.
"Only WE is being beaten."
"WE beats Samsung... I don't know if we can beat it."
“Believe in WE.”
After seeing the final result, the outside world became involved in heated discussions.
Needless to say, RNG and EDG were not particularly strong opponents. Only WE fell into the trap and got Samsung as their opponent.
Seeing the lottery results, Yezi frowned. He didn't expect that after SKT qualified for No. 2, the biggest influence would be WE.
WE may still have a chance of winning against SKT, but if it plays against Samsung... the result may not be too good.
But then again, although Samsung is difficult to beat, EDG is considered a good draw.
At this point, the draw ends.
The next day, the result of the lottery directly triggered heated discussions across the Internet. Many people felt sorry for WE, but some people comforted WE.
"WE is a good team. Why is it said to be a good team? If WE can produce something like Samsung, then in the end, whether EDG wins or RNG wins, WE will have one-third of the credit."
When Ye Zi saw this, he almost laughed.
No matter in which time and space it is, it can only be said that classics will never go out of style.
…
Rest time.
Yates started the live broadcast and played Rank to keep his hand feeling.
The moment he started broadcasting, the popularity of the live broadcast room exploded.
"The missing person returns!"
"My God Z, you fought well."
"Invincible! AD only obeys God Z."
"You are the man who adds C to AD."
Countless barrages spewed out like spring water. Yezi glanced at the VIP seats and saw that there were already 20,000 people, and the number was rising rapidly.
Ye Zi himself was shocked by this terrifying popularity.
"An ordinary LPL game is nothing more than that, not even as popular as my own live broadcast."
Seeing this scene, Yezi realized that his current size might be more terrifying than he imagined.
What is it like to be stared at by tens of thousands of people?
Fortunately, it was the Internet. If tens of thousands of people were staring at him at the same time in reality, Yezi felt like he would be suffocated.
However, Yezi has now met countless older people. After sorting out his emotions, he said with a smile: "Everyone thinks so highly of me? If you speak well, speak more."
"Hahaha!"
"God Z has started, right?"
"Stop talking nonsense, what do you want to say today?"
"Does EDG play casually against MSF?"
Looking at the barrage, what the audience is most concerned about is the state of the EDG team.
Although everyone thinks that EDG can play MSF casually, if Yezi can say it himself, his persuasiveness will undoubtedly be stronger.
"You are talking about MSF." Yezi said: "There is something about this team..."
"Um?"
Everyone was stunned. They didn't expect Ye Zi's answer. Shouldn't he say he killed indiscriminately?
"Don't do it. Even MSF can't beat it. I really can't accept it."
"Don't be anxious." Seeing that the barrage was almost finished, Ye Zi said slowly: "There is something, but not much. Let's beat them easily."
"666!"
"mad!"
"That's it. This is the God Z I know."
"I can't think of a way to lose. If I lose, msf recommends disbanding directly..."
It was obvious that the audience would never accept EDG losing to the MSF team. Realizing this, Yezi's eyes flickered.
If you look at it this way, the pressure on EDG is quite high, and I'm afraid it won't be easy if they really lose.
But then I thought about it, if they could really lose to msf, there would be no problem with being scolded.
This year EDG has the right time, place, and people. If they don't produce results, then it's really not a problem of other things, but a problem of people.
"All I can say is don't panic." Yezi said: "When the time comes, just watch the anchor perform on the field."
"There are two high-end games today, which may be a bit boring. Let's just make do with them."
After saying that, Yezi stopped reading the barrage and concentrated on playing the game.
It’s good enough that the world championships can be broadcast live, but naturally it’s impossible to give the audience the same program effect as usual.
The audience understood this and said that as long as there are results in the World Championships, Yates can do whatever he wants.
In this way, Yezi played ranked for a day, with a winning rate of over 80%.
Yezi is quite satisfied with this result.
It doesn't matter whether you divide it or not, the main thing is to maintain the feel.
"That's it for today's live broadcast. See you next time."
After saying that, Yezi decisively turned off the live broadcast.
As soon as the broadcast came on, Yezi couldn't help complaining: "What are you doing, coach, you're delaying me from picking up the money."
"..."
On the side, Abu was a little speechless. What time of year was this? Why are you always thinking about the money from live broadcasts?
"How many gifts can a live broadcast bring?"
"Watch it for yourself." Yezi showed the profit from his gift.
When Abu saw it, his eyes widened immediately: "F*ck! So many?"
Seeing Abu's reaction, Yezi was inevitably a little proud: "It's just average, less than a million."
I still want millions... How long have you been broadcasting for a while?
Abu is numb.
Although I know there are many rich people on the Internet, it is still a bit scary to spend money like this.
Yezi was not surprised. EDG had such good results, and he certainly contributed a lot as one of the core players.
Many people are waiting for him to start broadcasting and give him gifts. Therefore, this gift seems to be a day's income, but it is actually accumulated over a period of time.
If Yezi continues to broadcast, it is naturally impossible to have such a high gift income.
Moreover, most of these gifts were purchased by one person, which means...a gentleman is poor.
Of the nearly one million gifts, he alone bought hundreds of thousands.
"A gentleman is poor? What does that mean?"
Ye Zi narrowed his eyes, not too happy, but rather a little wary.
Showing courtesy for nothing is either adultery or theft.
Yates has always believed that there is no such thing as a free lunch.
He didn't have much interaction with Junzi Guqiong, but Junzi Guqiong gave him so many gifts at once. Even if the boss is really rich, there must be a reason.
He wouldn't be surprised if this gift appeared on the female anchor's list, but...
Could it be that this person wanted to give it to him once?
Thinking of this possibility, a chill couldn't help but rise in Ye Zi's heart.
It's hard to get this money.
"Yi Zi, what are you thinking about?"
Just when Yezi was thinking wildly, Abu interrupted his thoughts.
"Ah." Yezi came back to his senses, turned to Abu and said: "Coach, what's the matter?"
"Of course something will happen." Abu took a breath and said, "Let's talk about it together when everyone comes over."
Before long, everyone gathered together.
Abramovich's first words made Mouse's face change: "The next games will be started by zoom after discussion by the coaching staff."
As soon as these words came out, the team was completely silent.
Yezi sighed silently.
In fact, everyone has already expected this scene.
After all, it is the World Championships. Even if mouse works hard, it is not as strong as zoom, so everything is empty talk.
In e-sports, food is the original sin.
For a moment, mouse's eyes lost their light, and his eyes were slightly red.
The factory director couldn't bear it and wanted to say something, but in the end he said nothing.
He knew, and everyone knew, that this choice was cruel, but it was the best choice for EDG.
Abu also felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, and comforted him: "Take a break for a while, and you can observe the opponent more in the audience. You are the trump card of our team."
Mouse said nothing.
Abramovich's words are just to deceive children. Without training games, even if he does not perform well in zoom, the team will not let him play.
When the meeting ended, mouse didn't know how he got out.
At the door, Ye Zi has been waiting for a long time.
Seeing mouse appear, Yezi's eyes fell on mouse: "Let's talk?"
Mouse looked up at Yezi, was silent for a moment, and finally nodded.
