Chapter 238 The Fair Competition Knockout Tournament Begins!
Chapter 238 Fair competition, the knockout rounds begin!
There were only two people, Yeezy and Mouse, by the window.
Yezi looked at mouse and could see the disappointment in mouse's eyes. He could understand this feeling. Anyone who changed from the starting lineup to the substitute would not be in a good mood.
"Actually, it's not bad to take a break once in a while." Yezi: "Like me... I also want to take a break sometimes."
Mouse shook his head: "Yi Zi, you don't have to comfort me."
He knew his situation well. He could only rest because of food, but if Yezi rested, he probably really wanted to rest.
The situations are different and cannot be compared.
However, he knew that Ye Zi wanted to comfort him, so... he felt even more uncomfortable.
"Yi Zi, can I ask a question?"
"You asked."
Yezi was a little curious and didn't know what mouse wanted to ask.
After a moment of silence, mouse asked: "Yi Zi, tell me the truth, am I really a bad person?"
"this……"
This question directly stopped Yezi.
Mouse dish? It’s actually hard to say.
Because there is no particularly accurate standard for measuring whether food is good or bad.
If you compare mouse with the top laner in the World Championship, mouse is indeed inferior, but if you compare it with the top laner in the domestic league, mouse's strength is completely sufficient.
Abramovich's idea is to let the World Championships be played via Zoom, and occasionally let the mouse play a few times in the league, which can be regarded as living up to the mouse.
However, mouse is not a fool. When Abu made his decision, mouse may have realized something.
That's why mouse behaves so depressed.
After all, mouse had no merit but hard work in EDG, and he was suddenly replaced. Even if he could accept it intellectually, he couldn't accept it in his heart for a while.
"really……"
Seeing that Ye Zi didn't respond, Mouse sighed silently.
"It seems that I am really not suitable for playing professionally."
Ye Zi was silent.
Originally, he wanted to come over and comfort mouse, but looking at mouse's current state, the words that came to his lips suddenly couldn't be said.
How to comfort you? You are very strong? So if you are very strong, why did you become a substitute from the starting lineup?
Continuing to say those comforting words may hurt people even more.
For a moment, the two of them looked out the window and were silent at the same time.
At this moment, Ye Zi felt mixed emotions in his heart.
This is a professional player. When one day he is eliminated, he will not even say hello.
Without talent, everything is empty talk.
Everyone has seen the glamorous side of professional players, but in fact, the professional players who can be seen are already only one in a thousand, or even one in a thousand.
There are Tsinghua University and Peking University every year, but I don’t know how long it will take for someone to be able to stand out as an e-sports genius.
"You want to give it a last try?"
Finally, Yezi spoke first and decided to give mouse a chance.
"What?" mouse didn't understand.
Yates: "How about I apply to the team to let you participate in training matches, and the final decision will be based on the results of the training matches to decide on the starting lineup?"
This is the limit of what Yates can do.
In fact, given his status in the EDG team, it is not impossible to directly let mouse start, but that would be too unfair to Zoom.
Therefore, Yezi thought that the two of them would compete fairly in the training match, and the losing side would be the substitute.
Naturally, Mouse had no reason to refuse this proposal.
"Thank you, Ye Zi."
"It's okay, come on."
…
In a blink of an eye, Yezi found Abu and told him his thoughts.
Abu hesitated for a moment, but finally agreed.
However, Abramovich has one requirement, that is, he must find some strong teams for training matches.
"You can make an appointment with WE or RNG."
Unfortunately, both teams have already scheduled training matches.
For a while, EDG couldn't find a suitable opponent for the training match, but there was no way out, and there was always a bright future.
The arrival of IG solved EDG's urgent need.
"IG come over for sparring?" Ye Zi looked strange. He and IG were having a bit of a feud, but he didn't expect...
"This year is a bit special." Abramovich smiled: "This is probably the most united LPL ever."
Ye Zi was stunned for a moment, then he reacted casually.
This year’s home game is in China, and no one expects the LCK team to win the trophy here.
Even if the teams have a lot of thoughts between them, they won't show it at this time.
After all, the audience is not vegetarian, and anyone who dares to cause trouble at this time will definitely be criticized.
Thinking of this, Yezi suddenly clarified his thoughts.
"But when playing IG... IG's top laners are Duke and Theshy, so there's a lot of pressure on them."
Neither theshy nor Duke are ordinary top laners.
At least, mouse and zoom at this time cannot be compared with the two.
"It's okay." Abramovich waved his hand and said: "There is motivation only when there is pressure. Some pressures have to be faced sooner or later. It is better to make a fool of yourself in a training match than to go home in a world match."
"That's true..." Ye Zi thought about it carefully, and it was indeed what Abu said.
Instead of being severely beaten by the opponent in the game, it would be better to suffer a little more now.
"If there's no problem, let's play against IG in the recent training match."
…
That night, Abramovich announced the news of playing a training match with IG.
Everyone present was not surprised. At the same time, mouse and zoom looked at each other, and the atmosphere was a little solemn.
"IG is difficult to fight." Factory Director: "I remember their top laner is very powerful."
Meikou: "That Theshy one has something, and his fighting style is very fierce."
Elementary school student: "This is interesting."
Everyone in the team is looking forward to the training match with IG.
Finally, the training match begins.
EDG has built a room here and pulled IG members into the room one by one.
The game begins!
In the first game, mouse played.
Yezi chose Xia Luo in the bottom lane... Needless to say, the result was that EDG easily won.
However, Abu's focus is on the road.
IG plays Duke. Compared to Theshy, Duke is more team-oriented.
But even so, Duke still suppressed mouse during the laning phase.
At the end of the first game, mouse scratched his head in frustration, not satisfied with his performance.
Immediately afterwards, the second game began.
In this game, EDG's top laner was replaced by Zoom, IG did not change its personnel, and its top laner was still Duke.
Although IG banned Xia Luo in the second game, they still lost the game.
It is worth mentioning that Zoom was not suppressed on the road, but was caught and killed twice.
Seeing this scene, Mouse couldn't help but secretly breathed a sigh of relief. The performance of the two of them was evenly matched, and he still had a chance.
The training match continues.
This time, IG chose to change players and replaced Duke with Theshy.
Once the personnel changed, EDG immediately felt pressure on the road.
In the training match, Cheng Lu showed terrifying suppressive power while letting herself go.
Not long after Mouse went online, he was beaten to death.
"Why is it so scary?"
Mouse looked at his opponent Jace, his mind went blank. It was the first time he met such a terrifying Jace. In front of the opponent, he was like a toy, without any room to fight back.
Jace's control of the distance was too precise, and every consumption was just right. What made him most uncomfortable was that even under the tower, he had no hope of gaining troops.
If you eat a minion, your health will drop rapidly.
In the end, mouse didn't even dare to touch the line of troops.
"this……"
Abramovich and Nofe, who had been watching the training match, were stunned when they saw how badly Mouse was beaten.
"What are you doing?" Abu took a breath: "This is not on the same level at all."
Nofe couldn't help but swallowed, thinking, this is Jace? Fortunately, it was a training match. If he was suppressed like this in the game... Nofe simply couldn't think of it.
"It's about to end."
In just over thirty minutes of game time, IG successfully demolished EDG's base.
"Nice!"
After finally winning a game, the IG team suddenly fell into a carnival.
"Finally, we beat them." Prince Ning: "Their entry into the road is the breakthrough point."
"But it's a bit strange..." The IG coach is sensible. He discovered a very strange problem, that is, the opponent's jungler did not go to the road at all. Even though the top lane gave many opportunities, the EDG jungler just did not go to the road.
The IG coach can't figure this out no matter how hard he thinks about it. Even if EDG's tactics are not on the road, it shouldn't be used to this extent.
Little did he know that EDG's training matches were originally designed to test EDG's two top laners, so naturally they would not interfere too much with their top lane performance.
"mine."
On EDG's side, mouse's face turned pale and he blamed himself.
His performance in this game was too poor. He originally thought that he would be stable on the top lane, but he found that he had overestimated himself. Faced with Jace's indiscriminate bombardment, he had problems in lane.
"It's okay, it's okay."
"It's just a training match."
"Go on, beat me back."
At the beginning of the fourth game, top laner Mouse was replaced by Zoom, still facing Theshy, and top laner Jace.
Soon, Zoom also experienced the feeling of mouse.
"I'll go! How can you be so oppressive?"
In this round, Zoom used his signature crocodile, but even though he had no eggs, he was still paralyzed by Theshy's Jess.
"A little better than mouse..." Abu's scalp was numb when he saw it. He didn't expect that the two top laners would be at a disadvantage when facing Theshy.
"Why is Theshy so fierce? It seems to be stronger than the previous stage."
Nofe was also puzzled.
In the league, it's not like EDG has never played against IG. Although Theshy was strong at that time, it didn't seem as scary as it is now.
"The top laner on IG has evolved."
With emotion, the fourth training game ended.
This game lasted quite a long time, more than fifty minutes, and finally Yates' big mouth took over the game.
In the four training games, the performance of mouse and zoom were almost the same.
Mouse should be better at preventing gank, and Zoom should be better at laning.
In this regard, Abramovich decided to observe again before deciding on the starting lineup.
…
After the training match, the coaching staff conducts a review.
Among them, Theshy on the road has become the key research object of EDG.
The more they review the game, the more everyone can feel the horror of Theshy's laning strength.
"How can this person improve so fast!" Nofe looked heavy. Although it was only a training match, it was also a microcosm of the competition.
If there is a problem with your top laner during the game, it will be completely over.
EDG's shortcoming is in the top half, and the coaching staff knows this better than anyone.
However, it is clear that it is not so easy to solve it.
Both mouse and zoom currently have certain flaws.
When the official competition comes, it might become a breakthrough.
Yezi is not as unreasonable as the two of them. It is true that Theshy has carried very well in these training games, and the suppression power he has shown is terrifying.
But don’t forget, this is when the jungler doesn’t target it.
It is undeniable that Theshy has indeed made a lot of progress. In fact, it cannot be said to be progress. It is just adapting to the environment and starting to show its original strength.
But no matter how strong Theshy is, considering the jungle situation, he would not dare to suppress him like he did today.
After all, the training match is not the main match. There is no pressure to play Theshy. In addition, no one from EDG targets Theshy, so Theshy looks like the invincible God of War.
Thinking of this, Yezi smiled and said: "I don't think there is any need to worry. We have just started playing training matches. After a few days of adapting, it will not be so easy to suppress theshy again."
"That's right." Abu nodded, thinking that this was just an opportunity to compare the adjustment speeds of his two top laners.
Although the zoom performance was slightly better on the first day of the training match, the improvement was limited.
Therefore, it still depends on the subsequent performance of the two top laners.
The second day, the third day...
For several days in a row, I had training matches with IG.
Among them, the gap between EDG's two top laners has gradually become apparent.
At the beginning, the performance of the two top laners was almost the same.
However, as the number of games increased, mouse improvement was limited. Instead, zoom gradually became better and was able to withstand the offensive pressure of theshy online, and could occasionally counterattack.
There is no doubt that the results are out.
At the end of the training match, mouse leaned back on the chair with a dejected look on his face.
He knew that everything was over.
"I can't beat him, alas."
Now, mouse has recognized the reality, and Yates helped him find opportunities, but there is indeed a gap in strength, and the starting lineup will only hold the team back.
Realizing this, mouse completely gave up the idea of starting.
Everyone patted Mouse's shoulders to express comfort. Although they didn't want to see anyone left behind, there will always be such a day from the moment you start your career.
Even if he is as strong as Uzi, he later retires with the same regret. Mouse is already old and there is no point in continuing to play.
At this point, EDG’s debut is completely confirmed and will be launched via zoom.
At the same time, after several days of training matches, EDG also realized some problems in the team.
The first is the top lane. With EDG focusing on the bottom lane, the top lane can easily become a breakthrough. Especially if you are inexperienced in zoom games, you can easily be seduced by your opponents.
Secondly, there are some unique heroes, such as Jace, Sword Queen, weapons and other heroes.
In the hands of players who know how to play, these heroes can play a huge role, and may even end the game in the mid-term.
Finally, EDG does not have many tactical reserves and is relatively simple...
In the small notebook, the coach recorded the possible problems with EDG one by one.
Afterwards, special training started for EDG players.
In this state, EDG's knockout round finally begins.
EDG's opponent in the knockout round is this year's dark horse team msf.
Speaking of the msf team, no one actually paid much attention to it. Only Ye Zi was afraid of msf.
If he remembered correctly, this team almost beat SKT to death.
A female tank with a passion for war, a robot with a magic hook...
If the gap with SKT in terms of strength wasn't too big, msf might really be able to overthrow SKT.
Even so, msf also got two points from SKT, and Yezi even wondered if SKT was so scared that it peed its pants.
But I have to say that SKT is indeed very resilient and has defeated its opponents three to two many times in S7.
Now, EDG is about to face MSF, and they have to be on guard against MSF's black technology.
Competition venues.
Amid the cheers of everyone's attention, everyone from EDG slowly entered the venue.
The quarterfinals knockout rounds have officially begun.
