As one of the five major Dota competitions in the world, the SL League has been held annually since its inception. However, starting from the year before last, in order to keep pace with TI, it was changed to once every two years. This SL League not only has the American Division, the European Division, and the Asian Division
These three regular season regions have also added the China Division as the fourth division to appear on the SL stage.
Originally, Chinese teams had to participate in the Asian Division qualifiers to enter SL's Kiev offline tournament, but now there are two offline spots in the Chinese Division, which gives Chinese teams more opportunities. Of course, this is also China
The advantages brought by occupying 5 places in the top 20 in the world.
This year's regional selection competition is divided into two parts, one is the qualifying competition and the other is the selection competition.
The qualifying round means that teams other than those invited to participate in the selection competition will conduct a bo2 single round-robin points competition within three days. The two with the highest points will enter the selection competition and compete with the invited teams for the top two in the regional competition.
After getting the top two in the regional competition, you can enter the Kiev offline finals in Ukraine, which means you will officially compete for the first place in this competition.
The offline finals are also divided into two parts, the group stage and the knockout stage.
The eight world's top teams will be divided into two groups, A and B, to compete. The competition format is bo1. The top two teams in each group will enter the winner's group, and the last two will enter the loser's group. Once the winning and losing groups are established, the game begins.
Knockout round. Each game in the winner's group is bo3, while the loser's group is bo1 in the first two rounds. The losers are directly eliminated. Those who advance and the losers in the winner's group are
There will be a bo3 knockout round. Finally, the winner of the winner group and the winner of the loser group will advance to the bo5 finals. And the winner of the winner group will have a one-game advantage. There are six teams, nf, mz and ok.
.The remaining teams can register. The start time of the competition and the number of games to start at the same time will be determined based on the number of registered teams.
After three days of fierce battle, the final result did not surprise many people. Two new teams, rr and bh, both qualified.
After the winter transfer period, both teams were reorganized. Except for the captain xi and the carry player quick, the rr team poached Eden's two-yuan general, captain Ji Ji, and Zhang Chunjie at the third position.
And a foreign aid five from the Korean Star Team
Position, odd Quan Zhiren. And bh also made major adjustments, retaining the captain's No. 1 Rouye and No. 4 Huanye, and poaching mlgb's No. 2 Li Ming and No. 3 Gao Shan, the biggest
The trick was probably that they poached Guo Shi, the No. 5 player who used to be the main pick at Sy.
Basically, the top teams treat players very well, and it is rare for players to transfer when they have stabilized. Especially for this five-man team, cooperation and tacit understanding are the most important.
.Once transferred, it will take a lot of time just to adapt to each other's play, let alone to play at a high level.
Regarding Guo Shi's departure from the team, Xu Yunlong specifically asked Ye Zebei what was going on. Ye Zebei only said that it was due to different ways and not conspiring with each other, but Xu Yunlong guessed that it was probably from BH.
Just get better chips.
As for Sy’s new No. 5 position, it is Zheng Duo, the former captain of the second team who became a substitute last year.
When Ye Qiu heard the news, he didn't show much surprise. He seemed to have expected that such a situation would happen, so he just said "oh" and continued to train himself.
"This time is an excellent opportunity for us." On the eve of the game, Xu Yunlong was sitting on the sofa. He looked at the players sitting around and said, "because Guo Shi's departure will definitely have an impact, so we
You have the ability to reach first place. You may not perform particularly well in the group stage. But I hope you can learn something to restrain your opponents in every game."
"What about the foreign teams? What should we do?" Zhu Quehuang was quite worried.
"Believe in our style of play and our efforts during this period. Moreover, this is a game, no one knows what will happen, right?"
"Will gs participate?" Bai Hu pushed up his glasses and asked directly.
"Yes." Xu Yunlong nodded, "As long as we enter Kiev offline, we will have a chance to play against them. What kind of team GS is, you have to feel it through your own eyes and hands."
"Very strong~" Qi Lin blinked.
"Moreover, this time, after discussions between Xuan Wu and I, the starting members have been changed."
As he spoke, Xu Yunlong glanced at the people in front of him and nodded to Xiao Qingyue sitting beside him.
Xiao Qingyue stood up, opened the book, and said calmly: "Ye Qiu and Zhuquehuang Xuanwu are substitutes."
"Eh?!" The other four people who had not received the message shouted together.
"Brother Xuan is a substitute?!" Zhuquehuang's eyes widened, "How is this possible! Brother Xuan is obviously so strong!"
"I don't understand." Bai Hu also said he couldn't accept it.
"Oh!! I can finally play!" Qi Lin became happy.
"Why do you want me to play the fourth position?" Ye Qiu was a little angry, "I don't accept it!"
Xu Yunlong looked at Ye Qiu and expected that he would say this.
"It's not that you are not good enough, but judging from recent training, you will perform better in the fourth position. I originally asked you to play the third position because you rarely use your brain when playing. I feel sorry for you.
The only requirement is that you can withstand pressure and not die. But during this period, you
The play is much smarter. There is no way to lead the rhythm in the early stage in the third position, but it is different in the fourth position. This is what Xuanwu and I proposed. He believes and thinks that you are in the fourth position.
You will play better than him. Do you understand the meaning of this action?"
Ye Qiulin was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Xuan Wu.
Xuan Wu nodded: "Actually, you are very smart and good at observing the situation, so I want you to try the rhythm of leading the entire team in the regional qualifiers."
Ye Qiu clenched his fists and said nothing more. He just lowered his head silently.
On March 9th, the SL League China trials officially began.
8 teams compete in a bo1 single-elimination round. Points are also scored, and the top four advance directly.
The ok team faced its old rival NF team in the first round. Although there was an episode in the middle that led to a wave of team annihilation, Xu Yunlong's Xiao Naga Six God Equipment came back directly afterwards and still got a good start without any danger.
After that, they sang all the way and won three games in a row. Even the commentators felt that the OK team had some unstoppable momentum after the New Year. Although every commentator did not understand before the game why the OK team wanted Haina Baichuan as a substitute and dropped Losteve to play.
Position 4 is such an important position, but after several games, Ye Qiu's excellent sense of rhythm made everyone who was paying attention to the game applaud without hesitation.
After ok defeated sy, more people began to pay attention to this reorganized old team.
Just when everyone thought that ok was likely to qualify first in the group, ok's winning streak was stopped by the rr team.
"I thought it was so powerful, but it's nothing more than that." Xi walked to OK's rest area after the game to prepare to taunt a few people, but found that there were only three support staff, Xiao Qingyue, Leng Muxue and Qi Mei, in the rest area.
Match records are compiled there.
"Who are you?" Xiao Qingyue raised her head when she heard Xi's voice.
"I am the captain of rr, Ximen An, and my ID is xi." Xi still said politely, "Excuse me, where are God B and the others?"
"Ah. Those idiots." Xiao Qingyue sighed, shook her head with a wry smile, "They are all in the toilet. After winning the game yesterday, I had to go out to celebrate in the evening, and then a few people ran to eat skewers. Today we have a group
I have diarrhea. Sorry. If you have anything, please tell me and I will convey it to him when he comes back."
Xi's smile froze on her face, she just said nothing and turned back to her lounge.
"Are you comfortable with ridicule?" Ji Ji glanced at Xi who came back with a dark face. Hehehe.
"You already knew this?"
Looking at Ji Ji's face, which didn't show any joy, Xi's smiling face looked a little scary.
"We met in the toilet this morning." Ji Ji said calmly. "But a win is a win, and this will not change. It's just that we don't have a chance to qualify now."
"There are many opportunities. But we have only been together for a few months, so I never thought that I would be able to advance."
"There shouldn't be any team in the country that can disappoint them." Zhang Chunjie spoke at this time.
"Why?" Quan Zhiren just came from South Korea and doesn't know much about the situation in China.
"Because they are too low-key." Zhang Chunjie said matter-of-factly, "But they have won so many championships within one year of formation, and they were directly invited to enter the main draw of SL China. Compared with established teams like SY
Get up, what qualifications do you think ok has to stand there? We are all newbies. But it doesn’t matter, it’s not impossible for b god to have four legs.”
"I think the OK team is very powerful." Jun Ji-hyun disagreed with Zhang Chunjie's statement, "Everyone is very powerful, of course the broker is even more powerful."
"I tell you, you don't understand." Zhang Chunjie shrugged, "I think it's better not to play training games with ok in the future, and let them practice better and better. When I was in Eden, I felt like playing practice games
If you play too much, OK will improve too quickly, and you will become like an idiot by helping them train."
"What about the other teams?" Xi frowned.
"SY will definitely not stop playing. Ye Zebei is this kind of person. Guo Shi also told me so at the beginning, suggesting not to play training matches with ok, otherwise he will be surpassed sooner or later. But Ye Zebei thinks this is a win-win situation.
So he refused. Then Guo Shi became angry.
After that, I went to bh. NF was almost beaten stupid by ok. They trained every day, but you have also seen the results. sg will not train with ok. After all, Xuanhuang and B God have a different relationship, so
SG’s ranking has risen very quickly.”
"Don't think too much. OK is a strong team. They won the game just because they were strong. It's as simple as that." Ji Ji interrupted Zhang Chunjie's complaint, "It's more useful to look for your own reasons than to complain about these."
"Whatever." Zhang Chunjie shrugged and said nothing more.
In the next game, ok still lost the game against the bh.ok team.
In the final battle against SG, I naturally didn’t win.
Although they were barely in the ranks of promotion, everyone felt that this was just good luck because of the bo1. They could only stop at the semi-finals.
After a day of adjustments, on March 13th, the selection of the top four in China officially began.
The groups drawn in the first round were ok versus sg, and sy versus code.
Since ok lost to sg in a single-elimination cycle, most people are optimistic about sg in this game.
"My body is fine."
In the lounge, Xiao Qingyue looked at the six people sitting in rows in front of her, stared, and expressed her dissatisfaction.
"It's okay!" six people replied loudly in unison.
"It's a shame to lose the game after eating too much on the day of the competition. Do you understand? If you don't get the first place and qualify, you can train me for 20 hours when you go back! One week in a row!"
"Mom!" The screams sounded directly.
"Twenty hours a day, I'm exhausted."
"With Sy here, it's going to be hard to get first place."
"Wouldn't it be great if we won? We can win!"
"Huh...twenty hours..."
"...a bunch of idiots."
"Okay." At this time, Xu Yunlong spoke, and the lounge instantly became quiet.
"No matter what the result is, try our best to play the game well. This is the only thing we can do now. Don't think too much, just enjoy the game happily."
At three o'clock in the afternoon, the semi-finals officially started.
The first is the bo3 game between sy and code.
When the code came up, it banned the two powerful heroes Werewolf and Bat, and grabbed the Prophet and the Necromancer. Sy banned the two heroes with the highest usage rate in the single defeat, Poison and Alchemy, and took
I took Shadow Shaman and Karl. In the third and fourth hands, I took Dad, Rubick and Bristleback. In the last hand, Code took Ice Girl, and sy took Daze.
"Code is going far away." After seeing BP, Xuan Wu, who was sitting in the stands, sighed.
Xu Yunlong also agreed with Xuanwu's point of view. I don't know what happened to code. It seems that the state has been very bad recently, and there were internal conflicts some time ago. Although no one has left the team, the conflicts have not been resolved.
I don’t know what Zhao De thinks.
The game begins.
Dire team sy's Rubick and Dark Priest's Baogangbei are on the bottom lane, and the opposite ghost undead dragon plus ice girl Gang three are on the opposite side. Qian Zhi's prophet in the third position of code is alone in the top lane against sy's number three.
Runtu's outstanding player is Karl. In the middle, Li Yue's Parker fights against Hua Qingtian's Shadow Shaman.
"Eh?! The God of War didn't use Karl?! He used the Shadow Shaman mid laner?!" Zhu Quehuang's eyes widened, his whole body leaned forward, holding the guardrail and looking at the big screen, as if he couldn't believe it.
"Isn't Shadow Shaman an auxiliary hero?!"
"In fact, there is no distinction between auxiliary and non-auxiliary heroes." Xuan Wu said from the side, "It depends on who uses it. Even if your B God uses Ice Girl, you can beat your Karl."
"Really?!" Zhu Quehuang looked like he wanted to go back and give it a try.
"False." Xu Yunlong glared at Xuan Wu, "Heroes also have their own strengths and weaknesses. Otherwise, if they were all equally strong, there would be no need to separate them into five positions. But the strength and weakness are only relative.
God of War's use of Shadow Shaman in the mid lane is just a strategy. It doesn't mean that this method is good, but that this method is suitable in Beishen's opinion. That's all."
While talking, Runtu, who was nicknamed Chairman in the circle, killed Qian Zhi's prophet with a fire card, while Hua Qingtian, the God of War, wandered to eat talismans and did a gank by the way. In such an unexpected time, he helped his four teammates.
Playing three, he directly killed the three code bottom laners and established a four-head advantage within one minute.
Ye Qiu pursed his lips as he watched Zheng Duo's Dai Ze help the shaman add a thin burial at the last moment to prevent the shaman from being taken away by ghosts.
When he left Sy, he never thought that Zheng Duo could climb to this position, but now it seems that he is really going to compete with him on the same stage, and he is not an opponent that can be ignored.
At 5 and a half minutes, Code's two soy sauces helped to swim. Parker took the lead and took away Hua Qingtian's Shadow Shaman, but he was also taken away by Karl's Skyfire. At 8 minutes, Rubick and SS supported the road and took down Radiant.
On the 1st tower of the offlane, the chairman's Karl is already in phase at this time and has the Midas touch. At the same time, the ghost of Sun Yan, the 1st position in the code, has less than 30 CS, and is crushed by the three people of SY.
, not even daring to leave the tower.
At 10 and a half minutes, sy hit the target with a group push, which consumed most of the HP of the first tower.
At 12 and a half minutes, Parker made the first big move to Karl, who was leading the line in the middle. Sun Yan saw the right opportunity, and Ghost took the lead and got the kill. However, Parker was also killed by the quick-responsive Karl with Sky Fire and Fire Man. At this time, the kill was 6 to 2.
sy leads.
At 13 minutes, the prophet who was leading the lane on the top lane was notified by his teammates to prepare to retreat, but he did not grasp the timing well. He was caught by Rubick and Shadow Shaman with a license and sent back to the spring. Then Ye Zebei commanded the middle lane.
Assemble, and with the advantage of the lineup, they completely controlled the rhythm and pushed down the first tower in the middle of the code without hesitation.
At 15 minutes, Shadow Shaman and Rubick led the lane and pushed down the lane, killing the Ice Girl and taking the tower money. However, the Prophet and Ghost instantly supported and killed Shadow Shaman and Rubick. Then it started.
In the tug-of-war, Dark Priest and Steelback were killed one after another, but the Prophet and the bought Ice Girl were also harvested by Karl. With a small number of coders, Sy took advantage of the situation and took the next generation Roshan, leading 11 to 6. (To be completed.)
