The first round of the playoffs ended, and the IG team and the Snake team successfully advanced to the second round of the playoffs to challenge the next opponent.
But no matter how strong the two teams were, when they met the EDG team and the RNG team, they still couldn't get past these two intercontinental championship teams!
In the first half, the IG team challenges the EDG team.
Even though top laner Duke and mid laner Rookie performed extremely well, they still failed to win even a single victory at the hands of the EDG team after the factory director regained their form, and stopped in the second round of the playoffs 0-3.
In the lower half, the Snake team experienced the same experience as the IG team. When facing the terrifying RNG team, Sofm's bandit-style play had no effect at all, and was directly destroyed by the Hunger Strike Liuxiang Pot.
Similarly, with 0-3, the Snake team stopped in the top six, and it also announced that it had completely lost the opportunity to compete for the World Championship qualifying rounds.
After all, throughout 2017, whether it was the spring or summer split, the final four teams were Yusanjia plus an LGD team, which means that they have taken the top four in total points throughout the year.
Although the qualification for the World Championship has almost lost its suspense, from this moment on, all LPL viewers are looking forward to the subsequent games!
Whether it is the ownership of the summer championship or the qualifications for the three world championships, it will mean extremely fierce competition!
According to netizens, in this case, whichever team is eliminated will be extremely embarrassed!
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"I didn't expect the EDG team in the summer split to be so strong."
For the LGD team, Lu Haoran is not concerned about the final situation of the World Championship for the time being. He is only concerned about the LGD team's next opponent, EDG!
At the beginning of the summer split, the EDG team underwent a small reorganization and introduced new top laner Aodi and new bottom laner Iboy.
At the beginning, their record was not very good, because the two newcomers did not perform well, and the top laner Mouse and the jungle director were also in poor condition.
But after the intercontinental competition, the status of these two people began to improve by leaps and bounds, so much so that in the later stages of the summer regular season, the director, who was about to retire with half a foot, actually became the starter of the EDG team again!
Subsequently, the EDG team became more and more courageous and advanced all the way to the semi-finals of the summer split.
Moreover, in the six-to-four match, they completely defeated half of the entire IG team.
What made Lu Haoran frown even more was that it was at this moment that he suddenly remembered that the EDG team was the previous champion of the 2017 LPL Summer Split!
At that time, we were playing against the RNG team in a BO5 finals match, and we even amazingly completed a handicap of two to three in the finals!
Judging from this situation, the strength of the EDG team cannot be described with the words "not to be underestimated". It has already posed a considerable threat to the LGD team!
"This semi-final is something we really cannot take lightly."
"We must be ready to compete in the finals against the EDG team, otherwise we are very likely to miss the mark!"
Lu Haoran said solemnly to himself, and at the same time he also said to the players.
Although after a whole year of running-in, the LGD team's lineup has become invincible in Lu Haoran's eyes, the EDG team that has returned as the king will never choose to give up easily!
Therefore, in the days leading up to the semifinals, all members of the LGD team continued to enter a more difficult training state.
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On August 26, the semifinals of the 2017 LPL Summer Playoffs finally arrived!
The first game today is the match between the LGD team and the EDG team in the top half, and the second game is the match between the WE team and the RNG team.
This competition arrangement made Xiao Ning a little unhappy. New
"Why do we compete first? If WE and RNG compete first, wouldn't we know the result directly?"
Xiao Ning was speechless and choked up, and the so-called "result" in his mouth was the qualification to participate in the S7 World Championship.
If the RNG team loses to the WE team in the match between WE and the RNG team, then even if the LGD team subsequently loses to the EDG team, it can still become the LPL second seed in the S7 World Championship with the second place in points throughout the year.
If the RNG team wins, then in the second game, everyone in the LGD team will go all out to win against the EDG team and eliminate the suspense of the final World Championship!
"Destiny is in our own hands. Even if WE and RNG play first, we must try our best to win!"
"Moreover, our goal is to win the summer championship, not to qualify for the World Championship!"
Lu Haoran corrected Xiao Ning's statement seriously, and he pretended to be stupid and smiled.
"Let me just say this, EDG must win. After all, I want to beat the factory director in a serious way in a BO5 game!"
"In this way, I can legitimately become the number one jungler in the LPL!"
Xiao Ning gritted her teeth and said, feeling very dissatisfied.
Because with the end of the LPL summer regular season, some honorary awards have also been released.
In the 2017 LPL official summer split first-team roster, Xiao Ning was not selected, and became a first-team jungler and the director of EDG, Clearlove7!
As for the MVP of the summer regular season, it was finally awarded to his teammate Wei Shen, leaving him with only a second-team jungler... Although these were of no use, Xiaoning was unhappy.
After all, he has always believed that he is the best in the world!
"Yes, keep this state, we will fight hard in this afternoon's game!"
Lu Haoran also gritted his teeth and said that he was also dissatisfied with the lineup selection for the summer regular season.
Because the LGD team has such a high winning rate, but the entire team is not on the list!
Not only was Xiao Ning not on the list, but neither was Lang Xing. After a while, the top laner became Team WE's 957!
957 is certainly a big player in the WE team, but no matter how you look at it, this season’s results are not as good as Wolf Walk!
"It's necessary, and we haven't played BO5 against EDG yet. This is our first and last chance this year."
Wei Shen was laughing at this moment, and Lu Haoran realized that today's semi-final was indeed their first BO5 match against EDG.
Because there were two BO5 games in the spring split, one was against WE and the other was against RNG.
"We're lucky. I didn't expect that God would take care of us and allow us, Godfather, to defeat all the three Yu families within a year!"
Lu Haoran said with great confidence, in this way, no matter what the reason is, in today’s BO5 semi-finals with EDG, Team Laogandaddy must win!
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After lunch, the entire LGD team set off and quickly arrived at the competition site.
Today's game can be described as a huge crowd. After all, the four teams about to compete are the teams with the largest number of fans in the entire LPL.
It is no exaggeration to say that among the 12 teams in the entire LPL, the number of fans of the four teams today accounts for half of the total number of fans, or even more!
However, if you look at the number of fans of each of the four teams in a single round, the LGD team is actually only in the middle, or even at the bottom.
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After all, no matter how good the LGD team's results are this year, their foundation cannot compare with Yusanjia's management over the years.
But it doesn’t matter. Once this year’s S7 World Championship ends, the dynasty belonging to the LGD team will officially begin!
Enter the venue, arrive in the lounge, adjust the status, go on stage to debug the equipment, and return to the lounge to deploy tactics.
As time flies by, the first semi-final of the 2017 LPL Summer Playoffs is finally about to begin!
"good!"
"Welcome all Summoner friends on site and in front of the screen to watch our live broadcast of the playoff semifinals on time!"
"Hello everyone, I am today's commentator!"
"Hello everyone, I am today's commentator Rita!"
With the two commentators taking the stage, the semifinal live stream officially started.
"Hoping for the stars and hoping for the moon, our LPL semi-finals have finally begun."
"I think many viewers are like me. They have been looking forward to this day for a long time. They have even been looking forward to this scene since the day I won the Intercontinental Championship."
"That's right, the four teams that represented our LPL and won the championship in the intercontinental competition have now all entered the LPL semi-finals and are about to compete for the final LPL championship!"
I remember that I was in high spirits, like an ardent fan who had finally seen the fight of the century.
"Before the Intercontinental Championship, I would definitely think that the LGD team could successfully defend the Summer Championship. But after the Intercontinental Championship, when I saw the performance of the Yusanjia team, I felt that it would be difficult for the LGD team to securely win the Summer Championship.
It becomes bigger instantly.”
"Because of the EDG, RNG and WE teams, they were perfect in the second half of the summer split and almost never lost a game."
"Moreover, the results of the four teams throughout the summer split also formed a strange situation of checks and balances."
"The LGD team lost to the WE team in a BO3, the WE team lost to the EDG team in a BO3, the EDG team lost to the RNG team in a BO3, and the B team lost to the LGD team in a BO3..."
"In this situation of mutual checks and balances, it's hard to say who can win the final summer championship!"
"And let alone the finals, this year's semi-finals are full of suspense!"
"The result of the different-group confrontation between the LGD team and the EDG team was that the LGD team won 2-1."
"The result of the confrontation between the WE team and the RNG team was that the WE team won 2-1."
"That is to say, today's two semi-finals are two games where one defeats the other!"
Rita's face turned rosy with excitement as she spoke.
"So, in today's two semi-finals, will the LGD team and the WE team continue to suppress their opponents, or will the EDG team and the RNG team complete the regular season revenge?"
"This is the biggest highlight of today's two games!"
"Well said!"
"Next, let me read out the starting player lists of both teams!"
I remember agreeing very much, and then I thought excitedly.
EDG team, top laner Mouse, jungler Clearlove7, mid laner Seiko!
And as the voice of remembering fell, the players from both teams also made their debut amid the cheers of the audience!
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"This is the atmosphere of our LPL competition. Just look at what happened during the intercontinental competition. I'm convinced."
While taking the stage, Xiao Ning complained that even though two months have passed, she still can't forget the scene of that day.
"Haha, the S7 World Championship will be held at our doorstep. Let the world feel the enthusiasm of our LPL audiences."
Lu Haoran said with a smile, urging everyone to take their seats quickly and conduct final debugging of the equipment.
As for himself, he went to find the referee for the coin toss.
Unfortunately, Lu Haoran lost the coin toss this time and passively became the red side.
But I didn’t think much about it. After all, as long as the LGD team wins a small game against the EDG team, they will automatically have the right to choose sides in the next game.
After a simple adjustment, the first game of the BO5 semi-finals was entered directly without wasting any audience's time!
In the first game, the EDG team on the blue side and the LGD team on the red side!
Spider, Green Steel Shadow, Galio!
The first three bans of the EDG team all targeted the top, middle and jungle trio of the LGD team, because in the 7.16 version used in the playoffs, these heroes have all been slightly strengthened.
Especially the hero Spider, who has always been Xiao Ning's signature character, cannot be let go at this time.
Big tree, skateboard shoes, Luo!
The first three bans on the LGD team targeted the top and bottom lanes of the EDG team respectively.
The reason for banning Big Tree is because the signature heroes of the EDG team's top lane are Big Trees. The reason for banning the bottom lane is to allow Sima Laothi and Xiao Ming to continue to exert the suppressive power of their championship combination in the bottom lane.
The first round of bans is over, and the first round of selection begins immediately.
Prince Jarvan IV of Demacia is locked!
The EDG team's selection speed on the first floor was very fast, and they directly locked the prince.
But this is obviously a swing position, because in the current version, in addition to playing top lane, the hero Prince also has the opportunity to appear in the jungle position.
Moreover, the factory director’s prince knows everything!
The LGD team is also very decisive in selecting players for the first and second floors.
On the first floor, Xiao Ming will first lock in the latest version that is strong, and his signature hero, Tauren Chieftain Alistar.
On the second floor, directly lock the version T1adc Merlin Gunner Tristana!
We are not afraid of the EDG team's backhand attack at all, because the combination of small cannons and bull heads means strength!
But when it was the EDG team's turn to select players for the second and third floors, they did not choose the bottom lane combination tit for tat. Instead, they first selected an adc Kasumi and then began to hesitate on the third floor.
After thinking for a long time, Scout and I finally locked in on the mid lane hero, Cassiopeia, Embrace of the Serpent!
"Snake Girl? This version of Snake Girl is actually slightly weakened, but it still retains the ability to push lanes and team fights."
"Snake Girl is a very good choice, because Snake Girl has a strong laning ability, and ordinary mid laners can't beat her."
"The selection of players by the EDG team forces Manager Lu to make a choice between the mid laner and jungle positions."
"If they choose a jungler on the third floor, then the mid laner who can beat Snake Girl will definitely be banned. If they choose a solo laner, Xiao Ning's hero pool will be tested."
"As for the problem of Meiko's hero pool being targeted? Although there is, the auxiliary position is definitely not as important as the midfielder!"
Seeing the EDG team's selection, I remember Rita's eyes lit up. She didn't expect that after such a long time, a coach who could cause some trouble for Manager Lu's BP finally appeared!