161: Facing the Tigers, the semi-finals are prelude!
On October 22, the four teams participating in the semi-finals filmed a promotional video for the semifinals under the arrangement of Riot.
Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, New York Subway......
They have been found in all major surface buildings in New York.
There was a problem when taking the photos of the matchup, the Rat King Ray is too tall, there are 190+, known as the little Yao Ming in the e-sports circle, and the strong figure looks like he can kill the opposing JKL with one punch.
If you simply follow the alignment, it looks really incongruous, and in the end, there is nothing you can do with the fists but to shuffle the position.
Lin Ran and SB, two players of similar height, were in the C position of the photo, and the two of them held their hands on their chests and leaned back against the camera with cold faces.
On the side of the two, several players of the Tiger team and Y lined up one after another, and JKL and Little Peanut, the two shortest people in the team, stood together, and the picture looked much more harmonious.
This time the promo is defined by Riot as revenge.
In the first half of the semifinals, SKT vs. RNG, Uzi was swept by Faker in the S3 finals, sending the young big demon king to the throne successfully; The three-star veterans of Looer and A will personally destroy Faker's hopes of making it to S4 at the 2014 OGN Summer Tournament.
If you remove the strength of the team and look at the grievances of the players, this group of semi-finals can be described as full of highlights.
In the second half of the semi-finals YX, the theme of revenge between these two teams is a bit far-fetched, and they play the role of revenge for the brother teams in the same division that were eliminated in the quarterfinals.
On October 23, Madison Square Garden, the first game of the semifinals SKT vs. RNG was the first to start.
The overly rigid B strategy and tactical choice put RNG at a disadvantage at the beginning, and more importantly, they couldn't win against the line!
Except for the looer, who can press the Duke a little, there is no scum left in the other two roads and wild areas that have been blown up by SKT.
made a serious mistake in the second game, Olaf wanted blue buff + three wolves + F4 speed three to go to the wild area of the anti-BNK Zack, but he actually forgot the last wolf cub in the wild area of the three wolves.
With 9 knives, he was still short of the last shred of experience to reach level 3, but he actually realized that he had made a mistake the moment he saw level 3 Zack.
Olaf was strong in the early stage, but he couldn't chase the opposite side one level worse.
This wave of mistakes not only exposed the location, but also gave his Olaf less time to spawn a group of creeps, and he had to rush back to take the three wolves away and reset the jungle again.
And RNG didn't have a set of effective tactics against Ash, which made SKT's B very good, they banned the policewoman in four games, and then tricked Uzi into choosing EZ, and took out the embers with a backhand and beat them violently.
The hero EZ said before that in this version is the sewer, and the ability to push the line and fight is very average, and there is no way to deal with the first AD of this version of the ember.
A used Zyra in the third game, and actually brought [Blessing of the Wind Whisperer], a talent that has nothing to do with Zyra!
After seeing the main talent panel, the domestic audience was scolded, and many people thought that the old Yin coin A was eager to serve the country, and Jiela, a wind talker, wanted to serve the motherland.
But if A really wants to act, there is no need to be so obvious, a few eye positions and later lost and died violently can play RNG.
What's more, the current strength gap between RNG and SKT is visible to the naked eye, and A can't win with or without RNG.
However, this big mistake was not washed, RNG finally lost 0:3, and SKT successfully won a terrifying 12 consecutive victories in this year's S competition, which has a bit of charm in the invincible state of S5.
After the defeat in this game, there is only Y team left, and at this time they can only pin all their hopes on them.
But there are also some fanatical fans who make all kinds of disparaging remarks.
"Doesn't he smell good when he hits Rox?"
"I'm laughing to death, RNG and EDG have lost, so Y has to lose? If you continue to win, you don't have face, right? โ
"Rational fans, there is one thing to say, can yn beat Kuro, if you can't win in the middle, you can book a ticket as soon as possible."
On the evening of October 24, Eastern time, Madison Garden was packed.
The venue was much bigger than the Chicago Theatre in the quarterfinals, filled with spectators on all sides, and the only home team in the quarterfinals of the European and American Big Brothers, H2K, arrived today just to watch the best teams in the world take on each other.
"Brother Hao, you can be lucky today," Jack smiled and patted Brother Hao on the shoulder, "Guess the coin and win the side pick, if you win the Tigers today, you will have a lot of credit." โ
"What's the matter, is it difficult to let Hanyi's mold go up?" "I remember he didn't win a coin guess in the summer." โ
"Let's welcome next...... roxtiger๏ผ Standing in the athletes' tunnel and waiting for the venue, everyone could still hear the strong voice of the male host, and the applause and cheers in the stadium were endless.
"Go ahead, ready to go on stage." Vincent nudged them.
Lin Ran walked forward slowly, and the lights of the arena stage reflected on his face.
He and his teammates saw Roxtiger's players standing in front of the bench, one arm stretched 45 degrees to the side, the other hand in front of their chest, and their legs bent in a unified position.
The audience cheered even more!
"Oh no, aren't we going to lose first?" The garlic king was dumbfounded, "Why didn't Brother Ran discuss a unified action before?" โ
"Whatever, he's on stage." Lin Ran looked at the high-spirited Tiger team on the stage, and he was also a little pantothenic.
However, when he took the stage, he found that the cheers off the field were no less than those of the Tigers, and his heart was finally balanced.
The group of international students is still quite powerful, and they have brought a lot of YL only remaining seedlings to cheer.
Today's commentary is still Doll Miller and remember, they formed the S match commentary, if nothing else, the commentary of the finals will also be the three of them.
"First of all, it's good news, Y won by guessing the coin earlier, and having one, three, five games of luck is also part of the strength, and today luck seems to be on Y's side." The doll laughed.
Miller received a message from the backstage director, "There is no problem, Y will choose the blue side first in the first game!" โ
With the background music playing, the B screen appears, and the second semi-final kicks off!
YN drops the spider that Little Peanut is best at, and the Tiger team sends the 10,000-year-old Leopard Girl to the ban position on the red side.
"Y bastard's chance!" Miller's voice was very open at the beginning of today, "As long as this hero reaches level 6, he is a brainless pusher, and he doesn't fight with the opposite midlaner at all, Ran's personal strength is very strong, and he obviously doesn't want this kind of thing to happen!" โ