Chapter 276: The Dust Has Settled, and the Semifinals Begin!
Any sport and competitive sport, whether it is football basketball, volleyball, chess, Go, or shogi, is a youth meal without exception.
And this is especially true of e-sports, before joining the e-sports industry, after completing military service, KKOMA, who was born in 1985, is already over 25 years old.
In the Korean star circle, where there are many masters, Coach Kou Ma took the stage as Littleboy, but unfortunately, he ended up being one of the countless inconspicuous players.
Fast forward to 2012, after losing the GSL qualifiers, he was born in 85 and was almost 28 years old.
An elderly e-sports player must make a choice at the intersection of life, whether to give up his stubbornness, persistence in his dreams, take off his shirt and say goodbye to the stage, and become one of the thousands of social animals, or find another way?
In the end, it was SKT who chose the KKOMA coach and began SKT's dynasty road.
Few people know that in the early days of Kkoma's coaching, in addition to the daily serious work, he usually cared deeply for the players, and it was under his guidance that Faker, the once "withdrawn" and "indifferent" big demon king, gradually became cheerful and warm, with the Li Guapi we can see now.
S3, Kkoma, when he joined SKT, SKT was about to form the second team, SKT T1 K, in February, and Kkoma became the coach of this team.
The team is full of talent, as Team K is built around the "King of Passers-by" and "Solo Killers" who are known for their individual strength, such as Impact, Piglet, Poohmandu, and the future Triple Crown winners Bengi and Faker.
The new team debuted, in the OGN Spring Tournament, the second team, which was not optimistic, completely overshadowed the first team, under the guidance of Kkoma, defeated Najin White Shield and C** one after another, although it was a pity to lose to MVP Ozone in the end, but the results of the Spring Tournament have proved the great potential of this team.
Then, Team K won the ticket to the S3 World Finals in the first year of the OGN Summer Tournament with two to catch up with three.
It was also in this game that Faker single-handedly killed Ryu, the popular king at the time.
Team K then continued their unstoppable momentum and won the S3 World Championship.
Then came the well-known S4 defeat, but no one could have imagined that Kkoma would return to the world stage with a brand new SKT.
S5, S6, two years in a row before that? Has there ever been a team that has won two consecutive Worlds? Until Kkoma and his SKT.
So far, Kkoma has proven himself to be the best coach in the world with three world titles? He always elevates the young, brilliant and talented players under his command.
As a legendary coach who single-handedly built the League of Legends coaching system? He created the once invincible Korean-style operation system, and established the rotation system that all the top teams compete to imitate? How could it be possible to play the three cores of the entire summer tournament in LPL, and it can't be solved!
Of course? The game isn't over yet? Compared to the deeper considerations of other teams, the people of the C9 team are confused.
Obviously, the first three played well, but it turned out to be the fourth, what? You're in Saiyan mode, huh?
With the passionate BO5 music again? Two teams in turn? This time, the C9 coach no longer dared to despise kkoma.
After doing BP solemnly, the coaches on both sides exited.
There were no surprises, although it broke through the Linglong Tower, but 23 minutes? The economic difference of up to 1W3 on both sides speaks for itself.
3:2
"This.... It's too uncomfortable to lose, isn't it? Letme frowned.
"Once skt plays the game with his brain, all the C9 members are like reckless men who have no power to use anything? The point is, they don't have the kind of top players who can break the game," Xiang Nabe shook his head.
"No way" Li Luo shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly: "Let's not talk about the gap between C9 and skt in terms of tactical execution?" Just because there is a big problem with the player's personal strength, the problem exposed by their top order is very big? Once the jungler can't tilt resources? Equal to natural blasting"
Game 3? With the help of the jungler, I can't see the gap between C9's top laner and Khan, but the fifth of the four is very obvious.
In the absence of anyone else's involvement, on 1V1 alone, in the S8 time period, Brother Han does have a bit of a top-level single taste.
But alas, skt is too deeply hidden, this understanding of tactics can be called terrifying, and when the game is played completely according to the point in time, and the suppressive force can be provided online, C9 has no restraint at all.
"skt, it's still skt, we can hide the tactics until now, if it weren't for C9 forcing skt to the edge of the cliff, I'm afraid this tactic is ready for us"
Chris says:
"Puppy, you have a good chance of winning against the performance of SKT on the lower road today"
Hearing this, Li Luo smiled slightly, and was about to humbly say "If Wolf abandons Bang and goes away, I can beat him and can't take care of himself", but on the screen, faker and wolf, who were interviewed by the official, suddenly made a bold statement.
"Uzi, you say?"
When the host asked wolf "how to see the odds of Rng's bottom lane and skt's bottom lane", wolf, who had been talking a lot in the past, still did not change his true colors, and a slight smile appeared on his slightly sick face:
"Do you think that this is the end of SKT's strength? Trust us, in the finals, we have more surprises waiting for Rng's next road to dig, please give your trust to Bae Jun-sik! ”
"Other people can't take Rng's bottom lane, then it's up to us to break their myths, I will prove that skt is the world's No. 1 team, and skt's bottom lane is the best bottom lane combination in the world!"
“....”
Looking at Wolf, who had appeared on the interview stage again after such a long time, Li Luo silently withdrew the humble words he was about to say and showed a gentle smile.
"Chris, trust me, I'm going to kill them"
Different from the confident and arrogant words in the interview, Li Luo's tone was calm and quiet, with a smile, as if he was talking about what to eat at noon, but everyone who heard it could hear a killing intent from the words.
Even if it is S7, msi, or Asian Games, I have never seen Li Luo so serious Rng people, and I suddenly feel at ease!
Although Skt is strong today, it is definitely not strong enough to make Rng feel terrified, which is surprising and surprising.
After all, in the semi-finals of the semi-finals, whether it is against kt or fnc, I believe that Skt will always reveal more tactical details at that time.
After watching this game, the Rng people who were under pressure spontaneously threw themselves into high-intensity training.
During the World Championships, as long as there is a well-managed team, there can be no entertainment, but some management with ghosts in their hearts will often indulge the players to go out to date female fans during the break of the quarterfinals and semifinals, which is famous and relieve stress.
Of course, there are also many stupid players who fall for the big trick and are caught by the team.
After the game, if you win the championship, it's okay, just treat it as if nothing happened, and if you don't win the championship, then okay, you can give me a low salary and continue to renew the contract!
Don't want to?
Professional players who have no knowledge and no higher education will often fall for it, and the club will directly announce your evil deeds during the World Championship, which will fundamentally ruin you as a player.
Anyway, you are not the team to win the championship, and the club will continue to buy people to strengthen the squad next season.
There is a knife on the head of the color word, and the more seasoned the player, the better he lives, and no one in RNG will have this idea of relaxing, and even the rest time between training is studying the game video to understand the opponent's habits.
There is one last match left in the quarterfinals, and Team KT will face Team FNC.
During this World Championship, in addition to Theshy's short-lived and Khan's counterpoint suppression, there was also a top laner who performed very well and was also a world-class performance.
That's Team KT's top laner SMEB.
SMEB is also an old face in the World Championship, and without the interference of the jungler, even the Khan has to stabilize in terms of lane ability.
With SKT's upset, before the game, people who were optimistic about FNC before switched sides and began to support KT.
Even the handicap opened by the dealer has changed from the previous 1.45:1.28 to 1.16:1.66, and funds have poured into KT, and the odds of FNC have risen steadily, and they once had to cross the 2 mark.
The game started as scheduled on Sunday afternoon, and the two sides continued to talk before the game, until an hour before the game, the official push of FNC was still fighting a war of words, and the official push of Aite KT kept coming over to PK.
Both sides of the first BP were normal, but after entering the game, they broke out into what can be called the bloodiest first-class team in the world competition.
KT relied on his support to be Bron, and invaded the FNC jungle on the red side strongly, but was stuck in position by FNC's support, and knocked four people away with a Q skill.
The Czar of CAPS poked wildly at the KT men in this terrain when a deadly rhythm was triggered.
The two sides were fighting, and the heads rose and fell, and in the end, there was a wave of 7 to 4 heads.
smeb used to play the second level of the first group because of tp, and by the time it was time to go online, fnc's top single Bwipo was already level two and almost three levels.
At this moment, SMEB suddenly put on a pain mask, a captain level 1 sword demon who fought level 3, and the captain couldn't even make up for it.
The Score in the middle lane is also uncomfortable in the face of the caps of the last two heads, and every time the Tsar's blood consumption can make the wanderer lose a lot in the middle.
To everyone's surprise, this game was played in the middle of the FNC, and in 25 minutes, the FNC didn't even play the big dragon, and easily broke through KT's defense.
After winning all the way, the KT crowd was like a gourd baby saving grandpa, and a wave of team battles on the lower road was directly pushed off the big crystal from the second tower.
1:0。
With SKT's previous experience, this time the LCK audience did not sigh anymore, but began to expect KT to burst out with potential that no one knew was like SKT.
It's a pity, if KT's coach can hear it, he will definitely say: "The concubine can't do it!" ”
The reason why SKT was able to win three championships and make history is because of his all-round ability, and Kt is worse than that.
After the second play, FNC once again relied on teamwork and resilience, and in the 33rd minute, it relied on the bold rush dragon, and a wave of lights went dark.
When Mata reacted and hurriedly commanded everyone to go over to watch, the big dragon had already been taken by FNC, and the two sides were originally evenly balanced, because of a big dragon, the balance of victory and defeat began to tilt towards FNC.
In the 38th minute, relying on the play of CAPS Sindra, the first hand dropped the inadvertent DEFT, and there was one less C position, KT naturally did not dare to pick up the group, so he could only shrink to the high ground.
FNC took advantage of the situation to win the ancient dragon, 40 minutes, a wave of 5v5 team battles, relying on the true damage of the ancient dragon burning, KT was defeated, a wave of 2 for 4.
2:0
At the end of the second game, the camera first showed the winner and absolute protagonist of the game, FNC.
Seeing that all the members of FNC were happy, CAPS and Ou Cheng threw away their headphones, laughed and high-fived and hugged their teammates, as if they had won.
On the other hand, on the KT side, everyone looks like an autistic child.
Oops!
LCK's audience finally panicked, if there is a secret weapon, KT people should not be such a dead look, and now acting like this has shown KT's powerlessness.
There is still one last game left, the third of BO5 today, if this KT continues to fall, then FNC will not have to work overtime and directly advance to the semi-finals and face SKT.
After absorbing the essence of LPL tactics and innovating its own tactics, the strength of this FNC team was able to crush KT in rhythm, which made countless people's jaws drop.
Armageddon begins.
After some bp, Kt finally chose to put the power in the hands of deft and mata in this life-and-death situation that decided his fate.
FNC is the complete opposite, through the first two games, they seem to have found a trick to play KT, directly arranged Ou Cheng to resist pressure in the lower lane, tilted all resources to CAPS, and wanted to penetrate KT's middle lane.
Ou Cheng's ez, Hylissang's tam, the two old oilers make kt's bottom lane combination feel like a fist on cotton.
With the help of Broxah's barrel in caps' mid-laner, the rhythm completely changed after getting the score of a blood.
In the next ten minutes, the sword demon was like the god descending from the earth, slashing everywhere, and after the first wave of score was given, there was a big problem with his mentality, and even the sword demon disappeared to the lower road gank and forgot to call the signal.
In 18 minutes, the sword demon successfully cut down his super god, 8-0, almost two minutes to a head, it was the collapse of all KT members.
Until KT's crystal base was pushed off, all the audience was still in a state of confusion and shock.
Kt... Actually eliminated by FNC like this?
"Oh my God..."
"Kt is down! The Kt team, which we had high hopes for, actually fell to the quarterfinals like this, and the civil war was gone, but... I'm sorry, but I still can't accept that KT will be eliminated 3-0."
In the Korean commentary Taichung, the three Korean commentators shouted exaggeratedly, their eyes full of disbelief.
At the scene, countless LCK viewers were also unacceptable, as fans of their own division, seeing the supported team being ruthlessly eliminated by 3-0, some viewers even couldn't control their emotions.
As for the KT people, their minds have long been blank at this moment, they have no thoughts at all, and they have even forgotten their sadness and sadness.
Even with Mata, he was in a state of confusion at this time, and he couldn't believe it, so he fell to the quarterfinals.
This is in stark contrast to the FNC, which has already begun to embrace and cheer.
On October 24th, it became an LCK fan who will never forget the dark days, and in the semi-finals, only SKT was left as a lone seed.
At the same time, it was also announced that the schedule for the semi-finals was officially settled.
In the first half--- Rng vs. Rw.
In the second half--- Skt vs. Fnc.