Chapter 818: LPL Spring Finals!
Unlike the All-Star Exhibition Tournament, the Olympics are voted for in five positions, with the five most popular players voted for and a team regrouped.
In the Olympic Games, the results are more important, and since the MSI has been eliminated, it has taken over the MSI selection method - that is, the spring champions of each major region will compete as the representative team.
After all, if it is in the form of voting, if you vote for a personal popularity team, your strength is mediocre.
If you go out and lose the game as a national team, I'm afraid it will be worse than the quarterfinals of the World Championship.
In the evening, the news that this year's MSI Mid-Season Invitational Tournament was canceled and replaced with an Olympic e-sports performance event quickly spread throughout the Internet, and it rose all the way to the top of the hot search for KG's victory over FXP in the first battle after the Spring Festival.
For a while, many teams were also gearing up and eager to try.
How many times in this life do you have the opportunity to stand on the world stage wearing the national flag?
In traditional Chinese thought, this can be regarded as a glorious ancestor, so in my heart, no matter which team or player wants to miss this opportunity.
But there is only one spot, and that is the spring champion.
As a result, this year's already fierce spring competition suddenly became even more intense.
The national power team EDE, the BMG of the royal three families, and the sharp AG team...
These teams started their daily training as soon as possible, striving to win a place on the way to the Olympics.
KG is similar, Han Yunlong started the "military training" of everyone in KG after announcing the news after playing FXP last time, and even canceled the usual sleep time.
may be the easiest in the entire LPL at the moment is Li Xiufeng.
His ease is not indifferent, but built on strong self-confidence.
This kind of self-confidence is currently in several teams in the LPL, Theshine has, Rocky has, Uz1 has, and the factory director also has... Oh yes, and the director has already started to study the opponents of the Olympic exhibition matches.
In Match Week 5, after EDE's victory over Team DGL, the factory manager beat Peanut, the opponent who had given him nightmares, and he laughed in the post-match interview.
Luo Xin asked him if he had any noteworthy opponents in this spring game, and the factory director smiled and said that he had recently studied the playing style of junglers in other regions, and did not pay much attention to the LPL team.
In Match Week 8, AG defeated EW, and Rocky also smiled in an interview and said that they are confident about this year's Spring Race.
In the 11th matchweek, Team BMG's Uz1 was asked in a post-match interview what they thought of KG, who had been winning streak recently.
Uz1 said that their goal is to win this spring, not one person, one team...
It has to be said that since the announcement of the replacement of MSI for the Olympic e-sports exhibition tournament in May, major teams have begun to selectively "ignore" the KG team that is still thriving this season, as if they want to show that they are not afraid of KG.
But ignoring is not the same as not existing.
Since winning FXP after the Spring Festival, KG's winning streak legend is still continuing.
Although the two lineups rotated, the man on the road was always there, and victory never seemed to be far away.
The most thrilling was the game in the penultimate week of the regular season, KG vs. BMG, and the combination of Phantom Wind and Fable on the lower road was directly blown up by Uz1 and Ming on the lower road of BMG.
Just when everyone thought that BMG was going to end KG's winning streak, the angel on the road took over the game in the twenty-five minutes.
Uz1's Kaisha flew up and wanted to cut the back row unconvinced, but the angel thing developed, you really can't beat it, not to mention that Li Xiufeng has an invincible ultimate.
Take it again
With a win over BMG, KG's regular season for the Spring Season is over.
Winning all the way in the spring tournament is really a bit astonishing and shocking!
To be honest, this kind of performance has actually happened to EDE and BMG, but they only kept it for one season, and then some of them just slipped to the top.
But this is not the first time KG.
In the last two seasons, KG lost only one of the spring races.
The summer season has already completed the feat of winning all the regular seasons, and this year's spring season has been a brace.
"Why can this KG be so strong!"
On the Internet, people from all walks of life have said that KG is unreasonably strong.
But some people said don't blow it yet, the playoffs haven't started yet, and the decision on the place in the exhibition match of this Olympic esports event will not be known until the championship in the playoffs.
It's just a win in the regular season, and a new team in the LCK division next door can do it.
That's really not nonsense.
The LCK region has a team called DWG this season - last season's playoffs were shaved 3-0 by SKT and did not get three tickets to the S game.
But this season they have gone one step further, and from the beginning of the regular season, even the old powerhouses such as SKT and KT have not been able to suppress their limelight.
At the end of the regular season, DWG sucked a wave of fans with its good performance.
But there are still many people who are not optimistic about this team, thinking that they will lose again in the B05 of the playoffs, so KG with the same record does not need to be too ruthless.
What the result will be, you still have to fight to know.
DWG is currently the same as KG, with the top spot in the regular season and both locked up the final four in the playoffs.
It is worth mentioning that DWG won the last regular season game after winning it.
Top laner Nuguri Niu Bao said in an interview that this time they will not lose again.
When asked if there was any pressure on strong teams such as SKT and KT in the playoffs, Niu Bao actually cosed the factory director's speech, saying that he was studying the LPL opponents next door, so he didn't feel too much pressure on the teams in his own region.
As soon as this remark came out, the Korean network was in an uproar!
You know, SKT and KT can be regarded as the three royal families in South Korea, the number of fans of the two teams is huge, and the triple crown champion SKT has countless fans all over the world.
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Compared to DWG, although the momentum is strong this year, the fan base is still a little too weak.
"What a kid who doesn't know the height of the sky, without Xu Xiu, you would be a scumbag." Some netizens left messages on the Internet.
Xu Xiu is the middle lane of DWG, the man who issued the deafening sentence of 'Reviving the glory of the LCK, it is incumbent on my generation' at the beginning of the year.
All of a sudden, a lot of people were waiting to see the jokes about DWG repeating the mistakes of last summer, shaving their heads in the playoffs.
After all, setting up a flag before the playoffs is a villain's death no matter how you look at it.
And DWG's Nuguri didn't care about this, when he scored in the new season of the top of the canyon at the beginning of the year, he was also on the top of the list, but he was crushed by Li Xiufeng, the liver emperor, and ranked second.
So he was telling the truth, after the regular season of the LCK, Nuguri has been studying the game video of KG on the LPL side and studying Li Xiufeng's upper singles play.
As for some people who say that he holds the cup.
It doesn't matter, it's the cup that loses.
If you win,
Then he will not be called Niu Bao in the future,
It's called a cow cup!
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In the last game week of the regular season, there were no KG games, and KG also took the opportunity to take a week off.
To be honest, since winning the FXP game after the Spring Festival, everyone in KG has been practicing day and night by Coach Han Yunlong in the past few months, and the amount of training every day is still relatively large, and everyone is holding back their strength.
No way, there are a lot of KG people.
Then the question arises.
Even after the next playoffs, KG worked hard to win this championship.
Who's on the bench when the time comes?
Playing professionally, unless they have already achieved fame, there are few people who are really willing to salt.
For a time, there was also an "undercurrent" in the KG team.
Specifically, it can be manifested in the morning when Li Xiufeng got up and just went downstairs, someone next to him greeted him:
Yo, isn't this Brother Feng? It just so happened that I bought breakfast, Brother Feng, do you want to have some?
Li Xiufeng is not very willing to take advantage of others, but this is not a coincidence, so let's eat some.
At noon, someone accidentally hit a dish he didn't like to eat, but it happened to be Li Xiufeng's favorite dish, so he sent it over by the way.
Li Xiufeng is not very willing to take advantage, but this is not a coincidence...
It's the same in the afternoon, there will always be people who accidentally order an extra cup of milk tea, buy more snacks, and put it away, so they sent it to Li Xiufeng.
Of course, the most outrageous of all is Kake.
After the training match in the evening, a message suddenly popped up on Li Xiufeng's ST (game platform) - someone gave him a stand-alone game, and when he asked, he found out that it was sent by Kake.
At this time, Kake walked over and came up to introduce the game first.
He said that this game is called Cyberpunk 4396, what kind of stand-alone 3A masterpiece, the game is excellent, the plot is ups and downs, and the men and women are in tears.
He said that he wanted to buy it for his girlfriend, but he found that he didn't have a girlfriend, and his hand slipped and he accidentally clicked on Brother Feng in the friend list.
Smack, soon!
The game will become Li Xiufeng's...
Li Xiufeng listened to the game and was quite fun, and he was a little tempted to try it, but he was not very embarrassed - he looked at the price of the game for 298, which was 300 yuan less.
Is this good? It's not good.
But Kake was not happy when he heard it, he said that the things that were sent, even if they were not sent wrong, must not be taken back, saying that this is their folk customs.
Several of his teammates around him were dumbfounded.
Brother K, where are you from? The folklore is quite complicated, and the last time I ate your bean bag, I chased it for three days.
It's hard to be warm, it's hard to be warm...
Li Xiufeng had no choice but to reluctantly accept the game.
But he really doesn't like to take advantage of people, so he thought about it at night, and then boarded the Alliance client to buy Kake an equivalent hero skin pack.
Well, Jace's.
There's also his champion skin inside.
However, the next day, when the club held a meeting, Coach Han Yunlong asked everyone to talk about their thoughts on "military training" during this time, and what to say, and speak freely.
No one spoke, and everyone knew it was just a formality.
But today, Li Xiufeng stood up.
He said that the amount of training may have been too much recently, which has caused everyone at the club to sleep less, and indirectly led to a decline in memory, so that they always buy the wrong things.
As soon as these words came out, everyone's faces suddenly seemed to be constipated.
Han Yunlong didn't know why, and looked around at the people who were looking at KG in wonder, could it be that the amount of training was really that big?
In the last week of the preseason, KG's episodes were not mentioned for the time being, and in a blink of an eye, the playoffs of the spring game also arrived as scheduled.
According to the competition system, KG, which ranked first in the regular season, directly advanced to the semi-finals, and the other teams had to fight fiercely for elimination.
After two weeks of competition, the places for the top four of the Spring Tournament were also announced, which were KG, AG and SN with the new dark horse FXP of the Spring Tournament.
That's right, FXP, known as the "Little KG" rebel alliance, although it lost to KG in the first game after the Spring Festival, it still can't hide the brilliance of this team.
In the period leading up to the semi-finals of the Final Four, many people were comparing FXP to DWG in the next division.
Many esports media are predicting who will come out of the encirclement and become the biggest dark horse in this year's league spring game.
Because the competition system of China and South Korea is different, the LCK side is a little faster than the LPL side.
LCK's exclusive broadcast rights in Huaxia were bought out by the shark platform, and the shark platform also bought the live broadcast rights of LPL.
In the past, when the LPL did not win the championship and the LCK was dominant, the audience who watched the LCK game always had a sense of superiority, and there was even a saying "If you look at LCK above gold, you will change to LPL below silver".
Now, KG has won the S championship to end the era of LCK hegemony.
However, during the vacuum period of the LPL game, many viewers will still go to watch the LCK game.
Unexpectedly, although DWG in this year's spring game raised the flag before the preseason and was full of villains who could receive lunch boxes at any time, they defeated KT and SKT in the playoffs.
In the finals, DWG even forced SKT into the fifth game of BO5.
In the end, Niu Bao proved that he was not a waste of relying on the big brother Xu Xiu in the middle lane, and beat a handful of SKT's top laner and successfully won the spring finals.
DWG won the LCK Spring Championship to complete the miracle of the dark horse comeback, which also means that they have the only ticket to the upcoming Olympic esports event in May.
For a time, various media reported one after another.
At the same time, FXP, another dark horse that has not yet started in the LPL, which has not yet started in the semi-finals, is often brought out to compare with DWG, and has been mentioned more and more recently.
After all, everyone is a dark horse, everyone has counterattacked, if you don't counterattack, wouldn't it be very faceless?
Therefore, during this time, FXP is also lying on the salary and trying to test the courage, and he is practicing every day.
It is said that there are three broken keyboards in the club alone, which shows the intensity of their training.
Finally, in the last days of April, the semifinals of the LPL Spring Tournament also kicked off.
KG vs. AG, FXP vs. SN.
The former is an old opponent, compared to last year, this year's AG changes are indeed quite big, KG won the game 3 to 2, and there were two substitutions in the middle.
And after the semi-finals, countless AG fans also wailed.
Objectively speaking, AG has been winning the championship since Rocky joined and got a member of Theshine.
But no one expected that a hit nemesis KG team would be killed halfway.
With the same style and style of play as them, but with stronger strength to win?
Does this ask you if you are uncomfortable?
Although many AG fans are comforting each other, this season is not good, there is next season, not this year, and next year.
However, year after year, esports is not a dinner party, today you invite me, tomorrow I invite you.
How many years can AG wait? How many years can fans wait? How many years can the players wait?
After the game, there was a grapevine on the Internet - Theshine, who lost to the semi-finals again, may not continue to play at AG next season, but it has not been confirmed.
The next day, the semifinals of FXP's SN also began, one was the Little Phoenix and the other was the Lions.
Facts have proved that FXP is worthy of being a small KG, the biggest dark horse in this year's LPL - they actually took away SN 3-0 in the first three rounds, and successfully advanced to the finals of the spring tournament to meet KG.
At this moment, even the eyes of the LCK division next door were on the LPL.
Could it be that FXP is a dark horse,
Can it really be the next "DWG"?!
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