【778】The group stage is over

As a grand festival shared by all League of Legends players around the world, the World Finals every year carries too many eyes, pursuits, hopes and interests, and naturally, there will be many stories and grievances.

But in the end, it is just a process of revenge and being avenged.

In previous years, the TPA of the anti-Korean Qixia did not continue the surprise brought to everyone this year, and was crushed in the face of Crane.

The TL team, which has been criticized as "an expert in the civil war and an outsider in the foreign war", finally relied on the quarterfinals of the civil war last year, stepping on the body of the fish dragon team to reach the top four, and this year they once again played in the world championship as the first seed of the LPL, determined to prove themselves, but unfortunately the first round of the group stage overturned one after another, first losing to Vietnam, and then losing to the CIS.

The Fish Dragons team qualified first in the group last year, lost to the seeded team in the same region in the quarterfinals, and also eliminated their TL countless times in domestic and foreign competitions.

Crane created an unprecedented triple crown miracle in League of Legends history last year, after falling into a slump in the spring this year, the form of the summer tournament gradually improved, and gradually re-showed the invincible attitude of the world championship hegemony after entering the world championship, and locked the No. 1 seed with an undefeated record of 6-0 in the group stage, and it is also the only one of the six teams in the entire group stage that has not lost, and everyone believes that they are very likely to create a miracle again, leaving a bigger, almost impossible to have a latecomer to win the miracle of four consecutive championships.

As one of the old strong teams in the European region, M16 has regained its amazing vitality after last year's large-scale blood change, and this summer's Sailian defeated a strong opponent, and defeated the BGM team that is regarded by countless people as the hope of Western revival, won the first regional championship in team history, and went to the World Championship as the No. 1 seed in the EU region.

As a result, they ushered in two consecutive defeats in the first round of the group stage, and they were determined to take revenge in the second round, revenge on STR, defeat, revenge on SKY, and abuse.

And SKY, even if it was the peak glory of Chen Muyu's era, their results in the World Championship, that is, two consecutive runners-up, lost to STR and Crane who lost to them at MSI in the same year, after Chen Muyu retired, SKY was relegated, and for six years, they finally returned to the stage of the top league when the door to return to the LPL was about to close.

This team, which has changed almost all from players to coaches, or even several times, returned as a newcomer in the eyes of everyone, but it brought everyone unimaginable surprises in the first season, winning four championships in the LPL playoffs, MSI defeated STR, and returned to the top of the world.

However, just when people thought SKY was going to return to the top, they unexpectedly failed in the LPL playoffs and didn't even make the playoffs, but fortunately, with the points advantage of the spring champions, they entered the bubble game and returned to the World Finals as the third seed.

This is SKY's third trip to the World Finals, and the previous two times, they have fought to the final do-or-die match of that year's World Finals.

And this year, it seems unlikely that this young team will go that far.

With a 4-1 record, a qualifying place has already been secured, and the final group game between SKY and STR is still crucial, which is related to the group stage qualification ranking and whether M16 can retain the final possibility of qualifying.

However, the end result is not to disappoint everyone, but it is definitely to disappoint most people.

Because of what Mu Bangli said in the interview, many people are looking forward to the match between SKY and STAR, but SKY did not come up with any unexpected lineup in the selection, but on the STR side, people unexpectedly selected a mid-laner card that had not appeared in the World Finals for a long time.

The early cards flew down twice, causing SKY to fall into a great disadvantage in the early stage, but after entering the middle stage, SKY wiped out the STR group in the most critical wave of small dragon groups, and reversed the situation

- It's hard to say how big this is, but a six-god Kasumi, especially in the hands of the brother-in-law, most people see this, and think that SKY is very likely to win this game, and the players of M16 are in the background, and they are constantly cheering for SKY.

However, the end of the game even makes people feel a little inexplicable, forty-two minutes, SKY gathered to advance the STR down the road, An Chengye's card on the road single belt, when SKY attacked the high ground, but was blocked because there was no line, crocodile and EZ decisively believed An Chengye, and directly teleported SKY on the road, Lin Xuan easily killed the opponent Yesuke, just returned home, and before he walked down the spring, the base crystal was pushed off.

After this match, regardless of the outcome of STR's next M16 play, they will finish first in the group, and SKY will qualify as the second in the group.

This result is not too bad, after all, it is qualified, but both the players and the audience are somewhat disappointed and disappointed by this.

Of course, there are a lot of happy people, STR as the first generation of champion dynasty, even in the LPL, also has a lot of popularity, this game SKY revenge failed, but in fact, STR revenge was successful, after all, compared to MSI, today's game is actually not that heavy.

When shaking hands after the game, the five STR players smiled happily, and the double defeat of SKY in the group stage was by no means as simple as the first place in the group for them, and it also broke a layer of mental barriers, making them more confident in their next road to the World Championship.

In the sixteenth group D qualifying match, Crane won all six games and qualified first in the group, so far the three LCK teams have all advanced to the quarterfinals, two group firsts, and the only group second is the No. 1 seed VCR, who was defeated by the Fish Dragon team in the group stage and ranked second with a 4-2 record.

However, compared to the No. 1 seed in other regions, the performance of the VCR is actually very good, the No. 1 seed M16 in the European region is out of the group stage, the No. 1 seed in the LMS region is out of the TPA group stage, and the No. 1 seed ATM in the NA region is out in the group stage.

TL, the No. 1 seed in the LPL region, was eliminated in the group stage.

The qualifying match for Group A was scheduled for the last day of the group stage, but the adjustments of these days did not seem to have any effect, and the TL team defeated the Vietnamese champion XM in the first game to complete the revenge, but unfortunately they were then avenged by the TJ team, and were defeated by ANX in the CIS in the life-and-death battle, completely announcing the end of their journey to the World Finals this year.

For the LPL, this is undoubtedly a heavy blow, because compared to the pressure of SKY and Ichthyosaurus, almost everyone before the game thought that TL's promotion should be taken for granted, but the two teams that were deep in the group of death successfully broke through, and they thought that the easiest team to qualify should be the strongest team, but they were eliminated in an upset.

The entire LPL is shaking over TL's upset out, regretful, angry, and disappointed...... At that time, SKY's atmosphere was not much better than that of TL - good was definitely better, but not much better, far less expensive than the battle of the Fish and Dragon Clans next door.

The problem on SKY's side is not big, because most people have not thought about this result, the second group is only qualified, the group of death, it is not easy to kill, ATM and M16 although the record is relatively bad, it is because the opponent is too strong, if in other groups, it is not impossible to qualify.

But this problem is definitely not small, because the problem is Lin Xuan, who has no problem and has almost no problems.

After losing to STR in the last game, Lin Xuan's mood became a little wrong, Zhang San and Ren Fan discovered this problem during the review that night, but it was the same as at the end of the regular season of the summer season not long ago, although the two of them were aware of it, they were not able to accurately find the real key to the problem, in other words, they knew that Lin Xuan's mentality seemed to have some problems, but they couldn't say where there was a problem.

This problem was exposed at the end of the regular season in the summer season, but it was quickly lost as the team's form returned, and this time it was resurfaced by two losses to STR.

Zhang San and Ren Fan discussed for half the night, staying up with oil on their faces, and failing to accurately grasp the key to the problem, until the next day, Jiang Yingxue broke Lin Xuan's biggest psychological advantage and biggest psychological drawback.

"Why do you think that as long as we don't make mistakes, we will win?"

As long as you lose the game, then you will be able to find the mistake by tracing the cause and effect, but in terms of the decision at the time, the angle chosen at that time is not necessarily wrong, and more importantly, not making mistakes refers to playing at the level that you should have.

Ever since Chen Muyu pointed out that neither she nor Xiyan had the momentum of Lin Xuan, Jiang Yingxue had been looking for the gap, which may also be one of the factors that caused her to unknowingly fall into a certain mind.

She had actually discovered this a long time ago, and in Lin Xuan's opinion, it seemed that as long as he and his teammates played at the level they deserved, they could win, and victory was a matter of course.

In reality, however, a lot of times, even if you do the best you can, losing matches is more often than not, especially for LPL teams in Worlds.

She didn't know where Lin Xuan's mentality came from, but as the heart and soul of the entire SKY, the benefits of this mentality outweighed the disadvantages, and she never thought there was anything bad about it, nor did she tell anyone about it.

Of course, this does not mean that there are no drawbacks, such as now, when everyone in the team is playing at the level they should have, and the team still loses, and it is after losing to his former subordinates, it is much more difficult for him than any other.

Jiang Yingxue woke up the person in the dream with a word, Zhang San and Ren Fan's two faces that still had oily residues showed a look of consciousness at the same time, and for a while, the thoughts flowed, since the problem was found, then it would not be so difficult to solve, not to mention that this itself was a "bend", just turn it around, it is not even a blow.

The so-called fans of the authorities, Lin Xuan himself didn't realize the mentality of "as a master of wisdom with the protagonist BUFF" in his body, after being pointed out by Jiang Yingxue, he reflected on it and found that it seemed to be true.

Jiang Yingxue is not a person who only digs pits and buries them, and is not responsible, looking at Lin Xuan, he continued: "Do your best to obey the destiny of heaven, the so-called obey the destiny of heaven, in fact, manpower cannot control all the developments, there is no absoluteness in people's thinking, the professional arena is changing rapidly, every slight difference in decision may lead to completely different results, who can count all the possibilities?" Even if you're a game designer, are there fewer times you make mistakes? ”

"Over the years, the development of the LPL has been very fast, but the hematopoietic ability and management mechanism of the LCK are still above the LPL," An Chengye is recognized as the first person in the history of the League of Legends, one person has supported the STR for so many years, regardless of awareness, operation, understanding, and decision, you may not be stronger than him one-on-one, not to mention that he is a medium unit, and in terms of the ability to control the rhythm of the overall situation, he is naturally superior to ADC, is it strange to lose to him? ”

A group of people in the middle of a meeting were dumbfounded.

Not because of her words, but because she actually said so many things in one breath.

"There's nothing if you lose, just fight back."

After Jiang Yingxue finished the last sentence, she retracted her gaze, she never spoke in this meeting again, and naturally she didn't see Mu Wanli sitting opposite, her eyes that had been shining all these days, even if she lost the game, had been looking at her when she spoke, and as she finished speaking, her expression gradually dimmed.