The final day of the group stage is May 14, while the first BO5 of the semi-finals, which starts three days later on May 17, is played by IG against G2 at the Chinese Taipei Basketball Stadium.

So early the next morning, the four teams participating in the semi-finals will fly from Vietnam to Taiwan non-stop.

For the first BO5 of the semi-finals, in the eyes of most people, there is no suspense.

But Tang Xiaotang cares about this game very much.

After all, IG doesn't act according to the script, just watch this scene.

If she acts, then it's okay, when the finals repeat the European and American grievances between G2 and TL, she is still very confident that G2 will be able to get it.

But if IG doesn't act, it's a bit of a big problem.

It's already very hard to get an SKT, and I have to fight the big boss of IG when I go back, who can withstand this!

Yes!

Even a genius girl like her, after anticipating this possibility, couldn't help but feel a trace of anxiety.

Soon, the May 17th competition ended with lightning speed.

As most people guessed, IG swept G2 with a score of 3-0 and successfully entered the MSI finals.

The process is also full of crushing.

Except for the first twenty minutes, the first twenty minutes were more anxious, and it seemed that they had won and lost each other, and finally they were hit 0 for 5 by IG in a wave of unscientific team battles, and then the second and third, IG were all crushed by the third line, and G2 was pressed to the ground, as if it was a repeat of last year's S game.

There is no expansion, no arrogance, and no shame in the end, although King Ning occasionally goes up, and Xiao Satie is also invisible in the audience, but as long as he wins the game, it is a small problem that can be ignored.

Then, after winning this game, the attention of the audience in the next region will of course be focused on the BO5 match between TL and SKT on the second day.

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"Tomorrow should be the most suspenseful BO5 of this MSI, right?" On the night after IG swept G2, someone posted on the LCS forums quickly.

In the eyes of the outside world, the semi-finals between IG and G2 are the least pleasant, and the only thing that is a little suspenseful is probably whether G2 can win one or two - and it turns out that G2 was really IG Tianke, and in the end they couldn't win a handful, and the audience of LPL and LCS was quite happy.

Therefore, if you really want to talk about the closest game, you have to see TL play SKT.

Maybe in the group stage, after the midfield system of the jujube combination, TL won SKT, but I have to say that in the first half of the entire group stage, SKT's performance was actually not good - this slow-burning team, no one can beat except the lightning wolf and the big buffalo in the first round of the group stage, and it was not until the second round that it gradually began to exert its strength, although it still did not win G2, but it overturned the invincible IG in the last game, becoming the only team in the entire MSI that can win IG.

So the question is, after entering the power period, SKT can even win IG, even if it is on the jujube combination, can TL still win SKT like the first round of the group stage?

"If you can win the winter dates, you can only wait for death if you go to Jensen." Someone replied below.

"It's hard to say, I don't think it's easy to beat even winter dates and red leaves."

"Isn't the winter jujube a faker? I don't know what you're pessimistic. Someone wondered.

"Idiot, the first time Winter Jujube can press and beat Faker is because the bear beats the knife girl is the perfect Kante, change the hero, do you think Winter Jujube can still press Faker to fight?! And now that the whole team is in such good shape, no one will think that SKT in BO5 and SKT in the first round of the group stage are the same team, right? ”

"The conservative estimate is still five or five, mainly depending on the play of the jujube combination, if Nakano is suppressed, it will be over."

"To tell you a joke, Brother Li won't be able to do it again this year."

Netizens on the community forum discussed for a while and soon launched an internal poll, which concluded that 63% thought TL would win and 37% thought SKT would win.

This number may seem like there are more people who are bullish on TL, but the problem is that this is an internal vote in the LCS region, and naturally the support of the local teams is far ahead.

And if you look at the voting of Korean netizens on the LCK side, the result is very extreme - 88% of Korean netizens think that SKT will win, and 75% of Korean netizens think that SKT will beat TL 3 to zero, just like IG swept G2.

As for why it is so extreme, it is mainly due to two preconceived views.

One is that Korean netizens think that SKT is playing slowly on MSI, losing to TL in the first round is purely in too poor condition, and when it recovers its form, it is at least the second strongest team in the world after IG, and playing TL is as easy as playing a human machine - in fact, SKT also abused TL in the second round, although TL was a water cooler trio at that time.

Another reason is that TL comes from LCS, which is a complete fishpond in the eyes of Koreans, and if the team can't even beat this kind of fishpond, SKT can swim home directly, which is embarrassing.

Of course, for this BO5, the audience and commentators in the LEC and LPL divisions must have a kick.

For example, the Weibo of the cat emperor cat launched a poll to predict the BO5 of TL playing SKT, and the result was also more optimistic about SKT, and TL basically showed a situation of opening 64.

"There are so many people who are optimistic about SKT, and I think TL is playing very well." After seeing the results of this Weibo vote, on the commentary seat the next day, five minutes before the start of the game, Elvis was also very surprised to mention this matter to Guan Zeyuan and Rita, "Xiaodong Jujube played so well, I think it should be the most promising year in TL's history." ”

"There's no way, if it's another Korean team, it doesn't matter, but after all, it's the triple crown champion SKT, just looking at someone's ID, I feel full of miracles." Guan Zeyuan thinks it's normal, "I'm also optimistic about SKT, mainly because of Brother Li." ”

"Me too, and I'm bullish on SKT." Rita nodded again and again next to her, she hadn't seen the game video in the LCS region at all, and although her impression of TL Zhonglan Xiaodong Zao was very good, it was not comparable to Brother Li - Brother Li was a man who had created miracles in countless world competitions, and on the other hand, Xiao Dongzao was just a newcomer who made his debut in the World Championship, and his appearance was relatively harmless to humans and animals, which was a bit too soft compared to Brother Li's "big devil" temperament.

If this SKT loses, then the LCK will really become the fourth division.

The commentary seat chatted a few words here, and the scene ended after the promotional video and the entry of the team players.

This semi-final has finally officially entered the ban/pick link.

Among them, SKT is located on the blue side and can grab heroes, while TL is located on the red side and has a fifth-floor conte position.

In terms of the first three bans, SKT chose to target TL Nakano as expected, banning Spider, Rock Sparrow and Sword Demon - as for why they didn't ban Akali, it was naturally because they themselves planned to grab this hero.

However, TL also knew SKT's thoughts, and immediately banned Akali, along with Tamm and Ruiz.

In the end, in the first round of BP, SKT got the top laner Kenan, the jungler prince and the bottom lane EZ, while TL won the single lane Silas, the jungler barrel and the bottom lane Lucian.

Immediately afterwards, after the second round of bans, SKT got Sindra and Fan Mom as the middle and support, while TL only confirmed a Titan in the support position for the time being, and the last hand Kante was still hesitating.

"The knife sister is still outside, I think this hand must be the knife sister, the knife sister of the version T1 has been outside for a long time and no one has taken it, it's too unrealistic." After looking at the lineup on both sides, Guan Zeyuan said with some amusement, "Did you find it, SKT also wanted to choose the knife girl, but they hesitated for a long time and didn't dare to choose, and finally gave faker a mid-laner Sindra, guess what could be?" ”

Why? Rita blinked, a little dazed, and the Elvis Emperor was the first to react: "It's because SKT is afraid that TL will choose a bear, right?" ”

"Yes, that's it." Guan Zeyuan said with a smile, "Last time, Sister Zaozi took a bear and pressed faker's knife sister to the point that she was almost out of breath, I guess SKT still wanted to take the knife sister this time, but I was afraid that TL's fifth hand would take out the bear last time, so I hesitated for a long time and didn't dare to choose, this jujube sister directly used a sewer hero to seal the knife sister!" ”

"Makes sense." The Elvis Emperor pondered for a moment, and also felt a little shocked, "Thinking about it this way, Xiao Dongzao is too awesome, you said that the hero of the bear is the ultimate sewer, not for the sake of Kangte Dao Sister, there will be no candidate at all, and it is not worthy of wasting a ban position because of this." But if you don't ban the bear, at least when playing TL, in the face of the unique bear of Xiaodong Jujube, you definitely can't choose the knife girl, which is equivalent to banning the knife sister in disguise, which is also amazing. ”

"You have a point!" Rita on the side also reacted, and the three commentators and the audience in front of the screen looked at each other, and they all thought that this fact was amazing.

In the game, TL's fifth-hand selector did not choose the knife girl who had been placed outside as Guan Zeyuan expected, but locked a more unexpected hero.

"Yasuo, do you really want to choose Yasuo? It's chosen! Elvis looked at the TL lineup in front of him in surprise, "...... Did I smell happiness? ”