Chapter 673: IEM9 World Finals!
Halfway through the spring season, RT managed to retain the top three positions in the standings on the premise of recovering form.
It's the seventh week of the regular season, RT missed the LPL this week, and the original two games were postponed, and they originally flew to Poland, 7,000 kilometers away, to participate in the IEM9 World Finals.
The final venue is still Katowice!
For many LPL viewers, everyone still remembers the picture of the collapse and sinking of the sand a year ago, and the picture of drinking and hating IEM8 is still fresh in everyone's memory, and it is precisely because of this that the domestic attention to IEM9 is quite high, and everyone is concerned about whether RT can take revenge and get back what he lost.
As the most well-known and sustainable competition recognized as an unofficial event after CG, according to the list of participants announced by the organizer, a total of eight teams participated in this IEM9 World Finals, including four sub-champions and four invited teams.
Race Winners:
RT Team (IEM Shenzhen Champion)
Team C9 (IEM San Jose Division Winner)
Team GMB (IEM Cologne Champion)
Bliz Wolves (IEM Taipei Champion)
Invited Teams:
Huya Tigers (1st in LCK Korea Spring Split)
SK Gaming (1st place team in the European LCS regular season)
TSM (North American LCS Regular Season No. 1 Team)
CJ Entus (2nd in the first round of the LCK regular season)
Originally, if nothing else, CJ's invited spot should belong to the EDG team that is currently ranked first in the LPL standings, but the EDG team refused the invitation on the grounds of schedule conflicts, and the organizers had no choice but to give the spot to the CJ team ranked second in the LCK.
As we all know, C** is the IEM7 world champion, plus the team has Madlife, HY and Ambison three ancient gods in charge, after the reorganization, the results in South Korea have been rising, and there is a great tendency to make a comeback, so letting them participate in the finals is not a lower grade.
As in the previous year, the IEM format is still a double-elimination format.
Group A: C9, Huya, SK, Lightning Wolf
Group B: RT, GMB, CJ, TSM
In terms of the grouping situation, Group B, which has the presence of RT, has undoubtedly become the group of death in everyone's mouth, and before the game even started, many foreign viewers began to mourn for CJ and TSM.
The match started at 2 p.m. local time, and it was already 9 p.m. in China, and the first game was played in Group A, and it was already past the early hours of the morning when it was the turn of Group B.
However, with the existence of RT, I don't know how many viewers in China are waiting in front of the computer.
As we all know, in the previous life, due to EDG's refusal to participate, the LPL only sent E at the bottom of the league to Katowice, and even the official commentary live broadcast was not arranged, so that many viewers couldn't find a channel to watch it.
Today, this IEM9, in addition to the officially arranged Chinese commentary live broadcast room, Douyu has a total of five major anchors in their own live broadcast room to broadcast this series of events, including Doll Miller, Zhou Keer, Sika Xiaoxiao, Smile Strawberry and other commentaries and retired professional players.
It's all just waiting for RT to come out.
This is the card!
At one o'clock in the morning Beijing time, the Group B match officially began, and RT played the first game against CJ.
In this game, both sides picked a solid team battle lineup, and at one point it was a stalemate in the middle of the game, and the two sides went back and forth, and the game was difficult to solve.
In fact, in the early stage of the game, Lin Mu and Qin Yitian's midfield once gained a good advantage, completely suppressing An Zhangmen and COCO, but because the opposite middle lane chose the Tsar, the tower defense ability is extremely strong, and the middle tower cannot be attacked for a long time, resulting in the rhythm being blocked.
On the other hand, SHY and Madlife also caused a lot of trouble for RT on the side, which allowed CJ to stabilize the situation.
I have to say that the LCK team always has a good talent in defense and the operation of the lane, and the team execution is quite strong, and few people come out to wave.
However, Lin Mu and the others did not panic, this time they controlled their map resources very well, and the game had already won three small dragons in a row for more than 20 minutes, and the opponent was dying slowly if it continued like this.
CJ also realized this, so when the fourth dragon was refreshed, the prince of Ambixin rushed in desperately to rob it, but the dragon did not grab it, but was instantly in front of the dragon pit, RT seized the opportunity to go straight to the middle, and finally broke the middle tower that had stopped them from advancing for nearly thirty minutes.
As soon as the first tower was broken, the opponent's jungle area became RT's resource plundering point, and in the next few minutes, through the control of the jungle area and the dragon's vision, RT successively pushed down the opponent's two towers through sub-zones and vision suppression, further expanding its economic advantage.
In the process, CJ did not launch a strong counterattack, but symbolically invited troops to retreat to the high ground, and did not dare to linger under the second tower at all.
It wasn't until 34 minutes into the game that the fifth dragon was refreshed, and CJ had to go out to the bottom half of the game to take over the first wave of 5v5 in the game.
No one expected that the first wave of 5V5 would be the last wave of 5V5 in the whole game.
In this battle, CJ's ADC player Space Wheel Mom couldn't react and was directly taken off by being connected to the control, and Ambison and Madlife came to the rescue and also put themselves in a desperate situation, and in the end, only the middle and upper two escaped in a hurry.
After this wave, RT and the big dragon Qi Na, bathed in the double dragon BUFF, launched the final attack on CJ.
The first match was won, followed by the upper bracket match between RT and TSM.
In their previous match, TSM beat GMB from Russia to make it to the upper bracket.
In this upper bracket final, TSM learned CJ's lesson, abandoned the teamfight lineup, and came up with an offensive system with the mid lane Enchantress as the core, trying to rely on the strength of the early stage to bite a hole in the behemoth on the opposite side.
Unfortunately, not long after the start of the competition, TSM's dream was shattered.
3 and a half minutes, TSM jungler blind monk came to the middle lane after taking the double BUFF, at this time Pilsen began to look for opportunities, but first the chain was dodged, and the blood consumption failed, and then he was beaten off half of his blood by Lin Musindra with a Q, triggering the passive clone.
Pilson was not reconciled, and after the amount of blood returned a little, he first walked up to Q to deal damage, and then used a flash to adjust the position to release the E skill.
Although the chain was hit, the enchantress was also pushed unconscious by Sindra almost at the same time, and was also hung and ignited, even if Pilson pressed the second stage to return to the starting position in a hurry, but Lin Mu had already expected that this guy would go back, and a magic ball was directly smashed down by Mount Tai......
Even if the blind monk arrived in time, one gave the enchantress shield so that Pilson would not be burned to death immediately, but at this time, Qin Yitian's excavator came out from the other side, and a Q skill successfully took a blood.
Outside the picture, almost just when everyone's attention was focused on the bloody demon queen, the blind man gave birth to a flash Q to the side of the gut and wanted Yin Lin Mu, but the latter successfully used the flash to dissolve, don't look at it as just an understatement of the flash to avoid Q, but with the dodging of this Q, the blind man also announced that he had become a dead corpse.
With the excavator's flashing top, Sindra successfully took down the human head with a double buff.
Four minutes into the game, TSM's Nakano delivered a wave of big benefits.
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