Chapter 56: Waiting and Preparation
The game in the second game started quickly, and the two sides 'handed over' the lineup, and the forbidden design of the OMG team in this game was very good, and successfully grabbed the nine-tailed demon fox Ahri for the mid-laner, and released Akali over there, but Lan Yu didn't take it, although the hero of the fox was a little brittle, but the victory was flexible and controlled, and the early stage stabilized Akali, even if it was released, Lan Yu didn't want to be boring, so he took the death song that he hadn't seen for a long time.
The 'exchange' between the two sides in this game was much more ferocious than the previous game, mainly because the OMG team was burdened with a defeat and played very 'fiercely' and cheerfully, and the T team resisted stubbornly for 30 minutes and then lost, and the two sides fought to a 1-1 draw.
In the third game, the T team made a major mistake in the early stage, and the first-class team was forced to kill the lower road duo by the OMG team, and then the OMG team played the horizontal movement of the four-person tower that the T team is very good at, but they didn't take the robot, but the hammer stone, which was as effective, and the T team's response was not bad, each line was steady and steady, and Yuan Xiaoye also tried his best to bring the rhythm, but the defense tower was lost a little too much, and in the end he couldn't recover the disadvantage, but this one was played longer than the second game, and it was a full forty minutes of late play, In the end, in the battle for the big dragon, the OMG team returned to the dilemma of being surrounded in the first game, and after snatching the big dragon, they beat the T team and wiped out a group.
And this team annihilation also announced that the T team's more than 40 efforts were in vain, and the OMG team pushed off the two highlands in one 'wave', and there was no hope of turning the tables, and the T team played GG.
Lost two games in a row, was won by the OMG team, the T team still didn't have too much disappointment and anxiety on their faces, but they were constantly discussing something, in the fourth game, the T team got a very weird lineup, the top single troll with the jungler Zack plus the middle single Yasuo, the bottom lane combination is Zyra with the 'female' police, this lineup is not unexpected, it is the big move prepared by the T team.
With the version update, the rise of tank jungler, Zack's role has gradually begun to be reflected, although this hero is called a drag rhythm by many professionals, but it is better to cooperate with Yasuo, once the T team took out this hero in the professional league, but that one lost, after going back, after discussion and improvement, Zack's responsibility in the team is single, that is, a front row of undead tanks and control, so there is Zyra's ultimate, there is Zack's first hand to open the group and troll entanglement, Lan Yu's Yasuo has too many opportunities to amplify his moves.
This game is simply Lan Yu Yasuo's big move, all kinds of forced displacement brought by the big move breakthrough opportunities were well caught by Lan Yu, and the OMG team was caught off guard, this lineup is according to the T team's performance in this game, even if it is taken out when entering the World Finals, it will definitely catch any opponent off guard, and the super fast pushing ability of the lower road cooperates with the long-range "shooting" range suppression of the 'female' police.
The cursed troll with extraordinary heads-up ability on the top lane cooperated with Zack's long-jump skills, and Lan Yu in the middle lane continued to swim around on the line, successfully suppressing the ranged mage on the opposite side with a melee combat, and several clever casts of the wind wall made the opponent's key skills miss.
The OMG team lost badly in the fourth game, and to some extent was unable to resist, which was a show of what the T team had been hiding in advance, and many viewers had no objection to seeding a place in the quarterfinals of the World Finals.
But the T team in the fifth game of blind selection still went wrong, BO5 needs to play blind selection until the last game, in fact, it is a matching mode, everyone can take the same hero, and the hero everyone takes should be the best version of the hero in their minds, but the T team took a set of non-mainstream.
Clear-eyed people can directly see that the T team is playing the last game with the intention of training, and they don't mind whether the seed will fall aside, this kind of "handicap match" strictly speaking, does not violate any regulations, if you win, you will enter the quarterfinals, and if you lose, you will send your compatriots to the quarterfinals, no matter whether you win or lose, the lineup you want to train can get good practice.
The T team lost, this lineup is very interesting, the top single Annie cooperated with the jungler Amumu, the middle lane got the clockwork, and the lower lane was the 'female' Tan with Ezreal, but Yuan Xiaoye's '' Amumu was targeted by the prince on the opposite side too badly, and in the first three seasons, almost five people from the OMG team grabbed Yuan Xiaoye, and the victory or defeat of the T team in this game largely depended on Amumu's breakthrough.
The jungle collapsed, the whole team collapsed, and the T team still couldn't withstand the pressure, and even the strong point of this lineup didn't have time to show, just in the last ' Bo's team battle found an excellent opportunity to open the group, but the equipment was too poor, in the first hand to defeat the OMG team more than half blood or not to win, it lost competitiveness, BO5 in the last game, the T team lost, won the second place, the OMG team will be seeded players in the Chinese region directly advance to the world finals quarterfinals, T team and EDG team will start from the group stage.
The audience at the scene was very happy, it looked abnormal, but the group stage of the World Finals was held in H City, which is the hometown base camp of the T team, although they also hope that the T team can directly enter the quarterfinals and remember history, but it feels better to climb up from their hometown step by step to create history, and they can also be accompanied by fans all the way.
So they bowed to the audience with smiles on their faces, not perfect, but there was no regrettable curtain call, waiting for the final ranking of the other regional teams to be established.
OMG team, EDG team and T team stood on the stage, accepted the cheers of the audience and the host's interview, OMG team was very frank and said that if it wasn't for the T team in the last game with the idea of practicing the lineup, maybe the position of this seeded team would belong to the T team, because the dominance they showed in the fourth game was too strong, but since they have come to this position, they must try to work hard to go further, hoping to get a good ranking on behalf of China.
The EDG team will compete with the T team in the group stage, and the specific grouping situation is not yet known, but the EDG team hopes not to kill each other with the T team in the group stage, and the T team was ridiculed by the host as the second oldest in 10,000 years.
The first round of the 'Spring' season was second in points, second in the playoffs, and second in the China qualifiers, Lan Yu smiled and said that we have saved so many second characters, just to win the first place in the World Finals.
Although the game is over, there are still a lot of interactions, including the rich prizes mentioned earlier, including a laptop and a grand prize round-trip ticket to the United States for two, as well as a 'door' ticket to the hotel and Staples Stadium for the full League of Legends World Finals.
The Snow Wolf team in the campus championship that year, the T team and their previous campus champion, Xiao Ran, who once put down his body and asked Lan Yu to let go of the game in order to join the professional team, finally joined the E-sports Division of H City, and has been contributing to the development of H City.
The T team was also a little taken aback when his face was given on the big screen, and then they collectively waved to Xiao Ran, and it was naturally a very happy thing to see familiar faces.
Another place for the grand prize was won by a young girl who had just entered college, when the big screen froze her according to the randomly selected seat number, the girl's face was full of tears, and the funny scene was that the girl should be shouting that she was single, and then dozens of young men suddenly poured over to ask for 'handover' to go to North America to watch the game......
As for those small gifts and small peripherals, the 'lottery' organizers are even more generous, sending out hundreds of copies, but they did not distribute the prizes on the spot, but then went to the staff with seat tickets to exchange, the two-day World Finals China qualifiers are over, and the three teams also retreated directly after participating in all the activities, and the time for the 'door' tickets of several regions is basically the same, and the next thing is to pay attention to the situation in other regions and collect information in advance to prepare.
A few days later, the European team was the first to produce the seeded team and the team that advanced to the World Finals, the first place of course was not let by the alliance team led by froggen, this team has absolutely strong strength in the European zone, basically undefeated all the way, and they and another old powerhouse fnatic team are divided into two halves, so that the two teams compete for the championship and runner-up, alliance is even better, the first to 'advance' to the quarterfinals, and the other team won the European zone' The ticket is for the SK team.
First of all, the C9 team advanced strongly, still maintaining a strong momentum for several consecutive years, defeating the LMQ team from China in the finals to obtain a place in the quarterfinals, while the TSM team lost to the LMQ team in the semi-finals, but rebounded in the third-place match and defeated the strong Curse team to grab the last 'door' ticket in North America.
This result is quite acceptable, it is worth mentioning that the LMQ team, which was previously part of the domestic royal team, performed well after moving to North America, and is also composed of some well-known domestic players, in North America from the minor league all the way to the LCS professional league, and then killed TSM four times in a row to become famous in North America, this time the successful promotion to the world finals is also a breakthrough in history.
The results of the three regions have already been produced, and if Southeast Asia is not considered, only the world-renowned South Korea region has not yet decided the final winner.
The professional league in South Korea is very interesting, not based on a single game, but on the points of the whole season, including a "bubble match", which is actually a repechage match, but they already have a team that has directly locked in the World Finals because of its 'outstanding' performance - Samsung Blue team, and the other two places need to continue to wait for various play-offs and resurrection bubble matches. I have to say that South Korea's competition for a place in the World Finals is much more complicated than the simple knockout rounds in other regions, and it is precisely because of this tireless selection and elimination that the Korean team has dominated LOL in recent years.
As for the first promotion spot in Southeast Asia, it was still won by the TPA team, and the other place has not yet been determined.
However, when all the professional teams were 'fine' preparations, the organizer sent a cruel notice, in order to ensure the fairness of the game, the quarterfinals system was canceled this year, that is, all sixteen teams will play the group points knockout round, but the teams in the four regions can give priority to the 'draw', and through the arrangement of the competition system, there will be no derby in the same region, that is, everyone's home team is separated, so that the chance of advancing to the quarterfinals is greater.
There have been rumors before that the competition system will be modified, but it has not been decided for a long time, and the organizers also require the major regions to first select according to the competition system of previous years, and then the organizers will step up the evaluation of the effect of the new competition system.
Now we are waiting for the final results of the Wild Card Zone and the Korean Zone teams, and then the organizers will start the 'draw' early to give the teams plenty of time to familiarize themselves with the World Finals opponents.