Chapter 20: There is always a war
The upper bracket is crucial, and if you are lucky enough to draw a relatively weak LGF team, even if they have just beaten the strong SKT, they don't have to be afraid of it, after all, the foundation is weak, but if you draw an OMG team or a KTA team, the WT team will have to show real form to deal with strong opponents.
Although the teams that fell into the losers' bracket stepped on the elimination line, no one's true strength was brought into play, for example, EDG met the OMG team, and SKT, the favorite team to win the championship, lost to the second-rate team in the Taiwan region.
So under the shroud of this conspiracy atmosphere, the importance of the lottery has risen a big notch, and Lan Yu is very persistent in trying to prove himself in this important scene and get rid of the black hand halo that everyone has been ridiculing, so the lottery representative of the WT team has not been selected for a long time.
After arguing for a long time, Lan Yu finally pulled Chen Chuxiao to his side, and Mu Huan couldn't stand his soft grinding and hard bubbles and finally agreed to give him another chance, and the other team members had no choice but to agree, under the double attention of the camera and the big screen, Lan Yule ran to the stage and accepted the host's interview by the way.
Lan Yu's English is good, so when the host called the translator over, Lan Yu waved his hand to say no, signaling that he could answer in English to accept the interview, which greatly increased the goodwill of many local fans at the scene.
The host also laughed about the friendship between the WT team, the TSM team and the C9 team, and then asked a question that Lan Yu didn't feel easy to answer.
"Of all the teams, which one do you think is the strongest?" The host smiled and handed the microphone to Lan Yu.
Lan Yu thought for a moment and replied in English: "The strongest team I think this year is from our region, the OMG team and the EDG team have caused us a lot of trouble in the summer league, after all, they are old powerhouses, and the styles of the two teams are changeable, it is difficult to find their weaknesses, if you want to defeat them, in addition to being well prepared, you can only pray for their mistakes." ”
This answer still makes many fans feel comfortable, after all, when everyone is now focusing on the Korean team, it is still very exciting to mention the team in their hometown, and the OMG team and the EDG team are indeed very good at their hometown, and they have overcome obstacles all the way to the quarterfinals in the group stage.
"What do you think of the North American team, and what strengths or weaknesses do you have?" The host asked the home audience the most concerned question, after all, before the WT team came, the C9 team and the TSM team spared no effort to build momentum for them, so as to improve the harmony and interest of their club fans.
"First of all, I want to talk about the TSM team, when we were still working hard for the city championship in China, the training in the American server allowed us to meet this team that was high in our eyes at that time, Dyrus is a very good person, not only helped us contact the friendly match, but also gave us a lot of guidance, I think aside from our identity as professional players, Dyrus should also be a very respectable person in reality, we are very grateful to them."
"Another C9 team, I know that he helped arrange an interview for us here across the ocean, unfortunately we couldn't play each other in this tournament, I have always wanted to beat them on the field because they have the best players in the world, and in the first few months of our professional league, they and the TSM team have been training for us, this gratitude has not had a chance to be repaid, the best way I can think of to repay it is to play a fair game with them on the field, and I would like to take this opportunity to sayIf we can, we can stay behind them after the World Finals and play a BO3 match with them on the live streaming platform in North America to give back to the fans who have always supported them. ”
Lan Yu's English is very slippery, and these words have been prepared for a long time, so they were said very smoothly, and they immediately got a response from the audience, especially the members of the TSM and C9 teams took the lead in giving a standing ovation.
And Lan Yu's words were not finished, and then he said a little more about what he thought was the problem of the North American team.
"The North American team likes to study the Korean team too much, yes, I admit that the Korean team is indeed standing on the top of the world now, but this situation may be changing, I still remember a few years ago when I was very young, watching the superb operation of the North American gods and endless tactical changes, at that time the game belonged to them, the Korean team won the game in a seemingly simpler way, but this change I think is to look at the game at a higher level, But the game will eventually return to the simplest matchups, and hopefully both North America and we can find a way to bring the game back to its original form. ”
Lan Yu's words have caused many people to think, and many fans have remembered the feat of being the first in the world to be swept by European and American teams, but now that a random hero is taken out, most people will first think about who is better at Korean professional players.
This can be regarded as a kind of confiding in Lan Yu's heart, and he also used this platform to say the words that have been piling up in his heart in one breath.
After a simple interview, I finally came to the draw stage, four teams draw, in fact, only one team needs to draw, and this draw opportunity was originally for the OMG team in Group A, but the OMG team gave this opportunity to the WT team, so there was a previous dispute.
Lan Yu stepped forward nervously, hesitated for a long time in front of the three red envelopes with the names of the teams, and then drew the one on the very edge, opened it and handed it to the host, who held it high.
The LGF team from the Taiwan division, there was a burst of cheers at the scene, and Lan Yu's heart was also a stone to the ground, but he didn't dare to say anything, for fear of causing dissatisfaction among the fans of the team in Taiwan, but everyone knew that drawing the LGF team was already the best sign.
The representative of the OMG team stepped forward to congratulate Lan Yu, who hugged him for a while, and then said softly: "Let's fight you next, let's fight for the first place in China." ”
The captain of the OMG team was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood that this was a blessing for the OMG team to defeat the strong rivals KTA and WT team in the upper bracket finals.
Nodding seriously, all the delegates stepped down to prepare for the next game.
Playing LGF team, WT team is actually not so easy, there is a good saying, despise the opponent strategically, respect the opponent tactically.
Tens of thousands of spectators at the scene, including countless viewers who watched it online, knew that LGF was a soft persimmon, so the WT team didn't think so, and after returning to the hotel from the competition hall, the WT team immediately started training in the suite.
First watching the video, and even tracing back to the GPL league battle video from the group stage, the LGF team is a decent team, but occasionally important games can play quite good performances, in the final analysis, it is against two words.
They can analyze a viable style of play in a very short period of time, and if the opponent does not respond in time, they will let them play an extremely good performance, such as against SKT or in the GPL promotion match, of course, Lan Yu has always believed that SKT's fall into the lower bracket is a conspiracy.
They contacted the EDG team to play a training match, because they fell into the lower bracket, so the EDG team has not played recently, and they are afraid that they will lose the feeling of the game, so they readily agreed to imitate the strong game style of the LGF team and practice with the WT team.
The effect of the joint training is good, the strength of the WT team is already very strong, and it has been at the top since it entered the professional league, so they are not too afraid of being targeted, and they have also prepared several sets of anti-target lineups, it depends on how the LGF team responds.
The rest of the tournament was led by OMG and KTA, and the collision between these two teams actually attracted much more attention than WT and LGF, after all, one team with the highest record in China and the other team also shined in this year's OGN in South Korea.
The matchup between these two teams represents the highest level of the two regions of China and South Korea to a certain extent, so even if the WT team has a match in the future, they still sit in the audience with the EDG team and watch the live broadcast.
The OMG team was on the blue side for the first time, and got the lineup of Cassadine, robbery, hammerstone, Lucian and the blind monk as they wished, this lineup has a strong impact, three of the five heroes are assassins, the blind monk's roundhouse kick and the hammerstone's first hook can be perfectly matched, and Cassadine is a single, and the rhythm effect is good from the strong blind monk in the early stage.
However, at the beginning of the game, the OMG team was still at a slight disadvantage, Cassadine's combat effectiveness before the sixth level was limited, and the opposite side was holding a weapon master, and the early confrontation made Cassadine very uncomfortable, including the jungler on the opposite side was also crazy to catch the road to limit Cassadine's development, but after reaching the sixth level, the situation was improved.
Cassadine directly teleported to the bottom of the road to help the duo come to a double kill, and the displacement of the ultimate allowed Cassadine, the hero, to have a unique advantage in the capture battle, but the top single weapon master on the opposite side also teleported over and killed his own ADC, but was killed by the jungler blind monk who rushed over, and the OMG team took the lead in taking out the little dragon.
The game is going on back and forth, the junglers on both sides are in excellent condition in this game, and the economy even exceeds that of online heroes, single kills and team kills are continuous, especially for the control of BUFF is to the limit, and all the strength is taken out as soon as it is played, but in the end, the first game is still taken by the OMG team, and the second flow of people who rob Kasatine is a bit almost incomprehensible, as long as the opportunity is good, the ADC on the opposite side can not play any damage at all and be killed.
In the second game, the KTA team adjusted its strategy and played the classic Hallyu boost tactics, almost every big formation change was to take out the OMG team's outer tower, under this oppressive attack, the OMG team lost too many outer towers and caused early stunting, although it tried its best to drag back, but was forced to defeat by the opponent, and the KTA team defeated the OMG team in the second game.
The tiebreaker of the third game broke the record of the longest single game since the start of the finals, and played for 55 minutes.
The team battle with each other also makes the equipment of the players on both sides improve like a rocket, and even the support is the six god outfits in the end, and the two sides have fought no less than five times in the big dragon, and finally the jungler of the OMG team grabbed the big dragon, and the other team members took advantage of the situation to start a group, and wiped out the opponent in the big dragon circle, and they also lost three heads, but fortunately, the ADC is still there, and it has been pushed all the way to the middle highland and the upper road highland tower.
The defeat of this team battle was devastating, as the KTA team was pinned down by the line and could no longer afford to go out to cope with the advance of the OMG team, and was finally successfully defeated by the OMG team with the Great Dragon buff on the high ground.