Chapter 24: The Finals
Chen Chuxiao stood in the crowd with a warm smile on her face, and after looking around, she opened her mouth to announce the pre-war mobilization she had prepared for a long time.
"A little over a year ago, I was an ordinary person who fantasized about forming a small team to play intercollegiate and municipal competitions and traveling around the world with mixed prize money, and if someone had told me that one day I would stand on this stage and compete for the championship trophy, with a strong and warm club, and a group of teammates to love and trust, I would think he was a psychotic."
"Until I met these people, walking together, the dream was upgrading, and our strength, the idols who used to play the game became the opponents we eliminated, and many unreachable gods became opponents who wanted to compete with us for the upper bracket championship, all this was like a dream, and I didn't want this dream to be shattered."
"I saw the frustration of the former world champion team SKT when they were eliminated, and I kid you no, I laughed at the time, and now I feel a little rude, so I hope I don't have to be sent off with that smile, I hope we can cry and laugh and hug you when we win the championship."
"It would have been a dream to go from a makeshift campus team from University B to the present, but we have all walked the hardest road, are we afraid of the last two games? Two mountains, one is the strongest in China, the strongest in South Korea, we are the strongest in the world, China LOL has been silent for so many years, I hope we are the team that made history, come on. ”
Chen Chuxiao's voice was very calm, but the people around him felt the same way, especially Lan Yu and others, who recalled a lot of things with Chen Chuxiao's words, remembering the conflict with Yuan Xiaoye in the lecture hall at the earliest, remembering that he used multiple numbers to block Chen Chuxiao and Wang Yan in the game card time, remembering Xiao Ran, who planned to buy Lan Yu in order to enter the professional competition, and remembering the TBK team Huafei Xiaoliu who had become the second WT team......
If there is no fate, it is absolutely impossible to get together these five people, if there is no nymphomaniac who was hot in Lan Yu's mind at the beginning, there will be no WT team, and getting together everything that has been experienced before is already the most difficult thing in the world, and what can not be crossed in the last two games.
Not only must we continue to play, but we must also advance strongly to the finals as the champion of the upper bracket.
There was a fire churning in the hearts of each team member, ready to vent wantonly in the next day's game, that night, the WT team did not conduct any more training, but everyone held a laptop and silently watched the video and finally summed up some experience, while Lan Yu was still accompanied by Chen Chuxiao on the table next to him and deduced the feasibility of tactics over and over again.
Esports players all over China are paying attention to this game, the WT team, as the biggest dark horse in the spring season, has gradually grown into a widely recognized strong team, while the OMG team has always been strong, and the summer team has played well and is more confident, and the lineup has become more complete after training with the WT team and the EDG team, and it is difficult to find obvious shortcomings.
On the day of the match, the two teams walked on stage in a nervous mood, but they looked at each other with a bit of perseverance in their eyes, and they were suppressed for a long time, this year is the best year in the Chinese region, no matter which team wins the upper bracket championship, the other team will send sincere blessings, and try to stop the Korean team in the lower bracket.
Although the organizers of the group stage tried their best to keep China and South Korea apart, the final finals were still a two-on-two battle for a ticket to the next level, and there were so many derby battles in this World Finals that no one dared to predict which team would win the championship in the end.
Although the three matches between China and the OMG team were not filled with gunsmoke, they still played thrillingly, because both sides were too familiar with each other, and in order to qualify for the quarterfinals during joint training, they basically took out their housekeeping skills to train together.
The biggest advantage of the WT team is their tacit understanding and the courage to use a new lineup, no one can be sure that the WT team will come up with what kind of strange heroes will appear before the game, and because their tacit understanding is too good, any hero as long as they have practiced, can play a good effect in the game.
So in the first game, the forbidden people of the OMG team did not prevent the WT team from winning at all, because they came up with a combination of top laner Mokai, mid laner Lux, jungler spider, bottom lane hammer stone and male gun, in this combination, Lan Yu's Lux became the core, Maokai and Lux have extremely strong consumption ability, and Maokai's rush with the spider's immobilization threat is also very large.
There are a lot of heads on both sides of this game, most of them come out online, the jungler catches diligently, and the single-line players on both sides fight fiercely, because they all know that everyone's level is half a catty, and whoever is more active or more decisive can win, so that there are more opportunities for the jungler, and the online economy has always been stagnant.
But the WT team opened the big dragon at a very early stage, and the OMG team probably didn't guess that the WT team dared to fight the big dragon, and when they realized it, it was too late, and the WT team that took the big dragon took advantage of the consumption of Lux and Maokai to take two towers in a row, laying an economic advantage and laying the groundwork for winning the game.
The most eye-catching thing in this game is Lan Yu's Lux, several key Q skills to fix the spider used by Yuan Xiaoye to give the opportunity to fix the spider, coupled with the control of the hammer stone, the WT team can often kill the opponent's key characters in seconds at the moment of the start of the group, so the first game did not last long, and after a few cooperations, the economic advantage of the WT team was fully established, and the OMG team did not waste time playing the late stage, and played GG very decisively.
In the second game, the OMG team strengthened the control of the rhythm in the early stage, and Lan Yu's mid-laner clockwork failed to get a blue buff in the whole game, not only for the calculation of the BUFF, but also for the time control of Xiaolong, the OMG team was perfect in the second game, Yuan Xiaoye failed to grab Xiaolong twice, and the timing was very good, all in the case that someone in the WT team had to go home.
Under this economic pressure, the OMG team is a big recruit lineup, although the WT team tried its best to drag back, but still lost because of the equipment gap, the last few team battles WT team timing is very good, each team member almost perfect cooperation, but unfortunately the equipment is too poor, did not play the due damage, and was pushed back after the OMG team stabilized its position.
Thirty-five minutes into this game, the WT team's mid lane high ground was finally broken, and then Lost Dalong was wiped out by a wave of squatting in the wild area, and GG entered the tiebreaker.
The looks of both sides are very solemn, the tiebreaker was guessed at the beginning of the game, the strength of the two teams is about the same, whoever has one less mistake will have one more chance of winning, but at the beginning of the third game of the tiebreaker, the WT team did not start as cautiously as the commentary, because they got the robot, under the leadership of Wang Yan, the WT team almost went around the entire wild area and finally caught the retreating OMG team, and a wave of fighting WT team got two heads, and these two heads were taken by the fox in the middle of Lan Yu.
In such a dreamy start, Yuan Xiaoye is desperately squatting in the middle, so that Lan Yu can grow into a boss who can be a second person, in the middle of the team battle, no matter who is charmed by the fox is a set of second kills, with super god data, Lan Yu led the WT team to win the decisive battle, successfully won the winner's group championship, and locked the top two on behalf of the Chinese team.
Although OMG was defeated, they also knew that the gap between the two sides was not big, and there were still lower bracket matches to play, so they hugged each other with friendly hugs and blessed each other, and agreed to meet in the finals.
The other derby in the lower bracket also ended, and the SGB team continued their strong rebound after falling into the lower bracket, killing the KTA team cleanly with 2-0.
The OMG team is about to fight against SGB in this state, and the outside world is also worried, because the OMG team is defeated by the WT team first, and the morale must be a little low.
Of course, the WT team would prefer to meet the OMG team in the finals, so that the Chinese team will lock up the championship, and whether this is the case depends on the performance of the OMG team.
The game in the lower bracket started first, and in the first game, the OMG team grabbed the blue side and got the lineup they were good at, but there was a little mistake in the first-level team, and the buff was punished by the opponent's jungler wall, so that the OMG team wasted too much time to return to the line, and fell into passivity in the subsequent duel.
Although they did a good job, they were eventually dragged down by the more attack-minded SGB team and lost the first game.
This has dealt a huge blow to morale, especially the SGB team has done the best in the details of handling the lane and huddle, and the strength of the Korean team has been brought into full play, which has an illusion that it is difficult to break.
Under this pressure, the OMG team also failed to show their true strength in the second game, and although they had a good start, they still made major mistakes in the mid-to-late game, and the SGB team seized the hole and destroyed their defense in a wave.
At the end of the match, the OMG team members were extremely frustrated, this was the best chance in so many years, all three Chinese teams made it to the quarterfinals, and two of the last three teams were Chinese teams, and now all that can be done is to hope that the WT team can beat the old rival SGB team.
The current SGB team is in much better form than they were in the group stage, and the WT team is waiting for work, but they don't know if they can find a real opportunity.
Lan Yu and the others looked at the OMG team that came down with solemn expressions, wanting to comfort but unable to speak, Lan Yu had imagined that the opponent of the finals many times was a teammate from his own country, but the reality poured a bucket of cold water on his head.
"Sorry, I couldn't stop you." The captain of the OMG team looked at Lan Yu and smiled bitterly.
Lan Yu's heart is mixed, because the WT team has a greater responsibility in this game, and the current SGB team is like a tiger out of the slaughter, destroying one fence after another, and the WT team is the last gate.
If you stop it, you will be the champion, if you can't stop it, South Korea will still be the first in the world, and China will still be the second in the world.
"Rest well, we teach them how to behave." Lan Yu said with a smile.
The captain of the OMG team shook his head, looked at Lan Yu and said, "We are not in a hurry to return to China, at least we have to wait until you finish the game, let's play a training match tonight, we will show you all the things we have written down, hoping to give you a little more chance." ”
It's a common practice that when a team from your own country is eliminated, you'll stay behind to help the other team pave the way and make it easier for them in the next matches, and there's only one team left to play at the moment.
Lan Yu's expression was solemn, and he nodded seriously as he looked at him.
The night before the Grand Finals, WT teams train late into the night, and no one knows exactly how much they have mastered.