Chapter 56: Waiting and Preparation
The second game started quickly, the two sides exchanged lineups, this game OMG team's forbidden design is very good, successfully grabbed the nine-tailed demon fox Ahri for the middle laner, and released Akali over there, but Lan Yu didn't take it, although the hero of the fox is a little brittle, but the victory is flexible and controlled, and the early stage of stabilizing Akali, even if it is released, Lan Yu doesn't want to be boring, so he took the death song that he hadn't seen for a long time.
The exchange of fire between the two sides in this game was much more ferocious than the previous game, mainly because the OMG team was burdened with a loss, and played very aggressively and cheerfully, and the WT team stubbornly resisted for 30 minutes and then lost, and the two sides fought to a 1-1 draw.
In the third game, the WT team made a major mistake in the early stage, and the first-level team was forced to kill the lower road duo by the OMG team, and then the OMG team played a horizontal movement four-person push tower that the WT team is very good at, but they didn't take the robot, but took the hammer stone, which was just as effective, and the WT team's response was not bad, each line was steady and steady, and Yuan Xiaoye also tried his best to lead the rhythm, but the defense tower lost a little too much, and finally failed to recover the disadvantage, but this one was played longer than the second game, After a full forty minutes of late play, the OMG team finally returned to the dilemma of being surrounded in the first game in the battle for the big dragon, and after snatching the big dragon, the WT team was wiped out.
And this team annihilation also announced that the more than 40 efforts of the WT team 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 WT team played GG.
Losing two games in a row, the match point was won by the OMG team, the WT team's face still didn't have too much disappointment and anxiety, but they were constantly discussing something, in the fourth game, the WT team got a very weird lineup, the top single troll with the jungler Zack plus the middle single Yasuo, and the bottom lane combination is Zyra with the policewoman, this lineup is the big move prepared by the WT team if nothing else.
With the update of the version, the rise of the tank jungler, Zack's role has gradually been reflected, although this hero is called a drag rhythm by many professionals, but it is better to cooperate with Yasuo, once the WT team took out this hero in the professional league, but that one lost, after going back, after discussion and improvement, the responsibility of Zack 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 trolls to entangle, 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 WT 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 with the long-range suppression of the policewoman.
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 the strength that the WT 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 WT team in the fifth game of blind selection still went wrong, BO5 needs to play blind selection in 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 WT team has a set of non-mainstream.
Clear-eyed people can directly see that the WT team is playing the last game with the intention of training, and they don't mind whether the seed will be left behind, this kind of "handicap match" strictly does not violate any regulations, winning is to enter the quarterfinals, and losing is to send their compatriots to the quarterfinals, no matter whether they win or lose, the lineup they want to train can get good practice.
The WT team lost, this lineup is very interesting, the top laner Annie cooperated with the jungler Amumu, got the clockwork in the middle lane, 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, the OMG team almost five people hugged Yuan Xiaoye, and the victory or defeat of the WT team in this game largely depended on Amumu's breakthrough.
The whole team collapsed when the jungle collapsed, the WT team still failed to withstand the pressure, and even the strong point of this lineup did not have time to show, but found an excellent opportunity to open the group in the last wave of team battles, but the equipment was too poor, and the situation of beating out all the OMG team members with more than half blood was still not won, and it lost its competitiveness, BO5 In the last game, the WT team lost and won the second place, and the OMG team will directly advance to the quarterfinals of the World Finals as a seeded player in the Chinese region, WT and EDG 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 WT team, although they also hope that the WT 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 WT team stood on the stage, accepted the cheers of the audience and the interview of the host, OMG team was very frank and said that if it was not for the WT team in the last game with the idea of practicing the lineup, maybe the position of this seeded team would belong to the WT team, because the dominance they showed in the fourth game was too strong, but since they have come to this position, they must try their best to go further, hoping to get a good ranking on behalf of China.
The EDG team will compete in the group stage with the WT team, and the specific grouping situation is not yet known, but the EDG team hopes not to kill the WT team in the group stage, and the WT 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, the playoffs were second, and the China qualifiers were second, Lan Yu smiled and said that we have saved so many second-place characters, just to win the first place in the World Finals.
Although the competition is over, there is still a lot of interaction, including the aforementioned rich prizes, including a laptop and a grand prize round-trip ticket to the United States for two, as well as tickets to the hotel and Staples Stadium for the full League of Legends World Finals, and the most exciting part of this session is that one of the winners turned out to be an old acquaintance of the WT team.
The Snow Wolf team in the campus championship that year, the WT team, 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 WT team was also a little taken aback when his face was shown 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 in 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 with excitement, and the funny scene was that the girl should be shouting that she was single, and then dozens of young men suddenly came over to ask for a date 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 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 ticket generation time 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 teams in the European zone were the first to produce the seeded teams and the teams that advanced to the World Finals, and the first place was of course not allowed to be 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, the Fnatic team, are divided into two halves, so that the two teams compete for the championship and runner-up, and the Alliance is even better, and the first to advance to the quarterfinals, The other team that won the ticket to the European zone was Team SK.
The North American side also has a bit of a confusing form, first of all, the C9 team advanced strongly, and still maintained 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 in the third-place round, the Jedi rebounded and defeated the strong Curse team to grab the last ticket to the North American region.
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 of the more well-known players in China, in North America from the minor league all the way up to the LCS professional league, and then four times in a row TSM to North America, this time successfully qualified for 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 the Korean region is very interesting, not based on the victory or defeat of a single game, but on the basis of 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 the place in the World Finals because of their excellent performance - SamsungBlue team, and the other two places need to continue to wait for various play-offs and repechage 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 screening and elimination that the Korean team has dominated the LOL in recent years.
As for the first promotion spot in Southeast Asia, it was still obtained by the TPA team, and the other place has not yet been determined.
However, when all professional teams are carefully preparing, 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 be given priority to 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 Regional teams, after which the organizers will start the draw early to give the teams plenty of time to familiarize themselves with the World Finals opponents.