Chapter 17: Roommates
The first match of the T-Force quarterfinals was scheduled for the second day, and after the group stage, the quarterfinals were no longer in order, so it was only natural for the organizers to bring forward the more closely watched matches to the opening ceremony on the first day.
On the first day, only two matches were scheduled in the morning, both of which were the same country derby, OMG against EDG and SGB against KTA.
The three teams in the China region have all made it to the quarterfinals, which is considered to have created the best results in history, and of course, the same is true for the South Korean team, so the whole world is watching what kind of bloody storm will be caused by the 'confrontation' of the two strongest teams in the strongest two regions. ”
The double-elimination system is not a single-elimination system over the years, and the focus of many people's concerns is whether these teams will show real strength to fight to the death, or there is a tacit understanding to send one team to the winner's group, and the other team will make a comeback in the loser's group.
This kind of discussion has never stopped, and there are those who support going all out to make a good impression on the world, and there are those who support preserving their strength against the Korean team, and the key is the idea of these derby teams themselves.
The T team doesn't know what they think, Lan Yu has been nesting in the hotel since he came to the United States to watch videos and write things, even Chen Chuxiao and Wang Yan go out shopping to buy souvenirs, occasionally C9's Hai will come over to chat with Lan Yu, because his own team has been eliminated, so Hai has become one of the commentators for the finals in North America, and there are also the senior brothers of the CLG team and scarra and others 'handover' to sit in place.
Maybe the team can't share the joy of this kind of event for various reasons, but these great gods who have come over since the S1 era have an unparalleled understanding of games and heroes, and they are very eloquent, and they are super strong themselves.
And Hai is also one of the tactics developers of the C9 team, although he has been accused of being too close to the Korean Wave over the years, but the team's progress is also obvious to all, and there is no one who has dominated North America all year round.
But he was just chatting with Lan Yu, occasionally discussing the exploitable value of certain heroes, Hai didn't provide any suggestions and opinions, because the T team is now stronger than C9, Lan Yu didn't dare to say that his strength was higher than Hai, but at least the tactical ideas were unique.
More time, Lan Yu will still lean on the chair and cover the 'wool' blanket to watch the video quietly, watch the game of the Korean team, watch the game of tomorrow's opponent SK team, and even watch the video recorded on the computer when playing the training match with the OMG and EDG teams.
There are a lot of 'chaotic' and 'chaotic' thoughts in his mind that can't be sorted out, but there are also a few clear veins, which are several sets of key tactics he prepared for this finals, and he must meet the Korean team or the Chinese team to come up with the lore tactics that can be used.
Lan Yu threw the pen in his hand, the video of the SK team in the group stage is really nothing worth watching, it is completely abuse, not to say that the team in the wild card area is low, but the strength is really too far behind, even if the second team of the T team comes to play with them, it is a perfect rhythm.
He was going to go out for a walk, and he should always walk around when he came to LA, but it was winter, the air was very cold, and his teammates had already gone out to play together, so Lan Yu went back to the hotel to prepare for the game the day after tomorrow after a boring turn.
The opening ceremony was very grand, although the local team was wiped out, but it did not affect the enthusiasm of League of Legends players, there were about half of the faces of Chinese players on the scene, some flew with the team, and there were also students who worked or studied abroad locally.
In particular, the board held by a 'girl' child is quite touching: Don't be afraid, everywhere is our home field.
The OMG team and the EDG team are going to play the opening match, and several members of the T team take turns running to the back of both sides. Taiwan condolences and cheers, which naturally can't help but gloat, but also to liven up the atmosphere, the next schedule I don't know how it will go, the T team has a high chance of entering the winner's group, maybe bad luck will collide with the winner of these two teams.
Now I just hope that I can be lucky when the 'draw' is drawn.
Back in the audience, the T-team was captured by the director, and there were countless applause at the scene, with countless fans from the T-team, and of course, the results of the C9 and T*M teams' hard work.
At the beginning of the game, the captains of the OMG team and the EDG team came out of the competition room to determine the direction of the match, and did not directly throw coins, but hugged each other to encourage each other.
The audience applauded and cheered for the two Chinese captains, and the direction of the match was quickly clear, the blue 'color' side of the OMG team in the first game, the blue 'color' side of the EDG team in the second game, if there was a draw, the coin would be tossed again to determine the direction of the tiebreaker, and the double-elimination tournament was in the form of BO3 until the finals.
Lan Yu and the others sat under the stage and watched the game nervously, from now on, any direction of the quarterfinals and double-elimination tournaments will be related to the future results of the T team, so they can't help but be not serious, Lan Yu has a thick purple 'color' notebook in front of his lap, and Chen Chuxiao specially prepared a new tactical analysis book for Lan Yu when he went out to hang out.
The OMG team is on the blue 'color' side, with obvious intentions to take Cassadine, but the EDG team has made a good target on the ban on selection, and in the end, almost all the heroes that both sides are good at are banned, and the hero pool is still deeper than whom.
The OMG team came up with a lineup of top laner trolls, mid laner foxes, jungler princes, and bottom lane male guns with robots.
The EDG team selected a lineup of top laner weapon masters, mid laner Sindra, jungler spiders, and bottom laner Bron to match Lucian.
The players on both sides represent the strongest lineup of the current version, and these two lineups shattered the previous rumors that everyone was going to play a tacit ball game as soon as they came out, and these two lineups can be said to be the strongest in the hands of professional players.
The two sides started with unusually ferocity, the tactics of the first-level regiment were linked one by one, and everyone's eyes were all put down at the beginning, just to detect the opponent's movements, ten people kept wandering and grabbing each other, and finally encountered in the middle of the river, and the first-level regiment was instantly opened.
The OMG team took the lead in the battle with the robot's magical hook, and lost the opponent's jungler spider in seconds, but its own robot also failed to escape, and finally ended the first-level team with one for one, but more than three minutes have passed before returning to the line.
The junglers on both sides are more frequent stealing from each other, and the offensive route is basically the same, and the opponent's position can be judged every time, and the two-on-two battle is even more 'fine' and colorful, and the heads are frequent.
At the end of this game, the two sides combined broke out a total of more than 60 heads, basically the whole field is a crazy offensive battle, you catch my people, I will kill you the other way, push the tower team battle has never stopped, the two Chinese teams that are good at playing steady tactics have shown their crazy side to the world, and the audience screamed and exclaimed, cheering for these two unreserved teams.
Even the T team was swaying in their hearts, Lan Yu's tactics kept recording the shining points in the game, and some habits about the two teams were written and recorded by him.
The first game of the opening tournament ended with the victory of the OMG team, but it was only a little close, the spider of the EDG team was silenced by the robots of the OMG team when they grabbed the dragon, and they almost got the big dragon, and then they were taken away by the OMG team in a 'wave', if the big dragon was won by the EDG team, this victory basically became their bag.
However, the EDG team still had a 'color' in the second game, and the captain jungler gave full play to the 'essence' of the jungler in this game, and flew up the rhythm, and the EDG team won the second game with a big advantage, but Lan Yu felt that the OMG team deliberately put a game, in order to leave the 'essence' in the decisive game.
Sure enough, in the third game, the OMG team played extremely resolutely as if they were relieved, and the front row of the team blocked the front like a mountain, creating an output environment for their own ADC Wayne, although the EDG team played well in the team battle, but it was still slightly worse, and it was almost a victory like the first game, just a millimeter.
In the third game of BO3, the OMG team narrowly won, and the economic advantage was not opened until the final stage, and the whole court was always tight.
The audience gave a standing ovation to the two teams for their brilliant match, and another match was about to begin, with Team KTA and Team SGB entering the competition room after Team OMG and Team EDG.
The popularity of the scene was not as high as the previous two teams, after all, there were many domestic audiences at the scene, and there were still some plots, but they all applauded to show the least respect.
But unfortunately, compared to the hard work of the first two teams, these two teams standing at the top of the world did not perform well, and the whole game was decent and without any bright spots, and even many people in the audience left the court early to protest.
In fact, in the eyes of professional players such as Lan Yu, the two teams are not quite like playing tacit ball, but they are just to preserve their strength, and if there is no accident in the winner's group, there will be OMG team, T team and SKT team, whoever qualifies in Group A is not easy to play, and not only is it possible to lose, but also may 'expose' more tactics to stay in more critical games, so both sides play more conservatively.
It's the kind of duel that can win the best, and it doesn't matter if you can't, and falling into the lower bracket is not something they need to worry about, after all, every team comes with some strong tactical reserves.
Lan Yu is still very serious about recording, but there is nothing to refer to in terms of tactics, he mainly studies the habits of these people on the right line.
The T team does not have a specialized tactical analyst, Ye Qing, as the team leader, is responsible for a lot of the team's work, and it is no longer like when the T team was still at the campus level to analyze tactics together, and most of the tactical analysis work is still done by Lan Yu alone.
This job is not to tell everyone how to play to be competent, almost every opponent must have different tactical reserves, such as the habits of the opponent's lineup, the habits of the lane, and the preferred entry point of team battles are all issues that tactical analysts should consider.
Needless to say, those versions of strong heroes must be able to know and be 'fine', and both regular heroes and cold 'door' heroes must be involved.
Therefore, Lan Yu has not been very strong in the game, because most of his mind has to be on thinking, and now the command in the early stage is 'handed over' to Wang Yan, and he can pay better attention to things in the game.
The two Korean teams played three games, and in the end, the KTA team came out on top and entered the next round of the upper bracket, which was a bit surprising to everyone, because although the KTA team performed well at the end of the OGN, the SGB team was stronger in terms of overall strength, and it was originally expected that the SGB team would meet the T team again when they entered the upper bracket, so that the T team could gain an advantage by virtue of the experience that had beaten them before, so that it could only be re-arranged.
At the end of the first day, OMG and KTA made it to the upper bracket, and the next day will be played against SK and SKT vs. LGF.
The LGF team is a representative team from Taiwan, China, and its strength is average, at least there is still a gap with these peak teams, but I have also seen their pre-game interviews, and they are also going all out to block the South Korean team.