Chapter 18: Night?
"This year's LPL is so strong, there is already a faint momentum to surpass the Korean LCK to become the world's No. 1 league, maybe...... Can our penultimate LPL beat Europe and the United States to catch B? Before the game started, Chen Ping thought so. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Although he said "not looking forward to it", WE is the only team participating in the LPL after all, and there are still a considerable number of viewers in China who have the same thoughts as Chen Ping and have expectations for WE's performance.
It can be seen from the density of barrage refreshes on the video that although the game was delayed until the early hours of the morning due to the time difference, there were many viewers, and the vast majority of the audience was cheering for WE.
As a rookie coach who made his debut on stage, facing a strong man like T-S-M, Xiao Zhang has already felt the pressure brought to him by the game.
And from the moment T-S-M took the stage, the entire stadium resounded with very rhythmic shouts of "T-S-M" and "T-S-M". Xiao Zhang has been deeply impressed by this "North American cult" since the S2 period, and at that time, he really felt that he was infected through the screen, and his heartbeat accelerated.
At this time, he was immersed in the scene, and he felt even more ...... It's terrifying.
“T-S-M!”
“T-S-M!”
All the audience members were enchanted and shouted these three letters - "T" in a neat and rhythmic manner! “S”! “M”!
There are also small sticks in the audience that keep beating along with the rhythm, which makes the momentum even more vigorous.
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The biggest factor in football and basketball is that the home team wins much more than the away stadium is cheering on the home fans.
So this one...... It can be said that it is the home of T-S-M.
This time, IEM uses an open player area, and what the audience shouts at the bottom can be heard by the players above, which also makes the three-character scripture of "T-S-M" even more terrifying.
With no experience in international competitions, smiles and strawberries that have been absent from the battle for a long time, as well as "Little Earth Dog" and Spirit, can they adjust their mentality under heavy pressure?
Coach Xiao was worried.
And inevitably, Xiao Zhang was also a little nervous, but he tried to restrain himself. Because he knew that nervousness was contagious, and once his nervousness was detected by the team, it would soon spread like a plague and destroy an entire team.
He calmly stepped onto the stage, notebook in hand, ready to ban/pick.
Obviously, T-S-M's evaluation of WE is the same as that of Riot, and the gun is pointed directly at WE's Ueno, first banning the excavator and the leopard girl, which Spirit is very good at, and then banning the version of the powerful tree.
On the WE side, Wind Girl, Rambo, and Ice Girl were banned. These are all heroes that North American teams like to use.
Because this is the first meeting between the two teams in this tournament, the understanding of the two sides is still limited to the game videos of their respective regions, so they have tentatively come up with a set of systems that they are good at.
This one, hard work!
On the WE side, the top laner Sain, the mid laner Kyaukyue, the jungler prince, the AD male gun, and the auxiliary Morgana.
And T-S-M came up with a lineup of top laner Kenan, mid laner, jungler blind monk, AD plane, and auxiliary Lulu.
The lineups selected on both sides can be said to be very uncommon in their respective regions.
In the dozens of games that have started in the 2015LPL Spring Tournament, Kenan, Zai and auxiliary Lulu from T-S-M have not appeared much!
It's the same with T-S-M, who haven't dealt with Bright Moon and Sain in recent times.
In the frantic shouts of "T-S-M" and "T-S-M" from the audience, the game officially began.
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The official commentators for this match are Joe Miller the Bearded, Trevor Henry and Monte Cristo. (You don't need to remember the English name, for the sake of convenience, all of them are called by nicknames, don't blame you.) )
Taking advantage of the efforts of the two sides to buy equipment in the spring water, "The Bearded" introduced the next matchup: "The winner of this match will play against the Korean team, the Cj team with Madlife and Shy, and the loser will fall into the lower bracket and play a do-or-die match with the GMB team, and the loser will be eliminated directly." ”
This tournament adopts a "BO1 double-elimination system" during the group stage, which means that if WE loses to T** this time and loses to GMB in the next game, it will have to go home directly.
Yes, this is really embarrassing, if WE is really eliminated because of two consecutive losses, there may be a lot of abuse after returning home.
"T-S-M has selected a lineup that is strong in the early stage and plays in the middle stage, but if it drags on to the late stage, it is likely that it will not be able to deal with WE's pure meat Sain." The "Scarface" commentator briefly analyzed the lineup from the perspective of T-S-M.
"Yes, WE also cleverly chose the Kyaukyue midlaner, which is rare in the North American LCS, so that as long as the Kyaukyue is well developed, it will be difficult to fight the 'four-one-point push' tactic that the later robbery depends on to survive." "Han Fu" echoed.
To be precise, the lineups of both sides are not a late-stage lineup, but relatively speaking, the WE side may be stronger. But the T-S-M side is also much better than WE in the early and middle stages.
Before the troops were dispatched, T-S-M top single Dyrus controlled Kenan to insert his eyes deeply into the blue buff in front of Strawberry, and Strawberry chased him with a slash, and Spirit also planted a flag, beating Kenan to less than 300 points of blood.
"Dyrus has almost all the information about WE in this eye position - whether to change lines, whether Spirit chooses to open red or blue, and when to finish, which is important. And Dyrus only needs to press B to return to the city to recover all the HP that has been defeated, and he will not lose his soldiers! It's a great deal! "Scarface" said excitedly.
"Yes, T-S-M got the information they wanted!" "Han Blow" focused his attention on Strawberry's Sain, "However, what interests me more is that Sain didn't go directly to the road, he ran to 'F4', what is he going to do?" Is it to change the line? ”
After the hero Sain was changed from a wandering mage to a tank, he was still very unpopular, only appearing briefly in the jungler for a while, but soon, due to his weakness of being too bulky and easy to be kites, he was snubbed again, and almost disappeared in the major professional arenas.
But in previous editions, Riot has slashed several traditional strong top laners, and some professional teams in China suddenly discovered that the hero Sain seems to be able to be used to play top laners.
It can be said that this group stage of WE vs. T-S-M is Sain's debut on the international stage. It is normal that these American commentators did not react to this routine for a while.
“Execute!” (WE.Caomei was killed by a monster!) )
Seeing this news, not only the audience at the scene was in an uproar, but even the three commentators couldn't help but gasp.
"Was this a mistake? Can you even be killed by wild monsters?! The audience speculated.
But being able to sit in this commentary position and face the global audience is certainly not an ordinary person, and the three commentators instantly understood the intention of this style of play: "What a novel way of playing!" Take advantage of Sain's passive, clear the field quickly, and then use the teleportation line to move up to level 2 one step earlier and establish an advantage! Wow, that's an idea! I love this way of playing strawberries very much! ”
This side is talking about Sain's first-level jungler routine, and the OB perspective suddenly cuts to the lower lane, Lustboy's Lulu wants to cooperate with the plane's skill damage in the early stage to lower the smile's blood line, but he didn't expect that not only was he quickly pulled out the gun by the "E" skill at a tricky angle of the smile to avoid all the damage, but also was spotted by Morgana of the "little earth dog", and the backhand was a Q to imprison the plane.
If it weren't for the fact that Smile had already handed over the two EQ skills before, this wave would have killed the plane.
Rao was like this, and the blood line of the plane was still cut down a lot, and there were less than 200 drops of blood left.
Seeing this scene, even the "Scarface" commentator, who has always been optimistic about WE, has to admit: "It's a smile!" It seems that WE's substitutions in the lower lane are very effective, and in the face of the strong combination of T-S-M, WE handled it very well! ”
The next road played well, and the Chinese audience who was watching the live broadcast also happily brushed up the barrage:
"Grass, the king is mighty!"
"The Q of the little earth dog is so accurate!"
"It's really a smile, my mom asked me why I knelt to watch the live broadcast!"
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There are also people who poured a basin of cold water from these WE fans: "Don't be too happy, WE's new mid-laner is very fishy, as long as the camera is over, he will eat the robbed darts, it's not fun to eat a shot, and you must eat the real body and the doppelganger at the same time." Are you blind? Don't see it? ”
Chen Ping saw this ugly comment and immediately wanted to refute it, but unfortunately the camera cut to the middle again - Xiye really ate darts!
"Laundry detergent, don't be a fool!" Chen Ping was frightened.
Xiao Zhang didn't need to open the system at this time to know that the state of Xiye was indeed quite poor.
It's not because T-S-M's midlaner Pilson suppressed him, but because he abandoned his martial arts and shrank his hands, which seemed a little lacking in confidence.
And once the confidence is insufficient, the move will be indecisive, and it will be easier to eat the skill, and after eating the opposite high-damage skill a few more times, it will be completely cowardly.
At this time of the night, this is the state.
Xiao Zhang was also annoyed: "Alas, I'm still young, and I'm inexperienced!" The first game was faced with this 'cult', and my heart was specially shouted out by 'T-S-M' and 'T-S-M', Lao Tzu is really grassy! ”
But Xiao Zhang is also no. After all, Xiye is too young, and he has no experience in playing abroad before, but this time, he was so excited that he couldn't sleep, and it was said that he couldn't sleep at night, so how could he be in good shape!
Coach Xiao wanted to adjust the state of the players, but unfortunately, there were only 20 gold coins, and in the face of the declining state of all the players due to "pommel horse fatigue", even if they were all used in this game, they might not be able to win 100%.
Xiao Zhang struggled for a long time, but decided to save the 20 gold coins to take a look first.
"Forget it, it seems that there is no play on the line, just don't be killed alone, let's watch the team battle in a while!"
PS: It's hard to write about the competition, it's hard to write it well. It's a little tangled, a little stuck. Today, I will have two more changes, let me think about how to write the game more excitingly. Also, there seems to be a mistake in the front, IEM runner-up has a bonus, I'll fix it later
Finally, I would like to recommend and collect, and thank the book friends for their long walk, fate and miracles, and the reward of no books and no fat!