Chapter 31 The third stop of the S4 finals - Busan station!
With the end of the group stage of the S4 World Finals, the places for the top eight of the world's major regions have finally been determined, they are SSW and EDG in Group A, Royal Family and TSM in Group B, MG and SSB in Group C, and NJ White Shield and C9 in Group D in the last group!
As recognized as the strongest Asian region in the world, the China and South Korea divisions even won a full six places in the quarterfinals, and no Asian team was eliminated in the group stage, as for the last two places, all of them were won by TSM and C9 in the North American region.
As for the European region, the Southeast Asian region and the wild card region, they missed the final quarterfinals due to the large gap in strength, so they could only leave the field and miss the championship.
According to the format of the S4 World Finals, the next quarterfinals will be played by the first and second places in each group, that is, the first place in Group A SSW will face the second place Royalty in Group B, and the first place Royalty in Group B will play in the same room and will face the EDG team from the same Chinese division next.
But that's fine, at least this can ensure that in the AB group competition, at least one Chinese team will advance to the semi-finals!
In the same way, as the first MG team in Group C, their next opponent is naturally the second place C9 team in Group D, but although C9 is just a North American team, not a South Korean team, but what you need to know is that C9's table in Group D is enough to describe it as amazing!
Although they did not have a good result in the first round of Group D, they did not expect to follow closely behind, but they fought hard in the second round. The state is excellent, and even the king team of Group D was once tied - the Korean team White Shield!
In the end, the White Shield team had to play an overtime match with C9. It was a good idea to determine who would finish first in the group, although it was a pity that they were defeated by the white shield in the end. But the strength of C9 is beyond doubt, and being able to force the Korean team to this level is enough to show their super strength!
Of course, despite this, when C9 faced the Chinese team MG, which beat the seeded team SSB in the Korean region, not to mention the whole country, even in the whole world, not many people are optimistic about C9 at all!
However, C9 is still a team that dares to fight, not like SSB or White Shield, which is a late-stage team-fighting team, so even if C9 inevitably loses in the end, it is the so-called indiscriminate punch to kill the master. Maybe the C9 that dares to fight can also pour some cold water on the MG that is currently in full swing, causing some painless trouble.
At least in any case, the two teams start to collide with each other in the early stage, which is naturally much better than the two teams that delay the late stage, and then a wave of team battles to determine the winner of the game.
But compared to the almost one-sided optimism on MG's side, on the other hand, the game between EDG and the royal family still leads to frequent speculation, no one dares to say that EDG will definitely be able to defeat the royal family, and no one can say that the royal family will definitely go to the end.
These two rival teams can be said to have their own merits, and the royal family is more inclined to MG and SSW. The style of play is a bit more aggressive, which is the opposite of the slow-paced EDG, but it is often due to the overly aggressive style of play that makes mistakes on the royal side. As a result, EDG won a wave of team battles to recover the disadvantage, and then lost the game because of it.
To put it bluntly, the playing style of the royal family is not particularly perfect, and they do not have the absolute control of MG and SSW over the field of vision. In terms of version understanding and lineup routines, they can't compare to the previous two, plus their recent poor form. He even lost to TSM in the group stage on the last day.
Therefore, the royal family can really be said to be open to each other against EDG this time, and anyone can win. It is possible for anyone to say goodbye to the stage of S4 completely, compared to MG and SSW, the two king teams that have won all the battles, the fateful duel between the royal family and EDG is really full of suspense!
So in the common expectation of players all over the world, the third stop of the S4 World Finals in Busan, South Korea has finally officially kicked off, and this time the quarterfinals, which can also be said to be the quarterfinals, will determine who will be the final king in the semifinals and finals held in Seoul, South Korea!
As the first opening match of the Busan station, it was the first champion of Group A, SSW, against the veteran powerhouse TSM of Group B, although the result of this game is basically undoubted, it is difficult to have any mistakes or accidents, but after all, the schedule is getting closer and closer to the final championship, so players around the world are still looking forward to this battle!
In the first game between the two sides, it can be seen that both sides did not do their best, both used more conservative heroes and lineups, and the decent sides did not have too many outstanding performances, although it was a home advantage, but SSW still made some small mistakes, but SSW quickly made up for these mistakes, and the director zhìtsm was not able to seize the opportunity to turn the tables.
TSM's defeat in the first game can be said to be expected, SSW's four-person coaching team made them the most complete preparation before the game, and the excellent Ban selection made TSM have a sense of strength and nowhere to go.
After their good Rambo and Blind Monk were banned, TSM's table Xiàn was very sluggish, and the rhythm of the game was completely led by SSW, and SSW relied on the fast-paced system of pushing the tower to successfully defeat TSM, among which Ruiz, Jace and Mouse's table Xiàn was particularly eye-catching, and SSW started the game to trick the opponent, and finally succeeded in defeating the opponent without any accidents.
When it came to the second game, TSM at this time was already under pressure, because SSW had shown strong attack power in the previous game, and this game TSM also chose the prince with a strong ability to open the group first, but from the beginning of the prince's mistake laid the final game of the victory, driven by the completely stunted prince, TSM's third line collapsed one after another, and SSW easily won the second game.
In this game, TSM's poor early handling led to Zha's start by SSW's three buffs again, and TSM's morale completely collapsed, making SSW win the second game very easily, and even successfully won the BO5 match point.
It's just that just when everyone subconsciously thought that the final result of this quarter-game would end with an easy victory for SSW, they didn't expect the accident to happen suddenly!
I don't know if SSW is entertaining or really negligent, but TSM seized the opportunity to give a violent beating, and this result is obviously beyond everyone's expectations.
SSW chose a comprehensive late lineup, the guide zhì they were infinitely suppressed by the opponent on the line, driven by the TSM jungler and mid laner, SSW was suffering both in the wild area and in the frontal battlefield, and finally the guide zhìtsm directly advanced to the high ground in a wave of blows, and SSW let TSM win the game under the powerlessness to resist.
So, in this rather funny situation, the fourth game between the two sides finally officially began, at this time, after the last game, the members of SSW seem to have put away their entertainment mentality, and the lineup and bans are no longer as casual as the previous game.
TSM obviously gradually figured out some of the ways of SSW after the previous battle, and began to turn around against SSW, but unfortunately the hard power of the two sides is indeed too large, and TSM has fallen into a disadvantage in this game because of the poor performance in the early stage!
As for the little smashing IMP, he took the opportunity to score five kills again in the game, which was also his second five kills in S4, although TSM stole the tower several times very beautifully, but in the end it still couldn't win, and SSW also advanced to Lì and became the first team to enter the semifinals of S4!
And just when SSW's accidental negligence made TSM take the opportunity to pull back a game, they were helpless to break their undefeated golden body, but they finally adjusted their mentality and took each other away, and soon, the second day of the S4 finals Busan station finally came as scheduled, and this time!
But it is the turn of all the teams from all the major regions around the world in the entire S4 Finals so far, and the only Chinese team that has maintained an undefeated record so far - MG!! (To be continued......) R1292