As soon as the continental tournament began, NG and April were in dire straits.

In the LPL lounge, Qin Siqi, who has always been paying attention to public opinion on the Internet, flipped through his mobile phone with a serious expression.

The order in which the continental tournaments will be played is decided by the coaching staff of the region, and of course, each team has to be evenly presented.

Originally, Qin Siqi wanted to fight for the opening game, but just now he saw that the manager of NG was so persistent, he thought about it and gave up. One is that TheSky has just won the MSI championship, and there is no need to compete with NG for the limelight; The second is ......

This year, it took a little ...... to poach Song Shengyan into the team Dishonorable means, he didn't want his brother to be difficult in front of his old club.

And the opening battle of NG is obviously designed, from the first-level wild area invasion to the second-level catch, which has laid a great advantage in the early stage. But Wave's early and mid-term processing was too strong, much stronger than MSI's, and it seized two opportunities in the middle and turned back against the wind. And this defeat not only made him realize that Wave's strength has surged, but also put a lot of psychological pressure on other teams - how can Wave lose if such a big advantage can be played back?

Sure enough, in the following group stage, Wave did not lose a small point, helping the LCK firmly occupy the first place. While TheSky and DSA played steadily, NG and April also gradually regained their form, and LPL ranked second with four BO1 losses, competing with LMS for a place in the semi-finals.

At the beginning of the semi-finals, the competition system was changed to a BO5 relay competition system, and the order of competition was still discussed by the coaching team of the competition area. As a rule, each team must take turns to appear once, up to a maximum of two, and if there is a large gap in the strength of the divisions and the game ends in three sets, then the fourth team does not have to play.

This is out of fairness, otherwise it would be unfair to one region if they had a "super team" and sent it to finish the battle in three sets. Single

Therefore, the order of BO5 is not only a competition in the strength of the team, but also a game in the arrangement of the coaching team and psychology, which is equivalent to the Tianji horse race in ancient times.

In the semi-finals on the third day, TheSky took the lead, NG played second, April was placed in third, and DSA, who was relatively weak, played last.

"You try to end the game 3-0, our team doesn't want to play at all!" Before the game began, DSA's coach quipped to the other three teams.

And that's exactly what happened.

The LMS's lineup is the opposite of that of the LPL, probably guessing that they want to end the battle quickly, so the team that ranks last in the LMS Summer Tournament is put in the first place, and they hope to use the "Tian Ji Horse Race" method to play the score to 2-2, and the final game will determine the winner.

However, the LPL team didn't give them a chance. TheSky took the first point solidly, NG followed with the second, and April didn't overturn again, winning 3-0 in the LMS division.

In fact, the LPL's coaching staff never expected to be upset in the BO5 against LMS, after all, since the establishment of the league, LMS teams have only won the LPL a handful of times, and April the day before yesterday was the first time in nearly five years.

Therefore, after winning the LMS, the LPL coaching team began to arrange the matchup plan for the finals in full swing, from figuring out the opponent's order of appearance to the content of the bp. The players also did not have time to rest, so they were divided into two groups and deduced the actual battle according to the coach's BP ideas.

At two o'clock in the morning, the players went to recuperate, but the coaching team had no intention of sleeping, and discussed until five o'clock, and went through all the tactics that the opponent might implement in detail.