After the group stage, followed by a five-day recuperation period, at this time the teams can invite very few training matches, EDG except for two games with FW, which is in a different group from the knockout round, the rest of the time is basically training with their own second team.

EDG has the advantage of home resources and cannot invite professional teams on vacation to be sparring partners, and the other three teams lack training channels, so they can only keep ranking to save their status.

In the past few days, the Internet is full of posts analyzing the ranking records of each player, for a time [faker is practicing Ruiwen mid-laner, maybe it is the secret weapon of the semi-finals], [Benji has ten rankings in one night, I'm afraid he is warming up to prepare for the knockout start], [The strength of the lightning wolf is not to be underestimated], [CLG top single darshan was crazy to be sniped by the anchor, and the card national service drilled one, becoming the lowest rank of the knockout player] and other discussions are all over the forum.

At the same time, the most explosive news on EDG has nothing to do with rankings, but photos of Mika's daily life posted on social media.

The main character of the photo is not Mika herself.

But it's the Haidilao staff who perform handmade ramen, and the coach Abu who sits opposite Mika and covers his face with his eyes wandering!

"I'm super over, Abu didn't know that SKT had eaten Haidilao before and caused the state to change collectively, so he actually took Mika to eat."

"Is EDG looking for death? If you go to eat Haidilao at this time, why don't you eat beef noodles?! ”

"Don't you read the text of mika in front, it is clearly written [I begged the coach for a long time and finally took mika to eat Haidilao after the game. Can this also be blamed on Abu? ”

"Hehe, today Mika agreed to eat Haidilao after two begging, is it tomorrow Mika begged Abu to choose Timo midlaner, he also agreed, the day after tomorrow Abu agreed to Mika's request, I don't dare to think about it......"

"Abu will agree to let Mika fall in love with me the day after tomorrow!"

"I'm sorry, Mika's parents have already agreed to marry Mika to me."

"I see a lot of clowns......"

……

EDG's Haidilao turmoil gradually faded in Abu's sighs from time to time, and five days passed, and the MSI Mid-Season Championship semifinals kicked off.

On Friday evening, the Oriental Stadium was packed with hundreds of green and white glow sticks waving left and right off the field.

The live broadcast camera was shifted from the off-field to the host stage, and the semi-finals still maintained two sets of off-field analysis and on-field game commentary, and the off-field team was expanded from the original three to four.

They are Su Xiaoyan, Long Hair, Posture and Su Xiaoluo.

After the four introduced themselves, the big screen showed the detailed results of the two teams in the group stage.

Long Mao supports the FW team next door, but the surface work is good, "Okay, the long-awaited EDG and SKT China-South Korea showdown is about to start!"

Judging from the data of the two teams in the group stage on the big screen, EDG seems to be absolutely ahead! Whether it is KDA or average economic lead per game... Wow, especially Mika's kill stats, it's gorgeous! That's right......"

As Long Hair paused, Su Xiaoyan next to her understood and answered, "Hmm! Although you are likely to have already heard the news of the first launch, here is another announcement......

In today's EDG lineup list, Mika returned to the starting lineup, and at the same time, on the SKT side, everyone's speculation that Benji replaced blank to start, did not happen. ”

"Mika chose the first round of the group stage to perform well but was placed on the bench in the second round, and now he is back in the starting line-up in the knockout round, and SKT jungler blank obviously looks average, but SKT still let him play even when there is a substitute stupid chicken, it seems that the rotation of the two teams is very unpredictable......

As the leader of the professional team, can Su Xiaoluo give you a detailed analysis of the reasons for EDG's substitution today? "Gu Hui

Su Xiaoluo guessed according to his own private speculation, Abu probably wants to suppress the popularity of Mika to avoid the other party's MSI salary increase after playing, and it doesn't matter if you are missing in the subtext team, so don't ask for a sky-high price, and SKT coach KKOMA seems to have received the benefits of jungler.

But on the commentary stage, he had to behave professionally, and he analyzed seriously, "The team changes generally depends on the state of the players, maybe Mika's state was average before, and it was adjusted back in the offseason, and Benji training matches may not have been as good as blank." In short, the factors that the coach decides on the rotation must be more complicated than the audience thinks! ”

Long Hair continued to guide the topic as a controlling field to set off the atmosphere, "That's it! Okay, so now that MIKA is the first player, what kind of tactics do you think EDG and SKT will be today? ”

Starting with Su Xiaoyan, the other three analyzed separately.

"EDG is definitely mainly playing on the line and midfield linkage, and Mika's lane ability is really outstanding, which can be seen from the single kill data of almost every game."

"Yes, Mika and Pawn on EDG are not the same style, although she has performed well in the Dragon King Czar recently, but even if she gets a mage, most of them are in the style of fighting, and rarely run until thirty minutes later."

"Then let me analyze SKT, I feel that SKT's recent form is too poor, and it may be difficult to gain an advantage in the early stage with the operation of the lane. If they want to win, they can only stabilize in the early stage and drag the game to the late stage. ”

There is no direct saying in the words, but the tone of several commentators is unanimously inclined to the early level of EDG is better than SKT, and the overall strength is stronger than SKT, which is now in a sluggish state!

It's not just the LPL commentators who think EDG is stronger than SKT.

Even LCK's local commentary and English stream are difficult to hope for SKT, after all, SKT lost EDG and CLG in the group stage, CLG lost and then lost FW, and then lost G2, and lost all faces.

LCK's commentator known as the Roaring Emperor is trying to make the audience in the competition area give confidence to the team, "Although SKT did not replace the blank today, let's believe in Faker and Coach KKOMA!"

The two-time World Championship team will not give up, they are fully prepared for this BO5 and will do everything they can to win! ”

Kim Dong-joon, another LCK veteran commentator with a long face next to him, nodded, "Yongjun is right, but I must also say in advance that if SKT loses in the MSI semi-finals this time, it is a pity that it cannot be promoted, and I hope you can relax your mind... After all, SKT also lost in the MSI finals last year, but in October, the World Championship won the championship with a new attitude. ”

Of course, the Roaring Emperor didn't want to say bad European words before the game, "Haha, that's all for later! Now that the game has not yet started, let's millions of LCK viewers support SKT together, chant SKT together, and pass everyone's hearts to the faker who is fighting away from home in the magic capital of China! ”

More than 30 million viewers around the world who were guarding the live broadcast silently shouted in their hearts, and a deafening call sounded in the Magic Capital Oriental Stadium.

edg！ edg！ edg！

Loud voice!

skt！ skt！ skt！

Although the Chinese audience will not boo their opponents, the cheers are naturally dull.

Jie then EDG in a black and gold robe.

and SKT in a red robe.

One left and one right walk into the center of the stage together!

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