Chapter 170: They're Controlling Points!
Los Angeles, inside the LCS studio.
On the first day of the All-Star opening, the schedule was directly full.
From 7:15 a.m. to 2 p.m. Capital Time, the action will run non-stop.
Such a tight schedule was quite satisfying for the spectators.
It's just that a small number of players feel a lot of pressure.
The defeat at the S7 World Championship was a huge blow to the confidence of the LCK players.
This time, with a dream of revenge, the five members of the Korean team participating in this All-Star Game looked out of place with the teams from other regions.
When all the teams appeared on the stage one after another, most of the teams, including the LPL representative team, waved to the enthusiastic audience.
Especially when Li Luo appeared, the audience at the scene gave extremely warm cheers, which made Li Luo have a momentary illusion that he was not in his home field.
I have to say that the atmosphere of the event in Europe and the United States is indeed very good.
They are happy to share the applause and cheers with their favorite players when they already know that their team is in a bad position.
The IG team's Bird's Nest victory allowed the LPL to break South Korea's four-year monopoly in the world championship.
For the North American audience who have been under the haze of the LCK competition for a long time, the performance of the LPL division in this world championship deserves their highest praise.
As the FMVP of the S7 World Finals, Li Luo completely conquered the North American audience with his operation.
Taking 10,000 steps back, even those crooked nuts who are indifferent to LPL are difficult to breed bad feelings in their hearts when they see Li Luo smiling and waving to them very sunny.
Let's look at the LCK side again.
The five of them had a cold face from the moment they came on stage, like who owed them much money.
I feel awkward to give them some applause.
In fact, this is not intentional by the LCK players.
The root cause is that their psychological pressure is too great.
In the eyes of others, this is a game of entertainment.
So people will play very casually.
For the game of League of Legends, "casual" is a double-edged sword.
Sometimes the team will be accidentally caught by the opponent due to randomness, and thus become a disadvantage.
Sometimes, casualness becomes the cornerstone of the player's confident operation.
After all, there is such a saying in the summoner's canyon, self-confidence, that is, the peak.
This is especially true for players from outside the region.
This is also the reason why the LCK people are stressed.
Others can maintain self-confidence and dare to fight.
What about them?
But you're going to walk on thin ice and try to win every game?
Even Faker can't keep calm at this moment.
In the three games of the finals, he didn't take advantage of Rookie.
So much so that recently he has been training harder.
But after he checked Rookie's record, he found that Rookie never stopped.
Previously, Rookie's two Hanbok accounts were in the first and second positions in Hanbok respectively.
Later, the account of Hanbok No. 1 was banned, but Hanbok No. 1 is still Rookie.
It's better to ban one, but banning two in a row is too obvious and shameless.
Although...... They don't have much face for a long time, but considering that Rookie is Korean after all, it's better not to do too much.
However, Rookie's recent trumpet has been marked with a hanbok 900 points, which is simply a whole upper scoring machine.
Will he be able to beat Rookie this time?
Faker, who has maintained self-confidence since his debut in his career, does not have the slightest confidence at this time.
Fortunately, they won't meet in the group stage.
Three group games, I hope to win it neatly.
Faker prayed in his heart.
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Countless viewers in China got up early in the morning for this All-Star Game.
Of course, there is no shortage of the kind of late-night king who stays up all night and then eats breakfast to continue to maintain the state of cultivating immortals.
Fortunately, in order to take care of the audience in the LPL division, Riot arranged the first game in the LPL division at 9 o'clock.
It's time to get up at this time.
Those who should go to work have also clocked in, sat on their respective posts, and waited for the opportunity to start fishing.
The North American LCS and Brazil's big brothers first launched a fierce confrontation, and the two sides spent 35 minutes to break out with a total of more than 50 heads, and finally it was North America who successfully won the match with the better individual ability of the players.
At the end of the game, the two teams shook hands and hugged each other, and although it was an official match, the audience was fascinated by its popularity and entertainment nature.
This will be followed by the LCK region against the teams that have moved to the European LCS region.
I finally watched a cool game before, and the all-night buddies who were a little more energetic fell asleep when they saw the second game halfway through.
The European team opted for a line-up that was attractive enough, but was held back by LCK's Korean operation, and it wasn't until the 15-minute mark that the two sides broke out with their first head.
The Korean team used a steady pace of the game and finally operated the EU alive at 37 minutes of game time.
The winning South Koreans finally had a smile on their faces, but they soon realized that the crowd cheered them on.
Not to mention the all-night brother, even the spiritual brother at the scene was so hanging asleep.
Some viewers in each competition area couldn't hold back and used various ways to enter the Korean forum to start group ridicule.
It's just that these group ridicules soon suffered a unanimous counterattack from Korean netizens.
"We Koreans take every game very seriously, should we be criticized for being serious?"
"This Riot All-Star Game is an official regional match! I hope you understand the meaning of the word "formal". ”
"I think it's very exciting, there are a lot of operational games in this, and what I find boring is that you can't understand the game."
"When facing our LCK team, it is recommended to cheer up, so that at least it will not be ugly to lose."
"Players in the LPL division, let's see!"
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And with the end of the LCK game, the competition between the LPL and the Brazilian team has officially begun.
It is also the most powerful region, and the LPL division is better than South Korea in strength this year, but this game LPL perfectly combines "rigorous" and "interesting".
With the Brazilian division pressing out Ezreal and the Drama Master, and finalizing Draven's departure, Li Luo chose Yasuo in the final Conte position very face-savingly.
Li Luo's Yasuo has been used in the live broadcast before, although it has not been used many times, but the audience also knows that Li Luo will play this hero.
But being able to play and being good at playing are two different things!
When the final lineup of the LPL division was finalized, the audience gave high cheers and praise.
Yasuo's path down the road is unprecedented.
This is the first time.
Judging from the LPL's lineup, at least they won't be as boring as LCK.
And on the surface, the LPL's choice of Yasuo and Bron to go down the road is very entertaining.
But it wasn't until the two sides really started a group that the audience found out that this choice was exquisite.
In this match, the top laner of the Brazilian team chose the popular version of Orn.
Orn was around before the Worlds, but it's only now that it's been on the rise.
However, throughout the game, Orn didn't even release a decent ultimate.
Whether it's Bron's security door or Yasuo's wind wall, you can easily confiscate Orn's ultimate.
The top laner of the Brazilian team thought that he could choose a functional hero who could start a team and make a high enough contribution to the team.
As a result, the R button has been confiscated before the game has even started.
In this game, the LPL team relied on the linkage of Ning Wang Zhumei to carry out various line transfer fights from the beginning, so that the Brazilian team was forced to accumulate enough disadvantages in the early stage.
After that, the two sides turned into a big brawl.
With a wave of EQ flash whirlwind in front of Li Luo in front of the Highland Tower, the three of them were followed by the double wind in seconds, and a dazzling set of operations amazed countless audiences!
"Good girl, Brother Luo's Yasuo in the ranking feels okay, why is he so fierce in the game?"
"You also have to think about the opponent's, I feel that although Yasuo can play in the lower lane, he is also very particular about the rationality of the lineup, which confiscated all the Brazilian Delevingne's ultimate, and Orn's ultimate, which was indeed confiscated by the wind wall and Bronn's shield."
"Brazil's big brothers are ambitious, and when they ban people, they deliberately ban heroes like Tam and Shen who tend to be protective, in order to let Delevingne play an advantage in the laning period, but it's a pity that they bumped into Brother Luo."
"Brothers, I'll withdraw first, I'm going to drive a Yasuo to have fun."
"Go together, go together!"
The domestic audience is very comfortable to watch.
This adds up to a lot of heads on both sides.
It's just that the gap in strength is too huge, and the LPL is completely unilateral and one-sided.
That's not all, in the subsequent matchup, the LPL also showed extremely strong dominance, easily ending the group stage with a score of 3-0 and advancing to the semi-finals with the top spot in the group.
On the commentary seat.
Doll and Miller, who were in charge of the first half, had already withdrawn, and Guan Zeyuan and Cause, who were in charge of the second half, were commenting at this time.
Seeing Li Luo, who was communicating with the host in English on the interview seat, Guan Zeyuan said with heartfelt emotion: "Brother Luo's spoken language...... It's a bit outrageous, but it feels like I've really spent a lot of time abroad, and although a lot of vocabulary needs the help of a translator, it's basically okay to communicate normally. ”
"Who says it's not, some time ago, I thought it was a bit outrageous when I saw Brother Luo's live broadcast communicating with players in the United States in English, and now it seems that I underestimated Brother Luo."
Zhihuan also said with heartfelt emotion: "After this game, today's regional confrontation is only the showdown between LCK and GPL. ”
"That's right, in fact, the audience basically guessed the result of the game before this match, which is nothing more than the LCK and LPL divisions winning, and then the two sides defeated the second place in the opponent's group in the semifinals, and met in the final final, there is no suspense at this point."
Guan Zeyuan said with a smile.
And yet just 20 minutes later.
The smile on Guan Zeyuan's face disappeared completely.
The players in the GPL Southeast Asia Division except for Levi in the jungler position, not to mention the audience, even Guan Zeyuan, who is the commentator, don't know him at all.
Jisu of the order?
ASC team?
Who's this?
Patrick ...... mid laner BKT team, this team Guan Zeyuan knows, but this player is too unfamiliar.
As for the bottom lane combination, one is from the IMP team and the other is from the SVG.
Although Guan Zeyuan had done his homework before the competition, the homework he did was very limited, mainly because it was unnecessary, not to mention wasting too much time, and he basically couldn't use it after that.
But this game refreshed Guan Zeyuan's three views, and also refreshed the audience's cognition.
When the GPL division faced a decent lineup of the Korean team, it chose a four-guarantee and one-piece system.
Bao's is the leopard girl who fights the jungle levi.
Levi is an aggressive carnivorous jungler in his own right.
In addition to the fact that he is sometimes unstable, his operation can be described as remarkable.
When the GPL lineup was finalized, everyone in the LPL division who was watching the game understood that this game was really hard to say.
In particular, Li Luo and Mafa have explained to them in detail the importance of jungler for this version.
In this version, a weak jungler must suffer when a strong jungler encounters a strong one.
On the Korean team's side, An chose the prince, although this choice cannot be said to be weak.
But compared to the leopard girl, she is definitely not at the same level in terms of aggression in the wild area.
Ann Boss is a team-oriented jungler, and after encountering Levi, a second-generation bandit after Sofm, Ann Boss was reversed in the early game.
The initiative is in Levi's hands.
Although online teammates will occasionally send.
But Levi always arrives in time with his great mobility and makes his opponent spit out his head.
As time went by, Levi's leopard girl became fatter and fatter.
Even if the LCK got a few good opportunities in the middle and late stages, it was still sought by Levi's leopard girl when he was rushing the dragon, and he was inserted into the skin.
The game lasted 39 minutes, and with a wave of three kills from Levi Leopard Girl, LCK lost the duel amid countless cheers from the audience.
The GPL Southeast Asia region qualified with all three wins in the group stage.
At the end of the competition, the five players hugged each other as excitedly as if they had won the championship.
South Korea, ranked second in Group A.
They will meet in the semi-finals against the LPL region in the BO3 format.
South Korea's esports forums were as quiet as a library for a while.
But it was destined to be just the calm before the storm.
The anger was like a fire that had been ignited, and it quickly burned through every corner of the forum!
"Let's all swim back...... Forget it, don't come back. ”
"Can Southeast Asia lose? I didn't say anything when you lost the LMS division before, but I was a little relieved that the LMS didn't get to the side of you in the group, but you recognized a dad again in a blink of an eye? ”
"I'm so angry, why do you want to let Ann go to the door, fight like a turtle!"
"The question is who to let Ann go to, is there still a jungler who can handle it in LCK?"
"I suggest that you don't need to be too excited, after all, the All-Star is just an entertainment game, and the players don't play seriously."
"Rational analysis, I think our players are controlling the score, they deliberately lost this game in order to get out of the second place in the group and directly take revenge on the LPL, and then easily win the championship, so that the LPL doesn't even have a chance to enter the finals, so we must believe in them!"
ps: Tomorrow at 12 noon, on time~
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