4 p.m. local time in New York!

Madison Square Garden, which can accommodate nearly 2W spectators, was packed!!

Tickets for this match were sold out early.

No way.

The two teams, TOP and Roxtiger, are by far considered to be the two strongest teams.

And that's not all.

Both teams are still focusing on the rapid offensive rhythm!

Especially on the road!

Who is the strongest laner in this World Championship, Noob or Smeb?

This was the most discussed topic in European and American forums before the start of the competition.

Now the answer is about to be revealed!

The lights suddenly dimmed, and the audience was surprised at first, and then seemed to think of something.

Really!

On the large screen used to broadcast the game, the countdown numbers are revealed!

When you count down to 1!

In the next second, a fist blow appeared on the screen that shattered the glass, and then evolved into the company logo of Riot!

Accompanied by bursts of screams and exclamations from the audience!

The screen began to play a video of the players taking before the game, this time near the Empire State Building, and each player was talking trash under the guidance of the official!

Ultimately.

The picture of Lee Hansheng and SMEB standing in front of the trophy and looking at each other is frozen.

The lights on the scene came on again, and a particularly dazzling light shone on the championship trophy placed on the booth!

"Hello to the audience and in front of the screen! This is Madison Gardens in New York! ”

The presenter in a suit came to the stage.

"After three weeks of intense competition, only four teams have been able to step foot in it, and the first semi-final of the day will be Roxtiger vs. Top Esports Gaming!!"

"Let's invite players from both sides to appear!"

"First of all, let's have the 2016 LCK Summer Champion, the No. 1 seed, Roxtiger!"

Under the dazzling spotlight, a burst of brilliant fireworks was sprayed from the edge of the stage, followed by a dry ice mist, and the five members of the Tiger Team appeared in front of the audience in an unexpected attitude!

The tallest of the tallest Prays crouched in front of him on his knees, his hands maintaining a Naruto movement of ninjas as they ran.

Peanut and smeb raised their arms left and right.

This pose is the one used by Team Kenitel in Dragon Ball when they appeared, and now it has been borrowed by Roxtiger for their appearance in the semi-finals.

Dragon Ball is a popular Japanese manga all over the world, and North American audiences have made loud noises when they saw this scene to express their support for Roxtiger!

"Order Smeb! Jungler peanut! Mid laner Kuro! Bottom Lane Pray, Assist Gorilla! Head coach nofe!! ”

After reciting the IDs of all the people, the host shouted again in an impassioned tone!

"Next up is the 2016 LPL Summer Champion, No. 1 seed, Top Esports Gaming!!"

Compared to Roxtiger, the appearance of TOP is undoubtedly much more normal, and several people appear in front of the audience in a neat queue.

"Noob! Jungler Condi! Mid laner Godv! Down the road imp! Assist lvmao! Head Coach Bsyy! ”

Obviously, Top didn't expect Rox to come to this set at all, and he didn't discuss it beforehand.

The applause of the audience received by both sides is not at the same order of magnitude at all.

"Gan, Rox's people are too insidious!" Condi scolded, "Doesn't that make it seem like we're being compared?" ”

"Winning the game is really winning, and before the game, this kind of vain thing, my evaluation is, it's useless." Li Hansheng pursed his lips disdainfully.

After the debut, the players from both sides came to the bench and sat down, and the equipment was debugged in advance before the debut.

All that's left is the final confirmation!

There are three people on the LPL commentary table today.

Doll, Miller partners with Wang Laodi!

"Welcome to the 2016 World Finals semi-finals! Hello everyone, I'm Doll, Miller, remember. ”

"Today's game can be regarded as the highlight of this World Championship, and even many viewers feel that this is an early preview of this year's finals, and this game will be even more exciting than the finals!!" The doll smiled and spoke.

"It's true that the results of the main draw have resulted in the two halves being so unequal in strength that favourites like TOP and Rox meet early in the semi-finals." Miller took over the conversation, "The two teams are very close in terms of playing style and style, and they are both teams with the upper road as the core, and the competition between the two sides for the upper road today will definitely be particularly exciting!" ”

"That's right!" Wang Lao Er nodded and then expressed his opinion, "If you purely look at the Ueno combination, I personally think that Rox will be better, peanut's strong jungle suppression will bring huge trouble to Condi, I think Rox's focus is on how to help peanut establish an advantage in the jungle, and TOP is about how to prevent Rox's jungle attack!" ”

When three commentators perform a hot field.

The director also called up some data of the two teams for comparison.

Actually, there is not much difference.

The TOP stats look a little more flashy, but Roxtiger is no different.

Then the director gave a close-up shot of the players on both sides, and it can be seen that the mentality of both sides is relatively stable, and each player has a little smile on his face, and it seems that he is still typing and communicating with each other.

There is no smell of gunpowder at all.

In the end, under the urging of the referee behind him, the two sides officially entered the BP link!!

"Eh, it seems that Top failed to guess the coin, and Roxtiger got the right of first refusal...... They take the initiative to choose the blue side, and the first round of the TOP will appear on the red side! ”

Once you're in the semi-finals, you'll no longer have a standings advantage in the group stage, so the right to pick sides will be decided by guessing a coin before the match.

Li Hansheng failed to guess the coin, so naturally he could only give up the right to choose the side first!

"Lao Li, you kid has mildew B today, you actually guessed that the coin lost?" Condi was teasing.

"You know a hammer." Li Hansheng rolled his eyes and retorted reasonably, "Have you heard a word?" Would you rather be cut by a thousand knives than the first one? I'm calling it to build character for our team! Today, you kid and peanut fight for punishment, and Lady Luck is definitely on your side! ”

"MD, Lao Tzu doesn't accept anything, just obey Lao Li's mouth." Condi rolled his eyes, "Anyway, it makes sense." ”

"Is that not it?"

"Ahem." White Crescent shook her head helplessly, and reminded, "Hansheng, you be serious!" Contest too! Can you stop giggling! ”

"Okay, good, I'm restrained, I'm restrained!"

Roxtiger's first ban was given to Sindra, and Kuro was not the kind of style of suppressing the line play, and he couldn't give play to the characteristics of a line hero like Sindra, but he couldn't give it to Gao Dewei, so he simply banned it directly.

Top is also targeted to ban the leopard girl, and it is impossible for this hero to be released.

The first two bans are reasonable, after all, these two heroes were popular bans before, and they are rarely released.

"Huh? Rox's second-hand ban to the blind monk? They're targeting the wilderness! The pressure on Condair seems to be a bit high! ”

The appearance rate of the blind monk is okay, but it is far from the strength to be banned, which can only show that Roxtiger wants to limit Condair's choice!!

The main reason is that the hero pool of the top three C-rank players is too deep, and it is not cost-effective to spend ban slots on them.

Then pick a soft persimmon and pinch it, and Condi will become a soft persimmon in their eyes!

"Top is also a targeted ban, and they give the dragon king who played very well in the quarterfinals to give the ban position!!"

"Roxtiger has given the troll a last-hand banner!" Wang Lao Er paused for a moment, "Are they trying to rob Olaf?" After all, Top has shown us that trolls can counter Olaf in the jungle! ”

"Let's see how to choose Top, do you want to target it??"

"Top's choice is to ban the ice?"

Pray's ice is a little something, not that it has a lot of carry, but this thing's ice ultimate is released very well, and it often stages ultra-long-distance ultimates to hit the opponent.

And......

Ice's E [Eagle Strike] can help peanut detect Condy's movements in the jungle, which will also increase the pressure on Condair's wilderness.

"Sure enough! Rox snatches Olaf directly!! ”

Roxtiger is clearly prepared, and they don't hesitate to choose the current version, Olaf, the most offensive and suppressive jungler hero in the jungle!

There is no troll, a natural enemy who can stand with him, and there is no blind monk, a flexible loach-like character in the wild area.

Olaf will have a lot of room to play!

It also fits Peanut's playstyle as well!

"There doesn't seem to be anything left of the jungler heroes that can be used to fight Olaf." Miller frowned, "Prince? It's not good either......

The biggest drawback of the heroic jungler of the prince is ......

This thing doesn't have to be fast enough to farm, and it's very brittle.

In this version, where only the punishment of red buff monsters will heal, the prince often has two awkward situations.

Either that, they frequently use skills to quickly farm the wild, causing themselves to be empty blue.

Either it was to save blue and use less skills, and as a result, the blood volume was lowered by the wild monsters.

"Let's see what the top will do in the end!"

The idea of the top side is very clear, directly grab the embers + Zyra, this T0 combination that is currently on the lower road!

"Huh! Could this be the way Top is going to deal with Rox? Let the other roads put more pressure! ”

Ember can be matched with Karma, Zyra, and even Nami, but among the three, Zyra has the highest damage and the fastest line pushing speed, so it's clear that the Top side wants to compete for line rights.

Use the way to grab the right to the line to relieve the pressure in the wild area!!

For this reason, Top didn't even bother to rob Jace.

No way......

This lower lane combination must be taken directly, and if you take it later, it will definitely be dismantled by Roxtiger!

"Jace released it, will Rox replace the ban with a robbery? Or do you just put it to Top?? ”

Soon!

Roxtiger gives the answer directly here!!

They robbed Rambo + Karma in seconds!

"No wonder they don't rob Jace, if Rambo is also outside, Jace is really not easy to deal with." Miller frowned, "It's a bit difficult to grab the right to the line on the road, even Jace can't grab the right to the line from Rambo, right?" ”

The selection of candidates on the top side is still continuing.

After thinking for a while, White Crescent finally decided to let Gao Dewei rob Victor, and then asked Condi to choose the Spider Queen.

There really aren't any heroes to choose from.

If the spider is in the jungle, it can also use mobs to move through walls.

The damage of the main spider is high enough, so at least you don't have to worry about going to the online gank to be beaten by Olaf's anti-squatting in the early stage.

However, in this way, it is basically determined that the top road must come out of Jace.

After all, when the midfield is all spell damage, you must have a physical hero on the road to supplement the team's AD damage, otherwise you can't count on one ember.

And in the last two hands to choose people!

Roxtiger has a surprise for everyone!!

"Huh??" Doll, Miller, and Wang Lao Er exclaimed in unison!

Because......

After locking EZ, the hero who appeared in 5L turned out to be an evil little mage!

"Little mage?"

"This hero...... It was a bit of a surprise. ”

Don't say they didn't expect it, they didn't even think of it on the top side!!

This is obviously a black tech hero prepared by Roxtiger.

Although the little mage is very stupid, a hero like Victor who has no displacement, once he moves forward and is framed by the little mage's E, he will not even have a chance to escape in the face of Olaf's gank!

"MD, on the other side, this is not about martial arts, the first one is to dig out the black technology, right?" The white crescent moon scolded and scolded to express his inner dissatisfaction.

But the overall framework of the squad has been determined, and there is nothing he can do.

"Hansheng, do you want to continue Jace, or do you want to choose another hero?" White Crescent decides to let Lee Han-sung make the final choice himself.

"It's still Jace." Li Hansheng thought for a moment.

The main thing is that he also has no other heroes to choose from.

On the opposite side are the little mages and Karma, and if he chooses a warrior, he can easily be used as a dog by Roxtiger's people, and can only choose a long-handed hero like Jace to consume the opponent from a distance.

"Alright, then Jace!"

Top finally chose Jace in the 5L counter position!

That's it.

The lineups of both sides were also formalized.

Roxtiger is on the blue side and Top is on the red side.

On the road: Rambo vs Jace.

Jungler: Olaf vs Spider.

Mid lane: Little Mage VS Victor.

Bottom lane: EZ+Karma VS Ember + Zyra!

The moment the lineup came out, the barrage in the LPL live broadcast room was already crazy!

[Roxtiger hasn't suffered a loss? Brother Hansheng's Jace dares to put it? 】

[Laughing to death, fans of the ÷ are so understanding of the game? Jace takes the head and hits Rambo? 】

[Hee-hee, wait for a ÷ fan to be slapped in the face. 】

[This lineup is obviously the advantage of the Tigers, and the top lineup is too mediocre, right? ] Really not prepared at all?? 】

The director once again gave close-ups of the players on both sides.

You can see that everyone at Roxtiger is smiling, as if they have succeeded in their treacherous scheme.

It seems that they feel that they have won this game!!

The coaches from both sides left a final message, and then came to the center of the stage to shake hands.

Nofe looked at the somewhat blinded white crescent with a smug expression.

Don't mention how happy you are!!

And after the departure of the coaches of both sides, accompanied by a simple cutscene!

Bursts of rapid signals suddenly sounded at the scene.

It's like a signal!

After telling everyone on the scene, this wonderful showdown has officially kicked off!

It's coming, it's coming.

No surprises, write the first game tomorrow.

(End of chapter)