May 15th.

The last day of the group stage.

Before the start of the game, Guan Zeyuan and Wang Duoduo sat in the commentary seat and analyzed the current group stage rankings.

Wang Duoduo did his homework, and he talked eloquently to the camera: "In fact, on this last day, the qualifying quota has been determined." ”

The hole in the first round of TL is too big, and the second round is not much better, and now they have won a lightning wolf, and now they are only 1-7, and they obviously have no possibility of qualifying.

EVS is slightly better than TL, with a current record of 2-6, and there is a theoretical possibility of qualifying, but the possibility is almost zero, just like the theoretical qualification of the national football team for the World Cup.

The QG position in first place is also quite solid, and at 8-0, they are three big points ahead of the second place, which can be called a far lead.

Seeing this, Guan Zeyuan said with a smile: "Then today's game is the second battle between KZ 5-3 and 4-4 Lightning Wolf and FNC." ”

"But overall, it's easier for FNC and KZ." Wang Duoduo continued: "Because KZ and Lightning Wolf have to fight against QG today, but FNC doesn't need it, his opponents today are TL and EVS, and it will be easier to get points." KZ, on the other hand, is because they have a higher score, they only need to win one point, and they are basically second in the group. ”

Senior Colonel Guan smiled and concluded: "That is to say, the second place in the group today is very likely to be produced between KZ and FNC!" ”

As soon as the audience heard this, they immediately became excited again.

Is there a chance that KZ will fall to third place in the group today? That's kind of interesting.

Isn't this a replica of S6?

The two commentators were chatting, and it didn't take long for the first game of the day to begin!

Today's first game was a rookie pecking between TL and EVS, the two qualifying teams.

Although TL has been eliminated, they also uphold the idea of not making other teams feel better, and directly give EVS a flat push in 25 minutes.

TL once again launched the death speech, completely shattering the possibility of EVS's theoretical qualification

Immediately afterwards, QG took the stage and welcomed their first opponent of the day - KZ.

While KZ only needed one win to finish second in the group, it was clear that that one win would not come to QG.

KZ didn't have any idea of fighting, the two sides were very regular and you played back and forth for 30 minutes, and finally QG won the game by relying on the hard power of the team battle.

At the same time that the score of QG came to 9-0, the score of KZ came to 5-4!

In the third game, FNC took the stage, also against EVS.

This time there was no suspense, FNC won the game, and the score also came to 5-4!

The scores of the two teams FNC and KZ are still quite close, and as for the victory or defeat, it will soon be born in the next game!

Fourth, the main event is coming.

KZ against the Lightning Wolves.

KZ wants to qualify second in the group, and this point of the Lightning Wolves is quite crucial!

Therefore, KZ put away his contempt this time and chose to fight seriously!

This time, they first selected the strongest version of AD Ezreal, and then locked the mid-laner sword sister against the rock sparrow, and the top-laner weapon against the green steel shadow.

This lineup is quite solid, and when Chen Dongqing saw the lineup, he thought that KZ was stable.

And that's exactly what happened.

BDD's knife sister bare mercury shoes and small wooden hammers, took advantage of the Nakano matchup, and came to a 2-0 record in ten minutes.

Next, the race is also going in the direction that KZ wants.

The time came to 35 minutes, and in one or two waves of sporadic small team battles, the head-to-head ratio of the two sides came to 4-2 at the same time, and KZ's economic advantage also came to 8,000!

At this time, on the LPL commentary seat, Guan Zeyuan looked at the situation, hugged his chest and said: "KZ's lineup is even more powerful in the later stage!" Now that we have such an advantage, I think we can already congratulate KZ in advance! ”

A mysterious force from the East crossed the ocean and came to Berlin, Germany.

That's when the unexpected came.

35 minutes, team battle in the middle.

The lightning wolf's green steel shadow flew into the field, and the ultimate was locked on top of Ezreal's head!

KZ is not panicking, Pray's EZ turns on the shield of the archangel and calmly fights back!

But at this moment, Luo of the snake snake seized a good opportunity and directly opened a big flash+E and flew to the side of his teammate Qinggang Shadow!

Luo, who was driving the ultimate, flashed in the middle of the road, and a black light flashed, and all the people on the road were already charmed!

Immediately afterwards, the snake snake shook two steps, and the EZ next to it was also charmed, and then a W directly lifted the four people!

At this moment, the eyes of everyone watching the game widened!

Maple's rock sparrow flashed forward, and a WE second company caught all four of them!

And Betty's Kasumi is also endless, [Storm Feather Blade] is connected to [Barb], countless feathers pierce through the bodies of KZ people, and cooperate with Rock Sparrow's second consecutive to play a terrifying team battle cooperation, directly playing a wave of fantastic one-for-four!

"it!" Backstage, when the incense pot saw this scene, he couldn't help but stand up, "It's over!" ”

In this late-stage team battle, the economic gap is virtual.

As long as you seize the opportunity, you can turn the tables at any time!

"Ah???h In the LPL live broadcast room, Guan Zeyuan's commentary voice was also full of disbelief: "It's really fake, is Dragon Ball going to be killed by the lightning wolf?" ”

At this time, even if the colonel makes another effort, it is useless.

After more than 30 minutes of one for four, KZ only survived one remnant blood top single weapon, obviously without the ability to defend the house, and the end of the game was a foregone conclusion!

Khan's side bought the tenacity mixture to fight against the water, relying on the combat power of the weapon master to defeat one against four, but unfortunately in the end it was only difficult to replace one.

The remaining three of the lightning wolves advanced in a wave and won the game!

At this moment, the audience was in an uproar!

The competition areas have also been turned upside down!

They never expected that KZ, who they had high hopes for, would suffer a second consecutive defeat on the last day of the group stage!

From 5-3 to 5-5, KZ's lead was lost, and it was the same score as FNC and Lightning Wolves!

"In that case, as long as FNC wins the next game against TL, then they can advance to the second place in the group!" Colonel Guan said loudly: "The opportunity is very big! ”

Soon, the fifth game began.

Euro and American rematch, FNC vs. TL.

This is the most crucial battle of the entire group stage of FNC, which directly determines their group standings!

In this game, FNC played quite well, accumulating an economic advantage of four thousand in twenty minutes.

But their advantage is limited to the upper half.

TL's core brother is still developing well, so there is still suspense in this game.

Twenty-five minutes later, the opportunity came.

FNC caught the TL auxiliary tam who made the eye in the upper river channel, and after hitting the number difference, he decisively opened the big dragon!

But TL is certainly not used to it, and decisively took over this wave of four-on-five team battles!

The policewoman of the big brother did not have the protection of Tam, but she survived to the end, and with the help of Dalong, TL miraculously played a wave of three for five and won the team battle!

At this time, Tam, who was killed at the beginning, also happened to pass a big move and joined the senior brother.

The elder brother and Tamu worked together, pulling back and forth, narrowly defeating the dragon and completely erasing the economic disadvantage!

With the power of the dragon, TL completely reversed the situation!

Next, the game was completely tilted in the direction of TL.

TL relied on the power of the big dragon to expand its advantages, and finally completed the turnaround and won the game.

Chen Dongqing looked at the picture in front of him in the background, and couldn't help but laugh.

TL Dead Words, launched again.

TL, who had already confirmed that they would not qualify, first ended EVS's hopes of qualifying with a victory, and then smashed FNC with another victory, shattering the team's dream of finishing second in the group.

-stirring sticks, nothing more than this

But then again.

FNC first lost to Vietnam, and then Da Long ruined his life.

Why is it so familiar?

You're not FNC! Who are you!

In this way, the effect of the show comes.

Although the qualifying situation has been determined.

However, the three teams of KZ, FNC and FW are now tied for second place with a score of five points.

Three teams are evenly scored, which is the first time since MSI started!

Chen Dongqing raised his eyebrows, turned around and asked, "What do you say about the situation that these three teams have the same score?" Is it going to be an extra game or is there something else to say? ”

If three teams are tied on points and there is a play-off, when will it have to be played?

The three teams played one round against each other, and three games passed.

What if three teams are tied on points? That can't be fought for a lifetime?

"I don't know. Riot didn't even think about this situation, did he? Linko laughed, "We'll see what Fist says." ”

"Why are you still talking?" Banbazi interjected on the side: "There is still one game to play, let's win the lightning wolf first, let's talk about it, don't wait for someone to send it to the second." ”

"Impossible!" Chen Dongqing waved his hand, "Do you think we are the Korean team?" ”

The anti-Korean Qixia only conquers Koreans, and when he meets QG, he will be filial, do you understand?

The 2018 Mid-Season Championship match, the final match of the group stage, was played between QG and Lightning Wolves.

Just double-killed KZ, the invincible lightning wolf, was bulldozed by QG in nineteen minutes.

At this point, the group stage stage is over, and the ranking is fixed.

At the top of the group are: 10-0, unbeaten QG.

In second place: 5-5. FW，KZ，FNC。

After winning the game, not long after Chen Dongqing returned to the backstage, a staff member came over, gathered all four teams together, and began to talk about the next game strategy.

Riot gave the teams two plans and let them choose together.

The first option is to make an extra match according to the usual situation.

But as I said before, if you play extra games, you may play for a long time, if you play too late, you may even have to save it for tomorrow, and for MSI's tight schedule, playing one more day will affect the state of the knockout round.

The second plan is for QG to choose any one of the second, third and fourth places as the opponent in the knockout round, and the remaining two teams will form their own teams.

"Yo, that's so good." Chen Dongqing smiled when he heard it, "You can choose whoever you want?" ”

"It doesn't make any sense." Banbazi spread his hands and said, "Even if you let you choose the second place, will you choose?" ”

Chen Dongqing smiled and didn't speak.

QG actually has no right to decide on this plan, they just come over to take a look, after all, it is not them who divide equally

On the other side, after listening to the interpreter's relay, the three teams had different expressions, and they discussed in a group for a while, and the results were quickly released.

Although the discussion was long, their idea was quite unanimous - no extra game.

This kind of long play-off is clearly not what the three teams want to see, and they would like a little more rest and study time.

Anyway, they are all qualified, who will rush to the rankings? Two, three, and four names actually don't make much difference.

After the answers were unified, Riot informed QG of the choice of the three teams, and the temporary format was completed!

(There was no such rule in 2018, I looked it up, and this rule seems to be newly added by S12MSI)

After the rules were decided, it took some time for Riot to inform the audience of this temporary rule, so it also gave QG a little time to decide.

"How do you say, who to choose?" After returning to the lounge, Banbazi first asked the team's opinion: "FNC and Lightning Wolf, the strength of the two teams is about the same, it depends on who you can beat well." ”

If there is a choice, then of course the South Korean team must be excluded, after all, this is the most difficult opponent, and it is logical to save it for the last fight.

But Chen Dongqing didn't think so.

"You say, how about stopping the Korean team in the semifinals?" Chen Dongqing asked.

As soon as these words came out, there was a brief silence in the surrounding lounges.

The first reaction of the crowd was no, because they didn't think it was necessary.

But. There doesn't seem to be any reason to refute it.

If the Korean team can play a 5-5 like the European bend, it means that they are like this.

South Korea's dominance is long over, and they haven't won a single title for three years.

It's just an ordinary team in an ordinary division, why can't they choose?

Uzi thought for a moment and said, "I think it's okay. ”

The incense pot also nodded, agreeing to this.

Xiaohu Xiaoming has no right to decide, but the big brothers in the team agreed, so of course they also agreed!

"Then you'll have to figure it out." Linko said solemnly: "If you fail, the backlash of not making it to the finals will be bigger than ever." ”

"No, it won't." Chen Dongqing waved his hand, "With me, there is no possibility of failure." ”

Banbazi laughed, "Then listen to you." ”

At this time, in the LPL live broadcast room, today's commentator Guan Zeyuan listened to the director through the headset and finished the details of this new competition system, and then conveyed this competition system to the audience.

As soon as these words came out, the audience in the live broadcast room immediately discussed.

Colonel Guan also had a heated discussion with the people around him on the question of which team to choose from QG.

"I think I can choose the lightning wolf!" Colonel Guan opened his mouth and said, "Although the lightning wolf has killed the Dragon Balls twice, judging from the result that they have just been pushed by QG for nineteen minutes, they are restrained by QG!" ”

"Then I think it's okay to choose FNC!" Beside him, Wang Duoduo said: "Because FNC's points are actually taken from weak teams, they just have a higher lower limit, but in fact, the upper limit is not as high as KZ and Lightning Wolf, I think QG is very restrained from this kind of team with a low ceiling!" ”

The two commentators said a word to me, and the discussion was quite lively.

Of course, they, too, like Banbazi, did not include KZ in the selection.

Chatting and chatting, Colonel Guan soon heard through the headset that the representatives of the four teams had appeared on the stage, and he immediately smiled: "How to choose, it still depends on Brother Shu's choice!" Let's give the footage to the scene! ”

The picture is everything, and the representatives of the four teams have already stood on the stage.

At this time, the bearded host of Europe shouted on the stage and summoned Chen Dongqing to the center of the stage.

At this time, the eyes of LOL players all over the world focused on Chen Dongqing.

His choice will directly determine the format of the semi-finals.

Behind him, FNC for Ou Cheng and FW for Maple, swallowed involuntarily.

In their opinion, whoever QG chooses will basically stop in the semi-finals.

If not, they may still have a chance to fight for the final

Only KZ's representative BDD was not too panicked, and his expression was quite calm.

In their opinion, it is impossible for QG to pick them anyway, it is too abstract.

In the midst of everyone's gaze, Chen Dongqing picked up the microphone and said his choice with a smile:

“KingZone”

At this moment, the whole world was shocked!

"Ah???h The colonels were stupid, "Do you choose Dragon Ball?" The choice was a bit of a "

On the stage, BDD's smile froze on the spot.

His first instinct was not to mishear.

Then the second reaction was unbelievable.

The third reaction is anger.

What do you mean?

Pick us in the semi-finals?

Are you so eager to knock us out?

You QG are so confident, can you win our KZ?

On the other side, Ou Cheng and Maple glanced at each other very tacitly, and they both clearly saw the joy on each other's faces!

They never expected that QG would take the initiative to choose Dragon Ball!

So they will automatically team up and become semi-finalists in the other half?

The host was also obviously sluggish at this time, but he quickly reacted and immediately shouted to the four teams to stand together according to the semi-final division.

Chen Dongqing smiled quite brightly and took the initiative to shake hands with BDD.

BDD looked at Chen Dongqing, his face was quite serious, but in the end he didn't speak.

Looking at the handshake in the China-South Korea competition area, the cheers from the audience were quite explosive, almost wave after wave.

In the live broadcast rooms of the events in various major regions around the world, all the viewers were also very excited.

FNC and FW drew together, and the players on both sides laughed, and the spectators on both sides laughed.

One wave directly avoided QG and the Korean team, which is simply a win-win!

In the LPL division, although it is inevitable that a small number of viewers will feel that QG is a little too crazy, more viewers still feel that QG is well chosen!

Will teams with the goal of winning all of them care who their semi-final opponents are?

It's all a sideways push anyway!

Only the audience in the LCK region had a gloomy face, as if they were mourning.

One of their hearts sank to the bottom.

QG's absolute dominance is obvious to all, and even the extremely proud South Korea has to admit that it is very bad news to meet QG in the semi-finals.

Since the emergence of the MSI competition, they have never won the championship in the LCK, and they have won three consecutive runners-up.

Could it be that this year, they won't even be able to win the runner-up?

After the selection ended, Chen Dongqing returned to the backstage with a smile and talked and laughed with his teammates.

"You didn't see BDD's expression." Xiangguo came over and said with a grin: "As soon as you read the name of the Dragon Ball, they were stupid and laughed at me." ”

"He's going to have to be stupid." Chen Dongqing said happily: "When he shook hands, he was in a hurry, and his eyes widened. ”

Everyone talked and laughed, packed up their things and left the venue.

Although the act of choosing KZ was a bit risky, the effect of the show after the selection made everyone quite happy, and they found the Chinese restaurant they had been to before and cooked a good meal.

Tomorrow, they will be on a plane to Paris, France.

Europe is too small, although it is said to be a cross-border flight, but in fact, the straight-line distance is more than 800 kilometers, almost in the blink of an eye.

If the distance had been long, France would not have hoisted the little white flag in just 42 days.

On May 16, Chen Dongqing landed at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport with a backpack on his back.

On the way to the hotel, Chen Dongqing didn't forget to take out his mobile phone to surf.

In this kind of foreign war, in fact, he rarely sees the bar, and usually only glances at it after winning the game.

He still watches Twitter more.

After all, Twitter users are mixed, there are all kinds of countries, and there are often crowds in different regions, which is even more exciting!

Since QG chose KZ yesterday, the discussion about this choice on Twitter has not stopped, and many people have been talking about it.

Users in Europe and Crook are of course quite appreciative of this choice.

After Riot sent out the semi-final matchup information, the official tweets of the two clubs, Lightning Wolf and FNC, even went to this Twitter underground Aite Chen Dongqing, and posted a "Thanks" and "Thank You" respectively.

Chen Dongqing was not polite, leaving a "Not at all" and "No thanks" respectively.

This wave belongs to brushing up goodwill in these two regions, whether Europe and Bend finally enter the finals or not, they will keep Chen Dongqing's kindness in mind

Of course, the premise of all this is that QG cannot lose in the semi-finals.

If you take the initiative to choose KZ, but you still lose, then you will be laughable and generous, and you may become the biggest clown in the history of esports.

It's almost the same as last year's Star Finals, when Koreans lost the championship in seven fights.

However, the QG players did not feel too much pressure on this.

Without him, self-confidence.

Stress and self-confidence are inversely proportional.

QG people all know exactly how strong they really are, no matter how much pressure from the outside world is, as long as they are confident that they can win, the pressure will not fall on them.

The only thing that is a little pressured is Xiaohu, who has always been regarded as a shortcoming of QG by the outside world.

As soon as he settled down at the hotel, he immediately went into the lounge and began to study the footage of KZ's fight.

Chen Dongqing looked at Xiaohu's struggle, squinted slightly, thoughtful.

Xiaohu is actually a bit like the factory manager, a standard research player.

Their research on their opponents can even be refined down to the habits of inserting eyes, moving habits, and even the operation habits of a single hero.

As long as he researches enough, he can live two tricks in anyone.

What these players have in common is that when they compete in the region, they control the thunder and lightning and are invincible.

When they are in MSI, their ability will not lag behind, because MSI has six teams, and only the Korean team can be called a strong team, they only need to study and understand the Korean team, and they will leave it to their teammates to play other weak teams, and there will be no major problems.

But once they arrive at the World Championship, where there are many masters and the opponents are all unfamiliar, they will instantly pull their big hips and become the team's biggest shortcoming.

The reason is obvious, that is, the study of the opponent is insufficient, which is equivalent to jumping out of the comfort zone and coming to the field that is not good at.

In this case, they would even lose to Brazil.

In the previous life, S8's little tiger did not fall behind in the face of Rookie, and even often played an advantage, but in the face of Ah P, he was stepped on his head in a row and was beaten by three consecutive MVPs.

This is a manifestation of the lack of research.

So in the case of KZ directly selected in the semifinals, this is actually not good news for Xiaohu.

Because the time available for him to study is shortened.

Of course, it wasn't much shorter, as their semi-finals and finals were only one day apart.

Chen Dongqing thought for a while, leaned over and asked, "What do you say, how is the research?" ”

"It's okay!" Xiaohu paused the replay, turned his head and asked: "I've been studying KZ for a long time, and I've been studying it for a long time, and now it's the last review, playing LCK mid-laner, I'm still a little bottomless." ”

"Yes." Chen Dongqing smiled: "Discuss some tactics with you." ”

When Xiaohu heard this, his eyes immediately widened, and then he asked, "Yes, what tactics?" ”

Chen Dongqing smiled: "You should be able to play the top order, right?" You pick a Victor to mix on the road, and I'll go to the middle lane to crush the BDD, what do you say? ”

That's the ultimate solution to the lack of time for research – no research.

If you can't solve the problem, then solve the person who raised the problem.

Just pick a Victor and hand the ball to Big Brother.

"Isn't this?" Xiaohu asked a little uneasily.

"What's so bad about that? You forgot about my group stage Karma, right? I'm fine with wandering. Chen Dongqing said with a relaxed face: "And besides, whether it's good or not, let's try the training match?" ”

Chen Dongqing thought about it, he found that his words might affect Xiaohu's mentality, and he said: "Don't worry, the middle single is still you, I don't believe you, but use this as a hole card, you know?" ”

Xiaohu didn't feel any distrust from Chen Dongqing's words, but felt very normal.

Brother Shu's mid-laner is better than me, isn't this a normal thing?

He thought about it, simply nodded, and said, "Well, okay, try!" ”

It was lunchtime, and the QG group went to have a French meal before gathering in the training room for the final training session before the semi-finals.

During the training match, Chen Dongqing told the coach about his idea of playing the middle laner, and Banbazi just nodded calmly after listening to it, but his face did not fluctuate much: "Okay, try it." ”

They QG have more bells and whistles, and this is where to go.

This time, their opponent in the training match was G2.

G2's mid-lane Caps performed quite well, and there was even a vague tendency to become the No. 1 midlaner in this MSI, and it was the best choice to test Chen Dongqing's mid-laner strength.

But the results were quite encouraging.

Although Chen Dongqing is a top laner, his hero pool is never limited to the heroes on the road.

After shaking to the middle lane, he is still a sea of heroes, and his dominance on the line has not weakened in the slightest, and he is still full!

Poor little hat, who was beaten by Chen Dongqing in today's training match, was dizzy and almost began to doubt himself.

When everyone in QG saw this effect, they all nodded with satisfaction.

Seems to be really good!

Of course, the little tiger that is shaken to the top of the road is not so comfortable, and he can only resist pressure when he fights, which is the unstable factor of this set of tactics and cannot be used for a long time.

But when used as a hole card, it's perfectly fine!

Banbazi was quite happy with the hole card because it gave him a lot of room to manoeuvre.

In general, the Hero Swing in BP can only be used on the red side.

After all, if you are on the blue side, you need to be the first to determine the lineup, and the opposite side can wait for your swing hero to be determined, and then give the last target.

But with this double swing of heroes + players, it's different.

This is a BP tactic that can be used on the blue side!

Thinking of this, everyone in QG happily brought a trace of anticipation to this.

With this set of tactics, it is basically possible to ensure that the blue side can eat KZ in a stable game, right?

Watching the game, it's a little tight today.

But it's okay, it's worth it!

BLG is a pure foreign war phantom god, right? Directly abused Samsung, do you dare to believe it?

(End of chapter)