In the last two games of the group stage, there is actually nothing to say.

QG and their two opponents today have basically decided on the rankings, and there will not be much change, so there is also a little less gunpowder between the matches.

In the morning, QG will have a civil battle against IG in a Chinese team.

IG is not a direct invitation team, but a qualifier route to advance.

But anyway, if you're not a direct invite, your chances of winning the championship are slim

After all, the points are the ones you have participated in in various competitions in the past year to get ranked.

The top eight teams, that is, the teams with the best overall performance in various competitions in the past year, can only be directly invited.

If you can't even make it to the top eight points, it means that your strength is limited.

The team that advances through the qualifiers is actually similar to the team that advances in the wild card play-in tournament on the LOL side, which is a bit of a fill.

The current eighth place in the IG group is proof of this, and they almost didn't even qualify.

As for the afternoon, QG's opponent is TNC, a team also from Southeast Asia, ranked slightly higher than IG, ranked seventh from the bottom of the group, and is also scheduled in the lower bracket.

Playing seventh and eighth, of course, the QG crowd was not stressed, everyone sat in the lounge, and even began to study what to eat at night.

At this time, Ame sat beside Chen Dongqing, staring blankly at the ground, thinking a lot in his heart.

Chen Dongqing was flipping through his phone at this time, saw something interesting, and was about to share it with Ame next to him, but he saw Ame's stunned eyes.

Chen Dongqing pondered slightly for two seconds.

When he just brushed the bar, he did see content related to Ame.

Many people are feeling sorry for Ame.

In any case, Ame can still be called the current No. 1 C in China, after all, Ame has already proved his strength with various competitions in the past six months.

Although Ame has the stain of losing the championship in the reverse wave, you have to say that before the reverse wave, it was his water man's anti-aircraft water cannon 1V4 alone to help the team turn the VP and help the team reach the finals.

As the first C, he abdicated and took the initiative to substitute.

Chen Dongqing has indeed proved his strength through this series of group stages, but letting Ame sit on the bench will still make many players feel pity.

Chen Dongqing thought for a while, smiled and asked the person next to him, "What do you say, do you want to go up and play two?" ”

Ame didn't react for a moment when he heard this, he paused for a moment before saying, "Huh? I'm going up to play? ”

"yes." Chen Dongqing patted Ame's shoulder, "You won't be cowardly, will you?" These two teams should be abusive at will. ”

Ame looked at her teammates again.

Xiaoba also smiled and said: "Indeed, you can't always sit on the bench, it's okay to let you go up and play." ”

As for the other four teammates of QG, that is needless to say.

Although it is more enjoyable to have Chen Dongqing with a higher winning rate and lie down to win, Ame is also their old teammate after all, and they have a deeper relationship, so of course they won't mind letting Ame come up and play.

"Then come!" Ame stopped being cowardly now, and said with a smile: "I'll go up, I'll get on!" ”

With that, Ame pulled out her backpack and began to organize her peripherals.

Chen Dongqing, on the other hand, slowly stuffed his peripherals back into his backpack and lay back on the chair.

Now he is idle.

Today's opponent is really not strong, and there is no training effect at all when it fights, and there may be side effects if you fight too much.

Anyway, he's out of the mountain now, and it's always good to rest for a while.

Soon, Chen Dongqing sat in the lounge and watched Ame, who had been absent from the arena for a long time, re-enter the stage.

Unexpectedly, the audience in the audience actually gave him a warm voice.

Ame's style of play can be regarded as the type that dares to fight, and it is still quite fan-attracting.

Ame was a little surprised by the audience's call, he waved his hand embarrassedly and sat down in his place.

Different people have different understandings of QG's substitution.

Normal viewers think that this is just an ordinary rotation, and there is nothing wrong with changing the original players to play without the pressure of qualifying.

But in the eyes of those who care, there are different interpretations.

Watching Ame walk on the stage, everyone in OG squinted their eyes and added crazy drama in their hearts.

Ceb asked Ana, who was beside him, "What do you think?" ”

"It's nothing." Ana said honestly, "It's just a normal substitution."

"Nope! Definitely not! On the side, N0tail said solemnly: "There is a lot of information revealed behind this substitution!" ”

Ana scratched her head and said, "Huh? What's the information? ”

N0tail said: "Obviously, they themselves know that after ilex comes into play, their early ability is too weak, and this is not a problem that can be solved in a short time, and what this version needs most is early ability!" So they had to replace the previous No. 1 Ame and try the effect. ”

"If nothing else, they will definitely take the initiative to choose the core of the early attack, which will be used to test Ame's early offensive ability, and observe the difference between it and ilex."

Ana was slightly confused.

But Ame's early ability is not good, right? He, like ilex, is a late-stage Carry

But before he could speak, in the picture, QG took the initiative to choose the gameplay of the airplane elf, as if confirming N0tail's idea.

Ana was speechless for a moment.

Seeing this, the corners of N0tail's mouth hooked slightly, "I don't know why, I'm getting more and more confident." ”

As for the result of this game in the picture, of course, it was not a wave.

The hard power of QG and Ame is here, and it can only be said that as long as you don't make a serious illness, it will be difficult to lose.

Therefore, Ame took the initiative to choose the combination of airplane elves, just to speed up the tempo, try to win more beautifully, and win a good prize for his TI8 debut.

The result was not unexpected, Ame faced his own team, and highlighted a cruelty, a pair of lane kills to finish quickly, a small advantage into the jungle, a big advantage out of the jungle, and then quickly ended the game.

In the two games, QG easily won the game, rising their points to 13 points, further consolidating the first place in the group.

On the other side, IG is a little miserable, seven games have passed, they have played four draws and three losses, and they have a small score of four points over the CIS team Winstrike, ranking second to last in the group, and they are stuck on the brink of elimination.

In the afternoon, QG faced off against their final opponent in the group stage, TNC.

QG everyone was not polite at all, and the two crushing games were easily sent away, and finally ended this group stage!

At the end of the group stage, the rankings of the 18 teams were also determined.

Winstrike, the penultimate winner in Group A, and paiN Gaming, the penultimate player in Group B, were eliminated, and the rest all advanced to the knockout round.

In other words, all six Chinese teams that came to TI qualified!

Among them, QG and Newbee advanced to the upper bracket, while VGJT, IG, VG, and TS fell into the lower bracket.

Compared with last year's grand occasion of the four winners and one loser, it can only be said that the overall strength of CNDOTA this year has declined slightly.

Of course, what is reassuring is that although the overall strength may decline, the head strength is absolutely rising!

The head QG team, with a record of 7 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses, ranked first in Group A, and has now become one of the favorites to win the championship!

At the end of the group stage, the opponent of the first round of the QG knockout round was also determined.

According to the rules, the first place in Group A will face the fourth place in Group B, TL.

TL came to TI8 as the defending champion and was the original team that won last year's championship, so the strength can be called strong!

Last year, it was they who wore three Chinese teams and lifted the TI7 championship shield, which made countless Chinese players call it a nightmare!

However, in this year's group stage, they were not ideal, due to factors such as form and tempo, they did not play well in several games, and were all defeated by strong teams, resulting in them only falling to the fourth place in the group, and narrowly advanced to the upper bracket.

TL couldn't accept this, and they swore that they were determined to get back to form and make the cut!

Unaware of TL's ambitions, QG returned to the backstage lounge and got into training after the game.

There is a day off between the group stage and the knockout stage, and the time is tight, so they have to hurry up and practice!

In particular, the team's offensive linkage is still a little jerky, which still needs to be practiced more

Well? Something is wrong!

In today's training match, Chen Dongqing took charge of the aircraft elf, the rhythm was silky smooth, and he played a huge advantage in the early stage of three consecutive games!

Especially the choice of the ultimate point, he would often even suddenly shout that Xnova flew to a pitch-black point on the map, but every time he flew over, he could really catch someone!

waited for the third time on the opposite side to knock out the GG, and Xiaoba finally couldn't stand it anymore, and came over and asked, "Brother Shu, what's the situation?" ”

"Huh?" Chen Dongqing took off his headphones and said, "What's the situation?" ”

Hachi asked again: "Why did you suddenly become so fierce today?" ”

At this point, Xnova also turned his head, he was also curious about the question.

As Chen Dongqing's assistant, his changes today are too intuitive!

Chen Dongqing's plane today is almost not alone from the previous two days!

"Hey, what a fuss!" Chen Dongqing grinned and said, "I've practiced, do you still need to ask?" ”

"Huh?" Hachi was dumbfounded, "How did you practice?" You weren't so interested last night, you didn't play today, and suddenly you practiced? ”

Chen Dongqing didn't know how to explain for a while, so he simply said: "Oh, I'm watching Ame jerk off in the back today, and I'll see it when I look at it." ”

"Ah???h Hachi was even more dumbfounded, and his loud voice was full of puzzlement.

It's not just Hachi who is stupid, but the other members of QG are also stupid.

Ame is especially stupid.

Watch me jerk off?

The point is that I don't play so well myself!?

After thinking about it, everyone could only blame it on Chen Dongqing's talent.

Brother Shu, it's normal.

Or how else can he say that he is an esports genius.

Thinking of this, everyone in QG smiled from the bottom of their hearts.

In the past few days, there are two questions that have been lingering in their QG's minds, and they are about to become their heart disease.

One is the offensive problem of choosing the core of the fight, and the other is the defensive problem of the developing core.

But now, half of it has been solved so easily! It made them so excited!

The offensive problem is solved, then everything is easy to say!

The defensive problem, which would have only arisen against VP, was not critical, and they still had time to solve it!

Of course, what they don't know is that the defense is a problem. Chen Dongqing also solved it.

The day's training match is fleeting, and the time will soon come to August 6th, and the double elimination tournament will officially begin!

The rules of the knockout round are: the first round of the lower bracket is BO1, the finals are BO5, and the other matches are all BO3

Because of the fast schedule of BO1, the first round of the lower bracket and the first round of the upper bracket will be completed on the same day!

Chen Dongqing still came to the scene early in the morning and watched the lower bracket showdown in the morning.

There are eight teams in the lower bracket, and there are four Chinese teams, which is to some extent an alternative CNDOTAvs world.

The rules of the lower bracket are similar, the fifth in the group is eighth, the sixth is seventh, and the general logic is that the top team in the top ranking plays the bottom of the other group, giving some convenience to the top team.

With such rules, there will inevitably be civil wars.

For example, IG, which qualified eighth in Group A, faced VG, which was fifth in Group B, and went directly to the first game of the knockout round, and BO1 directly decided life and death.

The first round of the lower bracket is still a bit exciting, after all, the variables of BO1 are too great, and a small mistake by the strong team may lose the game.

In the first game, IG was obviously out of shape, and both sides were killed by the opposite lane after only six minutes of the game.

Although Dota 2 is a game that is acceptable to die once or twice on the line. But sending one or two line kills for no reason is really not good.

After getting the advantage, VG is not in a hurry, continue to linkage, play steadily, gradually expand the small advantage of the line, and then turn it into a bigger advantage through linkage, and finally snowball and end the game in a wave!

VG completes the promotion! IG, on the other hand, became the first Chinese team to be eliminated in this TI.

Six teams, one of which has gone.

Countless Chinese viewers were apprehensive and looked to the next three matches.

You can't afford to lose again!

Immediately after that, the lower bracket match continued.

The three teams behind also took the stage one after another, completing their life-and-death duel one after another, among them, the Chinese team TS and VGJT were among them.

Fortunately, these two teams are quite good,

In their respective matches, they all fought for 40 minutes, and the game went back and forth, and the thrills continued, but in the end, they each defeated their opponents and completed the promotion!

In the audience, countless audiences sighed one after another.

It's okay, then this first round will only eliminate one, which is completely acceptable.

After the lower bracket match, there is no break, followed by the upper bracket match.

The first game of the upper bracket is the first match of Group A against the fourth place of Group B, which is the match between QG and TL.

At this time, Chen Dongqing was still in the background, discussing with Ame.

"What's the matter, are you going to go today?"

Chen Dongqing actually didn't want to go on today, after all, he had been training day and night today, and it was rare to hold back his big lump, and he really didn't want to pull it out on TL's head.

He's going to pull it on VP's head!

According to the rules, after they advance in this round, they will face the winner of the VP group, and the probability of playing VP is extremely high.

But this time, Ame said that she wouldn't be on anything.

"It's okay if I am in the group stage, what am I going to do in the knockout round?" Ame shook her head frantically, "Forget it, it's better for you to go!" ”

Chen Dongqing shook his head helplessly and said, "Then you can think about it, this first round is over, and if you think about it later, there may not be a chance." ”

Ame hesitated for a second, and finally said, "It's better for you to go, you really can't be careless in the knockout round." ”

"Okay." Chen Dongqing turned around and took out his peripherals from his bag.

It seems that I still have to find a way to hold back my own lump.

Today, let's put on a little bit of a show.

The upper bracket match was launched, and under the chanting of the live host, the two sides of the first round of the upper bracket took the stage respectively!

"First of all let's welcome! QG！ The host shouted at the scene, and the big screen at the scene also began to play a short video of QG's players.

In this short video, the names, ages, positions, and nationalities of the five QG players will be clearly displayed!

During the broadcast of the short film, the QG contestants also quickly took the stage.

Chen Dongqing, as the No. 1 position, was still the first in the team, feeling the surging cheers from the audience.

I have to say that this call is indeed much louder than a few days ago

Chen Dongqing's excellent performance in the past few days has been recognized by many audiences.

Immediately afterwards, the host continued to shout: "Let's continue to welcome!" Team Liquid！ ”

At this moment, the cheers off the field directly rose several notches, drowning the entire venue!

TL is a North American team, of course, the Canadian audience is more familiar, and they are also the defending champions, which naturally makes them more supportive!

“T！ L！ ”

“T！ L！ ”

Countless Canadian spectators in the stadium waved their support sticks and kept shouting TL's team name, which was quite imposing!

Chen Dongqing looked at the situation off the field and couldn't help but feel a little helpless.

Although their support has increased a lot recently, they still can't compare with a semi-home team like TL.

If you look at the support of the audience as a progress bar, they are now at most 40% complete.

Chen Dongqing pursed his lips and sat back in his place.

That's 60% left, and you still need to take it slowly.

Soon, the game begins!

Before the game, Chen Dongqing and the team discussed that the early offensive gameplay should still be hidden as a hole card as much as possible, and against TL, they still try to win with their old routine.

So in the first game, Chen Dongqing chose to take out a hand of Void Mask when Swin and TB were banned, and then went out of the mountain with a three-piece suit.

On the other hand, TL everyone is also clear about QG's set, so their thinking is also quite clear, and they chose to take out the three or four combinations of pat bear + corpse king, and forcibly raised the strength of the inferior road.

Countless viewers couldn't help but feel a little big when they looked at TL's three or four combinations.

Pat Bear is actually generally used for fighting, and there is no problem with placing it in the third position.

To put it simply, this hero has a dash skill that slows down enemies, a skill that increases attack speed, a passive that increases basic attack damage, and a status ultimate that increases damage reduction and toughness.

In a word, it is invincible in melee combat.

As for the Corpse King, it's even more Laipi, he has a ranged skill that can directly draw 4 points of power from the enemy.

Strength is especially important in Dota 2, as it represents the maximum amount of health.

Being drained of four points of strength is equivalent to a decrease of 80 in the upper limit of HP, and it will take a long time to recover.

The Void, a weak line hero, against these two melee overlords, can only be said to be as miserable as the lane!

Obviously, although TL is not in the same group as QG, they are also fully prepared to fight QG!

Seeing this, many people couldn't help but worry about QG.

How should this pair of lines be played?

Soon, as the little soldier went online, countless viewers squinted for a few seconds, and soon realized that something was wrong.

Something is wrong.

How do you feel a little less stressed?

In the early stage, Chen Dongqing's micro-manipulation was simply full, relying on the back and forth pulling and body control, so that he almost didn't pay any price, and easily made up for several difficult knives.

Even made up for the opposite two!

In the game of Dota 2, the ability to match the lane is basically reflected in the mending knife, as long as you mend the knife hard enough, you don't even need to kill the opposite side, you only need to make up a few soldiers on the opposite side, you can easily open up hundreds of economies and most of the experience.

Although Chen Dongqing lost half a tube of blood because of the mending knife, it was not a big problem, and the lost blood volume could be made up with a bottle of red medicine, which was not a loss at all!

Even fighting, but TL's three or four were a little overwhelmed by xNova's silence, and began to retreat and eat trees to replenish blood.

Seeing this, many viewers couldn't help but sigh.

Ilex's laning ability is also too top!

TI has played until now, almost only to see that he has suffered losses in the hands of VP, and TL is almost meaningless!

At this point, the audience has been relieved.

In Dota 2, the player's individual strength is higher than the hero's strength.

Void plus silence, patting the bear and the corpse king, if you can play this kind of small excellent situation, it is actually already a win.

The third position pats and adds the corpse king, and the later stage can basically be understood as a wooden stake.

Wait for the void to make a crazy face or an electric hammer, drill into the wild area, brush him a three-piece suit and then come out, and kill people directly in front of these two people, they don't dare to say a word.

But though. The audience still underestimated the madness of QG.

In five minutes, Chen Dongqing took two steps back, taking medicine to replenish his blood, and waiting for the debuff state on his body to disappear.

One is the Debuff of the Corpse King's drained power, and when the time passes, the drained power will recover on its own.

One is the passive of patting the bear.

The basic attack of patting the bear will create wounds on the enemy, increasing the damage of the next basic attack, the more wounds of A, the more wound layers, the higher the damage of flat A, infinitely superimposed!

This superposition method allows the theoretical output damage of Pat Bear to be infinite, as long as there is enough output environment, he can scratch the flesh to death.

He can even match a hero with increased attack speed, and he will scratch Roshan at the first level!

This debuff is the most terrifying, and Chen Dongqing must wait for it to dissipate before he can match the lane.

After all the debuffs on his body disappeared, Chen Dongqing finally recovered his full blood, and he stepped forward again and entered the lane state.

On the other side, at this time, the two melee fighters on the opposite side also returned to seven, seven, eight, eight, and eight, and they saw that the void returned, and the corpse king went up and drew again, and four points of power were sucked over.

Chen Dongqing didn't care, continued to step forward, and exchanged a basic attack with Pat Bear.

The layers of wounds on his body had dissipated, so patting the bear's paw didn't hurt much.

Instead, a hammer of the void hammered past, summoning a clone from another timeline.

In the case of two levels and three skills, Void Mask has a 16% chance to summon a double messenger and then A the enemy, adding 20 damage and stunning the enemy for 0.65 seconds.

And this stand-in messenger can continue to summon stand-in matryoshka dolls.

So. The stand-in's basic attack triggered the 16% probability again, and another stand-in was summoned, and A patted the bear.

This basic attack of the void hits the total damage of the basic attack *3+40, and hits a stun effect of 0.65*2, knocking down the blood volume of the pat bear visibly to the naked eye!

Chen Dongqing raised his eyebrows.

Double trigger? Luck!

Chen Dongqing thought about it, took advantage of the interval between basic attacks, moved a step forward, and then attacked towards the Bear Hammer!

Luckily, the passive was triggered again.

Two more basic attacks hit the pat bear in an instant, and controlled it again for 0.65 seconds!

At this point, Pat Bear's HP has dropped below half!

What kind of luck is this hook eight?

Chen Dongqing was shocked, and he immediately said, "him!" ”

As he was speaking, Chen Dongqing immediately pressed the second skill [Time Dilation] to summon a time field to slow down the pat bear.

Later, xNova immediately understood, and silence gave all the damage skills.

The silent hero has no control in the early stage, only a relatively good consumption ability, so in this wave, he can only deal all his damage.

But that's enough, the silence has passed, and the amount of blood in the pat bear is still declining, and it has rapidly fallen to a third.

The person who was hit by the two hammers of the Void Mask in the third position of TL was numb, and he quickly rolled backwards, wanting to go back to the stage to take medicine under the protection of his teammates.

But at this moment, Chen Dongqing also followed with a [Time Roaming] displacement, and by the way, he also recovered the amount of blood he had just lost, and then hit the pat bear with another hammer.

This time luck seems to have run out, this time it was just a normal attack.

Chen Dongqing didn't panic, chasing and patting the bear was another hammer!

Still doesn't work.

There were still more than a hundred points left in the pat bear's blood, and he had already run back to the bottom of the tower at this time.

Chen Dongqing raised his eyebrows, and then again.

This time it finally came to life.

It's another stand-in attack, and it hits two basic attack damage with one hammer, directly emptying the Pat Bear's HP and sending it away!

"Huh? What's the situation!? TL No. 3 MindControl couldn't hold back at all, and stood up directly, raised his arms, and expressed his doubts straightforwardly.

Standing up in the middle of a game to vent your emotions has always been one of the cultures of Dota 2.

The most famous is the roaring Tianzun, who once stood up and shouted loudly to the opposite side after killing one of the three in one fight and surviving: "Three fights and one is counter-killed, will you play."

But in the past, everyone generally talked about it after taking advantage or completing a wave of handsome operations.

It's actually rare to get up after being killed alone like today.

Of course, he can't be blamed for this wave.

Chen Dongqing's wave of five-shot flat A triggered 4 passives, which was similar to the half-pipe anger of the first-level barbarian king, chasing you and slashing you five times, and making four critical strikes, hacking you to death. You are also in a hurry to change you.

Chen Dongqing also saw the angry opponent at this time, he also stood up, first pointed to his right hand, and then made a gesture of a bear spreading his hands, indicating that he had no choice.

Offstage, the audience also erupted in laughter at this moment, and many people called Chen Dongqing really the son of destiny.

In fact, Chen Dongqing was also very helpless.

He said that if you want to hide the ultimate, you must hide the offensive system to the end.

But as a result, he didn't expect these few passive knocks.

This wave is not amazing! This wave was purely on his luck! I hope the other teams don't think too much about it!

Of course, other teams are unlikely to think much about it.

Backstage, OG and VP watched Chen Dongqing's crazy performance, and they were laughed at for a while.

Fourth-level void, five hammers and four passives, right? Who can beat you?

can only say that it is fortunate that the opponent of this is not them, otherwise they would have to hurry.

Lost for no reason, who can withstand this?

That's right.

At this time, both teams knew that if the void of ilex had such a huge advantage in the laning period, then QG had already won the game.

Next, the result of the game was not expected.

After Chen Dongqing ended the laning period with a large advantage, he was not in a hurry to expand his advantage, but chose to let xNova wander and pass the advantage to his teammates, while he hung the line alone, and the line field was double-harvested and developed rapidly.

When the Void Kamen three-piece set comes out of the mountain, Chen Dongqing has two waves of big moves, and he can easily win the game!

1 to 0!

In the second game, Chen Dongqing had no luck this time, but this time his teammates stepped up again.

Fy and xNova work closely together to help Maybe's Bloodfiend in the mid lane liberate first.

The rhythm of the hero of the blood demon is unbearable after he gets up, this is a hero who kills in three ways.

After the liberation, May directly took over the game, and this time there was no need for Chen Dongqing to go out of the mountain, and May directly led the team to destroy TL's defense line!

In the end, after Chen Dongqing came out of the first wave of the mountain, destroyed TL and controlled the Roshan shield, TL's hope of winning was completely wiped out.

But because the game was BO3, the TL crowd, who had already lost one, was already standing on the edge of the cliff at the moment, so they did not surrender, but fought to the last moment.

In the end, after Chen Dongqing completed the team annihilation, he smashed the TL base with one knife, 2-0, and advanced to the top four of the winner's group!

The defending champion TL has fallen into the second round of the lower bracket and is ready for a battle of life and death!

Backstage, the members of the OG and VP teams watched the game and didn't know what to say for a while.

To be honest, they saw two things in this game.

ilex's luck is good, and Maybe's bloodfiend is strong.

And then it was gone.

There is no reference value at all.

Maybe it's a little bit of value on a metaphysical level.

This time Ilex ran out of luck, so if you beat us next time, then your luck won't work, right?

VP everyone shook their heads helplessly, ready to play.

They are third in Group A against Newbee, who is second in Group B, which is also a Chinese team.

The winner between these two teams will be QG's opponents in the upper bracket semi-finals.

Countless Chinese audiences are frightened and at the same time looking forward to it.

They will also hope that Newbee can do the same as QG to overcome their opponents and complete the upper bracket semi-finals.

But alas, this time they were doomed to disappointment.

VP was very energetic this time, they played three games with Newbee, and in the end, they still won 2-1 against Newbee and also advanced to the semi-finals of the upper bracket.

At this point, the first group of the semifinals of the upper bracket was officially born.

QG vs. VP!

This chapter has been sped up a lot.,TI is a side line after all.,It won't take too long to write (end of this chapter)