Chapter 182: Knockout Round! The Battle Begins!
Chapter 182: Knockout Round! The Battle Begins! (First Update)
[Isn't it too good of a draw for Leng Shao? Not only does it avoid a civil war, but GT will be directly promoted to the finals! ]
[RNG is in such a hot state right now, they can easily take down the Bunny and then the Dragon Ball! This year, the two teams will meet at the Bird's Nest! Who says this is a bad draw? This is great! ]
[Fuck, I thought it was a bit exaggerated when the first post said they would be promoted to the finals, and you said they were already in the finals at the Bird's Nest? You must be dreaming, right?]
[RNG can easily beat Samsung, there is no reason why GT can't beat them. Similarly, SKT was beaten by GT and was just a little bit away from being eliminated. They only had one dragon ball to beat them. Tell me why you think RNG can't beat them. ]
[What's wrong? Xiu Shen said in a previous interview that people who believe in miracles are miracles themselves. We believe in miracles! Let's meet at the Bird's Nest!]
There are many discussions about this lottery in various forums.
After all, there will be seven days of missing games, so there is nothing to discuss except the draw. At most, we can mention that EDG is returning to Shanghai today, and there are still many fans who went to the airport to meet them, which makes everyone confused...
After all, even after being beaten like this, he still has fans. They are definitely true fans!
Someone even took a photo of the factory manager coming down from the airport, with a girl holding a cheering sign and shouting along with him.
"Mingkai, don't retire. We will continue to support you next year!"
The heart-wrenching tone also made people feel a lot of emotion.
It seems like... every star player has a large number of crazy fans, right? Even if the game is ugly, this group of people is tolerant.
Because of this environment, the condition of these players is getting worse and worse. Since they can fuck fans and have money, why bother working so hard?
Just play a few playoffs and go through the motions in the global finals.
The more I watch, the more I feel that EDG is like this.
But then again, the factory manager doesn't seem to have any obvious black material, at most he has a Midsummer Night's Dream of being deceived.
After this incident, the factory manager smiled less often.
I never heard about him finding a girlfriend again after that.
And they also pay attention to the private lives of the players on the team.
A while ago, there was a woman named Shao Rou who set her sights on Tian Ye. After learning more about the meat, she found out that it was not good meat, so she decisively intervened and made Tian Ye realize his mistake...
If it weren’t for the poor results in the global finals, this incident would have become a good story.
The factory manager did not want to snatch other people's umbrellas just because he was caught in the rain.
Perhaps the only thing that cannot be excused is leaving WE, but then again, the WE factory manager was only the fourth-ranked figure in the team at that time. Plus, it was normal for Ruofeng to go sell meat floss buns and not want to stay in the club. Abu also guessed Mingkai's thoughts, contacted him privately, and reached an agreement easily. As for the others, he still cared about his younger brothers.
Although there were seven days of preparation time, it still took another day to get to Guangzhou. GT only rested for one night and prepared to go to Guangzhou early the next morning.
"Everyone, be careful and check if you have left anything. We will go directly to Guangzhou later." He Bin was also giving final instructions. If important things were left in the Wuhan Hotel, it would be very troublesome and would trouble this person and that person.
Seeing everyone nodding, I knew that everyone knew what was going on.
"It's a pity that we only spent one or two days in Wuhan, and there are still many places we haven't visited," Wushuang said.
"Don't forget how much rhythm we had last time we went out to play? Although we are not afraid of the rhythm, we have already come to this stage. It's better to have less trouble than more. Let's go directly to Guangzhou for training and thoroughly understand the version. After the World Finals, you can go wherever you want during the holidays." He Bin said this and thought of what his boss had said to him.
"You'll probably go to Macau to have some fun, right? Anyway, you know the rewards, the boss is not a stingy person."
"Yes, starting from the quarterfinals, the boss will follow us." Li Jiongjun also said.
"Our draw was actually pretty good this time. The pressure of advancing to the World Finals from the lower half shouldn't be that great. It's pretty much what everyone discussed. It's a good draw... I feel like luck is on our side."
However, I was afraid that the contestants would think that they had a better draw and become careless, so I still poured a bucket of cold water on them.
"But even though we were lucky in the draw, we can't be careless. When EDG was assigned to Group D, everyone thought they had already won before the game started. But what happened? They were eliminated miserably."
"Since there is this example, I feel that if EDG may fail, then we may also fail. These are all bloody lessons." Li Jiongjun said.
The others nodded after hearing this.
We discussed this many times that evening.
The main thing is that it is indeed beyond everyone's imagination.
"Actually... I've told you all before that although RNG beat Samsung, it's not hard to see that Samsung's performance on the field is getting better and better, especially their synergy. Although RNG can get map resources every time, they have to exchange them for defense towers or other things."
"Samsung's progress is visible to the naked eye. I feel they will complete their tactical transformation in the knockout stage. We must be careful."
Li Yi didn't expect that Samsung didn't go to the Longzhu division. After all, EDG's going to Group D did not change its fate of being in the top 16.
The Samsung team was badly beaten by RNG in the group stage, but they transformed into warriors in the knockout stage and defeated the number one seed Longzhu with a score of 3 to 0!
It really proved what Master An said, one sword will kill every three-star traitor!
Although they are in the lower half of the group, TSM is the weakest team in the group. If they are really able to charge up successfully, the semi-finals will definitely not be as easy as imagined.
Samsung is the global finals champion of S7.
The team we played against in the finals... was also a very powerful SKT, whose strength should not be underestimated.
If the team in the semi-finals was Samsung with championship strength, Li Yi would also feel a sense of urgency and crisis.
Another point is that uzi can have many priests, but there is only one Son of God.
The ruler was completely restrained.
When facing a puppy, I don't have the confidence to fight it in most cases.
But if you ask him to change someone, he will really kill indiscriminately for you to see.
Cheng Lu’s style is similar to Xiao Gou’s. I wonder if he can defeat Chi Di?
If possible, the bottom lane will be a good breakthrough point.
Chidi is a very typical ADC in the LCK region.
He is steady in laning and team fights. He will never appear in an inexplicable position and then give away a kill.
It was very likely that the game could not be saved, but there would definitely be no problems when the advantage was there.
This is quite good. …
In these less than seven days, it is very necessary to practice some key tactics.
At first, no one paid much attention to what Li Yi said.
But everyone took Li Yi's words very seriously, and after thinking about it carefully, it was indeed the case.
Although Samsung was killed twice by RNG, some of their handling was indeed very beautiful.
Playing bo5 is different from bo1, maybe you have already figured it out.
After packing up my equipment, I boarded the bus to the airport and boarded the plane to Guangzhou at 11:30 in the morning.
When we arrived at the hotel arranged by the authorities, we immediately devoted ourselves to the training match.
As long as the top eight teams are willing to invite us, GT will not refuse.
But what they didn't expect was that RNG didn't arrange a training match with them...
I guess they are afraid of exposing their tactics.
GT didn't have too many thoughts. They just didn't make an appointment.
Anyway, Boss He didn’t have a very good relationship with their management before.
Little rabbit, the three teams from the LCK region have lined up specifically.
TSM and FNC are not to be outdone.
Especially TSM, they think that their ability to reach the quarterfinals has a lot to do with GT's training matches.
Otherwise, we wouldn’t have performed so well in the group stage.
You have to know that their condition has not been good during this period.
When TSM was doing an interview program in North America, the eldest brother also mentioned it specifically.
Thank you very much to GT for spending a lot of time practicing with them.
Someone specifically reposted the interview with the senior brother.
Many EDG fans were very angry when they saw this.
Well, well, well, GT, as the number one seed of lpl, actually turned its elbow outward!
Specifically play training games with teams from other regions to improve the strength of other regions.
As a result, EDG was eliminated...Everyone could see that EDG had completely lost its direction before.
It is because we played fewer training matches, and naturally we have a deeper understanding of the versions after playing more training matches.
If GT spent more time practicing with EDG, there would definitely not be these problems.
Give up using this unlucky hero Lucian.
Then the record may become four bars and two or five bars and one...they should be the first in Group D!
How did it come to this? They didn’t win the civil war against Flash Wolves, and then the foreign war between Bunny and TSM was also embarrassing!
Under the guidance of some people, a lot of people started leaving messages attacking GT under the reposted video.
The fans were so upset.
What on earth are these guys doing?
The World Championship has already reached the knockout stage, why are you still messing around? Do you really want to affect GT's mentality?
A new round of debate has been sparked in response to this message.
But many people know that EDG did not play any training matches with GT, RNG, or iG.
During that time, I was busy arranging advertisements and organizing fan meeting activities.
Because EDG’s official Weibo account did make the announcement.
So you can still find it now, and there are also many videos on the Internet.
At this moment... the wind direction changed, and people began to attack EDG. Of course, most of them cursed the management by name.
After all, the players work for the club, and they have no right to refuse the activities arranged by the management.
I can only say that these managers are really inhumane!
No wonder EDG has not achieved any results in the World Table Tennis Championships for so many years.
The general is a coward!
If the management is not good, how good can the players be? Still using military management? And organizing so many activities during the World Finals...
From this perspective, it is quite normal for GT to play some games to relax at the beginning of the global finals.
Look, we won the championship in the mid-season tournament.
The whole army advanced to the quarterfinals, and there are endless possibilities ahead.
We were originally aiming for GT, but it turned out we were aiming for the wrong target, and EDG's rhythm became even more powerful.
It’s a pity that no one came out to apologize to GT.
But these have no effect on GT at all...
These messy things are far less important than the upcoming game.
However, the LPL region has created so much fun during this period, so waiting for the game is not so boring.
Time flies and it’s October 10th!
The first match of the upper half! RNG vs MSF starts today!
All GT members are already sitting in front of their computers and starting to watch the game!
(End of this chapter)