Chapter 213: Advancing to the semifinals! Playoffs chaos! Great players!
Chapter 213: Advancing to the semifinals! Playoffs chaos! Top ten players!
There is still some time from the end of the regular season to the start of the playoffs, and the playoff teams are preparing intensively.
There are no changes to the competition system this year, and it is still the "double elimination" system that was used last year.
But it's obvious.
This year's playoffs are very different from every season in the past!
Just because of the birth of the global BP this year, the power of the BO5 events that will only be held in the playoffs will increase exponentially!
哪怕只是3-0的对局，也至少会出现10个以上全新的英雄与组合，最后甚至可能多出30-40个英雄。
This is undoubtedly a huge test for everyone.
V5, ranked first in the regular season, and JDG, ranked second, will directly wear resurrection armor in the semi-finals and wait for opponents to challenge them.
The remaining teams will be ranked in order of points.
But it’s a bit “unfortunate”.
In the playoff draw, BLG was not drawn into the same half as V5, but was drawn into the lower half where JDG was.
The upper half where V5 is located has strong teams such as TES and WBG.
V5 base.
Ye Bo stood in front of the small blackboard skillfully, and Beryl was eating an ice cream next to him.
"The 13.5 version updated today is the version used in the playoffs."
"This is also the last version of our spring season this year, and the changes are quite big. My brother Genshin and I have picked out a few key points first."
“The first is the rework of Cat and Tsar.”
The coaching assistant behind him pressed the PPT play button at the right time - that was the information collected by the two, which was tediously integrated by the coaching team.
"This! It's a huge piece of len!" Beryl couldn't help clapping her hands in celebration while chewing on the ice cream.
Even after he came to V5 and discovered the fun of cats, he still strongly agreed with the rework of this hero.
This time it’s a major rework of all skills!
The thing that Maomi was most criticized for before was that the "Heroic Lower Limit" was too outrageous.
It’s not too much of an exaggeration to say that there is not a huge essential difference in the games played by professional players and gold players!
The core is the effect of W's amplification percentage {Adaptive Power}.
So this time when we remade it, we directly deleted this effect!
Not only that, the control of the ultimate skill is gone, and it becomes pure healing.
In order to limit the cat from changing mounts frequently, which is not friendly to ranked AD players, the passive skill is changed to a "Best Friend Value" mechanism that needs to be stacked, which is almost tied to the ADC.
At first glance, most people would definitely think that this hero is useless and not even worth playing.
But Beryl has a different understanding.
He saw the new version of the cat's reworked mechanism and the current values that were a bit wrong, and vaguely realized that the heroes who could cooperate with it might become stronger than before.
This is also a common tactic used by Riot designers.
After giving the player a slap in the face, I was afraid that the player would get angry, so I quickly gave him a sweet treat to coax him, and then slowly cut him like a frog in boiling water.
"Speaking of this cat rework, Meiko-kun is at a big loss!"
Ye Bo thought of the biggest victim of the cat’s redo.
It’s not because of the problem of skin sales after the rework. After all, it has been two years and the sales boom period has passed, so the impact will not be too big.
It’s because of the easter egg of the cat’s ultimate move.
Originally, the final chapter of the cat's ultimate skill would cast "7" ripples, and each ripple would move one step forward to the "mountain".
Until the seventh ripple is shot out, a summoner trophy will appear at the end.
This was specially designed to coincide with Meiko's 15-year journey from 21 to 7, when she debuted and won the championship. It is obviously a very distinctive design with beautiful meaning.
The problem is, the new version of the cat’s ultimate skill only has 5 hits!
Not only are there two steps missing, but even the Summoner's Trophy special effects that would have appeared at the end are gone.
If you don’t know, you might think that the championship was stripped away!
These are actually another layer of "meaning" of the champion skin - it is a unique footprint left in the canyon that belongs to one person and everything related to it.
Thinking of this, Ye Bo couldn't help but look forward to his skin even more.
The subsequent focus will be on the medium-sized rework of the Tsar, mainly focusing on adjusting the "Hero Curve".
The designers almost completely cut down the Tsar's early combat effectiveness, but accelerated the formation speed, which is equivalent to turning it into a more distinctive rather than an "all-round" choice.
The next thing that comes without a doubt is the numerical weakening of some popular heroes in this version, such as Dragon King, Quesanti, Ashe, Policewoman, etc.
"You may also need to pay attention to this change to Rambo."
"Hey Master Ye, what do you think about the buffs to the assassins like Zed, Qiyana, and Fizz?"
"It's hard to say for now, maybe there will be~"
Version interpretation is one thing.
But the specific performance will have to wait until the playoffs start and be verified on the field.
V5 directly waited in the semi-finals, which gave them nearly a week longer than the earliest team. They could also fine-tune their BP ideas in real time based on the performance of the teams ahead.
This is also one of the advantages of the regular season winners.
After everyone finished chatting, they started several practical training sessions on the spot to explore the content they had just discussed.
It wasn't until late at night that I was ready to rest.
But just stood up.
Everyone saw He Youjun standing at the entrance of the training match. He moved a small stool and sat down waiting, holding a stack of things in his hand, as if he was waiting for everyone.
"Hey, Mr. He? Why don't you say anything? You've been waiting for a long time." The worldly-wise Saint Spear Brother walked up and greeted him.
"Not long, not long. It's okay. Your training is the most important thing!"
He Youjun had actually been waiting for quite a while.
But at this moment, his face was full of smiles, and it was obvious that he was in a very good mood.
There's no way not to be happy.
He has invested such a huge amount this year, and of course he has high expectations for the team's performance, but he did not expect this result!
Winning the regular season championship with a perfect record is already a very talked-about and legendary event for V5, a team that once created a "0-16" season with no losses.
Not to mention that it even broke the global division record!
The European and American FPS giant that had previously been in merger negotiations with He Youjun finally gave in for the first time tonight, saying that the issue of "changing the team name" could be discussed again, unlike its previous tough attitude.
Obviously, it was the brilliant performance in this regular season that won it the key voice.
Thinking of this, He Youjun was extremely glad that he made the decision.
Keeping Ye Bo at all costs and building the team around him is definitely the wisest investment I have ever made!
"We swept all the regular season awards this year! You guys are really awesome!"
"After the Spring Finals, everyone can have a good rest and relax. Fly anywhere in the country, and the club will reimburse you for everything!"
Saint Spear joked: "Boss, you are really opening the champagne in advance. The playoffs haven't even started yet, and you are already thinking about the Spring Finals~"
Xun jumped up excitedly: "Great!!"
Ye Bo also joked: "This time we have to win!"
The bottom lane duo was obviously very happy as well.
After the New Year, everyone has been in a highly tense state, working hard for that common goal, so it is naturally very happy to hear this good news.
However, He Youjun came here not only because he had many happy events and wanted to come over to reconnect with his friends, but also because of something important.
He handed out a stack of beautifully crafted ballot forms to everyone.
"Top ten players?"
He Youjun nodded and explained: "Well, this year is the tenth anniversary of our LPL region, and Riot Games has made a big event. The top ten players will get skins!"
Everyone knows that S13 is the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the LPL region. After all, even the season's region logo has been changed to the {10} dragon logo, which is also the theme of this year's promotion.
But I didn’t know there was such a thing as skin!
"Pure Color Skin. Why does this name sound weird?"
"Oh, so it's colorful~~~"
I heard it's not an independent skin.
It was only by using one of the player's most iconic heroes, one of the skins, and making a colorful color change that everyone felt a little more balanced.
After all, you have to fight hard to win a skin, and if you can vote for one out of nowhere, no matter if you get the skin or not, you will definitely feel unhappy.
Of course.
Some people who really want the skin but have almost no chance of getting it, yet are likely to be "invested", are the pure beneficiaries.
Solo champions are all champions!
See who dares to say that colorful skin is not skin!!
But after all, it involves the customized skin of "True Supreme Honor" in the league event, even if it is colorful, it is relatively sensitive.
Therefore, this vote was fair and transparent, avoiding gossip.
109 active players, 65 retired players, 79 candidates, 51 club managers and coaches, 9 commentators, 5 media representatives, and 5 league managers - everyone has one vote.
As for the voting of audience fans, there are only four channels: Hupu, Weibo, Palm Alliance, and Esports Manager, and each person in each channel has one vote.
In other words.
There were 323 votes in total, and the percentage of fan votes was only a mere 1%!
This time it’s not about the number of fans, the contestants’ own votes and internal staff account for the majority.
The 79 candidates are all names that are familiar to LPL audiences over the past decade.
For example, the smiling curly-haired Nuofeng from the old WE era, PDD, Shenchao, Xika, Xiaoxiao, Zizi, and even the old Korean aids Duke, insec, Mata, PAwn, and imp who are no longer there.
"Huh? I'm here too!"
Ye Bo was quite surprised to see his name among the candidates.
Because when he looked at the people on the candidate list, he felt that as a newcomer who had only been playing professionally for less than a year, he seemed to deviate a little from the theme of "Top Ten Players".
Even Bin is not on the list of candidates!
But fortunately, he can’t be voted for anyway, so Ye Bo doesn’t have to worry about it.
"Zizi.com must be selected! And Saint Spear and Viper. Hey, let's select one for Jay too, and give him another skin!"
"Brother Alpaca, you are here too! These ten are not just randomly put together~"
Ye Bo quickly checked off several of his required answers.
As the first team in the region to win two championships, it is obviously impossible for EDG not to be on the list - this is also one of the reasons why Ye Bo is on the list.
Of course the real reason is that Ye Bo’s performance can only be described as “phenomenal”.
This is true both on and off the field!
His name was also added by Tencent Esports boss Jin Yibo himself. "Master Ye, copy yours for me!"
Beryl leaned over to look at Ye Bo's list.
After all, he is not very familiar with LPL and has no intersection with those ancient Korean players.
He checked them one by one: "Shengqiangguo, Hekuiguo, Clearlove, jiejie, viper, meiko, Theshy, JKL, Rookie"
"That's right, it seems like one of them is missing."
Ye Bo counted them and found that there were only 9 of them, and they were also the ones he was most familiar with.
"Oh! I almost forgot about him!"
After everyone filled out their tickets, they said good night to each other and went back to their rooms to rest.
honestly.
Although he knew his teammates would definitely vote for him, Ye Bo was not sure whether he had a chance of being selected.
After all, this is an internal vote and has nothing to do with popularity.
Ten places are still very tight. There are 16 regular players who have won the S Championship for the LPL region, not to mention the substitutes. There are also many players who have not won any championships.
But Ye Bo really hopes that he can be selected.
It’s not for the title of top ten players—it’s mainly for the “Zhencai” skin.
For others it may just be a re-skin.
For Ye Bo, that's an extra piece of "clothing".
Return to the room.
Ye Bo washed and tidied himself while turning on his phone to go to the toilet.
After seeing the hot news that was pushed to the top of the forum, I understood what He Youjun, who had just come to "announce the good news", meant when he said that they "won all" the awards.
The voting for the spring regular season is out.
A while: Flandre, Kanavi, YE, Deft, Beryl
Second team: 369, Xun, Knight, Ruler, Missing
Third team: Theshy, jiejie, Scout, ELK, ON
Except Xun, all members of V5 dominated the list!
Moreover, even Xun was ranked in the second team, surpassing the two champion junglers Jiejie and Tian!
If it weren't for Kanavi's outstanding performance in terms of statistics, it is even possible that all members would have taken the lead and set a record!
There's even a dumbfounding award.
"Best Newcomer of Spring"——Beryl!
This award is a bit buggy.
The best newcomer award has always been based on the criterion of "entering LPL", and Viper has won this award before.
But when Viper came, he actually hadn't achieved much, and Griffin was only dominating the league.
And the winner of this championship and two runner-ups actually won the "Best Newcomer" award for the new LPL season!
Naturally, these selection results also caused considerable public controversy.
[As expected of our LPL, even the top three supports in history can only be the best newcomer! 】
[To be honest, it’s really outrageous that the original batch and Yangtuo can make it to the stage, right? What bright eyes do they have? They just follow YE! V5tmd is definitely the prince team! ]
[The one who can say this is a god, as for Genshin Impact, I can only say that he should look at the microphone! ]
[Didn’t you see Yangtuo’s season data chart? His average economic AD per minute is the last, but his average output AD per minute is the first! What else is there to be eye-catching about this? ]
[Hehe, you still say that my junior is a thief. If he is really a thief, then he should be called a robber! He can still fight for a while after being beaten by bin! I don’t accept it! ]
[Bin is it? And even if he really stole it for a while, why didn’t he see it in the first three rounds~~~]
[It doesn't make sense. Weibo ranked sixth in the regular season and BLG ranked third, but TS was able to play, while BLG only had the bottom lane. You are all targeting Banlangen! ]
There was a huge melee among the fans of various platforms, and it was obvious that many people were not satisfied with the rankings.
But no matter how noisy it is, no matter which fan group it is.
The middle was the only corner that was not involved in any controversy.
Soon someone in the forum started spreading rumors and the news about "Top Ten Players' Skins".
This instantly sparked discussion.
[Hehe, isn’t it just for this plate of dumplings wrapped in vinegar? I won’t tell you who this event is for! ]
[That’s right—it was opened just for my Master Ye! How can the brand of Junior High School be so good! ]
[I'm already looking forward to the skin stealing part. My suggestion is to use FPX-LWX's colorful skin directly! It will definitely sell like hotcakes! ]
[Congratulations to the following ten unlucky people for winning the Top Ten Real Food Skins! ]
[I feel that LCK is not well-protected. They didn’t get any skins on their 10th anniversary last year. I can already imagine the comments of Korean netizens.]
[If you don’t agree, just hold it in! If you have the guts, go win the S-League this year]
[Hahahahahahaha, Song Bin, isn't this going to break the defense? He didn't even make it to the three lineups—but his own rookie in the bottom lane did; he didn't even have the qualifications to be a candidate after three years of debut—but YE did! It's all a comparison!]
See the last one.
Thinking of Chen Zebin's personality, Ye Bo's mouth corners couldn't be tightened.
“It feels really urgent.”
Ye Bo obviously understands Chen Zebin.
That night, Chen Zebin, who came across these two lists while surfing, tossed and turned in bed all night.
The more I think about it, the angrier I get! ! !
Although BLG played badly at the beginning of the Spring Season, they performed so strongly in the latter stages. Why?
Chen Zebin made up his mind secretly.
Must prove myself in the playoffs!
He tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, so he lay in bed thinking about trash talk and trying every way to save face.
The week passed quickly.
LPL Spring Playoffs officially begins!
The first to proceed were a few fringe teams.
But I don’t know if it’s due to the exploration of the new version and the lack of adaptation to the first BO5, but there were many unexpected games.
For example, TES, which was highly expected in the upper half of the group, not only was it tied with TT, but it was also nearly defeated by OMG for the second time and almost went home directly!
In the end, they relied on their breathing and Xiaohu's burst of energy to barely win 3-2.
Guo Hao and a group of TES senior executives took a lot of heart-saving pills in the backstage and managed to hold on to the top six.
but.
Guo Hao, the HR genius, noticed this OMG mid laner and felt that he performed quite stably.
And when TES faced the top six WBG.
As expected, they were swept away!
Although WBG, nicknamed the "All-God Class", was still a little mysterious, its state adjustment was obviously better than TES, and it defeated TES 3-1 in a process that was not particularly good-looking.
"TES's current state still feels very wrong!" Miller was a little worried.
"So far, the major galaxy battleships have found the most suitable playing style for themselves. Even WBG has a systematic content. Only TES still plays strangely."
TES spent a lot of money this year.
The Breathing was bought by Bai Xing after being robbed, and Xiao Hu was also bought by Guo Hao from WBG at a high price.
With this kind of investment, if they only perform like this, they won’t even make it to the top four in the playoffs, and none of them will be able to explain themselves!
Guo Hao was worried.
He didn't know what went wrong, the coach or something else.
the other side.
Danny is actually worried too.
None of the WBG members were smiling when they left the stage, and it was obvious that no one was complacent with the victory.
Because everyone knew that they won this game not because they played well, but because the opponent played so badly!
The winning process can even be described as "ugly"!
Danny's mind was obviously clearer than Guo Hao's, and he vaguely sensed the problems between their two teams.
The problem of suitability!
Danny believes that Xiaohu is not suitable for this TES at all.
The reason is that Xiaohu and Xihu are blue-collar players, and it is difficult for them to take on the responsibility of being a big C. However, their ADC play is too unstable to support the four-protect-one system.
At the same time, for its own WBG.
If WBG wants to focus on the top lane, like BLG did, since Gala in the bottom lane also has to take on the resources, the mid laner must have a team-oriented mid laner to share the pressure.
Danny really approves of Rookie.
It’s just that Rookie and Weiwei have a weird match, there is no chemistry at all!
Rookie can play any type of hero, but his best playing style must be combined with a relatively strong jungle area, but Weiwei is obviously not among them.
As for the other substitute jungler in the team, Karsa, the two had always played the mid-jungle synergy of protecting the middle lane during the V5 period, which was incompatible with the current needs of WBG where everyone needs to focus on the team.
The only solution seems to be to let Rookie play as a team.
Danny also tried, but that was not the opponent's strongest point after all, so he became a little indistinguishable from the crowd, which led to insufficient intensity in the mid-jungle confrontation.
Generally speaking, it is blocked at both ends.
Regarding team play, Danny believes that the best active players are Toothpaste and Xiaohu.
"Ah, shit!"
Danny pinched his temples with a headache, and cursed WBG's Manager Shi in his heart, saying he was so stupid!
He vaguely felt that his team would not be able to go far in this state.
as predicted.
In the semi-finals, WBG faced V5.
After a spring season battle, the situation was even more one-sided than the opening game!
"Congratulations to V5 for defeating WBG - again! They are the first to advance to the winner's bracket semifinals!"
"It all depends on who will challenge in the lower half. BLG first defeated LNG and swept all the way up. Now they are challenging JDG again. The two sides were evenly matched in the regular season!"
"It is worth mentioning that JDG seems to have changed its tactical strategy in the playoffs"
"Anyway, I look forward to seeing a wonderful game between the two little kings!"
Danny was backstage rubbing his curly hair.
He knew very well that V5's evolution speed this season was far ahead of theirs, so this outcome was reasonable.
Although there is still a loser group to play.
But the two teams in the lower half are very strong. Danny feels that the spring journey is coming to an end and has already started thinking about the situation and direction of the team in the second half of the year.
The development of the lower half was somewhat unexpected.
In JDG's first playoff game, the new system of play developed in version 13.5 did not seem to be so effective against BLG - because it was not designed for them.
I didn't expect that the purpose was to train the troops, but it ended up being a failure!
Bin was so excited that he seemed to have taken gunpowder. He wanted to stuff the gaming chair into 369's nostrils in the top lane!
Wei also implemented Tabe's precise ideas, defending the top lane and confronting the Eternal Hunters head-on.
At the beginning of the game, when JDG had the priority to choose the side, BLG successfully broke the red and blue, which directly established a huge advantage.
In the end, BLG experienced a passionate battle.
Defeated JDG 3 to 2!
“Congratulations BLG!”
"This battle for the king is so intense! After a lot of back and forth, BLG managed to pull one back!"
"But JDG fans don't have to worry, the double-elimination system has a margin for error, and they will face WBG in the loser bracket next."
“Looking forward to the upcoming LPL winner’s group semi-finals——V5 vs. BLG!”
(End of this chapter)