The day after the lottery was drawn, the entire EDG team took a plane to Chicago, where the quarterfinals will be held at the landmark Chicago Theater.
There was only four short days of offseason adjustment time.
Each team is busy studying the information on their eight-to-four opponents, and seizing every opportunity to schedule training matches.
Because Mixia, a reborn person, is here at edg, it is easier to complete the research on the opponent rox in the knockout round.
Mid laner Koro and adc player Pray are bastards.
However, the way to deal with the two of them is slightly different. Koro's signature gangster heroes Victor and Karma, and even the Dragon King can be released, because Mika can catch them.
As for Pray's specialty hero Ice, it's best to ban it or give it to Deft.
Before the ROX game, Smeb was touted as the number one top laner in the World Championship, but his real strength is about the same as that of Mouse, who is now in great shape. The key to the competition lies in the ownership of Jayce.
The auxiliary position is basically a confrontation between Meiko and Gorill as soft assistants. In this aspect, since Meixia has revealed the tendency of the World Championship version before the S game, and with Meiko's soft assistant ability, there is basically no need to worry.
As for the jungle, Mixia only has two words - leave it to the factory director - let it happen!
Compared to tactical analysis, training matches are more difficult for EDG.
First, the training shed in the hotel was not set up, so the team could only rent a local Internet cafe to play training matches.
Then there is the difficulty of meeting opponents in training matches.
During the group stage, we could occasionally make appointments with Korean teams from other groups, but in the quarter-finals, rox and ssg were placed in the lower half with them, and teams in the same region basically did not make appointments for training matches.
As for SKT, the only Korean team in the top half, they can play training matches with ROX and SSG in the bottom half, and they have no interest in dating EDG. Secondly, they suffered the loss of MSI being attacked by Mei Xia Ruiz, and Abramovich finally managed to date the two. In this training match, the opponent didn't show any real moves at all.
So these days, edg plays the most training games with rng, h2k and c9.
Playing training matches against these teams, even if Meixia only showed 50% of her strength, victory would be easy.
Even if you practice too much, you may become worse at it and reduce your strength.
Players from c9 and rng are considered honest people and seldom leak news about training matches. However, the young h2k jungler Jankos has long shown his tendency to express himself in an exaggerated manner, and he talks carelessly in interviews.
"A certain mid laner from lpl went crazy during training matches."
"I can't talk about the specific details of the training match, but I have to tell the truth. The most difficult thing for us in the training match is not the LCK team, but an old LPL team."
All I have to do is name edg as the mid laner who is invincible in training matches.
This news reached the ears of the audience. In less than three days, after the invincible tsm in the last training match, another training match war god appeared in this world championship.
As we all know, TSM, the top 16 in the training competition, left...
The reporter also found the opportunity to interview the factory director and glean information about the training match.
Now that everything has been leaked, the factory director did not hide it, "Yes, our recent training match results were very good, but because the LCK team was not invited to the training match, I can't say anything about the subsequent games. How confident it is.”
Regarding the factory director's interview answers, Mei Xia shook her head and expressed dissatisfaction.
She said, "It should be more impressive! Let's just say that Mika is invincible in training matches, and I have already booked the world championship this time!"
"So that's it!" The factory director was annoyed. He felt that he was indeed not as open-minded as Mika.
You should really continue to learn from her!
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The short rest time passed by in an instant, and on October 14th, the knockout rounds officially began.
The order of the matches in the quarter-finals is very strange. The upper and lower halves are not played in sequence.
The schedule starts with ssg vs. anx in the second half, then skt vs. rng and h2k vs. c9 in the first half, and finally it's the showdown between edg and rox.
The first thing that started was the match between the wild card brothers against SSG. Although the long-haired support of anx came up with a lot of new work after the group stage, after all, there was a gap in strength. In the end, the strongest wild card team in history could only win 0- 3 ends the World Championship journey.
The next day is rng's appearance.
Although edg and the teams in the upper half will meet in the finals, and there is no need to study this game for the time being, Mixia, who is well aware of the plot of this world championship in the parallel world, still took the time to focus on this bo5.
She has no hope for rng to win, she just hopes that rng can bring out the things of skt and clear some obstacles for edg. Of course, it would be better if they win. If they lose, edg finally wins and wins the championship. Then for this championship, rng has three points. One credit!
The audience was surprised at the beginning of the game when SKT replaced Bengi as a substitute jungler!
Blank has always been the smoke bomb they sent in the group stage!
In the first game, Benji's performance was average. RNG relied on the advantage of looper Jess to get a 3,000 gold lead in 15 minutes. However, after that, rng lost its rhythm. It was delayed until 35 minutes and was caught by SKT and lost 1,000 gold.
When it came to the critical ancient dragon group, it was Looper who stood up. Jess physically entered the field and flashed away. After waiting for the skill CD, he used QE to blast the three SKT players, which helped RNG win.
rng won the first game procrastinatingly, which at least brought some good news to the audience, but no one expected that benji's terrifying rhythm had just begun, and rng's losses in the next three games would be a disaster...
At the beginning of the second rng game, Nosuke grabbed river crabs and sent out double heads without any communication with his teammates. From then on, he was helpless against the operating rhythm of Benji and Faker. By the 30th minute, the deficit expanded to 10,000, and then he lost the game.
In the third game, mlxg's overall rhythm was suppressed by Benji, so he was caught pressing the line in the bottom lane. TP in the top lane saved the bottom lane jumper. Xiaohu in the middle lane was beaten under the tower by faker. Within thirty minutes, he was pushed away without any suspense. .
By the fourth game, there was no need for SKT to contribute any more. Uzi Hongwen had the loyalty to repay Mata's rng. Even if they got two kills ahead in the early stage, there was no hope of winning. In the end, SKT successfully came back.
At this point, rng was eliminated by skt after one chase and three.
As an outsider, Mixia felt uncomfortable in her chest when she rewatched this game. How could she lose so humiliatingly?
Now that edg has become lpl's only hope, she only feels that the responsibility on her chest is heavier!
It’s boring and heavy!
Weigh it, it’s heavy!
Well, what I was weighing were the French fries that I ate as a snack while watching the game.
Meixia is eager to save LPL, but it is not EDG's turn to play yet.
The next day is the European and American battle that North American audiences are most looking forward to.
She didn't watch it in person, but of course the outcome was actually easy to judge. Looking at the knockout stages of the World Championship, have North American teams ever defeated European teams?
When I looked at the results the next day, it was indeed the case.
After five rounds of fierce battles, c9, which had high hopes from the North American audience, lost to h2k and once again fell to the top eight, proving that the inequality na<eu is true.
Finally, the first three quarter-finals were played.
The time has arrived on October 17th, and it’s edg’s turn to face lck’s No. 1 seed rox!
The order of the quarter-finals in my Baidu schedule is like this. I don’t quite understand why it was designed this way. Does anyone know why the s6 schedule is like this?
Then someone reminded mouse that the top eight had withdrawn from the competition due to family matters. I forgot about it at first, but when I thought about it, there were actually ways to remedy it. For example, Mouae was hidden by his family, or the protagonist gave mouse the idea to continue playing in the game. However, after thinking about it, I feel that it is better not to adapt it if it involves the players’ families. Let’s just assume that the parallel world is healthy and there are no accidents.
(End of chapter)
