In the afternoon, EDG arrived at the Chicago Grand Theater, the competition venue. This landmark building has a similar appearance to the San Francisco venue, with white walls and broken glass windows.
But entering the theater, the interior decorations of the two are obviously different. The former is solemn and solemn, while the latter, as one of the earliest movie theaters in the United States, originally used luxury and elegance as its concepts to attract upper-class audiences. After being renovated into an opera house, The luxury of the interior has reached another level.
The dazzling golden hall, crystal chandeliers, and bright red seats arranged on three levels in a curved shape complement each other beautifully. A large electronic screen hangs in the center of the stage, as if the venue has restored its original function and is playing blockbuster movies.
Of course, that's assuming you can ignore the almost boiling cheers when you see the big-screen pre-game promo!
The strongest cheers before the start of the game came from the moment when the players appeared in the promotional video!
Due to the tight preparation time, only the mid laners of the two teams appeared in the promotional video, with less than five seconds of footage each.
First up is ROX mid laner Kuro, walking on the sidewalks of Chicago.
Unlike the high-spirited little peanut, his tone was very gentle, "Our team is ready to face EDG, and we should be able to advance to the quarterfinals smoothly."
After a wonderful performance in the ROX group stage, it was Mi Xia's turn to take the shot.
Wearing an edg black and red jacket, a plaid denim skirt and leather boots, she sat with her legs crossed on the Chicago subway, staring forward, looking like a comic book female character.
At the same time, Sakura Girl's voice appeared in the background.
His tone is much more confident than Kuro's, "Rox is the No. 1 seed in LCK, and our Edg is also the No. 1 seed in LPL. I think the No. 1 seed in LPL is better than the No. 1 seed in LCK, and I will prove it in this game! "
The lck viewers who were watching the game in South Korea were all shouting in the live broadcast room: "Sardonic!" ], after all, edg not only lost to the second seed skt in the group stage, but also lost to the wild card team intz, the lpl's first seed, and was not qualified to compare with the lck's first seed.
At the scene, only the audience cheered wildly after hearing Mika's voice.
The promotional video shifts to her solo show in the group stage, with commentary in English.
"Mika is like the heroine in Japanese animation. She pursued her dream from LJL to EDG, and fought with the idol director. Now the team has once again come to the moment to change the fate of the top eight, and she will do her best for this!"
This ends the promotional video for the quarterfinals.
Doll Miller and guest pdd are responsible for the commentary of this focus game between China and South Korea.
"Everyone must have seen the game the day before yesterday," Wawa was the first to speak. "In the end, rng was a little regretful and lost to the defending champion skt."
"But it doesn't matter. Just as Mika said in the promotional video, we still have the No. 1 seed to help us get back on track today." He said cheerfully.
He was not as optimistic in his heart as he appeared on the surface. The rng quarter-finals match was not just a narrow defeat, but a disastrous defeat.
edg's performance in the group stage was about the same as rng's, and this bo5 with the No. 1 seed rox was a disaster.
But there is no way.
LPL is the only one left. No matter how unfavorable the audience and himself are, as an LPL commentator, he has to speak harshly.
Although pdd has a good relationship with EDG and Mika, his explanation is fair, "Yes, but ROX's strength cannot be underestimated. As the No. 1 seed, they have performed very well in LCK this year, and in this group stage, they performed well." In fact, it’s better than edg.”
Miller said, "I can only say that I am looking forward to edg's adjustments in the past few days and the performance of bo5! If the factory director can maintain his performance against SKT in the second round of the group stage, there is still a good chance of winning."
…
After the three analyzed the strength and situation of the two teams, the players appeared on the stage and the game officially began.
"Come on, with the enthusiastic applause of the audience, the game BP begins!
The blue side rox first took down the factory director's signature excavator, the red side edg banned Spider, who had a very high winning rate in the group stage, roxtiger banned Poppy, and edg then banned Leopard Girl, who is also good at Peanut. "The baby said in one breath.
"Rox has been thinking about the last move for a long time. Mika's Syndra was banned, and EDG banned Rat King Pray's Ice." Miller said.
Wawa exclaimed, "So, Faker played very well in the quarter-finals before, and Ryze, who Mika is also very good at, is still out there! What are Rox going to do, do you want Kuro to rob him?"
On the bp interface, rox showed off the policewoman without hesitation.
The reason why they banned Syndra was to give Mika the roaming Ryze, and then let Kuro choose Dragon King or Viktor to mix with her. Rat King Pray used the policewoman to break through the opponent from the bottom lane!
Ryze is just a trap!
Mika didn't take the move, because to her, it didn't matter if Ryze was given to Kuro. Instead of robbing Ryze, it was better to give the selection opportunity to her teammates.
So EDG immediately chose to fight the blind monk and assist Zyra. While grabbing the blind monk, they also destroyed the opponent's female policewoman Zyra combination.
rox picks Olaf and Karma again.
The former is recognized as a restraint against the blind monk, while the latter can cooperate with the female policeman to push quickly.
When it comes to ROX's second and third picks, Kuro still doesn't pick Ryze!
Meixia was not in a hurry. She first asked the adc to choose Jhin, then called the top laner to choose Jace, and continued to put Ryze out.
It was Rox's turn to make the last two choices. The top laner chose Kennen to counter Jayce, and the mid laner Kuro chose Dragon King again, still leaving Ryze to Mika.
The situation is already obvious. Kuro doesn't know Ryze, or to put it more strictly, he has no confidence in using Ryze against Mika! Ryze is even more confident that he can restrain Mika with Dragon King!
Explain the situation.
Wawa even had a bolder idea, "Mika's last counter position seems to be able to swing mid-to-upper. Let Mika use Jace to face the Dragon King, and Mouse will choose a suitable hero to face Kennen!"
pdd was deeply impressed by Mika's Jace Lucian in the Spring Split, "This is really good. It not only relieves Mouse's laning pressure, but everyone understands Mika's AD mid lane strength!"
Jess swings in the middle and up. He has tried it in edg training matches and it counts as a tactical reserve, so Mouse also asked in the voice channel, "Mika, can you take Jess? It feels like it can swing!"
But Meixia was not prepared to do this.
"If Jace gives me the swing in this game, the top laner must use the mage hero to make up for the magic damage. The current version only has Rambo, and Rambo is even more difficult to fight against Kennen than Jace on the line, so Jace will still give it to you. Well, my laning is not difficult enough to use Jace!"
Swinging just makes it easier for her to lane and transfers the pressure to the top lane! How could she accept such a thing!
"What hero do you want, Mika?" Abu asked, "Snake, vampire, Victor or little fish man?"
He focused on the Little Murloc because Mika used the Little Murloc to counter the Dragon King in the Spring Split.
Meixia herself had a better idea.
Rox thinks Dragon King counters Ryze, but does it really counter? In fact, there is no restraint between the two hero mechanisms. The only advantage of Dragon King is that he roams faster, and Ryze may even have an advantage in team battles.
On the other hand, if we only talk about the laning, Mixia can list a bunch of heroes that can restrain the Dragon King better than Ryze, but if those heroes win, they just win. In contrast, if Ryze defeats Kuro's Dragon King, not only will he have the opportunity to Collapse of Kuto's mentality can also destroy all arrangements of Rox in the BP stage.
"Choose Ryze for me!" she decided.
Then the hero locks.
For a moment, the audience and the commentators were all speechless.
Wawa smiled and said, "The two teams were fighting back and forth, but in the end, Mika still chose Ryze."
"Kuro left Ryze alone and didn't want to grab the Dragon King. He must have calculated that Mika would choose Ryze. He should be Ryze who is confident in facing Mika. Mika is very stubborn. She has different hero counter cognition from Kuro. ! I just don’t know who can restrain who in Ryze Dragon King..."
pdd smiled and said, "This kind of thing will be known after the game!"
…
The lineups of both sides are locked.
Blue square rox, top laner Kennen, jungler Olaf, mid laner Dragon King, adc policewoman and auxiliary Karma.
Red side edg, top laner Jayce, jungler Lee Sin, mid laner Ryze, adc Jhin and support Zyra.
(End of chapter)
