It’s six o’clock in the evening in New York on October 23, and the lights of Madison Square Garden are shining.
Unlike the quarter-finals and even group stage old venues that are often a century old, although Madison Square Garden was built in 1879, it has been torn down and rebuilt many times in the next hundred years. Therefore, the fourth generation of Madison Square Garden currently in use is different from the early one. The stadium is not the same building at all, it is already a very modern sports stadium.
The entire venue is laid out in a square shape, and the seats for 20,000 people are almost unoccupied. It can be said that it is overcrowded.
Although the top eight of North America 9 were eliminated early, it did not affect the enthusiasm of the audience.
On one side is K, the heir to the S4 world championship, and on the other is the lpl king, who has won two consecutive i championships. The leading player, ka, is an unprecedented female e-sports genius from Tokyo.
With such a high topicality, it is the largest e-sports stage in LoL every year, and it is in a big city like New York. How can it attract so few viewers!
The four large screens in the center of the venue played the pre-match trailers of the two teams, accompanied by recorded player speeches.
The audience responded with cheers from time to time!
Finally, the bearded and muscular North American host appeared on the stage with a microphone and an inscription board in hand, and his masculine English resounded.
"...Let us welcome EDG from the lpl division!
! "
I couldn’t understand what the host was saying, but when I heard the two cadences of English letters lpl and edg, the factory director knew it was his team’s turn.
He quickly urged, "Come on stage, come on stage!"
Six players and coaches slowly appeared on the stage one after another.
Because the stage is square, the ssg team has been lined up on the right edge. edg then walks to the left to face the audience, and then stands back to back with his opponent.
Then the host loudly shouted the names of the contestants one by one, and at the same time, the lights and cameras were directed to the corresponding contestants.
The audience's cheers increased significantly when they shouted "aiting" from the back.
When we got to edg, the cheers reached another level, until the name of player ka appeared, reaching the peak.
Although they are both strong teams, the gap in popularity is still huge!
Today's EDG is probably only half a step behind SKT who achieved the triple crown. And with the bonus of being a female player, Miha's popularity in North America can even surpass Faker!
At this time, in the LPL broadcast room, the screen had just turned to the three commentators who had completed their self-introductions, Remember, Zeyuan and Su Xiaoyan.
Remember to speak with a Taiwanese accent, "Wow, everyone must have heard the cheers just now. Such an enthusiastic audience can be called half of EDG's home court!"
"There's nothing I can do about it, Ka's popularity is too high!" Zeyuan said with a smile, "It's Varus and Old Man Time who compete in the quarterfinals. It's so popular!"
"Now everyone is looking forward to seeing what kind of strange heroes Ka will come up with later!" Su Xiaoyan said with a smile.
"Okay, without further ado, we will know soon what tactics Ka has prepared for the subsequent games, and how much preparation the three-star mid laner Crown Brother has made for today!" Remembered, "The game is about to start, Ze Yuan, why don’t you explain the side selection situation of both sides before the game.”
Zeyuan nodded, "Okay! In the previous coin toss to choose sides, the SSG team won. They got the priority to choose sides in games 1, 3, and 5. In the first game that is about to start, the Samsung team has no intention. The other place chose the blue side.”….
Remember to quickly explain the difference between the red and blue sides, "Well, because the red side has Leopard Girl, a hero who must be banned no matter what, BP is indeed at a disadvantage. But we have all seen that the hero pool of the top eight and r is not a problem, so everyone Don’t worry too much!”
The live broadcast camera turned back to the stadium again, and at the same time, the BP interface appeared on both sides.
The blue side ssg bans Jace, Syndra and Ice.
The red square EDG bans Leopard Girl, Olaf and the female gun.
"Ryze Dragon King was released just like the quarter-finals, but EDG banned Olaf?" This question before the game
Su Xiaoyan, who took enough BP notes for every game, was a little confused.
Ze Yuan said, "It should be fear of aition's jungler Olaf, but by banning the Ter hero, Samsung can steal the blind monk!"
The commentator obviously only saw the first level of intention.
In this World Championship, the performance of Factory Director's Lee Sin in the group stage was so eye-catching that many people did not notice Leader An's Lee Sin.
——Having become a jungler halfway through, he is not familiar with Lee Sin. Although he has not reached the point where he is too familiar with S7, and he has used it in the group stage and performed well, but he does not feel comfortable using this hero. The priority is not high.
Therefore, EDG banning Olaf is tantamount to setting a test for Leader An as a test!
Sure enough, ssg grabbed the wandering mage Ryze with the first hand!
The commentator analyzed, "SSG learned the lesson from ROX in the quarter-finals and snatched Ryze first. What hero will KA use to deal with it? Dragon King, or Varus?"
The red side's first two hands are mostly used to grab the OP hero, and it's not yet time to choose the ter position for the ka.
"Choose the blind monk?" Abu asked on the voice channel.
"Wait a minute! I bet Aition still doesn't want to choose the blind monk!" said the factory director.
"Then take the lane first." The BP was fully prepared before the game. This situation was also simulated, and Abramovich immediately agreed.
The bottom lane Han Bing and the female gun are banned, leaving Jin and Zyra.
However, Zyra is not particularly strong when working together. She was suppressed for three games in the Deft quarter-finals, and she has no place to use her energy. She doesn't want to continue to suffer online!
Therefore, in order to increase the early matchup of the duo, the coach made a wave of his hand and directly locked the policewoman and Zyra with his first two hands to increase the intensity of rulerrejj!
Go to ssg second or third hand.
Leader An can't stand it. Edg looks down on him too much. If he doesn't snatch the blind monk away, the factory director will really think that he doesn't know how to play!
"Get me the Blind Sin. I want to see what Edg thinks. Besides the Spider Excavator, what other heroes can the director get?"
"good."
With the coach's permission, ssg selected the jungler blind monk and a jin.
On Edg's side, the director really had nothing new. The third hand quickly locked down the excavator, while the fourth hand left Mei Xia to choose the mid laner.
Just like what Abramovich said before the game, SSG is the challenger now, so Meixia is not in a hurry to get the trump card in the first game.
Soon, a ferocious dragon head appeared in the selection box.
Star-Forged Dragon King Aurelion Thor!
It was the hero Kuro used to fight against her in the quarterfinals!
Zeyuan smiled and said, "It's indeed the Dragon King. I've made a guess before! Ka stole it from Kuro. She wants to teach Kuro, who lost to her in the quarterfinals, how to use the Dragon King to defeat Ryze!"
Su Xiaoyan analyzed, "Dragon King has the advantage of pushing the lane in the early stage, but the damage in the later stage is not as good as Ryze, so EDG cannot delay this round."….
"It's the same situation as the roxtigers in the last round. We can't let Ryze develop later!" I remember that I remember the last round clearly.
The audience cheered loudly at this moment.
The barrages in the live broadcast room are endless.
[Just steal it! Ka's Sharingan is becoming more and more proficient! 】
[A hero who is defeated by a player is called a thief? This is called a trophy! 】
[One thing to say is that I played Dragon King in the Mid-Season Cup ka, and it was obviously Kuro who stole the ka! 】
…
Then they went to SSG to select players. When they saw Ka's Dragon King, they immediately recalled the match between edg and rox in the quarterfinals a week ago, and they made a decisive decision to get a lineup that could drag them down!
So ssg, in the last two hands, the top laner immediately locked up Poppy, who was difficult to defeat.
At the same time, he assisted in identifying Karma, who was most likely to get mixed up against the policewoman and Zyra.
At this point, bp comes to the end.
Only the ter position of edg's fifth move is left.
Considering that this game is going to focus on the bottom lane, use no longer picks an eye-catching hero, but just chooses a troll that can restrain Bobitandu.
The lineups of both sides are all confirmed.
The blue side ssg, top laner Poppy, jungler Lee Sin, mid laner Ryze, A-Zone and auxiliary Karma.
Red square edg, top laner Troll, jungler excavator, mid laner Dragon King, a policewoman and support Zyra. .
Dirty order
