After winning two games in a row, Kkoma didn't say much to the players after IG returned to the lounge. Instead, he smiled and casually talked about the BP direction for the third game. The atmosphere was very relaxed.
After all, although IG's two wins were not easy, they did not make any mistakes in the general direction, but there were some slight fluctuations in personal performance, which is acceptable to the dunk coach.
To put it bluntly, after a team's strength reaches a certain level, hard power is no longer the point of competition between the teams, but more depends on the specific skills, tactics and execution.
IG has already achieved quite a perfect level on these two points. At least for now, SKT does not have the ability to pressure IG to the point where it has to make mistakes.
On the contrary, IG can give SKT great trouble, which is reflected in SKT's dull lounge atmosphere.
Coach Jin looked at the screen and analyzed their mistakes and areas for improvement, while Faker was holding a banana and eating it bite by bite without saying a word.
Although he was beaten 2-0, his mood was actually quite stable. He had been through the storms and waves for so many years, and it was not like he had never experienced more severe situations than this.
But he has experienced ups and downs, and that does not mean that his teammates have too. Now that IG has got the match point, if SKT loses again, they have to go home immediately.
Faker already missed one World Championship last year, and this was the second time SKT failed to participate in the World Championship.
This year, SKT returns with the momentum of winning the Summer Split. Once they lose and let this momentum escape, the consequences will be disastrous.
What they lost was not only a coveted trophy, but also the last bit of energy that SKT had as a club giant.
What's more, there are people in the opposite IG who are ready to step on him and SKT to preach. He must suppress his negative emotions due to circumstances and reasons.
At this time, on the big screen, the MVP of this game was also selected. To everyone's surprise, it was the vampire.
After all, if you want to briefly summarize the second game, it can be summed up in just one sentence: "Wait for Asuna's three-piece vampire suit! Wait for thirty minutes!"
This is what everyone is saying, including the casters
When everyone places their hopes on you, as long as you can hand in a perfect answer, the crowd will not be stingy with their applause and flowers.
When the Korean audience who followed this game looked at Yu Hui's delicate and familiar face on the big screen, they all looked ugly.
SKT's defeat in two games was closely related to this woman.
She is like the natural enemy of the LCK. She can always catch SKT's flaws at key points in the situation, thereby turning the tide of the battle and crushing the hopes of the LCK audience.
So much so that many LCK viewers raised their own questions in the game live broadcast room:
"Hey Xiba, there is only one game left. Does SKT really have a chance?"
"What chance? It seems to me it's over~"
"What are you talking about! Can't you have more confidence in SKT?"
"What kind of confidence? Damn it, that's IG. It's IG who continuously killed DWG and Griffin! They seem to be born to restrain us. Is it normal that SKT couldn't stop us in the end?"
There are many users who lament in the LCK forum and come up with ideas for SKT, but their voices are gradually being suppressed by another voice.
After several years of development, Yu Hui on the Korean network has also accumulated a large fan base, cheering for her in the forum.
Of course, this kind of Korean J behavior will definitely be attacked by the Korean players.
But as Yu Hui's performance got better and better, and he successively defeated the attacks of strong LCK teams, they began to be unable to suppress these 'bastards'.
With the elimination of DWG, Griffin, and now pushing SKT to the edge of the cliff, the bastards have gained the upper hand in public opinion and even opened the champagne at halftime.
Many die-hard LCK fans are gritting their teeth and feeling helpless at the same time.
Results are the biggest support for players. Koreans who have experienced the baptism of a formal and mature competition system cannot argue with this.
Because they themselves are only based on merit and honor, which is the foundation of their career, and they cannot slap themselves in the face.
This point of view can quickly build a sense of honor when the LCK is strong, but once the division weakens, they will be the ones who rebound the fastest.
After all, not everyone may like a team that keeps winning, but no one may like a team that keeps losing.
Faker ate a banana, and Yu Hui, who is also the team leader, was also nibbling dark chocolate to replenish energy consumption.
In addition to their own and audience commentary, G2 and FPX, which will start tomorrow, are also paying close attention to today's showdown between SKT and IG.
Not to mention that G2 itself is from the most professional European and American country, the lineup of the FPX team from the same division is even more exciting.
Chunli Li Chun, who resigned from the head of LPL league operations and joined FPX as CEO, this ID corresponds to the legend who slashed Dao Mei seven times in a row and Yu Hui's lifelong enemy.
And FPX spent a lot of money to hire Yaqi, a top student who returned from overseas and studied at Duke University. FPX formed an elite team of behind-the-scenes analysts headed by her.
What Yu Hui was worried about was never the few people on FPX’s surface, let alone their second-hand coach Zhan Ma.
What is scary is that with the addition of Doinb, the three core souls of FPX on the court, off the court, and behind the scenes have been completely integrated.
Many people say that FPX is the team that has taken the word team to its peak, but they may not know that the concept of FPX team does not only refer to the five people on the field.
That is massive data calculations, accurate BP predictions, and the extraordinary competitive state of the players.
The entire club worked together perfectly and worked together to create a Phoenix team that could still have three points left after winning the world championship.
This theoretically perfect team is almost impossible to defeat
But the current FPX has not reached this point because they do not have enough major competition wins to cultivate players' confidence.
What's more, when it comes to the logistics team, IG's team strength is not bad at all because Principal Wang is generous enough.
Kkoma is not the only one who changed jobs. IG, the team behind him, also hired half of them. In terms of professionalism, the two sides should be about equal.
IG has basically been chewing hard bones along the way this year. With enough experience, it is obviously not that easy for FPX to surpass IG and win the championship with one increase and one decrease.
"I feel like SKT is going to die~"
Ah P, who was watching the game, suddenly said with a smile, and Caps and others also nodded.
They are all professional players, so the perspective of watching the game is naturally different from that of ordinary viewers. In SKT's second game, Khan's state was very wrong.
This is not only reflected in the various inexplicable sudden deaths and bans of Khan's Kennen, but also in the fact that team signal communication on SKT's small map becomes less and less as time goes by.
Judging from the full footage shown at the end of the second game, both Teddy and Khan looked bad.
Two disastrous defeats may not be a big setback in the eyes of the other three veterans, but obviously the situation is completely different with the young Teddy and the crushed Khan.
You must know that although SKT is the summer champion, the team became as stable as iron during the World Championship.
But in fact, SKT is not that invincible in the summer split. The state of the team fluctuated greatly in the early and middle stages of the season. It was only in the later stages that SKT started to look like a champion after winning more.
In other words, SKT's self-confidence was built step by step, and finally it gained the momentum of a king.
But in the first two games, IG completely defeated the opponent in the areas where SKT is best, which will obviously cause a devastating blow to their self-confidence.
It's hard to say that SKT can still adjust now. Under such circumstances, they are running head-on against the surging IG. I'm afraid SKT won't be able to survive the fourth game.
