Chapter 223 Death Zone
Valve's embarrassment is justified. In fact, the upcoming Epicenter Cup also took a lot of effort when deciding on the list of invited teams.
The organizer's original plan was that each of the four major regions would have a direct-invitation team, which was originally scheduled to be announced after the Kiev Major.But the results of the Southeast Asian teams this season are really not flattering, no team has even the slightest achievement.
Coupled with IG's good results in two consecutive competitions, the organizers had to adjust the direct invitation list and set five direct invitation teams:
Serenity, IG, OG, VP, EG.
Because of the change in the number of direct invitations, the organizers of the Epicenter Cup even adjusted the scale of the event, expanding the originally planned 8 participating teams to 10. Except for the 5 direct invitation teams, each of the four major competition areas will determine the only one qualifier. .
The last participating team will be decided through public voting, and this spot will fall to Na'vi, who has two Asian championships and one championship at TI, and has an extremely large number of fans.
The Epicenter Cup this time is the last chance for all teams that have not yet received direct invitations to TI.So even in the qualifiers, the participating teams took it seriously with a 100% attitude.
After the hegemony of the Americas, EG, was directly invited, it was the Planet Odd team that broke through.It may be unfamiliar to just listen to the name, but the players are all old acquaintances of everyone.
Planet odd, as a newly established professional e-sports club, acquired the ThunderBird team not long ago, and the latter is not a new army, it is the original team of DC.
DC has been in a precarious season this season, its results have been tepid, and the management of the team has also become a problem, so it has to change teams in the middle of the season and seek sponsors.
Fortunately, the players still maintain their enthusiasm for TI. After changing the team name twice, they once again launched an impact on TI.
It was no surprise that the EU/CIS qualifiers went to Liquid.
Now, the strongest teams in this competition area are OG and VP. With both of them being directly invited, it is only natural for Liquid to break out of the encirclement.
As the only team in the European Division to win the intercontinental championship this season, Liquid's strength should not be underestimated, regardless of the gold content of this competition.
In order to qualify for the Epicenter Cup and then compete for the direct invitation to TI, Liquid did their best in the qualifiers, and clearly demonstrated their strength higher than the rest of the teams in the same competition area. This qualifier was easily won Freehand.
On the other hand, Southeast Asia, which is currently the least competitive, is a bit difficult to look directly at. The entire qualifiers were played fiercely, but in the eyes of industry insiders, it is completely a pecking of chickens.
After some elusive battles, the final qualifiers went to Clutch Gaming.
Of course, no one is optimistic about what they can achieve in the upcoming Epicenter Cup.
Overall, the qualifiers in these three divisions went relatively smoothly. Almost after the group stage ended, it was basically possible to guess which team would have the last laugh.
But the situation in China is not so clear.
Passion, NewBee, EHOME, VG.J, LGD, LFY, VG, IG.V.
Eight teams gathered together, and the battle situation can only be described as unpredictable.
Although the final place was won by the passion team, they had high expectations before the game. They had a bad start and unexpectedly fell into a hard fight in the first round. They lost 1:2 to the LFY team that had just undergone reorganization and fell into the loser group.
Immediately afterwards, LFY, who completed the blocking of passion, was defeated by VG.J 2:1 in the second round.
In the winner's group finals, just when the audience thought that VG.J had the chance to win, the result once again exceeded everyone's expectations.VG.J, who showed great strength in the first two rounds, was sent away by LGD cleanly 2:0!
After struggling for almost an entire season, LGD seems to have finally found the right direction. Maybe can be said to have done a lot of hard work during this period of time, and he often pulled Jing Zhun to practice more.
The game version of the qualifiers is just updated 7.06, and the requirements for the mid laner's individual ability far exceed the previous 7.05.In two consecutive rounds, VG.J's mid laner Freeze was beaten out of shape by Maybe, and the mid lane was completely shattered.
It can be said that LGD's victory against VG.J was almost entirely due to the huge advantage played by the middle lane.The Rhythm Demon, who joined in the middle of the season, has been in a bit of a state recently, and often habitually sends a wave or two inexplicably after the end of the laning period.
Before the game, LGD was actually not favored by people, because LGD didn't achieve any results this season, and they didn't even go abroad much.Except for LGD and VG, the other six teams have already made their mark in the international arena.
It just so happens that such a LGD team that no one is optimistic about has won consecutive victories all the way and reached the finals of the Epicenter Cup China Qualifiers!
Although many people began to expect LGD to break through and show its strength in the Epicenter Cup.But there are also many people who are worried because of LGD's weak competition experience, for fear that LGD will lose face in the Epicenter Cup after winning the China preliminaries.
However, just when these people wanted to give LGD the title of "King of Civil War", the Passion team, which fell into the loser's bracket in the first round, suddenly woke up and quietly completed the feat of one-for-four in the loser's bracket , and achieved revenge against LFY in the finals of the loser group, making it back to the qualifier finals!
Along the way, LGD's advantage is almost all in the middle, and the performance of the side lanes is quite average.
In the face of VG.J, even though the opponent's inferior lane is as smart as rOtK, LGD's superior lane did not play any advantage, making it extremely rare for rOtK not to be blown up during the laning phase.
When encountering passion, LGD knows what cruelty is!
Maybe can't take advantage of the jump knife at all. Although he is not suppressed, he can't even think about playing an advantage.However, there is nothing wrong with the balance of power in the middle, and LGD's side lanes are the problem.
The dominant lane duo of Ame and Yao, the lane ability is really not flattering. Passion's tactical focus is generally on the disadvantaged lane. The combination of xinq and iceice is almost punishing the opponent in the lane. They beat LGD's advantaged lane for two consecutive rounds. The third position of xinq is completely hammering on Ame's head.
The Rhythm Demon King's performance is quite normal, but the old problems since the start of the qualifiers have not been corrected. In the case of gaining an advantage in the laning, he was fired by passion for two consecutive rounds because of his aggressive positioning. Lost, ruined the hard-won advantage.
Maybe played very hard, always trying to use his personal ability to improve the situation, but what gave him a headache was that passion always found a nearly perfect countermeasure, which made Maybe almost impossible to start.
Of course!
Passion, who has been training with serenity for a long time, is completely used to facing an unfat enemy mid laner in the mid-term, which is also the key to their victory over LGD.
And the ID of this "enemy mid laner" is Serenity.Calculator!
Maybe after persisting in hard training for a period of time, his level has indeed improved, but it's not like he didn't work hard in jumping the knife.From Tiao Dao's point of view, he can handle it with ease at a level like maybe, even with ease.
Passion bloodbathed LGD with a score of 2:0 in the final.
The result was wonderful, but the members of Passion felt lucky to survive the catastrophe.
Losing in the first round put a lot of pressure on them. If this qualifier is repeated, they really cannot guarantee that they will perform the miracle of one-to-five again.
It is also a pity for LFY, who was eliminated in the finals of the loser group. They were not completely at a disadvantage against Passion, and they even had a good chance of winning.
If they can successfully defeat Passion and enter the finals, they are actually quite confident.In fact, as two teams of the same club, LFY has a clear advantage in the training match with LGD!
In the current Chinese competition area, when the two big brothers, Serenity and IG, do not participate in the competition, the competition for the pre-selection places is even more intense.
Worthy of the name of the death zone!
This chapter was spent all day today, you are right, I haven't got off work yet...Chapter 2 depends on the situation
Send it out first, it is estimated that it will be more than ten o'clock when I get home today, and I will have to work overtime tomorrow.
My current job is an accountant of a foreign company. I am really busy at the end of the month. I really don’t have time. I’m sorry.
(End of this chapter)
Valve's embarrassment is justified. In fact, the upcoming Epicenter Cup also took a lot of effort when deciding on the list of invited teams.
The organizer's original plan was that each of the four major regions would have a direct-invitation team, which was originally scheduled to be announced after the Kiev Major.But the results of the Southeast Asian teams this season are really not flattering, no team has even the slightest achievement.
Coupled with IG's good results in two consecutive competitions, the organizers had to adjust the direct invitation list and set five direct invitation teams:
Serenity, IG, OG, VP, EG.
Because of the change in the number of direct invitations, the organizers of the Epicenter Cup even adjusted the scale of the event, expanding the originally planned 8 participating teams to 10. Except for the 5 direct invitation teams, each of the four major competition areas will determine the only one qualifier. .
The last participating team will be decided through public voting, and this spot will fall to Na'vi, who has two Asian championships and one championship at TI, and has an extremely large number of fans.
The Epicenter Cup this time is the last chance for all teams that have not yet received direct invitations to TI.So even in the qualifiers, the participating teams took it seriously with a 100% attitude.
After the hegemony of the Americas, EG, was directly invited, it was the Planet Odd team that broke through.It may be unfamiliar to just listen to the name, but the players are all old acquaintances of everyone.
Planet odd, as a newly established professional e-sports club, acquired the ThunderBird team not long ago, and the latter is not a new army, it is the original team of DC.
DC has been in a precarious season this season, its results have been tepid, and the management of the team has also become a problem, so it has to change teams in the middle of the season and seek sponsors.
Fortunately, the players still maintain their enthusiasm for TI. After changing the team name twice, they once again launched an impact on TI.
It was no surprise that the EU/CIS qualifiers went to Liquid.
Now, the strongest teams in this competition area are OG and VP. With both of them being directly invited, it is only natural for Liquid to break out of the encirclement.
As the only team in the European Division to win the intercontinental championship this season, Liquid's strength should not be underestimated, regardless of the gold content of this competition.
In order to qualify for the Epicenter Cup and then compete for the direct invitation to TI, Liquid did their best in the qualifiers, and clearly demonstrated their strength higher than the rest of the teams in the same competition area. This qualifier was easily won Freehand.
On the other hand, Southeast Asia, which is currently the least competitive, is a bit difficult to look directly at. The entire qualifiers were played fiercely, but in the eyes of industry insiders, it is completely a pecking of chickens.
After some elusive battles, the final qualifiers went to Clutch Gaming.
Of course, no one is optimistic about what they can achieve in the upcoming Epicenter Cup.
Overall, the qualifiers in these three divisions went relatively smoothly. Almost after the group stage ended, it was basically possible to guess which team would have the last laugh.
But the situation in China is not so clear.
Passion, NewBee, EHOME, VG.J, LGD, LFY, VG, IG.V.
Eight teams gathered together, and the battle situation can only be described as unpredictable.
Although the final place was won by the passion team, they had high expectations before the game. They had a bad start and unexpectedly fell into a hard fight in the first round. They lost 1:2 to the LFY team that had just undergone reorganization and fell into the loser group.
Immediately afterwards, LFY, who completed the blocking of passion, was defeated by VG.J 2:1 in the second round.
In the winner's group finals, just when the audience thought that VG.J had the chance to win, the result once again exceeded everyone's expectations.VG.J, who showed great strength in the first two rounds, was sent away by LGD cleanly 2:0!
After struggling for almost an entire season, LGD seems to have finally found the right direction. Maybe can be said to have done a lot of hard work during this period of time, and he often pulled Jing Zhun to practice more.
The game version of the qualifiers is just updated 7.06, and the requirements for the mid laner's individual ability far exceed the previous 7.05.In two consecutive rounds, VG.J's mid laner Freeze was beaten out of shape by Maybe, and the mid lane was completely shattered.
It can be said that LGD's victory against VG.J was almost entirely due to the huge advantage played by the middle lane.The Rhythm Demon, who joined in the middle of the season, has been in a bit of a state recently, and often habitually sends a wave or two inexplicably after the end of the laning period.
Before the game, LGD was actually not favored by people, because LGD didn't achieve any results this season, and they didn't even go abroad much.Except for LGD and VG, the other six teams have already made their mark in the international arena.
It just so happens that such a LGD team that no one is optimistic about has won consecutive victories all the way and reached the finals of the Epicenter Cup China Qualifiers!
Although many people began to expect LGD to break through and show its strength in the Epicenter Cup.But there are also many people who are worried because of LGD's weak competition experience, for fear that LGD will lose face in the Epicenter Cup after winning the China preliminaries.
However, just when these people wanted to give LGD the title of "King of Civil War", the Passion team, which fell into the loser's bracket in the first round, suddenly woke up and quietly completed the feat of one-for-four in the loser's bracket , and achieved revenge against LFY in the finals of the loser group, making it back to the qualifier finals!
Along the way, LGD's advantage is almost all in the middle, and the performance of the side lanes is quite average.
In the face of VG.J, even though the opponent's inferior lane is as smart as rOtK, LGD's superior lane did not play any advantage, making it extremely rare for rOtK not to be blown up during the laning phase.
When encountering passion, LGD knows what cruelty is!
Maybe can't take advantage of the jump knife at all. Although he is not suppressed, he can't even think about playing an advantage.However, there is nothing wrong with the balance of power in the middle, and LGD's side lanes are the problem.
The dominant lane duo of Ame and Yao, the lane ability is really not flattering. Passion's tactical focus is generally on the disadvantaged lane. The combination of xinq and iceice is almost punishing the opponent in the lane. They beat LGD's advantaged lane for two consecutive rounds. The third position of xinq is completely hammering on Ame's head.
The Rhythm Demon King's performance is quite normal, but the old problems since the start of the qualifiers have not been corrected. In the case of gaining an advantage in the laning, he was fired by passion for two consecutive rounds because of his aggressive positioning. Lost, ruined the hard-won advantage.
Maybe played very hard, always trying to use his personal ability to improve the situation, but what gave him a headache was that passion always found a nearly perfect countermeasure, which made Maybe almost impossible to start.
Of course!
Passion, who has been training with serenity for a long time, is completely used to facing an unfat enemy mid laner in the mid-term, which is also the key to their victory over LGD.
And the ID of this "enemy mid laner" is Serenity.Calculator!
Maybe after persisting in hard training for a period of time, his level has indeed improved, but it's not like he didn't work hard in jumping the knife.From Tiao Dao's point of view, he can handle it with ease at a level like maybe, even with ease.
Passion bloodbathed LGD with a score of 2:0 in the final.
The result was wonderful, but the members of Passion felt lucky to survive the catastrophe.
Losing in the first round put a lot of pressure on them. If this qualifier is repeated, they really cannot guarantee that they will perform the miracle of one-to-five again.
It is also a pity for LFY, who was eliminated in the finals of the loser group. They were not completely at a disadvantage against Passion, and they even had a good chance of winning.
If they can successfully defeat Passion and enter the finals, they are actually quite confident.In fact, as two teams of the same club, LFY has a clear advantage in the training match with LGD!
In the current Chinese competition area, when the two big brothers, Serenity and IG, do not participate in the competition, the competition for the pre-selection places is even more intense.
Worthy of the name of the death zone!
This chapter was spent all day today, you are right, I haven't got off work yet...Chapter 2 depends on the situation
Send it out first, it is estimated that it will be more than ten o'clock when I get home today, and I will have to work overtime tomorrow.
My current job is an accountant of a foreign company. I am really busy at the end of the month. I really don’t have time. I’m sorry.
(End of this chapter)
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