Full-time: Starting from Ye Xiu vs. Faker

Chapter 412: Quota Allocation and Expedition (Part )
Just like that, without the other teams knowing, more than a week before the LPL bubble match started,
The entire LGM team gave themselves a powerful morale buff.

Coincidentally, LGM, supported by the Optimistic Family, happens to be the team that benefits most from the morale boost.

As we all know, LGM has no shortage of talent. Even in the first year of LPL when talented youngsters were everywhere, LGM's talent was definitely something that could be considered impressive.

And such a team actually had to play in the relegation match in the league at one point, which shows how unsuccessful their talent development was.

This has proven for the umpteenth time how important a good training group is to a team composed entirely of young people.

After a whole year of LPL baptism and the investment from the sponsor behind it, LGM's training team has actually made considerable progress compared to when it was first formed.
If not for this, LGM would not have been able to evolve all the way in the second half of the summer season and successfully make it to the playoffs just relying on the encouragement from defeating Fanhua.

But it is obvious that such progress alone is not enough to truly develop the potential of these young people to the fullest.

But on the other hand, this also means that the upper limit of what they can discover is still quite high.

However, teenagers aged 17 or 18 are at the age of full vigor and vitality, and the appeal of "fighting for a chance to fight for the country" is still too unfair to them.

So a week in advance, the young men with red eyes began their most serious preparations since the battle against the water ghosts of Fanhua.

They don't expect to defeat Fanhua again, they just want to earn themselves a fourth seed spot.

So the question is, what are their two competitors, Xuanqi and Yizhan, doing at this time?

Uh...they all ignored the little brother who was eyeing them covetously from behind, and focused most of their energy on studying each other.

Just like the complicated relationship between the three great families, the two teams Xuanqi and Yizhan are also old enemies.

Whether it is spring or summer, the first big game of the playoffs will undoubtedly be a fight to the death between the two teams.

In addition, after the old Blue Rain disintegrated, it became the Three Pure Ones. Xuanqi and Yizhan were both considered partial recipients of Blue Rain's legacy.

Birds of a feather flock together, so it's natural that they will fight.

Anyway, whether it was Song Xiao, Zheng Xuan or Xu Jingxi, they would be so excited that they couldn't sleep at the thought of being able to send the other person away personally.

In the spring, Xuanqi relied on the advantages of the training group and operations to win a small victory over Yizhan and successfully defeated Yizhan in the semi-finals.

In the summer, Yi Zhan, who was full of resentment, made a comeback. With a large investment and the money added by Lou Guanning himself, they tried their best to strengthen their training team.

Lou Guanning himself is recognized as one of the players with the greatest growth potential in the LPL. He has also undergone another evolution in the summer season and has shown signs of becoming the third super top laner in the LPL.

I originally thought that with so many evolutions, I would be able to avenge my defeat at the hands of Xuanqi in the spring season.

As luck would have it, the summer season of lol has become a version with a greatly increased jungle center, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a jungle core version.

Xuanqi's jungler is Li Hua, who brought his All-Star qualities from Glory to LPL. Even Baozi from Xingxin found it difficult to get any good results at his hands.

In the jungle position, he has an absolute advantage over Yi Zhan.

Unfortunately, Lou Guanning, the new strong point that Yizhan Xiatian had worked so hard to develop, was completely defeated by Song Xiao because of the incompatibility between his own style and the version.

After all, he is just a super top laner seedling, not a real super top laner, and he doesn't have Tang Rou's ability to force his way through people against the version.

So the playoffs of the summer season were almost the same script, Yizhan was defeated by Xuanqi again.

Lou Guanning was so angry...

After this defeat, LPL viewers have changed from listing Yizhan and Xuanqi in the same tier as rivals to starting to consider whether to list Xuanqi in a separate tier and call it the strongest team after the Big Three.

This must have made Yi Zhan go crazy.

Therefore, during all the subsequent matches including the loser group of the semi-finals, the entire Yi Zhan team was like crazy, studying every possible weakness that could be exploited in their nemesis named Xuan Qi.

To do this, almost all their experience was exhausted.

As for Xuanqi, as the winners, they do not feel such a strong sense of crisis, but the problem is that their playoff schedule is longer, and they have to play one more round of Fanhua in the bubble match.

Even if they themselves did not think they could snatch the third seed spot from the unyielding Fanhua, even if it was just to lose with dignity,
They also have to spend a lot of time preparing for the battle against Fanhua, whose strength is obviously higher than theirs and who has many countermeasures against them.

The remaining time is probably only enough for them to study their old rival, Yi Zhan.

As for LGM…

Judging from their performance in the summer games and playoffs, paying a little less attention to them shouldn't be fatal... right?

This is not just the two teams being arrogant.

LGM's performance in the summer season can be said to have started low and ended high, but then began to decline little by little.

In the period after defeating Fanhua, the recognition of the entire alliance and the ecstasy of defeating a strong enemy made LGM at that time in an unstoppable state.

Apart from the fact that the three great families were too strong to defeat, during that period of time, they had gone through a devilish schedule and won battle after battle, snatching a victory each from Yizhan and Xuanqi.

At that time, the entire league was exclaiming that LGM was about to soar to the sky as a dark horse.

As for fans of the Optimist Family, they are already researching what to choose for this year's champion skin.

But as the influence of that comeback gradually faded, the aura of encouragement brought by the victory also gradually dissipated, and the LGM team began to lack motivation again.

I have to say, this team really has the blood of fun and entertainment flowing in its veins. Compared to other teams that were born for battle, they really give people a feeling of experiencing professional life.

When the novelty wore off and the enthusiasm was gone, LGM's condition and performance immediately experienced a decline.

The last few games of the summer season were played with difficulty, and in the first round of the playoffs, they were eliminated in the first round against Happy 3-0.

Even though Guohao performed well in that 3-0 match, and LGM even had a good chance of a comeback, but 3-0 is still 3-0.

Coupled with the less stable performance in the final few games of the summer season, the threat level of LGM in the minds of Xuanqi and Yizhan has been greatly reduced.

This is probably another team like Spring Zhu Xian...right?

Compared to being wary of a "pseudo-strong team" that seems to be short-lived, it seems that concentrating on crushing their old rivals is the top priority for both teams.

So with this fluke mentality, they chose to use most of their experience to deal with each other.

Even though they had to face LGM's Yi Zhan in the first game, the research on them was relatively limited, and the main samples were placed on their games in the late regular season and playoffs.

There is no doubt that this is a gamble with a huge stake.

Originally, if LGM had maintained its form since the summer season, the gamble of these two teams should have been a sure success.

After all, as the spirit brought by the flowers gradually dissipated, the combat effectiveness of this team, which is very dependent on the team's condition, is indeed declining.

But who can blame a legendary table tennis player for giving the entire team a shot in the arm?
So, on the second day after Fanhua defeated Xuanqi 5- in the BO and won the third seed, LGD's road to counterattack began.

In the first game, Yi Zhan, who was still 100% alert to Xuan Qi, even wanted to hide something. They thought that they might not need anything too new to fight LGM, let alone use their trump cards. It was not until the crazy LGM took three heads in less than five minutes that they realized something was wrong.

Although it has been a long time since they last competed with Professor LGM, it is obvious that LGM is not so powerful.

After being beaten from start to finish by LGM in the first game, Yi Zhan, who realized something was wrong, didn't care about hiding any tactics when facing Xuan Qi, and began to use his trump card without hesitation.

But they still underestimated the degree to which the LGM team could restrain a team like Yi Zhan after their collective enthusiasm.

Yizhan’s strongest points are in the upper and lower side lanes, while the mid and jungle are random players found in the rankings. Their combat effectiveness is relatively weaker, especially in front of the top mid and jungle players in the league, they seem a bit lacking.

Coincidentally, LGM's two strongest points are mid and jungle. Although they are not top-notch, they are also first-rate.

Especially their midfielder Hai Chao, whose mediocre appearance and unremarkable experience among a group of handsome guys make him rarely attract the attention of fans.

So much so that most people overlook the fact that he is also an extremely strong mid laner who is among the top five in the league. It can even be said that there is almost no one who can compare with him except the Big Three.

After being given a shot of chicken blood, this team went all out and defeated a strong team like Fanhua with a score of 2-0.

And now, after regaining their confidence through a summer of pretty good performance, another shot of chicken blood with a stronger effect has been injected into these young men.

Yi Zhan suffered such a heavy loss.

Because it was a BO5, they wouldn't be shut out like Fanhua in the regular season.

However, they had very limited countermeasures against LGM, and obviously could not quickly recover from the state of LGM members going berserk.

LGM used the mid and jungle as the axis, and relied on desperate invasions and high-intensity linkage to pierce the direction of Yi Zhan into a sieve.

When Yizhan's crystal was breached by the rampaging LGM in the fourth game, everyone, including the five players of LGM, from inside to outside the field, were all confused.

The live broadcast room was filled with question marks.

At the moment the crystal exploded, Lou Guanning felt like he was dreaming.

Is this against LGM?
Coincidentally, the director of this show was just as confused as he was.

In such a decisive moment, the close-up shot should definitely be given to the winner.

However, because the director himself did not react, the camera stayed on Lou Guanning's close-up for several seconds after the game ended before cutting off.

Therefore, Lou Guanning's action of wiping his eyes and scratching his head in disbelief became one of the most commonly used emoticons in LPL.

Yi Zhan was sent, and the entire alliance was dumbfounded.

Especially the mysterious ones.

No, we have studied so much about how to play Tianyi Zhan, and in the end you tell us how to play against LGM?

Isn't that how the script is written?
Where is my Yi Zhan? Give it back to me!

With the unlucky guy taking the blame, Xuanqi naturally couldn't underestimate this team that was just about to have the word "dark horse" written on their faces like Yizhan did.

The fourth seed ticket is just one step away and cannot be lost at this time.

But the problem is, no matter how awakened and serious they are now, they have to face a cruel fact:

They only have less than twenty-four hours to prepare for battle.

Because of the painful experience of Gangzi in another world being defeated in that BO10 match, it is impossible for this world's bubble match to play two BO5s in one day.
But due to time constraints, we played one BO5 a day.

In one day, even if Xuanqi’s training team is very strong and invincible, what can they study in time?

On the other hand, LGM relied on their explosive growth to achieve another big victory. It was not just a simple change in their confidence and mental outlook.

They defeated two strong teams twice in a row by relying on their explosive willpower. In the vagueness, they gradually formed a consensus in their minds:

It seems that as long as we stand together shouting courage, bonds, beliefs, etc., we can defeat any powerful enemy.

No matter how naive and unreliable this consensus is, at such a critical juncture, the psychological implications it can bring to LGM are extremely terrifying.

The next day, LGM, whose eyes were red from excitement, and Xuanqi, whose eyes were red from working on countermeasures all night, played the most exciting game in the bubble match stage.

The two sides fought quite evenly.

Compared with hard power, mysterious and strange are better;
Compared with morale and status, LGM is obviously better.

Comparing strategies, um, sorry, I never thought I would play LGM and I only had one night to prepare.

On the other hand, he didn't expect that he could really pull off the Righteous Kill. Although he was prepared for Xuanqi, he was limited by the level of his own training team and the quality of the countermeasures he made was also limited.

There's no other choice, just fight hard.

Therefore, this game became a rare match since the playoffs in which neither side played much tactics and focused purely on hard power.

It was not until the fifth game when the battle song sounded in the stadium that LGM's slight mental advantage became their final magic weapon for victory.

Xuanqi has a burden. They were originally the team most favored to become the fourth seed. Winning is their duty, and losing would be a surprise.

So every time LGM wins a game, Xuanqi will play more urgently.

This time, Zhang Yiwei had no countermeasures and no good way to help Xuanqi stabilize their mentality.

LGM, on the other hand, held the mentality from the very beginning that if they won, they would make a lot of money, and if they lost, they would not lose anything, and if they got the quota, they would instantly gain glory for themselves.

The tradition of the optimistic family tilted the scales of the goddess of victory in their favor at this moment.

Two days, two BO5s, nine games, when Xuanqi's crystal finally exploded, everyone felt like a dream.

No, can you really fight for your country?

Even playing at home!

Now, who knows how chaotic the LPL will be. An athlete named Wang may suffer again.

After all, even if LGM doesn't win a single game in the next S game, they can still guarantee a place in the top 24.

The top 24 is better than the top 32, there seems to be nothing wrong with that...

perhaps.

(End of this chapter)