Full-time: Starting from Ye Xiu vs. Faker

Chapter 435: In the first round, some are happy and some are sad.

Soon, the first three days of the group stage were over.

Although it is a BO1 within the group, the group stage can be roughly divided into two small stages:
In the first three days, four to six games are scheduled each day, and all four groups may have games to play until each team has played against two opponents.

The competition at this stage is relatively relaxed, with each team playing at most one game a day, giving them ample time to prepare, study and review.

In other words, this stage is to allow these teams that have basically never played against each other before to become familiar with the intensity of the game and the combat effectiveness of their opponents.

But the next stage is completely different.

In the next four days, one group will be formed each day to complete all eight games in the group.

Each team will play four games in one day, playing against three different teams in each of the four games.

The intensity has increased, and it is not only a test of physical strength and tactics, but also a huge test of the players' mentality.

If a team loses a bad game in the early stage and loses its mentality, which leads to a complete collapse of form, then a team that originally had a chance to compete for the championship may be eliminated in the group stage and be eliminated in the round of 16.

Especially in BO1 mode where the opponent changes every game, the players may have to change their tactics on a large scale multiple times in one game.

Unless there is a team that can rely on sufficiently strong comprehensive combat power to dominate the world with one trick.

Now that the first round is over, if we have to describe the atmosphere among the participating teams, it would probably be a sense of anxiety.

而且是很滑稽的，无论是2-0，1-1还是0-2，都很焦虑的氛围。

Let’s not talk about 0-2, although they still have a theoretical possibility of winning. As long as they win the next three or four games, they will definitely have a chance.

Even if the score is only 2-4, there is still a theoretical possibility of an overtime.

But the problem is, the first round was so fragmented, can we really win that much in the next round?
Although there were indeed many problems in the first round of the game, such as insufficient understanding of the opponent and insufficient adjustment of the state, it is obvious that in the face of the glaring numbers, these objective reasons sound like excuses.

And when some people pay overall attention to the situation of these four 0-2 teams, the anxiety level of the players in a certain region will double.

Currently, there are a total of four teams that have suffered a 0-2 endgame, namely Vietnam's GAM, Japan's DFM, and...LEC's OG and MAD.

Yes, that’s right, EU’s third and fourth seeds all lost.

OG lost to Xingxin and KT respectively, and there were no good resistance scenes in either game.

MAD lost to SKT and C9 after fierce battles, allowing these two teams that lost to Fanhua to at least get a victory to stabilize their morale.

Although it is not shameful to lose to a strong team, losing to all four strong teams is very worrying.

EU is aiming to win the championship this year, and is even eager to avenge its defeat at the Spring MSI.

The result is a series of failures?
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However, after all, OG and MAD are only the third and fourth seeds, and were not given high expectations.

If we can make it to the quarterfinals, it will be a victory. If we can’t make it… it’s barely understandable.

But why are you, the number one and two seeds, playing so stumblingly?

The first one is FNC. They got badly beaten by Blue Rain and lost quite cleanly. Then they met the Vietnamese team in the second round and got back on track.

Judging from the strength SSG displayed in the battle with Blue Rain, it is estimated that if FNC encounters SSG, it will be in great danger.

This resulted in FNC only winning 1-1 against GAM, which looked far from relaxing.

They failed to meet SSG in the first round, which meant that in the second round, they had to either defeat Blue Rain or at least win a game from SSG before they could continue fighting.

The situation feels somewhat murky.

As for G2, the situation was even more magical.

Group D is the only group that has no 2-0 situation, and similarly, no 0-2 situation.
Not only do all four teams have a 1-1 record, but if you look closely, it's actually a closed loop.

Excellent Era lost to G2, but then fought against LGM in the LPL civil war for minutes and finally won.
After LGM lost to Excellent Era, they defeated Flash Wolves in the next game with the same tension.

And then, Flash Wolves turned around and gave G2 a bad face...

All four games were tense battles with back and forth. There was no situation where one team crushed the other. This was enough to prove the strength of these four teams and the gap between them did not seem to be that big.

But the question is, before the game, Group D was the group with the least suspense?

At that time, in the minds of most people, G2 was a strong team that was far ahead of the other three teams.

After all, the other three teams, North American No. 2, Taiwan No. , and Chinese No. , all sound far less powerful than G, the runner-up team.

According to most people's guesses, this group will almost certainly be a situation where G2 shouts "Are you here to compete for second place?"

Who would have known that these four teams would actually fight back and forth in this meat grinder, with no one giving in?
This really makes LEC viewers feel very uneasy.

These four teams have been fighting back and forth, which is not a good sign.

LEC#1=LPL#4?

LEC#1=LMS#1?
LEC#1=LCS#2?

Each one sounds so unacceptable, especially the second seed of LCS.

“Is this the darkest year for the LEC?”

"Have some courage, G2, and stop thinking about shooting your cheesy little videos!"

"What's the point of marketing when everyone is going home?"

G2 has always acted in a high-profile manner, especially when it comes to making trouble.

For example, in this year's S game, they not only interacted intensively on social media, but also shot a lot of short videos in various styles.

These include very "G2-style tough talk" before the game, as well as some local travel vlogs.

When they were still the noble MSI runner-up, the king of LEC, and one of the favorites to win the championship, there would naturally not be much opposition to playing these things.

But the problem is that now they have fought back and forth with a group of teams that are not as strong as them on paper. Then all their previous "evidence" that they were not careful enough, not hardworking enough, and not serious enough,
At this moment, they will turn into boomerangs shooting towards them.

So, the verbal and written criticism began.

The funny characters that usually attract traffic have become "evidence" that they don't take the game seriously.

Those short videos that fans usually love to watch are now drowned out by a flood of criticism that they only know how to run their business and cheat fans out of their money.

Even though G2 didn't actually go on a tour before the game, and the people who filmed the vlogs were actually the anchors they signed, it was useless. The audience didn't listen to these explanations. They only knew one thing:

You better get back into form and win all the way to the finals.

If you can't do it, then wait to swim back from China, or cross back from the battlefield in Crimea!

There is no way. In the runner-up zone in the spring, two teams are about to be eliminated and two are struggling in the summer. Not even one team can come up with the attitude of "I am sure to advance".

反观隔壁呢？LPL足足三支2-0一支1-1，LCK也是一支2-0两支1-1，而且两个1-1输得都不难看。

In comparison, LEC is really worrying for the audience.

In addition to G2 being under pressure, the other No. 1 seed, C1, who was tied at 9-, was also in a panic.

They won one share by bullying the fourth seed of LEC, and the one they lost was because they were treated like a pig shark by Fanhua.

The only thing they can be thankful for is that SKT's performance does not seem to be as perfect as their other two seeds.

Their probability of reaching the quarterfinals is at least much higher than that of FNC next door.

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Of course, the prerequisite is that SKT can maintain its original state.

But even so, there are already many viewers who were North American War Eagles during the summer season and couldn't wait to get rid of Excellent Era, but now choose to seamlessly switch to become Excellent Era's ten-year-old fans.

I have been supporting Excellent Era since the Ye Xiu era!
In the 2-0 zone, the situation is slightly clearer, but none of the four teams looked even slightly relaxed after the game.

The status of these four teams is equally delicate.

Blue Rain defeated SSG and achieved two consecutive victories, but the intensity of the game against SSG was far beyond their imagination, which made the already cautious Yu Wenzhou pay more attention to the strength of LCK.

The No. 3 seed is so strong, what about the No. 1 seed? This is no longer an ordinary foreign team, they must fight hard!
Therefore, Blue Rain not only did not relax in the past few days because of its good performance, but the intensity of training and other aspects were increased to a higher level, showing a determination not to give up until it has fully understood the LCK.

The "LCK No. 1 seed" that they feared was caught in mutual suspicion with Happy.

B组的情况很有意思，没有1-1的队伍，只有2-0和0-2.
DFM and OG have not won a single game so far, while KT and Happy have not lost a single game so far because they have never met each other.

Moreover, in the four games played so far, both teams have won quite cleanly.

The most exaggerated thing is that during the game, the two teams unexpectedly showed outstanding individual abilities, vigorous offensiveness and unstoppable team fighting capabilities, which are very similar characteristics.

This made them even more wary of each other.

There is no doubt that when the Group B special day comes, compared to the suspense about who will advance, the most anticipated thing for the audience is whether Xingxin and KT will fight until the end.

Compared to these three teams whose nerves are stretched to the limit, Fanhua's situation is indeed better. After all, there are no particularly difficult opponents in their group, at least not before SKT completes its evolution.

But they began to worry about another thing:

Our MSI championship won’t depreciate, right?
Everyone in Fanhua took a look at the situation in each group. Those teams that had fought passionately with them in MSI, now except for themselves, there is not even a 2-0 team, and most of them are struggling at 1-1.

And the gap between them and top players like KT, Happy, and Blue Rain is almost visible to the naked eye.

We were clearly the champion team in every major region in the spring, right?
Why they became weaker, Fanhua didn't know.

But they know that if this continues, some people will doubt how real the MSI championship is.

If Fanhua does not want to be deprived of the world championship title, then next they must get themselves a new championship trophy.

In fact, Fanhua accidentally discovered one of the biggest drawbacks of MSI:

Because MSI is usually followed by a relatively large version update, and this version update will definitely target those tactics and routines that performed most strongly in MSI.

This means that the strong teams in the MSI arena will almost certainly face a wave of official weakening in the coming summer, so that their overall competitiveness in the S game in the fall will decline due to version incompatibility.

Unless they are teams with extremely strong comprehensive strength that can fight their way out of the version, or teams with extremely high tactical qualities that can adapt to a variety of different tactical play styles.

This results in those champion teams that shine brightly in the MSI often having a negative buff to a greater or lesser extent in the S game, and then failing for all sorts of strange reasons.

The RNG in S8, 11, 12, and the geng in S14 have all been affected to varying degrees by some major version changes.

In addition, in the world over there, the rewards and recognition given to the MSI champions are far from enough,

Unknowingly, the MSI championship has even become a negative asset.

Even though they came to this parallel world, after learning from the experience of the previous world, Pei Yunteng had asked the operations and development team of lol to be more restrained in this regard, but this kind of thinking is still difficult to completely avoid.

So, after MSI, the heavy-armored warrior top laners who were originally the answer level of the version were severely nerfed one after another. It has been several months, and only a few super top laners dared to take charge again.

The purpose of version updates is to weaken those teams that have been proven to be extremely strong.

She has won the championship, isn’t she still a supermodel?

However, they don't have to worry too much about the decline in the value of the championship.

Tencent Esports is currently working intensively on a major issue, which is how to ensure that the MSI champion still has the status of a world champion after the S crown is awarded.

As one of the most powerful weapons to curb the "S championship only theory", MSI must have the gold content that cannot be concealed by the S game.

There are no specific measures on how to implement this yet, but some of the details are almost finalized.

If nothing goes wrong, next year Fanhua should be able to add a star to their team uniform, representing the championship star.

It's just that it should be a star added on the left chest.

The team that wins the S-League championship can have one more on the right chest.

In addition, there are some more specific measures, and even the distribution of MSI skins may have to be changed...

But that’s another story.

0-2的慌不择路，2-0的严阵以待，至于1-1的，那更是彼此之间都带着一股子血腥味和火药味。

Especially the four mixed teams in Group D, as well as the super-powerful teams like SSG and SKT, all of them were blood-thirsty that night.

Therefore, not only the participating teams, but also many local LPL teams, as long as they are more competitive, have also received some training match invitations from the participating teams.

How should I put it? It gave them a different sense of participating in the S-League.

(End of this chapter)