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Chapter 437 We Miss You Very Much in the Quarterfinals (Part )
"So now, you are the last hope of your region?" On the evening of the sixth day of the group stage, Ye Xiu looked at Wu Xuefeng in front of him with a strange smile on his face.

"Believe it or not, this is probably the first time since we went to North America that we have felt the large-scale, heartfelt support from local audiences." Wu Xuefeng shook his head, feeling that the current situation was a bit ridiculous.

“It’s LCS’ fault.” Ye Xiu shook his head. “But you can also thank Da Sun and the others for their ruthless actions.”

"Even if they didn't play hard, C9 couldn't get past SKT..." Wu Xuefeng was puzzled when he said this, "How did they win the game against SKT in the spring?"

"Who knows?"

On the evening of the sixth day of the group stage, as the top three groups had finished their respective divisions,
Perhaps who will be the final champion is still a mystery.

However, the initial battles between the regions could allow some people to settle down without any worries.

LPL and LCK achieved full dominance of the qualifying spots in the first three groups.

In Group A, Blue Rain advanced without any problems with a perfect record, and did not fall into a disadvantage in any of the six games.

As the noble No. 1 seed of LPL, it is only natural for them to achieve such a record.

However, SSG, as the third seed of LCK, followed closely behind and crushed FNC to advance to the quarterfinals with a score of 4-2.
That is enough to shut up those viewers who still have doubts about the competitiveness of LCK.

Compared to the players' high attention and nervousness towards LCK, the fan groups who are not so well-informed obviously do not have such a clear understanding of the combat effectiveness of LCK.

Few people have watched the LCK summer season, and even if they have, it is difficult to compare due to the lack of comparison with other regions.

In the qualifying stage, although SSG won a lot of games all the way to the World Championship, the competition intensity was not high. It can only be said that some fans who had never paid attention to LCK began to realize that there was such a dark horse in this not-so-conspicuous region.

In the first round of the group stage, the three LCK teams achieved one win and two 1-1s. Their overall winning rate ranked second among all regions, only behind the LPL with seven wins and one loss, showing their potential.

But after all, the sample size is relatively small, and the most nerve-wracking situation, "elimination", has not yet occurred. Fans of those teams that performed poorly can still comfort themselves with reasons such as "still adjusting".

And now, when the LPL and LCK teams are fighting fiercely in every group, the other teams are like little ghosts watching the fun and are swept away by the aftermath.
When teams carrying the hopes of their fans in their respective regions leave the stage in such a humiliating manner,
Players, viewers and fans all over the world finally had to start facing up to the opponent that suddenly rose from the small peninsula.

Ah, perhaps the only one who can still use the word "face up to" is probably LPL.

On the fifth day, Group B scrimmage.

On this day, LPL suffered their second defeat in the world arena.

From Xingxin.

To be more precise, it came from that big-headed doll.

Xingxin and KT are essentially two very similar teams.

Although both teams have excellent tactical qualities and operational capabilities, they are obviously more keen on clashes than those shrewd players in their respective regions who like to run the game in a long and tedious way.

Especially in the mid-term team battles, the two teams are the most outstanding in team battle capabilities in their respective regions.

The only difference is that the Blue Rain that Xingxin encountered was much stronger than the Samsung that KT encountered, and was particularly good at psychological tactics.

So KT is the number one seed, and Happy is number two.

But overall, it is hard to say which team is stronger or weaker.

Xingxin attaches great importance to KT.

It is said that when head coach Mingkai saw the face of KT jungler Peanut, for some reason, his heart beat faster.

Even when I was sleeping at night, I always dreamed that I entered a mysterious space. The background sound was Peanut's hearty laughter, and numbers were floating everywhere in the sky.

Comrade Mingkai could not remember the exact amount, but he roughly remembered that it was less than four thousand four hundred.

Although the description of the scene is not a terrifying one, it can always scare Comrade Mingkai out of bed, and his mind is still filled with the vague shadow of the number.
So I tossed and turned, and finally got up to work out a solution.

The next day, when other players got up for training, they found their head coach holding a tactical board that had obviously just been made. With frighteningly dark circles under his eyes and a murderous look, he arranged the training tasks for the new day.

I was shocked and a little touched at the same time.

If the coach is like this, how can we not work hard?

But regarding KT, even if the countermeasures are terrible, a strong team of this level cannot be easily taken advantage of.

They are the same as Xingxin, the type that can create unimaginable miracles with just one good team fight.

It is too difficult for Xingxin to thoroughly study this team, which is considered to be the strongest team outside the LPL, based on the current samples.

In addition to the group stage, under the premise that the quota has been basically stabilized, Xingxin is also willing to take on such a strong enough opponent to test the results of their hard work in the past two months.

Therefore, in the two matches against KT, Yu Wenbo and Su Mucheng each played in the AD position.

The result is obviously in line with the stereotype of the water-black group that has already been initially formed due to the war criminal performance in the summer finals.

Shuizi lost the game to Lang.

Mizuko's defeat was very noticeable.

This peanut basically implemented a three-step strategy in the early stage:

Develop the jungle, invade the bun, and gank the bottom.

Knowing that Happy's top and middle lanes were both extremely difficult to deal with, and that IMP was in great form in recent games, KT decisively chose to place two heavy bets in the bottom lane.

The result was that in the game when Su Mucheng was on the field, the bottom lane was stabilized, and it was also the first time that Smeb faced off against a truly super top laner.

The most oppressive top laners he had ever encountered were players at the level of Khan and Cuvee. He was caught off guard and was beaten up pretty badly.

As a result, the situation was opened up in the top lane, and Xingxin, with a little pressure in the middle lane, was able to win the first game.

But Shuizi is obviously not so stable when facing targets. In this game, his passive skill, "Q follow-up", which has a trigger rate so high that it has become a meme passed down by word of mouth among his black fans, was triggered again.

But this time, Peanut chose a Nidalee.

Therefore, during the laning phase, it was common to see Jack, whose originally healthy health was suddenly hit by a Q that appeared out of nowhere and instantly dropped to the danger line, and then was caught and killed by KT's bottom laner and jungler.

In addition, Smeb was not a stubborn person. Seeing that Tang Rou was invincible and as strong as a monster in the laning phase and he could not defeat her no matter how hard he tried, he chose to go all out.

There is also a gap between the start and the end. If a player of Smeb's level is determined to play tank, even if Tang Rou can keep the pressure steady, it will be difficult to break through. Therefore, under the premise that the bottom lane is completely silent, after a big dragon group was wiped out in 30 minutes, Xingxin suffered their first defeat in the group stage amid the ecstasy and eager eyes of the water and black players.

IMP was a vent for himself in another world. After all, in that world, he seemed to have lost the last game of his career to Mizuko.

But he doesn't care much about these. What he is more looking forward to is whether he can have a big battle with his old rival Deft as early as the quarterfinals.

He had a hunch that once that guy met the right coach, his performance would definitely be completely different from what it was in the summer season.

But just when the black fans couldn't wait to start preparing to hold court on major social platforms to share the blame, Yu Wenbo immediately took back the situation.

Since both KT and Xingxin started with a 5-1 lead, and had one win, one loss, and one draw against each other, an extra game was needed to determine the first and second place in the group.

While countless fans in the live broadcast room shouted "Change to Sister Cheng", Mingkai was extremely determined to let Jack take over.

He knew that this kid was currently under criticism from all over the LPL and needed a competitive enough game to prove his ability.

If Su Mucheng were to be replaced now, the chances of taking first place in the group would certainly be greater, but the price would likely be that this good seedling who could support Xingxin's AD position in the future would be wasted.

Moreover, he believed in Yu Wenbo's ability to adjust and his spirituality.

So, in an environment where even the cheers from the audience seemed a little strange, as the time for the extra game approached 10 o'clock in the evening, Yu Wenbo took the stage again.

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And this time, he finally slapped Shuihei in the face.

The extra game started at 10 o'clock, but lasted until nearly 11:30 in the evening.

The match time alone was an astonishing sixty-six minutes.

Xingxin changed its formation again in this game.

Under Smeb's highly vigilant gaze, Tang Rou did not continue to choose to attack, but instead took out a tank hero like Poppy, obviously giving all her trust to her teammates.

KT, not knowing what was going on, gave Smeb a Troll to counter it, just like they did on the first day with Blue Rain. Then, Happy snatched up Nidalee, one of Peanut's famous heroes.

This snatch not only stunned KT, but also LPL fans.

Baozi can play jungle core?
Is this still the Baozi we know?
In fact, Baozi was not very good at jungle core originally, or in other words, he was not as good as a rhythm-type jungler.

One of the main training points for Happy after the summer season is to work hard to train Baozi to play offensive jungle.

Baozi looks careless and innocent, but he is actually a sharp and spiritual person.

He also knew that his current hero pool might bring huge shackles to Xingxin in this version, so in the past month, he almost gritted his teeth and brought out the same determination as when he was a diamond boy and followed Mingkai to play jungle, and began to practice those heroes with high appearance rates.

Spider, Male Gun, Nidalee...

And the result of working hard is gratifying.

Although it is impossible to make these heroes into signatures, but like he did in the summer regular season, using a relatively formulaic play style, he can play these junglers to the level of "ordinary world first-tier".
But he can guarantee it.

How much blood, tears and pain were involved cannot be told to outsiders. All we know is that during that period of time, whenever Mingkai mentioned the buns outside, his eyes were full of smiles. That was the kind of satisfaction that came from having someone to succeed him.

However, KT's understanding obviously has not yet come around, and they subconsciously brought in the conclusion they came up with during their previous research: Baozi doesn't understand how to play the jungle core.

Therefore, this move to snatch the Leopard Girl was seen as a choice that caused Xingxin to lose his composure.

This misjudgment cost them a price.

At the end of the game, Baozi's Leopard Woman's record was 4-6-8, which didn't seem very good.

Similar to his record, KT was even the leading side in terms of kill ratio throughout the game.

But if you look at the damage again, Baozi's Nidalee has more than 30,000 more output than Peanut's Lee Sin.

In this epic, 66-minute bladder game, Xingxin successfully had the last laugh.

In addition to Baozi, another person who performed outstandingly was Yu Wenbo.

His Lucian played the most eye-catching KD in the whole game, with a score of 7-1-1, contributing nearly output, and in the final team battle, he used his signature forward flash to secure the victory for Xingxin.

After this match, Xingxin not only took first place in the group, thus greatly reducing the possibility of encountering a team from the same division in the quarterfinals, but also successfully made all potential opponents uncertain once again.

Baozi can play jungle core now, and Tang Rou has not lost her top tank.

The redundancy of Xingxin's tactical options suddenly became sufficient.

KT suffered a 5-2 record and finished second in the group. Although they qualified, they were obviously unhappy.

This galaxy battleship comes to the S game to dominate, not to serve as a background for LPL.

But if they want to meet Xingxin again on the S-League stage, they will have to wait at least two rounds.

As for the other two teams, there is no need to say much about DFM. It is a miracle among miracles that they can enter the main competition. It is undoubtedly a fantasy to want to win the main competition.

However, although they were eliminated 0-6, DFM can be said to have lost with their heads held high.

After all, since the beginning of the main competition, they have not had even the slightest tactical reserve.

In that case, guys, just enjoy yourself and play whatever you like!
Thus, as EVI brazenly picked his signature Crab in their first game, all kinds of weird heroes began to appear in DFM matches.

Later on, even weird things like Garen and Draven were taken out by them without any scruples.

Whether the effect is good or not is another matter, but the happiness is definitely maximum.

So much so that a certain big-headed kid was so envious that his eyes turned red after he beat up the guy opposite him, Dezi. He immediately started to ask his own boss Ye indirectly, when will he let him play with Draven?

It was ultimately rejected.

Although OG did not lose the wildcard match as badly as their FNC brothers, their record of 2-4 did not even give them a chance to play a tiebreaker in front of the first two gods of war.

As their journey came to an end, the LEC, which had been so strong, fell by half in an instant.

Then by the next day, that number had become three-quarters.

(End of this chapter)