Full-time: Starting from Ye Xiu vs. Faker

Chapter 439: Fight to the end, no regrets

"Let us congratulate Team Excellent Era for defeating the powerful Flash Wolves after a 30-minute battle and getting their third point!"

He was clearly saying congratulations, but for some reason, the corners of Wei Chen's mouth twitched slightly.

It's a long night tonight.

It was 11:30 p.m. Beijing time, and he had been sitting in the commentary booth for nearly nine hours.

But judging from the current situation, he would conservatively estimate that he would have to sit here for another three or four hours before this torture could end.

Without cheering or encouragement, Wei Chen's congratulations just echoed in the empty stadium, with no one responding.

Exhausted, he stretched out his body and groaned inwardly before the camera turned back to him.

Why did they choose this group that was prone to trouble? Wouldn't it be better to commentate on Group A and Group C, which were always clearly divided into strong and weak groups?

At that time, the LPL commentators were divided into four groups, each group was responsible for the commentary of an entire group of games in the second stage of the group stage.

As a result, I was a little troubled about the selection of members for Group D.

After all, in addition to LGM from LPL, this group also has a very popular "fifth seed" Jia Shi.

This is not the kind of G2 in a certain parallel universe where the fifth seed usually calls for clearing away heat, but when it comes to really striking, the fifth seed is more ruthless than anyone else. If the balance between the commentators is not grasped well, it will easily trigger a fan war.

Even if we remove the exception of Jia Shi, G2 and FW still have some connection to some extent.

The commentary leading to this game was somewhat subtle.

After hesitating for a long time, Wei Chen, who considered himself the leading commentator of LPL, took the initiative to take on this thankless job amid admiring gazes.

At that time, Wei Chen just thought that he had been a commentator for so long and considered himself to be a top-notch master of balancing things, so there would be no problem in such an occasion.

It turns out that his explanation was not a big problem, but he forgot another very important detail:
The four teams in Group D are not divided into different levels in terms of combat power like other groups.

This means that if they really have the right time, place and people, they may very likely achieve an epic achievement in the first S game.

And now, this low-probability event has actually happened.

Unlike the empty and somewhat silent interior of the stadium where the audience had been evacuated an hour ago, the LPL live broadcast room was now completely explosive.

Even the top-notch battles involving the three royal families a few days ago did not bring as much popularity as it does now.

"Oh my god, I'm witnessing history, man!"

"We agreed that we don't have to stay up late or get up early to fight on home soil. Now we have to fight until dawn!"

"To be honest, although in terms of real game understanding and overall strength, Group D is definitely a little worse than the other groups, but in terms of the game scene, the fight between these teams with similar strength and who don't care much about operations is really exciting!"

"Three more games to go, get excited!"

Yes, that’s right. Although all six matches of Group D have been concluded today, there are still games waiting for Wei Chen and the commentators to enjoy.

And not just one game, but three.

This happens for one and only one reason:
The four great players in Group D played out an unprecedented super draw:

The four teams won and lost alternately. After almost nine hours of hard fighting, the score went from four 1-1 to four 3-3!

To this end, they still need to play three extra games to determine the qualifying places for the group first and second place teams.

All I can say is that the four players in Group D really interpreted the saying “a chess player meets a worthy opponent, a general meets a talented person” to the extreme.

Originally, officials were still worried that the commentary on the last day of the game would contain some sensitive and red-line issues due to the identities of the participating teams.

It turned out that they were overthinking it. When the game really started, the audience almost didn't care about those trivial issues such as attitudes and titles, and they were all focused on watching the game.

The reason is simple, this competition is... great to watch!

All I can say is that Group D is playing a very new way of playing.

To put it simply, it is obvious that these teams all have a certain level of tactical operational skills, and if they really want to play like Shakespeare, they can also play a very stable game.

But in actual combat, they all chose a more aggressive and offensive style of play.

The reason is very simple. The four teams are not so confident in their own hard power.

G2's complete defeat at the hands of LEC caused their morale to be in turmoil, but at least they suffered a certain blow.

Coupled with the fact that they lost to the old rival Flash Wolves, whom they didn't even bother to look at in the spring, the feeling of guilt was even more obvious.

Excellent Era itself is too young, and the strength of their bottom lane group is indeed slightly less competitive.

In addition, their team has offensive enthusiasts like Bin and Xun, so they quickly decided on a strategy of using offense as defense.

The same is true for LGM and FW.

And when the four teams chose an offensive style of play at the same time, the style of fighting from beginning to end immediately made the audience dream back to the exciting days of the usual free-for-all battles.

I don’t know if this fist-and-fist match is of high quality, but it must be very exciting to watch.

However, this very interesting game was unexpectedly very long-lasting.

After all, Group D is not a qualifying round or a small-division regular season. It is not the kind of weak team that can lose a local team fight in the early stages and have an economic gap of two to three thousand, and the game will be over immediately.

Beneath their apparent radicalism and recklessness, they have solid operational skills.

Unless it is in the very late stage, it is often difficult for a single team fight to determine the outcome of a game.

The audience felt so excited watching them fight from one end of the map to the other, from the beginning to the end, that they unknowingly forgot the passage of time.

After I finished the game and reviewed it, I realized, how come it took me only 40 minutes?
Today is destined to be the day with the most kills in formal competitions in the entire history of League of Legends e-sports.

After the six games were over, the audience, who had been having fun all day, finally began to realize:

Who won just now?

Do you want to fight again?

Not only do we have to fight, but we have to fight three times?
What time is it now?

At half past eleven?

Even if we assume that a game lasts for 40 minutes, if we include things like BP, substitutions, rest, MVP selection and so on, a game will last at least an hour.

In other words, today's game may very well continue until tomorrow... three or four o'clock?

This really refreshes the audience's cognition.

You know, it is precisely because of the possibility of extra games that Tencent Esports deliberately moved the start time of the second stage forward by two hours when arranging the schedule, from 5 pm to 3 pm. You know, now that the National Day has passed, most people have gone to work, and broadcasting at this time in the afternoon is likely to cause a drop in traffic.

But it is still arranged this way so that the game can be completed in a relatively controllable time.

The first few times did achieve similar results.

Both Group A and Group C finished their matches before the spectators were forced to leave the stadium, and did not even miss the post-match interviews.

Although Happy and KT had an extra game in Group B, due to the difference in level between the teams, and the fact that Happy and KT were both particularly ruthless when bullying the weaker teams,

As a result, there were still several crushing games lasting more than 20 minutes that day, which shortened the overall game time. In the end, the seven games were completed around 11 o'clock.

However, no matter how much reserve policies are in place, they can be overwhelmed by extreme situations.

And this time, Group D happens to be the most extreme case.

Not only are there nine games in total, including six main matches and three extra matches, but each game also lasts the signature long time of this version.

It's just that the fight goes on from beginning to end that the audience doesn't feel sleepy.

In such an extreme situation, any flexible measures would be futile and explode.

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However, the audience was quite excited. Even some of them who had to go to work early the next day or teach students were still gathered in the live broadcast room, waiting to see the excitement that was to follow.

At this point in the game, the audience's attention has quietly shifted:

What they are more concerned about now is whether this epic four-team melee has any hope of lasting until tomorrow dawn.
A modern version of fighting late into the night?
But soon, a piece of breaking news immediately brought everyone's attention back to the game itself.

Teacher Wei Chen, who was still in the preparation time and was chatting awkwardly with his partner due to fatigue, seemed to have suddenly received some signal and became energetic.

Then, his expression suddenly became a little heavy.

The new commentator who was partnering with him had even less composure, and his expression immediately showed signs of collapse.

"Well, let me send everyone a message." Wei Chen's tone unconsciously became low.

"According to the league's competition regulations and plans, when four teams are tied at 3-3 in a group and an extra game is needed, the games will be arranged based on the total game time of the four teams."

"The team with the highest total time will play against the team with the fourth highest total time, and the team with the second highest total time will play against the team with the third highest total time."

"In this World Championship, based on the previous matches of Group D, the two matches that will determine the quarterfinals are -"

At this point, Wei Chen's expression became a little complicated, and some viewers had already sensed something untoward from their tone.

Is it possible——

"G2 vs. FW, Excellent Era vs. LGM."

Sure enough, the worst result happened. The audience, who had just been guessing how late this epic four-person turn would last, were silent for a long time under the impact of this bomb.

Civil war.

Civil war is a very strange word. Different levels of competition areas will show completely different attitudes when facing this word.

For those regions that are not so strong or even a little weak, they can probably shout that they have a good draw now. After all, a civil war at a critical moment means that they can guarantee a team to enter the next round.

But for a top-notch region like LPL with great ambitions, a civil war at this time is enough to make many people difficult to accept.

"No, is this a civil war? When were these rules set? They're not targeting us, are they?"

"I checked, and it turns out that the competition system was set before the start of the competition. Tencent Esports is one of our own, so there's no reason for us to target them. I can only say that Xiao Jia Shi and Lao Gan Ma were unlucky..."

"After all, Excellent Era entered the World Championship as an LCS team, which means that no matter which group they are in, they are likely to encounter such a situation."

"...Damn it, we were still counting on all five LPL teams to enter the World Championship to crush the three LCK scoundrels... Will G2 get away with it?"

Amid the discussions, people gradually began to feel unwilling, or rather, to vent their anger.

Both sides of the hand are flesh and blood. LGM and Excellent Era are both teams that LPL audiences support wholeheartedly as if they were their own family.

And now, they are forced to face a cruel choice between two options.

It was because it was too late, and the audience had already left.
Otherwise, no one knows what will happen next.

Until the match between FW and G2 started, many people in the LPL live broadcast room were still struggling to get over the choice between the two.

So much so that many of them ignored G2's gradually warming up state.

If before today, G2 was in a panicked situation with internal and external difficulties,

These series of fierce battles actually helped them regain their form little by little.

This kind of tactics is also G2's comfort zone. Finding the state in the comfort zone has always been the most successful.

By the last few games, CAPS and Jankos were leading the team, and they were already showing the shadow of the European champions in the spring.

It might be relatively difficult for them to win against those six monsters.

But in Group D, after six games of adjustment and adaptation, they finally regained their dominance.

For a team like this, even if LGM and Excellent Era didn't clash, it would be extremely difficult for them to defeat them.

Even if FW performed better, LPL might have been wiped out in Group D.

But there is no if in everything, and the attention of LPL fans is destined to be sucked away by this magical civil war.

While the discussion was going on——

"Everyone, take a look! Excellent Era has posted on Weibo!"

"Which Excellent Era?"

"The account that honored the old Excellent Era has now been officially handed over to the new Excellent Era!"

"Then we have to go and see!"

Following the reports from several messengers, a group of depressed LPL viewers flocked to Weibo, and indeed saw that the account, which had not had any activity since Excellent Era withdrew from the Glory competition, had new activity.

Almost at the same time, LGM also made a statement on its official blog.

Compared to the previous exquisite Weibo posts that were filled with battle reports, posters, large photos of players, etc., this Weibo post was obviously added on the spur of the moment. Apart from coordinating the time with LGM, there was no other design.

But sometimes, it is this simplest statement that can ignite the emotions in the hearts of those anxious audiences.

The dynamics on both sides can be summed up in eight words:
Fight to the end, leaving no regrets.

(End of this chapter)