You've only been playing for half a year, and you've already reached the finals?

Chapter 87 TES, show some courage!
The next day, the training match continued.

The opponent in this training match is relatively unfamiliar, the LCK second seed DRX.

Since both teams are in different half of the division, it is not difficult to arrange a training match.

Moreover, this team has a distinct style. Doran is just a scoundrel in the top lane, and the bottom jungle is the core of the team. In many cases, even the mid laner Chovy has to serve Deft in the bottom lane.

Before the training match even started, Redmi was already giving the players a heads-up.

"After all, we're using an unfamiliar style today, and our opponent is not weak," Hongmi said. "So our win rate might not be ideal today. You should be mentally prepared."

Hongmi has been coaching for so many years, so of course he has experience.

Often, simply changing a hero in a certain position can cause a team's strength to plummet. This is even more so because this time the lineup and strategic focus were completely changed, practically turning them into a completely different team!
Losing is normal.

Redmi's plan is to run the original and new styles of play in parallel, ensuring that the team's competitiveness will not differ too much and that the team will not fall behind in the future.

Ming Jing listened to Hongmi's speech and didn't say much. He just asked Hongmi to start BP quickly.

Fortunately, JDG players don’t need to worry about their hero pool, and they can easily play Ornn and Clockwork.

On the contrary, this is the hero that JDG players are good at.

If you ask Zoom to suppress the enemy and take the plating, push the line and play the linkage, he may not understand the game, but if you ask him to play Ornn and mix the line, he will not feel any pressure at all and will be like a fish in water!
Not to mention the mid lane toothpaste, Clockwork itself is a compulsory course for mid lane players.

On the contrary, Mingjing has some problems. After all, he has only been playing for a short time and has never played Senna much, but the problem is still not big.

He got up in the morning and played a few games. He also searched for hero tips on TikTok. Now he has mastered them.
When the training match just started, Hongmi was watching from behind with some concern, observing the progress of the game at all times.

After all, DRX is an absolutely strong opponent and needs to be taken seriously. The combination of Deft+Keria can even be regarded as the best in LCK!

But after just five minutes of watching, Hongmi started laughing.

Deft doesn't seem that strong, how come he's been suppressed like this by Mingjing?
But that's normal. Deft clearly struggled against JackeyLove in the group stage, and his strength declined significantly. It's understandable that he couldn't beat Mingjing.
And not only Mingjing performed well, but the other team members also performed well.

Ever since he no longer needs a carry, Zoom no longer has any back or leg pain, and his Ornn is as solid as a rock in the top lane!

The same is true for the mid laner Toothpaste. When Clockwork is picked as the mid laner, it is destined that the mid laner will not participate too much in the rhythm. At most, he will keep pushing the line in the middle lane and pulling the opponent's mid laner to keep mixing, which happens to be what Toothpaste is good at.

He no longer needs to force the line to help the jungler. There is the bottom lane anyway. He can help if he can, and forget it if he can't. He is much more comfortable fighting in the laning phase.

Kanavi is not in a hurry anymore. After all, it is a late-game lineup. There is no need for him to be in a hurry in the early stage. He just relies on the line control in the bottom lane. He can invade if he can, control the dragon if he can, and if he can't do anything, then forget it. He will just focus on clearing his own jungle. Anyway, there are endless jungle monsters in this version!

As a result, JDG's early lead was indeed smaller, and even at 25 minutes, it was only ahead by 3,000 economic points.

But so what.

JDG's team battle coordination is no worse than any other team.

With Ornn's ultimate, Diana entered the field with Clockwork's ball. Mingjing Senna directly entered the pile-driving mode, activated Youmeng's Dream and chased the opponent crazily, and easily destroyed DRX!

It's not even just this one.

The situation was highly similar in the following few rounds.

Ming Jing played Senna, Jhin, Caitlyn, and even EZ at the end.

The heroes of the other teammates are also varied.

But as long as the bottom lane and jungler are comfortable playing, victory will be easy.

JDG won all four training matches without a single loss.

As strong as the LCK's second seed, it couldn't even cause any waves in front of JDG.

This would have been hard to imagine in the past.

"Awesome! Mingjing!" Green Hair and Mingjing excitedly high-fived. "It really depends on you!"

Ming Jing was also cheerful at this moment, "It's OK, I told you it's OK."

Looking at the tactical board in front of him, Hongmi was a little dazed and didn't know what to say for a moment.

There was even an emotion called regret that surged in my heart.

He was indeed wrong, and extremely wrong.

Time quickly came to October 15th, and at 10 pm, the elimination stage officially began.

The first match to take place is the first big battle in the upper half, TES vs. FNC.

"What do you think of today's match?" Zoom watched the two players take the stage through the projection screen in the lounge, and turned to ask, "Who is Mingjing rooting for?"

"Topsports," Ming Jing said. "Topsports' overall strength is definitely stronger, but it doesn't seem very stable."

"Hmm?" The rest of the JDG team turned around. "What do you mean?"

"Nothing much to say, right?" Ming Jing smiled. "The meta wasn't favorable to them, and their teamwork was terrible."

TES jungler Karsa is not a jungle core player. Even if he chooses some jungle core heroes according to the version, he often cannot achieve the carry effect of the jungle core.

Fortunately, all teams are now shifting their tactical focus to the bottom lane, trying to seize the bottom lane rights to compete for the Dragon Soul, allowing TES, which was already strong in the bottom lane, to gain a little advantage, which can be regarded as making up for it a little.

But the more crucial issue is that TES often doesn't feel like a team. JackeyLove in the bottom lane is undoubtedly the team's core, but within this context, Left Hand in the middle and 369 in the top lane seem somewhat out of place.

Can 369, who only wants to shine, stick to playing Ornn and withstand pressure? Can Left Hand, who has strong individual abilities but is not good at roaming and coordination, integrate into the team's rhythm?

Why is JackeyLove so unstable and can't stop once he gives up? To some extent, this can also be attributed to a problem of coordination.

These are all things that Topsports needs to solve.

During the World Championship, every team is discovering and solving problems, and only the team that continues to grow to the end can win the championship.

Of course, problems aside, Mingjing still believes that Top Esports can win.

The individual abilities of FNC players are not good enough, and this is the most fatal problem that matters most.

FNC's strength on paper is not strong, and is even on the weaker side. Even though they eliminated LPL's fourth seed LGD in the group stage, Ming Jing still believes that FNC cannot be a match for TES.

Even if JackeyLove can lose one or two games, can he lose three games?

It's very blue.

Soon, the first game began.

Carrying Ming Jing's expectations, TES did not disappoint at all and directly gave away the first game.

JackeyLove went crazy and played EZ to hit the opponent in the face!
If a normal person sees this EZ playing so wildly, he will probably think that there is someone behind this EZ.

However, the FNC support is not an ordinary person who gives up when he is happy. I will use it if you dare to pretend. You will know if anyone uses it!

The fact is that there is no one behind EZ.
Once installed, it starts, and once opened, it dies.

In ten minutes, EZ died three times in a row, which was horrifying.

Left-handed Zoe had a 2-0 record, and despite being thirty-knife strong against her opponent, she was powerless to turn the tide and could only watch her team go to failure.

Ming Jing scratched his head, feeling helpless.

Why is it like you're joking?
Can a team with such poor stability really win the championship?

In the second game, JackeyLove finally stabilized. Senna did not die once and suppressed Ashe. His teammates also got better. The top, mid and jungle players each got a kill, and the situation was very good.

But the auxiliary prophet started again.

After ten minutes, the score was 0-4, but he single-handedly brought the kill ratio to 3-4.

The game went on to the 35-minute Ancient Dragon fight, which should have been Senna's time to show her strength in the late game, but FNC's Ornn + Kindred + Clockwork's top, mid, and jungle abilities were too strong in the late game, and Senna was unable to handle it alone and lost again!

No one expected that Top Esports, which everyone had high hopes for, started with a 0-2 lead and was already standing on the edge of the cliff!
Zoom couldn't help but turn around and ask, "Didn't Topsports win?"

"How can I say for sure?" Ming Jing spread his hands, but still smiled and said, "But the game isn't over yet. Who knows if we can come back from 2-0 down to win 3-0?"

"Come back from 2-0 down, impossible! There's never been a comeback from 2-0 down in the S-League!" Green Hair flatly denied the possibility, even gloating: "It's good that Top Esports lost. We can relax a bit in the semifinals."

"Don't be anxious, believe in Topbo!" Ming Jing didn't think that Topbo would definitely lose. He believed that seeing is believing.

So he specifically clicked on the forum to take a look.

At this time, public opinion in the forum was also not very optimistic, and northwestern Shanxi was in chaos.

[If you don’t understand, just ask, what is JackeyLove doing? ]

【第一把0-6-2，第二把0-2-6？真哈人啊，两把零人头的AD】

[Before the game, the Water Ghosts kept boasting about a 3-0 sweep, but now they are being swept 3-0 in reverse]

[Didn't the Water Ghost always use the Ice Emperor to crush Little Fei before? Can he still do it now?]

[I'm not saying this, but Xiao Fei really won these two games, didn't he? His teammates were all in the lead, and he just kept destroying the bottom lane!]

[Guaranteed win! Brother Xiaofei, if nothing else, is known for his consistency! He died five times in six group matches, and that's still not as good as the Ice Emperor's one-shot win!]

[The people above are almost done. Even if Top Esports wins again, they will still be the first in the group by defeating DRX twice. How can you, JD.com, who are second in the group, compare to them?]

[Playing against DRX is a mess. I think you, Top Esports, will also kneel down when you meet DWG.]

[Hehe, but he didn't kneel down. Ah Shui is more noble than you, Brother Xiao Fei. What kind of champion are you?]

Who is stronger, JackeyLove or Phi, is a hot topic that has been discussed in the anti-soccer forum recently, and it has never been hot.

But the two teams have never played against each other, so this topic is destined to be a battle between Guan Gong and Qin Qiong, and there will never be a conclusion.

But due to the volume of his voice, JackeyLove always has more supporters.

Even in the current situation where TES is trailing 0-2, the extreme supporters in the bar can still fight against the odds and debate with the crowd.

Originally, this question should have been answered after the two sides faced off in the semi-finals, but looking at the current situation, this question seems to be left unsolved.

This made Mingjing feel even more regretful.

TES, show some courage!
(End of this chapter)