Chapter 410: First Round of Group Stage, Lost to SKT
After several training matches with G2, both sides had wins and losses.
LGD's training matches are mainly about trial lineups, and the gameplay is not as rigorous as in the official games.
However, it can be felt that the opponent G2 has been working hard in these training games.
That's what training games are like. Each team's level of effort in training games is different.
Therefore, don’t just use training match results to measure your opponent’s strength.
If you really do this, sometimes you won't even know how you will die.
On the afternoon of October 6th.
The second match day of the S7 Global Finals group stage continues in Jiangcheng.
The first is the Group D game that did not play yesterday.
The first game is Flash Wolves vs. TSM. Both of them are veteran teams and frequent visitors to the World Championship.
When the two teams completed their BP and entered the Summoner's Rift, the audience at the scene also shouted "TSM".
This can be considered an old joke. Anyway, whether it is a TSM game or not, you can shout "TSM".
Not to mention that this is TSM's game.
When it comes to making memes, our LPL audience is definitely not behind any other region.
After a more than 50-minute constipation battle, TSM defeated Flash Wolves and won their first victory in this global finals.
The MVP of this game was won by the top dog, Doublelift.
Then there is another game in Group D, WE plays against the second seed rabbit team from the European Division-MSF.
Before the game, the teams in Group D were actually relatively even in strength.
But after all, Flash Wolves and TSM are the No. 1 seeds in their respective divisions, and they have extremely rich experience in competitions.
Relatively speaking, this is the first time MSF has participated in the global finals, and it is only the second seed in the region.
Therefore, if WE wants to qualify from Group D, it must win the game against the Rabbitohs.
After all, it was a home game, with LPL teams playing, and the audience was even more enthusiastic.
WE also lived up to their expectations and directly defeated the Rabbit Team MSF.
Not to mention that the game lasted only 26 minutes, and there were no kills against the opponent. Xiaolong's opponent also failed to get one.
If the opponent hadn't pushed a defensive tower, WE would have almost given the Rabbitohs a "Linglong Tower" on the much-anticipated stage of the global finals.
WE's overwhelming victory also made many LPL viewers look forward to the subsequent game between LGD and SKT.
After WE's game, there will be two group matches in Group B.
Group C, where RNG is located, has no schedule today.
B’s two BO1s were the European and American battles between IMT and FNC.
Ou Chengtian Fat Mouse was delayed until the late stage and was overturned. FNC lost the game and started the group stage with two consecutive losses.
Ou Chengdu was almost brought to tears by FNC's cheating teammates. Except for the mid laner Caps, none of his other teammates took him seriously.
Considering that Ou Chengcai had recently recovered from depression, the audience was afraid that Ou Cheng's depression would relapse on the spot.
Among many European and American teams, FNC is quite popular in China.
In addition to Ou Cheng and Yu Shuang's CP memes, in this global finals, FNC's team uniforms also have the players' respective Chinese nicknames behind them.
For example, Rekkles's team uniform has "OU Cheng" printed on the back, and top laner Soaz's team uniform has "Sister-in-law" printed on the back.
These have added a lot of goodwill to them among LPL audiences.
In the next game, the Dragon Ball team defeated the Vietnamese team GAM in a fancy way.
The game lasted only 23 minutes, which also showed the strength of their LCK No. 1 seed.
At 7 o'clock in the evening, the last two games of the day, Group A, where LGD belongs, started.
The game between C9 and AHQ started first.
When the two teams took the stage to do some pre-match preparations, everyone in LGD had already arrived at the competition venue.
Regarding the upcoming BO1 group match with SKT, the entire LGD team is very relaxed.
After all, the two teams have played against each other several times this year, and LGD still has some understanding of SKT.
Moreover, this is the first round of the group stage, and there is no record pressure.
Since there is no record pressure and there is no need to win, LGD has no plans to "take action" for the time being.
Just like yesterday, I chose a stable lineup that followed the version.
LGD still has a lineup of two tanks in the upper and jungle, two cores in the middle and bottom, and soft assistants.
The result was that after about forty minutes of fierce battle, LGD lost to SKT.
The two sides had been going back and forth, but unfortunately during the thirty-five-minute team battle, imp made a mistake, causing LGD to lose the team battle.
Then LGD also lost Baron, and the balance of victory completely tipped towards SKT.
As LGD's base crystal shattered into pieces, in the commentary box, the commentator remembered to say: "Congratulations to SKT, the triple crown champion and defending champion of the S competition is indeed strong, and finally ended with a perfect team battle. Contest!"
"I can only say that SKT in the S game seems to be a little different!"
"But I believe that LGD can regain ground with SKT in the second round of the group stage. After all, they have done it before at this year's MSI."
At the scene, some SKT fans were cheering.
However, there were more LPL fans at the scene. Although LGD lost this BO1 group match, they were still firmly cheering for their team.
In the official live broadcast room, there was some discord in the barrage.
The main body of the barrage was naturally talking about SKT in the S game. The strength is still very strong, even though they are not the No. 1 seed in the LCK region this year like last year.
Or they were discussing some problems shown by LGD in this game.
But from time to time, some barrages such as "garbage", "waste" and "too bad" floated by.
There were even many barrages that began to spray imp for serving the country with loyalty.
But the Internet is like this. Some people are always eager to show their "uniqueness".
There are too many people who discuss one game and one game.
On the contrary, in the LGD lounge behind the venue, LGD head coach Dgc watched this group match.
I think that although LGD lost, it still gained a lot.
Through this game, Dgc determined the game ideas when he met SKT or other LCK strong teams in the future.
We still need to give more roles to Xiao Zhou in the top lane, because in this version, the top lane is not limited to playing tanks.
Although LGD's double C is not bad, it seems that there is no advantage against other strong teams.
Not to mention that when facing SKT, LGD's double C often can't perform as well.
And in the front, on the main stage.
The director gave the camera to the player seat. The players of both sides had finished the post-match handshake session and were packing up their peripherals to go back to the backstage.
Although LGD lost this group match, Zhou Dian and his teammates also came to the front of the stage and bowed to the audience before returning to the backstage lounge.
After all, most of the audience came from supporting LPL, and greeting them before leaving the stage was also a kind of competitive etiquette.
And the audience also gave them warm applause to encourage them.
Away from the Internet, most people are actually quite friendly.
Returning to the lounge, the LGD team quickly packed up and left the competition venue.
LGD's game today was the same as yesterday, and it was the last game of the day.
After the game, it was getting late. We had to rush back to review the game and prepare for tomorrow's game.
The time came to the second day, October 7.
However, today is not the last day of the National Day holiday.
The National Day holiday in 2017 overlapped with the Mid-Autumn Festival, so there were eight days off in total.
The four match days of the first round of the group stage of this global finals were scheduled on the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th.
These four days are holidays, which is quite wonderful for LPL viewers.
Please...collect_6Ⅰ9Ⅰ书Ⅰ吧 (六\\\九\\\书\\\吧!)
Today, the three groups A, C and D will play. Group B has a bye today and has no games.
Three LPL teams are in these three groups and have games today.
This is bound to be the game day with the highest ratings and attention since the start of this global finals.
At 3 pm, the game of Group D started first.
There was a game between LPL teams at the beginning, with WE playing against TSM.
These two teams can be said to be the two giants in the slogan world.
Classic "TSM" before the game, "Congratulations WE" after the game.
Although TSM is the No. 1 seed in the North American division, and WE is only the No. 3 seed in the LPL division, but judging from TSM's habitual poor performance in the S game in recent years, LPL fans are still very confident in WE before the game.
It's just that Bjergsen, who has grown a big beard this year, is in particularly strong form. He carried the game strongly and TSM defeated WE.
The LPL team suffered a defeat at the beginning of the day, which also cast a shadow on the hearts of LPL fans.
Then the Flash Wolves lost to the Rabbit Team from Europe, and the head ratio was 12-0.
The two teams in the Taiwan Division have lost both games so far.
This result also caused a wail on the well-known underworld forum PTT in Taiwan.
Then it was the game of Group C where RNG was.
First, G2 easily defeated the wildcard team 1907 Fenerbahce from Turkey.
Then came the highlight of today, RNG vs. Samsung.
For many people, the result of the game may be expected, but the process of the game was completely unexpected.
With a kill ratio of 11-0, RNG shut out SSG in this group match.
The game took only 27 minutes, and RNG pushed down SSG's base.
The fans of LPL were very excited to watch this game, and they felt unprecedentedly excited.
In addition to being excited, some people on the Chinese Internet began to make "small moves".
In short, it was to pull and step on LGD.
Originally, no one mentioned the group match in which LGD lost to SKT yesterday.
But after RNG won SSG, which is also a Korean team today, many people began to post to praise RNG and secretly step on LGD.
Of course, there are some more extreme RNG fans, or fans of other teams who are playing the opposite role.
But this is only a minority, and more are obviously specially hired water armies.
It can only be said that the RNG club simply does not miss any opportunity to market!
After all, in the history of LPL for so many years, "anti-Korean" has been the main theme.
No matter which team in LPL wins the LCK team, it will be able to speak loudly.
After RNG easily defeated Samsung, all LPL viewers have more expectations for LGD's next game.
Although LGD lost to SKT yesterday, to be honest, most LPL viewers are still very confident that LGD will win against C9.
LGD's game was scheduled to be the last game today. There was another game before this game, which was another game in Group A.
SKT vs. AHQ.
This game was actually a bit lackluster in the process. Although it took 40 minutes, the rhythm was always firmly controlled by SKT, and AHQ had no chance throughout the whole process.
But what's interesting is that Faker chose Fizz mid laner in this game.
As we all know, AHQ's mid laner Ximen Yeshuo has the title of the world's No. 1 Fizz, and is an ultimate Fizz master.
It's a pity that after losing two games in a row, Ximen sat on the bench and replaced their substitute mid laner.
Otherwise, we can see how Fizz master deals with Fizz.
In the first round of the group stage, AHQ lost all three games, and Taiwanese fans were in mourning.
After this game, it was the last game of the day.
This year's LPL No. 1 seed LGD faced North America's No. 3 seed, C9, who made it to the play-in round.
"Okay, everyone, welcome back!"
"What we are going to bring to you is the group stage between LGD and C9!" Wawa said loudly.
"Yes!" Miller nodded.
Among the last three games today, there are two games between LPL teams, and the official also specially arranged the "golden partner" Wawa Miller to comment on the last three games of today.
Miller continued: "Currently, the group stage record of the two teams is 1-1, and this game is actually very important for LGD."
"I think LGD must win this game, otherwise you will be very passive if you enter the second round of the group stage with a record of 1-2."
Wawa agreed with this.
"But I am still very confident in LGD today!" Wawa said loudly.
At this time, the big screen on the scene was showing the list of players for both sides in this game.
The five LGD players who appeared on the big screen were still the five-man team that LPL audiences were most familiar with.
After a chat, the players on the field were ready for the game, and the BP phase of the game was about to begin.
After receiving the director's instructions, Wawa immediately said: "Okay! Let's stop talking. Today's last group match, LGD vs. C9's BP is about to begin."
At this time, the screen on the scene turned and the BP interface appeared on it.
"BP starts, C9 on the blue side, LGD on the red side!" Miller followed.
"Finally, we are on the red side. We all know that LGD is a relatively rare team that may prefer the red side."
In the first two games of the group stage, LGD was on the blue side.
Wawa took over the conversation: "Yes, the reason is naturally LGD's top laner, our Zhou Shen's super personal ability."
"I am very much looking forward to Zhou Shen today. In the first two group matches, Zhou Shen played two tank heroes, and I feel that it is not enough to watch!"