Author: Jaipun loves to eat crayfish

The group stage schedule was confirmed a long time ago.

At that time, Tencent might have protected EDG and RNG and wanted to give these two teams more time to prepare in between, so their schedule was not that compact.

After all, no one thinks that Tao Bo cannot appear in a group, right?

Therefore, in terms of group stage schedule, Taobo is slightly tighter than the other two teams in the LPL region. The second round of group stage was the first to start from Group A!

At that time, Teng Jing was just thinking about preparing for the future, but he didn't expect that the current situation was really as they expected.

RNG is fine, but it is likely that the group will appear with two wins and one loss. After all, the overall strength of Group B is not that abnormal. RNG loses Dragon Ball and is not simply crushed. If the two sides meet again, it is hard to say whoever loses and who wins.

The situation for EDG is very bad.

0-3!

At the beginning of the three consecutive losses, although EDG made huge advantages in the early three games, facing SKT, it was even an economic game that was once ahead of tens of thousands.

But the problem is...

If you don’t win the game, everything will be in vain. So what if you are leading the 30,000 economy?

If you don’t win the game, you don’t win the game, and the results of the game will not change as a result.

Of course, we have not yet reached a desperate situation, and at least there is still a possibility of theoretical qualifying.

But the premise is that EDG must win three consecutive victories in the second round.

Judging from the competition process, EDG's strength is absolutely fine, but now they seem to be trapped in a vicious circle, and they are beginning to not believe in their later abilities.

Originally, they were a team that was very good at playing late-stage operations, but the failures in the past few years made them try to focus on the early offensive rhythm. However, in the three consecutive defeats in the group stage, they all played advantages in the early stage, but they were able to end the game with huge advantages in the middle and late stages.

This has led to them becoming more and more eager to solve the game in the early stage.

Moreover, the entire EDG team is also trapped in a deep self-doubt. This is the case in the competitive field. For example, in football, basketball, someone says that a team has no winning culture.

What is winning culture?

To put it bluntly.

It's a kind of self-confidence!

I firmly believe that I can win the game and know how to defend my advantage to win the game on the court.

Many teams have young people with talent, but they always lose the best after taking the lead. This behavior is that they do not know how to transform the winning trend and do not know how to win the game.

EDG originally had this kind of winning culture, which was the absolute confidence they had accumulated in the past few years to dominate the domestic league.

But now this confidence is gone!

This is the most deadly thing.

Confidence is the seventh piece of equipment for professional players on the field, and its importance is self-evident.

Once a player loses confidence, it will cause a huge blow to his performance on the field!

But it is difficult for you to influence this thing from the outside world, so you can only adjust the players through their own adjustments. Fortunately, the schedule has won more precious days for EDG, and Li Hansheng still hopes that EDG can change history.

Although he followed Qi Jiang when he was young, he hoped that Qi Jiang could make a higher breakthrough in the best world competition he played in the year.

Think about it carefully, Qi Jiang did not go live to sell cakes when she was most popular, but still insisted on it and worked hard for the exchange.

At least for this, in Li Hansheng's mind, Qi Jiang was not bad.

On October 12, the group stage war rekindled again!

At 10 a.m., Li Hansheng and his teammates were ready to set off for the competition site. As they were about to set off, Guo Hao brought some bananas, chocolates and other foods to the team members.

Today, the team is expected to have 3 games, and it is not a continuous battle. You need to stay on the scene all the time, so the players will definitely not be able to eat halfway through.

In order to have a good competitive state, it is impossible to eat staple food on site. Eating will cause blood to be concentrated into the stomach and insufficient blood supply to the brain, which will lead to drowsiness, inattention, and slow reaction.

This is not the first time that Tao Bo has played a game, so he has accumulated enough experience in this area. Guo Hao is like a logistics captain and will make various preparations in advance.

The hotel arranged by Riotou is not far from Wuhan Sports Center, and the group soon arrived at the scene.

In addition to the rush, the Lightning Wolf, Vietnamese GAM and Samsung players came to the scene almost at the same time.

Taobo and everyone happened to meet the members of the Lightning Wolf. It can be seen that the overall mood of the Lightning Wolf is not high, and it can even be said to be a bit sluggish.

because……

In the first round, EDG was not only a three-game losing streak, but also a three-game losing streak with the reputation of "anti-Korean Qihe"!

That's right!

They didn't even win the GAM in the wild card division.

The bellow underworld forum was full of sarcastic remarks about the entire team of Lightning Wolf, and was criticized by fans in their own competition area. Lightning Wolf enjoyed the same treatment as EDG.

Especially their core player Kasa.

Kasa is undoubtedly a jungler with obvious advantages and disadvantages, and his personal strength is unquestionable.

The reason why the Lightning Wolf can have a place in the world's strong teams is because of him and maple. Their mid-orthrow combination does have world-class strength.

oh.

There are also auxiliary snakes in the bottom lane.

But the problem is that the strength of the top lane and ADC is not good, which makes their team's upper limit not enough. In the accidental BO1, they often achieve good results, but once they enter the BO3 or BO5 that tests their overall strength more, their shortcomings will be infinitely targeted.

Besides, Kasa is not the kind of player who can carry the team in the late stages. His biggest weakness is that he is easy to stealth in the middle and late stages of the game.

Li Hansheng took the initiative to say hello to them, and only the snakes could respond with a smile. The others were all walking towards the lounge with their heads down.

It's enough to tell how bad they are.

"Tsk tsk." Jack groped his chin and sighed, "Why does this year feel like a year of great reshuffle in the League of Legends team's strength? Many long-standing players performed very well this year."

"The future will be a young man like me."

"Okay, okay, I haven't qualified in the group stage yet. You can pretend to be a cup after today's game is over." Li Hansheng angrily patted his back.

"Brother Hansheng is jealous? After all, my buddy is younger than you, and my buddy has a better future than you!" Jack seemed to have grabbed Li Hansheng's pain point and laughed proudly.

Gao Tianliang, who passed by him, completely lost the following words, "It seems that Brother Han Sheng is not much older than you, right? Besides, what kind of champion are you?"

"……………” Jack suddenly felt like a rooster pinched his throat, unable to make any sound, and stood there a little embarrassedly, then shouted angrily, "Isn't it the world champion? A month later! My buddy will be!! Champion! I want the champion skin!"

"Hmm?" Shi Senming also made a sarcastic joke, "You are the man who is legendary who wants to win over Han Sheng Ge and Faker??"

"Get out!! You are just jealous of me!!" Jack was furious and was about to fight with Shi Senming.

The two of them were fighting and making trouble and there was no sign of any nervousness.

Normally, although they did not make a formal appearance last year, they followed the team to play a full-body game throughout the whole game.

The World Championship is no stranger to them at all.

The group stage will start at 12 noon.

This is mainly to take care of foreign audiences, after all, Europe and the United States have a huge time difference with China.

If you consider the domestic audience purely, it will affect the ratings of foreign countries, which is obviously a situation that Riot does not want to see.

Therefore, the fist adopts a compromise approach.

Just like when the World Championship was held abroad, Riot would also consider the same thing as domestic audiences in terms of time arrangements.

Regarding the holding of e-sports events, Riot’s planning ability is the best in the world!

When it comes to playing e-sports, no other game manufacturers have ever played it.

League of Legends can become a phenomenal e-sports masterpiece around the world, and it is inseparable from the construction of e-sports events of the Riot.

Even League of Legends can withstand the impact of so many games and still stand firm, which is inseparable from the perfect and mature e-sports event system as the basis.

Although today is not a day off, the scene at Wuhan Sports Center is still full, and audiences with conditions have chosen to come to the scene to support the stake.

There is no way to come to the scene, so I took out my phone or opened my computer browser as soon as possible, and entered the official live broadcast room to watch today's game.

"Good noon for everyone on site and in front of the screen!" Guan Zeyuan's voice was full of energy.

The ones who were arranged for the commentary today were him and Wang Laoer. The reason for such an arrangement was mainly because Samsung is also in Group A. Guan Zeyuan is a loyal Samsung fan. Naturally, he has to explain Samsung's competition to reflect the performance of the program.

"Welcome to the live broadcast scene of the second round of the 2017 League of Legends Global Finals group stage, which is the final day of Group A!"

"Today! The No. 1 seed of our LPL region will usher in the final test of the group stage. Of course! The three consecutive victories in the first round showed extraordinary competitive state and a version that far surpassed others. There will be no big problem qualifying. The suspense is whether the team can win the whole group! After all, noob said that his regret in the World Championship last year was that he failed to win the entire team. He lost to the Tigers. This year he wanted to win the championship without losing in one game!"

"Haha, it's too early to say that we're going to win the championship. We all know that during the World Championship, it's almost a new understanding every day. Other competitors are growing. If you keep your feet on the spot, you'll be easily caught up or even surpassed!"

Guan Zeyuan seemed to be reminding Taobo not to be careless, but in fact he was secretly expressing that Samsung may make rapid progress and threaten Taobo.

The director also timely gave the points after the first round of the four groups.

Group A undoubtedly ranked first with three consecutive victories, three-stars with two consecutive victories, GAM ranked third with one consecutive victories, and two consecutive victories, while the Lightning Wolf ranked last with an embarrassing three-star winning streak.

In Group B, Dragon Ball also won three consecutive victories, with RNG following closely behind with two wins and one loss, Fnatic ranked third, while IMT ranked fourth.

In Group C, TSM and MSF teams ranked first and second in the group, AHQ third in the AHQ and Fenerbahce fourth in the group.

In Group D, SKT ranked first in the group with all three wins, G2 ranked second in the group, C9 ranked third, and EDG also ranked last in the group with an awkward score of 0-3.
To be continued...