Chapter 258 Playoffs(1/2)
After the regular season ends, the rosters for the east and west divisions are released.
The Western Division is: EDG, Snake, BLG, WE.
Those who advance to the Eastern Division are: IG, RW, RNG, and JDG.
When the promotion list comes out, the playoff schedule is basically determined.
The format of the spring playoffs is that the third and fourth place teams from the two divisions will play each other in turn, with the winner facing off against the second place team from the other divisions, and the winning team playing the first place team in the division.
In other words, EDG and IG can directly walk to the semi-finals.
EDG's opponents in the semi-finals will also be decided from the three teams RW, BLG and JDG.
One advantage of this competition system is that the playoff rankings are very important, which makes many teams take the subsequent regular season more seriously even if they are determined to advance to the playoffs in advance.
Regarding this promotion list, the biggest feeling among netizens is——
There are also differences between the three imperial families.
Last season, EDG, WE, and RNG advanced hand in hand, overwhelming other teams in the same division.
However, in just the past few months, the situation has changed dramatically. WE is fourth in the Western Conference, while RNG is ranked third in the Eastern Conference.
You must know that only two teams in each division will be eliminated. In other words, WE and RNG, two former strong teams, can now only be ranked in the middle. In contrast, EDG, which is also a Royal Sanjia, has
Still staying strong.
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Thursday, April 12th.
Two days after the regular season ended, the first game of the playoffs began.
RNG vs. WE.
Although their performance in the regular season was not good, the fan base of the two teams is still there. Coupled with the fact that they are both Yusanjia, the attention of today's game is still quite high.
The game is at 5 p.m.
After the daily ranking training, everyone in EDG was also watching today's game in the conference room. After all, WE is also their potential opponent.
"The opening game of the regular season is RNG, and the opening game of the playoffs is also RNG. You said there won't be RNG in the finals, right?"
Meiko teased before the game started.
"It's hard to say."
The corners of Chen Mo's mouth raised slightly.
"There is nothing hard to say about this. Even if RNG can defeat WE and Snake successively, they will meet IG in the semi-finals. What will they win?"
iboy immediately retorted.
Even RNG's promotion to the playoffs relied entirely on the extraordinary performance of the players in the second half of the regular season. It is indeed a bit unbelievable to say that they can reach the finals.
"However, RNG has a greater chance of winning this game. After all, WE is missing the key Kandi."
The analyst began to analyze: "WE is a team with a more traditional style of play. They need to rely on the jungle to drive the early rhythm. Their system relies heavily on the jungle, and Magic is not very good."
As soon as this statement came out, everyone nodded. The performance of both teams in the regular season was not optimistic, but everyone was still more optimistic about RNG.
After all, WE was strong in the first half of the regular season and struggled in the second half, while RNG was weak in the first half and in good shape in the second half. The impact of the lack of Kandi on WE is visible to the naked eye.
During the conversation, the first game started quickly.
The director came up and showed the camera to the bottom lane. The highlight of this game was the battle between Uzi and his brother-in-law in the bottom lane.
After last year's lessons, Uzi's Xayah proficiency has obviously improved a lot, but his brother-in-law is also very experienced in laning, and the bottom lane did not widen the gap during the laning period.
But soon, WE mid laner Xiye stepped forward.
Among the domestic mid laners, Chen Mo's favorite is Xiye. This season Wangzai's remaining power is still there, and he quickly used his roaming in the top lane to help 957 kill Letme.
After the kills broke out, WE quickly snowballed, Xiye roamed more frequently, and even the bottom lane gradually opened up the situation.
When the game reached 30 minutes, WE's economic lead had reached 7,000.
This is a very scary number. It can basically be said that we are just one last trembling away from the end of the game.
“I didn’t expect WE to be quite strong.”
In the conference room, Meiko sighed with emotion: "Looking at this posture, RNG won't lose today, right?"
Chen Mo shook his head slightly: "It's hard to say, Uzi's development is still very good, Uzi is in desperate situation, this is not just talk."
As soon as he finished speaking, a team fight broke out on the field.
The first thing WE thought of was to kill Uzi first, but his reaction was very fast. Xia Xia reacted in time to hand over the ultimate move, and released the E skill to control the jungler entering the field, and then turned on the W skill to counterattack...
Magic probably didn't expect that Uzi's Xayah damage would be so terrible in the disadvantageous round, and she was instantly killed without even a chance to flash.
Under the protection of his teammates, Uzi outputted freely. The effect of attacking three lanes in the early and mid-term was fully demonstrated in this wave of team battles. Xayah dealt astonishing damage.
ACE!
When the system prompt sounded, everyone in EDG became stunned.
"Awesome!"
Chen Mo's words broke the silence in the conference room.
He only knew that RNG would win this game, but he couldn't remember exactly how it won. I have to say that Uzi's performance in the team battle just now was indeed perfect.
"This can also make a comeback. RNG's resilience is so strong!"
Meiko Cigarette sighed with emotion.
Not only in this game, in the second half of the regular season, they also repeatedly overturned their opponents despite being at a disadvantage in the early and mid-term.
After the team defeated WE, RNG quickly took down the Baron.
The key team battle failed, and the morale established by WE in the early stage collapsed instantly. Even though RNG won the Baron, the economic advantage was still on their side, but they made frequent mistakes in the following games.
The game time was finally fixed at 42 minutes, and RNG successfully won the first game.
Second game.
Many viewers initially expected WE to make a comeback and establish a huge advantage in the early and mid-term like they did in the previous game.
It's just that the idea is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.
I don’t know if it was affected by the overturn in the previous game, but WE’s overall performance was very sluggish. In the early stage, Mala Xiangguo found opportunities crazily.
At 20 minutes, the economic gap between the two sides was 5,000, and RNG held the earth dragon.
Under this premise, the baron had just refreshed, and Mala Xiangguo decisively signaled his teammates to come over and rush the baron.
WE was still very sharp and discovered in time that RNG was beating the dragon. However, due to the huge economic disadvantage, they did not want to fight in a team, but let the jungler try to grab the dragon.
If it was Kandi, it would really be possible to create miracles, but unfortunately, their jungler is Magic.
The miracle did not happen. After killing the Baron, RNG won the game cleanly.
2:0.
It was only then that everyone realized that WE was going to be shaved off by RNG.
Before the game, everyone in EDG thought that RNG would win, but they did not expect that WE would lose so miserably.
"Why do I feel that RNG is not as weak as I thought?"
At the end of the game, iboy suddenly said: "Especially in the bottom lane, I feel like Uzi is so fierce in the lane!"
We couldn’t tell from the previous game, but in this game, WE’s bottom lane was defeated in the early game. You must know that his opponent is also a relatively powerful ADC brother-in-law.
"Not just the bottom lane, the jungler is very capable of finding opportunities, the mid laner can also cooperate with roaming, and the top laner is very stable... I feel that the players are quite powerful. How did they get beaten so badly in the regular season?"
Analysts said they didn't understand.
If a player performs like this on the field, not to mention the first place in the competition, he can at least compete for second place.
Return to the playing field.
After the first two games, the mentality of the WE players was completely shattered.
The third game did not cause any splash, RNG won the game cleanly.
Everyone in EDG watched this game originally wanting to study WE, but they didn't expect that RNG would perform so strongly, and everyone was suspicious.
According to this situation, if RNG really meets IG, it may still be at a disadvantage, but there is definitely a possibility of winning.
At the end of today's game, fans of the two teams began to talk about it on the Internet.
But these have nothing to do with EDG. They need to wait for two weeks before they can play games. During this period, in addition to watching other teams' games, they can only play training games.
After watching the game, just when Manager Abramovich was struggling with which team to find for a training match, a team from the LCK approached him.
Just after dinner, Abramovich announced to everyone: "We will play a training match with SKT tonight. Everyone is ready."
SKT and EDG played a lot of training games last season, so everyone knows the basics.
And this time SKT came to visit, the reason is very simple——
There is a problem within the team!
To be continued...