Chapter 36: FDG's Difficult Journey
The news that e-sports will enter the Asian Games spread overwhelmingly as early as August, and for a while, the majority of players in the e-sports circle were attracted by this news, and discussed it in various places such as Weibo Tieba and Penguin Group live broadcast rooms, and even the popularity of many competitions has dropped a lot.
The happiest are of course the League of Legends players, League of Legends has won the LPL championship in the past two years, and has already determined its dominance, and it is naturally very happy to see the League of Legends project.
The most unhappy thing is the Dota player, why is there League of Legends and no Dota? CN Dota has had poor results in the past two years?
The results are not bad, TI2 World Champion, TI3 Although the results are average, but at least for now, the level of Dota is very good. However, who let the Koreans' Dota suit be beaten to the end of the server, and the top Dota team in South Korea was abused by a third-rate team of CN Dota?
Koreans are not stupid, they know that if the Dota project is reported, the champion will be either Europe and the United States or China, and if the Koreans want to win the Dota championship, they don't know if there is any hope in another 50 years, so they simply ignore the Dota.
I have to say that although the trick is yin, it does have an effect. The projects that are now reported are all good at Koreans, and at least five of the six gold medals are very promising for Koreans.
Therefore, if the Chinese e-sports national team wants to complete Song Lao's task this time, it is very difficult to protect the second and fight for the third.
But no matter how hard it is, you have to do it.
Aren't people like that? Only by facing difficulties can we reflect the strong and unyielding qualities of human beings.
This makes all the athletes in the Asian Games train very hard.
The athlete of Iron Fist is a very young boy named Zhang Fan, who is said to be the champion of all domestic Iron Fist events in the past two years. After it was confirmed that he was going to the Asian Games, all domestic iron fist masters gathered in the capital, and more than a dozen people trained with him.
There are also players from Star 2 and Warcraft 3.
Most of these players are from clubs, with players from established clubs such as IGA, WEA, VGA, AND RS accounting for the majority. Ace players such as Interstellar 2 players Jim, Tu Ming, Watermelon, etc., as well as Warcraft 3 rookie Emperor, Egg Total, 100% Fly, etc., are all from these clubs.
It's a pity that Renhuang SKY retired last year, and Renhuang is indeed a lot older, as the earliest generation of top professional players in China, both the operation reaction and strength have declined greatly.
In last year's WCG Rongcheng Qualifiers, the Emperor of the People did not even qualify from the group. Therefore, after that competition, although Renhuang did not publish a retirement statement, he no longer participated in any competitions, focusing on the internal affairs of the WEE club, which is no different from retirement, and was replaced by a rookie infi.
It's just that as the most influential person in Warcraft in China, Renhuang also came to the capital to take on the head coach of the Warcraft team, and formed a coaching staff with the top players from several other clubs who did not participate, which can be regarded as the last contribution to CN Warcraft after retiring.
At this moment, the Chinese esports community is united like never before. Almost every enlistment team has at least a team of dozens of people behind them, including the League of Legends coaching team, and there are seven or eight analysts alone, working hard for the championship.
However, just when the whole people are paying attention to the Asian Games, the 2014 LPL qualifiers are quietly underway. The competition will determine two participating teams to go to S2, and the top 2 teams in the group stage will advance to the semi-finals, and the semi-finals will determine the winner's bracket and the lower bracket.
The four teams PK in pairs, the winner competes for a place in S4 in one group, and the loser competes for a place in S4 in one group. Then the upper bracket champion and the lower bracket champion compete to see who can go to S4 as the second seed.
FDG's first round of grouping was unlucky, and it was divided into the royal family and Guodian. But this is also luck, because the royal family and Guodian have been in a very bad state for the past two days, and the players in charge went to the capital to participate in the training camp, the planes were pounding back and forth, and they had to go to the competition field immediately after getting off the ground, resulting in the players being in poor condition.
In particular, Guodian went to two generals, and the situation of the royal family was slightly better. Because the royal family introduced two Koreans in this year's summer game, the Goryeo holy monk Inset, and the auxiliary players had zero eggs, which stabilized the situation and did not collapse too much.
FDG played 1-1 in the first round, winning against Guodian and losing to the royal family. I have to say that FDG's state has greatly improved after two veterans, and coupled with FD's daily teaching, the strength has formed a leap.
It's just that FDG has always been unlikable in the LPL because their tactical system is too boring. The line period is to clear the line, and then spread the vision everywhere, steal the dragon and steal the tower, and it is very unsightly to play only promises.
The audience is more happy to see a team like FD that hits hard no matter what opponent they face, so their reputation is not popular throughout the LPL.
If it weren't for FDG being FD's second team, Yun Luoyang would have played in this team, I'm afraid the audience would have scolded this broken team a long time ago.
I have to say that the violent fighting tactics advocated by FD have indeed nourished the taste of LPL audiences.
So much so that the operation style of play came out, and everyone didn't like this kind of gameplay.
However, FDG relied on this style of play, and when the overall team strength was not strong, they actually won the second place in the group stage and forcibly qualified.
Royal 3-1, FDG 2-2, Guodian 1-3.
Guodian, which qualified as the No. 1 seed in 2014 in the original history, was eliminated directly in the qualifiers, and I have to say that this is a wonderful thing.
On the other hand, the situation in Group B is that OMA is dominant, and DGL and IGA are not very competitive, because the old batch of IGA players have retired and transferred. In the spring game, the Korean top laner performed averagely, and IG even brought a chair to carry him down and put on a rookie top laner BO.
In terms of junglers, South Korea's wild king was imported, and a substitute mid-laner broiler was also sent. Auxiliary cocoa shooting, coupled with General Sturgeon and the junior thief of the singles DJ, form such a new IGA team.
It's a pity that the new team did not perform well, and the team run-in period was not enough, and it barely entered the qualifiers purely by relying on the points base of the spring game. The optimistic family led by Wei Shen can easily defeat them, so they went out 0-4 directly in the group stage, which is very embarrassing.
However, the optimistic family is not having a good time, it belongs to the kind that is more than the upper than the bottom, playing IGA is 2-0, playing OMA becomes 0-2, and finally it is a 2-2 record. OMA, for their part, showed dominance and reached the semi-finals with a 4-0 record.
On September 5th, the two most important matches are the second in Group A against the first in Group B, the first in Group A against the second in Group B, the loser in the lower bracket, and the winner in the upper bracket.
Then there is a civil war in the upper bracket and a civil war in the lower bracket. The winner of the upper bracket will get a second S spot, while the loser of the upper bracket will play the winner of the lower bracket again, and the winner will get the last S spot.
Finally, the winner of the upper bracket and the winner of the lower bracket are the winners of the Imperial City PK, and the winner is the second seed. However, it doesn't really matter who is the second seed, because there is no play-in tournament this year, and even the first seed has to start from the group stage, and the difference is only which group it is in, which means little.
It is not easy for FDG to get a qualifying spot, and the most direct way is naturally to defeat OMA, enter the upper bracket, and then directly defeat the opponent in the upper bracket to determine the place.
However, the outside world is generally not optimistic about FDG, believing that this year is likely to be the royal family and OMA qualifying, and FDG and DGL can basically be ignored.
In fact, the semi-finals met OMA, and FDG did not get a victory. The rhythm of OMA Nakaueno is too fast, Ah Guang's upper road has become a breakthrough, the pressure resistance failed, and he was sandwiched by the OMA Nakaueno trio many times, Shadow and Huang Chenghao were powerless, BO3 both fought hard for more than 30 minutes, 0-2 directly entered the loser's group.
The opponent in the lower bracket is the optimistic family DGL, DGL is not complete at the moment, but the strength of Double C should not be underestimated. And I don't know what history Yun Luoyang has changed, Situ Lao Thief, who should have been banned in this year's summer tournament, was not banned, so he is also a top five team in the LPL.
It's just that the upper assistant is more fishy, and the S5 first auxiliary Death Reaper Hirano Forest was taken to FD, and the state of a certain treasure in the jungle fluctuates. When it is strong, it can compete with the three LPL wild kings of the factory director crayfish medicine guide, and when it is weak, the audience sleepwalks, which is really not very powerful.
In this case, the royals, who were the top of Group A, easily defeated DGL and went to the upper bracket with a score of 2-1. The lower bracket is DGL and FDG, two hard-working children who love and kill each other, and these two teams are still not very competitive teams.
Including the major commentators and coaches of the LPL, they all feel that the game between DGL and FDG is meaningless. Because whether it is the royal family or OMA, after falling from the winner's bracket to the lower bracket, it is bound to be the two of them who win the game.
When it came time for the final second-seeded player, it was still royalty and OMA. DGL and FDG can basically go home to wash and sleep, and it is impossible to get a qualifying place.
However, the two teams fought hard, and the match between the two sides started on September 6.
DGL launched a rapid offensive in the early stage, and Nakano Linkage continued to find rhythm everywhere.
The two veterans of Shadow and Huang Chenghao were very top, and did not let the opposite side find a chance, Ah Guang also played a momentum in the face of DGL's more fishy top laner on the road, and used the signature Rambo to kill Kenan on the opposite side to counter Rambo once, and the performance was very good.
And Chen Hui and Mei Kou's performance today was also very eye-catching, not only fighting back and forth with Situ Lao Thief, but even suppressing Situ Lao Thief.
Chen Hui's strength itself is the top ADC level, S2 and Yun Luoyang together to form the old FD to compete in the TGA competition, and Delevingne is superb. Now that he has practiced VN and Lucian again, his auxiliary strength can also keep up. Situ Lao Thief is not good at assisting, so he will naturally be pressed and beaten by Chen Hui.
With the fact that there was no collapse in the early stage, and even a small advantage, it came to the later stage where FDG is best at dealing with it. After the operation of the first pass, FDG captured Nosuke who came out of DGL to do vision through a wave of wild area ambush, and a wave of dragons ended the game in 31 minutes.
The second took Wei Shen out of Yasuo, and showed a wave of divine operations under the tower to double kill Huang Chenghao and Shadow. As a result, this wave of FDG exploded, Nakano's rhythm exploded, and he was lost the second game by DGL's fast attack in 27 minutes.
In the third game, FDG stabilized his mentality, and the shadow level 3 went up to play the TP of the DGL top single, and then took advantage of the TP difference FDG to go down the road with five packs of three, the most terrifying thing is that Wei Shen level 4 Jiaoyue actually Shi Lezhi TP went down, and the front of the tower let FDG play a wave of 1 for 4, which led to the direct collapse of DGL's middle and lower fields at this point in time, and the operation took DGL away in a wave for 29 minutes.
Since then, DGL has been eliminated directly, and FDG has barely reached the last level.
And what they have to face next is a life and death situation.
Meet the loser in the winner's group.
Win.
Get your ticket and go to S4.
Lose.
Pack up and go home.
On the morning of September 6, the royal family won OMA 2-1 and got the second ticket to the World Championship.
FDG will face OMA, who drew them 0-2 in the semi-finals!
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