Chapter 742: As long as I’m here, you’ll all be second!
The contestants entered their seats to debug the equipment.
The big screen began playing a pre-recorded promotional video.
Maslow wrote a sentence in his "Hierarchy of Needs Theory" - when the needs of a certain level are not met, people will strongly express the needs of this level.
Simply put, you want to get what you lack.
Great... Great Koreans, after all three seeded teams of LCK were eliminated, worked hard to show the world the sportsmanship that everyone has heard of but no one has ever seen.
There is nothing perfunctory about the promotional video.
But it is carefully crafted.
From the city scenery to the home environment, to the players' personal statements and highlights from the game, they are interspersed together against the backdrop of the 'RUN' song.
Finally, it freezes on the Summoner's Championship Trophy with the overpass as the background.
The rhythm and visual experience were both at a very good level, which was completely different from the opening where 70 to 80 percent of the time was spent on giving the Korean players a solo show.
Makes you feel...
The Koreans were really shameless before!
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"Good afternoon, summoners!"
"I'm Ze Yuan!"
"I'm Miller!"
"I am Wang Duoduo!"
"Today at the Gwangju Women's University Universiade Stadium, we will bring you the commentary of the 2018 League of Legends World Championship - the second semi-final, EDG vs RNG."
Ze Yuan shook off the shadow of Samsung's elimination and faced the camera in his best form: "To be honest, this year's competition gave us too many surprises. European and North American teams fought back and defeated the difficult-to-beat Korean team. Our four LPL seeded teams even played unprecedented performances."
"Now when I check the comments on the official website of the League of Legends, the one I see most often is the re-run of the summer season."
"Yes." Miller said with interest: "There are also people who use EDG's tone to ask how many lives RNG and IG have and why they can't be killed no matter how hard they try."
"It's really interesting." Wang Duoduo said with a smile: "EDG thought, I have already defeated RNG and IG, why do they do it again? And this time it's an enhanced version!"
There is no need to say much about IG's transformation.
RNG has experienced the baptism of the World Championship and reversed KT in the group stage, and has obviously found its own direction.
If IG is a butterfly emerging from a cocoon.
At least RNG can be considered to have made further progress.
Both teams are a bit more difficult to deal with than when they were in the LPL region.
"Okay, let's take a look at the starting lineups for both teams!"
Ze Yuan got to the point: "EDG's starting lineup is General in top lane, Zz1tai in jungle, Xiye in mid lane, Jackeylove in bottom lane, and Meiko in support."
"RNG's starting lineup is top laner Letme, jungler Karsa, mid laner Xiaohu, bottom laner UZI, and support Ming."
"From this list, it seems that RNG wants to continue to play the game through operations."
The way to cook spicy hotpot emphasizes the word "rough".
Usually they rush into the opponent's jungle area, pull the opponent's jungler to fight each other, and create a suppressing environment for UZI without any interference.
Karsa, who earned the nickname "Brother Radar" right after joining the LPL, focused on map control and counter-camping. At the most exaggerated moment, he successfully counter-camped four times in a row, not only winning the game easily, but also destroying the confidence of the opposing jungler.
Now that RNG has put Karsa on the field, except for the bottom lane, the other positions will most likely adopt a style of focusing on stability.
"To be honest, the only team that can fight EDG across the board is IG."
"RNG is still a little bit behind."
Miller commented on the matter: "From the overall performance before, UZI slightly beat Jackeylove, but it is not so easy for UZI + Xiao Ming to gain an advantage against Jackeylove + Meiko. After Xiye joined EDG, he did not lose to Xiaohu... and in the top lane, Letme could only defend against General and could not attack."
"That's right." Wang Duoduo agreed: "In the summer season, EDG defeated RNG 3-0. What do you think of today's score?"
"I think RNG should be able to win 1-2 games. I can only guess one result, and my guess is 1-3." Miller is very optimistic about EDG.
"Then I think it's 2-3, EDG is 3." Ze Yuan added a little more.
"Since you told me both results, I can only guess that RNG will win 3-2." Wang Duoduo had no choice.
I guess RNG was defeated 0-3.
Let’s not talk about the probability.
As soon as he opens his mouth, he will offend the audience who likes RNG.
Although EDG's "starch" is the largest fan group in LPL, RNG has also attracted a large number of fans thanks to the old Royal Club and UZI's two world runner-up titles in the S3-S4 season.
Wang Duoduo would be criticized if he said "still 0-3" no matter what the actual score was.
Although 3-2 is more outrageous, RNG fans will not have any objections.
As long as EDG wins, the fans won’t mind.
What?
What should we do if EDG loses?
joke!
It doesn’t mean that EDG has absolutely no chance of losing.
If three out of ten are missing, then is there a chance that two out of ten are missing? Is there a chance that one out of ten are missing?
Is it one percent or one thousandth?
Do you still dare to say no?
OK.
Two substitutes and one main player died suddenly on the spot, so they were declared the loser because they couldn't get five players together!
From a theoretical point of view, if there is a probability, it is possible that it will happen.
Even a team as strong as EDG cannot guarantee a 100% victory.
but.
Think about it carefully.
If EDG really fails in the final step of its bid for three consecutive championships and a super grand slam, will fans criticize the commentator for just making a prediction?
The real thing to do is to criticize the coach and the war criminals in the game!
Guessed the score.
Ze Yuan, Miller and Wang Duoduo chatted for a while.
Soon, the director's perspective turned to the contestants' seats.
After displaying all participating members, enter the Ban/Pick interface .
"Okay, the first BP begins!"
Miller looked at the screen: "RNG rolled the dice to win and took the initiative to choose the blue side. This will reduce the burden of a must-ban hero, but it will also put more pressure on Letme in the top lane."
"It depends on whether Letme can withstand General's attack." Ze Yuan tried hard to restrain the urge to make malicious comments.
"These two games are also the battles to prove myself as the world's second-best top laner." Wang Duoduo set the tone.
There is no dispute as to who is the best top laner in the world.
As long as Xing Dao is here.
Others can only compete for the seats below.
Who is the world's second-best top laner? Before the quarterfinals, audiences in different regions had no consensus on who it was.
Koreans believe that the talented newcomer Kiin, who surpassed Khan's AFs, is worthy of being called the second in the world.
As for the fact that they were beaten badly in the Intercontinental Championship...that can't be used as a reference.
Who wouldn’t be badly beaten by the world’s number one?
European audiences think FNC's Bibab is very strong.
North American audiences believe that C9's "Licorice" is no ordinary person.
There are three candidates on the LPL side, one is Letme who represents equality for all, one is Saint Spear, the pillar of the Snake team, and the other is The shy who just returned to the court after recovering from a hand injury.
It created a spectacular situation where there were six people in the top two in the world.
Until one team after another was eliminated, and the players lost their qualifications to compete, currently there are only two candidates left: Letme and The shy.
Who will take the seat of 'world's second' will be revealed in these two BO5 matches!
