Chapter 372: Decisive Battle
At night.
Cvmax held his head high, like a lion patrolling his territory, and carefully checked the team members' homework.
It's called homework.
In fact, it's training.
It's just that this is preparing for the finals, which is completely different from preparing for the offseason.
As a coach - although Cvmax never thought that he would become a coach, it doesn't matter. What's important is that he got recognition.
This is something he didn't get as a player or a streamer.
So the closer he got to the Bird's Nest, the more hungry he felt. After all, no one wants to be mediocre all their lives and be willing to become an unknown little character.
Compared with Cvmax.
The big wolf sitting in the seat felt a little guilty. I don't know why, from waking up to now, the coach's eyes have changed when he looks at him.
He can't tell the change.
But just like when he was in school, he didn't want to be noticed by the head teacher. Poor students are always particularly sensitive to similar looks.
Knowing that Mai÷ is standing behind him.
A few minutes passed.
A few minutes passed again.
Dalang could even imagine the psychological activities of Dagou, Eimy and others... That is, they were concerned about the coach's presence, otherwise they would have started the mocking mode and said something stupid about being targeted again.
And what could comfort him.
That is, the opponent in the finals was SKT.
He did not mean to look down on SKT.
It was just that after watching the BO5 with WE just now, Dalang felt that SKT was still more dependent on Faker.
Well... Dalang was thinking, do I rely more on Hao Ge, or does Huni rely more on Faker?
It should be Huni.
You see, he has such a hard time playing Shen, and he always likes to shrink in the position selection in team fights. Those who don't know would think he is playing Riven, ready to hit full damage at any time.
Divergent thinking.
Dalang's mouth corners rose unconsciously.
Because he found his own value in Huni. If you have to compare, he will not have a hard time against 957...
Soon.
A training game ended.
Cvmax suddenly asked: "Xie Zhenying, you play Maokai, don't you look at the middle line?"
"Oh..."
Dalang, who was thinking about it, was startled and slow for several seconds before he realized that the coach was asking him.
"Which wave?"
"Before the third dragon."
Dalang thought about the scene at that time and answered: "That wave... It's nothing. The commander said to look at the river. I handled the line and then went to occupy the position..."
"The middle line we took over later has been given up. You go offline and push through the river like this. Aren't you afraid that they will surround you?"
"I use all my skills and flash. It's difficult for the opponent to keep me, right? And the dragon is also there." Dalang expressed the idea that the opponent sent too many people to catch, and his teammates could rush the dragon.
"So you think it's a good thing to be forced to use skills before the resource group?"
"..."
Dalang didn't know how to reply.
After all, no matter how well the script is designed, it still needs people to execute it. It's a little difficult to expect the opponent to cooperate.
"I was... from..." Dalang thought desperately.
"It's so simple, but you still have to think about it for so long."
Cvmax is still a bit scary when he gets angry, "Even if I want to help share the pressure, I will retreat to the jungle and put on a mid-range posture."
Professional players sound awesome.
But on the road to professionalism, you are still in a state of learning at any time.
Except for star players, no one cares even if ordinary little Karami is upset and gets angry and runs away.
For the club.
It's hard to find geniuses among geniuses, but there are plenty of such cultivated geniuses in the canyon. The biggest gap between many passerby kings and professional players is not technology, but the way of thinking and communication about the game.
Or so.
Rank points can only knock on the door of the profession. The performance in the training game and the evaluation of teammates are the key factors that determine whether the newcomer can play.
Cvmax turned his head slightly and scanned the crowd.
Karsa, who is taller than others, even wanted to bend his waist.
Compared with the FW period, Karsa suddenly felt that Char Siu and Steak were extremely gentle coaches, and he shouldn't have talked back to such coaches before.
And next to him.
C Bo unconsciously glanced at Qin Hao, who was sitting upright, and wanted to seek some support, but saw that Qin Hao was calm and composed, as if he didn't notice the change in the atmosphere in the room...
Look at the coach again.
He didn't seem to notice Qin Hao, and his eyes quickly slid to the right.
C Bo's heart was a little uneasy: naked discrimination, naked!
Anyway, after working together for so long, C Bo's experience in dealing with Mai ÷ is to be low-key and well-behaved. Even if you are dissatisfied or unhappy, you can't write your emotions on your face, otherwise you will definitely be targeted.
Maybe it's a public punishment after review.
Maybe it's a verbal humiliation.
In short, being specially concerned by Mai ÷ is definitely not a good thing.
Then.
Cvmax called out Eimy and Karsa, asking: "In the fourth and fifth games, SKT picked up two Graves and chose to let the mid laner push the line to protect the jungle area. So, what do you two think?"
"Condi was a little uncomfortable and played a little anxiously. If he wasn't anxious, it would be okay. As long as Graves didn't get a kill in the front, this hero would be just like that."
Eimy answered first.
This is what he thought when watching the game.
Although WE got the match point with 2:1, SKT saw Blank's average performance and decided to replace him with Peanut to play the decisive game, but Peanut did not change his habit of greedy jungle.
Rather than saying that the fourth and fifth games were won by adjusting the sub-C, it is better to say that WE could not keep a stable mentality and gave SKT the opportunity to collide in the jungle.
"WE did not protect the jungle well enough."
When saying these words, Karsa was also wondering who would play in the finals? But Cvmax just nodded and didn't say much, as if he was just speaking out of his feelings.
Look at Qin Hao again.
He still opened the ranking record and counted the wins and losses as if nothing had happened.
Karsa was anxious and irritable, and his heart felt like being scratched by a cat.
Wait until Cvmax left.
C blog talked about WE's defeat, "Now everyone on the Internet is talking about Qingsuan KOR, and many people are rushing the director."
"Crush the director?" Karsa didn't understand.
"Many netizens are scolding the director for deliberately not turning off the light board that cheered for WE, so it seemed that the whole venue was filled with SKT fans."
"Is that so?"
"Yes, no matter how many SKT fans there are, how could they occupy the Oriental Stadium?"
"Why do they do that?"
"Either they are deliberately provoking a fight, or someone in the director's group is an SKT fan."
Talking about this, C-Bo talked about a time when LGD was treated unfairly: "I played against EDG in the S5 Spring Split, and the staff also sided with EDG."
Said.
C-Bo glanced at WE's super chat.
"Fuck, a director's Weibo account was discovered, and he is really a Faker fan."
~~~
The Internet was at its busiest.
What 60E was most angry about was not the loss.
But "their own people did not help their own people", and they felt that their feelings were hurt.
After all, in this BO5, WE's support and jungle played poorly, and Xiye did not hold on in the key game, which was a level that was just a breath away from a reunion.
In response to this.
Although 60E was uncomfortable, it was okay. After all, WE was not like RNG, which had the joke of putting five Galios and not training Xayah and Rakan.
It was just that in terms of mentality and operation, they lacked a little experience, so it was a glorious defeat.
And in terms of post-match scoring.
With this battle, 957 solidified the title of "leg brother". Because in four of the five games, 957 was slightly better.
Even the scene of AD Kennen defending the tower and killing two and running away in the first game became a famous scene in his career second only to the prince's abuse of the weapon in the intercontinental game, dispelling the rumor that he only knew how to play tank top laners such as Shen and the big worm.
Including the post-match group interview.
Kouma said that he didn't expect WE to BP like that. After all, before this, 957 rarely showed his Kennen and Gnar. In the absence of data support, no one would pay attention to it.
So we really have to talk about the impact of the game.
The performance of the five-game battle with SKT has made the reputation of WE's top jungle and double C go in a good direction. It also makes it more obvious that there is a problem with the "home court".
"Brothers, come on."
"Yes, go to Fujii's official blog and post messages."
"The funniest thing about this World Championship is that they are united against the outside world. Those who don't know would think WE is a team from the Korean region."
"WE: LCK No. 4 seed."
"Go for this x-on:idiot, okay, he didn't delete the dynamics completely. On the day RNG lost, this B also posted a dog-beating Bang."
This time the noise was a bit big.
The audience didn't expect that the director would dare to cut off the cheers for WE on the scene.
"The most disgusting episode."
"Even the emperor couldn't stand it."
" x-on:WE, you should express your attitude."
"Compared to Koreans, Koreans are the most disgusting."
"Woo woo, I hope LGD can help WE get revenge, you green garlic Korean dogs."
"I don't understand something, these people are eager to lick, what did they get?"
"Do you need a reason to love Korea?"
"Do you understand the civilized world?"
"Is the lowland also trying to touch the civilized world?"
When the two sides were fighting.
The director who didn't delete the dynamics completely was the first to suffer.
First, the comments section was closed, and then the account was banned.
Just when he was angry, he received a call from the boss, asking him to take a break recently and come back after he adjusted himself.
"Bullshit."
The director who was suspected to be a Faker fan was so angry that he smashed his phone. He didn't understand who he was bothered by his liking Faker.
Of course.
Even though Fujii's official blog was covered with many posts, there was no response, nor any overt action.
Many netizens have guessed this and expected it, knowing that Fujii would not care about such things.
But guessing is guessing.
Seeing Fujii pretending to be dead, many emotional young people still couldn't accept it.
So.
More people began to support LGD.
Even Huangza and 60E, who had some conflicts before, temporarily put aside their momentum and shouted that SKT would be sent home with a score of 3-0 in the final.
Such voices were reflected in the pre-match predictions.
There were a lot of people who chose 3-0, as if countless optimists had appeared overnight.
After all, if you really want to predict the score, many people like to choose 3 to 1.
Even if there is a clear gap in strength, the audience will assume that they can steal a game.
In the super chat.
It has become popular to knock on the electronic wooden fish to save luck for LGD and pray for cyber.
[I don’t know what SKT can do to beat LGD. ]
[Penicillin, the flying treasure. ]
[SKT has been stumbling along the way, they are not thinking about a comeback in the finals. ]
[Blank was also in a bad state in the BO5 with WE. ]
[Faker's hero pool is either Galio, Ryze, Taliyah, or Corki, Azar and other cores. ]
[Bang's performance with Xayah is not impressive. ]
[SKT's hero pool has problems. ]
When netizens predict the finals performance.
Hotel.
Kouma is watching the players' training from behind.
Just as the outside world thinks.
After SKT beat WE, the players' expressions became more tense. From Huni to Wolf, they clearly know that WE and LGD are not teams of the same level.
Playing against WE can stabilize the situation.
It does not mean that the same BP and tactics can resolve the pressure brought by LGD.
So this time.
Faker frowned deeply.
Seeing his teammates make wrong operations, he couldn't help the thoughts that popped up.
One game is over.
The opponent typed to ask if it was over.
Seeing this, Huni breathed a sigh of relief. The only thing on his mind was to go back to the room and take a shower to relieve his tense nerves.
"Let's disband. Let's practice one more day tomorrow. The day after tomorrow, we will leave for Beijing." The schedule was simple. Anyway, there was only so much time to prepare for the game. All the coaching staff could do was to keep the players in touch.
It was just when everyone got up.
Faker didn't know why he was being petty again. He took off his headphones, as if to emphasize to himself and the coach: "Go to bed at four o'clock?"
"Don't you hurry up and practice one or two more games?"
According to the previous experience of playing against each other, Faker felt that the only thing that could be compared was the state.
And the state.
It depends on more practice.
After all, they are "weaker" than LGD. If the weaker side does not put in 200% effort, can they expect the other side to let them go?
"..."
The atmosphere was awkward.
This is not the first time.
It will not be the last time.
Even after being teammates for so many years, Bang can't understand Faker's thoughts.
He thinks people are not machines.
Proper relaxation may make you in a better state and more daring to play on the same day.
But Faker doesn't think so.
He always feels that his competitive state is not as good as others, so he has to work harder. Moreover, in the training match just now, he found that the top and jungle were not committed enough, and he felt a little unhappy.
He was thinking: There are only a few days left before the finals, why can't we even overcome this little difficulty?
"Listen to me, take a break first."
Kouma waved his hand, and Faker stood still.
If he didn't move, others didn't dare to move, and Huni even took back his left foot that had left his seat.
Seeing this, Kouma felt a little annoyed.
To put it bluntly, the reason why SKT's training atmosphere is so high pressure is not entirely because of the high requirements of the coaching staff. After all, if even Faker doesn't complain about being tired, why should others be treated specially?
It's just this intensity.
Not everyone can keep up.
In the stalemate, Bang hoped that the coach could convince Faker, but the final result was that Kouma gave in and discussed practicing for another hour.
At this time.
Bang was already very annoyed.
Just for the finals, for the championship, and to fight for his pride, he suppressed his emotions and kept sitting in a familiar position.
For all this.
Faker didn't even notice that Wolf had the urge to vomit.
On the other side.
Qin Hao was also a little unhappy.
He was not unhappy about the training.
But after arriving in Beijing, he had to participate in a live broadcast of selling goods for no reason - the sponsor specified that he had to appear on camera for 2 hours.
"Can't I not go?"
"It's just 2 hours."
Manager Pan's tone is always so relaxed. He really thinks 2 hours is not a long time.
"I know..."
~~~
2 days later.
Bird's Nest.
Before entering the venue, Big Wolf looked around as if he had never seen the world. Well, the whole team is like this.
"Come on."
Heart was still helping to encourage: "Relax, it's just a bigger venue, don't put pressure on yourself."
For a moment.
Qin Hao's posture when entering the Bird's Nest merged with the figure that flashed in the MV.