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Chapter 541: If the eldest brother doesn't carry, he's a liability! If the younger brother doesn't carry, he's a liability!

There is no time interval between the first and second rounds of the LPL playoffs; one match is played every day.

After the first round, you have to play the second round.

Saturday, April 8.

The second round of the six-to-four competition has begun.

Today's match is a best-of-five series between BLG and EDG.

Because it was the weekend and the playoffs had progressed to the second round, the importance of the game increased, and there were many more spectators watching the game live.

Including various online live streams, the number of viewers in the live stream rooms has also increased significantly compared to the regular season.

Of course, the importance of the competition is one thing, but the teams participating are even more crucial.

The two best-of-five matches in the round of 5 this weekend both featured EDG and RNG.

With two established star-studded teams still possessing considerable competitiveness, their box office appeal is naturally quite strong.

In the match between BLG and EDG, most casual viewers favored EDG.

First of all, EDG's reputation goes without saying.

BLG's regular season ranking was only one place higher than EDG's.

The difference in regular season rankings is enough to show that the two teams are roughly equal in terms of their current strength on paper.

In addition, the playoffs, especially the best-of-five series, place even more emphasis on experience.

Apart from the rookie jungler jiejie who was promoted this year, the other positions in the EDG team are all filled by veteran players with extensive experience.

On the BLG side, only their two carries, Kuro and Golden Horn, have relatively rich experience in major tournaments.

However, the general consensus is that Jin Jiao is not optimistic about him, and no one thinks he is capable.

Aside from their two carries, BLG consists of relatively new players who have only been playing in the LPL for a year or two and have never even played in the playoffs.

In the LPL playoffs, the most common upsets are by teams with lower regular season rankings and more experienced players defeating teams with higher regular season rankings but more young players and less playoff experience.

Moreover, the difference between BLG and EDG in the regular season was only fourth and fifth place, respectively.

Even in the NBA playoffs, it's the fourth seed playing against the fifth seed, which is the matchup where the underdog is most likely to upset the top seed.

But the result of this match was also very unexpected.

Regardless of the actual regular season rankings, based on the general audience's expectations, this match was a major upset for BLG.

Because BLG swept EDG 3-0.

Although more people favored EDG before the match, it was far less than the number of people who favored IG before yesterday's match between IG and LNG.

A significant number of viewers believe that BLG can defeat EDG.

But no one expected that BLG would sweep EDG so decisively.

Judging from the match, EDG had little chance to fight back and were no match for them.

This result was truly an upset.

After defeating EDG, BLG became the third team to reach the semifinals of the LPL Summer Playoffs.

They are now just one semifinal victory away from reaching the LPL Summer Split finals.

This greatly surprised the BLG team management.

Before the season started, they never thought they would have a chance to compete in the World Championship this year.

Even though they spent money to buy two South Korean players this year.

But the team has three local players left, all of whom are very cheap.

Moreover, the two South Korean players weren't particularly expensive.

Although a lot of money was invested, it was only compared to those teams that were just giving up.

They can't compare to the LPL teams that have really been able to spend money in recent years.

But now, the opportunity has come so suddenly.

Since they were able to easily defeat EDG 3-0, they still have a chance in the later matches!
I feel like there's a great chance!
Because of IG's early exit, any team that makes it to the semifinals of the Summer Split playoffs is now basically just one step away from going to the S9 World Championship.

Of course, BLG is not just one step behind because they didn't get any points in the Spring Split; they are two steps behind.

But as long as you make it to the finals, even if you only get the runner-up title, you'll at least qualify for the bubble tournament, and in the last round of that tournament.

The current playoff situation makes everyone at BLG feel that this is a good opportunity to go to the World Championship, and they must make a good push.

For two consecutive days, they defeated teams that were not favored by the public with a score of 3-0.

This has caused many RNG fans to panic.

Hopefully, RNG won't be taken down by LNG tomorrow!

Will they really follow in IG's footsteps and also fail against LNG?
The thought of so many people waiting to ridicule RNG and Uzi makes many RNG and Uzi fans feel uneasy.

After all, RNG lost to JDG, who finished eighth in the regular season, in the second round of the Spring Split playoffs.

At that time, RNG became a laughing stock and the target of public criticism.

However, FPX, who finished first in the Spring Split regular season, was also defeated by JDG, resulting in the first-ever upset in LPL history, which helped relieve some of the pressure on RNG.

Besides RNG fans starting to panic, many viewers are also increasingly optimistic that LNG will defeat RNG tomorrow due to the consecutive upsets in the past two days.

Many people were just waiting for an opportunity to criticize RNG and Uzi, and they openly supported LNG in various ways.

But as the saying goes, when a dark horse starts to be widely favored, it ceases to be a dark horse.

Without the aura of a dark horse, it's time to test real strength.

Often, this is when a dark horse begins its downfall.

July 8, Sunday.

The LPL Summer Playoffs continue.

Today's matchup is between RNG and LNG.

In the very first game, Flandre picked Riven for top lane.

RNG fans and Uzi fans were shocked.

No way, they're unleashing their ultimate move right from the start, it's like they're determined to crush RNG.

However, it turns out that Riven was just messing around; it was like Flandre's idea of ​​showing off his skills was unstoppable, and he just had to do it.

Actually, Flandre's Riven pick wasn't that bad.

Of course, it's even less useful!

Logically speaking, since it's neither a bad thing nor a bad thing, it shouldn't be criticized.

However, that's how League of Legends is, or rather, that's how any team-based competitive game is.

As the team's leader and the best player, if you don't carry, you're a liability!
The team's junior members can carry the game, but the team should not have the idea of ​​having junior members carry the game.

If my brother doesn't cheat me, then I'm a C!

As the current leader of LNG, Flandre is just average, neither a liability nor a carry. If he doesn't play well, then he deserves to lose.

On the other hand, Uzi is the undisputed leader of RNG and the primary carry for RNG to win the game.

This game completely crushed LNG's bottom lane in every aspect, especially in team fight output.

They created a huge gap in the bottom lane.

In the second game, Uzi picked Ezreal and was completely crushed by LNG's bot lane during the laning phase.

The snowball that started in the bottom lane swept across the entire Summoner's Rift.

In the second game, RNG defeated LNG in just over twenty minutes.

Of course, the main reason for losing so quickly was that Flandre himself collapsed.

With the eldest brother gone, it's no wonder that the enemy was utterly crushed.

After the score was 2-0, everyone knew that there was no possibility of an upset for LNG today.

They simply can't beat RNG. They're likely to be swept 3-0.

By this point in the game, the worries that RNG fans and Uzi fans had about RNG's upset loss had completely vanished.

Once they calmed down, these people immediately turned around and began playing the ukulele with all their might.

Of course, Uzi's performance in the first two games today certainly deserves praise.

It's a bit of an exaggeration, though.

In fact, looking at the entire Summer Split, Uzi has been the best performing AD carry so far.

There's no doubt about that, no problem.

Undoubtedly, Zhou Dian, the top laner, also performed the best.

So much so that this kind of praise is now popular in the league community.

If Uzi doesn't out-farm Zhou Shen by 30 CS, then he's being out-farmed!

Actually, Zhou Dian's fans don't really like to repeat this phrase.

It's Uzbekistan's fans who like to talk about this.

Because Zhou Dian offended Uzi's fans too much when he first debuted.

As a result, the people who criticized Zhou Dian the most in the past two years were definitely Uzi's fans, especially during last year's S8 season when RNG almost won the Grand Slam.

However, among the fans of other players, those who praise Zhou Dian the most are actually Uzi's fans.

For example, the sentence above, "If Uzi doesn't have a 30-CS lead over Zhou Shen in lane, then he's being pressured!"

When Uzi fans praise Uzi, they always like to bring up Zhou Dian as well.

As their number one enemy, they understand all too well the value and strength of Zhou Dian.

Back to the game.

After RNG led LNG 2-0, LNG pulled one back in the third game.

In fact, Uzi was still very strong in this game, dealing twice the damage of LNG's AD carry.

But Flandre is just too much of a threat.

Even with Wolf's Mordekaiser pick, he couldn't force a one-for-one trade with Flandre.

Saint Gun's top lane Akali still led the team to a strong victory, avoiding the embarrassment of being swept.

RNG's loss in this game also illustrates that the carry potential of the ADC position cannot compare to that of other positions.

They can't even compare to the top laner, let alone the mid and jungle who have a greater impact on the map.

After winning a game and avoiding a complete sweep, LNG seemed to have lost its momentum.

In the fourth game, RNG dominated the entire match and easily defeated LNG.

Of course, in the fourth game, the most outstanding player on RNG's side was not Uzi, but Xiaohu, the mid laner who had not performed well throughout the summer split.

As I said before, in team-based competitive games, the carry player needs to be able to carry every game.

However, the eldest brother guarantees C but not a win.

In traditional sports terms, the upper limit of a team's strength is definitely determined by its supporting players, or role players.

The eldest brother is there to cover for you.

However, when your eldest brother is strong enough to carry every game, you don't need your younger brothers to be top-notch.

As long as the underlings are skilled enough to occasionally step up and carry the team, the overall fighting power of the team will be very strong.

Zhou Dian's experiences over the years since his debut perfectly illustrate this point.

As long as his teammates are reasonably skilled, he can lead them to achieve top-level competitiveness.

But when his teammates all went all the way down, he could only sink along with them.

Zhou Dian originally planned to stay with LGD for another six months in their decline.

However, Guo Hao wanted to take a gamble and spent a lot of money to get it out for him ahead of time.

It now seems that Guo Hao's gamble has a very high chance of success.

After RNG easily defeated LNG 3-1, they became the fourth team to reach the semifinals of this year's LPL Summer Playoffs, following FPX, TES, and BLG.

Now, RNG is just one step away from going to the S9 World Championship.

Of the four teams that made it to the semifinals of the Summer Split playoffs, FPX, TES, and RNG only need to win one more best-of-five series in the semifinals next week to qualify for the S9 World Championship.

So when RNG defeated LNG and advanced to the semifinals, RNG's head coach, Steak, jumped up from the sofa in the backstage lounge.

At this moment, his 300-pound weight seemed to have vanished.

Overwhelmed with excitement, he decided to stay up all night studying TES's match videos.

As a former professional top laner from Taiwan, whose best result was reaching the quarterfinals of the World Championship, Steak has always felt that he was a top-tier top laner at his peak.

As a fellow top laner, Steak believes that as long as he studies TES's game replays more, he will definitely be able to find a way to limit Zhou Dian.

If we can contain Zhou Dian, why should we be afraid of not being able to defeat TES?

Defeating TES and making it to S9 is happening next week!
In contrast, RNG fans and Uzi fans are not so optimistic about next week's semi-final match against TES.

They know all too well just how strong Zhou Dian is when he returns to his peak condition!

As for RNG's opponent today, LNG, their journey in the S9 season has come to an end after losing this match.

With LNG's current S-series points, they have no chance to play in the gauntlet, so they can just take a break.

time flies.

With the remaining four teams preparing intensively, a week quickly passed.

September 8th, Saturday.

The semifinals of the 19 LPL Summer Playoffs will begin today.

This year's playoff semifinals are arguably more important than the LPL playoff semifinals of previous years.

These two semi-final matches will most likely determine two spots in the S9 World Championship.

The entire LPL region only has three slots to go to the S9 World Championship.

The four teams that made it to the final four of the LPL playoffs this year were also the top four teams from the regular season of this year's Summer Split.

This situation hasn't occurred in the LPL for a long time.

This seems to indicate that the regular season is becoming increasingly important.

The regular season and playoffs are two separate eras; is that coming to an end?

The upcoming BO5 semifinal match between FPX and BLG is about to begin.

If FPX wins this match, they will directly qualify for the S9 World Championship, guaranteeing at least the second seed.

If BLG wins this match, they will at least guarantee themselves a chance to participate in the gauntlet to compete for the third seed from the LPL in S9.

Between FPX, who nearly won every game in the regular season, and BLG, who finished fourth in the playoffs, FPX is naturally the more favored team.

However, FPX had just experienced the humiliation of being upset by the eighth seed in the Spring Split this year.

Adding to this, BLG's unexpected 3-0 sweep of EDG last week has given them the makings of a dark horse.

This has led many viewers to wonder if another major upset will occur today.

Doinb is currently the most well-known and famous player in the FPX team.

Furthermore, because Doinb has been using his sarcastic and outspoken manner to attract viewers and earn gifts during his live streams over the past few years, he has offended quite a few viewers.

This also made many people wait to see Doinb make a fool of himself.

If Doinb finishes first in the regular season of both the Spring and Summer Splits this year, but is eliminated in the first round of the playoffs after only one best-of-five series, then...

That would definitely be a very funny joke.

(End of this chapter)