This is the most glorious year in China, unprecedented.
The final has not yet started, and the domestic celebrations have already begun.
For SP, playing WSND in the finals is a good thing. As the saying goes, if you know yourself and your enemy, you will win every battle. It is better to play against old acquaintances than against foreign teams that you do not know.
But from the perspective of WSND, they think so too.
The final will be held at 18:00 on August 3rd local time in Los Angeles. Beijing time is August 4th, at 9 o'clock sharp.
As the final of the highest-level international competition, today’s competition has a lot of tricks, there are stage performances before the competition, and the organizers have invited many celebrities, but these bells and whistles are for the audience and to support the official scene of the game. When preparing backstage, no one cared about the show.
Cheng Sunian and Feng Can stood together, holding Feng Can's hand firmly.
Since coming to Los Angeles, his condition has been well controlled, but since yesterday, Feng Can faintly felt that Cheng Su Nian began to get nervous, this kind of nervousness was never felt in the knockout rounds.
Feng Can comforted him: "It's okay, the beating will be over as soon as the eyes are closed, and we will go home after beating."
He said it lightly, and Cheng Sunian also understood that the more you get to this kind of time, the more you should relax. People who are in an unstable state are more likely to be affected by their mentality, but they understand the truth, but it is difficult to really control their mentality.
Cheng Sunian lowered his head, his expression was always gloomy.
Feng Can stared at him for a while, then suddenly said, "I remember the day of my debut."
"Huh?" Cheng Sunian was distracted.
Feng Can said: "It was my first show for SP. Actually, I was very nervous that day, but I was embarrassed to tell you. You may have noticed it, and suddenly turned around to comfort me. — Do you remember what you said to me that day? "
"What did I say?" Cheng Sunian obviously didn't remember long ago.
Feng Can paused, then suddenly stretched out his arms to hug him: "You just hugged me like this, and you said, 'Don't be nervous, it's okay, don't be afraid'."
"..."
"I didn't like you at the time, but from the first time I met you, I felt that you were very reliable, and I believed in your strength." Feng Can said, "It is still the case today, I believe in you, Cheng Sunian will definitely win of."
Feng Can tightened his arms and hugged Cheng Sunian forcefully.
In August last year, they had a needle-like encounter. In August of this year, for the same ideal, they went through untold hardships and walked up to the highest peak in the world side by side. The laurels are just one step away.
"Let's go, don't think about anything, no matter what the game is, it's just a game."
Feng Can took Cheng Sunian's hand, and when the time came, the whole SP team and the whole WSND team entered the field from different directions.
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At the final scene of the EOH Professional League Global Finals, in the center of the stage, a huge golden trophy was erected on a tall glass platform. Five-star red flags were hung on both sides of the trophy, one on the left and one on the left, representing SP and WSND respectively. glory.
In addition to trophies, this year's World Championship prize pool has $8 million up for grabs.
The audience is full, and dozens of countries and regions around the world are broadcasting live. With much anticipation, the game finally started.
The final is a BO5 competition system, with three wins in five games.
The first round of ban&pick starts, WSND is on the blue side, and SP is on the red side.
The on-site commentary is in English, but the domestic broadcast is equipped with EPL's own official commentary, which is convenient for domestic audiences to watch.
In the live broadcast screen, I saw that WSND quickly banned three heroes, namely the priest, the maid, and the red-crowned crane.
Needless to say the priest, since Cheng Su Nian came to Los Angeles, even the Korean team has known to ban the priest, WSND naturally cannot tolerate it.
Maid is considered a regular ban, and red-crowned cranes are more intriguing, probably considering that SP has played particularly well with red-crowned cranes recently. They eliminated RE by relying on a single-handed red-crowned crane to open up and cooperate with the combo system of teammates.
The commentator said: "WSND's thinking is right. Strong heroes can be targeted, but they may not be able to exert a strong effect, but there is no solution to a strong system. SP played so smoothly in the knockout round this year, and their combo system cannot be separated."
"Yes, now that things have happened, everyone has started tactically targeting bans, and no longer blindly grab strong heroes... Let's look at SP's BP. SP has banned Garan and Sinnoh Maharaja, and picked an elephant."
"If you ban like this, WSND must choose poets first."
"Hey, sure enough, the ghost poet is locked."
"SP is not bad. With Anos, what about AD? Canshen is in such a good state recently, what hero does he want to play?"
"I can do anything." The coach asked the same question, Feng Can thought for a while and said, "How about the Scarlet Flame King, the first one is easy to get."
More than just a smooth hand, Feng Can's Red Flame King is in a hot state recently. Compared with other ADCs, his advantage is boldness and openness.
Some players are very fierce in domestic competitions, and they can do any tricks, even dare to start a team in a headwind situation, but they are soft when they enter the international arena.
Feng Can is on the contrary. He is a typical contestant. The stage is as big as the heart. The recent state is better than when he was in China, and the level of carry is comparable to the previous version.
SP chose the Red Flame King, and the middle mage was Lukasuo.
Lukasso and the ghost poet are naturally right, but the task given by SP to Gao Xinxin is to play control. They now rely on team fights to win. No matter what degree of disadvantage in the early stage, they can rely on team battles to win the situation.
However, SP has a strong ability to fight in groups, and WSND is not weak.
In the first round, both sides were relatively cautious, and no one showed their hole cards. The several fights had the meaning of testing each other, and there was a hint of seduction in the subtlety, trying to make the other party fall for it.
It's a pity that no one is in the trap, and they are all stable.
The hero used by Jin Zhixiu is Deer Girl. When he first came to WSND, SP watched the excitement and thought that his ADC was not easy to integrate into WSND's core system.
Unexpectedly, Zuo Zhengyi has the ability to turn all his teammates into his green leaves, so that people only pay attention to him and can't see others. As strong as Brother Jin, he couldn't escape the vulgarity and became Zuo Zhengyi's younger brother.
The first game lasted more than 20 minutes, and the economies of both sides were basically even.
This situation is rare. In view of the recent harmonious domestic situation, the commentator's words are very flattering. They follow the trend and blow up "Double Kings", saying that SP and WSND are really strong. The fight is indistinguishable. It's a pity whoever loses who wins. and so on.
However, there is no first and no second in literature, and it is impossible to distinguish between indistinguishable and indissoluble, and it is only a matter of an instant to determine the winner.
Just when the domestic commentator was sour and lyrical, the fight finally broke out on the field.
This wave of team battles took place in the lower field of WSND, near Xiaolongkeng.
It was SP who made the first move. After holding back for more than half an hour, Feng Can finally couldn't take it anymore. He followed behind Zhao Zhou and reversed the red buff of WSND. Just after collecting the red, before I had time to leave, people from WSND came over.
In fact, this wave can not be fought, but there is no need to delay it all the time. Sooner or later, the situation will be opened.
Not only SP thought so, after playing for so long, WSND couldn't hold back anymore, 10,000 skills were thrown at Feng Can, but Feng Can's Scarlet Flame King was crazy, and he ran around in the wild area, full of thrills, The scene was full of exclamations.
Just when Feng Can dodged the 10,000th skill, SP launched a counterattack.
Cheng Sunian took Margaret. When Zhao Zhou went around and cut the back row, he timely placed a taboo air wall between Zuo Zhengyi and his teammates, blocking Zuo Zhengyi's retreat.
But Zuo Zhengyi reacted very quickly, flashed flashes quickly, and withdrew to the periphery of the battlefield.
SP pointed east and west, forcing Zuo Zhengyi away, and the second wave of attacks quickly fell on Jin Zhixiu's deer girl. Just now it was a feint attack, but this time it was a real attack. Jin Zhixiu was unable to dodge in time, and was controlled by Lukasuo. The assistant handed in the treatment and still failed to save him.
SP and WSND fought a wave of two for four, Zuo Zhengyi recovered his life at the gate of hell, slipped away with a trace of blood, and went back to clear the line of soldiers.
SP took the opportunity to take Dalong, flattened WSND's top lane in one go, and attacked the high ground from the top lane. WSND struggled a few times, but finally failed to find a chance to come back, and gave away a city.
—1:0.
In this kind of game, whoever loses first will panic.
WSND must be in a bad mood now, but SP can't take it lightly. The final is a BO5, leading by only a small game, and there are still variables in the future.
When selecting the lineup in the second round, SP was on the blue side and WSND was on the red side.
SP first banned Garan, Sinnoh Maharaja, and Red-crowned Crane, and WSND hesitated for a while.
In fact, this version of mage is strong, but for Zuo Zhengyi, his advantage is not equal to the strength of mage enhancement. He is a player who is good at playing manipulative mages, but the mages are strengthened overall, and manipulative mages are more powerful, all of them are banned, and his natal hero, Garan, can no longer be released.
Garan has become a regular ban, and when SP and WSND compete for BP, they have the advantage of a priest.
In other words, SP has a certain degree of initiative.
Therefore, just when everyone thought WSND had to ban the priest even if they were reluctant in the second game, they banned Anos and Elephant, and picked the priest.
"Am I not mistaken?!" The commentator was surprised, "Dad's team chose a priest? Has the dad's support played priest?"
"Played in the EPL, but the effect is not ideal."
"Do you still have to choose if the effect is not ideal? Could it be that they have developed a new tactic?"
"Could it be what I thought..."
The two commentators looked at each other: "—WSND is going to hit the priest? No way?!" (End of this chapter)