The so-called one step away does not mean the step from the top eight to the top four.
Because for the Season team, the runner-up trophy winner of last year's finals, it's just about reaching the semi-finals, which they have achieved more than once in the previous finals.
So the one step away here means something more profound—
As we all know, as the strongest team in the world, the SSK team may occasionally lose a single game or even a few BO3 games after so many years of competition, but in almost all BO5 games, they have Never failed.
Even, more than that.
Among the teams that played against SSK, they did not expect to win a BO5 victory from the world's strongest team. More often, they were swept directly by 3 to 1 or even 3 to 0.
It is extremely rare to even want to tie SSK in the first four games of the BO5 2-2, forcing it to the final match point of the fifth game.
And today-
Team Season has actually done just that.
It has achieved a feat that almost all the top teams in the world have never achieved easily.
2 to 2.
The third group of the quarter-finals entered the final match point tiebreaker.
Even just like the analysis conclusion drawn subconsciously by countless players and audiences all over the world at this moment, as the party that won the fourth game, the Season team has indeed faintly had a bigger stake in the final decisive game. Hope to win.
So.
They were just one step away from knocking out SSK in the quarterfinals of their record.
In the same way, the SSK team ushered in the finals record of Waterloo after the establishment of the team, and it was only one final victory.
this moment.
Countless Hanbok players and fans all over the Internet finally panicked.
The mood couldn't help but tighten tightly.
This is an unprecedented torment for players in the LCK region and fans of the SSK team club.
They never thought that their own division or even their top seed team would one day face such a dangerous and terrifying situation in the quarterfinals of the finals.
Just one last step.
Their journey to this year's LCK finals was about to be brutally and mercilessly interrupted.
Just one last step.
The strongest myth of their SSK team seems to be finally shattered.
At this same moment, there are more players and netizens in the whole network with complicated and strangely excited emotions. The complexity comes from the fact that they seem to be about to witness the imminent fall of an invincible myth that has dominated the new generation of e-sports circles for several years. But it also comes from the fact that they will become witnesses to the fall of this myth.
It is said that SSK is invincible, and it is hard to fail.
It is said that this team from the LCK region is perfect and has no weaknesses.
So…
When people finally find the flaws in this team, they are finally about to see that this once perfect team will be stained on their equally flawless record.
Although there is a feeling of sighing and sighing in my heart, the faint excitement and excitement and anticipation can no longer be hidden no matter what.
…
this moment.
Countless people were apprehensive.
Countless people were excited.
Countless people are looking forward to it.
At the Pullman venue, the live atmosphere in the competition venue was like a tidal wave, which set off a wave of clamorous noises, which became more and more massive and more restless.
On the official commentary platform, several European and American commentators were excited to the point that their voices had changed:
"This will be an unprecedented set of BO5 matches."
"We've never seen SSK pushed into such a dangerous and terrifying situation."
"I never thought that the strongest team in the world would have the possibility of falling one day."
"Everyone—"
"Please open your eyes!"
"No matter what the outcome of the last game is, please believe that at this moment, we may be witnessing a history that is enough to be recorded in the history of world e-sports!"
The high-pitched voice of the live commentary hummed through the microphone throughout the arena.
The atmosphere at the Pullman venue became more and more noisy and boiling.
Uncontrollably restless.
As if the rain was about to come.
It was as if the building was about to collapse.
In the spectator seats of the front row players and guests, the players and team members of the top eight teams could no longer restrain the stirring emotions in their hearts, and stood up one by one.
The final match-
Perhaps, it will also completely rewrite the pattern of the entire world professional e-sports circle after today!
At this moment, everyone here in the LPL division could not sit still. They stretched their necks and waited anxiously. Even Dawn Morning Star, who had always been cautious and insisted on holding his own opinions, seemed to have nothing to say. He frowned in silence.
Lin Feng was still sitting in the auditorium.
Slightly bowed his head.
No one could see his blinking eyes in this moment, as well as his expression that was mostly obscured.
In the auditorium of the SSK club on the other side not far away, the second team and the substitutes, including the coach and the team leader, were so anxious that they could not sit still.
Park Chanyeol, the general manager of the club, squinted slightly, his eyes were a little sharper.
People still can't see what the young chief supervisor is thinking at this moment.
…
It's still this moment.
on stage.
In the competition room of the SSK team, Mafa, Wolf, Cube and Ray, the four main players, looked more solemn and solemn. Their faith and determination remained unchanged, but they could clearly see the foreheads and backs of these players, all of which had leaked out. sweat.
but.
That is the moment.
In the mid laner seat in front of the computer screen, Han Shihao, who had been silent for almost the entire four games in front of him, lowered his head and closed his eyes as if in deep thought.
Then.
The world's No. 1 mid laner, the leader of the Four Emperors, finally slowly opened his eyes.
There was an unprecedented calm in his eyes.
And then.
He turned to look at the four teammates beside him and spoke.
As always, the tone of voice was calm, but it seemed to have lost a little bit of the indifference that used to be, and there were a little more subtle fluctuations that were incomprehensible:
"I think-"
After a pause, Han Shihao seemed to ponder for a while, and then finished the rest of the second half of the sentence with careful choice of words:
"I should have figured it out."
The BO5 final tiebreaker begins.
34 minutes later.
competition is over.
At this moment, it seemed that the whole world fell into a sudden silence.
In such a silence that could be heard of falling needles, the emblem pattern of the blue square "Victory" slowly appeared on the giant LCD viewing screen on the stage inside the competition venue.
SSK wins.
Won the tiebreaker, 3-2, defeated the Season team and advanced to the semi-finals.
In the quiet atmosphere of the scene, there seems to be something agitated slowly brewing.
But no one dared to speak at this moment.
Somewhere in the back row of the auditorium.
For the first time, the eyes of No. 2 and No. 3 showed a cautious and suspicious look in their eyes.
From the very beginning of the tiebreaker, No. 4, who has been burying his head in his notebook and writing down what he has written, is almost sweating on his forehead, and his face shows a bit of unavoidable fatigue. He regretfully shook his head as if giving up, and then Looking up at number one:
"How far is it?"
No. 1 looked at the stage from a distance, and the figure of the young man in the SSK team's competition room seemed to be reflected in the depths of his pupils.
Then he spoke.
As if to answer in a light tone:
"almost."
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