After the training match, everyone in TES went to the restaurant to eat together.

Xiaotian said, "Oh my god, EDG was beaten badly by GEN. It feels a bit hard to handle."

Hang muttered: "It's mainly because GEN's mid laner is too strong. Scout was suppressed by him, so it's difficult for EDG's other lanes to stand out."

Shan Ji joined the topic: "Our opponent in the semi-finals is GEN, are you sure?"

When asked this question, everyone subconsciously looked at Lu Yi. This question could only be answered by Lu Yi.

Lu Yi was quite calm: "When the enemy comes, we will stop him. When the water comes, we will block it with earth. No matter who the opponent is, we will just do it and get it done."

Shanji agreed, "That's right, just do it, there's nothing to be afraid of."

Everyone's morale was high, when suddenly, a group of people came from the door and headed straight towards TES.

Lu Yi looked closely and found that it was EDG!

After the EDG members entered the room, they saw them at a glance and walked over quickly.

"EDG is here." A Shui also noticed the EDG members.

The leading factory manager approached and called out, "Yishen, the warhorse coach."

Zhan Ma responded, "Factory Director, Manager Abu."

Abu followed behind, looking unhappy and not saying anything.

The factory manager said to Lu Yi, "I wanted to meet you in the semi-finals, but unfortunately our strength doesn't allow it. We bought tickets for tomorrow and will go back tomorrow morning. Come on, everyone. I'm rooting for you."

After hearing this, everyone in TES felt that the atmosphere was a bit depressing. Within the region, they were rivals, but in the World Championship, they were teammates fighting side by side.

Now that a teammate has been sent away, it's hard not to feel emotional.

The warhorse stood up and said, "Then I can only thank you for your blessing and your appreciation. Come back next year, and we will fight side by side again then."

The factory manager smiled bitterly and said, "Then we'll leave first."

"You haven't eaten yet, right? Don't you want to eat first?" asked the war horse.

"No appetite." The factory manager shook his head and turned to look at the other EDG members: "If you are hungry, buy something to eat. I'm going back first."

However, no one from EDG stayed and they all left.

Looking at the backs of the EDG players, the TES players felt mixed emotions.

This is e-sports. E-sports has always been so cruel, with winners taking all.

All the hard work throughout the year can be directly negated by a few games.

This is why we have to fight to the end in every game, even if there is a huge advantage or disadvantage and it seems there is no hope.

The next morning, RNG continued to train with TES because they were going to play against T1 that afternoon.

TES is now playing the role of T1. Lu Yi chooses a hero in the middle lane who is so strong in laning and mainly plays the rhythm, imitating the current style of T1.

For other teams, one of the great advantages of playing training games with TES is that TES can imitate the styles of many teams, especially the mid lane. Lu Yi can imitate anyone he wants.

It is easier for the strong to imitate the weak. When you are the strongest, you can imitate anyone.

Normally, on a day when there is a game, the game will be played in the afternoon and there will be no training games in the morning. You have to maintain your energy. A BO5 is quite tiring, but RNG has no choice now.

The opponent is T1, and they are under a lot of pressure.

When it was noon, the RNG players came to TES to say hello.

The leader was coach Zhu Kai. After seeing the TES team, Zhu Kai said:

"Everyone, thank you very much for your sparring during this period. Now we have to take the big test. I hope we will not embarrass the number one seed."

Zhan Ma smiled and said, "It's okay, I believe you can do it."

Xiao Hu went straight to Lu Yi, clasped his hands together, looked pious, and chanted: "Hurry up, hurry up, God Yi, come to me."

Seeing Xiaohu's look, everyone couldn't hold back anymore.

Ah Shui joked, "I think it may be difficult to invite Yishen, but you can consider inviting yourself five years ago. I remember your Ahri also killed Faker alone back then."

Shan Ji muttered, "Brother Tiger, can you still play Leblanc now?"

When this question was asked, everyone fell silent. Silence is also a kind of answer.

Zhu Kai glanced at his phone and said, "Everyone, it's almost time for us to go to the scene, so let's go first."

"Okay, we will cheer for you, come on RNG! We are all fans of RNG today!" Zhanma greeted.

So everyone in RNG left together.

After they left, TES was silent for a while, and Shan Ji broke the silence: "Can RNG really win? What are the chances of winning?"

Everyone looked at each other, seemingly unsure.

Hang commented: "RNG is not weak. The opponent is T1, and it is T1 in the S League. I don't need to say more about its value."

Ah Shui commented: "If I have to say, RNG's bottom lane is not inferior to T1's bottom lane, but I can't comment on other lanes."

Zhanma said: "There may be a big gap in the top lane, and in the middle lane, although Faker may not put any pressure on Xiaohu in terms of laning, the gap between the two in hero pool, command, and finding rhythm will be more obvious. The hero pool will affect BP, which actually has a great impact on the outcome, but the average audience may not be able to see it."

After hearing this, everyone understood that RNG might be in very danger this time!
A moment later, the game began and players from both teams came on the field.

The five players of T1 were all very impressive and were warmly welcomed by the audience as soon as they came on stage.

In comparison, the five players on RNG side looked a little listless.

The first game begins, the BP phase.

Just like Zhanma said, RNG has been at a disadvantage since the BP stage, especially in the mid lane, top lane, and support positions.

Lu Yi commented: "T1's support is quite interesting. When he is on the field, T1 can reap the benefits of the support in BP, which is not possible for most teams. Most teams choose popular supports, such as Titan. Even if they ban supports, it is because of the version, not because of the opponent's support."

Zhanma agreed: "Yes, so when playing against T1, BP is the most important thing. In fact, in terms of operation, T1 may not be as good as DK, GEN and other teams."

Entering the game screen, RNG had no problems during the laning phase and was able to remain stable, even getting kills thanks to Wei's outstanding performance. However, after starting to group together to compete for resources, RNG became a little unstable.

When fighting for the Rift Herald, RNG lost a team fight and fell into a disadvantage. Then they began to be tortured by various operations and slow death. T1 was not in a hurry to end the game and took down all the neutral resources first. In the end, RNG had to come out to fight for the Dragon Soul, but was wiped out and the Baron was taken. The game was over.

Hang exclaimed: "This is too suffocating, this rhythm."

Shan Ji teased: "When you say suffocation, do you mean Breathing Brother? What happened to Breathing Brother?"

Hang responded: "T1's rhythm feels methodical. It doesn't matter if they are a little disadvantaged in the beginning. There is nothing wrong with their general direction."

Ah Shui analyzed: "In the eight-minute Rift Herald fight, T1 will make arrangements in advance and come up with a small strategy, such as setting up an ambush, catching people, and taking the initiative. The support will eat the minion line in the middle lane to reach level 1. Anyway, they are very experienced. Once they get the first Rift Herald, T's rhythm will begin."

Zhan Ma agreed: "Well, when playing against T1, the first Rift Herald team fight is very critical. If you don't do it well, you will be in trouble."

Soon, the second game began and players from both sides took the stage again.

In this game, RNG was different in terms of BP, being very proactive and having a very early-stage lineup, while T1's lineup was much better in the late stage.

So after entering the game, RNG played very proactively, constantly looking for trouble with T1, and at one point had a kill ratio of four to zero.

Shan Ji immediately started celebrating: "Nice! This feels like a promising game. We have such a big advantage. We just need to control the resources and snowball."

RNG was thinking the same thing and started controlling resources in various ways. The snowball started to roll and they got two little dragons in a row, this time even getting the water dragon soul!

Xiaotian commented: "If we can take down the Water Dragon Soul, then we'll basically be in a safe position. The most urgent task is to control all the little dragons."

However, when the third dragon was about to spawn, T1 launched a surprise attack and forced Gala to use flash!

So after the third dragon spawned, RNG fell into a passive position. They wanted to take the lead but were worried that there would be problems if they joined the team since their ADC didn't have flash.

Seeing RNG hesitate, Lu Yi knew that things were bad: "Don't hesitate at this time. Either give up decisively, exchange resources, push a defensive tower or something, or decisively join the team fight. Hesitation at this time will definitely cause big problems."

Just as Lu Yi thought, RNG had a big problem. Because of hesitation, they did not occupy the vision in advance. Thinking that they wanted the little dragon, they ran to join the team fight again.

The result was that they were caught off guard, and in the end the team fight was a 1- match, three for three, and it seemed like they had a good loss of kills, but the little dragon was taken away by T.

Lu Yi said: "Walking far away means giving T1 five minutes to develop. This is very comfortable for T1."

Zhan Ma agreed, "Yes, being 3,000 economically ahead at 17 minutes and being 3,000 economically ahead at 22 minutes are two completely different concepts."

T1 and RNG continued to operate. At 1 minutes, when RNG still wanted to take the dragon soul, they found that they could not win. They were crushed head-on by T and lost the second game.

Shan Ji muttered, "I feel like when playing against T1, even if we gain a little advantage at the beginning, it won't matter. We could be beaten back at any time. We can't relax for even a second."

A moment later, the third game began.

The third game was even faster than the previous two. RNG was defeated miserably and was finally sent home by T1 -.

The TES players were helpless as they couldn’t go up to help RNG play the game.

After the game, Zhan Ma summarized: "T1's strongest points are BP and operations. Other aspects are okay, but these two aspects are very colonial. In high-level games, winning BP is half the battle."

Shan Ji and Hang felt a little weak because T1's BP advantage mainly relies on the mid, top and support. Mid laner Lu Yi definitely has no problem with his hero pool. On the contrary, he has a huge advantage. He can play many games that Faker can't play.

But Pheasant and Hang are different.

The key is that it is impossible to improve the hero pool in a short period of time. It takes a long time to train a hero, let alone train several heroes for competitions.

After watching the game, TES went to eat together, and then a familiar scene appeared. Zhu Kai brought everyone from RNG to say goodbye.

Zhu Kai said, "Oh, it's hard to beat. T1 is still too hard to beat. I can only leave it to you and JDG."

Zhan Ma responded: "JDG seems to have to fight DK first, but I feel they should be able to do it."

"When the time comes, T1 will be handed over to JDG, and we will deal with GEN and meet in the finals!"

Zhu Kai laughed: "If that's possible, that's fine, we can benefit from it, right?"

Just then, there was a commotion at the door, and a group of people walked in. They were all familiar faces.
JDG!

Leading the way is coach Hongmi.

The JDG team should have come to eat, but after entering the door, they saw TES and RNG, so they walked over quickly.

"Coach Hongmi."

"Coach Zhu Kai, Coach Zhan Ma."

The three coaches greeted each other.

Zhu Kai continued: "T1 is left to you guys to deal with. We RNG are ashamed for not being able to stop them."

Hongmi responded: "It's okay, if we can't beat them, we still have TES."

Zhu Kai laughed: "You haven't even played yet, don't say such discouraging words, I'm still optimistic about JDG."

Hongmi seemed a little worried: "It's hard to play. After watching today's game, I feel like it's 40-60."

Warhorse teased, "You six? That's pretty good."

Hongmi smiled and said, "Let's get through the DK level first."

The JDG members found a table to sit at, and RNG sat on the other side.

At this time, Toothpaste found Lu Yi and asked, "Yishen, how do we beat Showmaker? What heroes and strategies can we use to beat him now?"

Lu Yi thought about it and replied, "I think I can fight with anything."

Toothpaste was silenced. 369 turned around and said, "Yishen, you are applying your own standards to Toothpaste. This will definitely not work."

Lu Yi responded: "I feel that Showmaker is not as smart as he was in the past two years. Plus, their top and bottom lanes are not that good right now. You have a good chance of winning."

369 suddenly became proud: "It seems that we still have to rely on the top lane to win."

Toothpaste said, "Then I will help you and watch your performance, 369."

After dinner, TES and JDG started to arrange training matches.

The next day, the match between JDG and DK began!

This game did not go beyond everyone's expectations. In the end, JDG defeated DK 3-1 and entered the semi-finals.

As a result, LCK and LPL each have two teams entering the semifinals.

Moreover, the semi-finals are all battles between China and South Korea.

This means that there is a possibility that the two divisions will meet!

Tracking extreme situations are possible, so it caused an uproar on the Internet!
[Holy crap, I don’t think the LPL will meet in the finals this year. ]

[Impossible, I think it will be the LCK finals.]

[GEN wins TES by a head? ]

[JDG wins T1 by a head? ]

【TES and T1 have the highest probability of reaching the finals. 】

[What are you afraid of? Be brave. It’s just a civil war in LPL! ]

There are various analyses on the Internet about the outcome of the semi-finals, with all kinds of results.

However, the odds on the gambling websites are the most realistic.

The odds for TES and T1 are very low, which means they have a great chance of winning!

In the next few days, the four teams trained hard.

A few days passed quickly and the semi-finals began!

First up is TES vs. GEN! (End of this chapter)