Chapter 1067 A Powerful Opponent! The Dawn of the Empire
On the second day of the group stage, after KT defeated INF, C9 in the same group unexpectedly lost to DFM.
This was quite exciting.
In the opening match, everyone thought that C9 lost because KT was too strong. Wouldn't it be easy to beat other wildcard teams?
Unexpectedly, they didn't even beat DFM.
You know, C9 spent nearly 5 million US dollars to buy out A-P's contract and salary this year, which is much higher than the total value of the entire DFM team.
As a result, the North American champion was crushed by the Japanese team. Who would have thought?
When C9 was wiped out in the last wave, in addition to the North American commentary booth wailing, commentators of various languages couldn't hold it back.
Even the Taiwanese commentator laughed out loud at the commentary desk.
"Oh no! The team was wiped out!"
"Great! North America is down!"
"This is a rhythm to send C9 home!"
"Congratulations to DFM! The legendary team from LJL! They defeated the famous North American light!"
"Did you see? What is the coach and support lying down? Before the last wave of team battles, Kazu's record was still 0-1-0. As soon as he died, he accelerated the team's victory. His teammates 4V5 was better than 5V5."
"North America in the first week really won't disappoint!"
"C9 is in danger! It seems that the fifth division of the five major tournaments is Japan."
The commentator of Wanwan is good at being weird and cunning. He dares to say anything. The coach, players and even the director have been poached by LPL, and they still have commentators who have not been poached.
In fact, the game where DFM defeated C9 directly made public opinion boil. This is the first time this year that a wildcard team has lost to a team from a mainstream major division.
The audience in North America felt as uncomfortable as if they had eaten shit.
Although we are very happy, don't keep disgusting people.
5 million dollars for A-P?
This is even higher than the cost of KT renewing Lin Cheng's contract. It's better to continue to add Lin Cheng.
Of course, North American audiences also know that if money alone can pry him, Lin Cheng must have been in North America this year.
Just like Hanwha has money but can't buy anyone this year, high-level players have to pursue more than just salary.
In fact, it's not that the North American champions are really inferior to wild cards. This division is just like this. They dare to lose to anyone, but it's not surprising that they occasionally explode and overturn the strong teams of LPL and LCK.
In the first half of S9, IG was simply unstoppable. They went to MSI and performed very well in the group stage with a score of 9-1, and even beat SKT 1557.
After the group stage, everyone thought that IG had a great chance of winning the MSI championship that year, at least it was as sure as a dead dog to enter the finals.
As a result, no one expected that IG was sent away by the North American champion TL in the semifinals.
Except for C9's show effect, there were no more upsets in the second day's game.
On the third day of the group stage, KT welcomed the Japanese champion DFM.
When entering the game, Lin Cheng couldn't help but glance at the players of DFM.
It is said that their temporary support is the coach who has returned?
Because the Japanese ruler Ceros has been in a state of decline since his age, DFM signed a new Korean mid-lane Aria at the beginning of this year. Under the restriction of two Korean aids, one of the two Korean aids of DFM's original jungler and support must retire.
There is no other way, DFM can only let the former professional support Kazu of the coaching team return to the battle.
And Kazu has been the tactical coach of DFM since 2018. As a result, he has returned several times to act as a tinker. This is his third return.
When Lin Cheng learned this information, he couldn't help but send a message to the factory manager:
Mr. Mingkai, someone in the Japanese division has done what you didn't do.
He returned and even played in MSI.
When will you appear on the stage? I'll go to support you.
The factory manager ignored Lin Cheng and only sent him an emoticon of his own death stare.
You are laughing at me, kid? Wait for me to punish you in the World Championship.
"Here we go! Today's third game is between KT and DFM, who just defeated C9. I wonder if DFM can continue to surprise us today."
Kris' cheerful voice sounded in the Chinese commentary booth. As long as she didn't talk nonsense when analyzing the situation, the audience would still be able to accept the existence of God K.
The other commentator who partnered with her was MacT, who was said to have a strong background.
"To be honest, it's not realistic to expect DFM to beat KT by surprise, but DFM, who defeated C9 in the last game, also proved that they also have the ability to cause trouble to strong teams. Let's look forward to it!"
Kris: "Just now, the director also gave DFM's data panel in the league, but after coming to MSI, these data are actually not very meaningful for reference, just like the data of PGG and UOL who appeared earlier in MSI can be said to have dropped off a cliff."
MacT: "That's because they met RNG in the same group. There are only three teams in Group A, and they are beaten by RNG every time, so the data is naturally ugly."
It has to be said that the LPL commentator also knows what the traffic password is.
There was no RNG game, but every sentence was about RNG.
"Here we go! The BP of both teams started. KT did not let down their guard just because their opponent was relatively weak. They banned Crocodile, Miss Fortune and Rambo right away. They were very targeted bans."
"DFM has also taken down Brother Chengzi's signature Blade Girl and Qinggang Shadow. Do you want to counter Morgana's BAN position with the last move left?"
Although Sister Bibi likes to talk nonsense when analyzing the situation, she has still done the necessary homework and knows which heroes are the focus of the version.
"I chose to target the Lee Sin! I still don't have enough BAN slots. The current version of the Lee Sin is so powerful that DFM dare not release it, so I can only release Peanut's jungler Morgana."
"This is the advantage brought by the KT players' hero pool! The red side only has three BAN slots in the first round, and the opponent always has heroes they don't want to release and must release them."
The other side once again targeted Lin Cheng with the top three BANs, and KT decisively took the lead to snatch Morgana.
The top three heroes on the blue side were quickly confirmed: Morgana, Lucian, and Tauren.
The first three hands of the red square DFM are: Udyr, Xiaopao, and Zoe.
In the second round, DFM continued to target the top laner, even banner and Jayce.
In this way, Lin Cheng was banned from the hero pool for five consecutive times.
On the fourth floor of the red side, the auxiliary Riel came out first, leaving the counter position to the top laner Evi.
The blue side sacrificed Kai'Sa + Captain.
DFM finally took out Evi’s unique skill Urgot.
The lineups of both sides are as follows.
Blue square KT: Captain, Morgana, Lucian, Kai'Sa, Tauren.
Red side DFM: Urgot, Udyr, Zoe, Xiao Pao, Riel.
Although there is a huge disparity in the strength of this game, it is still the star team of this MSI, KT, and countless Asian audiences at home and abroad stayed up late to watch the game.
Even on the island nation, there are many otakus who have temporarily abandoned their two-dimensional wives, looking forward to DFM being able to face powerful opponents and bring a surprise to Japanese e-sports.
The surprise came quickly.
Not long after the screen cut into the game, the audience saw Lin Cheng, who was standing in the grass on the road and river, being surrounded by DFM's Ueno in the grass.
Seeing Udyr leaning up from the river, Lin Cheng was helpless and subconsciously prepared to circle back to his defense tower from above, but he happened to bump into Urgot who was blocking him from above.
The crab first sprayed the passive on both legs, and then carried the captain back closely.
Udyr connected with bear form's slap.
Lin Cheng had to eat oranges and dodge to save his life.
It will be difficult for the Captain to learn Orange lane laning at level one.
And Udyr was ruthless enough and directly caught him with a wave of level two attacks.
Being dodged back by Urgot E, even though Lin Cheng was able to clear it instantly with Orange in the air, he was still knocked unconscious by Udyr who flashed out of the river.
Urgot gets first blood.
You know, Lin Cheng didn't die once in the first two games, and he actually got his first kill in Iceland by DFM.
The barrage is already boiling.
"Haha! The air attack on Pearl Harbor was successful!"
"Tiger tiger tiger!"
"A dreamy start! The dawn of the empire!"
"Hope for the return of the giant ship"