Chapter 621: Lao Gandie's Qualifying Round Adventure
After starting to play training matches, Lin Cheng had much less time to rank, but he still quickly gained points due to his high win rate.
After a week, Lin Cheng successfully broke through 1100 points with an average of a few games a day, ranking in the top 50 of the Canyon of Heroes.
However, he is still a long way from the goal of reaching the top, because the first Huya anchor Sally in the Canyon has a high score of 2000 points, and it was only recently that she reached it.
The Korean server King of 1700 points is already the ceiling, and it is a bit surprising that there is a 2000-point King in the Canyon of Heroes.
Lin Cheng knows how disgusting the compensation mechanism is after the score is high. He loses twice as many points as he wins in the Korean server, and it is estimated that the same is true for the Canyon of Heroes.
On September 25, the qualifying stage of S10 began.
There was nothing for KT in this stage, but the training match was finished early, and Lin Cheng was bored and prepared to watch the game in the room.
Just like in the training match, although the wildcard team is not good, some cool things may give people a surprise.
It is also because many wildcard teams know that they are not strong enough, so they will try their best to come up with something that strong teams have never seen.
With this idea in mind, Lin Cheng did not expect that the first one to surprise the LPL audience was Lao Gan Die.
The fourth seed of Europe played a close game with the Brazilian team in the first game, and it was very difficult to win the opponent. The LPL audience laughed at it.
I didn’t expect that Lao Gan Die, who just laughed at the European losers, would lose to PSG in the first game.
Although PSG was not a weak team in the qualifying round, it only got two heads in the whole game. Isn’t it a bit too much to be beaten with a head ratio of 2-16?
Lao Gan Die is the fourth seed of LPL!
The world champions IG and FPX in the past two years did not go to the world championship, but you Lao Gan Die went to the world championship and gave me this?
You should know that three players of PSG have not yet finished the quarantine due to visa issues, so the mid and jungle players on the PSG field are loaned from another PCS team AHQ.
But Riot stipulated that only two players could be rented from other teams in the same region, and their AD position players could not play either.
There was no other way, PSG could only let the 26-year-old team coach temporarily replace him. This coach has not played a game for more than a year since he retired.
It was really disappointing for LPL audiences that Lao Gandie was beaten by this patchwork team that had only been running in for less than two weeks.
At the end of the game, the barrage in the official live broadcast room had exploded.
"Fuck! A good start! You are really Lao Gandie."
"Outrageous! How did Lao Gandie make it out of LPL when he was beaten by a patchwork team?"
"That's it? All the top four teams are just like this?"
"Xila is laughing at me."
"Little Peanut? You are a little freshman!"
"In the game in Shanghai, Lao Gandie in Hangzhou didn't adjust to the time difference. Please understand."
"Lao Gandie is a rookie station!"
"Why didn't you give the quota to IG?"
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To be honest, Lao Gandie's loss to the patchwork PSG was surprising enough, but I didn't expect that there would be a bigger surprise the next day.
On September 26, the second day of the play-in tournament, Lao Gan Die went through a 40-minute battle, but was ultimately defeated by a Latin American team.
If we could say that the opponent had some strength after losing to PSG yesterday, it would be hard to justify losing to a Latin American team.
And it wasn't a match ruined by a player's mistake. Lao Gan Die and the opponent were tied throughout the game, and they didn't have any advantage at all. If you hadn't covered the team name, you would have thought that V5 had gone to the World Championship.
The speed at which Lao Gan Die integrated into the wildcard segment was unexpected.
The optimistic family fans in China were no longer optimistic.
This is not what was agreed upon!
Didn't they say that the sharks should have entered the small fish pond? Why didn't Lao Gan Die kill the wildcards?
European audiences were still in the mood to laugh at Lao Gan Die, but the fourth seed MAD in Europe on the other side was not having a better time than Lao Gan Die.
After a difficult victory over the opponent in the opening game, MAD was beaten by the third seed TL in North America, and then in the following game today, they were overturned in front of the Turkish team SUP led by Kakao.
One was 0-2, the other was 1-2, and the four seeds of the two major regions were in a precarious situation.
After all, there were only four group matches in the play-in round, and the two teams are currently at the bottom.
In the third match on the 27th, Lao Gan Die finally stood up amid the expectations or ridicule of countless domestic audiences, and defeated V3 from the Japanese region and won the first victory in the play-in round.
Countless LPL viewers breathed a sigh of relief.
Lao Gan Die finally got back to form!
As a result, he was only happy for two hours. Lao Gan Die, who had just stood up, was broken in the knee by UOL, the boss of the CIS region. UOL played hard against Lao Gan Die and almost played a zero dragon tower game.
LPL audiences couldn't hold it anymore.
Just now, LGD was thought to have rebounded from the bottom after defeating the Japanese team, but it turned out to be a last gasp.
In this way, Lao Gan Die finished the four group matches with a record of 1-3 at the bottom.
Lao Gan Die single-handedly awakened the LPL audience who were shouting that they would sweep the top four before the game.
This script looks familiar.
It's you Lao Gan Die again! Another beating in the group stage!
What's even worse is that this is still the qualifying round.
Fuck! Isn't it a dream of returning to S5?
Of course, the game is not over yet, and Lao Gan Die has not been eliminated.
V3, which ranks ahead of Lao Gan Die, currently has a record of 1-2. If V3 defeats PSG later, Lao Gan Die will be directly announced to be eliminated.
Fortunately, PSG's big brother did not let the water go, and defeated V3 neatly, making the two teams tied, giving Lao Gan Die a chance to play a tiebreaker.
Lao Gan Die finally seized the opportunity in the tiebreaker and defeated V3 to win the opportunity to play in the wave 5 knockout stage.
There were five teams in a group in the qualifying round. As a result, the only wildcard team that Lao Gan Die defeated after the group stage was V3 from Japan. This was something no one expected before the game.
If V3 had not given a chance, and PSG had lifted his hand at the end, Lao Gan Die would really have drowned in the wildcard group stage.
Lao Gan Die's experience disappointed the LPL audience, and MAD's experience on the fourth match day also made European audiences not in the mood to laugh at Lao Gan Die.
Madrid Lions' record in the group stage was exactly the same as LGD, both with 1 win and 3 losses. Fortunately, MAD also barely passed in the tiebreaker.
However, the performance of the two sides in the knockout stage was very different.
LGD finally woke up, regained its form and defeated its opponents in two consecutive waves of 5 and successfully escaped from the qualifying round.
MAD was not so competitive, and was defeated by SUP in the first wave of 5, and got a ticket back to Spain.
This is also the first team from the four major regions to be eliminated in the qualifying stage. No team from the four major regions has ever drowned in the qualifying stage. They made history!
Of course, even if LGD successfully entered the group stage, it did not receive a good face from the audience.
Let you go to the qualifying round to test the water, but you almost drowned.
Don't care about your face!