Chapter 796 The Extremely Poisonous Kespa Cup (Happy Birthday, Sister Hua)
After two days of idleness in the apartment, Lin Cheng returned to the club to prepare for the Kespa Cup.
The Kespa Cup is similar to the Demacia Cup of LPL. It has been added to the Korean LOL event since 2015, and this off-season event has always been the graveyard of LCK strong teams.
Since the first Kespa Cup, SKT has named the K Cup the Korean Flop Cup.
At the end of 2015, SKT, who had just won the S Championship, participated in the Kespa Cup with all its main players under the attention of the public, but they were eliminated by the Internet Cafe Team in the semi-finals.
Netizens at the time were shocked, but they didn't know that this was actually SKT's best result in the K Cup.
Later, SKT was beaten black and blue in this event every year.
So strictly speaking, Faker did not get the theoretical club Grand Slam, at least he did not win the championship in the K Cup event he participated in.
Not only SKT, but other strong teams also frequently crashed in this event.
There has never been any team that can win the LCK championship and the K Cup championship of the year.
The teams that won the Kespa Cup often had a hard time in the next new season. They either fell apart the next year, or their results were not as good as expected, or they just gave up.
Last year, AFS, the champion of the K Cup, only lost a small game in the 16th game. At that time, everyone thought they would be one of the candidates for the 2020 LCK champion.
As a result, we can see how bad AFS was this year, starting high and going low and diving into the lower half.
Therefore, it has become a consensus that the K Cup is poisonous.
This year, KT is naturally the most popular team to win the Kespa Cup, but since no one has been able to break the curse of the K Cup, everyone is only cautiously optimistic.
Moreover, it is unclear what this new KT will look like after running in.
According to gossip, the team with the best performance in recent training matches seems to be the T1 composed of new players, but T1 is busy shooting commercials and announcing that the second team will participate, so at least it will be difficult for T1 to avenge its old rival in the K Cup.
T1 fans have been rubbed by KT fans for a year, and they can't hold back any longer. They are eagerly looking forward to Faker leading his teammates to stab Lin Cheng, the guy who covets the throne, to death.
With the start of the league, the schedule of this year's K Cup has also changed.
There are no Internet cafe teams participating this year. Only the ten LCK teams after the league are participating, which can be regarded as a training opportunity for each team in the new season.
Of course, the embarrassment of being eliminated by the Internet cafe team is gone.
The ten teams are divided into two groups and play a single round-robin event in wave 1. The first two teams in the two groups will directly enter the semi-finals, and the last two teams in the group will be directly eliminated.
KT was divided into Group B.
On October 22, KT made its debut in the Kespa Cup.
Today, KT's two opponents in wave 1 are BRO and GEN·G.
Due to the improvement of the epidemic situation, this K Cup is an offline game held in LOL PARK, but there are still no live audiences.
Everyone is watching the performance of the new champion KT, wanting to see if KT still has the dominance of the summer game.
If KT is still so breathtaking after changing four players, other teams can just go to bed.
However, KT's performance today did not meet the fans' expectations, and they got one win and one loss.
Although the process of defeating BRO was very neat and tidy, anyone with a discerning eye could see that it was purely based on personal skills. KT defeated the opponent in the laning phase.
BRO is a team that joined after the league. Even if there is a well-known artist like Kim Heechul among the investors, all the members are some LCK underdogs or newcomers, and no one thinks they are competitive.
So KT's defeat of BRO is not a good thing for fans to be happy about.
On the contrary, the loss to GEN·G was a bit torturous.
KT played well in the early stage, and Lin Cheng was still the god of war who called the wind and rain in the top lane. Lin Cheng and Chovy had already played a relatively obvious advantage in the laning phase alone.
But when the game entered the operation period, KT began to feel different.
It is obvious that the players' tacit understanding is not good enough. The five KT players on the field do not seem to form a whole. They often have fewer players than the opponent for no apparent reason.
Lin Cheng was also very anxious. He tried to kill Rasal twice in a row but was ambushed by the opponent, which led to a wave of dragon rhythm.
That's not all.
Lin Cheng's attack was just the beginning.
After Lin Cheng killed Chao Wei, he killed Chao Wei, and after Chao Wei killed Mr. Dai, he killed him.
Then, the scene of Peanut and Effort's jungler and support running to fight two against five appeared.
The advantage in the early stage was so good that KT's players were forced to break it apart.
Seeing such a game scene, KT fans almost had a heart attack.
Is this still the invincible KT in the summer?
How did our operation that suffocated the whole world become like this?
These guys who gave away the dragon are too outrageous.
Is it possible for a jungler and a support to fight two against five that a professional player can do?
Some T1 fans can't wait to jump out and mock.
"I declare KT is a C78, Lin Cheng will pay for his blasphemous remarks."
"Is this God? How come God was beaten like a dog?"
"KT is just like this? It seems that the training match said that KT is in average condition."
KT fans naturally did not allow Lin Cheng to be attacked, and jumped out to fight.
Your first team was beaten by us and didn't dare to participate in the competition, and you still dare to talk nonsense?
Let me put it here: this K Cup may be your only chance to beat KT, but you don't cherish it. Letting the second team to participate in the K Cup is destined to be another year for T1 to cry.
Even though the start was not good, KT fans are still optimistic.
After all, it's just a K Cup. It doesn't matter if this trophy is not given. It's good to let the team run in.
And although Lin Cheng was sent to a big rhythm by the old man Rasal twice, it can be seen that Lin Cheng's personal state is still fine.
As long as Lin Cheng is in good condition, KT will get back on track sooner or later.
All KT fans believe that as long as the new teammates know who is the father of the team, KT will be led by Lin Cheng to the right track.
However, in the second match day of Group B on the 24th, KT once again achieved a record of one win and one loss.
The winner was T1's second team, and the loser was AFS.
The winning games were clean and neat, but someone always got sick in the losing games, and KT fans' blood pressure soared.
Of course, the loss to the African team was not as outrageous as the previous loss to GEN·G.
This game was also KT's advantage, but the opponent robbed the big and small dragons at the critical moment, which could only be said to be bad luck.
In this way, KT barely entered the knockout stage of the K Cup with a record of 2 wins and 2 losses.
Fortunately, BRO and T1's second team, who lost all four games, were at the bottom, otherwise KT's record would be a bit shaky.
In fact, KT's tacit understanding in the training games has gradually become good, but they haven't played official games offline for a long time, and suddenly everyone's state seems to be a bit problematic when they come to the LOL PARK.
Lin Cheng also reviewed the K Cup group stage games with the team.
"Too much focus on the laning, brothers."
"If there is a little disadvantage, we can't fight in a team."
"The decisions we make are more brain-dead than each other."
"Is this still KT?"