On the night when EDG won the cup, fate didn't just care about the talented youth - Sina E-sports_ E-sports events_ Live report_ Sina E-sports
May 11th, 2022

Or maybe in this unpredictable field, they were all called gifted teenagers.

On November 6, in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, the craters of large and small volcanoes are still floating with water mist, which is no different from that in normal days.

Leisurely enjoying afternoon coffee on the road, people may not know that a message spread to China thousands of miles away in the snow covered raugadal Shaw stadium will cause volcanic boiling.

In Colleges and universities, in front of computers and on various social media, countless audiences of the League of heroes reveled and shouted, celebrating the same thing with the most direct “cow force” and a series of exclamation points:

EDG team from China defeated defending champion DK and won the S11 world finals of League of heroes.

This may be the craziest celebration of the e-sports audience I have ever experienced: someone in the boys’ dormitory ran to the corridor to wave flags and shout; On the road, people in groups of three or two were laughing and running; Others took videos of handstand shampoo and finished those exaggerated flags.

“Standing upside down and washing your hair when EDG wins the championship” is the smallest punishment for pediatrics

Loud cheers were like thunder on the ground. On the one hand, EDG is one of the most popular old teams in the LPL division. But more because, regardless of the position before the game, almost everyone felt that there was no suspense about DK’s victory, and believed that talented teenagers from South Korea would continue to write legends as defending champions.

No one believed EDG could win, but they still stepped on the finals as usual.

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Different from the general pessimism before the final, before the start of the schedule of S11, the Chinese audience were very optimistic about the performance of LPL club in the world game.

After all, throughout the world’s major leagues, the teams in Europe and South Korea have ups and downs in the league, and the ranking competition in the league is extremely chaotic. Each team has shown obvious fatigue more or less, and there is no dominant team. In contrast to the LPL team, the RNG team won the MSI mid-season championship. Several strong teams played back and forth, all distancing themselves from the next echelon in the league.

So the familiar sentence appeared again: “this year is the most promising year!”

This is a saying often said in the dark period of the domestic “League of heroes”. The most promising is the hope of winning the championship. But since S5, every time this sentence appears, it will bring a dark result, so that it has become a ridicule of “brainless blowing”.

“Still?”

In the first round of the group match, the four LPL teams did not live up to this expectation. EDG and RNG both ended the first week with a total victory in three games. Fpx2 won and lost, only losing to the defending champion DK. They killed the No. 4 seed LNG in the round with the posture of rolling, and also received 2 wins and 1 defeat in excellent condition.

At that time, all the four teams were in high spirits. Everyone really believed that this year was the most promising year.

But the eagerness of the audience surging out of this expectation is over.

At that time, the audience did not know how accurate the theme of “no break, no stand” was

In the second round of the group stage, the situation of the game went down sharply, which was beyond everyone’s expectation. In the second half of the regular schedule of the group game, the four LPL teams won only 3 games in 12 wars, and only RNG won the first place in the playoffs. FPX and LNG, which are still striving for the first place in the group in the first round, were both accidentally out.

The EDG team, which failed in the first round, not only lost to the first qualifying opponent T1 in the competition group in the second round, but also accidentally overturned in front of the North American weak team 100t, and got qualified for the second qualifying of the group with only one victory. What the audience doesn’t want to see is far from over.

After the group drawing of the top 8 competition, the two LPL teams were divided into a group to catch and fight. So EDG, the second in the group, naturally became the party who was denounced at this time. Because in the eyes of some viewers, the civil war could have been avoided if EDG’s light enemy had not lost the team leader.

How energetic a week ago, how depressed a week later. Only half of the four teams are left. The civil war between the brothers is about to start. All the teams in the Lck division, the strongest opponent, are promoted. The winners between EDG and RNG still have a high probability of facing their encirclement and suppression.

It seems that the “magic spell” has come true again.

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This pessimism, which fell from optimism, has been brought to the end by the audience.

EDG, who fought out of the civil war, faced the encirclement and suppression of three South Korean teams, and defeated Gen. g in the semi-finals to enter the finals. Although they have reached the final victory, the audience is still not confident: everything ahead is not much different from expectations. The script seems to have been written long ago, and no one believes it can be rewritten.

As an ordinary spectator from the group stage, I also watched the semi-final of EDG against Gen. g with my friends. In the face of an opponent whose comprehensive strength is not too strong in the South Korean competition area, EDG still had to fight hard for five innings to win the final tickets.

At that time, their opponent in the finals had been determined to be the most popular DK team in this event.

Unlike the stumbling and stumbling of playing five innings in each of the EDG knockout games, the DK team showed their dominance from the beginning. An undefeated group game, easy promotion, the top 8 easily won the No. 1 seed mad in the LEC division, and the top 4 and T1 played five games, but they still showed extraordinary on-the-spot adaptability and extremely rich tactical reserves. They also easily made faces at the camera after the game.

So after EDG qualified for the S11 final, one of my friends said “Congratulations EDG”, and then added the sentence “lock the S11 runner up in advance”. I can hear the ridicule in his tone as an EDG fan, and there is still some helplessness.

I understand that his helplessness comes from the strength of the DK team, and also from the star player showmaker in the DK team, an undisputed genius player. Everyone is willing to believe in the power they have seen with their own eyes, and is more willing to listen to a story about genius.

Showmaker after winning the semi-finals

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