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“League of Legends” MSI mid-season game was a big upset in the battle between GEN and BLG yesterday (5/19). It was generally expected that the first seed of the LCK, GEN, would be able to easily defeat BLG. Unexpectedly, BLG had the advantage in most of the three games , and finally won three games in a row to win. This is also the first time in 3147 days that an LPL team defeated an LCK team in straight sets again, making history.

GG 3：0

In the first game, GEN came up with a very threatening lineup in team battles, trying to break through BLG’s Jieli Lulu combination, but after several rounds of team battles, GEN failed to break through BLG’s Maokai and Talia, so Elk Jieli got enough Output space, as the lineup began to exert strength, GEN was unable to recover, and BLG won the first game.

In the second game, GEN selected JDG’s very powerful combination of Wukong and Anne, and also selected Feiai, who was greedy for Kench to counter BLG. At 26 minutes, Peanut was too aggressive, and ON Brown seized the opportunity to turn back. Elk became restless after killing Peanut. With Bin who entered the field from the side, BLG played zero for three and ate Baron.

At this time, the level of Bin was gradually formed, and everyone in GEN was at their wits’ end in order to deal with Elk. Xiaolong, BLG with the soul of the water dragon is fearless, and under the leadership of Bin, he is advancing all the way, and he is going straight to the main castle, and he is drawing cards in the series.

In the third game, BLG took out Sion’s first-class routine. Although they didn’t try the tower kill in the end, they dismantled GEN’s four eyes and stole two wild monsters in the wild area, which severely damaged the rhythm of Peanut’s mirror claws until 15 minutes. The growth-type hero Mirror Claw is only 17 yuan ahead of the functional hero Fei Ai, and he has not controlled a single dragon, which is the most unfavorable situation.

Then Peanut’s mirror claw was first solo killed by Yagao in the wild area, and because he was caught in the team battle at 17 points, he fired off what should have been used to protect Peyz, allowing BLG to seize the opportunity and point directly to the back row. Elk was in ample space. Scored four consecutive kills and laid the foundation for victory. Even if XUN gave several opportunities in a row, GEN could not take a step closer. In the end, Elk led BLG to an upset victory over a strong enemy with a terrifying record of 16/1/11, and ranked first in the LCK Seed Gen.

According to official statistics, this is also the first time in 3147 days that an LPL team defeated an LCK team in straight sets. The last time LPL defeated LCK 3:0 was OMG defeating NaJin White Shield (NJS) in the 2014 World Series. Today, BLG made history A brand new page.

Taunt five!

At the moment when BLG won, the head coach Tabe was so excited that he ran behind the GEN players to celebrate without noticing, and the whole embarrassing situation was filmed.

After the match, Tabe also posted an apology on Weibo, saying that he was too excited to go to the wrong side, “I kept calling nice and found out why my buddies’ team uniforms are all black, I apologize to GenG!”, which added another interesting thing to Tabe’s coaching career .

Tonight’s MSI schedule will start at 7 o’clock. In the championship match, BLG will face the LCK team again. This time, the opponent is T1, which has fought five rounds with JDG. It can be said that it is a more difficult opponent. The winner will seize the finals last ticket.

Can T1 hold on to the final glory of the LCK, or can the LPL achieve a complete victory and repeat the civil war in the finals? Let’s read on.

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“League of Legends” MSI mid-season match yesterday (5/18) staged the battle between T1 and JD Gaming (JDG). , In the end, with the support of many audiences, JDG advanced to the finals 3:2, while T1 fell into the defeat.

back and forth

In the first round, knight was in excellent condition, killing the enemy many times in seconds. JDG won the Dragon Soul without losing a dragon, and easily won the first victory; the second and third rounds were a little behind in T1 in the early stage, but they played a blitzkrieg in the mid-term , both rounds won the team battle at around 23 points, pushing down the JDG main castle in one wave.

T1, who took the lead in drawing cards, tried new tricks in the BP of the fourth round, allowing JDG to get Wukong and Annie, who are good at it. T1 chose Oner, who performed poorly in the first round, and Malphite, who had been defeated by MSI so far. JDG won without any effort, the score of the two sides came to 2:2, and the battle song was played, and Moffitt advanced the record to an unbearable eight games and zero wins.

missed opportunity

The two sides came to the fifth round of life and death. T1 selected the lineup of Ue Nakano and San AP, and then knight five selected Cyrus, who was very Kante in this formation. As a result, T1 played very passively in the early and mid-term, but T1 still relied on its extraordinary team battles Dealing with it, once took Baron and advanced to the JDG barracks, but was forced to stop because of Oner’s mistake and was caught, missing the biggest chance of winning.

Then the dragon was reborn, JDG had already eaten three dragons, T1 had to compete with them, Oner risked his life to enter the arena to steal the dragons, but he was also killed, the next moment T1 played an operation that shocked the audience around the world, unexpectedly with one less person JDG collided head-on, and as a result, two people were killed in T1, and Barong was also lost. The most important thing was that Gumayusi’s flash was forced to be handed over.

In the last wave of team battles, the five members of JDG gathered in the middle to push forward, and Zeus teleported to the rear to prepare for a pincer attack. At this time, Faker Nadirus took the lead in making a hook, but he did not throw his ult to Ruler, which caused Zeus who was behind the circle to fail. Be able to get close to Ruler at the first time;

Then Ruler pulled Zeus and Oner to a safe output position by flashing and purifying. In front of the main castle, Gumayusi tried to fight five but failed, and JDG successfully accepted the game.

self-defeating

After the game, the reporter asked, “Why did the opponent choose Annie and Wukong in T1 in the fourth round?” Oner said, “We wanted to try other tricks, but there was indeed a problem with the BP in the fourth round.” In the opinion of playing five, Oner said “Even if it is four playing five, I still have to try it”, thinking that it is better to give it a try than to do nothing.

Gumayusi performed well in this series, but in the end he was unable to recover. After the game, he tweeted a short sentence “a test for the protagonist”, which shows that he is very disappointed.

trials for the protagonist

— Minhyung Lee (@gumayusi_min) May 18, 2023

Tonight’s schedule will be GEN against BLG. Tonight’s winner will compete with the defeated T1 for the last qualification to enter the finals on 5/20. The MSI competition is already heating up, and the final three days of the schedule will be decided Champion, so which team do you think can successfully win the cup?

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“League of Legends” MSI formed an extremely rare civil war in the four major divisions after the first round of fighting in Katsubu, as if watching the spring finals again.

Yesterday (5/14) took the lead in the civil war between the LCK and the LEC. T1 took the lead in the thrilling battle with Gen.G (GEN) after five rounds and won, while G2 Esports (G2) took advantage of the casting advantage to defeat the European king MAD Lions ( MAD) swept away from the MSI arena.

Nervous Oner

In the first Korean civil war between T1 and GEN, T1 maintained an excellent feel, and once again used the “Sion’s first-class” tactic, playing against GEN with staring eyes, and took the lead in winning two rounds.

Originally, the third round of T1 would also rely on Gumayusi’s excellent touch to score more than 10 kills to win, but I didn’t expect Oner, who could have pushed down the main castle, to kill Chovy, the only remaining GEN, at a critical moment. He wanted to cross the twin towers of the main castle to go to the hot springs to kill people, but he was killed by the towers.

Then the wind turned sharply. Gumayusi was too aggressive and Peyz won the head of a thousand yuan. GEN also won the team battles one after another, and finally succeeded in reversing T1. In the fourth game, Faker was broken in the middle. Into the fifth inning.

Both sides played very cautiously in the fifth round, until the last wave of team battles, the head ratio was only 2:3. At 25 minutes, T1 had the advantage of drawing three dragons. GEN knew that it could not delay any longer, so he launched an attack in the middle. Although Gumayusi Chaya was flashed by Aleister, he immediately evaded the follow-up control with a big shot;

Afterwards, everyone in T1 swarmed up, and Faker Cassante even brought Peyz, who was full of blood, to the wild area for a one-on-one fight, and finally killed him in seconds. T1 won the victory without any risk and advanced to the championship.

Dare to choose the European style

The second European civil war between G2 and MAD was quite fierce. Both sides planned a lot of offenses in the early stages of the three rounds. Among them, BrokenBlade, the top laner in G2, relied on sufficient tactical reserves to beat MAD’s Korean aid top laner Chasy in the corner selection.

In the first game, Yasu Kangte Naer was selected, which achieved very good results; in the second game, Kasabia, who had been training hard for a long time recently, was selected to dominate Irelia in all aspects in line play and team battles. Completed a one-on-two under the tower on the road, MAD had no power to parry, and finally played a luxurious record of 8/1/9;

In the third game, Kasabiya was locked again, and KDA of 7/3/1 was handed over, leading G2 to defeat MAD in straight sets.

The second seed strikes back

In the two games yesterday, the second seed in the competition area defeated the first seed, and both showed a big gap. The defeat of MAD became the first team to leave among the eight teams in this MSI competition.

It is also because MAD failed to win one of the six games and wrote the worst score of the four major regions in the international competition. The audience in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau recalled the 0-6 record of the MAD Team in the World Championship in 2018, and called “MAD this team The name is poisonous.”

Tonight will continue to stage civil wars in the division. First is the LPL civil war, with JD Gaming (JDG) facing Bilibili Gaming (BLG), followed by the LCS civil war, with Cloud9 (C9) fighting against Golden Guardians (GG). Can it counterattack and win again? Or did the first seed team show their strength and successfully advance? let us wait and see.

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The “League of Legends” MSI mid-season play-in stage has ended a few days ago. BLG, G2, and GG who advanced in the play-in stage will join the top teams from other divisions to fight for the championship glory in the second stage.

After the end of the last day of the play-in competition, a lottery ceremony was held on-site to confirm the grouping of the second stage. The opening game of the second stage of the schedule will be Gen.G against G2, followed by MAD Lions against T1 on 5/10, C9 against BLG on 5/11, and JDG against GG on 5/12.

If you missed the previous play-in matches, don’t forget that starting from this year, the Mid-Season Invitational Tournament will adopt a two-stage double-elimination match, including the play-in match and the group stage will adopt the BO5 double-elimination match system throughout.

The game time is expected to start at 8:00 p.m. Taiwan time every day, come and cheer for the team you support!

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