Chapter 47: Is This Really Edg?
Group Stage Week 8, the second day of matches, which translates to the afternoon of March 31st.
As the EDG players boarded the bus, Kuaisu Xing subtly glanced at Li Fan, who was sitting in the farthest corner.
Abu, on the other hand, was full of worry, because after the four consecutive losses, he had a feeling that from the players to the coach, they seemed to be getting a bit accustomed to losing streaks.
This was a very terrifying thing…
Just like LGD, after the S5 World Championship ended, they seemed to have gotten used to slacking.
This slacking has gone on so long that their state can no longer be recovered.
EDG now has this trend, and that’s what terrifies him.
Fortunately, during this time, Clearlove has been steadying the team’s morale, arranging training matches with other teams every day, and their performance in the training matches has been pretty good, which has given everyone some confidence.
Thinking of this, Abu sat in his seat and closed his eyes; it hadn’t reached the worst point yet.
As a veteran powerhouse, EDG naturally gets prime time slots from the official schedule.
At five o’clock, QG vs NB…
No need to say, the live stream room’s popularity was maxed out, and Li Fan was excitedly sitting in the backstage lounge watching the big screen.
Because they only needed to highlight the key ID from this match.
Doinb, Swift…
Last year, they were called the strongest mid-jungle sub duo by everyone.
No team’s mid-jungle could last three rounds in front of them.
Uzi had fallen to the status of a second-rate AD in the QG team, and he didn’t need to do anything extra; he just needed to farm in bot lane, then wait for mid-jungle to rampage and win the match.
Everyone thought QG had a very champion-like vibe and was a World Championship winning lineup.
But who would have thought that in the playoffs, mid-jungle conflicts erupted.
And this conflict was so severe that it couldn’t be reconciled.
Doinb even directly left the base, and didn’t show up for the subsequent semifinals.
QG was also scheming something else, wanting to put Dade, who hadn’t registered professional info, on the field, but this was extremely unfair to EDG, and S3 plus Abu firmly opposed it.
In the end, there was a one-second Bo5…
In fact, for Uzi who had just come from OMG, this was actually a huge blow.
He pleaded with the referee, saying they could play four against five, just give them a chance to try.
Everything is a cycle; back in Royal Club, everyone pampered him while playing games, mainly because the old Royal Club guys had good personalities, were older than Little Dog, and didn’t hold grudges against him.
After leaving Royal Club, he realized no one would pamper him; there was even palace intrigue, and the club would squeeze your contract, benching you forever without letting you go.
But the QG boss was still quite humane; seeing the club in such a mess with the top lineup unable to operate, he let Uzi go.
After going around in circles, he finally returned to his old home Royal Club, but it’s the same boss, yet the team is a dirt revived version; the real Royal Club had long since been relegated to the secondary league.
In a sense, RNG really couldn’t inherit the two runner-ups from the previous Royal Club; their best result now is actually Quarterfinals at Worlds.
With so much bad blood, this match had extremely high attention.
Uzi fans were grinding their teeth, hoping to see Doinb get judged on screen.
And it really happened; 100,000 Volts went all out against Doinb.
NB, to be honest, is a mid-to-low tier team.
The kind that’s just barely enough to reach playoffs.
Of course, the premise is being in Group B; if they were in Group A, they’d have no chance.
After all, in Group B, when comparing who sucks more, there are GT and VG who suck even more.
In Group A, there’s only one LGD.
In the first game, 100,000 Volts pulled out Lee Sin, with crazy rhythm linking up all game; though no kills, twelve assists and Doinb with a black face… his post-game record of 0-8 shows how miserable he played.
At this time in the live stream room, a ton of people were spamming righteous judgment and all sorts of satisfying moments.
In the second game, Doinb showed a determined gaze and countered with Viktor.
He wanted to prove himself with Viktor!
As long as one person gets ahead in farm, they can easily win the match.
He fundamentally didn’t trust the others.
As for assassin heroes, the previous game was a bloody lesson.
The enemy beast kept ganking mid; what a dog bastard.
After all, if assassin heroes don’t build an advantage early, they lose burst potential mid-to-late and the curve gets worse and worse.
Since that’s the case, he could only choose to farm to late game with Viktor who has explosive damage!
Then he could even create the ultimate highlight with Viktor.
And it really worked out for Doinb; the game dragged to thirty-three minutes, at which point both sides’ economy was basically even.
And with the curve, Viktor gets stronger and stronger.
In this situation, QG was very optimistic…
But 100,000 Volts is 100,000 Volts; he knows Doinb too well.
He directly squatted at blue buff!
Sure enough, he caught the Viktor coming to take blue.
Kha’Zix quietly waited in the bush, burst damage instantly killing Viktor, thoroughly sealing the win.
After taking Baron Nashor, they started pushing, and finally won the match at thirty-seven minutes; 100,000 Volts got another MVP.
“He’s fired up! 100,000 Volts is really fired up now.” Wa Wa said with a grin.
At the same time, the entire EDG team in the back took a deep breath.
They followed the staff to the stage.
To be honest, with this one week of rest time, their state actually wasn’t very good.
Mainly because of the high-intensity training matches every day; honestly, they overdid it a bit.
This led to two teams with a huge strength gap ending up in a back-and-forth fight.
The most frustrating part was that Xiao Xue Di picked Card this game, and Republic probably saw Doinb’s Viktor from the previous one, so they took Viktor too.
So the curve was very advantageous for them.
Jin Gong’s Rumble this game performed very brightly again, using explosive damage in mid-early game to successfully drag to Viktor’s power spike.
While EDG’s Card and Ashe at this point had far from enough damage.
Abu, watching from backstage, couldn’t sit still anymore and nervously stared at the big screen.
With the team fight at thirty-nine minutes, the situation turned one-sided.
The Maokai tanking up front couldn’t protect anything, forced to watch Card and Ashe get killed one after another.
At this moment, Abu slumped in his seat, feeling his vision go black.
How could this be?
How could it be like this?
Ace!
Zero for five!
GT’s perfect late-game team fight ends the match in one wave.
【Disband already.】
【God-tier team, congrats EDG on five consecutive losses!】
【Laughed my ass off, really lost to GT? I thought you were joking.】
Li Fan sat in the corner, shocked, looking at the scene before him: is this really EDG?
