LoL: I really didn’t mess up!

In the last two games of the group stage, there is actually not much to say.

The rankings of QG and their two opponents today have basically been determined, and there will not be much change, so there is a little less excitement between the games.

In the morning, QG will have a civil war between Chinese teams and face IG.

IG did not directly invite the team, but advanced through the qualifiers.

But how can I put it, if you are not directly inviting the team, your chances of winning are actually very slim.

After all, points are derived from your rankings in various competitions in the past year.

The top eight teams in terms of points are the teams with the best overall performance in various competitions in the past year. Only such teams can receive direct invitations.

If you can't even reach the top eight in points, that means your strength is limited.

The teams that advance through the qualifiers are actually similar to the teams that advance through the wild card finals in LOL, which is a bit of a fill-in.

The current eighth-place result of the IG group proves this, and they almost couldn't even qualify.

As for the afternoon, QG's opponent is TNC. This team is also from Southeast Asia and is ranked slightly higher than IG. It is ranked seventh from the bottom of the group and is also scheduled to be in the loser group.

Playing seventh or eighth, everyone in QG was certainly not under any pressure. Everyone was sitting in the lounge and even started to think about what to eat in the evening.

At this time, Ame was sitting next to Chen Dongqing, looking at the ground blankly, thinking a lot in her heart.

Chen Dongqing was flipping through his phone at this time and saw something interesting. He was about to share it with Ame next to him, but he saw Ame's blank eyes.

Chen Dongqing thought for two seconds.

When he just browsed the post bar, he did see content related to Ame.

Many people feel sorry for Ame.

No matter how you say it, Ame can still be called the number one player in the country. After all, Ame has already proven his strength in various games over the past six months.

Although Ame has the stain of losing the championship in the reverse wave, you have to say that before the reverse wave, it was his water man's high-fire water cannon that helped the team overturn VP in a 1V4 alone, and helped the team enter the finals.

As the first C, he stepped down to make way for others and took the initiative to replace him.

Chen Dongqing has indeed proven his strength through this series of group matches, but leaving Ame on the bench will still make many players feel regretful.

Chen Dongqing thought for a while, smiled and asked the person next to him: "What do you mean, do you want to go up and play a few games?"

Ame didn't react for a moment after hearing this. He paused for a moment and then said, "Huh? Shall I go up and play?"

"Yeah." Chen Dongqing patted Ame on the shoulder, "You're not scared, are you? You should be able to abuse these two teams casually."

Ame looked at his teammates again.

Xiaoba also smiled and said: "Indeed, we can't let you sit on the bench all the time. It's okay to let you go up and have fun."

As for the other four teammates of QG, there is no need to say more.

Although Chen Dongqing has a higher winning rate and it would be more satisfying to win, after all, Ame is also their old teammate, and they have a deeper relationship. Of course, they wouldn't mind letting Ame come up and have fun.

"Then come!" Ame was no longer timid now and said with a smile, "I'll do it if I do!"

After saying that, Ame took out his backpack and started organizing peripherals.

Chen Dongqing slowly stuffed his peripherals back into his backpack and lay back on the chair.

This time he was at ease.

Today's opponent is really not strong, and there is no training effect at all. Fighting too much may have side effects.

Anyway, he has already practiced well now, so it is always good to take a rest.

Soon, Chen Dongqing was sitting in the lounge, watching Ame return to the stage after a long absence.

Unexpectedly, the audience gave him warm cheers.

Ame's style of play can be considered a dare-to-fight type, which is quite popular.

Ame was a little surprised by the shouts from the audience. He waved his hand sheepishly and sat in his seat.

Different people have different understandings of QG's substitution behavior.

Normal viewers think that this is just an ordinary rotation. Without the pressure to qualify, there is no problem in replacing the original players.

But in the eyes of caring people, there are different interpretations.

Seeing Ame walk on the stage, everyone in OG narrowed their eyes and became crazy in their hearts.

Ceb asked Ana beside him: "What do you think?"

"It's nothing." Ana said honestly: "This is just an ordinary substitution."

"No! Absolutely not!" N0tail said seriously: "There is a lot of information behind this substitution!"

Ana scratched her head and said, "Ah? What information?"

N0tail said: "Obviously, they themselves also know that after ilex came on the scene, their early-stage ability was too weak, and this is not a problem that can be solved in a short time, and what this version needs most is early-stage ability! So they have to put Replace the former No. 1 Ame and try the effect."

"If nothing else happens, they will definitely take the initiative to choose the core of the early attack to test Ame's early offensive ability and observe the difference between Ame and ilex."

Ana was a little confused.

But Ame’s early stage ability isn’t that good either? Like ilex, he is a late-stage carry.

But before he had time to speak, QG took the initiative to choose the game of Airplane Elf in the screen, which seemed to confirm N0tail's idea.

Ana was speechless for a moment.

When N0tail saw this, the corner of his mouth raised slightly, "I don't know why, but I am becoming more and more confident."

As for the result of the game in the picture, of course it was uneventful.

The hard power of QG and Ame is here. It can only be said that as long as they don't make serious mistakes, it will be difficult to lose.

Therefore, Ame took the initiative to choose the combination of Airplane Elf, just to speed up the rhythm, try to win as beautifully as possible, and get a good start for his TI8 debut.

The result was not unexpected. Facing his own team, Ame made a cruel move. He penetrated the lane and ended the game quickly. The small advantage entered the jungle and the big advantage came out of the jungle, and then the game ended quickly.

QG easily won the two games, raising its points to 13 points, further consolidating its first place in the group.

On the other hand, IG is a little bit miserable. After seven games, they have recorded four draws and three losses. With four points, they are one point ahead of the CIS team Winstrike. They are ranked second from the bottom in the group and are on the verge of elimination. The edge.

In the afternoon, QG faced their last opponent in the group stage, TNC.

Everyone in QG was not polite at all, and they were easily sent away after two games, finally ending this group stage!

At the end of the group stage, the rankings of the eighteen teams were also determined.

Winstrike, the last player in Group A, and paiN Gaming, the last player in Group B, were eliminated, and the rest all advanced to the knockout rounds.

In other words, all six Chinese teams coming to TI have qualified!

Among them, QG and Newbee advanced to the winner's group, while VGJT, IG, VG, and TS fell into the loser's group.

Compared with last year's grand occasion of four winners and one loser, it can only be said that the overall strength of CNDOTA this year has declined slightly.

Of course, what is reassuring is that although the overall strength may have declined, the head strength has definitely increased!

The top QG team ranks first in Group A with a record of 7 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses, and has now become one of the favorites to win the championship!

At the end of the group stage, QG's opponents in the first round of the knockout round were also determined simultaneously.

According to the rules, the first place in Group A will face the fourth place in Group B, TL.

TL came to TI8 as the defending champion, and they are also the original team that won the championship last year. They are very strong!

Last year, it was they who defeated three Chinese teams and won the TI7 championship shield, which made countless Chinese players scream nightmares!

But in this year's group stage, they were not ideal. Due to factors such as state and rhythm, they did not play well in several games. In the matches against strong teams, they were defeated 0-2, resulting in them falling behind. Finished fourth in the group and advanced to the winner's group.

TL said this was unacceptable. They expressed their commitment to this knockout round and were determined to regain their form and successfully advance!

Everyone in QG didn't know TL's ambitions. After the game, they immediately returned to the backstage lounge and entered the training game state.

There is only one day of rest between the group stage and the knockout stage. The time is tight, so they have to take the time to practice!

In particular, the team's offensive linkage is still a bit raw and needs more practice.

Um? Something is wrong!

In today's training match, Chen Dongqing played the role of the Airplane Elf. The rhythm was as smooth as silk, and he had a huge advantage in the early stages of three consecutive games!

Especially the choice of the ultimate move point. He would often even suddenly call Xnova and fly to a dark spot on the map, but every time he flew there, he would really catch someone!

After the opponent knocked out GG for the third time, Xiaoba finally couldn't stand it any longer and came over and asked, "Brother Shu, what's going on?"

"Huh?" Chen Dongqing took off his headphones and said, "What's going on?"

Xiaoba asked again: "Why did you suddenly become so fierce today?"

At this time Xnova also turned his head, he was also curious about the question.

As Chen Dongqing's assistant, his changes today are so intuitive!

Chen Dongqing's flight today was almost completely different from the one he took two days ago!

"Hey, what a fuss!" Chen Dongqing grinned and said, "You have practiced well, why do you still need to ask?"

"Ah?" Xiao Ba was dumbfounded now, "How did you practice well? You weren't that good last night, and today you didn't even play, and you suddenly practiced well?"

Chen Dongqing didn't know how to explain it for a while, so he simply said: "Oh, I was watching Ame masturbate from behind today. I just watched it for a while."

"Huh???" Xiaoba was even more dumbfounded, his voice growing louder and full of confusion.

Not only Xiaoba was stupid, but the other QG team members were also stupid.

Ame is particularly stupid.

Just watch me masturbate for a while?

The key is that I’m not that good at playing it myself! ?

After everyone thought about it, they could only attribute it to Chen Dongqing's talent.

Brother Shu, that's normal.

Otherwise, we can say that he is an e-sports genius.

When they thought of this, everyone in QG smiled from the bottom of their hearts.

In the past few days, two problems have been lingering in their QG's minds, and they have almost become their worries.

One is the offensive problem of choosing a fighting core, and the other is the defensive problem of developing a core.

But now, half of it is solved so easily! This makes them very excited!

The offensive problem is solved, then everything is easy to say!

The defensive problem originally only appeared when playing against VP, so it is not critical. They still have time to solve it!

Of course, what they didn't know was that Chen Dongqing also solved the defensive problem.

The one-day training match went by in a blink of an eye, and time soon came to August 6th, when the double-elimination tournament officially started!

The rules of the knockout rounds are: the first round of the loser group is BO1, the finals is BO5, and all other games are BO3.

Because the BO1 schedule is fast, the first round of the loser's bracket and the first round of the winner's bracket will be completed on the same day!

Chen Dongqing came to the scene early in the morning and watched the loser group showdown in the backstage.

There are eight teams in the loser group, including four Chinese teams. To a certain extent, this can be regarded as an alternative world of CNDOTAvs.

The rules of the loser group are similar. The fifth in the group will play the eighth, and the sixth will play the seventh. The general logic is that the top team will play the bottom team in the other group, giving some convenience to the top team.

This kind of rule will inevitably lead to civil war.

For example, IG, who qualified eighth in Group A, faced off against VG, who ranked fifth in Group B, and entered the field directly in the first knockout match. BO1 directly determined life or death.

The first round of the loser's bracket is somewhat exciting. After all, the variables in BO1 are too big, and a strong team may lose the game with a small mistake.

In the first game, everyone at IG was obviously out of shape. In just six minutes of the game, both teams were killed by the opponent.

Although DOTA2 is a game where one or two lane kills are acceptable, but giving away one or two lane kills for no reason is really not good.

After gaining the advantage, VG was not in a hurry. They continued to link up and played steadily, gradually expanding the small laning advantage, and then turning it into a larger advantage through linkage. Finally, it snowballed and ended the game in one wave!

VG completes promotion! IG became the first Chinese team to be eliminated in this TI.

One of the six teams has left.

Countless Chinese spectators were anxious and turned their attention to the next three games.

We can’t lose again next time!

Immediately afterwards, the loser's group match continued.

The next three teams also took the stage one after another and completed their life and death duels one after another. Among them, the Chinese teams TS and VGJT were among them.

Fortunately, these two teams are pretty good.

In their respective games, they all fought fiercely for forty minutes. The game was back and forth and thrilling, but in the end, they each defeated their opponents and completed the promotion!

Under the stage, countless viewers let out a sigh of relief.

Okay, then only one person will be eliminated in this first round, which is completely acceptable.

After the loser's group game ends, there is no rest time, and the winner's group game follows immediately.

The first game of the winner group is the first place in Group A versus the fourth place in Group B, which is the game between QG and TL.

At this time, Chen Dongqing was still backstage, discussing with Ame.

"What do you mean, do you want to go up today?"

Chen Dongqing actually didn't want to play today. After all, he had been training day and night for the past few days and it was rare that he had a big problem. He really didn't want to let it out on TL's head.

If he wants to pull it, he has to pull it on VP’s head!

According to the rules, after they advance in this round, they will face the winner of the VP group, and the probability of playing VP is extremely high.

But this time, Ame said nothing.

"Forget it if I go in the group stage, why should I go in the knockout rounds?" Ame shook his head crazily, "Forget it, you better go!"

Chen Dongqing shook his head helplessly and said: "Then you have to think about it. After this first round, if you think about it later, you may not have a chance."

Ame hesitated for a second, and finally said: "It's better for you to do it. You really can't be careless in the knockout round."

"Okay." Chen Dongqing turned around and took out his peripherals from his bag.

It seems like I have to find a way to hold it in for a while longer.

Today, let’s do a little acting.

The winner's group competition started, and under the shouts of the on-site host, the two sides of the first round of the winner's group took to the stage respectively!

"First of all, let us welcome! QG!" the host shouted, and the big screen began to play short videos of QG players.

In this short video, the names, ages, positions, and nationalities of the five QG players will be clearly displayed!

During the playing of the short film, QG players also quickly appeared on stage.

As the number one player, Chen Dongqing was still the first to walk in the team, feeling the surging cheers from the audience.

I have to say that this call is indeed much louder than the previous few days.

Chen Dongqing's excellent performances these days have been recognized by many audiences.

Then the host continued to shout: "Let us continue to welcome! Team Liquid!"

At this moment, the cheers from the audience rose to several levels, drowning the entire venue!

As a North American team, TL is certainly more familiar to Canadian audiences, and they are also the defending champions, which naturally gives them more support!

"T! L!"

"T! L!"

Countless Canadian spectators outside the field waved their support sticks and shouted the TL team name repeatedly, which was quite impressive!

Chen Dongqing couldn't help but feel helpless when he looked at the situation off the court.

Although their support has increased a lot recently, they still can't compare with semi-home teams like TL.

If the support of the audience on the field is regarded as a progress bar, they have completed at most 40%.

Chen Dongqing pursed his lips and sat back in his seat.

This leaves 60%, which needs to be conquered slowly.

Soon, the game begins!

Before the game, Chen Dongqing and the team had discussed that the early offensive gameplay should be hidden as a trump card. Against TL, they would still try to win with their old tricks.

Therefore, in the first game, when both Sven and TB were banned, Chen Dongqing chose to take out Mask of the Void and play a three-piece set before coming out.

On the other side, everyone in TL was familiar with QG's set, so they had a very clear idea. They chose to use the three or four combination of Pat Bear + Corpse King to forcibly increase the strength of the offlane.

Countless viewers couldn't help but feel a little overwhelmed when they looked at TL's three or four combinations.

Pat the Bear is actually generally used in the first position for fighting. Of course, there is no problem in placing it in the third position.

To put it simply, this hero has a rush skill that can slow down enemies, a skill that increases attack speed, a passive that increases basic attack damage, and a status-based ultimate move that increases damage reduction and toughness.

In one sentence, he is invincible in melee combat.

As for the Corpse King, he is even more shameless. He has a long-range skill that can directly extract 4 points of the enemy's strength.

Strength is particularly important in DOTA2, because strength represents the upper limit of health.

Being drained of four points of strength means that the upper limit of blood volume is reduced by 80, and it will take a long time to recover.

For a hero like Void who is weak in lane, facing these two melee overlords, it can only be said that the lane will be miserable!

Obviously, although TL is not in the same group as QG, they are fully prepared to fight against QG!

Seeing this, many people couldn't help but start to worry about QG.

How should I play this line?

Soon, as Xiaobing came online, countless viewers squinted for a few seconds and quickly realized something was wrong.

Something is wrong.

Why do you feel a little less stressed?

In the early laning, Chen Dongqing's micro-management was simply full. Relying on the back and forth pulling and position control, he easily made up for several difficult knives at almost no cost.

He even denied the two opponents!

In the game DOTA2, laning ability is basically reflected in the last hit. As long as your last hit is hard enough, you don’t even need to kill the opponent. You only need to deny the opponent a few soldiers, and you can easily open up hundreds of dollars of economy. And experience on the big halfpipe.

Although Chen Dongqing lost half a tube of blood due to the last hit, it was not a big problem. This loss of blood could be made up with a bottle of red medicine, so it was not a loss at all!

Even while fighting, TL's three and four players were a little overwhelmed by xNova's silent A, and began to retreat and eat trees to replenish blood.

Seeing this, many viewers couldn't help but sigh.

ilex’s laning ability is also amazing!

So far in TI, I have almost only seen him suffer losses at the hands of VP, and TL is almost boring!

By this point in the laning, the audience was already relieved.

In the game DOTA2, the player's personal strength overrides the hero's strength.

Void plus Silence, Pat Pat Bear plus Corpse King, if you can create such a small advantageous situation, it is actually a win.

The third position is the zombie king. In the later stage, it can basically be understood as a wooden stake.

Waiting for Void to make a crazy face or a hammer, go into the jungle, buy him a three-piece suit, then come out, kill people directly in front of these two people, they don't dare to say a word.

But the audience still underestimated the madness of QG.

In five minutes, Chen Dongqing took two steps back, taking medicine to replenish his blood while waiting for the debuff on his body to disappear.

One is the corpse king's debuff that extracts power. When time passes, the extracted power will recover on its own.

One is the Pat the Bear passive.

Pat Bear's basic attack will create wounds on the enemy, increasing the damage of the next basic attack. The more A's, the more layers of wounds there will be, and the higher the A's damage will be, infinitely superimposed!

This superposition method allows Pai Pai Bear's theoretical output damage to be infinite. As long as there is enough output environment, he can scratch any fleshy creature to death.

He can even be paired with a hero that increases attack speed and can kill Roshan at the first level!

This Debuff is the most terrifying. Chen Dongqing has to wait for it to dissipate before he can line up.

After all the debuffs on his body disappeared, Chen Dongqing finally regained full health. He stepped forward again and entered the laning state.

On the other side, at this time, the two melee fighters on the opposite side also recovered their health. They saw the void returning. The Corpse King went up and pumped again, and another four points of power were sucked in.

Chen Dongqing didn't care and continued to step forward, exchanging basic attacks with Paipai Xiong.

The layers of wounds on his body had dissipated, so Pat Bear's claw did not cause much damage.

Instead, a hammer from the void struck, summoning a clone from another timeline.

With two levels and three skills, Mask of the Void has a 16% chance of summoning a substitute messenger, which will hit the enemy again, adding 20 points of damage, and stun the enemy for 0.65 seconds.

And this substitute messenger can continue to summon substitute dolls.

Ever since, the stand's basic attack triggered the 16% probability again, summoned another stand, and hit the bear with A.

Void's basic attack dealt a total damage of 3+40 basic attacks, and a stun effect of 0.65*2, which reduced Pat Bear's HP by a large amount visibly to the naked eye!

Chen Dongqing raised his eyebrows.

Two consecutive triggers? What a bit of luck!

Chen Dongqing thought for a moment, took advantage of the interval between normal attacks, moved a step forward, and then launched another attack towards Paipai Bear Hammer!

Fortunately, the passive is triggered again.

Two more basic attacks instantly hit Paipai Bear and controlled it for 0.65 seconds again!

At this time, Paipabong's blood volume has dropped to less than half!

What kind of luck is this Gou Ba?

Chen Dongqing was shocked, and he immediately said: "Fuck him!"

As he spoke, Chen Dongqing immediately pressed the second skill [Time Dilation] to summon a time field to slow down Pat Bear.

Behind, xNova immediately understood and silently gave out all the damage skills.

The hero Silence has no control in the early stage and only has a relatively good consumption ability, so in this wave, he can only deal all his damage.

But that was enough. After the silence was over, Paipaibong's blood volume was still declining, rapidly falling to one-third.

The person in position 3 of TL was numbed by the two hammers from Mask of the Void. He quickly rolled back and ran back, hoping to return to the stage to take medicine under the protection of his teammates.

But at this moment, Chen Dongqing also followed closely with a [Time Wandering] displacement, and by the way restored the blood volume he had just lost, and then hit Paipai Xiong with a hammer.

This time his luck didn't seem to work, this time it was just an ordinary attack.

Chen Dongqing didn't panic, he chased and patted the bear and hit him again!

Still doesn't work.

Pat Bear had more than 100 health points left, and he had already run back to the tower.

Chen Dongqing raised his eyebrows and then raised his eyebrows.

This time it finally worked.

Another stand-in attack, dealing two basic attack damage with one hammer, directly clearing the Pat Bear's health and sending it away!

"Ah? What's going on!?" TL No. 3 MindControl couldn't hold himself any longer. He stood up directly, raised his arms, and expressed his doubts straightforwardly.

Standing up in the middle of the game to vent your emotions has actually always been part of the culture of DOTA2.

The most famous one is Roaring Tianzun. He once killed one of three against him and survived. Then he stood up and shouted loudly to the opponent: "Three against three and one was counter-killed. Do you know how to play?"

But in the past, people usually only talked about it after they had an advantage or completed a wave of cool operations.

It is actually very rare for people to stand up after being singled out like today.

Of course, you can’t blame him for this wave.

Chen Dongqing's five-shot flat A triggers 4 passives. It's like a level-1 barbarian king with half a pipe of anger. He chases you and slashes you five times, and hits you with four critical strikes, hacking you to death. If it were you, you would be in a hurry.

At this time, Chen Dongqing also saw his furious opponent. He also stood up, first pointed to his right hand, and then made a bear gesture, indicating that he had nothing to do.

Under the stage, the audience also burst into laughter at this moment, and many people said that Chen Dongqing was really the son of destiny.

In fact, Chen Dongqing was also helpless.

He has already said that if he wants to hide his ultimate move, he must hide his offensive system until the end.

But in the end, he didn't expect these few passive knocks.

It’s not like he’s so powerful this time! This wave is just his luck! I hope other teams don’t think too much!

Of course, other teams are unlikely to think twice about it.

Backstage, OG and VP looked at Chen Dongqing's crazy performance and were made to laugh for a moment.

Level four void, five hammers and four passives, right? Who can beat you?

All I can say is that luckily the opponent this time is not them, otherwise they would have to be anxious.

Who can stand up to losing for no reason?

That's right.

At this time, both teams knew that if ilex's Void had such a huge advantage in the laning phase, QG would have won this game.

Next, the result of the game was not unexpected.

After Chen Dongqing ended the laning period with a large advantage, he was not in a hurry to expand his advantage. Instead, he chose to let xNova roam and pass the advantage to his teammates, while he hung up alone, closed both lanes and wild areas, and quickly development.

When Mask of the Void's three-piece set came out, Chen Dongqing used two big moves to easily win the game!

One to zero!

In the second game, Chen Dongqing had no luck this time, but this time his teammates stepped up again.

Fy and xNova worked closely together to help Maybe's blood demon in the middle be liberated first.

The hero Blood Demon can't stand the pace after he rises up. He is a hero who kills indiscriminately in three directions.

After liberation, Maybe took over the game directly. This time, Chen Dongqing didn't even need to come out. Maybe led the team to destroy TL's defense!

In the end, Chen Dongqing came out in the first wave, destroyed TL and took control of the Roshan Shield. TL's hope of winning was completely wiped out.

But because the game was BO3, everyone in TL who had already lost one game was already standing on the edge of the cliff, so they did not surrender, but fought until the last moment.

In the end, after Chen Dongqing completed the team elimination, he slashed the TL base with one sword, 2-0, and advanced to the semi-finals of the winner group!

As for the defending champion TL, they fell into the second round of the lower bracket and were ready for a life-and-death battle!

Backstage, members of the OG and VP teams finished watching the game and didn't know what to say for a moment.

To be honest, they saw two things in this game.

ilex's luck is very good, and Maybe's blood demon is very strong.

Then it was gone.

Absolutely no reference value.

Maybe it has some value on a metaphysical level.

Ilex ran out of luck this time, so if he hits us next time, his luck won't be the same, right?

Everyone in VP shook their heads helplessly and got ready to play.

Ranked third in Group A, they faced Newbee, second in Group B, which is also a Chinese team.

The winner between these two teams will become QG's opponent in the winner's bracket semi-finals.

Countless Chinese audiences were frightened and at the same time looked forward to it.

They also hope that Newbee can defeat their opponents like QG and meet in the winner's group semi-finals.

But unfortunately, they are destined to be disappointed this time.

VP was very energetic this time. They played three games with Newbee, but in the end they came out one better and defeated Newbee 2-1, and also advanced to the upper bracket semi-finals.

At this point, the first matchup of the winner's group semi-finals was officially born.

QG vs. VP!

This chapter has been sped up a lot. TI is a branch after all, so it won’t take too long (end of chapter)