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Chapter 400: The Galactic Battleship Turns into a Dilapidated Battleship, and Imp Goes Crazy with Joy!
The awards ceremony has concluded, marking the end of the Summer Split finals.

After attending the post-match press conference, the entire LGD team returned to their hotel.

Back in his room, Zhou Dian took off his team uniform and took out a set of everyday clothes from his suitcase to change into.

After leaving the room, I headed straight to the hotel lobby, ready to go out for a celebration banquet with my teammates.

When they arrived at the lobby, they found that almost all the team members were already there.

Once Zhou Dian arrived, the group set off in a grand procession.

The team leader found a barbecue restaurant, and the small celebration after the final began.

Of course, this is just a simple celebration; a bigger celebration will have to wait until we get back to Shanghai.

During the dinner, the team leader also relaxed the restrictions on drinking alcohol for the team members.

Although we hadn't really managed it before, it all depended on their self-discipline.

After all, the summer season is over, and the championship has been won. There will be no official matches for the next month.

In such an atmosphere, having a drink is a natural progression.

The group ate and drank until nearly midnight before finally ending their meal, having eaten and drunk their fill.

The next day, January 9st.

Today, Tencent Games' League of Legends sixth anniversary celebration continues.

The same venue as yesterday's Summer Championship finals – Wukesong Arena in Beijing.

The first round of the LPL S7 Regional Finals will begin at 3 PM today.

It wasn't until after noon that the LGD players gradually got up.

After getting up, everyone found there was nothing to do.

With nothing to do, Zhou Dian suggested going to watch the LPL Regional Finals live.

Anyway, the LPL officials gave them tickets to watch the game live, so they might as well go.

In the afternoon, several members of LGD arrived at the Wukesong Arena, where they had just played a match the day before.

Today's first round of the qualifying tournament features EDG against IG.

The result was somewhat unexpected.

EDG surprisingly defeated IG 3-0.

Before the match, most viewers probably thought the two teams would go back and forth, playing a full five games.

After all, the two teams had a close match in the third-place game a week ago.

In fact, the two teams are not that different in strength.

Despite EDG's 3-0 victory, each game was a close call and lasted a considerable amount of time.

In terms of the content of the match, the two teams are indeed evenly matched.

IG manages to gain an early advantage in every game.

However, this current IG team is completely brainless, and someone always messes up in the late game.

When faced with a seasoned team like EDG who can hold their ground, IG was easily overturned by EDG if they faltered in the late game.

Losing the same way in three consecutive games angered many IG fans at the scene, who then started cursing.

After this match, tomorrow afternoon, the winner of today's match, EDG, will compete against WE for the last ticket for the LPL region in the S7 World Championship.

After watching the match, the LGD team prepared to return home.

As soon as he stepped out of the stadium, Zhou Dian suddenly remembered that today was also the S7 qualifier for the LCK region next door.

Moreover, it is the final round of the qualifiers, and the winner will directly obtain the last S7 ticket for the LCK region.

The two teams facing off are Samsung and KT.

Speaking of the KT team, it seems like they've had a really unlucky year.

After the end of Season 6, Pawn, Deft, and Mata, the original members of the three-star team, all returned to South Korea and joined the KT team.

Two of these three have won the S-series championship, with Mata being the FMVP of the S4 World Championship.

Moreover, all three of them were well-known star players in their respective teams during their two years in the LPL.

This time, they joined the same team, and the top laner brought along Han Yi Shang at the time—the former top laner of ROX Tigers, the creator of the famous "Thunderbolt" scene.

These guys formed a team, and before the start of the S7 LCK Spring Split, KT was dubbed the "Galactic Battleship".

As a result, they were completely crushed 3-0 by SKT in the Spring Split finals this year.

That wasn't the end of it. When the summer split started, SKT was quite sluggish at the beginning of the regular season, suffering a series of defeats.

On the other hand, KT is on a winning streak, determined to secure first place in the Summer Split regular season.

The playoff format in the LCK region was changed after Season 5 and differs somewhat from that in the LPL.

Their playoffs will not be divided into brackets; instead, they will use a bubble format, with teams ranked tier by tier based on their regular season standings.

The team that finishes first in the regular season will directly face their opponent in the final.

If KT wins first place in the Summer Split regular season, they are guaranteed at least a runner-up finish in the Summer Split.

With KT's runner-up points from the Spring Split, their total points for the year will guarantee them a top-two finish in the LCK, directly securing a ticket to the S7 World Championship.

However, just when SKT was struggling during the regular season, another team, LZ, suddenly emerged as a dark horse.

At the end of the summer regular season, Longzhu Gaming and KT Gaming had the same total score.

In terms of game score, Longzhu has lost three fewer games than KT.

Thus, thanks to their superior point differential, Dragon Ball surpassed KT to rank first in the regular season, while KT finished second.

It's alright, second place is fine.

If they start from the third round of the playoffs, they only need to win one BO5 to advance to the finals, which means they will get a ticket to the S7 World Championship.

But SKT, who were somewhat lackluster in the summer regular season, suddenly woke up in the playoffs.

SKT started their playoff run from the first round.

First, they defeated the African team 2-0, and then they defeated Samsung 3-0.

Two clean sweeps secured their advancement to the third round of the playoffs to face KT.

In the third round of the playoffs, KT won the first two games against SKT.

The kill scores in these two games were 13-1 and 12-2 respectively, a complete stomp.

Now everyone thinks KT is guaranteed to make it to the Summer Split finals, and KT's ticket to S7 is secured.

And then...
SKT immediately substituted Peanut for Blank.

Then, the situation suddenly changed.

After changing their jungler, SKT won three consecutive games, turning the tide and defeating KT 3-2.

Thus, SKT went on a three-game winning streak in the playoffs, defeating three teams in a row and advancing to the finals.

Although KT was defeated in a reverse sweep, they were still able to maintain their composure.

Because if SKT defeats Longzhu in the finals, Longzhu will have to play in the qualifiers, and KT will still be second in the LCK standings for the whole year, thus securing a direct ticket to the S7 World Championship.

At that time, SKT, with the halo of three world championships, had just achieved a remarkable comeback in the playoffs, winning three consecutive matches and coming back from a 0-2 deficit to win three consecutive matches in the semifinals.

Most people believe that SKT will eventually achieve the miracle of winning four consecutive matches and make a final comeback to win the LCK Summer Split championship.

The result.
The result was that Team Dragon Ball proved to the world that their first place in the regular season was no fluke.

In the finals, Longzhu easily defeated SKT 3-1 to become the new LCK champion.

As a result, KT's overall points total for the year ranked third in the LCK, meaning they will have to go to the qualifiers to compete for the last ticket to S7.

After suffering a series of heavy blows, the KT team's mentality completely collapsed.

Hope was just around the corner, then it was shattered, then hope returned, then it was shattered again.
This kind of scenario has repeated itself with KT several times; it's something most people can't handle. Just a week ago, in the LCK finals, Longzhu defeated SKT to win the championship.

At that time, Zhou Dian was thinking that KT was clearly the team with the best chance of being the first team in the LCK region to get a ticket to the S7 World Championship all summer long.

Ultimately, they encountered a series of unfortunate events and were relegated to the qualifiers. KT is probably not in good form for the qualifiers.

Sure enough, Zhou Dian, who had just finished watching the IG vs. EDG match, took out his phone and opened the LCK live stream.

SSG is now leading KT 2-0.

If KT loses another game, they will be completely out of the running for the S7 World Championship.

The Galactic Battleship is going to become a dilapidated warship!

"What are you looking at?" Imp asked, seeing Zhou Dian engrossed in his phone, and leaned closer.

"Here, see for yourself!" Zhou Dian said, handing the phone to Imp.

There are ads playing in the LCK live stream right now.

But when Imp saw the score announcement of SSG2-0KT in the lower left corner of the screen, he couldn't hold back and burst out laughing.

Then the laughter grew louder and louder until they squatted down on the ground laughing.

"Damn it, Mata, you like barking like a dog, you won't even make it to the World Championship!" With that, Imp pulled out his phone and started frantically tapping the screen.

Zhou Dian didn't even need to get close to see; he could guess that Imp was definitely sending a sarcastic message to Mata.

Although Mata can't see it right now, she will be able to see it after KT's match ends.

"Imp, let's not open the champagne too early!" Zhou Dian said to Imp.

If KT manages to come back from a 0-2 deficit and defeat Samsung 3-2, wouldn't imp's premature taunt make him look like a clown?

"Pfft, if KT can turn things around today, I'll never drink again!" imp immediately declared.

Upon hearing this, PYL immediately laughed and said, "If that's the case, then I really hope KT can come back from a 0-2 deficit to win 3-2!"

Official event live streams all have a replay function.

Before the third game between KT and Samsung started, Zhou Dian rewound the progress bar and quickly scanned the first game of the two teams.

The first game between the two teams lasted a whopping 61 minutes.

It's not surprising that Samsung could win in this situation.

Since the end of the S4 World Championship, when the Samsung Blue and White teams disbanded and the ten Samsung players went to the LPL, the Samsung team that was formed afterward, with Ruler as its core, can be said to be the team with the best bladder in the entire LCK, or even the world.

To exaggerate a bit, Samsung might be the team that can drag things out the longest in the world.

In this respect, even SKT at its peak cannot compare.

In last year's World Championship, the S6 finals, Samsung, trailing SKT 0-2, fought a grueling 70-minute battle in the third game, ultimately wearing SKT down.

After this game, SKT was severely weakened, and Samsung capitalized on their momentum to take the fourth game, forcing the match into a decisive final game.

However, SKT's ability to adjust is too strong. After being reverse-swept by Samsung, they withstood the pressure, won the fifth game, and won the S6 championship, achieving the legendary feat of becoming three-time world champions.

Otherwise, if someone were to come back from a 0-2 deficit to win 3-2 in the finals of the World Championship, it would be the biggest laughing stock in the history of League of Legends.

Most players have probably had the experience of playing a single game for more than an hour.

After such an intense, bladder-filled game, you really don't want to play anymore; you just want to rest.

It takes too much energy.

Especially when you've played for over an hour and still lost, it's incredibly frustrating.

KT Rolster, on the other hand, has suffered a series of setbacks from the end of the Summer Split regular season to the current S7 qualifiers.

The first game of the final round of the qualifiers lasted for more than an hour, and we still lost.

Even though KT's team is full of seasoned veterans, they couldn't hold on this time.

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Dian quickly reviewed the second game between the two sides.

really.

In the second game, KT's five players performed poorly, and Samsung took the game in about 30 minutes.

For Samsung, a 30-minute game is incredibly short!

KT is down 0-2 and on the brink of elimination.

To be honest, Zhou Dian himself has no preference for either of these two LCK teams.

However, he hopes Samsung can win and secure the last LCK ticket to S7.

The reason is simple: it's entertaining to watch KT lose!
I believe most of the onlookers share the same thought as Zhou Dian at this moment.

After all, who doesn't love to have fun!

As for imp saying he'd never drink again after KT's comeback, who would believe that!
Soon, the ban/pick phase for the third game was completed, and the game began.

To Zhou Dian's surprise, KT played very well in this game and showed great fighting spirit.

Zhou Dian originally thought that KT would completely lose heart and collapse.

But then he thought about it again and understood.

The KT players knew that if they lost this match, they would be ridiculed by everyone, so they forced themselves to stay strong and try to make a last-ditch effort.

Unfortunately, the desperate struggle seemed to have no effect.

KT gained a significant advantage in the early game, but the game was dragged out by Samsung, and KT was unable to end the game for a long time.

Then, the game turned into a drawn-out, drawn-out affair.

When it comes to bladders, there's probably no one in the world better than these guys from SSG.

After another grueling 59-minute game, KT lost the third.

Coincidentally, just like the first game, which lasted a whopping 61 minutes, the score in both games was 13-14.
Perhaps this is what they call fate!

Samsung swept KT 3-0 in the final round of the S7 qualifiers, securing the last LCK ticket to S7.

As the third seed from the LCK, they will participate in the S7 World Championship alongside SKT and Longzhu Gaming.

This marks the second consecutive year that Samsung has qualified for the World Championship main event through the gauntlet.

Even more coincidentally, in 16, Samsung also defeated KT in the final round of the qualifiers to qualify for the S6 World Championship.

The difference is that last year's BO5 match went the full five games.

Unlike this year, KT was swept.

For two consecutive years, they were defeated by Samsung in the final round of the qualifiers.

Moreover, for two consecutive years, KT served as the "champion" and sat in the last round of the qualifiers, waiting in comfort.

Samsung managed to upset them both.

They are truly KT's nemesis.

Samsung hasn't made any personnel changes in the past two years, while KT has replaced almost everyone except for their jungler.

Only one person in the KT team experienced being eliminated by Samsung at the last minute twice, and that was their jungler, Score.

Score is the most senior player on the KT team and also the team's captain.

Having played for KT for many years, from ADC to jungle, is quite similar to Kid's experience with IG.

So, on Baidu Tieba, Score got the nickname "Korean Sturgeon General" (Sturgeon General is the nickname of the child's god of games), or simply "Korean Sturgeon".

After watching the third game, Zhou Dian casually opened Tieba (a Chinese online forum) and glanced at the two Tieba forums related to "stress relief and taking the blame".

really.

Basically no one is discussing the S7 qualifier match between EDG and IG that just ended an hour ago.

Apart from a few posts discussing yesterday's LPL finals, the rest were all about the match between KT and Samsung that just ended.

Its main theme is naturally to mock KT!
(End of this chapter)