Mingkai, if you're this cowardly, you should just go home and raise pigs.

July 9th, 4 PM!

The S7 Intercontinental Cup finals have officially begun.

The two teams facing off are from the LCK region and the LPL region.

The contestants from both regions arrived at the competition venue well in advance, around 2 p.m.

After yesterday's discussion, the LPL decided to follow Zhou Hanyang's idea and have EDG go first!

Following closely behind is RNG, WE is in third place, and OMG is last.

EDG will win the first game. If the next three teams can each take a point, they will advance to the finals.

The rules for the Intercontinental Tournament are that there are four teams in total, and the best-of-five series is played.

If the score is tied 2-2, then in the fifth game, either team from each region can choose to play.

At that time, LPL will naturally send EDG to play, while LCK will undoubtedly send SKT to face EDG!

"Welcome everyone to today's match! I'm your commentator, Wawa!" Wawa's voice rang out from the match venue.

"Hello everyone, I'm Miller, your commentator for today." Miller usually commentates with Wawa: "We've also invited former WE player Ruofeng to join us today."

"Hello everyone, I'm Ruofeng." Ruofeng waved his right hand to greet everyone.

"After several days of fierce competition, the Intercontinental Cup has reached its final stage! LPL region versus LCK region." Wawa looked at Ruofeng and smiled, "Ruofeng used to be a professional player, so who do you personally think will win today?"

"Personally, I'm definitely more optimistic about LPL!" Ruofeng chuckled and said, "If it goes to five games, having EDG is like having two wins."

As long as we don't fall into the LCK's perfect "Tian Ji horse racing" strategy, our other three teams only need to win one point each, and the championship will be ours.

"Exactly! We're afraid the LCK will use a 'Tian Ji' strategy to pit EDG against MVP!" Miller nodded in agreement. "If the other three teams are also pitted against each other, that would be a bit troublesome!"

"Actually, I don't think we're afraid of Tian Ji's horse racing strategy," Wawa shook his head and said quite seriously, "I think WE could win a game against SKT right now! What do you guys think?"

Wawa's words immediately silenced Miller and Ruofeng.

Who are SKT players now?

His golden statue is, in a sense, still intact.

As for MSI losing to EDG?

Didn't S5 also lose?

But when it came to the World Championship, SKT still won in the end!

When beating other teams, you can judge based on the strength of both sides, but when facing SKT, you really can't judge based on the usual strength.

"WE is definitely much stronger now than they were in the Spring Split!" Fortunately, Miller and Wawa are old partners, and Miller immediately started to smooth things over for Wawa:

"After all, playing scrims with strong teams like EDG every day will naturally make you stronger! I think there might still be some suspense in the SKT game, but the chances of beating KT and SSG are quite good."

"That's right!" Ruofeng, who indeed has good emotional intelligence, immediately nodded: "Actually, playing more practice matches with strong teams will definitely make you stronger!"

"We've got the news. In the first game, SSG will be playing for the LCK, while EDG will be playing for the LPL!" Miller shared the news with everyone: "EDG is facing off against SSG? That's not exactly good news, is it?"

"SSG is the third seed in the LCK Spring Split, so facing KT and SKT would actually be the best outcome!" Wawa laughed. "But SSG is acceptable too, as long as they don't face MVP!"

"That's right! EDG took the first game, which is a great start for LPL, quite impressive!" Ruofeng nodded in agreement.

After more than ten minutes of nonsensical commentary, the BP interface finally appeared on the big screen.

"Alright, this highly anticipated match has finally entered the draft phase!" Wawa immediately said, "Let's take a look at the drafts of both teams!"

"Because LPL has the highest points in the group stage, they have the priority to choose sides in the first game!" Miller shouted. "EDG has chosen the blue side, and SSG is on the red side."

"EDG banned Zac, Malzahar, and Varus right from the start!" Ruofeng said. "SSG banned Ashe, Kalista, and Rakan! It's clear that SSG is targeting EDG's bot lane."

“I can understand banning Zac and Varus, but I’m a little curious, why did EDG ban Malzahar? Crown rarely plays Malzahar, right?”

Wawa asked Ruofeng with some curiosity, "Ruofeng, you're also a professional player, can you explain to us? Under what circumstances would EDG do this in the draft phase?"

"I've actually done some research on this! BP, BP. Actually, BP is about banning the opponent's core heroes!"

Ruofeng laughed: "But EDG is rarely afraid of any particular team composition! So EDG's bans are all based on the players' perspective!"

The reason they banned Malzahar is likely because Crown's Malzahar performed very well in scrims, which is why EDG banned him!

If Crown picks Malzahar, then EDG can't pick champions like Taliyah or Galio!

Because Malzahar pushes the lane too quickly, if you don't want to lose lane gold, you won't be able to provide support! Also, Malzahar is very effective against dive compositions!

It has to be said that although Ruofeng's reputation as a mourner isn't great, as a veteran player, he really has some skill in understanding the game.

The reason EDG banned Malzahar was simply because Zhou Hanyang didn't want to see Crown get that champion.

Even during the years when Dafei was inactive, very few people could defeat him and make him submit.

Crown can do this when he chooses the grasshopper.

Some people's special skills should only be fully revealed to them if it's not a life-or-death situation.

Once a player gets into a hot streak, their potential can be greatly increased, which can be quite troublesome to manage.

After both sides finished banning heroes, EDG, on the blue side, first picked Spider.

The factory manager's spider, if you get it, you can win the game.

Moreover, once Spider is picked, SSG's top and jungle draft becomes very difficult.

Champions like Gnar and Kennen are basically unavailable.

If the attacking situation in the lane becomes similar, then the spider will endlessly come to the top lane to dive the tower.

SSG countered with Galio and Excavator.

Ambition isn't particularly good at playing Rek'Sai, but he had no choice but to play AD jungle in this situation.

Otherwise, if he picks an AP jungler like Gragas, then the top laner will have to be an AD top laner.

If the top, mid, and jungle are all AP champions, the bot lane will face immense pressure in terms of damage output.

Actually, Jarvan IV is a better match for Galio than Excavator, but the problem is that EDG chose Elise.

The prince was completely outmatched by the spider, like a roadside doll.

One more chapter to go. I'm working overtime today, so it's a little late!

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