vrcanaries Chapter 18: White Crescent Moon Colludes with Maokai!
Chapter 18: White Crescent Moon Colludes with Maokai!
Maokai was somewhat bewildered by the sudden appearance of the white crescent moon.
He countered, "What's wrong? What problem have you encountered? Is the player being unruly?"
The white crescent moon paced back and forth, angrily saying:
"It's not just that they're disobedient, they're ready to jump up and rebel against you!"
"Damn it, how dare he point his finger at me and curse at me!"
"If you were in that situation, could you tolerate it?"
The white crescent moon-shaped aura's chest heaved violently.
Maokai was also taken aback, not expecting this. He muttered, "Who? 369 is already gone, who else has rebelled?"
"Xiao Tian?"
White Crescent sat down on the chair and angrily said:
"Who else could it be but some self-important, ignorant newcomer!"
"Son of a bitch!"
Maokai was taken aback: "Fire?"
"That shouldn't be the case. He just started, right? How can a rookie be this arrogant?"
White Crescent Moon: "He's the most arrogant of all!"
Maokai smoothed his sparse hair and smiled:
"How could a young kid make you this angry?"
"Heh, you have plenty of ways to mess with him."
White Crescent: "The key is that this kid has won over the whole team very well, especially Manager Guo Hao, who thinks highly of him. I can't do anything about him."
Maokai pondered for a moment, then smiled and said, "Then let's think of a way to put his arrogance to the test."
"How can a team be formed if people are disobedient?"
"How can we win the game? We have to fix this!"
The two discussed it and decided that in tomorrow's training match, they would give Lin Jin the role that was the hardest to carry with, and then lose the training match to force him to obey the coach's drafting and banning arrangements when he played the game.
Maokai also expressed his dissatisfaction with the EDG players, feeling that they had become arrogant after winning the championship and that their minds were not on the competition at all this year. He felt that they would at most reach the quarterfinals.
The two head coaches hit it off immediately, and they even wanted to bring in Li Ning's head coach, Bobby.
But this guy has only been the head coach for a year, he's young, the team is currently on a three-game winning streak, and he has a good relationship with the players, so there's no reason for him to "go along with them".
The next day.
A training match between EDG and Top Esports.
White Crescent deliberately picked heroes with very low win rates, claiming it was to practice different team compositions.
However, these items are basically not used in the group stage, and the opposing team doesn't pick them either, nor do they ban them.
What's the point of practicing then?
After selecting the person, Lin Jin glanced at the white crescent moon but said nothing.
Unsurprisingly, they lost this match.
Five of them are all unconventional heroes, while EDG's team is full of popular heroes in this World Championship. How could they not lose?
Training shouldn't be done like this; it needs to be targeted.
However, White Crescent's selection of players was completely untargeted; it was clearly aimed at losing.
After finishing one match, he looked serious, criticized everyone, and then started the second match.
Still very unusual heroes: Malphite in the top lane, Kayn in the jungle, a female star in the mid lane, and Jhin and Braum in the bottom lane.
They have no hard crowd control, so they can't fight at all in the late game.
Lin Jin initially thought the coaching staff wanted them to practice their early laning strategies, but things started to go wrong as the game progressed.
In three consecutive games, we used similar lineups and were completely crushed by our opponents.
Having practiced without achieving anything, the players appeared very depressed and had no motivation to continue playing.
White Crescent announced the end of today's training matches and severely criticized the players' performance. He told them to continue playing ranked matches to maintain their form and to listen to the coaching staff in both training matches and regular games.
In other words, you will practice whatever we tell you to practice.
Left Hand and Mark were so frustrated that they had to start practicing the heroes provided by White Crescent.
The more I practice, the more uncomfortable it becomes.
Jack's hot dance doesn't matter, he's the core player, and White Crescent can't do anything to him.
Gao Tianliang was in a bad mood. He had lost several matches and hadn't performed at all.
Seeing this, Lin Jin frowned slightly: "This old guy is up to his old tricks again."
Due to White Crescent's misbehavior, Top Esports' win rate in scrims is extremely low.
This resulted in low morale throughout the team. With the qualification day approaching, Guo Hao realized that things couldn't continue like this, so he held a meeting to encourage everyone and boost morale.
EDG's Group A matches are over. They successfully defeated C9 and FNC, but lost to T1, and advanced to the knockout stage as the second-place team in the group.
They can dominate Europe and America just as quickly as they can lose to T1.
There's nothing we can do, we just can't beat them.
However, finishing second in the group and advancing to the knockout stage is already a good achievement.
Fans are hoping for a better draw so that they can make it to the semifinals and have an easier time.
JD Gaming, a team in Group B, lost a game to DK, meaning they will need to play a tiebreaker match against DK to compete for first place in the group.
The two sides fought for forty-five minutes.
Ultimately, 369's Aatrox carried them to the end, securing a tiebreaker victory against DK and claiming first place in Group B.
They also upheld the prestige of LPL's number one seed!
In the first two groups, both EDG and JD Gaming have advanced to the quarterfinals.
Li Ning, currently on a three-game winning streak in Group D, is a shoo-in for the quarterfinals.
We'll see how Top Esports fares tomorrow.
If Top Esports also makes it into the quarterfinals, then all four LPL teams will have advanced to the quarterfinals.
This has never happened before since the World Championship format was changed.
LGD in S10, Li-Ning and FPX in S11, all stopped at the round of 16.
This year is a historic year for the LPL.
People have high expectations for Topsports.
The mobilization meeting went on until 1 a.m., and Guo Hao clenched his fists:
"I believe in everyone, and I'm sure we can do it. First, we'll qualify, and then we'll fight for first place in our group."
"I predict there will most likely be a tiebreaker tomorrow, guys, let's get ready!"
Afterwards, White Crescent also laid out some tactics and BP distribution for tomorrow.
He really wanted to bench Lin Jin and let Da Huang play.
Guo Hao absolutely disagreed. Although the manager did not interfere with the training group, he could offer suggestions and intervene.
If this really escalates to the parent company of Topsports, he, as a coach, doesn't have much say.
All of this is because Lin Jin performed so well.
We must find a way to reduce his influence on the field.
White Crescent has already devised a strategy for tomorrow.
The next day.
The matches for Group C's qualification day have begun.
First up was DRX vs. GAM, where DRX easily defeated GAM and secured their third point.
Lin Jin looked at it and realized that the timeline had changed since the first round of fighting the rogue.
Previously, the lineup was DRX vs. Rogue, followed by an epic battle between GAM and Top Esports.
However, the match between GAM and Top Esports was scheduled as the last game.
They now have to face the battle between Rogue and DRX.
Before the match began, the commentators compared various statistics between Top Esports and Rookie Esports, and they all said that Top Esports had a great chance of winning.
"After all, we beat them in the first round, so let's win again in the second!"
"If we beat Rogue, Topsports will reach three points, and I think that will at least qualify us for a tiebreaker."
"But our expectations for Top Esports go beyond that; they aim to win the group."
"Go Top Esports! First place in the group is within our grasp!"