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Chapter 141 IEM8 Semifinals

With the recording of the program completed on July 7, Sun Kai and his group returned to Shanghai again, and began to prepare for the IEM23 Shanghai competition on the 24th.

Running back and forth did not affect the state of a group of young guys in WE.

When the game officially started on July 7, Sun Kai checked the status of everyone in WE through the system.

It was found that everyone was in very good condition.

This made Sun Kai couldn't help feeling: It's good to be young!

IEM, short for Intel Extreme Master, is the first global e-sports elite tournament.

The IEM8 Shanghai Station is the eighth edition of this event held in 2014, and it is a local station event prepared in advance, so it is called IEM8 for short, and the home field is China Joy in Shanghai, so it is called IEM8 Shanghai Station.

IEM8英雄联盟的冠军赛将于BJ时间，2014年3月13日-3月16日，于波兰的卡托维兹举行。

At that time, the champions of the annual sub-station, the contestants promoted in each region, the invited contestants, and the contestants promoted in the first-day offline competition will participate in this championship battle.

At this time, Riot Games has not successfully held S3, and the IEM event can be regarded as a relatively large event in the world.

In addition, the prize money of this event is very high, and all the big teams are gearing up.

After the trials on the 24th, the four teams of WE, IG, OMG, and Royal Family successfully advanced to the semi-finals.

It is worth mentioning that originally Sun Kai wanted Ruofeng to start for this competition, but Ruofeng offered to let Xiye start instead.

After all, this event has nothing to do with S3 ticket qualifications.

Therefore, Sun Kai readily agreed to Ruofeng's proposal.

After entering the semi-finals, one hour before the start of the game on the 25th, IG encountered a very troublesome thing.

"Have you read Weibo? IG's top laner PDD just got into a car accident and his left arm was severely scratched. He needs to go to the hospital for bandage treatment. IG is probably out of luck for this IEM8 Shanghai semi-final!"

"When did it happen? Where can I watch it?"

"Just now! It's been spread on Weibo!"

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As soon as this bad news came out, the e-sports circle on Weibo was full of surprise.

The official blogs of the major teams have sent blessings, hoping that PDD will recover soon.

The starting top laner was injured, and IG will face the powerful enemy Royal Family in the semi-finals.

After learning that PDD was bound to miss the semi-finals, IG made a decisive change and invited Otto, the top laner of IG's second team, YG.

Otto's performance in the first two weeks of the summer split has proven himself. Not only did he solo kill OMG top laner Gogoing, but he also led YG to defeat several other LPL teams several times.

And Otto's performance in the semi-finals was also remarkable.

In the first game of the semi-finals, the royal family started with a strong momentum, especially the crooked little murloc in the middle, who had a great advantage in terms of posture.

In addition, due to the lack of PDD, after several waves of team battles in the mid-term, the royal family suppressed the IG team.

It's a pity that after the team battle, the royal family failed to continue to form a group to put pressure on IG, but chose to close the line and close the field.

Under this rhythm, the royal family has been revived by IG several times, seized the opportunity and regained the disadvantage.

In the end, the two teams fought fiercely for 50 minutes.

In the last wave of team battles, the royal team members made mistakes in coordination and were defeated one after another, so they had no choice but to accept the defeat.

Even if IG changed players just before the battle, it let the opponent see their tenacity and strength.

After a simple treatment, PDD resolutely returned to the scene, and appeared at the IEM scene as an on-the-spot spiritual leader, cheering for the IG teammates!
At this moment, this lovely IG captain has attracted countless fans.

As the game progressed to the second game of the semifinals, the Royals did not repeat their mistakes.

After careful development in the early stage, the crooked Kassadin carried the whole team.

At the same time, the royal family's wild spider also performed well.

In the mid-term team battle, the royal family obviously has a lot of rules in their positions. They should go up when they should go up, and retreat when they should go up.

After several rounds of team battles, IG had no power to fight back. In the second game, at 28 minutes, the royal family flattened IG's base and pulled back a round.

Looking at the score of 1:1, the audience, the commentary on the stage, and the special audience PDD did not know who would have the last laugh in this semi-final.

When the third game of the semi-finals started, after the posture got the clockwork, he reversed the decline of the first game and played wonderfully.

As for the royal family, they wanted to emulate Han Su's push strategy -- after the start of the game with double buffs, they went directly to the road to cooperate with the forced demolition of the two-player road.

It's a pity that the royal family didn't learn the essence of speed pushing.

The distraught Thresh, because of Tabe's misplacement and mistake on the top of the tower, was counter-killed by Otto's prince at the bottom of the tower. Otto faced the three members of the royal family in this wave, and even killed one of them. He didn't die himself.

In the middle stage, Zed, the mid laner of the royal family, started to be strong, and Lulu, who smiled helplessly, changed sheep and slowed down.

Jie's performance is severely restricted.

Even though Wate tried his best to operate, it was a pity that it was not a big threat to IG's ADC kid.

On the other hand, IG's well-developed top-ranking prince turned into a general, and he can come and go freely in the enemy's formation, as if entering a land without people.

In the last wave of team battles, it was the prince's sacrifice that bought the child's VN and the harvest of the clockwork.

Game 28 went to [-] minutes.

This time it is Victory from IG.

IG, who changed on the spot, reproduced his rich combat experience, took the lead in defeating the royal family, and advanced to the final of IEM8 Shanghai station.

After watching the game, Otto undoubtedly left a deep impression on the audience.

Sun Kai, who was preparing to play in the backstage lounge, asked everyone in WE: "If you beat OMG later and play IG in the final, Strawberry, do you have the confidence to withstand Otto in this state?"

Facing Sun Kai's question, Strawberry smiled easily and said, "I'm not even guilty of PDD and Gogoing, so why would I be afraid of a new LPL top laner?"

"But this year's newcomers are too scary!"

"Let's not talk about our little friend Xiye, I still count on him to carry in this game."

"YG's top laner Otto is too strong!"

"It seems that we are really old, we have to work hard, or we will be beaten to death on the beach by these back waves!"

Strawberry's teasing words made the rest of WE, especially Xiye, feel a lot easier.

Because of the play-in rounds, Xiye made a lot of mistakes, especially when facing veteran mid laners such as crooked, stance, and stateless, Xiye's shortcomings in experience were fully exposed.

Sun Kai, who noticed that Xiye was still a little nervous, patted Xiye on the shoulder and said, "It's okay, just treat it as a regular season of the summer split!"

"Although you haven't faced off against Stateless in the regular season, you will have to face up to all the mid laners in the LPL sooner or later! Now this IEM8 Shanghai game is just your chance."

"And this IEM8 match is not related to the points for entering S3, just take it easy and play!"

"Look at that YG's Otto, as a rookie, he's still killing everyone!"

"As a rookie, you have disadvantages, but you also have advantages, that is, others haven't studied you much, and don't know your hero pool and style of play."

At this time, Ruofeng, the captain, also comforted Xiye.

After the encouragement of everyone in WE, Xiye finally relieved the tension in his heart.

In the anticipation of the audience and the commentary, WE ushered in their opponent, the OMG team!

(End of this chapter)