The two male hosts stood in the center of the stage of the Chicago theater, amplifying the sound and dragging it out.
"Next, let us welcome … Young Miracles!" He waved his arm, and the lights shone on the YM players on the right side of the stage.
"Top laner Gimgoon, jungler Iian, mid laner Ran, bottom laner Jackeylove, and support Ming!"
It had to be said that the Western hosts were good at livening up the atmosphere. The frequent tongue-clicking made Lin Yan feel like he was watching a football game.
When his name was called, Lin Yan raised his hand and the audience cheered.
In today's game, other than Sect Leader An, who had appeared on the international stage several times before, the other nine players were all on stage for the first time. The most popular one was Lin Yan.
It couldn't be helped. With his strength and face, it was unrealistic not to attract fans.
Lin Yan noticed that many Chinese people came to the stadium holding YM's flag. They were probably the local students' group.
After introducing the three-star generals on the other side, the team members returned to their seats and began to adjust the equipment. In the chat channel, the little fatty Cuvee typed out the familiar "Dajiahao".
This time, many people replied to him. The YM players took the opportunity to ease the tension in their hearts.
Today's commentators were still Mille and Doll. LPL versus LCK was always eye-catching.
"Everyone must have seen the game yesterday," Doll said first. "EDG still had some regrets in the end, losing to the popular Tigers."
"But it doesn't matter. Today, the first seed YM will help us get back at them," he said cheerfully.
Doll was not as optimistic as he seemed, but there was no other way.
He couldn't cry and say that yesterday's game was too bad, and that LPL was out of the picture this year.
"Since YM is first in the group, they have the priority to choose the side and chose the blue side," Mille said. "S6 has played until now. Everyone can see that the red side has to ban too many heroes. The blue side has a far greater advantage."
The BP screen appeared.
"YM banned Olaf first. This is Sect Master An's favorite hero. His 83.3% win rate in the previous six games is quite high."
"SSG is still routinely banning Panther Lady from the red square. This hero's BP is 100% so far. It's really scary."
Mille had obviously done a lot of homework for this match, as he listed out all kinds of data.
"Panther Lady is a typical example of a jungler who invades the map control style. It's very suitable for the current version!" Doll continued.
YM then banned Kenan — Cuvee's Kenan could be said to be one of the best, carrying from the bubble match all the way to S6, as well as Victor.
The latter was Crown Bro's specialty. This person had less than 200 matches in his career, but he had used Victor for almost 50 matches. He was simply Victor's pillar of strength.
In addition, in the current version, Victor could return to the city to upgrade the core of Hex Technologies at level 6. The clearing speed was quite fast, and it could effectively restrict Lin Yan's roaming. It had to be banned.
SSG's coaching staff first banned Zhui, who had to be banned. They then hesitated for a long time before deciding to ban Sindra instead of Karma.
"They're still more afraid of Ran's Sindra. He's so good with this hero." Doll couldn't help but sigh.
"Nazira, give him Karma and Policewoman," Hanyi said.
Samsung's last move was to ban Sindra. Just as Doll said, it was because they were afraid of Lin Yan, but more importantly, it was a retreat in order to advance.
YM could only choose between Karma and Nazira, the two T1 supports. Samsung would then get their wish to pair the other T1 support with Policewoman.
It was the familiar speedpush again.
It was important to note that Lin Yan had previously said that Policewoman was weakened after the removal of the defense tower in the Summer Tournament. This sentence didn't conflict with the current popularity of Policewoman.
In the Summer Tournament, the supports were Boulogne and Bull's Head Tam, which didn't help with speedpushing. Policewoman's efficiency would be greatly reduced with this support.
In the S6 Global Finals, long-handed supports like Nazira, Nami, and Karma were popular. For Policewoman, it was like adding wings to a tiger.
Whether a hero was strong or not depended on the version.
Sure enough, after YM took down Nazira, Samsung was confident that they could one-shot the bottom lane duo of Karma and Policewoman.
"YM's bottom lane is facing too much pressure now …" Doll looked at Samsung's bottom lane and couldn't help but think of RNG and EDG, who were suppressed by LCK's various speedpushing strategies a few days ago.
It was too tragic.
"Ice can wait. Let's choose Blind Monk and Rambo first," Hanyi said as he flipped through the book.
His eyes were faintly bloodshot. In the past two days, he had worked hard to create a decent BP pipeline. Fortunately, the main analyst had recovered the day before yesterday, and with the help of Su Cheng, he barely managed to cope.
After taking down these two heroes, Samsung took out Excavator and Gnar.
"This isn't good." Mille frowned. "Blind Monk is restrained by Excavator, and Rambo can't solo with Gnar in the later stages. It's so uncomfortable to be restrained by the opponent."
The Chinese live broadcast room was also full of rhythm.
"I already said that YM is definitely not a match for Samsung in a best-of-five. Hurry up and go home!"
"If they lose 0: 3, they might be able to take the same flight back home with EDG and buy some things on the way. I heard that there are protests in the United States. Is LV for 0 yuan?
Give me some LV, and I won't criticize them. "
"I told you, it's up to Royal to fight outside!"
"Royal, you f * cking bastard. Did you just get a good draw?"
YM finally showed their last two heroes.
"Ice and Jayce!" Mille was very surprised. "Is this the mid-laner Jayce or the top-laner Jayce?"
"This … I'm not sure." Doll was also confused. "Let's see how YM chooses."
Samsung's coaching team was still discussing the choice of the last counter position.
"Snake Lady, Snake Lady!" Samsung's coach thought hard and finally made a decision.
In a three-star team, the team members did not have the right to choose. They could only be obedient and be a tool under the coach. They were only responsible for accepting the ideas instilled by the coaching team, and then meticulously implementing them in the competition.
After the two sides chose their lineups, YM began to perform.
Jin Gong and Lin Yan kept switching heroes. Rambo, Jayce, Rambo …
The key was that these two heroes dealt physical damage and magic damage, making Cuvee and Crown Bro switch back and forth between runes, magic resistance, armor, and magic resistance …
The audience below the stage also cheered. They liked to watch the fun. Many European and American audiences just watched the game with an attitude of appreciation. It didn't matter who won or lost. Their only seed, H2K, would not appear until tomorrow.
"F * ck …" Crown Bro was a little impatient, but he didn't curse out loud.
At the last moment of the set lineups exchange time, YM decided on the final lineups.
Top laner Rambo, jungler Blind Monk, mid-laner Jayce, AD Ice, and support Ella.
Samsung's lineups were top laner Gnar, jungler Excavator, mid-laner Snake Lady, AD Policewoman, and support Karma.
"Hey, you don't say, YM's lineups seem to be a bit interesting …" Mille murmured. "This lineups Poke damage is enough, and then it's still Ella and Blind Monk's two big moves to counter the three-star's strong opening."
"There's a saying." He clapped his hands one last time, and his expression relaxed a lot.
Doll quickly looked at the lineups. "Then this game depends on whether Gnar can give YM enough pressure from the side lane. If Gnar brings up the lane, then there's no way to deal with it."
Hanyi looked at the lineups chosen by his side and sighed in relief.
This was the best lineups he could think of. Samsung's coaching team was quite strong. If it wasn't for YM's overlapping hero pools, this BP would have been very difficult.
"Good lineups, it's up to you guys now." He patted Lin Yan on the shoulder and walked off the stage with Samsung's head coach.
You must do your best.
Su Cheng, like countless YM fans, was also watching the live broadcast in front of the computer, silently cheering for YM.
As the Summoner's Canyon interface appeared on the big screen, the ten heroes were ready to go in the spring. The cheers in the stadium had reached the peak.
YM versus SSG's BO5 had officially begun!
Both sides played relatively steadily in the first game. Because they couldn't figure out if the opponent had any tricks up their sleeves, they simply stayed in their own jungle and didn't go out.
Xiao Ming's Ella came to the junction of the bottom lane's minions before JKL's protection and used passive to plant seeds around it.
Lin Yan carried Hex's weapon and wanted to use Q's [Electric Surge] to draw the prize.
But Crown Bro was as steady as an old dog. He didn't send out the minions and just stayed under the tower, not giving Lin Yan a chance to exhaust him.
Lin Yan could only go back and wait for the minions to reach the center.