"Congratulations to the CHN team." Su Cheng stood up the moment the Crystal Base shattered. She waved a small red flag in her hand and said, "Six wins and zero losses. They will enter the semifinals tomorrow!"
Her crisp voice echoed in the live broadcast room. "Tomorrow, our opponent will be the host team, Team Indonesia!"
"Taipei can only swallow the bitter pill and end their group stage journey as second place in Group A. They will face the South Korean team in the semifinals!"
[Yay!]
[It's really fair. We fought Taipei in the group stage, so the South Korean team is no exception.]
[Won't they enter the finals for sure?]
[I just hope that the Taipei team can defeat the South Korean team and remove some obstacles for CHN. Of course, it would be better if they win. If they lose and CHN takes the championship, then TPE will have one-third of the credit.]
A perfect victory in the group stage could definitely be described as inspiring.
On the other hand, the players of the Taibei team were inevitably in a bad mood, especially Betty, who originally wanted to carry the heavy burden of the team. In the last team battle, he was directly defeated by the exquisite coordination of the opposing C's. It was like running into a ghost in a horror game, instantly destroying his self-confidence.
If they lost this match, it was almost certain that the Taipei team would only get a bronze medal.
Although the team had four former members of the Lightning Wolves, who were known as the vanguard of the Cold War, the Lightning Wolves had defeated the South Korean team in the BO1 stage of the group stage.
In the knockout stage, they had no chance of winning.
In the lounge, Gou Ba looked at the CHN coaches who were celebrating their victory and couldn't help but let out a long sigh.
He had done his best in this Asian Games.
He had to admit that compared to the strength of the players, the Taipei team's coaching team was more capable.
Gou Ba, Steak, Warhorse, and Char Siu, who was remotely connected to help with planning and planning, made detailed adjustments to the overall structure of the team and the execution of their tactics.
In the first match against the CHN team, they chose to let Feng Tang suppress Lin Yan from the BP level. In the arena, the Taipei team aimed at Xiao Tian and tried to suppress Phyllostachys Pubescens with the advantage of their lineup and field of view.
In the end, Lin Yan completely destroyed the competition with his new Gorefiend Ryatokus.
In the second round, the team chose to let Fengtang mix around in the middle lane, while instructing Kasa to first help the bottom lane gain an advantage and release Snakeshe. Through the form of a duo, they would be able to suppress the coordination between the middle and the jungle, which CHN was extremely proficient in.
The initial implementation of the strategy was undoubtedly successful.
But Akali under Lin Ran's control was too fierce, directly killing Feng Tang. It didn't talk reason at all.
In the face of absolute power, the strategy they had formulated before the competition was like a thin piece of paper that could be easily broken.
Gou Ba missed his days in YM.
That group of team members was full of talent, strength, and hardworking. Being their colleague was far more comfortable than being their enemy.
The two commentators in the Wan Wan commentary booth looked at the post-match data panel and were speechless.
Akali was an AP Assassin, but she actually raised her middle finger on the damage panel!
Damage output of 22443 in 24 minutes, with an average damage of over 900.
If the ID was hidden, he would have thought that it was Azriel who had spawned it.
Ball Z felt that his face was hurting.
In the mouse channel, messages were quickly being sent.
[I've heard that Akali can't participate in the team battle?]
[The channel head also said that Akali had to be fat to spend 1300 gold coins to buy Mercury Dispelling Control?
This round, Big Brother Ran will teach you what it means to kill people even if you buy Mercury Dispelling Control.]
[Ran really is strong to the point of tilting his head!]
[Technology Spear Blade with two Qs and a passive attack. Lucian has already used his healing spell and his shield with the Hammer Stone Lantern is already in critical condition, but he's still complaining that Akali can't cut the back in a group fight.]
[He didn't play any tricks with you at all. If it wasn't for Lucian dodging his big move, Big Brother Ran would have directly killed him.]
"My god." Jack took off his headphones and grabbed Lin Yan's neck first, "You, Akali, are too ruthless!"
As Edisi, when he saw Akali's unreasonable method of killing Lucian in the last team battle, he felt a chill in his crotch.
Too ruthless.
You can dodge E's Falcon Dance and R's Killing Confusion, but can you dodge the normal attacks and the Technology Gun Blade?
Lin Yan didn't give him any room to act at all. He just relied on his equipment level advantage to deal damage to Betty's face.
What kind of Archer could resist this kind of reckless attack?
"I'm telling you, you are the world's number one mid laner!" Jack quickly gave Lin Yan a buff.
After saying this, he glanced at his side vigilantly.
As expected, letme also wanted to celebrate with his mid laner, but he never thought that he would be first. He could only reluctantly look for Phyllostachys Pubescens to celebrate.
When Shiba Inu saw this, his mouth became crooked from smiling.
10% discount?
This brother is prepared this time, I definitely won't let you succeed first!
According to the player seating arrangement, he was very close to Lin Yan. It could be said that the pavilion closest to the water enjoyed the moonlight first.
Letme was still a little disappointed, but he still praised, "Ran Bro, that Boka Defense Tower's aggro single kill was ridiculous. I was stunned when I saw it!"
"Can you teach me?"
Xiao Tian had become familiar with letme recently, so he began speaking in a strange tone, "I think that even if I teach you, you won't be able to learn it. Your hands and feet aren't as smooth as Brother Ran's."
"Gao Tianliang, how can you talk to big brother like this?" letme deliberately revealed a serious face, "Do you think that big brother is easy to bully?"
Everyone broke out in laughter.
Last night, after the training competition, they had just walked out of the room when they heard Score scolding Brother Chi. It didn't matter if they didn't understand Korean. Next to them, Jin Gong was explaining with great emotion. When the Xiba players translated, they could even imitate his tone.
After Lin Yan shook hands with the Taipei team, he packed up his keyboard and prepared to leave the stage.
Su Cheng ran over excitedly with her phone in her hand.
"You really are a good duck. Akali's two towers were too bold, it even scared me ….." She hooked her boyfriend's neck, "Quickly say hello to the audience in your broadcast room!"
Even though the match against the Taipei team was already over.
There were still quite a few people in the broadcast room.
Lin Yan looked over and saw that the screen was filled with messages.
"Hello everyone, I'm off work." He pointed the camera at himself and waved his hand at the netizens.
[Male friends, quickly scram, we want to see the host!]
[How did Akali do it?
Can you teach her?]
[Let's vote first, how are you planning to perform in the semifinals?]
[Can you use the Sword Saint again?
I want to see the Gem Sword Saint!]
"Don't do this." Lin Yan saw the final message and immediately replied in a righteous tone, "The semifinals are a BO3, there isn't much room for mistakes, so there's no need to perform."
He casually said a few words to the audience in the broadcast room before turning off the broadcast to find Abu for a meeting, discussing their next opponents.
As for the other four teams, they could only accept the fact that they had been eliminated.
Their Asian Games journey ended here.
The news of the CHN team entering the semifinals was immediately spread to the ears of all the viewers through Lin Yan and Su Cheng's broadcast.
This directly increased the number of viewers watching the semifinals between CHN and Indonesia the next day, filling the broadcast room with people.
"In the first round, we got Qing Gang Yin and Jia Li, paired with Kesha and Law in the bottom lane, as well as Shen in the top lane. This lineup looks very solid!"
Su Cheng explained while typing a text of the two teams' lineups, placing it in the upper left corner of the broadcast room.
[Good fellow, once this team fight starts, won't the other side instantly die?]
[I don't even know how we'll lose!]
[I suggest calling this lineup the Fei, Fei, Fei, Fei. When the team fight starts, all five of them will be in the air.]
[Is there a problem with the Indonesia team's brain?
How can they even release this kind of lineup?]
"Don't embarrass us." Su Cheng saw the final comment, "Lin Yan took three bans, Akali, Sword Demon, and Zooey, causing all these heroes to be released."
It was unknown what was wrong with the Indonesia team's BP, but they didn't dismantle the system.
Abu never thought that there would be this kind of good thing.
If any three or four of these five heroes were combined, their strength would already be very high.
In the end, all five of them were given to the CHN team.
They were already stronger than the Indonesia team, so they easily crushed their opponents in the early stage of the game.
In just twenty one minutes, Lin Yan and his teammates had increased their economic lead to twenty thousand.
Mongoose's Qing Gang Yin had even reached the Transcendent God level, taking away most of the enemy's health with his Ace. His legs were like sharp scalpels, directly cutting through the enemy's arteries.
In the end, the CHN team took Baron Nash and destroyed the enemy's base in a single wave.
This was a victory without any suspense. The audience was not surprised, and they even stopped spamming 666. They were chatting amongst themselves in the chat channel, and they were even arguing about which of Gario's skins was better.
But the lineup for the second round had been chosen.
This gave them a huge shock.
"Gem Sword Saint!" When Su Cheng saw this, she couldn't help laughing out loud.
The chat was filled with question marks.
[Didn't they say yesterday that they wouldn't choose a stable lineup?]
[That tone was clearly deceiving people, it can't be that people actually believed him, right?]
[I feel the same. With such a large lead in the first round, isn't the effect of the entire program good?]
This time it was Lin Yan using the Sword Saint to bring Retribution and Xiao Tian using the Gem Knight Tariq, bringing Flash and Enfeeble.
This was the most popular strategy in the current ranked matches.
The main reason was because there was no penalty for Retribution eating troops.
This meant that even if the Sword Saint brought Retribution, he could still eat the full amount of troops in the mid lane.
This would allow the Sword Saint's level and equipment to increase very quickly.
Moreover, in the ranked matches, there were no five people who could communicate with each other, so there were many mistakes. Once the Sword Saint ate two kills, it would be very difficult to deal with the snowball rolling.
However, in the pro scene, it wasn't very difficult to restrain it.
As long as the tempo was faster than the Gem Sword Saint and they had a certain amount of 2v2 strength in the mid lane, they could control the vanguard. If the Sword Saint didn't get too many kills in the mid lane, the Gem Sword Combo would be half useless.
However, the Indonesian team clearly didn't have this ability.
Their individual strength was weak and they couldn't even touch the threshold of being a pro player.
When they saw that CHN had chosen the Gem Sword Saint, their hearts felt weak.
But in reality, this was the first time Lin Yan and Xiao Tian had used the Gem Sword Combo.
After all, it wasn't easy to use this strategy in a match, so the pro players naturally wouldn't practice it too much.
They had chosen it for this round mainly to give everyone some entertainment.
They wanted to entertain everyone and relax themselves.
Since the start of the training in Shenzhen, the CHN team had been competing in high intensity matches for half a month. During this time, they had to travel a lot, so it was inevitable that they would be exhausted.
Taking advantage of the fact that the finals hadn't started yet, it wasn't a bad idea to rest and relax.
Abu also had this idea, which was why he had his mid lane lock down the Gem Sword Saint, a lineup that wasn't commonly seen in the pro scene.
"What should I bring out first?"
Phyllostachys Pubescens was still asking in the team voice chat, "Should I equip my salary and go out first to make Censer or Kike's Aggregation?"
"Censer, Censer!" Ouze, who was going first in the semifinals today, strongly recommended this equipment.
The main reason was that if the Gem Sword Saint dropped out of Censer, as an adc, he might be able to get some benefits.
"Tsk tsk." Mongoose saw that Lin Yan didn't have any objections, so he listened to Ouze's suggestion and confirmed his order.
After Lin Yan entered the match, he started with his own red buff and ate three groups of monsters in the first half of the map.
Then, he rushed to the mid lane and attacked the wave of turrets that Xiao Tian had sent to the tower.
The Gem Sword Saint's Shield ate the turrets, while Lin Yan used Alpha Raid and ate all the minions into his stomach.
Wuji Sword Saint, who ate all the lanes, led the game in terms of economy in just three minutes.
The Indonesian team was also actively thinking of a strategy to deal with this.
Under normal circumstances, the Gem Sword Saint and the Sword Saint would take the opportunity to push the minions in the mid lane and invade the enemy's jungle. Or, they would go to the top and bottom lanes to attack and kill.
This was a standard strategy.
They obviously knew this very well.
Thus, they chose to let the jungler, Zhao Xin, come to the mid lane and cooperate with the mid laner, Zooey, to stop the enemy from continuing to push the minions.
However, Lin Yan directly attacked as soon as he saw him.
He used Alpha Raid with two swords and also had the E [Dazzle] of the Gem Knight. After stunning his opponent, Mongoose quickly weakened him.
"The Sword Saint's Conqueror is stacking very quickly. Zhao Xin doesn't have much health left!"
Even though Zooey had used Hypnosis Bubble immediately, it still needed 1.5 seconds to trigger.
This made Lin Yan even more fearless.
The new version of Conqueror had increased the attack power of the Sword Saint to a very high level in an instant.
Before Zhao Xin of the Indonesian team could realize what was going on, he was killed by Lin Yan.
It was difficult for Zooey to kill the Sword Saint directly in the early game.
Lin Yan took a hit and immediately activated W [Meditation] to gain a high damage attribute. Then, he calmly retreated.
After the Sword Saint team got their first kill, their development could only be described as flying.
Lin Yan used the characteristics of Alpha Raid and the Gem Sword Saint's Shield to quickly clear the minions in the mid lane and immediately rushed to the jungle to kill the monsters.
"His development is unrivalled!" Su Cheng saw Lin Ran pull out a Speed Jungler at the 7 minute mark and couldn't help but sigh.
Lin Yan collected another wave of minions in the mid lane and rushed to the bottom lane. He took the Gem Sword Saint and forced his way through the tower. After activating his ultimate skill, the Sword Saint went in and killed like a mad dog.
He also used Alpha Raid to dodge Hammer Stone's hook. With the help of the Gem Sword Saint, he easily killed two players.
"Brother, leave me a head!"
When Ouze heard that Lin Yan was coming to the bottom lane, he thought that he was going to benefit himself. He happily pushed the minions into the defense tower.
However, Lin Yan obviously did not plan to let him win. He was grinning from ear to ear after collecting the heads. When he heard Ouze's words, he shouted, "Next time, definitely!"
The game went on for 15 minutes. Lin Yan successfully took out his Goat Sword and chased people around the canyon with his Gem Sword Saint.
The defense tower could no longer stop him. The Sword Saint carried the tower in and used Alpha Raid to transfer the aggro to Xiao Tian. He could kill people with two or three slashes.
After the crowd cheered for two or three times, they were already numb to this.
The defense tower in the Asian Games had never been looked down upon like this.
Akali made it so that the turret couldn't shoot and the treasure sword combination made it so that the cannons couldn't shoot at all.
As soon as the shield was broken, the R [Glory of the Universe] came down. Adding in Tariq's healing, the Sword Saint could even pass the tower without taking any damage.
The host had been completely beaten to the point of delirium. In 15 minutes, they had already died 13 times in total.
They died at the bottom of the tower and continued to rush forward after reviving.
"What is Indonesia's Verus doing?"
Su Cheng found that the opposing team wanted to return to the tower and was stunned, "Doesn't he know that the defense tower can't protect him?"
"There's a problem with this person's thoughts!"
Verus' appearance was completely like the Sword Saint's ATM.
"Little Tian, go and deliver one!" After Lin Ran slaughtered Verus, he discovered that this fellow had only earned a little over a hundred gold coins.
He instantly felt that it wasn't good.
They had worked so hard to come to the bottom lane, but the money they earned was the same as killing two groups of monsters.
What kind of scandal was this?
"I'm not sending, do it yourself!" Xiao Tian was very dissatisfied.
He still wanted to protect KDA, so how could he send people to them?
"I'll do it, I'll do it!" Liu Qingsong volunteered.
He had been attacked by Verus before and now he was taking the aggro of the defense tower.
The turret was finally satisfied, taking the life of the CHN team's hero for the first time.
But the Indonesian team that had been protected by it didn't have an easy time.
If you help me kill people, wouldn't I be worth money?
Then I'll transfer the money to the Sword Saint?
What was there to play?
It was a good thing that this torture didn't last long.
Lin Yan felt that it was no longer interesting when he reached double digits.
Not to mention that this was the other side's home ground, so he had to give the other side some face.
So after twenty five minutes, he led his team to flatten the enemy base.
The Indonesian team's faces relaxed, feeling like they had been freed.
When they shook hands, they even happily asked Lin Yan for a group photo.
"Stockholm syndrome." Phyllostachys Pubescens saw this scene and grumbled unhappily.
"What kind of sentence is that?" Lin Yan couldn't understand.
"I'm from Shandong, so it's reasonable for me to say this, right?" Mongoose explained seriously. "I don't think there's anything wrong with it, right?"
On the way back to the backstage, there were still people holding microphones waiting for them.
"Contestant Ran, how do you feel after defeating Indonesia and advancing to the finals?"
Lin Yan saw that there was a reporter from CCTV that he saw when he landed in Jakarta, so he didn't dare to be negligent and answered seriously.
"Earlier today, the Korean team defeated China's Taipei team with a score of 2-0. During the interview, contestant Faker clearly expressed that he was looking forward to facing you in the finals. What do you think?"
Lin Yan held the microphone and thought for a moment, "I'm also looking forward to this match. I hope that he can show his best and compete with me."
"Then what do you think your chances of winning are?" The reporter from Bunnyplay continued to ask.
"I don't think I'll lose, and I believe that he thinks so too … Let's see who's better on the field. Reality will tell us the answer." Lin Yan finished speaking and handed the microphone back.
…
On the other side of the ocean in Santa Monica, Fist's hero design and numerical adjustment team gathered together and requested a room for an impromptu meeting.
"Guys, here's a new mission!"
Meddler, who replaced Ghost Crab as the lead designer, attracted the attention of his colleagues by slamming the table.
"Please, can you not give us missions when we're about to get off work?"
Someone expressed his dissatisfaction, "This is not good, I still have to go to Azeroth and it's already very late."
It was currently 9 PM Monday night in the US, and the sky was already dark outside.
If it wasn't for the weekend, the designers would have already gotten off work. They had to sort out and analyze the usage of heroes in the ranking competition for the past two days.
"It won't take too long, I'm just mentioning it in the meeting to give you a general overview of the situation. You guys can finish this work before Friday." Meddler shrugged, "Back to the topic, have you guys watched the Asian Games?"
"What?" Everyone was still a little confused, as this sounded a little unfamiliar to them.
"The Asian Games," Meddler explained, "There's an esports performance event, and the country is represented in the competition …"
"Oh, I remember!"
Someone raised his hand to indicate that he remembered, "The ATU also asked the company for permission to access the game server client and account."
The Asian Games this time had nothing to do with their design department. It was mainly handled by the Fist's East Asian divisions, and they had only heard about it.
"Is there a problem?" A young designer who had just joined the company asked.
Meddler looked at him and didn't know what had destroyed this person. His hairline was straight to the top of his head and his resume said that he was only 28 years old, looking like he could be his father.
But this thought only appeared in his mind before he replied with a normal expression, "In the semifinals just now, Ran and Tian used the Gemstone and Sword Saint combo."
"Ah ….. Is it just like that?" Everyone didn't care, "We were going to weaken the double farming strategy."
This strategy had been observed by the design team since Hero Warrior RW used the Death Song Retribution in the Asian Games.
The double farming strategy was indeed very unscientific, it affected the ranking competition environment.
It was inevitable to weaken it.
"This is only the first point ….." Meddler looked at the elegant and easy-going man to his right.
Akali's rework skill designer, CertainlyT.
This was a designer with a lot of merit, Hammer Stone, Yasso, Zooey, and the reworked Nanqiang Akali …..
There were countless heroes with a lot of fists that came from this designer.
Meddler's attitude towards him was also very respectful.
"Ran used Akali in the group stage on Sunday."
"Oh?
There's actually a team that was released? "
Hearing Meddler's words, designer Akali was very excited, "He's quite bold."
The colleagues were speechless.
"His performance with Akali is very good?
Then can't we just change the numbers? "The numbers manager Blaustoise was very confused," Isn't this the work we were planning on doing? "
Now the servers were showing that Akali's pick rate was very high and her win rate was close to 55%.
For an AP Assassin, this was already a terrifying number.
The team had already decided on the plan to weaken Akali in the meeting last Friday.
The other designers were also thinking the same thing.
"It's not a problem with the numbers!" Meddler emphasized, "The key is the concealment mechanism of the array!"
"It has to be deleted!"
"No, no, no." CertainlyT anxiously said, "This is an exclusive mechanism I designed for her, it definitely can't be deleted!"
"Even the towers can't lock onto her, this feeling is just too cool!" He looked at his colleagues, "Don't you all feel the same?"
"That's right!"
That twenty eight year old expert with a hairline agreed, "She should have a unique mark. For example, Kenan's burst in a team battle, Tribulation's assassination, and Shen's support ability, Akali has to have her own characteristics!"
"The concealment mechanism of the array is the best!"
"Not to mention, this mechanism doesn't affect the balance of the game." Someone on the side gave their own opinion, "I feel that the energy consumption of Akali's Q and the cooldown of her big move should be changed."
"It doesn't affect the balance of the game?" Manager Meddler gave an angry smile, "Take a look for yourselves."
He opened a video and placed it on the screen with a projector.
"This is … …"
"That's right, it's a video of Ran using Akali against Maple. After watching these two videos, let's talk about whether the concealment mechanism affects the balance of the game or not."
In the video, Lin Yan used the Cloud Array for the first time. In front of Qing Gang Yin and the towers, he avoided damage and killed the Grasshopper.
Some people felt a bit unsettled.
The second time, Lin Yan went in and out of the smoke bomb. He blocked four shots from the towers and killed a full health Malzahar who had Ignite and a big move.
This incredible move filled the conference room with cries of surprise!
“Whatthefxxk！”
The designers all revealed the same expression as their wrinkles appeared on their heads.
"How did he do it?"
"What kind of move is this?"
"Akali can be played like this?"
The designer CertainlyT was stunned, "I didn't even know when I was redoing it!"
Meddler's voice was filled with helplessness, "Now do you understand why I said the concealment mechanism had to be removed?"
His subordinates nodded like chickens pecking at rice.
Their hearts were still immersed in Lin Yan's strange tower jump.
"There's still one more ….."
"There's still one more?" Some people already began to curse, "Just how many sins does this person want to commit?"
"Yatox."
"What is that?" Some people knit their brows.
If it was the Gemstone Sword Saint and Akali's strength, the designers were already prepared for this.
When the name Sword Demon appeared, they began to doubt their ears.
"Are you joking?
We just remade Sword Demon, we can guarantee that the strength won't be high! "
The designer manager didn't waste time with them and released the video as usual.
He wanted these people to see how Lin Yan changed his blood type in the enemy's crowd.
The room fell into silence again.
"….. I don't think there's a need to change it." The number adjustment manager Blaustoise said, "Sword Demon hasn't shown the ability to affect the balance yet."
He was very cautious.
Last time he remade Sword Demon, he had sent his old boss Ghost Crab away. Since then, his style of doing things had become much more stable.
There were people who supported his view.
"That's right, didn't you see how Ran was suppressed in the beginning?
We were planning on making Yatox a vampiric warrior for team battles, isn't this the same as we imagined? "
"It's just that his vampiric ability in the later stages has exceeded the standard, but I think it's acceptable."
Everyone began to discuss and the expert with the hairline gave a new suggestion, "We'll just increase the heavy injury effect, we'll change it in a roundabout way!"
This was indeed a very novel idea.
Increasing the heavy injury effect was equal to weakening Sword Demon's vampiric ability.
"This idea is very good." Meddler nodded in praise, "Since you're the one who proposed it, I'll leave this work to you."
"No problem!" The new designer was very spirited, "I'll finish it tonight!"
"Don't, don't, don't." Meddler looked at the time, "Quickly get off work and rest. You're not allowed to bring your work home today, if I find out, you won't have any good juice to eat!"
… …
"Look at the camera, three, two, one!"
"Eggplant!"
At a long table, the twelve members of the CHN team raised their glasses and gestured to the camera.
Miss Yang put away her camera, "When the finals are over, I'll send you all the photos I've taken in the past few days."
"Everyone, rest early today."
She emphasized, "We have a lot of things to do tomorrow morning."
"I just want to finish as soon as possible." Xiao Tian felt like he was about to die from exhaustion, "After the finals are over tomorrow, can we stay here for a while?"
"… We have about a day of free time," Miss Yang replied, "I've booked tickets for the 31st for you."
Everyone sighed.
It was indeed too rushed.
The main problem was the competition schedule.
The teams participating in the Asian Games on September 1st all had to compete in the LPL regular season.
They didn't have any extra time to rest.
"One day …" Xiao Tian curled his lips, "That's okay."
"Let's not worry about what happens next." Lin Yan swallowed the hamburger in his mouth, "Let's win the finals first."
"Let's go, let's play ranked matches tonight!"
Jack stretched his back.
The only teams left in the Asian Games were them and the Korean team.
In order to preserve their strategy, the two teams naturally wouldn't have a practice match.
The night before the finals, they could only play solo to maintain their rhythm.
When the sun rose from the ground again, Jakarta ushered in a new day.
August 29th, 2018, Wednesday.
Final day.