After the match against TL ended, SKT's first round of matches was over, with a score of 4-1. Other than their loss to IG, they had defeated all their other opponents.
After the match between SKT and TL, IG defeated FW after a 44-minute battle, leading the leaderboard with a score of 5-0.
What made SKT feel a little awkward was that among all the teams that had faced IG, SKT had the easiest match. Teams like FW and PVB were able to fight IG for a long time.
After that was the last match of the first round. PVB defeated G2 with the cheers of the entire audience, gaining the first victory of the Vietnamese team in their home territory. It was truly a surprise.
At this point, all the participating teams in this year's MSI had started winning.
At six in the evening, SKT welcomed their second opponent of the day, G2.
After defeating TL with ease, just as everyone thought that SKT was getting better, SKT was dealt another blow by G2.
G2 brought out the strange strategy of the financial management top laner, Peck. Li Xu gave Peck a lot of pressure online, even finding opportunities to solo kill Peck, causing Peck to collapse.
However, after Wunder's level increased, he kept working together with Jankos' jungler, Princes, to find opportunities.
In the early stages of the game, when SKT had a certain advantage, Peck found opportunities to continuously use big moves. SKT's economic advantage of two thousand was negated by Peck's big move in one wave of Little Dragons.
Under the unique bounty system of Peck's big move, Wunder did not waste time with Li Xu online. He used his five-speed shoes to roam around, looking for opportunities to use big moves to lead his teammates to become rich, quickly establishing an economic advantage.
On the other hand, SKT's Tsar and Gunner's Double Tanks were relatively clumsy. Little Witch and Peck kept finding opportunities to attack them. Finally, after Tai Lung respawned, Li Ge's Tsar was killed by Peck and Little Witch.
G2 took advantage of the situation and started to attack Tai Lung. Clid's Spider went to scout the wild first, but he was dragged back by Peck and killed instantly. SKT's remaining three Calabash Brothers were killed one after another. G2 quickly widened the economic gap and took down Tai Lung. In the end, SKT suffered their second loss against MSI.
At the end of the match, SKT was still in a daze.
The main reason was that SKT rarely faced such a lineup, and they were caught off guard. In fact, SKT's failures in the World Championship were mostly due to the opponent's tricks.
LCK's opponents usually chose conventional lineups to fight against SKT. During the mock competition, everyone wanted to train their team members, so they would not use weird lineups. Therefore, the team members did not have enough experience in dealing with them.
Moreover, SKT's BP had already left a BAN spot for the Western team's Gemstone Zither Girl. Now, suddenly, a financial type top laner came out of nowhere. Who knew what other weird tricks they had up their sleeves?
What should they do?
However, this problem was best left to Jin Zhengxun to think about.
Wunder took the lead and came over to shake his hand. Li Xu quickly stood up. Looking at Ah P's cheerful expression, Li Xu guessed that he was thinking about how to post on Twitter after the match.
According to G2's boss, before every match, they would prepare two completely different tweets. One would be to dance on their opponent's grave, and the other would be to admit defeat and praise their opponent.
If they won the match, they would immediately post the boastful tweet, and if they lost, they would post the cowardly one.
It had to be said that this was too realistic.
After the match ended, Li Xu was interviewed by LCK's interview team.
The person in charge of the interview was a very cute female host, Park Ji-seon.
It was Li Xu's first time being interviewed by this host. Park Ji-seon was also an English translator for LCK. She was more familiar with interviewing European and American players, just like how Xi Ran was interviewing Korean players.
As the saying goes, it is never a burden to have more skills. Being proficient in a foreign language was a competitive advantage for a host.
Park Ji-seon: "Hello, Contestant Li Xu!"
"Hello, Miss Park Ji-seon!"
Park Ji-seon: "Today, SKT's matches have all ended. In the end, they obtained a result of one win and one loss. Are you satisfied with this result?"
Li Xu shrugged. "To be honest, we are not satisfied with this result. However, this is a competition. A loss is a loss. We can't win forever. The only thing we can do is to constantly adjust ourselves and win the next time."
Park Ji-seon: "Many netizens said that yesterday's loss to IG was due to SKT's Teddy being too conceited. Have you guys discussed this internally?"
"Discuss? There is no need for discussion! Because we have no problems. Teddy has no problems either. He has never been conceited, and we have never been arrogant. We lost because our skills were not up to par. We will win the next time. "
Li Xu was a little annoyed. What kind of retarded question was this? He hated this kind of talk.
It was true that they had lost badly against IG. It could be said that they had problems with their BP and made mistakes in the game. However, this was definitely not conceit.
This was a problem of attitude. Whether it was the duo that had their line blown up or Li Ge who had been killed multiple times, their attitude towards the competition was impeccable.
One could say that some teams were conceited, but this word was definitely not related to SKT.
Teddy was extremely arrogant in Rank, but when it came to the competition, he trembled with fear. He was also afraid that his mistakes would cause the team to lose.
As Li Ge had said, a loss was a loss. There was no need to find excuses. One could say that he was a noob, but one could not say that his attitude was not right.
Park Ji-seon saw that Li Xu's expression was not good, so he lowered his voice.
"The day after tomorrow, in the closing round of the group stage, you will be facing IG again. A lot of netizens think that you played a little too conservatively against The Sh the last time. Although you did not make any mistakes, you were not as aggressive as you were in the previous matches. Is it because your opponent is The Sh that you are like this?"
Li Xu interrupted Park Ji-seon.
"No matter whether I played conservatively or aggressively, everything is for the sake of winning. This is the reason. I want to win, I really want to win. I have always wanted to win, no matter who my opponent is! "
Park Ji-seon was stunned for a moment when Li Xu interrupted him. He bit his lip and showed an aggrieved expression.
"Sorry, my tone was not very nice. I am not targeting you, but I am not in a good mood after losing the competition."
Li Xu saw Park Ji-seon's expression and felt that he was not in a good mood, so he took the initiative to apologize.
Park Ji-seon tried his best to look relaxed. "Hmm … Maybe I asked the wrong question. Contestant Li Xu, will you choose a more proactive hero next time?"
"The choice of hero will be based on the lineup. Personally, I don't like to choose a passive hero."
Then, Li Jiu looked at the camera seriously. "I know that after losing to IG, there were all kinds of comments on the internet. But what I want to say is that we are fine. We have no problems. We are still the same SKT team. We are still moving in the right direction."
"Thank you, Contestant Li Xu, for taking the time to accept this interview. I hope that SKT will perform well in tomorrow's competition. All of your fans will be cheering for you."
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