Later on, when people reminisced about the S6 World Finals, in order to judge the most exciting and classic battles, the final 'best-of-five' battle for the champion and runner-up would naturally be an epic event to watch. Apart from that …
On the second day of the finals, the first match between China's LPL division's KG team and Korea's LCK division's SSK team was confirmed by everyone without the slightest hesitation. The thrill and excitement of the match was enough to place it in the top three of the entire finals.
It wasn't just because of the exciting scenes of the players from both teams in this match.
At the same time, a large part of the reason was that before the group stage began, no one had expected the subsequent developments or the final outcome.
Even after a long time, perhaps many details of this match had gradually faded in people's minds, but people would still remember two things very clearly —
The first.
In the BAN round of the group stage, when SSK Team's Wolf took the lead in grabbing the Lost Tooth, Gnar, the Blue Team's KG Team's Circle Spirit-Ygg shook the entire venue and took out the Unparalleled Swordswoman, Fiona.
And the second.
It wasn't an "event", but a string of numbers.
41 minutes and 9 seconds.
Even after a long time, this string of numbers would still be talked about enthusiastically by people, and they would sincerely sigh and admire it.
This was the duration of this classic match.
It was a string of numbers that no one expected to appear at the start of the match.
So at that moment, when the time in the upper right corner of the OB screen on the giant LCD spectator screen on the stage of Milton Stadium was fixed at 41 minutes and 09 seconds, and the purple "victory" emblem slowly appeared in the center of the screen screen.
Everyone in the audience fell into a long state of absent-mindedness.
Until a long time later —
When people finally came back to their senses.
They stared at the time displayed on the top right corner of the screen with widened eyes, repeatedly confirming the time.
Finally.
The entire stadium was boiling like boiling water.
The stadium shook!
…
Before the start of this group stage, most people were pessimistic about the blue team KG. They were not optimistic about the final victory of the purple team SSK.
Even the Chinese server players and netizens in the live broadcast rooms of the major domestic live broadcast platforms had already mentally prepared themselves. They only comforted themselves by thinking that they shouldn't put too much pressure on KG. If they lost, so be it. As long as they could fight with the momentum they deserved, it would be fine.
As long as they didn't lose in terms of momentum.
But no one could have imagined —
In this group stage, KG didn't just not lose in terms of momentum.
He almost blew up the momentum!
He didn't just lose in terms of momentum.
It was almost as if he was going to take them all down together with the formation in one go!
Tian Tian's choice of a one-handed swordswoman originally made people worried because the former's Gnar was stolen, but in this game, Peerless Swordswoman. Fiona showed that she cooperated with her jungler teammates to complete a kill in the early stage, and a wave of brazen tower solo kill at level 6.
There was also her 1v2 counterattack when she was gank by the opponent's jungler in the eighth minute of the match. She forcefully dropped a scapegoat before dying.
There was still ten minutes left to take down the first blood tower in the top lane.
And two god-tier teleportations in the middle stage.
And a double kill in the small dragon team battle.
Three kills in two large dragon team battles.
And finally, she single-handedly teleported to the opponent's high ground to steal the tower and dismantle the base. She almost forced SSK, who had a huge advantage in terms of rhythm, into a desperate situation.
This was proof of the dominance of the KG team, the first top laner in the LPL, the textbook Swordswoman!
Originally, people thought that SSK would win this match and take it down within thirty minutes.
But the pace of this match was so shocking that it almost popped everyone's eyeballs.
Both sides fought for a full forty minutes!
It wasn't even the last minute.
It wasn't even the last second before the blue team's crystal was forcefully dismantled.
There was still suspense.
It was thrilling.
As the world's strongest team, SSK was surrounded by perils several times.
Of course, the final victory still belonged to the strongest team in the LCK region and even the world. But to be able to force the former into such a predicament and fight until the very last moment to decide the winner, KG's performance in this match was enough to shock the entire audience and move the entire world!
The cheers and applause in the stadium were like a tsunami at this moment!
The entire audience stood up!
They clapped with all their might!
Their faces flushed red!
They screamed and cheered!
This was not only for the two teams to present such an exciting match, but for the first time ever, in a match with SSK, the majority of the applause was for SSK's opponent!
In the live broadcast rooms of all the major domestic live broadcast platforms, the bullet screen of "KG is awesome" had already been flooded by the crazed players and netizens.
The bullet screen was filled with layers upon layers of text, and it kept on filling the screen!
At this time, the Chinese players did not care about the final outcome, nor did they care about KG's loss in the end.
Because …
It was enough!
"This … this was a great fight!"
The Chinese official commentator in the live broadcast room was so excited that his face was flushed red. He slammed the table and shouted:
"Beautiful fight!"
"This is what we LPL teams need! This is the kind of courage we have! "
"To be able to fight like this, so what if we lose!!"
That's right.
The players of League of Legends on the Chinese server never really cared about the losses of the teams in their region.
Their disappointment in the past was mostly due to watching the LPL teams cower in the face of powerful opponents that were as lofty and unshakable as mountains. They could not even play at the level that they were supposed to, and they were defeated in a pathetic manner.
But when their team truly erupted with enough determination and courage, even when facing the strongest team in the world, they still dared to unsheathe their swords and launch a ferocious attack that cut off all means of retreat and sink the boats, fighting with their opponents until only one soldier was left —
That was enough.
Enough to shock people to the core.
Enough to shake people to the core.
And enough to hold one's head high!
The commentator in the official live broadcast room was right. With such courage and bravery, so what if they lost this match? It didn't matter even if they lost!
At least.
We dared to face them head-on, dared to fight to the end, and even almost dragged your SSK team down from their pedestal!
Compared to the complex emotions and emotions of the local players and netizens, the emotions of the players and spectators of the other regions were much purer.
They were simply overjoyed to see such an unexpected and up-and-down match.
Because they did not expect that the unstoppable SSK team, which was supposed to be the defending champions of this season's finals, would so quickly encounter such a powerful counterattack and resistance in the group stage.
It was such a thrilling victory!
Just a little bit more, and they would have suffered their first defeat!
What did this mean?
It meant that the world's strongest team was not invincible. And this was only the group stage, the start of this season's finals. If KG could stand up like this once today, he could do it again later. If KG could stand up today, there could be other teams that could pose a similar threat and challenge to SSK in the future!
Only then would it be exciting. Only then would it be a true finals where the strongest would fight for supremacy!
Therefore, at this moment, the entire stadium was in an uproar, almost uncontrollably pushed to a climax!
But —
Similarly, there were still an extremely small number of people who quickly calmed down amidst such a fiery atmosphere.
Then.
They vaguely sensed that something was wrong.
On the LPL team's side, Morning Star furrowed his brows and was silent for a long time. After a while, he said in a low voice:
"Something's not right."
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