After the match between KG and Fate came to an end, the audience gradually left the stadium. The players and players of the various clubs also returned to their hotels.
Even after returning to their hotels, people still couldn't help but talk about today's match.
After all, this set of 'best-of-five' matches was indeed exciting and thrilling enough to shock people to the core.
The players on the internet were still talking about the performances of Team KG and Team Fate in today's matchup. They were all very interested in the performance of Team KG and Team Fate in today's matchup, including "Moon Empress" Moon's amazing mid-laner Vampire carry in the third match. Of course, they wouldn't miss the last two matches of Tian Tian's Swordmistress and Swordmistress.
"He's really strong."
After being eliminated in the group stage, Seven, one of the seven King tier top laners of Team COG, had already returned to his hometown of North America. After watching today's match, he posted a heartfelt compliment on his Twitter account.
"The strength of YGG's top laner has now surpassed almost all professional top laners by a whole level."
After today's match, the defeated Team Fate accepted an interview from the esports media. In the video, the camera and microphone were aimed at the captain of Team Fate's mid laner, Moon. He had a helpless and bitter smile on his face. When asked about his thoughts and feelings on today's match, the top mid laner of one of the Four Emperors paused for a moment, then shook his head.
"It was an exciting match."
"I also want to thank KG for giving his all and giving us enough respect."
"It's a pity, but it's not really a pity."
"Because today, both teams fought to the best of their abilities. And today, KG did perform better than us."
The media reporter in the video couldn't wait to continue asking Moon for his thoughts and comments on the performance of KG's top laner Tian Tian in the last two matches of the day. Moon paused again, and a complicated expression appeared on his face.
"This player from YGG has always been a player that I admire and like very much."
"However, before today, I might have underestimated him."
"After today —"
"For him, the title of the world's number one top laner should really be well-deserved."
Coming from the mouth of one of the Yonkō (Four Emperors), Moon, this was indeed a very high level of recognition and evaluation.
Naturally, the players and netizens who saw the interview were even more jubilant.
Look!
Even their opponent, Fate's captain, "Moon Empress", had given such an evaluation. As expected, their Yuan Shen was truly amazing, wasn't it?
On the other hand, the players from other servers were still unconvinced.
"Aren't you praising me too much?"
"Okay, I admit that YGG played really well today, but calling them the world's top laner is a little too careless."
"Don't use a veteran top laner like Seven as an example. He's ranked at the bottom of the Seven Kings, and with his current condition, he can no longer be ranked in the top tier of professional top laners in the world —"
"I don't think Minx's The-Sword is any worse than YGG. Although they were eliminated in the group stage, as a top laner, The-Sword's individual ability is undoubtedly more outstanding."
"Don't forget that the other teams also have strong top laners — for example, SSK's Wolf, right?"
This last sentence quickly attracted the unanimous agreement of many foreign server players and netizens.
At times like this, it was not just a matter of bickering.
Because it was true, even if The-Sword's amazing performance in the group stage of this year's finals was not mentioned, there were still a few veteran top laners in the world of professional esports who possessed unfathomable strength —
SSK's Wolf was the best example.
Although SSK's top laner was overshadowed by his own team's mid and jungler most of the time, it was only because his mid and jungler were the current leader of the Yonkō (Four Emperors) and one of the two King of Junglers alongside Nian Thirteen.
Even though Wolf had never been officially ranked as one of the Seven Kings, the consensus was that it was not because SSK's top laner was not as good as one of the Seven Kings. It was only because the officials considered that too many Seven Kings and Four Emperors in a team should not be allowed to have too many Seven Kings and Four Emperors players in a team. That was why Wolf was barely removed from the Seven Kings list.
But when it came to actual ranking …
Wolf's individual strength was definitely above the Seven Kings of Team COG's top laner, Seven.
Many players and netizens quickly found evidence that SSK and Team Minx had fought against each other several times in the Korean LCK this season. When they fought in the top lane, even Team Minx's terrifyingly good player, The-Sword, never gained much of an advantage over Wolf.
This made the strength of SSK's top laner even more unfathomable.
And so, the online discussions began to clamor:
Take Wolf as an example. Perhaps his strength was not the slightest bit inferior to Team KG's Tian Tian!
When the topic of SSK's top laner was brought up, the attention of the players and netizens naturally shifted to SSK.
"Tomorrow … is SSK versus Season?"
A netizen suddenly popped up.
Soon, someone nodded in agreement:
"Yeah."
"Tomorrow's matchup … should be the highlight of the quarterfinals, right?"
…
On the first day of the quarterfinals, God versus MLG. God crushed the number one seed of this year's European LCS with a three to zero score, and was the first to advance to the semifinals.
On the second day of the quarterfinals, KG versus Fate. Five matches of the best-of-five matchups were played, and both teams were only separated by a hair's breadth. In the end, Tian Tian's two incredible carries from Lady Blademaster and Lady Blademaster turned the tables.
But even with such an exciting battle in front of everyone —
But it was still unhindered by everyone's unanimous recognition that the match between the third group tomorrow would be the real highlight of this round of the top eight knockout stage.
SSK versus Season.
The runner-up of last year's S5.
The match between the world's number one and number two teams.
Perhaps before the group stage this time, even if people were looking forward to this matchup, they would definitely be more inclined to believe that SSK would be the final winner.
But now …
After the group stage, SSK's performance had clearly declined, and people's inclination towards this group of best-of-five matchups was inevitably shaken. Some thoughts began to linger in people's minds —
Maybe.
The outcome of this year's match between these two teams … might not be certain, right?
That night, in the hotel's training room, the three teams in the LPL were training as usual, and they were also discussing this topic.
"I think, this time, Season might really win."
Huangxue Nightsong stroked his chin as he suddenly blurted out this sentence.
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