Hello LPL viewers and League of Legends summoners, this is the World Game Exchange.
The S14 World Championship concludes the first semi-final match, while the other semi-final kicks off at 9 o'clock today, with the much-anticipated match taking place shortly after, with viewership expected to hit new highs.
And in the process, there were revelations outside the S14 field, revealing some behind-the-scenes stories of training matches.
In the quarter-finals, the course of the four BO5 matches was quite surprising to the audience, with teams with poor Switzerland round records in the first half of the tournament coming down, while GEN in the second half almost overturned, and in what was considered to be a close matchup, TES was defeated by T1 with a score of 3-0 without blood, and TES was also kept clean in the second game.
It can be said that the round of the series between TES and T1 was a disastrous performance in the entire history of LOL esports, and the LPL audience was also disappointed.
And shortly after that, FLY almost overturned GEN, and in the off-court interview, multiple parties revealed that the FLY team had a 4-0 record in the training match against the TES team, and FLY's coach revealed this himself, and today, FLY's player Quad explained the situation again in an interview.
And Quad also added a lot of other information, TES was beaten by FLY 4-0, the player's direct mentality exploded and canceled the subsequent training match, which shows that TES has collapsed in the training match, and the player's mentality collapsed, and there is a high probability that he was killed by FLY.
Normally, if the content of the training match 0-4 can be done back and forth, it will not be said that the mentality is explosive, the fact should be that TES will not only be easily swept by T1, even if it is played FLY, it is estimated that it will be given in vain, and the content of the game is not much better, from this point of view, it seems to be a good thing to get to T1, after losing, at least it can be said that the opposite side is T1 where Faker is.
And once it is said that it is assigned to other teams, especially FLY, if you lose 0-3, it is estimated that the public opinion evaluation will be worse.
In addition, Quad also revealed the training match record with other teams, including the training record of playing TES is 4 wins and 3 losses, with a win rate of more than 50%, and playing WBG is a five-five open, and the winning rate is about the same, and then at the beginning of the World Championship, he played a training match with T1, which is basically a five-five open.
In this way, FLY should be a hidden strong team underestimated by many people, and even if FLY gets a little better, such as LNG, it may advance to the semi-finals, after such a behind-the-scenes story is revealed, the North American audience is undoubtedly happy, and it seems that the North American team also has the opportunity to wrestle with the top teams.
In addition, the reason why Faker predicted before the game that GEN would play full with FLY was also to get information, first of all, T1 and FLY were five or five before the game, and then maybe he got some other training match news, so he came to this conclusion.
Until now, as the audience of LPL, they still do not know why the TES team has dropped so much after the end of the Switzerland round, and I personally think that at the level of the top eight TES, they will not be able to enter the top eight if they go to play the Switzerland round again, and it is likely that there are some problems in the team.
It is possible that there is a disagreement between the team, or even some conflicts between the players, or it is more normal that the players and the coaching staff have no way to solve the problem.
After the collapse of the player's mentality, the coaching staff and management did not have a good solution, and ended up playing in that state, being directly shaved by T1, after such a failure, TES needs to think carefully about what to do next year, this club has been very tragic since its establishment.
So what are the key reasons that hinder TES's progress and good results? The answer may only be known to TES's management, but it remains to be seen whether TES will still struggle to maintain a high-quality squad in the transfer window after this year, or whether it will choose to give up like other teams.