Chapter 148 (1)
For the third round of the match, ZGDX banned Irelia and CK didn’t seem to have another surprise strategy up their sleeves. CK lost the round.
The score of the match was now 2 to 1. It had been about three hours since the beginning of the first round up till now, including breaks. It was the first time that Tong Yao played a best of five game. Though her team had won the third round, she still felt a bit tired……
Commentator A: [The fourth round is about to take place soon. For CK, it’ll be a life and death round. If they win, they can continue the fight. If they lose, they’ll be cut off from the finals and have to pray that they’ll be able to win third place in the summer competition and that ZGDX wins the championship of the summer season to qualify for S6, only then will they have enough total accumulated points to qualify…… However, we can see that ZGDX doesn’t seem particularly excited about this win.]
Commentator B: [Although they’ve forced CK to the edge of the cliff already…… It’s quite annoying, why the stone faces when they’ve won the round? What then should be the reaction of CK who’ll be facing a life and death round?]
Commentator A: [It’s truly a test to a player’s physical strength to do a best of 5. Therefore, I would like to remind everyone to not just be an internet addict. You all should take some time to get some exercise to improve your physical condition…… I remember that every club basically has a gym, but those treadmills are probably all dusty, huh?]
Commentator B: [Hahahahaha!]
The fourth round started amidst the joking commentary. When Tong Yao sat down on her seat, she discovered that even the supporting boards held by the fans in the audience weren’t raised as high as earlier. Their arms were probably sore and voices hoarse by now…… She thought that it was really torture to everyone to be involved in a fight for a long period of time. Then she slowly put on her headphones…… The first ban ZGDX made was still Come Good Luck’s Irelia. It was like saying– –we respect Irelia as a powerful champion. In reality it was– –we knew that you’d practiced using Irelia, but we don’t want to ever see her again, thank you.
While Tong Yao was looking all over for Irelia’s profile image in order to ban her, Lu Sicheng was sitting next to her and wiggling his wrist. After Tong Yao banned Irelia and CK banned Tong Yao’s Syndra, Lu Sicheng suddenly said in a casual manner: “My hand hurts a bit.”
Tong Yao let go of her mouse and turned to look at him.
Little Fatty interpreted for him: “What Cheng Ge meant is let’s just play four rounds for this match. Everyone pay attention; let’s do a quick game. We don’t need a fifth round.”
Ming god: “The other side banned Rumble. They probably will leave Gnar alone. Should we try to grab it? Old Cat can play Gnar pretty well, right? I’ve seen you kill four with one slap in our skirmishes……”
Tong Yao: “Why don’t you say it straight?”
Ming god: “What are you going to take, Tong Yao? How’s Lissandra? Last round the other side’s Lissandra beat you bad, don’t you want to give it a try too? Then you can beat the other side back. Or do you want Leblanc? Ah, Leblanc is available.”
Lu Sicheng: “In case what we said would be put in the montage and people say we’re being over confident…… We have to make up some secret codes so others can’t understand!”
Old K: “At this rate next montage episode will be exclusively ours.”
Tong Yao laughed and was about to say something, but Ming god who was standing behind them exploded– –He smacked everyone with his folder down the line from Old Cat all the way to Little Fatty: “…………………………………………..Why are you all so chatty! Can you concentrate on the ban & pick! All of you be quiet!”
Everyone: “……”
Only Old Cat was still murmuring: “Why did I get hit, I didn’t say a word. I didn’t say a word! And I still got hit!”
After being reprimanded, everyone remained quiet and turned their attention back to the ban & pick phase. They discussed what the lineup should be like. By the end of the ban & pick, the choices from both sides looked like this:
ZGDX’s choices: Gnar, Hecarim, Lissandra, Ezreal, and Thresh.
CK’s choices: Maokai, Rek’Sai, Twisted Fate, Sivir, and Bard.
Tong Yao sniffled and complained of being tricked: “You told me to take Lissandra so I could beat up the other side? Now they took Twisted Fate and are going to bully me again!”
Ming god: “Hehe, he’s bad at playing Twisted Fate. Don’t worry, really.”
Tong Yao: “To hell with really. You’re all liars!”
The fourth round officially started.
It started with a normal laning phase; even the commentator couldn’t find anything special to talk about. The commentators started to chit chat, only once in a while they would add: “Lissandra moves forward to exchange blows, Twisted Fate retreats. Ah, it’s quite a fight with a lot of abilities exchanged, yet nothing has happened.”……
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