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Most unemployed people have no sense of time.
Although my situation is different from theirs, I also tend to have no sense of time.
Not going outside the house for weeks is my daily routine.
Once I’m given a job, I’m also a professional telecommuter who works no matter when it is.
To me, who has those conditions, Saturday, the first day of the weekend, was just the same day of the week as weekdays.
But this morning, the feeling I had when I woke up in bed and realized that today was Saturday was very different from usual.
It wasn’t like I had suddenly realized the preciousness of the weekend or anything like that.
I had just recalled a special schedule that was today.
It’s a special Saturday.
The finals of the tournament called LoL-TCup, which had continued with a long narrative for a long time, were being held.
‘Haa….’
When it was afternoon, I had the official broadcast of the finals floating on the monitor, and I gathered my breath to calm the heart that was trembling with tension.
The finals are a special moment.
It’s the day a tournament ends, and the day the rankings of all the participating teams are perfectly determined like that.
The meaning of being in front of the finals comes from there.
Even if it is certain that the team you are cheering for will bring good results, it is a time when you become anxious about whether that will actually become a reality.
If you can’t know the outcome of the match at all, the stage called the finals approaches not only the players who are playing directly but also the fans who are cheering as a very tense moment.
If someone throws me the question of whether Team Crinex can win in the finals, I can nod confidently.
But if someone throws me the question of whether Team Crinex can definitely win in today’s finals, I have no choice but to shake my head. Because I don’t know.
If I compare the power of the two teams facing off in the finals, Team Crinex seemed to be a little higher.
But it was a level of difference where there was a possibility that it could be overturned as much as possible within the environment called the finals and the long volume of the best-of-five match.
A situation where the result can change depending on various variables.
‘Please win….?’
Therefore, I started cheering with a desperate heart while looking at the ban pick of the first set of the finals that had just started.
Even though it won’t reach them directly, it was in order to contribute even a little to that phenomenon if there is some supernatural mystery where the cheer changes into power and is conveyed.
When the first set was over, I was smiling brightly and waiting for the ban pick of the next set to start.
I had taken the victory so cleanly that the things I had been worried about and was tense about were fading away, which made the heavy worries contained in my heart were falling out.
However, those worries returned again when the second set was over.
Along with the deep regrets about some of the moments that had come out in the game just now.
They did bring the victory again in the third set, but there were unstable aspects in the process.
I thought it might be because the experience in the second set of faltering in the advantageous early game had acted psychologically badly.
Still, it’s match point.
It is a situation where the match ends as it is if they bring one more victory at the time when they have earned 2 wins and 1 loss since the game is continuing with a best-of-five format.
‘……Ah.’
But, when the fourth set game was over, the commentators who were in charge of the official broadcast were preparing for the set 5 game commentary instead of the winner’s interview.
Victory. Defeat. Victory. Defeat.
Now, the last game was remaining.
Doing the fifth game in a best-of-five match has quite a lot of meaning.
The pressure that the result to be received at the end of all the processes that have been done so far is hanging on one remaining game.
The strategies that each other had prepared for the finals that had been revealed in the previous four games.
In the case of the team that had earned the match point first, there would be regret and remorse that they hadn’t seized the opportunity to bring the victory, and conversely, there would be a complex feeling of receiving from having endured the crisis of defeat.
There are too many elements involved to think of it as a simple one-game match.
‘…Please.’
Now that they have brought the result of victory-defeat-victory-defeat, Team Crinex was in a disadvantageous position in the psychological part.
The feeling when they are caught up with 2 wins and 2 losses from a situation where they had a stable feeling of 2 wins and 1 loss is really not good.
If they also recall the memory that the last victory in the 3rd set was unstable and are even led to the thought that they are being caught up with, it is really the worst.
It is a condition where even a pro team, whose mentality has been trained solidly, has no choice but to shake.
In the case of broadcasters who have never experienced this kind of experience, there was no choice but to be hit in the psychological part.
I was just hoping that Younggiron, who had experienced this kind of situation as a former pro gamer, would hold the team members well.
Now was the time when the result was really determined by the individual’s competence and mental management.
The 5th set started with that background.
In the case of the last game, you could feel that both teams were very tense and excited just by looking at the contents of the game that was proceeding.
It was the appearance of a young child, who was fighting someone for the first time, wildly swinging punches that didn’t even reach, forgetting all the martial arts he had learned while falling into extreme tension and excitement.
Since both teams were trying to take as little risks as possible and were trying to replace intuition with reason, there was a squeaking sound in the team’s movements.
The two teams were continuing to postpone the victory or defeat like that.
This kind of game really dries up the blood.
It is natural for the players, and it makes the viewers sweat in their hands as well.
Legacy of Legend is a game where a draw does not exist.
The value of the result that comes out from one engagement increases as it goes to the late game, and it is even more so in the case of a game where the decisive moment is continuously being pushed back like now.
The two teams have been playing the game in a way that if a slightly unfavorable structure comes out in the objective fight or turret siege structure until now, they yield the best to the opponent and choose the second-best option.
The management that comes out from the mindset that they will not make the result of the game to the level that it will decide the ups and downs to some extent even if they give it.
But someday, the moment when they choose the second-best option will become the moment when they lose the game.
The time when they can no longer avoid fighting.
When that time came, the two teams had to bet the highest value, the victory or defeat of the game, on a single fight.
That moment came 50 minutes after the finals 5th set game had started.
A situation where they had destroyed each other’s inhibitors once and had shared Baron Nashor nicely once each.
The Elder Dragon was an object that the game company, who had developed Legacy of Legend, had created so that the game would not drag on and the victory or defeat could be decided in times like that.
The powerful buff given to the team that defeats the Elder Dragon breaks the balance that has been maintained at once.
Who will eat the Elder Dragon.
That one thing was the point that was deciding the victory or defeat of the game right now.
The two teams were all gathered in front of the dragon nest and facing off each other for that common goal.
It was meaningless to determine which side was a little stronger since the champions were in a state where they had grown as much as they could.
From now on, the side that seizes the better structure and moment and fights will win.
It was a similar principle to that among a pistol and a rifle, the rifle has stronger firepower, but the side that shoots the bullet first wins in the fight.
‘Please….’
The ups and downs at the time of starting the engagement change every unit of 1 second or less.
The moment when all the members of both teams are pouring all their concentration to react at a fleeting moment.
‘…!’
Yu Sieun’s Xayah scratched Stormrazor forward.
I had also been looking at the monitor screen really focused, so I didn’t miss that moment.
A ranged dealer has an overwhelming dealing ability as it goes to the late game, but they are that much more vulnerable to attacks in close quarters.
It was because they deal damage from a distance that they were a ranged dealer.
Using the item called Stormrazor, which can be used as a survival skill, to charge forward meant that they would accept one of the results that are divided into either blowing up the opposing team or being blown up myself.
It was not at the level of taking a risk.
It was a decision that decided the victory or defeat of the game.
‘Oh…!’
However, in my momentary judgment, this was a clear misjudgment.
It could have been a good structure if the opposing team was flustered and bewildered, but the opposing team’s Challenger support used Flash at the fleeting moment when Yu Sieun came forward and flew Nautilus’s anchor.
Yu Sieun, who had just used Stormrazor right after that, could not use Xayah’s ultimate due to the after-delay.
This was not something possible at the reaction speed of a human no matter how much the opposing team’s support was a Challenger.
It was right to see that luck didn’t come through.
She was originally going to start the engagement with Flash grab, and Yu Sieun made the decision to forward storm at that fleeting moment.
That the engagement starts with a ranged dealer being hit by the grab in the late teamfight is one of the worst structures that can be imagined.
The moment my senses felt defeat, the speed of the screen that had been flowing slowly in my head returned again.
…!’
And, at that time, Team Crinex’s Top and Support were using Flash.
Following the opposing team’s support, once again.
It was a level of speed that could not be reacted to unless you knew it in advance.
Among the Legacy of Legend, LoL’s champions, there were things that can enter the enemy lines using allies as stepping stones.
Younggiron’s Gnar, who was far away, used Flash in an instant and then jumped over Yu Sieun, running to the enemy dealer line, and Crinex’s Rakan followed after that.
The opposing team’s dealer line, who had been hit by the crowd control of the two people who had entered, failed to catch Yu Sieun while the stun was continuing.
At the moment when she was released from the stun like that, Yu Sieun’s Xayah used her ultimate and flew up.
The feathers that spread out beautifully in an instant.
Yu Sieun used Flash around the time when the ultimate was over and landed next to Crinex and Younggiron, who had already entered. It was at the same time as the feathers were returning to their owner.
Shuuuuuuuuuuuuck!
Five of the late game Xayah’s feathers, which had been hit on one spot, gave the opposing ranged dealer power similar to a shotgun.
If you shoot a shotgun at a person, their body obviously explodes.
There was no structure where a team whose dealer had exploded in an instant could win in the subsequent engagement.
The intersection of judgments that occurred within a fleeting moment.
The victory at the end of it.
The starting point was Yu Sieun, who had made and succeeded a decision that felt like it was only recklessness no matter how I looked at it.
‘Wow……..’
It’s the last teamfight of the finals.
Even if I threw the 1st team pro AD Carries into that situation, I couldn’t be sure if there would be people who could make the same decision as Yu Sieun.
I blankly looked at the monitor without even screaming properly.
Wow Hahahahahahahahaha
Wow, that’s craze
Wow, no lol
EunSiyu!EunSiyu!EunSiyu!EunSiyu!EunSiyu!EunSiyu!EunSiyu!EunSiyu!EunSiyu!EunSiyu!EunSiyu!EunSiyu!EunSiyu!EunSiyu!EunSiyu!EunSiyu!
The viewers were going wild as if a bomb had exploded.
It was the moment when the finals ended with a victory.
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