"Wang, do you think if we lose and go back, we’ll be flamed into recluse?" Qian Yu said helplessly in the player’s lounge backstage to Wang Shilin.
"Let them flame, that’s how netizens are, you know, sigh, I..." Wang Shilin sighed with a dejected mood: "Why the heck are they trashing me, damn it!"
Regarding whether they would be savagely criticized by netizens after a loss, Wang Shilin was somewhat more open-minded, but now his mind was preoccupied with the fact that his girlfriend had cheated on him; it was infuriating and frustrating.
"We still need to believe in Ming Qiang and Zhou Genshuo, their strength is still quite formidable."
Qian Yu pumped himself up.
The semi-finalists had already announced their starting lineups.
There wasn’t much to say about Team MBQ, they had always been the same five starters.
But for Team FY, the players everyone was hoping for, Qian Yu and Wang Shilin, were not in the starting lineup.
"Alright, as you can see, our Team FY’s starting lineup is: top laner Ming Qiang, jungler Zhou Genshuo, mid laner Yao Jing, ADC Xiong Jiahao, and support Feng Jin!"
"It seems just as we discussed, Jian Zihao probably didn’t start Qian Yu and Wang Shilin due to their poor condition, it’s just uncertain whether the latter two players will be substituted in later on."
The two commentators said during the live broadcast.
When the audience saw Team FY’s starting lineup, they were somewhat disappointed.
Everyone still fervently supported their own country’s team.
"No matter the starters, we still hope Team FY will fight hard! Push into the finals!"
"Go FY! Bring out the excitement in international competitions and achieve good results!"
"It’s a pity that Qian Yu and Wang Shilin aren’t playing; I wonder if having two substitutes will have some impact?"
"Actually, everyone can rest assured, Team FY’s Ming Qiang and Zhou Genshuo are also very strong players."
"It’s not that people don’t trust in Ming Qiang and Zhou Genshuo’s abilities, it’s just the concern about the cooperation and tactical integration that will undoubtedly be affected with them now taking the stage."
"Let’s just hope all the players do their best!"
"This year’s Mid-Season Championship is really unexpected, Baxi Country’s MBQ team has even made it to the semi-finals."
"This year’s Baxi Country’s MBQ team seems pretty strong."
"After all, it’s their home turf, with so many Baxi fans watching on site, they have to put up a good show."
After introducing both teams, they entered the competition area.
Then, after a short while, the match began.
From the banning phase, Team FY didn’t seem to have any issues, and both sides targeted their bans accordingly.
This was a best-of-five series, and if it went the distance, it was destined to be a tough battle.
If it had been the in-form Qian Yu and Wang Shilin, domestic viewers really believed Team FY could have swept Baxi Country’s MBQ team.
Domestic fans no longer had that confidence, not even the two well-known commentators on-site dared to predict the outcome of today’s matches.
The first game officially started.
It was evident that Team FY was doing decently, but the coordination between the two substitute players and the other three was clearly a bit immature, which both the audience and commentators already noticed.
Even so, Baxi Country’s MBQ team seized this opportunity to start gaining advantages in the jungle and the top side of the map.
MBQ’s mid-jungle synergy took advantage of a misjudgment by Team FY’s jungler, catching out the mid lane and forcing out a flash.
In the second engagement, MBQ targeted mid again, and this time Team FY’s jungler Wang Shilin responded in time, but MBQ held the advantage.
This fight ended in a two-for-one trade favoring the opposition, putting Team FY at a disadvantage.
The audience in the LP region immediately became tense.
"Damn! The very thing we didn’t want to see still happened!"
"The two new substitutes for Team FY had no issues with their plays, but they just lacked experience."
"Crap, mid lane just exploded."
Whether it was netizens or commentators, they all started to sweat for Team FY.
This couldn’t be a loss in the first game, could it?