After Wuhan eStarPro crushed and won the Honor of Kings 2021KPL Autumn Tournament. The KPL's "last" autumn tournament came to an end, and the Challenger Cup competition followed. The KPL and K-A top teams will also dedicate a wonderful game for their own glory and achievements.
Looking back at the 2021 KPL Autumn Tournament, if you have to say the biggest upset in the autumn tournament, then there is no doubt that the Chongqing Wolves are in the losers group final. In the losers' final, Chongqing Wolves lost to Guangzhou TTG with a score of 2-4, stopping the third place. After missing the final this time, for the Chongqing Wolves (including the former QGhappy), it has not won a KPL league title for four years.
Among them, in these four years and eight competitions, Wolves' best ranking is still in the fall of 2019, when SK led the team and won the second place. Even Lu Chenglin, the first coach of the KPL in the eyes of wolf fans, his KPL results are only a top six. Frankly speaking, the early elimination of the Chongqing Wolves can be said to have surprised many commentators and viewers. After all, after the Wolves won the World Championship, the Wolves with the championship momentum, throughout the autumn games, only wuhan eStarPro can fight with one. Wolves and E Star are the only two top teams in the KPL.
Even in the eyes of Wolves fans, after the Chongqing Wolves lost to E-Star, they hid their strength and lineup, and finally they would still beat E-Star in the finals. This can also be seen in Fly's confidence in returning to the finals after losing to Wuhan eStar in the winners' finals! However, what finally entered the final was Wolves' "nightmare" in the 2021 season, from the loser group to the Guangzhou TTG.
Is The Wolves in the hiding lineup, or is it a decline in strength?
Frankly speaking, judging from the game between Guangzhou TTG and XYG, the overall state of Guangzhou TTG is average, basically putting the handles on the headwind, and finally relying on playing wild or grabbing dragons to get into the playoffs. But it is this state of Guangzhou TTG that can actually win the Chongqing Wolves. I have to say that the result is indeed very surprising. At one point, some netizens even believed that the Chongqing Wolves were in the Tibetan lineup again, waiting for the Winter Challenger Cup to be taken out.
However, the results of the Chongqing Wolves KPL League are poor, and the old players are already strange. After all, Wolves' last league title was still in the Five Tigers period, back to the 2017 KPL fall, and never won a league title since.
Friends familiar with the KPL know that the league and the cup match, the league is more of a test of hard power: the league cycle is long, basically in order to win the championship, each strong team must play again, want to use the method of negative play, want to hide is not hidden. Compared with the league, the cup still has an element of luck, and you can use negative games to control and pick opponents.
Referring to the 2021 World Championship, coach Lu Chenglin of the former Chongqing QGhappy controlled the score through negative matches, thus avoiding the half of the district where Nanjing Hero Jiujing and Guangzhou TTG were located, and finally was punished for negative matches, and the coach and team shouldered the price of insults and won the World Championship championship. However, due to the long cycle of the league, one game of control points cannot solve all problems, and it is still hard power that is tested. Otherwise, it is impossible to explain, in the case of only changing a small fat, the Chongqing Wolves can't even enter the KPL final!
E-sports, only results are king. The ongoing King glory challenger cup match became the best chance for Chongqing Wolves to prove themselves. For the Chongqing Wolves, there are not many opponents in the Challengers Cup, only Wuhan eStarPro and Guangzhou TTG, and the overall strength gap of other teams is large!
Finally, to borrow the words of players playing terriers and joking: the Challenger Cup has skins, and Fly will immediately open its eyes when it encounters this kind of skin-like game.