The Dragon Cup will open the Semifinals doubles today, when EP and R.LGD will compete for the qualification for the first Semifinals doubles. For both teams, which maps will be the winning formula for both sides in the BO5 schedule, and how can they exert their strengths in the opponent's advantage map?
【Black Town into EP Ace Map】
In the group points stage, the EP completed three black town matches, beating AG, KZ and XROCK 10-7, 10-1 and 10-5 respectively. Judging by the performance of black towns, the EP can get 100% of the winning percentage in this classic map, and whether the EP can occupy a strong initiative in the first and second halves to limit the opponent's score.
The EP won 75% of the map of the satellite base, although the satellite base is the second highest win rate map of the EP, but in this map and AG and KZ respectively into the overtime, it can be seen that this map still causes some difficulties to the EP.
For EP, the difficulty lies in how to score from the hands of the team that is good at defending when serving as a lurker, but the EP can complete the performance of equalizing the score and winning in overtime when it lags behind a large point difference, which still reflects the strong strength of EP, and this map may become a major ace map of EP.
【R.LGD or need to avoid power supply station map? 】
After the group stage, R.LGD qualified as the second in the group. In the group points stage of R.LGD, R.LGD won a slightly inferior number of wins compared to EP. In the map of Desert Ash, R.LGD defeated Q9 and EDG 10-4 and 13-11 respectively, winning two games, making Desert Ash the map with the highest winning percentage of R.LGD. For R.LGD, this map may also become one of the magic weapons for R.LGD to suppress EPs.
Judging from the two performances of R.LGD in the power supply station, R.LGD urgently needs to strengthen its strength in the power supply station. R.LGD defeated eStar and EDG with 3-10 and 7-10 respectively, and the zero win rate of the power station caused this map to temporarily become the soft underbelly of R.LGD. Since this map is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it also tests how the new R.LGD lineup can withstand the impact of the EP. For R.LGD, in addition to improving Lin Zhun's sniper suppression power, other newcomer breakthrough players also need to find their own power points.
Looking at the comparison of the map pools of the two teams, the EP is slightly better in comparison, and the victory of multiple maps improves the fault tolerance rate of eps in the semifinals. For R.LGD, how to gain the initiative in the disadvantage map has also become a key factor in whether R.LGD can score in the semifinals double. In the upcoming semifinals doubles, what kind of wonderful showdown between R.LGD and EP will be staged, let us wait and see.