Lead: WBG defeated NRG and secured a place in the semi-finals. During the post-match interview, Xiaohu and Liu Qingsong looked very happy. However, some viewers feel that the semi-finals of WBG are too "watery", and the gold content is not as good as KT's quarterfinals. In this regard, Liu Qingsong and Xiaohu also gave some responses.
WBG has become the "top four in the lottery", Xiaohu and Liu Qingsong also know that their top four are very watery?
Liu Qingsong said that they may not have been able to defeat DK and KT at that time, and in any case, WBG went further than those eliminated teams. Liu Qingsong's meaning is very simple, whether they are "water" or not in the top four, they are all real promotions, and they have a better chance of winning the championship than those teams that seem to have strength but are actually eliminated. Xiaohu is more modest, he said that the next opponent will definitely be strong, and WBG players should play well and play their own style.
After the game, Xiaohu and TheShy posted a "come on" dynamic, but the audience's attitude was completely different. TheShy said they made it to the Final Four and they were going to play well next, and the crowd was cheering him on. Xiaohu posted a message to celebrate, but the hot comments said that he was the "top four in the lottery". It means that WBG is too lucky, and this top four can only be obtained purely by drawing, and the strength is not large. Next up is the BLG and GEN match, which has played each other during the mid-season. At that time, BLG won, and GEN was unfortunately eliminated. As the months go by, the form of the two teams has changed, does GEN have any chance of beating BLG? Xiaohu and Liu Qingsong seem to be a little "cowardly before fighting", and in the face of the next possible opponent, the two have the same attitude.
Xiaohu also knows that GEN has a good chance of winning, and he said in the interview: I didn't think about which team I would meet, but I really hope BLG wins, because they have beaten T1 and GEN in the mid-season, and I believe BLG can win again. However, when it comes to the most challenging opponent, Xiaohu still said chovy, proving that he knows the difference in strength between BLG and GEN, and just hopes that BLG will win this game, so that the WBG semifinals will be easier to play.
One hopes that BLG will win GEN, and the other is afraid that GEN will go down
Liu Qingsong also seems to be a little cowardly, I remember he said in the live broadcast before that professional players can't be without confidence. Even if the opponent is the JDG team, he must play with the confidence of defeating the opponent. The next opponent is GEN, but Liu Qingsong said that he was afraid that GEN would go down.
The host asked, who is he more afraid of the lower road of GEN and BLG, Liu Qingsong said: I think it is better to get GEN down the road, they rarely make mistakes, in the GEN game, I almost don't see GEN making mistakes on the lower road. The contestants spoke their hearts directly, and the fans were a little confused. It's not Liu Qingsong who said that he should be confident before the game, why is he still afraid of GEN going down?
After all, GEN is not too popular in the lower lane, and Peizi is a newcomer AD, and the auxiliary has not received much attention. Liu Qingsong praised the opponents he might meet before the game, perhaps because he had studied them and tried to find out the "weaknesses" of GEN's lower lane, but finally failed.
summary
I think WBG was able to reach the top four position, and there was indeed an element of luck. Some people even say that the biggest failure of the new format of the World Championship is vividly demonstrated in WBG. But for the players, it is a fact that they can reach the final four. They also do not deny that this honor is a bit "watery" and the luck component is too big. But now that they've come to this, all they have to do is study their opponents and try to win as much as they can.