You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Old Cat didn’t seem to mind Old K’s response. He seemed fine with being one level below the opposing top, very optimistic-- --If it were TAT’s or OP’s top on the other side, he would probably be too uptight to say so many words all at once……

At 12th minute, Old K took down his first elemental drake and passed by mid to help Tong Yao farm minions. Afterwards, he went to help top-- --Gnar happened to become big as Nidalee arrived and together they pressed the short-legged Rumble against the wall and pummeled him. Orianna was a little late coming to help, all she could do was use her ultimate just in time to hold back Nidalee. Rumble flashed away, running to safety with a sliver of health left while Nidalee was now low on health……

G4’s mid and top didn’t coordinate well this time. If Orianna had arrived a little earlier, she could very well use her ultimate to help Rumble kill Nidalee and possibly Gnar as well since Gnar was about to shrink back plus he wasn’t that well developed in the first place-- --

Old K: “Very well, the other side’s top and mid are either having a fight now or are dead silent. Quite embarrassing……”

Old Cat: “Rumble’s thinking you might as well have arrived after my body was cold and dead and Orianna is thinking that Rumble’s just asking to be killed moving so far ahead just because you were ahead of a dozen or so minions!”

Tong Yao: “We were like that before. Except when we initiated the fight, otherwise we were slow in supporting each other and always suffered losses because of that.”

Lu Sicheng: “Talk less, take the Rift Herald first, then go to mid for a team fight so we can take down Orianna’s outer turret.”

It was 18 minutes into the game, the difference of economy between the two teams was at 4500.

ZGDX had one turret and one drake on hand and Sivir had already finished making one of her endgame items and was half way finished with another. They were already quite strong for a team fight. It was impressive to achieve all that in 18 minutes!

G4 wasn’t as good as LCK teams during the laning phase. Therefore, they weren’t good at counter attacks when they were in a disadvantageous situation. The game began to follow the ZGDX’s tempo -- --

Tower dive.

Kill.

Push turret.

Clear minion lane, take drake.

The game seemed to begin to follow a very simple and clear strategy. Even the Bronze players in the audience could foresee what ZGDX would do next. Because of the superiority of ZGDX’s items, they didn’t need to play the game with their brains anymore…... 

At the 30th minute, the moment ZGDX took down Baron, the camera suddenly panned to G4’s main base-- --It took a while for the audience to realize what had happened; G4 had surrendered!

Commentator F: [What can I say? I have nothing to say.]

Commentator D: [Hum, hum, hum, alright. Maybe to maintain a good state of mind or for some other reasons, G4 has clicked surrender-- --Let’s congratulate ZGDX for winning the first round!]

……

The forums on various platforms exploded with comments-- --

It was exhausting to watch G4 being crushed for 30 minutes and now their surrender made their loss even harder for their fans to stomach!

[66666666666666 This is the first time I’ve seen a team surrender in the finals.]

[We can’t laugh at LPL for surrendering in the opening game at S5 anymore. To be honest, it’s even more shameful to surrender at finals……]

[The S6 finals already finished a long time ago, when ZGDX defeated TAT-- --Now? It’s just the warm-up exhibition match for the all star game. The Ice team (*The all star game is between two teams, Ice and Fire, each team is composed of members from 3 regions and the regions are decided based on their performance in the worlds tournament) surrenders. It has nothing to do with the LCS, don’t blame us.]

[In addition to being utterly humiliating, I figure Abb’s probably totally demoralized-- --I was doing well at top but when I looked up, bot was totally crushed.]

[I don’t know, I don’t know anything. I’m a fan of ZGDX. I can now speak loudly, so happy hahahahahahaha!]

This round was called “the first surrender in history”. Amidst such a feverish atmosphere, the audience waited for the beginning of the second round.