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One, and ONLY.

Unlike more than a decade ago, when the land was opened up, no one is new to the word e-sports. A new industry, a formal event of the Asian Games, or a green memory left behind can be the definition we give it.

In this autumn, many of the most important e-sports events have been decided one after another. Our series "Dreamers" will bring some stories about e-sports. There may be no spotlight, or they may not be favored, but their stories about the game and the fire in their hearts will always be on the way.

Standing on the stage of the Chase Center Arena in San Francisco, DRX.Deft, holding the trophy, burst into tears.

In the past career, Deft players have entered the stage of the global finals of "League of Legends" six times, without exception, they all entered the knockout stage, but fell on the impassable hurdle of the top 8 five times. The only time he reached the semi-finals, he burst into tears on the stage that was both the starting point of his career and the highest point of his career.

But what is different this time is that he is no longer crying for failure.

In the finished "League of Legends" S12 global finals, the fourth seed DRX from the LCK Division of South Korea beat the T1 team with a score of 3:2. At the end of his career, Deft finally won the world championship he most wanted-even though he had been walking for a decade to welcome it.

Deft, who was still in Mapu High School ten years ago, would not have imagined that ten years later he would still face the same classmate he was chasing at school when he stood on the stage of the World Series final.

Faker, who studied in the same grade as Deft in the same high school, won the first and second place in hanbok with two numbers at that time, and became a popular figure with what his classmates called "super high scores". It was the first time Deft heard about Faker, and his idea was simple: to surpass him to become "the best person to play League of Legends in the school".

However, the two young geniuses, who started from the same starting point, embarked on a completely different path.

As the most famous player in the history of "League of Legends", Faker perfectly explains what it means to make a debut is the peak. Just a few months after becoming a professional, he led the then SKT (later T1) to the World Series and won the world championship. Since then, it has entered the finals with SKT countless times, achieving the only legend of the treble crown so far.

The stunning double-heist war in the OGN league took place in his first year of his career, which was much more stumbling than that of the high-profile Faker,Deft.

In his first year as a professional, his MVP Blue had a mediocre spring and summer performance, and the short trip that didn't happen in the playoffs didn't leave Deft too much stage to show himself. But fortunately, only a year later, his chance came.

After winning the SKT championship in 2013, Samsung Group, which saw the potential of the "League of Legends" event, entered the game and acquired two teams of Deft's MVP team. Through the introduction of reinforcements and intra-team adjustment, the coach team created two new teams, Sanxing White and Samsung Blue, which opened the "Samsung Dynasty" of that year.

Both teams had the strength to compete for the championship in the Korean league at that time, and they constantly honed each other's strength by communicating with each other without fear of tactical disclosure. In order to better shape the team style, the two teams even made a bold operation in the exchange of orders, which achieved the strongest form of each other.

After the fans said that "the stars will never part and win the championship forever", everyone believed that no matter which Samsung team wanted to win the championship, their biggest opponent was their own brother team. But it so happens that these contestants, known as the "ten sons of Samsung", met early in the semi-finals. Samsung Blue, which has been winning in the league, lost to Samsung White on the world stage.

It was a pity that the Deft of that year ended in the final four. I thought this was the first test that he could climb the next step sooner or later, but it became the peak that he often missed many years later.

Samsung White's ADC player Imp hugged the crying Deft. With the restructuring of "League of Legends" after the S4 World Game, the "Samsung Dynasty", which could no longer retain two teams, collapsed, and Deft, like other "Samsung Ten Ten sons", began its own new journey. He tossed around in two divisions and six teams, and in the next few years, whether in a mediocre weak brigade or a favourite team to win the championship, he always failed to cross the threshold of the top 8 of the World Championships. can only look up to the stage where he left regrets and tears the year after his debut.

Just like fate, there will always be new protagonists in front of him, from the peak of his state to the trough, constantly walking the path he wants to embark on, persuading him to stop.

For a long time, I felt that my career was not improving, or even going backwards. "

Trapped by the top 8 spell can not go any further Deft, the requirements of their own has not been low, even to the degree of harshness.

In the era when a lot of hot money poured into LPL and attracted a lot of Korean aid, Deft chose EDG not just because it gave a lot of money. Instead, he took a fancy to the strength of the team at that time to play No Mingkai and thought he could win the championship here. Later, he returned to LCK, not because the treatment there was better, but also because he felt that his dream of winning the championship could not be realized in LPL.

In 2020, with a severe waist injury, Deft, who was asked in an interview what he could give up in order to dream, replied, "I seem to have given up everything I can give up. There is only one thing left in my life."

On the one hand, it shows the weight of this career in his heart, on the other hand, it also reflects his neglect of other corners of life, such as emotional management.

Immaturity has always been a big label of Deft. Off the field, it is always difficult for him to hide his negative emotions, and he is often unable to hide his regrets and tears after losing the game, while on the field, the ups and downs of his mentality has always been an important factor affecting his state of the game, occasionally causing him to make some low-level mistakes that should not have occurred.

For example, in the famous scene of EDG, "Jin Chuandeng" (face-to-face TP), but in this world competition, he is no longer the kid who has too many worries. Deft, which has reached its 10th year, has also reached the age when it is time to consider retirement.

Deft said in an interview earlier this year that he would retire this year based on his performance. Perhaps it is because of this that he has been able to get rid of his timidity, and he has been able to play a lot of extreme operations that have long been hard to find on him. When asked why, he replied: "this is my last year, I will no longer worry, so I can do what I want to do."

In this year's top 8, he met his former EDG teammates. In the pre-game tough talk session, after the other side routinely made a declaration such as "We have to win", he uncharacteristically said, "Let's dance," with an understatement of enjoyment of the game, and responded to the opponent's most inevitable cruel words.

"Let's Dance." The word "last dance" has been tied to him since this year's summer competition. At first he thought it was handsome, but then he slowly became unwilling to hear the word that always reminds him of retiring, and now he has accepted the fact that he is about to retire, admitting that he "wants to win the world championship and then retire in the cheers of the people."

In this way, in every game is the "last dance" posture, he from the LCK summer competition to the bubble race, from the qualifying round, the final eight to the final four. But a player who can be called a champion needs more than a good mindset.

No matter how talented the contestants are, they are no match for the fair baptism of time.

After the regrettable end of the peak of his career a few years ago, Deft has gradually dropped out of the ranks of the top players, becoming a robust ADC player who does not make frequent mistakes but rarely makes bold operations. Even if he can still enter the World Series for several years in a row, everyone seems to have forgotten him and can only see his more dazzling teammates.

Only this time, Deft and all his teammates no longer have any halo on their heads.

After swallowing the bitter fruit of the top 8 in 2020, four outstanding players in the DRX team left one after another, leaving only the most controversial outfield Pyosik to stay in the team. Kingen and Zeka, who were once players in the middle of the Chinese league LPL, returned to LCK to join the DRX;, which is still trapped by the spell of the top 8, and no longer has the ability to take over the game. The only auxiliary "original God" Beryl, which has nothing to do with "losing Dog", was still anxious about not playing the new version of "original God" before the final, and was also thought to be a foreshadowing for their defeat to their opponents.

Beryl brushed the screen in LCK's official broadcast room and complained that he could not board the "original god" DRX, an assembly car made up of "picking up the rest" parts, and was not favored all the way.

Before stepping onto the world stage, DRX, who was still struggling in the LCK of the Korean league, was not favored. In the first round of the playoffs, they fought fiercely for five games with both opponents in the bubble qualifying round before they struggled to win the last ticket to the World Series by changing the game.

Although they won the first place in the group in both the qualifying round and the group stage, they were still considered mediocre because they did not open the gap with their weaker opponents; the top 8 made it difficult for the defending champion EDG to make a comeback, and people thought that this was their limit; after defeating the popular champion Gen.G in the top 4, most people thought that they had won the game with restraint, which was still not enough to compete with the booming T1.

Even if this group of "loser league" all the way to the final, always evolve towards a better form, but people still have no doubt about the gap between them and their opponents. When they are placed in front of the hot T1 with the same state, absolute strength will drive away people's imagination about the dark horse story all the way.

Even their rival T1 expressed his appreciation for the overturning of DRX in pre-match interviews, just like an inspirational movie.

It's just that T1 added, "movies always come to an end."

(4) the charm of competitive sports lies in that the competition is not just a collision of paper strength. In a duel, countless invisible specks can be the key to determining the fate of a storm.

On the final stage, DRX once again demonstrated the resilience they have piled up with games all the way from the summer. The unfavored outcasts broke the line again, but the opponents who were considered unassailable made frequent mistakes. After 5 sets of wonderful games ranked in the history of the "League of Legends" finals, a black DRX did not let the film come to a hasty end.

It's just that the next combination of Deft and Beryl, they were suppressed by the opponent's duo in several games, and the key heroes failed to play a bright effect, which was regarded by many as a burden on the team's way to win the championship.

No matter how true this statement is, the value of these two veterans is not just determined by four skills and six pieces of equipment.

Bud, who is considered useless in the final Beryl, is in fact the same as the Panson assistant he took out in the final two years ago, performing the tactics of deceiving his opponent's key team fighting skills perfectly. After he got tickets to the World Series in mid-September, Beryl, unlike other players who played hard every day, did not play a single qualifying game. Instead, he will watch the video of the game over and over again, whether it's his own or his opponent's, and study where he can improve tactically.

So in the voice released after the game, Beryl became the brain that led the DRX team. As big as whether to try to level the opponent's war decisions, as small as each wave of group wars to switch fire targets, he guides his teammates to do the operation.

Deft, who is experienced in the field, has been playing a leading role in calming the psychological fluctuations of his teammates since the beginning of their dark horse this year.

In the second inning of the final 8 against EDG, he came to the opponent's base alone, and when he was almost able to smash the base to win the game, the opposite barracks Crystal resurrected the base with invincible BUFF, cutting off his hope of ending the game and letting them lose the game by a fraction of a second.

At this moment, the audience almost put an end to Deft's career and stamped the label "fate". After the game, DRX's teammates all had a mental breakdown and could not accept the result. When the preparations for Game 3 had begun, they were still talking about the last scene. Deft, the party who should have been most difficult to accept the truth at this time, explained to his teammates with chagrin that he lost the game because he accidentally made a small soldier. At this time, the teammates caught their breath and said, "it's not that there is a gap in our strength, but we can definitely win this time."

But in fact, at that decisive moment, Deft did not make any mistakes. He just wants to take the blame and get his teammates back on their feet.

Deft and Beryl, which are often regarded as "hard power", are not a strong combination, one at the helm and the other at the helm, thus taking DRX to win a series of paper strength far better than their opponents. Gen.G, the top four opponent, has won only one of the 12 small games in the past year, and the final opponent T1, they have never tasted victory in the training match.

However, it is enough for them to win the most crucial BO3 and BO5.

Deft has been searching for teammates who can lead him to the championship during the past decade. When he was no longer playing, he won the championship he had always sought but never won.

In a place where he didn't even find it, he not only grew into a mature player, but also became a teammate worthy of the trust of his teammates. In the end, it was himself who stood up.

Conclusion since iG won the championship with the theme song "Rise" in 2018, fans of "League of Legends" every year like to find out the metaphysics corresponding to the winning team from the theme song of that year.

The theme of this year's S12 is "One & Only", and the theme song is called "Star by Star". No matter which team of T1 or DRX wins the championship in the final, the story of the veteran fighting for the championship can fit the theme according to the theme of the song "if Life goes on, go on forever, star by star till dawn".

But seeing the lyrics say, "you say I'm doomed to fail, you say I can't stand on that podium, I want to prove it to you." it still makes people want to replace it with Deft, a contestant whose career seems to have been settled.

It is true that failure always runs through the lives of most ordinary people, but we also want to see people who can defeat fate appear.

Mo Tao Sangyu night, for Xia still full sky, not to mention even the sunset also missed, there are stars all over the sky-shining on the "three stars" in the only one who is still fighting on the field, waiting for every star catcher along the road with his head held high.

The last dance that belongs to Deft also belongs to the ten years that he composed by the vagrancy.

This article is from the official account of Wechat: game Research Society (ID:yysaag), author: sleep with algae

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