After the transfer, I became the favorite of the group [e-sports]

After the opening ceremony, followed by the group stage.

The first is the match between AFK and the European powerhouse BUG.

The competition system of the group stage is a double round robin within the group, BO1, one point for winning a game, and no points for losing a game.

The two teams with the highest points in the final group advance to the knockout round.

When JW was preparing to enter the team's lounge in the backstage to take a break and wait for the game later, he met AFK who was preparing to play.

When they are away from home, teams in the same competition area will often gather together.

In the past, if there was a team that was eliminated in the knockout rounds, they would basically stay in the city where the competition was held and would not leave. They would help the teams in their home regions to play training matches, and even get together to discuss countermeasures.

Although there is only one team to win the championship, the honor belongs to the entire competition area.

When passing by AFK, Yu Hao gave Shu Lou a look.

"Come on." That's all he said.

But for Shu Lou, this sentence is enough.

I didn't have much hope for the game against BUG, ​​I just hope that I don't lose too badly.The Frustrated Building team thinks so.

Jiang Min patted Shu Lou on the shoulder to cheer up his old teammates.

"Sugar God, I'm nervous!" AFK's youngest member, Ring at position 5, felt aggrieved.

This time he was really nervous, not the fake nervousness that tricked Jiang Min into going to their base last time.

Ring is a very young player, a few months younger than Hao Qianyi, and has never played in the World Championship.

"It's okay, just treat the people facing you as passers-by, let go and fight." Jiang Min encouraged.

Ring looked like he was about to cry: "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo , bug, it's so scary~"

"Let's go, let's go, if you don't play again, the staff will remind you." Flow pushed the No. 5 seat of their family.

"Woooooh, Sugar God, you must cheer for us in the audience!" Ring's voice had drifted away.

"Ring is so nervous, is it really okay?" Yu Hao looked at the back of AFK leaving, and asked Jiang Min beside him.

After all, it is a competition area, and he also hopes that AFK can get off to a good start.

"It's okay." Jiang Min said, "Although I haven't had much contact with him, he is a person who forgets himself once he enters the game state. As long as he enters the state, these emotions will not affect him. With Brother Lou, he Will get into shape very quickly.”

As long as Shu Lou is despondent enough, the others will not be as despondent as him, showing a positive side to the game.

This is the tradition of AFK, and so is Ring.

"If I were Ring, I'd be nervous too." Hao Qianyi added next to him, "That's the bug of last year's runner-up. I heard that their No. 3 position is very difficult."

"Come on, every time you say you are nervous, you are the one who is the most relaxed and carefree on stage." Wei Yabo said.

Hao Qianyi pouted: "Am I covering up my nervousness!?"

Wei Yafeng said quietly: "Yeah, every time the voice of the competition is played, the mouse will not understand what we said when you speak. If you don't know, you may think that whoever has the loudest voice in our JW will be the commander."

Hao Qian also rolled her eyes.

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The three commentators known as WPL's "golden partners" also came to the arena with the official WPL team.

Just like every sub-station, the Global Finals also arrange commentary desks for each competition area commentary in various places of the venue.

In order to highlight the characteristics of country Z, the commentators are dressed in a certain way.

The attire of the two male commentators is generally a suit, but the tie is a custom-made design with country Z elements. It is said that each of them wears dozens of ties to cope with the long schedule of the World Championship.

And "A Little Red" Ruby is wearing a red cheongsam with intricate patterns embroidered on it, her long hair is coiled up, and her hair accessories are also in the style of Z country.Just like the two male commentators, in order not to have repeated clothes every time she appeared on the commentary stage, she specially brought a box containing all kinds of cheongsams.

It is rumored that her friend Yunning did the same thing.

"Hello, audience friends, I am Uncle Yuan, the official commentator of WPL." Uncle Yuan greeted at the beginning, "Finally, the much-anticipated [-]th WOC Professional League Global Finals in XX kicked off in Los City, M country! Next During the ten days, I will accompany you through this annual event together with other commentators."

"Hi everyone, I'm the commentator Lack."

"Hi everyone, I'm explaining Ruby."

"As we all know, this time our WPL has only two teams entering the global finals, namely AFK and JW. What do you two think about these two teams?" Uncle Yuan raised the topic first.

In the stadium, the opponents of the first group match, AFK and BUG, ​​have already entered the battle room and are preparing.

At this time, it is usually the time for the commentators to chatter and prepare for the start of the game.

"For AFK, this is a team that is good at operations. Except for Ring at position 5, it is not the first time for other players to participate in the World Championship, so there should be no need to worry too much about mentality." Ruby said, "But the lottery The current situation is not very friendly to AFK, in Group A of Death, AFK's first opponent will be the strong European team BUG."

"Yes, BUG was the runner-up in last year's finals. Last year, it lost to the defending champion NG after five rounds of fierce fighting. It must be holding a sigh of relief. Judging from this year's competition, BUG is indeed in good condition." Lack said, " Therefore, the first group stage of AFK may not be very easy to play."

"NG has won the global finals for two consecutive years." Uncle Yuan said, "The momentum of this season is still fierce, so I don't know whether this finals will be for NG to continue its way to win the championship or the trophy will belong to someone else. "

After the commentators analyzed for a while, the game began.

Unexpectedly, I don’t know if it’s because the BUG didn’t quite adapt to the slightly modified version before the finals, or because AFK played more and more courageously in the sub-stations and continued to the finals. This round was unexpectedly upset and was defeated by AFK It was easily taken down.

WPL team, AFK won a good start.

JW was in the lounge below the stage, and through the wall, he could hear the cheers from AFK's substitute players, coaching staff and team staff next door.

"Fuck! Awesome!" Hao Qianyi couldn't help applauding.

"That's right, AFK's cooperation means that it is a top team." JW's coach Yan Junying seldom praised other teams.

When Coach Chaos usually trains the team, he studies other teams, and he mainly uses his venomous tongue to find the opponent's problems and breakthrough points.

"We have to work harder." Yu Hao said.

However, JW's journey is very bumpy.

Originally, everyone thought that Group C was the easiest group, and JW's advancement should be a certainty.

Unexpectedly, JW lost three games in a row, and the points were directly at the bottom.

There was a lot of criticism on the domestic Internet.

The official blogger Ah Xin looked at the comments below the official blog and was almost scolded to tears.

E-sports is like this. When you win, there are a bunch of braggarts, and when you lose, thousands of people step on it.

【What is JW doing?Spring Championship? 】

[Pack up and go home as soon as possible, it's too embarrassing! 】

[WCNM, how dare you take the WPL spot if you play like this?Might as well let OVO go! 】

【What is Hao Qianyi thinking?Just send it? 】

【Sugar God is really dragging the plane】

[Yu team is playing well]

[Position 1 plays like SHI, scraping the whole process]

In just a few days, the JW official blog was horrible.

"Big brothers, just win one game!" Ah Xin pleaded in the training room prepared for each team by the competition party.

Why don't JW's players want to win?

But as soon as I played, I felt like something was out of control, and I couldn't play at my usual level.

Finally, after losing the third game, Coach Chaos couldn't take it anymore.

"Come out with me." Yan Junying walked into the training room, breaking the weird atmosphere in the training room with only the sound of keyboards and mice, and said to the players. "Huh? Coach? Don't you need to train?" Hao Qianyi looked up.

"How can you train like this, go out with me." Yan Junying said.

The players were puzzled, what cramp did the coach have?

However, they still followed the coach obediently.

When I was at the gate of the hotel, I happened to meet NG, who had won four games in a row, and the two-time WOC global finals champion was in high spirits.

"Let's go, what are you looking at? The championship is not yours." Yan Junying said coldly.

"..." The team members fell silent.

"Xiaoyu, where is the coach taking us?" Jiang Min and Yu Hao walked side by side at the back of the line.

"I don't know... just follow." Yu Hao returned.

The team has lost games in a row, and he, the captain, has tried his best, but the team's state has not improved.

Crucially, he couldn't tell where the problem was.

Everyone followed Yan Junying to an Internet cafe near the hotel.

The Internet cafe has a glass exterior, very similar to the one Yan Junying had seen in his hometown before, and the inside can be seen from the outside.

It was the evening when the number of Internet cafes began to increase.

On one computer after another, almost all of them are WOC game interfaces.

Everyone was watching the teenagers in the Internet cafe playing WOC outside the window, wondering why Yan Junying brought them here.

"Hey, let me say, why do you play professionally?" Yan Junying lit a cigarette, took a puff, and asked.

"Is this... because you played the game well?" Hao Qianyi asked tentatively.

"No." Yan Junying narrowed his eyes and denied.

"Uh... want to be famous and make money?" This was the heartfelt voice of Wei Yafeng and Wei Yabo brothers. They really thought so when they accepted Yu Hao's invitation to come to JW.

"Not right." Yan Junying shook his head.

"Coach, what is that?" Hao Qian was also puzzled.

"...Because I like it." Jiang Min said suddenly.

Looking at the teenagers in the Internet cafe, it seemed as if he saw himself in the past.

Because of his love for this game, coupled with his strength, he finally embarked on the career path.

The team members all looked back at Jiang Min, including Yan Junying.

"...Yes." Yan Junying put down the cigarette, "Because I like it. It is because I like and approve of this game and enjoy every game process and experience that I have the idea of ​​​​taking this as a career, right?"

He went on to say: "No professional player will try a game that he is not interested in at all, because in that case, the daily training is simply torture. It is precisely because we like the game of WOC that we will be in the professional circle of WOC Let’s meet.” The team members listened carefully.

"No one wants to lose the game, everyone wants to win." Yan Junying continued, "But, don't forget that although the result is important, the process is more important. Think about how you fell in love with this game in the first place? Think about the happiness it brings you, don't take the game as a burden, the problem you have now is that you care too much about winning or losing."

"... If you care too much about winning or losing, you will be restrained and become timid. You will always be afraid of this move. This time the decision will affect the outcome of the game." Yan Junying looked at the young players, " However, who can be 100% sure of the result until the last moment? There are many cases of comebacks in the history of WOC, and this is the charm of WOC."

"I hope you don't forget this. Playing games is for fun and enjoyment, not for carrying burdens and putting winning or losing above anything else! Don't abandon your original intentions!" After Yan Junying finished speaking, she shrugged tone.

"I've said everything I need to say. It's up to you whether you can adjust it or not... To be honest, you really played like SHI these two days. You didn't play 30% of the usual training. Make adjustments." Bar."

Yan Junying left after finishing speaking. Anyway, this place is very close to the hotel, and the children are adults, so there is no need to worry about them getting lost.

The JW team members, on the other hand, looked at the teenagers playing games in the Internet cafe and fell into deep thought.