matchstick heaven

Chengdu.

There are many streets and alleys in this city, the smell of hemp is everywhere, the voices of people are full of people, and the fireworks are endless.

Although Shen Qing is not a prickly ash fan, every time he comes here, he is always attracted by the smell along the street, as if the happiness of the locals is simpler than that of others, and all the anguish and hatred can be solved through hot pot and skewers.

On the night they arrived here, KOW, a native of Chengdu and the captain of AT, was the host, and they had a meal of Bo Bo Chicken.

When a few young people were sitting together chatting and drinking tea, it was the first time that Shen Qing felt that Xiao Liang's matter had been settled in his mind.

He was so angry and anxious a few days ago, but now he is relieved.

After eating almost, KOW was thinking about retiring: "Oh, it seems that I have to leave. How can I leave a championship for me this year?"

Pan Luping smiled: "Fuck you, I said I'm leaving too!"

KOW opened his eyes wide: "Isn't it? Lao Pan, you are still in good condition. Recently, everyone said that you have a second youth."

"Get out! What the hell?"

Shen Qing glanced at the expression on Pan Luping's face at the moment, and saw hesitation.

Perhaps at the beginning of the year, he also decided that he would retire next year, but when he played this year as his last, he found a better state and gave birth to new courage, as if he could persist for another year.

Shen Qing said, "I also think you can play for another year."

The old F on the side answered: "That's right, I'm going to get married by relying on the team, why are you in a hurry to quit?"

The people at the table burst into laughter, and Pan Luping, a veteran who had never been in love since he was so old, was mercilessly ridiculed.

AT coach Guo Tong also wanted to explore tactics: "What has Lao Pan been playing recently?"

As a result, a table of people from the Eagles reacted immediately, yelling that they are not allowed to ask.

In the end, the two sides exchanged a lot of harsh words, and cleaned up all the food on the table before returning to the hotel where the players stayed together with Xingyue on their backs.

When they arrived at their own floor, all members of the Eagles gathered in the suite of Shen Qing and Zhou Chenshan, and began to discuss how to beat AT again on the field.

Pan Luping is indeed training a new hero, and he is preparing for a swing position.

"Old Pan, how is the effect of this version of Lucian?" the assistant coach asked.

"It feels okay," Pan Luping said. "The lane play is top-notch. If you develop well, it's okay to play in a team, but it's not as interesting as the other top heroes in team battle T0."

"Lu Xi'an is still the most comfortable for me to take in the bottom lane. Yesterday, there was a very playful cat milking me in the queue yesterday, and I went crazy." Luna answered.

Hongcha said: "Actually, I can play in the middle lane quite well. I recorded a video of one game. Coach, you can watch it later."

Shen Qing nodded: "Okay, I can consider you three ways of shaking up, middle and down. We can have a meeting to discuss in detail what system to use, and try it in the next training match."

The assistant coach said: "There are a few fierce heroes in this version that can't be released. Excluding those few, Lucian is the most suitable for our team's hero pool."

Shen Qing said: "I feel that Qinggang Ying can also do it."

"Qinggangying can also play in the bottom lane. I encountered it once in the rankings. It's quite strong."

"Really? What kind of support?"

"That one...it seems to be Ike, I think the assistant can take another look."

"Well. What about the jungle position? What do you think?"

Little F thought for a while, and said: "Actually, after I started directing recently, I found that I can play the junglers who can play first more smoothly than before."

Luna smiled and said: "The one who has improved the most this year is Little F. I feel that the hero pool is much deeper, and he is better at playing than before."

"What do you mean you can play better?" the assistant coach laughed.

"It's better to win the game, the command is good, really."

Little F was praised by Luna, so she scratched her head in embarrassment and said "hey".

"Okay, we've been training intensively for the past few days. It just so happens that Super Peach and Brazilian Turtle also want to play a training match with us, so we can try a few more lineup combinations." Shen Qing said.

"Wow, Q7 isn't on holiday yet?"

"Haven't they already returned to Brazil?"

Shen Qing said: "Maybe this year's grades are good, and you are more motivated. You said you want to practice with us remotely, so we will play online. It's the same anyway."

"Is there no appointment with KOG?"

The assistant coach said: "We are old rivals. If we have too many appointments, we are afraid of being studied. If we all enter the finals later, it will be embarrassing. SPP is okay. We are not familiar with each other. It is good to play two games to test it out."

"Oh, yes, too."

Shen Qing said: "I think the match against Super Peach is of more reference value. They have improved a lot, and their online personal ability is very strong. Now the rhythm and team play have also evolved. When the time comes, we will play hard and try to practice more. A few."

"it is good."

The players dispersed.

Shen Qing and Zhou Chenshan began to arrange the clothes they brought.It was a little quiet in the room for a while, but the atmosphere was good and reassuring.

After a while, someone knocked on the door.

Zhou Chenshan went to open the door, and the duo from the lower lane came back.

"Coach," old F said shyly, "I have something I want to tell you."

At this moment, Shen Qing seemed to have a premonition of something, but unexpectedly, he didn't seem too panicked.

"Come in and talk."

"Coach, I... recently, when I was playing ranked, my hands were often numb, several times... I think that during qualifying and training games, if your hands are numb, you can stop and take a rest, and you will recover in a while, but There is definitely no way to stop during the game, if everyone is playing a team... I dare not even think about it."

Shen Qing tried to keep her voice calm: "How long has it been like this?"

"It's been... 2 or 3 days, it's not too serious, I'm just afraid that if it's time for the competition..."

Shen Qing raised her hand to stop him from continuing.

Luna said from the side: "Coach, we actually have a little idea."

"what?"

"How are you doing recently?"

Luna looked at Shen Qing and blinked.

"..."

A few days later, the first round of the semi-finals officially started.

The duel between SuperPeach and KOG can be called a powerful collision. It is the most watched game since the start of the entire S game. The stadium is full of seats and the live broadcast is unprecedented.

The gorgeous streamer of the main stage in Chengdu is flashing, and behind it is the realistic Summoner Canyon. There is actually a snack street in the "gorge", selling hoof flowers, selling vegetables, cooking hot pot, and playing mahjong. .An obese panda was lying on a tall pine tree on the outskirts of the canyon with a grass pole in its mouth, its feet up, its face full of ease and comfort.

The audience was extremely enthusiastic, with shouts and cheers resounding throughout the venue. Fans in the LEC division sang SuperPeach's team song collectively, while KOG fans shouted the team name in unison.

Even the members of the Eagles who watched the live broadcast in the hotel felt the scorching atmosphere, gearing up for a game.

And the game itself was fantastic.

KOG resorted to the "double evil" combination that has been practiced for a long time. The early-line bully crocodile plus the late-stage big-core Aphelios, and KOG's crocodile can also swing from the middle to the top, and the pressure is full in the BP stage.

The SPP relies on the unique hero pool and extremely powerful personal abilities of the 3-lane players to ensure that in each round, at least one lane can establish a huge advantage, and there is absolutely no line to be defeated, and rely on the genius jungler 008 With his excellent performance, he caught KOG's online gank by surprise several times.

Each of the two sides played with great style, full of tenacity, and both sides made very few mistakes. The game was bloody and also had a high competitive quality.

When it came to the decisive game, when the war song was played with the sound of the big drum, the whole audience was boiling.

After the players sat down, KOG's support gave SPP a thumbs up from a distance, and SPP's support and mid laner also returned the salute. The director also used a close-up shot to replay this polite greeting between the opponents.

In the last round, both sides selected a very "enjoyable" lineup, and the audience fought wildly. From level 1, the bottom lane fought against each other without eating any pawns. After dying, they came out and continued to fight. The two-player lane quickly changed. In the 4-player lane, except for the top laner in the "1V1 Men's War", in less than 5 minutes, 8 people gathered in the bottom lane, and 6 kills broke out.

In the end, 41 minutes into the fierce battle, KOG Nakano made a small mistake and was caught by the opponent. After SPP took the big dragon, he pushed the ancient dragon all the way to the high ground and finally ended the game.

Compared with KOG, all members of SPP are younger and superior in operation and energy.

And this KOG also regretted to bid farewell to this year's global finals. Their star jungler Ah Guang cried on the spot for his mistake.He is not young anymore, and he has shown his incompatibility with this year's version since the beginning of the summer split. He has come here with a wealth of game experience and high-intensity practice, but now, he is going to cry and bid farewell to the game for a short time.

The audience in the audience gave the biggest applause to the 10 players from both sides, and SPP, who won the game, even gave the KOG players hugs and encouragement.

The eager cheers from the audience, the exciting victory song, the highlight shots, and the announcement of the promotion to the global finals still gave the absolute winner of this game, SPP.

After watching the game remotely in the hotel, the Eagles were also infected by this atmosphere and began to practice with all members.

Shen Qing discussed with analysts, data specialists, team trainers, assistant coaches and other members of the coaching staff over and over for better lineup selection and more BP possibilities. Changes.

Afterwards, Shen Qing hastily ate a bowl of cereal and started playing ranked.

His rankings have soared recently. If someone checks his ranking records at this moment, he will find that he is practicing support page by page.Different hero choices, different play styles, better and better records... He is participating in training.

That day……

Luna asked him, "How's the status?" He paused for several seconds, unable to react to the other party's meaning for a while.

Then he suddenly understood that the bot lane team wanted him to come off the bench.

Shen Qing took a deep breath.

In fact, in his own jungle hero pool, there are indeed heroes that can be selected as support, and it is inevitable that he will be replaced by support in the usual rankings. He also has a lot of experience in playing support.

However, he can put at most 2 plans into the training plan to assist such changes. As a surprise move, it must not be practiced as the main idea, otherwise it will easily disrupt the familiar system that the team has finally established.

In fact, his own habit of playing, years of accumulation, rankings, and the operations he showed off in solo may not be suitable for the team at this time.

He hoped that he would become another old F, a support for the Eagles.

"The team must win, and nothing else matters." This is what he said when recording the official expedition video, and now he writes this sentence on the title page of his notebook, hoping to remind himself all the time.

At this time, he drove the old F's first-person view of the game, watched while playing ranked, and at the same time quickly passed the results of the two days of training in his mind.

Helping AD pad, grab 2, play control, protect, pull away, wander, cooperate with jungler gank, start a team...

Hitting it, Luna and old F came over to look at it.After a while, Little F and Black Tea also surrounded me.Finally, even Pan Luping and the coaching staff came.

After a wonderful turnaround against the wind, Shen Qing rubbed his wrist.

"Wow!"

"bravo!"

"Coach~ too strong~"

"What are you looking at! Let's go to training!" Shen Qing pretended to punch the little F behind him, and dispersed the onlookers.

Only Zhou Chenshan was left sitting beside him, looking at his report and pouring water for Shen Qing.

Shen Qing waited for them to leave before heaving a heavy sigh.

Most people still don't know that they may have to play for old F.

He knows in his heart that it's okay to go up to fight occasionally, but the overall state of old F still needs to be maintained.He can replace him once or twice, but it is impossible to replace him to the end.Don't say that old F will regret it to death. As a coach, he has been away from the game for too long. It is hard to imagine the intensity of BO5 in the S game. Shen Qing knows his limit.

He can analyze the situation of each game and even plan everything that happened in the first 25 minutes, but he can't maintain a competitive state for a long time.

and……

He didn't know if he could overcome the shadow in his heart when he was on the field.

Zhou Chenshan threw a few fat seas into the water glass, pushed them to Shen Qing, and stretched out his hand to gently pat Shen Qing's head.

"Take it easy and trust your players."

After Shen Qing glanced, said softly: "Well, I have always believed in them."