The Crown on a Wheelchair [Esports]

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The world in myopia eyes

The venue for the play-in and group matches will be at NirvanaPARK, where NCK is held.

Teams from each competition area arrived at the hotel arranged by the host by bus one after another.

Along the way, Xia Liang saw the bustling night scene of the streets of South Korea through the window glass of the bus.

Colorful light signs, a star-studded square, handsome men and women as many as stars, bands showing hip-hop at the entrance of the subway station, Itaewon full of exotic styles, exquisite and fashionable Jiangnan urban style shops...

At ten o'clock sharp, the tower on the far mountain suddenly shined brilliantly.

"so beautiful."

Xia Liang's face was almost stuck to the glass.

That is N Seoul Tower. At the hour, the lights will project gorgeous flowers from the bottom of the tower to the sky, which is called "the flower of Seoul".

After watching the light show, the team members began to look forward to the environment of the hotel.

Li Gui said that he would definitely start a live broadcast.

NirvanaPark is an e-sports cultural complex. Although the main arena is closed, there are many Internet cafes, bars, cafes and souvenir shops around, and they are all industrial punk styles that young people love. photo.

Xia Liang searched for MASK Hotel in advance, and read the introduction information, it said that it was five-flower level, that is, five-star in South Korea, so he and his teammates were looking forward to it, just like they expected South Korea with advanced communication to achieve full WIFI coverage without any delays. It's the same as seamlessly connecting to the Internet.

In the webpage introduction, the hotel's lobby is simple and elegant, with glass curtain walls and streamlined ceilings, revealing the beauty of modern technology.

But as soon as they got out of the car, they saw a large pile of cardboard boxes scattered in the hall.

Check-in order is not good.

A team from the Wild Card Division is ahead of them.

Foreign languages ​​overlapped in the opaque hall, amplified by loudspeakers, echoing one after another.

Xia Liang looked at those foreigners with three-dimensional features, brown hair and tall stature.

He doesn't often get in touch with people of a different color than himself, and even if there is no barrier to communicating terms in the game, he still feels alienated in reality.

He could make out bits and pieces of words.

"passport"

"air-conditioning"

"bandwidth"

As for what it means to connect, he doesn't understand at all.

The staff member who contacted ART was a tall, thin middle-aged man whose name on the work card was Jack.

Jack and Li Sa are busy registering team members information.

The luggage of the team members was brought in one by one, and it was in the same bad shape as the pile of cardboard boxes.

"I can't complain, that's it?" Chang Jinwen shook his head, holding his passport as a fan, "It's so hot, it's not as good as our domestic environment."

"Their box should also contain a mainframe and a monitor." Li Gui took out a wet towel and wiped the sweat from his face, "Keep an eye on it, I'm afraid they might get confused by accident."

In less than half a minute, Xia Liang noticed that a confused hotel security guard walked up to their computer box, rolled up his sleeves and picked up the box, without asking anything, and directly stacked it on the cart in the wild card competition area.

"You! Stop!"

Xia Liang blurted out.

The security guard looked back at Xia Liang and was stunned for a moment.

"That, thatbox..." Xia Liang was also taken aback for a moment, then continued, "isours."

"Sorry." The security guard quickly brought the box back.

Xia Liang's Chinglish finally defended ART's property.

Both Chang Jinwen and Li Gui couldn't help laughing.

When we got to the room, no one could laugh anymore.

As soon as the first problem was solved, the second and third came one after another, catching them off guard.

There are no e-sports tables and chairs in the training room.

As a hotel that hosts international professional players, there are only ordinary wooden desks and chairs in the training room, and there are only five tight network cables, and there are no ports for substitute players.

What was even more frightening was that when they installed the console, turned on the screen, and prepared to test the game, they found that the air conditioner that was turned on half an hour ago was still blowing hot air, with no cooling effect at all.

The weather in early October, with seven or eight computers running in the computer room, was indeed very hot.

After Xia Liang finished connecting his USB port, a drop of sweat slipped from the tip of his nose and slapped on the keyboard.

"Look, you're sweating too, right?" Li Gui handed over a wet wipe, "I don't understand, this isn't the first time they've held a World Championship, and they've made it like this."

"Thank you." Xia Liang said, "I don't know how KL and KIT are."

Wu Ni said: "They are under closed management during the game, and we can only see what news is on the official Weibo later."

Busy and busy, it is early morning.

For professional players, the training room is like a second bed and a second home. You have to be responsible for your own computer keyboard and mouse, even if another person touches it, so the players insist on finishing the adjustment before washing and going to bed.

Li Sa called the front desk of the hotel.

The phone at the front desk was busy, and after a long time, a waiter finally came in to inquire about the situation.

"The air-conditioning is not working." Li Sa said.

"Sorry, There is something wrong with the electric power supply system." The waiter said, "We will solve the problem that probably seems possible."

"But..."

The waiter said that other teams also encountered the same problem, not just ART, please wait patiently.

Li Sa picked up the phone and dialed Jack's number.

"Jack, I know it's already one o' clock in the evening, but the air conditioner in the training room of four teams not working. The hotel can't solve this our players continue to train in such environment, they may suffer from you know, one of four players, Nightwish, isparaplegic..."

Xia Liang wasn't listening to what Li Sa was chattering about in front of her, but when she heard her ID, her heart suddenly broke down.

He experienced firsthand what home court advantage is.

Although there are Korean players in the team and translators in the logistics team, this cannot solve every detail of life.When he wants to leave the room and go to the opposite NirvanaPARK to get acquainted, the first thing he has to face is the completely unfamiliar text on the street.He only has one mouth, and he doesn't have time to ask everything clearly, so he can only know where he goes.

It's like being in the world under the eyes of [-] degrees of myopia, always worrying about tripping, which is far from the scenery as advertised by the media.

He is a professional e-sports player who has experienced many battles. He can withstand wins and losses and has a strong psychological quality, but he is also not immune to the interference of the new environment.

"I don't think the air conditioner can be fixed for a while." Xia Liang said, "The computer is adjusted, so let's go to bed early."

"Well, let's rest first." Wu Ni said, "After the results of the group stage draw come out, we will have a meeting to discuss strategies."

"If it's in China." Chang Jinwen said, "We'll spend our own money to live outside."

Song Shixun hasn't spoken since he went upstairs.

"Thank you for your hard work." Li Sa was proofreading the documents in front of the window, his eyelids were tired out, and his fingertips were still sliding the tablet quickly, "I have filed a complaint with the competition party according to the procedure, and this kind of thing has not been encountered before. , Jinwen, take it easy."

Xia Liang said, "Okay, sister Lisa, you have worked hard too."

After hastily settling down, the ART team fell asleep.

The next day, the air conditioner still couldn't work properly. The reply from the hotel was that the computer was turned on too much and the power supply was insufficient.Clubs in all divisions are complaining to the competition, but almost all of them are submerged in the traffic frenzy at the opening of the global competition.

Xia Liang opened KL's Weibo, and all she saw was the official announcement—everything went well.

He turned to different post bars and found that this kind of thing happened to them more than once and more than once. The phenomenon of unfair treatment in away games abounds in sports, and no one knows whether the host is inadvertent or intentional.

What caught the eyes of the Chinese people was that KL, which had been sluggish in the summer split, did not seem to be affected by the accommodation conditions. It passed all the way in the finalists and locked in the promotion spot on October 10.

Xia Liang knows that KL has actually been making adjustments for the global competition since the summer split. A series of actions are aimed at distributing the pressure between the top lane and the bottom lane, and the initial results have been achieved today.

ART, on the other hand, has always adhered to the principle of "enrichment and stocking", and the team members really need a period of time to adapt to the changes in the environment.

On October 10, the draw for the group stage began.

Honorary coach Ye Feichi came to Seoul.

Ye Feichi took his time, entered the shopping mall as soon as he landed, and came out to bring a vertical electric fan to the ART team members.

The fan whistled and shook his head.

The scene of NirvanaPARK's on-site lottery is played on the screen.

Hammer Games invited former mid laner Bee to draw lots for the group stage.

Xia Liang sat in the middle, sometimes looking at Ye Feichi who was expressionless, and sometimes looking at Pu Dongye who hadn't seen him for a long time on the screen.

Ye Feichi still wears short, layered hair parted in the middle gradually, covering his handsome one-line eyebrows, and his eyes under the eyebrows are sharp and stern.

And Park Dongye dyed his hair back to brown and black, with a gentle smile and bright eyes, showing a mature temperament.

[Moderator: Let the retired player Bee draw the members of Group A...]

Park Dongye came to the stage and inspected the crystal ball bowls containing the papers of teams from each division.

The four teams in the group stage must come from different divisions. After a double round-robin system, the top two teams with points will advance.

The atmosphere in the training room was tense.

Everyone dared not breathe loudly.

At this moment, Ye Feichi's phone rang.

"Hey, ok, got it."

After hanging up the phone, Ye Feichi conveniently closed the broadcast web page.

Xia Liang said: "The result came out?"

"Yeah." Ye Feichi said, "There was a delay in the broadcast, and the result has already come out. We are in Group C, and BYT is also in Group C."

The air was quiet for a few seconds.

Li Sa knocked on the door and came in, putting the printed list on the table.

[Group A list (in no particular order): CAT, N07, ARM, KIT]

[Group B list (in no particular order): KL, SKY, ICE, MOD]

[Group C list (in no particular order): BYT, ART, XDG, F00]

[Group D list...]

Still no one spoke.

Xia Liang stared at the three letters BYT and swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

BYT, the master of the king who has won the championship all the year round.

"Good thing, if we meet in the group stage, there is a high probability that we won't meet in the knockout round." Ye Feichi coughed, put away the paper list, and asked, "Have you remembered? We defaulted to losing to BYT in both BO1 games , and then think about how to beat the rest of the team."

Wu Ni: "..."

Xia Liang re-examined the situation.

The XDG Vietnamese team is a strong jungler, specializing in boxing and embroidering legs, and banning its signature hero Black Widow should be enough.

F00 is the No. [-] seed in North America, and it will take work.

Ye Feichi said: "F00 has come up with a lot of strange tricks against NCK. The famous representative is Evan's jungle style, but the problem is that their ability to control the rhythm is weak. Once they make a mistake, it is difficult to come back."

Xia Liang said, "What do you mean?"

Ye Feichi said: "Snakes hit three inches, we don't need to spend too much time on BP, we can pinpoint their loopholes, hit the backhand, and hit the mid-term."

Wu Ni nodded.

Ye Feichi only set a big strategic direction, and the specific tactics still need to be discussed within the team.

"I want to take Gnar the Scorpion's Fang." Wu Ni said, "Master Gui, you cooperate with me to use Alien Ridley."

Li Gui said: "Yes, it's mainly for F00's JuJu, the strongest top laner in the North American division. Seize the opportunity for Evan to go to other lanes, and break down their top lane rhythm first."

Ridley of the opposite sex has the ability to predict the position of the place and move over a long distance. With Gnar's transformation, he can achieve excellent control on the road.After all, the era of meaty top laners has not passed, and the status of top laners in the World Championship is extremely important.

Song Shixun looked at Chang Jinwen: "Then...you sell it?"

Chang Jinwen said, "Cut, why should I sell it?"

Xia Liang said: "Let me come, I will choose Sylph or Howard, one can be invisible, the other can open the blood pool, take a few steps to their wild area, it will not hurt much, but it will be extremely insulting."

A sand table simulation is thus completed.

Xia Liang was thinking about the arrangements for today's training match when Ye Feichi stopped him.

"Where's your figure?" Ye Feichi compared an S-shaped curve, "The one Shi Chu gave you, Bi Luo."

Xia Liang said: "I brought it, but I didn't take it out in the bag."

"Oh." Ye Feichi said, "Speaking of the training match with BYT, only KL's Jin Yanbin made an appointment, so we played it as a training match, mentally prepared to lose, but losing must be worthwhile .”

Xia Liang didn't know the relationship between figures and BYT. Xian Shichu's opponent back then was not BYT, but when he thought of Bi Luo, he naturally thought of Dawn, the number one mid laner in Korea, known as the Great Demon King.

Dawn has almost the same combo record as him, but in the only few training matches, win or lose, he has never seen Dawn give his best.

Xia Liang asked: "What does it mean to lose value?"

Ye Feichi said: "In the early stage, challenge them, see how they respond, and practice your own reactions."

Wu Ni smiled: "What if I still win."

Xia Liang said, "Okay, I understand."

On October 10th, the first group match between ART and BYT started.

After eating the work meal, Xia Liang tore open a pack of fruit candy that Ji Tian suggested to buy, and distributed it to everyone.

How could he have expected that this pack of plain fruit jellybeans would become a rare bestseller.The food sent by the event party is not used to eating, and they don't have time to go shopping at all.

At one o'clock, they completed the inspection at the Nirvana Park Arena.

The venue has a warm atmosphere, dots of LED lights are on, and business advertisement banners surround the aisles.

Xia Liang couldn't understand or understand Korean, but felt that the world was covered with a soft-focus mask, and what followed them were bunches of grotesque flames.

The host's microphone was put down, and applause rang out.

The ART team came to the stage under the reminder of Jack and Li Sa.

When Xia Liang got on the plane, he took a serious look at his opponents.

She has delicate hairstyle, fair skin, and is not tall, but she moves swiftly.

What impressed him the most was Dawn's hands.

I've seen it on video before, but it's still shocking to see it with my own eyes.

Those hands are extremely thin, like willow branches, meridians and blood vessels can be seen from several meters away, but it is such a pair of hands, just touched the mouse line, flipped the fingertips twice, and the ball of mouse line was like Untied like flowing water.

Xia Liang calmed down, sat down in front of the plane, and put on the earphones.

He took a deep breath and let it out slowly.

The drum beat.

The first battle has begun.