For Love of the Game

Song Xueyang knew that Shen Huai had failed when he saw the list in the group. In fact, he had expected it a long time ago. Based on his understanding of Sun Yuan, that kid was very wicked, and he was not someone who could be stopped casually.

But he also knew that with Shen Huai's personality, even if he said so, he would still give it a try, and he would never give up on things that he hadn't tried.

"Don't worry, the wild card team has 12 players and one substitute, and he doesn't need to play in every game."

Shen Huai glanced at him, he couldn't do the thing of letting players sit on the bench forever, and there was no need for that, "It doesn't matter, maybe we can find a better style of play during the official practice, what I'm most afraid of is that he won't do it." Train well."

"It doesn't mean that the ranking of the wild card competition is his own. He finally got the chance to participate, isn't it just to get the world ranking?"

Shen Huai was right when he thought about it. The world ranking of the wild card competition is related to the vital interests of each of them, and they will train well even for their own sake.

"I'm relieved when you say that." Shen Huai thought for a while and then said, "When I came back, I went to visit the Yan team, and he asked me to arrange a separate room for Yunshen, and Huo Duo, his body can't last long Training. I was wondering if players from other teams would have any requirements, and I wanted to ask in the group, what do you think?"

Song Xueyang smiled, Shen Huai has always been a person who draws inferences from one instance and does things properly.

"I think it's okay. Everyone can trust your character. It might not work if you change someone else."

Knowing that he was flattering, Shen Huai smiled, and sent a message in the group, asking everyone to private message him if they have any requests.

When I sent it out, I was worried that everyone would be too embarrassed to speak up. I didn’t expect that after a while, some people chatted with him privately, some asked about his training, and some made some requests that were not considered requests.

For example, Si Jinjin said that he was snoring while sleeping, and asked himself to arrange for him to sleep with a teammate with better sleep quality.For example, Tao Lele said that she is a Hui nationality and cannot eat pork in her diet...

They were all easy to solve problems, and Shen Huai listed them all on paper.

Song Xueyang leaned over to look, "Captain Shen, I also have special requirements."

Shen Huai asked without raising his head, "What do you want?"

Song Xueyang leaned over and bit his ear, and a deep voice rang in his ear, "I want to live in the same dormitory as Captain Shen."

Shen Huai handed him the phone and smiled slightly, "Then you have to work hard for it."

On the screen, Luo Lie sent a private message——

Luo Lie: Feather God, can I share a room with you?

Song Xueyang replied three words without thinking - it's not convenient.

On the second day, all the members confirmed to participate in the wild card game arrived at the finals to report, and Chairman Pi and Chairman Hua came to guide in person.

The two once again emphasized the importance of this wild card game, "For this wild card team, Shen Huai will be the captain, and Guan He, you know the wild card game better, and you will be the vice captain. Then we have to give this team a start. a name."

"Do you still want a name?"

"That's right," Chairman Pi said, "When you compete abroad, you must have a name. You can't just call it the Chinese team, right?"

Sun Yuan was the first to say, "It's better to call it the Lions! They are powerful and domineering, and they also have cultural characteristics!"

Si Qianjin laughed, "Why do lions have cultural characteristics? The giant panda, the treasure of our country, is the first to refuse!"

Song Xueyang echoed, "The golden snub-nosed monkey is not convinced either."

Si Qianjin chuckled, "Then according to what you say, I, the South China tiger and the Tibetan antelope won't accept it either!"

Sun Yuan's face became more and more ugly, Si Jin saw that the quarrel was almost over, so he asked Shen Huai, "Captain, which one do you think is better?"

Shen Huai was silent for a moment, "If you say that the animal that can represent China, it must be a dragon."

Luo Lie immediately applauded, "This is good! Team Dragon!"

Sun Yuan sneered, "I have no experience, I think you are the one who named the Dream Team, right?"

Luo Lie shut his mouth and did not speak.

Chairman Pi said, "The Dragon Team is okay, but we are going to the United States, and the team name cannot be in Chinese."

Shen Huai opened his mouth and came, "Then Loong."

"Loong?" Luo Lie wondered, "Isn't a Dragon a Dragon?"

Song Xueyang explained with a smile, "Dragon is a word used in the West to describe a dragon with wings that slaughters humans. It means a devil. Dragons in my country are divine beasts and a sign of auspiciousness. Loong is the accurate English translation of the oriental dragon."

Luo Lie nodded, "So that's the case, I just found out today. Then I vote for Loong!"

Si Jinjin also said, "Yu Shen is not bad, this name sounds amazing!"

Tao Lele also nodded.

Both Chairman Pi and Chairman Hua are very satisfied with this implication. Since they are fighting on behalf of China, it would be better to use China's representative beast as the team name.

"Then let's call it Team Loong! I'll report my name tonight."

Sun Yuan rolled his eyes in anger.

Chairman Hua said solemnly, "Now there are only two weeks before the wild card game starts to be full. I need you to quickly develop into a high-level team with tacit cooperation during this period. All matters during the training period are arranged by Captain Shen. If you have needs in life, you can contact Chairman Pi, and I will come to check and accept the results every three days, so you must not be lazy."

"Yes!"

"Very well, let's go now."

Everyone took their luggage and went downstairs. The hired bus was already waiting at the door. This bus would take them directly to the training ground—the hotel in the resort that Chairman Hua rented for them.

The location of the resort is relatively far away, and it takes an hour by car, so Shen Huai stood in front and announced the room numbers of everyone in advance.

"Second floor: Jin An, Xiao Zhang 8206, Si Qianjin, Luo Lie 8207, Zhou Ning, Guan He 8208, Sun Yuan 8209. Third floor: Song Xueyang, Shen Huai 8305, Jia Yunge 8306, Tao Lele, Liang Minghui 8307."

After Shen Huai finished reading, he put away the notebook, "The room arrangement took everyone's occupational relevance into consideration. The hotel gave us two private rooms, one for Sun Yuan and one for Jia Yunge."

Sun Yuan had no objection, but Xiao Zhang was unwilling.

He raised his hand and said lazily, "Captain Shen, I want a private room too."

Shen Huai glanced at him lightly, "If you have objections to the room number, as long as the other party is willing to change it, you can register with me."

When Xiao Zhang heard this, his eyes first glanced at Jia Yunge, and then immediately turned to Sun Yuan, so he was too lazy to waste his words with a mute.

"Hey, Sun Yuan, change rooms with me."

Sun Yuan kept holding his breath in his heart, but Xiao Zhang had more seniority and connections than him, and he didn't dare to offend him, so he forced a smirk, "Okay, which room do you have?"

Xiao Zhang seemed to be sure that he would agree, and said lazily, "8206."

Sun Yuan's eyes widened immediately, "No, no, 6 is my unlucky number. People say Liuliu is a good number, but I have always been unlucky if I touch the word 6 since I was a child. My test number was 6 when I was in the high school entrance examination. As a result, I got a stomachache after entering the examination room, and if I lived in 206, I might not be able to train at full time."

Xiao Zhang was stunned by this reason, and tilted his neck to look at him, "Where are you talking about cross talk from here?"

"No way, what I said is true. You see, when you didn't say that the room number is 206, I agreed to you without even thinking about it."

Xiao Zhang: "..." This logic actually makes sense when you think about it carefully.

Si Qianjin was secretly having fun in the back. He grabbed the car seat in front and sneaked up to Song Xueyang and Shen Huai, "Old fox, did you think of this bad idea?"

Let Sun Yuan live in a single room, it's no wonder that Xiao Zhang's temper is not aggressive. Before the training camp has started, the two of them will not deal with each other. They will definitely not be able to form an alliance to trouble Shen Huai. It is a brilliant move.

Song Xueyang made a "shh" gesture and smiled without answering.

Si Qianjin laughed even more happily, "Yu Shen, you really dare to listen to him."

Shen Huai slightly hooked the corners of his mouth, and said in a low voice, "I'm afraid they're too busy, so I'll help them find something to do first."

Si Qianjin gave a thumbs up, held back a smile and sat back.

When everyone arrived at the resort, they stayed in the rooms arranged in advance, but Xiao Zhang failed to change rooms with Sun Yuan after all.Jin An really didn't want to share a room with Xiao Zhang, but there was no one who could change with him, so he had to endure it.

The facilities in the resort are very complete. In addition to training rooms, meeting rooms, restaurants and other necessary facilities, there are exercise rooms and decompression rooms upstairs, including some medical rooms where simple physical therapy can be done. It can be said that they do not need to go out for 14 days.

In the evening, Shen Huai called everyone to the conference room for a meeting.

Xiao Zhang was not very happy, "Didn't Chairman Hua say that the formal training will start tomorrow?"

Shen Huai said, "It is true that the official training will start tomorrow, but our training time is too short, and we should not waste a single minute. Everyone is exhausted today, and it is not suitable for training. I would like to use this time to ask Team Guan to tell you about it." With regard to the wild card game venue, game process, etc., it is also good for everyone to have a mental preparation."

Everyone agrees. After all, most of them have never participated in the wild card game, and the wild card game is kept mysterious every year. It is not easy to know more about it.

When Xiao Zhang was in God of War, he didn't even give Hu Nana face, let alone Shen Huai. He got up and walked out, "It's unnecessary."

The door was closed with a bang, and the swivel chair he had just sat on slowly turned around.

Everyone was a little bit aggrieved, but they were afraid that Shen Huai would lose face if they said it in public, so they held back.

Shen Huai didn't seem to notice, and nodded towards Guan He, "Guan Guan, please."

Guan He plugged in a USB flash drive on the computer, "The venue for the wild card competition is in Burbank, California, USA. There are two competition halls, A and B. The two halls start at the same time. The venue is very small, and the scene looks like this."

The projection cloth shows the photos taken from the auditorium during the game of the Xiaowolf team.

Everyone suddenly exclaimed.

Because the venue is not so small, it is only about the size of a movie hall, and the stage is tightly surrounded by auditoriums. The audience in the first row can easily touch the stage with their hands while sitting in the auditoriums.The two soundproof rooms are also very close to each other, probably the distance that you can see clearly from the other side if you gesture from one side.

"The auditorium is too close to the stage!" Tao Lele said in surprise, "And there are audiences in all directions, so you can feel countless pairs of eyes staring at you."

Others also nodded repeatedly. Judging from the pictures, there are only about ten rows of seats in the auditorium, or even fewer, and the maximum number of people it can accommodate is no more than 400.

Guan He said lightly, "The sound insulation effect of the soundproof room is still good, don't worry."

"There are a total of 15 teams participating in the wild card competition. Random draw, the winner advances, and the loser is eliminated directly. In the first round, a team is drawn to have a bye, and the BO3 system is adopted until the championship is determined. In the end, no loser wins. The two teams that failed to advance to the finals will decide on the third place. Then everyone knows that No.1 will receive two extra places in the World Championship, and the second and third places will get one."

Guan He spoke seriously, and everyone listened more seriously.

Before the wild card competition was reformed, it was just to determine the number of participating teams from various countries, and only the top three were rewarded, so the competition system was relatively random.

Although this year is included in the reference range of the world ranking, it is the first year after all. It is not easy to change the competition system directly. The previous competition rules are still used. Unlucky teams may be eliminated in the first round.

After listening to Guan He's explanation, everyone knew more about the wild card game and also paid more attention to it. If you want to get No.1 in the wild card game, you must not lose any game, and you must not make any mistakes!

Shen Huai talked about his thoughts on the training content after Guan He's explanation.

"The wild card team is composed of top players from various countries, and may even be the best in each profession. It is very difficult to fight alone, and teamwork is the key. The professional distribution of our team is not balanced, so the tacit cooperation is easy. more important."

"We have a total of 12 people. There will be a substitute in each game. There are many feasible tactics. I know that many of you are good players in the single-player arena, but there are only 3 places in the single-player arena, and more are 2V2 and 6V6. , Therefore, everyone must participate in the training of team battles. At present, in team battles, I initially plan to adopt the chain bonus flow of the WG team. Huo Duo, you are a member of the chain bonus flow. I understand better, if you encounter a team battle that requires a chain bonus flow, I hope you can take the lead on the field."

"Me?" Liang Minghui was a little surprised, "Not too good, there are so many excellent captains present..."

Song Xueyang interrupted him, "But you are the most familiar and experienced with the serial bonus flow. The captain entrusts you with the command power, which means he trusts you."

Liang Minghui thought for a while, "Okay, if you need me, I'm obliged."

Shen Huai nodded, "I have to think about the rest of the team battles. I can't eat too much. Let's take this tactic as the core of our team battles. In the next few days, I will let everyone practice 2V2 first. , This takes a short time and takes shape quickly, and the tacit understanding of 2V2 comes up, which can also lay the foundation for 6V6. The 1V1 single arena uses one hour every morning as a warm-up, and you can train on your own after the training time. "

Everyone nodded in understanding.

"As for 2V2, I don't want to designate who will team up with whom for the time being. I want everyone to find their own partners, because you know better than me what kind of teammates you need. Tomorrow morning, everyone will form a team for training by themselves, and in the afternoon we will simulate a 2V2 arena Battle. After watching your game, I may make adjustments. I hope that the 2V2 combination can be more diverse, so that no matter what kind of opponent we encounter, we can come up with a corresponding lineup.”

After Shen Huai finished speaking, everyone was a little eager to try. The people present were usually their opponents, and they were all the best in the team. It was something that they had never thought about forming a partner with them before.

Seeing that everyone was in high spirits, Shen Huai asked, "Why don't you all make a decision now, so as not to waste time making a decision tomorrow morning, I can also record it first, and go back at night to think about how to group tomorrow."

"Okay!" Everyone readily agreed.

Jin An was the first to raise his hand, "I want to team up with Huo Lao, and I have wanted to try WG's chain bonus flow for a long time."

Liang Minghui nodded with a smile, "Okay."

Tao Lele thought for a while and said, "I want to partner with Captain Luo. My Berserker and Captain Luo's Assassin are both good heads-up players. Maybe they can bring out the power of the Maple Moon team Xiao Ming and Shi Yi's demolition combination."

"Me?" Luo Lie didn't expect that Captain Tao would take the initiative to invite him, so he nodded quickly, "Okay, I agree too. Berserker's ultimate duel can save my life at a critical moment."

Si Qianjin smiled and pressed his shoulders, "You're really worthless, and you used a berserker like our Tao team as a shield?"

"Hey." Luo Lie laughed twice.

In less than 1 minute, four people found a partner, and everyone immediately became aware of the crisis and hurriedly looked for their partners.But no one invited Guan He. Everyone knew that Captain Guan never played 2v2, and he couldn't even form a team with his teammates, let alone them.

Si Qianjin said with a smile, "God Yun, let's form a partner. Although I haven't figured out what we can do as a team, but you are so good, maybe I will win."

This statement coupled with his exaggerated expression made everyone laugh, and Jia Yunge also smiled back and gave him an OK gesture.

Sun Yuan looked at the rest of the people, and said loudly, "Deputy Zhou, how about our team?"

Zhou Ning looked at him coldly. He still remembered that Manager Wang bought him because he was a hindrance to him. Although they had been teammates for five years, Sun Yuan never took him seriously.

Zhou Ning ignored him, turned to Guan He and said, "Captain Guan, would you like to form a 2V2 with me?"

Suddenly, the entire meeting room was silent.

Jin An's eyes were about to pop out, he didn't expect someone to be so ignorant, didn't he know that Team Guan hadn't played 2V2 in the circle for six years?Is it better to be rejected in person?

Si Qianjin was sweating for Zhou Ning, and he couldn't bear to think that such a beautiful and gentle Deputy Zhou would be ruthlessly rejected by that cold-faced King Yama.

Sun Yuan laughed out loud, "I said Deputy Team Zhou, did you not sleep well last night or did you go to the doctor in a hurry? Team Guan has to reject you in front of so many people..."

"I am willing."

The three light words ruthlessly interrupted Sun Yuan's words.

That magnificent scene, that solemn appearance, is like a marriage proposal scene.

Everyone in the room was dumbfounded.

Jin An almost didn't jump up, he thought, the captain didn't agree to play 2V2 with them for so many years, is it not because their skills are not up to standard, but because of their appearance?