Holy City [E-sports]

The hotel where the players stayed was not far from the host venue. The management of RWQ had a lot of money. Whether it was the coaching staff, the players, or even the team doctor, they all stayed in the presidential suite, which made the later RS ​​envious.

RWQ also specially hired a large conference hall to transform it into a temporary training room, and the small conference hall next to it is used for review.

With half a month of training time left, no one dared to relax, even if Paris has the reputation of the romantic capital, the fashion capital, etc., no one would want to visit it.In addition to making appointments with foreign teams for training matches, domestic free professional players have consciously acted as free sparring partners and are on call 24 hours a day.

Two days before the game, someone from the competition committee came to take pictures of the team's VCR.

The focus of this kind of VCR is generally the "ruthless link" at the end of the game declaration.

Commonly known as pre-match trash talk.

The pre-match trash talk will be played at the opening ceremony, and the previous part will be broadcast live globally.

Everyone is not surprised by this, the small meeting room used for RWQ replays was temporarily turned into a dressing room, and the couch in the corner with a white wall as the background is where the VCR was shot.

The hostess sent by the competition committee is an experienced hostess, after all, she has interviewed even a generation of players Volcanic, which shows the intentions of the organizers.

When the hostess saw that the camera was in place, she started directly, smiling and nodding to the translator next to her.

She greeted in fluent English first: "First of all, please allow me to say to the RWQ team from the HCCL division on behalf of the "Holy City" world first-level professional league competition committee, long time no see, and... don't come here without any problems. Welcome us from afar The friends who came here once again stand on the field of the World Championship."

The Paris time of the interview was [-]:[-] p.m., and it was already [-]:[-] a.m. in China, but there were still tens of millions of people squatting in the official live broadcast room of RWQ Domestic Connection in China.

Hearing what the hostess said, a bunch of people in the live broadcast room burst into tears.

"I can't help but mad..."

"757 days, finally goodbye, woo woo woo..."

"In the middle of the night, I hugged my computer and cried alone in the room. Isn't mad's tears worth it???"

"Everyone in our dormitory is crying, a pack of tissues (tissues) is almost used up, woo woo woo..."

"Team RWQ, long time no see, stay safe!"

"Team RWQ, long time no see, stay safe!"

"long time no see!"

"Be safe!"

The hostess chatted with the six members of RWQ for a while, and the photographer reminded her that it was almost time to prepare for the next team, and she said: "RWQ used to gallop in the World Championships, and I hope that this time, RWQ can show their brilliance. "

"Bless you."

The next pre-match trash talk shoot will be taken by another photographer. The hostess and the others are going to interview RS soon, leaving a word of sorry before leaving in a hurry.

Fire pointed at the camera left behind, and smiled slightly: "Is it okay to say now..."

Two days later, at the home stadium of the "Holy City" World Tournament in Paris, the Olympic Stadium was full of seats. When top teams from each competition area played, people from different regions who also love this game set off wave after wave of enthusiasm.

At least at this time, their cheers do not distinguish between national boundaries, enemies or friends.

They gave cheers and applause to the heroes of the industry.

The declaration VCR recorded before the game was broadcast one by one at this time, and when RWQ came out, Fire's face appeared on the big screen immediately.

"... Then on the premise that the group stage must qualify, strive to enter the quarter-finals, and then go straight to the championship?"

The camera turns to Sunny.

Sunny didn't even think about it, and said with a smile: "Haha, I want to be smashed to death by the'Golden Rain'."

When the champion team is in the studio, "golden rain" will fall on the scene.

Song had no expression on his face: "I still want to get another exclusive champion skin."

An Panpan was gentle and gentle: "In front of me, the opponent can only be completely defeated." [1]

Shen Yan thought for a while, and raised his eyebrows extremely aggressively: "It seems that fate has never made us surrender, because we have choked its throat. [2] So we are back, is the enemy ready to meet it?"

In the end, Ji Nian appeared on the big screen. He was originally looking down through the window, but when he heard it was his turn, he turned his head, and the sunlight cast a layer of color on his body.

He said: "Before reaching victory, there is no turning back."[3]

The World Championship is still divided into two groups. Sixteen teams from the five major regions are divided into Group S and Group A. The points system is used. The top four teams in each group will enter the quarter-finals.

Fortunately, the two teams in the local competition area are not in the same group, at least they will not meet before the quarter-finals. This means that the two teams representing China have a greater possibility of entering the quarter-finals.

It's just that RS is miserable, and they are in a group with Starry and NTG, the first and second seed teams.

Although RWQ is not easy, it is still better than Group A, where both the champion and runner-up were in the last world championship.

The schedule of the World Championships is very tight. If you have a game in the morning, you have to get up at [-] o'clock in the morning and go to the venue to prepare. The game in the afternoon will be better, and it will start at [-] o'clock.

The group stage lasted for more than half a month, and each team played [-] games.

Domestic fans silently climbed the standings.

Group S RWQ, won 27 games and lost [-] games in [-] games, with a total of [-] points, ranking second in the group and fourth overall.

Group A RS, with 21 wins, [-] wins and [-] losses, with a total of [-] points, ranking fourth in the group and eighth overall.

Fans: "!!!"

The domestic circle is excited! ! !

Although RS is a bit miserable, but there are two giants in their group, RS has gone through hardships, and it just happened to enter the quarterfinals!

HCCL's two teams have both advanced to the quarterfinals of the World Championship!

Although the fans of the domestic team usually don't like me, I think you are very stretched, but at this time they must be the most united. Seeing this result, they were moved up and down, and they all wished to set off a big firecracker to celebrate.

It is estimated that if one of the teams really wins the championship, this group of enthusiastic people can directly take the rocket to the sky.

Don't blame them, after all, it has been a long time since the domestic competition area has achieved such a good result.

There will be three days of adjustment time after the end of the group stage.

The RWQ official blog who had been pretending to be dead finally made a movement at this time.

The manager Zhang Er also came to Paris this time. Usually, he will consciously act as a photographer when he has nothing to do with him. He has accumulated some photos. Now that he is confirmed to be in the top eight, he finally dares to post them.

“@RWQ.HCCL: The blood is still not cold! We are still fighting! [Jiugongge picture]”

RWQ fans clicked on it, and once again wept.

The first one is a photo of the players training in the temporary training room. Everyone is focused and keeps their hands on the keyboard.

The second one was a note pasted on a certain player's computer, and it was rightly written: "A group of supporters behind us are waiting for us, and it will be too late before we rush! Don't let them bow their heads in embarrassment again!!! !!"

Some fans recognized Sunny's word.

Sunny's fans were so moved that they replied on Weibo, Twitter or Youtube: "Chen Chen Chong Chong! We are waiting for you!!!"

The third one is the players who are free in China, especially the players who have participated in the World Championships, sent to RWQ the experience of playing against several strong teams, as well as the operating habits of some of their opponents.

Several large pages of A4 paper are full.

The fourth Zhang Er marked the time. At one o'clock in the morning, the team doctor was doing right hand relaxation exercises for the tired-looking Ji Nian, and the computer next to him displayed the custom server-combo training.

This is obviously a hand muscle strain caused by too much training.

Ji Nian's fans were heartbroken: "This man is disobedient!!! I remember I told him when I sent them off!!!"

The fifth photo is a photo of the RWQ six members stepping off the stage while waiting for the start of the next game, and they did not forget to do micro-manipulation muscle memory in the air without physical objects.

The sixth one is during the replay, JOJO and Volcanic are correcting the mistakes of the players one by one.

The seventh photo is a photo of RWQ defeating last year's third place team in the world with 2:1 and returning to the hotel. That day they played the game at night, and the last game was particularly anxious. They played for a full 74 minutes and returned to the hotel. The team members didn't even have the strength to press the elevator to go back to their rooms, and they all collapsed in the lobby rest area, with exhaustion and sleepiness that could not be concealed on their faces.

The eighth is the words of encouragement written by the six members of RWQ to each other's teammates. Each person has five notes, a total of thirty notes, neatly pasted in front of the window of the training room.

The last photo was taken by Wei Shu behind their backs when they were about to walk back to the hotel after a game one night.

In the photo, six young people support each other.It was already January at this time, and it was winter in Paris. It snowed suddenly that night. It was not very heavy. They looked up at the sky together, and then they all raised their hands to compare six hearts and came out, which happened to be photographed by Wei Shu.

On the streets of Paris in the early winter, six young men in light-yellow team uniforms looked up at the sky and compared their hearts.

It's cold, but it can't resist the romance in my heart.

RWQ fans really cried and laughed tonight.

I feel sorry for my players and feel proud of them.

Only nine photos were posted, but fans can still imagine how hard their players have worked this month.

They would stay in the training room very late, and they could still hear the keyboard sound clearly in the middle of the night.

They will tirelessly practice back-ups, blood control, aggro, and combos over and over again until they have to do relaxation exercises.

They will be invincible on the field, and they will not let go of damage accurate to a decimal point.

They will show tired faces when no one knows, but they are invincible in front of people.

……

E-sports, all the blood, all the regrets are here.

Three days later, the quarterfinals began.

The reason for the points matching game is that RWQ can't meet the No. 2 for the time being, and the winning rate has always been stable. Even if it does meet with the No. [-] Starry and unfortunately loses, it will not be able to shake the status of the top four.

And RS clung to that little tail and refused to give up. Finally, after winning the third place in the standings, it entered the semi-finals. When they stepped off the stage, the six people were crying, and they couldn't believe that they had entered the semi-finals.

When the list of the top four came out, the domestic competition area was the same as the RS people. I couldn't believe it. I refreshed dozens of times before accepting it tremblingly.

Hot search term on Weibo - #四强!We take two spots! #

At this time, the two teams will inevitably meet, and one will be eliminated and compete with the other eliminated foreign team for the third place, so RWQ and RS simply do not distinguish between you and me, and the coaching staff of the two teams simply merged. Together, RS played a lot with No.2 and took the initiative to share experience with RWQ.

Anyway, this time they are going to sacrifice one of the teams to ensure that the other can enter the finals smoothly.

Sure enough, RWQ and RS met in the draw.

The author has something to say:

[1] Using "Super Beast Armed Forces": "In front of me, the enemy either escapes or is completely defeated."

[2] Using Beethoven's "Letter to Weggler": "I want to hold the throat of fate, and I must not let fate make me succumb."

[3] From the heroic line of Han Xin in "Glory of the King" (PS: I don't know if this sentence has the original source, if there is, I will add the mark later)

Here I want to say that maybe the competition system in the book is not the same as in reality.

In reality, I remember that the LPL is divided into four groups (because all the players I like have retired and I seldom watch the game, so I almost forgot about it)

But this is a modern overhead, so don't worry about it so much.