Does Love at First Sight Exist in E-Sports?

Chapter 10

Just settled in Yiyou Building, the Noah's Ark team members are still in the stage of getting familiar with the new environment and adjusting their status.The environment of Yiyou Building is indeed much better than their previous club, and Shao Han was very moved that the person in charge of Yiyou Building who was in charge of their settlement actually prepared a convenient game device on the left for him.

This afternoon, when Shao Han turned on the game to prepare for training, he found that one side of his earphones was not working.He had no choice but to suspend and take the spare earphones in the training room. He is not used to the style of the spare earphones. It is uncomfortable to use, and it also affects his performance.

Good earphones are indeed not cheap. Shao Han generally can use a pair of earphones for a long time.He asked his teammates around and no one had many headphones. He could go to the e-sports city to buy them tomorrow, but tonight's training schedule would have to be delayed.

Shao Han somehow thought of Yao Sen.

In the end, Shao Han still sent a message to Yao Sen, asking him if he had any spare earphones.The latter quickly replied that he had it, and he could get it now.

When Shao Han passed by, the four members of the Titans team were watching a live broadcast of an e-sports match in Yao Sen's dormitory. Shao Han came to Yao Sen's dormitory for the first time, and couldn't help looking around curiously.

There are two beds in the dormitory. Some of Yao Sen's personal peripherals and books are placed on the shelf of the bed with blue-gray sheets.Compared with Wang Yuxi's bed, it is a bit horrible. All kinds of charging cables and snacks are piled up on the shelf.

Shao Han couldn't help but said to Yao Sen: "Your bed is so tidy."

Wang Yuxi: "It's a mess, I heard you're coming..."

Yao Sen coughed, Wang Yuxi changed his words in a polite manner, leaned over and hooked Yao Sen's shoulders, his face was filled with the smile of a professional pit captain for 20 years: "No, I mean our boss's life is very delicate, every day Drink 82-year-old Lafite while soaking in Icelandic mineral water. Alas, the taste of being a male god is so damn sweet."

Yaosen: "Old Wang, if you want to be told directly by me, you don't need to beat around the bush."

Shao Han couldn't help but raised the corner of his mouth, his whole person was a little soft.When he smiled, there seemed to be light in his eyes, shining in Yao Sen's heart, with a trace of burning heat.

For the sake of Shao Han's smile, Yao Sen didn't argue with Wang Yuxi, but directly waved his pig's trotters, stood up and went to get the earphones for Shao Han.

Yao Sen opened a drawer of the locker, "You can pick whatever you want."

There were six or seven different pairs of earphones in the cabinet, and Shao Han asked in surprise, "Why do you have so many?"

"Some are bought by me, some are given by sponsors, and some are sent by brands for public relations. I basically never use them."

Shao Han picked a pair at random and said, "Thank you, I'll buy a new one at the e-sports city tomorrow and return it to you."

"Okay, are you still training so late?"

"Well, I haven't adjusted my state recently, so I need to train for a while."

Not long after Shao Han left, Yao Sen received a message from Coach Gou, saying that he would hold a short meeting with the four of them before training at [-] o'clock tomorrow afternoon, about WCAD.

Yaosen: "Tomorrow, Laogou will have a meeting at two o'clock."

Wang Yuxi: "Huh? I plan to go around with Bai Yue at noon tomorrow and have a good meal."

"When did you stop wandering?"

At two o'clock in the afternoon the next day, Coach Gou brought the four members of the Titans main team to the meeting room, and each of them gave a document with the logo of the Daybreak Alert World Finals printed on the cover.

Yao Sen: "What is this?"

"The latest changes to the WCAD competition system." Coach Gou replied, "Take a good look. Some competition systems will be used for the first time next year. We haven't practiced them yet, so we must remember them well."

Yao Sen was surprised: "It came out so early this time? Didn't you have to wait until the beginning of the year in previous years?"

"This time the competition system has been changed a lot, and it is reasonable to tell us a few months in advance." Coach Gou looked serious, "And the previous two-round competition system has been changed to a three-round competition system. To be honest, this is not good for us. It is not easy to get the ranking next year. .”

In previous years, WCAD has always had two rounds of competition system: qualifiers and finals. With more and more teams signing up, the organizers revealed their intention to change the competition system as early as half a year ago, and now it has finally been implemented.

Yao Sen opened the file and browsed it carefully. In previous years, the qualifiers and finals were changed to group matches after the qualifiers. Only the winning teams in the group matches could advance to the finals.

The three rounds also adopted different competition systems. The qualifiers and finals were based on the points system and the double-elimination system as usual, while the very crucial group stage adopted the Swiss round system for the first time.

Titans is a style of one-time power suppression, which is not suitable for long-term consumption.The emergence of the Swiss round system has increased the game time and compressed the previous 32 teams to qualify to [-] teams, which undoubtedly greatly increased the difficulty of qualifying.

The best result Titans achieved in WCAD was No.7 before Yasen became the captain, and that was several years ago. The WCAD event is held every two years, and Titans have not entered the top ten since then.

Titans' previous Asian champion team won No.5 in WCAD, and after Yasen became the captain of Titans last year, that team was defeated by Titans in the Asian quarterfinals.

Coach Gou: "Your lowest goal in WCAD this time is No.5. If you don't make the top five, I'll kick the four of you off the top floor of Yiyou. If you fall to death, I'll be the one."

"Don't go, Brother Gou." Wang Yuxi said, "It's still more than half a year to say this kind of thing and threaten us. Our goal should be the championship, second and third place, right Mr. Mori?"

Yao Sen: "As long as you don't mess with us, we will be safe."

"It's good for you to have confidence." Coach Gou said, "But don't take it lightly. The reason why we won the fifth place in the AFC Champions League that year was because the Swiss strong team OD didn't participate in the upset because of the injury of the original player. Otherwise, there would be no place in the top five. share."

"The domestic team's best ranking in WCAD was the runner-up of Cobra, and that was before Lu Kaizhi, the strongest player in the Asian e-sports circle, hadn't retired." Bai Yue sighed, "To be honest, it's really important for us to get the ranking. It's not easy."

Lu Kaizhi, the former Cobra captain who retired five years ago, game ID Caesar.In the years when he became the captain, Cobra has been winning the Asian championship consecutively, and he also led Cobra to defeat the perennial champion of the North American regional competition and win the WCAD runner-up. He was also the only Chinese team that entered the top three that year.

Coach Gou snorted, "I just want a sensible person like Bai Yue to pour more cold water on you."

Wang Yuxi: "What are you afraid of, hasn't Yaosen been called Little Caesar before?"

Song Mingzhe, who had been sitting on the sidelines and carefully reading the game rules, couldn't help saying, "Our captain is better than Caesar."

Song Mingzhe has ten lines of Yaosen, nine lines of blowing, and one of them is special.

"Caesar fought me before, he is very strong." Coach Gou stared at Yao Sen, and said slowly, "But Yao Sen will definitely be stronger than him, I'm sure."

The four of them were all stunned for a moment. Coach Gou usually did not hurt them less, and sometimes scolded them to the point where he had to doubt whether he could play games. It was rare for him to praise them so bluntly.

When Yao Sen first became famous in the e-sports circle, he was indeed called "Little Caesar" because his style of play was somewhat similar to that of Lu Kaizhi.To be honest, Yao Sen and Lu Kaizhi are not from the same era of e-sports, and no one likes to be named after his own efforts. Although Yao Sen did not say it publicly, he is somewhat conflicted in his heart.He also regrets that he was not able to be active in the same period as Caesar, otherwise he might still have a chance to compete with him openly.

Wang Yuxi: "Coach Gou, who do you think will win when Yaosen is fighting Caesar in his heyday?"

"The score in five innings will probably be three to two."

"Yaosen San?"

"Yaosen II."

The atmosphere in the training room was tense for a while.

"But don't forget, what I said just now is not that Yao Sen must be stronger than him, but that Yao Sen must be stronger than him. When Yao Sen and Kaiser play against each other next year, I think the score of the five rounds will be four to one. Yao Sen Four." Coach Gou said seriously, "I said this to let you remember that when the four of you are not the best now, there are still many people who can defeat you. But the first half of the year is crucial, and it will be you It's time to beat others until they cry."

There is only one criterion for winning or losing in e-sports, and this is an industry where young blood is constantly changing. No one knows how long it will take for the current myth to be surpassed by a rising star-but as long as their names can be remembered one day, then they will Pour your last enthusiasm.

On the way back from Yao Senye’s run that day, he kept thinking about these things. Cobra, led by Caesar in its heyday, won the Asian championship just like Titans now, and set its goal on the longer-term WCAD championship.

And that year's Cobra missed the championship very regrettably, and it didn't take long for Caesar to announce his retirement.In the WCAD double-elimination finals, Cobra kept winning, but was finally defeated by the winner of the losing group, which is also a great regret in the history of domestic e-sports.

At that time, Cobra was defeated by Odin, a strong Swiss team that had won several championships. The industry said that Cobra's loss to Odin was also expected, because Odin made a serious mistake in the first round of the double-elimination match. Will fall into the losing group, and if you really want to fight it, Cobra is really not Odin's opponent.

The two teams, Odin and the American Lincoln, will always appear in the finals. This time Odin will be the champion, and the next one will be Lincoln. The two teams have never fallen out. top three.

In the next competition, Team Odin and Team Lincoln will inevitably be the biggest challenge for Titans.

Yaosen walked into the elevator, and the elevator stopped for a while on the ninth floor. After the door opened, the person standing outside the door turned out to be Shao Han.

Shao Han was stunned: "I'll return your earphones."

"Thank you." Yaosen took the headphones from Shao Han's hand, "Which one did you buy?"

"Steelseries' new style." Shao Han replied, "Then you go back, I won't bother you anymore."

Yao Sen thought for a while, then suddenly grabbed the elevator door that was about to close and walked out, "I want to chat with you, are you free?"

Shao Han felt inexplicably tense: "What's the matter?"

The two came to the lounge on the public floor of the building, Yao Sen sat down on the sofa, leaned his head on the back of the sofa and let out a long breath.Shao Han sat down beside him, more than ten centimeters away from Yao Sen.

Yao Sen suddenly asked: "Do you know Lu Kaizhi?"

"I know, the captain of the first Cobra team five years ago, the runner-up of WCAD, and the game ID Caesar." Shao Han paused, "What's wrong?"

"Do you think I look like him?"

Seeing Shao Han's slightly surprised expression, Yao Sen smiled again: "It doesn't matter if I think so, anyway, I have indeed been thought so by many people."

Shao Han shook his head: "You don't look like that."