Chapter 761 - Status (1)

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The opening of Randy's trip was not smooth.

Among the eight members, six of them had had indigestion when arrived at the hotel. It was inconvenient to see doctors in foreign hospitals, and they could not take medicine randomly. Fortunately, Lord Top brought some spare medicine. The six members stayed in the hotel for a few days and only joined the domestic training on the fourth day.

Probably because it was urgent, the performances of several team members during the training were not ideal. Even the coach who was No.1 in the domestic ruthlessly questioned them how they got third place before.

Randy calmed the mood of his team members while re-planning the training arrangements. He slept very late at night. He was under a lot of pressure, and everyone saw it.

Several members even secretly practiced in the night. They cried as they practiced. The joy of being able to participate in the national competition at first was surrounded by great pressure. They only knew how big of a mission they were carrying when they arrived at this arena.

At that time, everyone in the country would pay attention to this competition. They did not want to lose.

They could not lose.

"Listen! Everyone is under too much pressure. Stop fighting," Randy knocked on the wall, "let's rest tonight and stop fighting. The competition is about to start. I don't want anything to happen to you. Do you understand?"

"Captain Randy," The team members were all red-eyed.

"I know you want to win. I want to win too," Randy patted them on the shoulder one by one, "Don't push yourself too hard, okay? Relax. I hope everyone will do their best when the time comes. Do your best and leave everything to fate. Now, everyone, rest."

"Yes!"

Carl and Mr. and Mrs. Geller lived in the suite downstairs. They were worried that they would disturb the team. So they chose to stay further away, hoping to give Randy some space.

Randy stood by the window and lit a cigarette. He did not like smoking. He stayed up late and only drank coffee. He rarely used cigarettes to numb his nerves. But at this moment, he was under too much pressure. The training result was so bad that could not even rank in the top ten of the preliminaries.

Several coaches were discussing who would get the first and second place in the preliminaries when the competition came. No one considered whether the Seven Young Masters in the third-place could get the ranking.

The Seven Young Masters had been abandoned, with a bad result that no one wanted to see.

Randy finished a cigarette and lit another one. Before he could put it into his mouth, a hand intercepted him.

The hand was white, the wrist was slender, and the fingers were slender. Randy knew that her right index finger and thumb had calluses, and he knew that her left index finger was almost flat.

"Captain Randy," Lord Top put the cigarette into her mouth and took a puff, then turned to look at him, "Don't worry, with me here, we won't lose."

Randy looked at her and suddenly pulled her into his arms. He took a deep breath. "I know, I know..."

He repeated but the strength he held her was not reduced.

Lord Top thought for a moment and reached out to pat his back.

"We will not lose."

It seemed that she could not comfort Randy when she said this. But she did not know what to say. She threw away the cigarette and hugged him back.

That night, after Randy returned to his room, Lord Top went to the team members' room and opened a practice match with them. Lord Top did not like to talk when playing games. But in this practice match, she did not stop talking from the beginning to the end.

"Wink and Urchin cooperated well during the group training, but you are too nervous and want to win too much. Your goal is too easy to be seen by the other side. Don't think about stealing the turret. That was my wrong tactic in the past. It can't be used here. We are in group combat, and we rely on group cooperation."

"There are many countries that come to the competition. Their tactics are varied. So we have to be diversified in order to ensure that we won't be deliberately targeted."

"If we fight tomorrow... Wink, you will be the support, and Urchin, you will be the AD Carry."

"The other parties must have watched our match videos several times. Tomorrow, they will besiege Captain Randy and me, so when the time comes, you will..."

Until one o'clock in the night, Lord Top put down the mouse. Her eyes were firm, "Believe me, this time, we will win!"

"Sure enough!" All of the team members shouted with red eyes, "Victory! Victory! Victory!"

After a week of training, their first official competition came on the 23rd. The venue was magnificent and vast. It was said that it was built as a stadium before. Later, the stadium was moved, and this place was transformed into an ACG venue.

Every team before the game had to be interviewed and recorded. Randy and his team members were doing warm-up preparations in their rooms. Some of the team members were nervously touching their mice, and some were constantly flipping through the coins on their fingers.

When someone knocked on the door, they stood up nervously. Randy frowned and raised his hand to sign them to sit down.

The team members sat down. Randy stood up and walked to open the door. It was the program recorder. Everyone was asked to introduce themselves in English. Everyone would take three seconds to take a shot and needed to cooperate and finish it at once.

After Randy turned around and told everyone the rules, the team members who were about to go on stage stood in front of the camera. They knew simple English, so there was no problem in introducing themselves. In order to ease everyone's tension, Randy introduced himself first in Chinese.

Which meant "Hello everyone, my name is Randy. I am the Captain of the Seventh Young Master."

The photographer made a gesture to indicate a pause and then said to him, "Mr. Geller, we're going to use English, which will be put directly online. They can't understand Chinese."

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Randy glanced at him, "The audience understands our language. If you want people from other countries to understand me, you can have my words translated."

The photographer made a phone call and talked to his superior. Perhaps because there was not enough time, he finally compromised. "Well, you're the boss."

Finally, they introduced themselves in Chinese. When it was time for Lord Top, she looked up at the camera and said, "My name is Lord Top."

The camera paused for a while on her face. Seeing that she had nothing to say, the photographer made a gesture. He meant that she could say a little more. But Lord Top walked to her seat after she finished speaking. She picked up the keyboard and gently wiped it.. The photographer had no choice so he took a picture of the entire room and left.