Chapter 195： Final Four

On the first night of the game, the treatment of the ATB team was in stark contrast to other teams. In the afternoon, the attendance at the game site was only about 60%. At night, the scene was full of people, and the fans held up a lot of posters and fluorescent signs, and the cheers and shouts almost broke through the sky.

The ATB team did not live up to the expectations of the fans, and simply defeated the MOK team from Japan 2:0. The fans at the scene screamed excitedly, and the Korean media even sent a bunch of press releases to praise the performance of ATB.

What "Cui Hyuk and Park Won Suk are the No. 1 Nakano in the world", "Han Seung Woo is the strongest top single in the world" and so on.

Fans are also retweeting and celebrating everywhere, as if ATB won the championship.

After the first day of the game, the points of each group were liquidated, and Tian Huan temporarily ranked first in Group C.

The next day, Tianhuan was empty.

Everyone followed the coach in the hotel conference room, watching the game and listening to the coach's explanation.

In Group A, Beimu played against FNO, the champion team in the North American Division, and lost 1:2 regrettably. Mitchell and Sean, two world-class mid laners, also knew each other privately. In a crucial team battle, Mitchell seized the opportunity to kill Sean. Ye Shaoyang found that since the individual world competition, Mitchell The strength has been significantly improved.

The team of Allen and Angus in the bottom lane, the two young boys have made rapid progress and are on par with Cheng Xing. They have experienced a whole season of beating and tempering, and they are no longer the children who were abused and cried by Ye Shaoyang and Chi Shuo in the international server. .

In Group B, Jing Zhe played against the European champion team AMT. Although Fang Zhengqing and Xie Yuan teamed up to play a lot of wonderful cooperation to tie the score to 1:1, in the final decisive game, the jungler Winnesa seized the opportunity to ambush The sneak attack grabbed the dragon and turned the situation around.

Coach Lin commented: "Although Vanessa is a rookie, her style of play is very fierce. Her master used to be the No. 1 jungler in Europe. AMT is indeed the strongest dark horse in Europe. It's a pity that Jing Zhe lost."

Chi Shuo said calmly: "Jing Zhe's double-C is strong, but the jungler's strength is average. Once the jungle collapses, it will be difficult to restore the situation."

Surprisingly, in Group D, Moon Shadow actually defeated the runner-up HER in the European region.

Yueying seems to be very good at counter-attacks in the tiebreaker. He also defeated Beimu in the tiebreaker in the domestic game. This time, Xie Weiyu and Xu Zhuo cooperated tacitly. So, Xie Weiyu, who survived, destroyed the world and destroyed the HER in a group.

After the first round of the competition, there were different opinions in the country.

Judging from the current grouping situation, Tianhuan is the most advantageous in the group stage, and none of the three opponents are particularly strong; Jingzhe is the worst. The FLD that hit in the group stage is the runner-up in the North American division, and AMT is the champion in the current European division. , TIP is the runner-up in the Korean division. It will be extremely difficult for Jing Zhe to qualify.

Some domestic experts predicted: "4 teams from Huaguo District will go to the World Championship. I predict that Beimu and Tianhuan will enter the top 8, and Jingzhe and Yueying will be eliminated in the first round of the group stage."

This blogger has tens of millions of fans, and is said to be of Chinese descent abroad. His Weibo name is "Poison Milk". He predicts the results of the World Championships every year, and his predictions are very accurate.

After Beimu and Jingzhe lost in the first round, a new anchor who just appeared recently publicly mocked: "The players in the Huaguo district will rebel, go to the World Championship, and give away one after another, it's really shameful. !"

When netizens saw this hot search, they scolded him one after another: "Brother Ayu's successor is here?" "The last anchor who ridiculed professional players so much [Ayuge], I remember being beaten by Xiaobai and quickly retreating from the circle. Is it?" "Someone else has the ability to participate in the World Series, you will only spray on the Internet!"

The new anchor found that the method of attracting traffic by spraying professional players does not seem to work? Netizens who are particularly stingy in the comment area, click in... Are they all Ye Shaoyang fans?

Sure enough, after [Ayu Ge] was beaten by the Xiaobai anchor, it was not easy for the anchor to spray professional players. The new anchor was disgraced and deleted Weibo after admitting it.

When players go out to compete, the team leader will confiscate their mobile phones to avoid being influenced by outside public opinion. Ye Shaoyang and the others didn't know what the domestic evaluation was, and they had to face even more intense competition.

In the second round of the group stage, Tianhuan met the YNF team from Africa.

This game is still easy to win 2:0.

The level of e-sports in the African division is similar to that of the domestic secondary leagues. Tianhuan does not need to use a particularly powerful lineup to play against them, and he can win if he plays directly as a training match.

Two consecutive games of 2:0, Tian Huan, whether winning or losing the third game, locked the group's qualifying places in advance, and successfully advanced to the quarter-finals.

Korean media: "Tianhuan of Group C is the team with the best luck in the group, and he can qualify even while lying down."

Korean netizens commented one after another: "They are definitely not ATB's opponents, we have the world's strongest midfielder linkage." "It won't go far by luck. I heard that Tianhuan has an individual championship? At most, he will enter the top 4."

"Tianhuan Lieyang won the individual championship because our Cui and Park Ouba didn't participate in the individual competition, so he missed it."

Some people who understand Korean forwarded comments on Korean Internet to China, causing dissatisfaction among a large number of fans.

What is lying down?

What is it that Lieyang's individual championship was missed?

Fans of Tianhuan and Ye Shaoyang were about to die of anger, and they rolled up their sleeves and went to Korean Net to post emojis.

As a result, a yin and yang website in South Korea was flooded with ^_^ expressions.

Koreans are puzzled: "??"

No matter how the outside world argues, the mentality of Tianhuan players is still very stable.

What Coach Lin is most worried about is that Cheng Xing will have problems. Fortunately, after the double baptism of the world individual competition and the domestic finals, Xiao Xing's psychological quality has also reached a new level. In the group stage, Cheng Xing was not nervous at all. , performed well.

Coach Lin was completely relieved.

The third round of the group stage, the most crucial match begins on December 12.

Tianhuan ushered in the Japanese GOW team in the group stage.

The captain of this team, Naoya Fujita, a famous hero [Ninja], used to be the number one jungler in Japan. Chi Shuo had met him when he participated in the S6 World Championship. At that time, he was already very famous, and he debuted earlier than Chi Shuo. I heard that he will retire after S10, this should be his last competition.

Chi Shuo leaned into Ye Shaoyang's ear and said, "Fujita's style of play is very calm. We met him in the international server, remember?" Ye Shaoyang nodded: "Remember, his [ninja] played really well."

Coach Lin said: "GOW is a typical wild-core style of play. To play this team, we don't ban the jungler, but release all Fujita's jungler heroes. The coaching staff has two options. One is that Chi Shuo also chooses the wild-core game. , PK with Fujita head-on; second, Chi Shuo takes the tool man, let Yangyang bring the rhythm, and hit the opposite middle first. What do you think?"

Chi Shuo said, "I choose Wild Core."

Ye Shaoyang did not hesitate: "Take the wild core."

The two spoke at the same time, looked at each other, and smiled tacitly.

Ye Shaoyang said: "I believe that the wild nuclear team of the pool team is not afraid of the Japanese wild nuclear team.

Now Tianhuan does have the strength and self-confidence to "go up against the odds".

This is also Tianhuan's "head iron" style.

At 4 pm on December 12, the last game of Group C, Tianhuan vs GOW.

In the first game, GOW frantically targeted the mid laner in the BP stage, while Tian Huan Ban dropped two assists and released all the junglers. The commentator Yao Mu couldn't help but said: "GOW is a typical wild core team. Tianhuan released the jungle position in the BP stage. Is this the rhythm of picking the front of the wild core?"

Brother Dong said: "Anyway, Tianhuan is sure that the group has qualified, and it doesn't matter if they fight."

Fujita took the famous hero [Ninja], and Chi Shuo took [Sneak Thief].

The battle of the two wild cores, the wild area is fast-paced.

The early invasion and anti-invasion were extremely fierce, and the blue buff was pulled off three times.

The crabs didn't want to let go of the junglers on both sides, but in the end, Chi Shuo grabbed the first crab. Ye Shaoyang's cooperation with him was obviously better than that of the Japanese GOW team's Nakano.

In the first wave of squatting at level 6, Fujita chose to squat in the middle and wanted to kill Ye Shaoyang with a sneak attack; Chi Shuo went to squat and cooperated with Xiao Xing and Qu Jiang to kill the opposite shooter.

Ye Shaoyang has a keen sense of smell, and decisively pressed flash at the same time as the shadow of [Ninja]'s clone appeared!

Yao Mu said excitedly: "Beautiful! Yangyang's reaction was too fast, [Ninja]'s follow-up attack was beyond the distance, and there was no way to kill him in seconds!"

Dongge said: "After all, the [ninja] of the pool team played very well. Yangyang is very familiar with the rhythm of this hero. He guessed that the jungler on the opposite side might come to squat him, and he was always vigilant."

Ye Shaoyang escaped with a flash of blood, and GOW's first wave of jungler squatting failed; Chi Shuo's first wave of ganks got a blood, and Xiaoxing and Qu Jiang both got the reward of assists.

It was such a small gap that Chi Shuo took advantage of, snowballed wildly, and invaded the wild.

GOW's defense is very tenacious.

But when the game was 15 minutes into the game, Chi Shuo suddenly joined hands with Ye Shaoyang to roam, cooperated with Lao Qin to kill GOW's top order by surprise, and pushed down the upper tower!

I thought that Tianhuan had an advantage in the bottom lane and would play against the bottom lane. As a result, they roamed flexibly, went the opposite way, and took the lead in breaking through the top lane.

The upper half of GOW's wild area has completely fallen.

Chi Shuo, who got the red buff, started to stick to others. After stealing around, he defeated the opposing mid laner in seconds. His teammates immediately gathered in the mid lane and pushed down the mid tower.

Tianhuan's rhythm is getting smoother.

20 minutes into the game, Chi Shuo summoned his teammates to take down the dragon and pushed the crystal in one wave.

In the second round of BP, both sides still released the jungler.

Fujita chose the wild nuclear [King of Fighters]. Chi Shuo won [Sword Immortal]. This hero is very fragile in the early stage. Once it fails to develop, it will become a younger brother. Moreover, it is extremely difficult to operate by brushing mobs to accumulate big buffs.

Chi Shuo has used [Jianxian] in domestic competitions, but not many times, because it is too easy to be targeted in the early stage.

So in this game, Ye Shaoyang took [Spirit Master] to **** Chi Shuo in person.

GOW started very fiercely, ran to grab blue, Chi Shuo and Ye Shaoyang defended the wild area together, Ye Shaoyang put a shield on Chi Shuo at the critical moment, allowing Chi Shuo to escape. Although the opponent grabbed 3 buffs in this game, Chi Shuo only got 1 buff, and his development in the early stage was affected.

So, Ye Shaoyang gave him a wave of soldiers, and Lao Qin also gave him a wave of soldiers.

The bot lane Xiaoxing and Qu Jiang are vulgar and do not give the opposing jungler a chance to kill Xiaoxing.

With the efforts and assistance of his teammates, Chi Shuo passed the developmental period smoothly and began to walk with rhythm.

Ye Shaoyang was level 6, and the opponent moved slightly forward, and he [Holy Spirit Mage] flashed forward decisively, sealing the opponent's mid laner. Almost at the same time, a white shadow sprang from the grass, instantly dropped GOW's mid laner, and then disappeared, coming and going without a trace, elegant like a fairy!

The cooperation of the two is like taking a person's head from a thousand miles away, and they can still retreat completely.

Yao Mu said excitedly: "The familiar Zhongye linkage, Shuoyue and Lieyang's skill synchronization is still so tacit, this wave of sudden arrests in the middle is too beautiful!"

Brother Dong said: "Fujita is in the bottom lane. He wanted to kill Xiaoxing, but unfortunately Qu Jiang blocked the key damage. Fujita got Qu Jiang's head. Our assistant changed to the opposing mid laner, and Tian Huan still won this wave! "

Next, Ye Shaoyang and Chi Shuo began to wander frequently and gradually controlled the rhythm of the game.

Ye Shaoyang sealed one, Chi Shuo killed one.

Wherever you go, wherever you go, it's like a big devil patrolling the field.

The skills of the two are synchronized, just like one person is operating.

Fujita is undoubtedly an excellent player, but he is indeed old, and his reaction in the crucial wave of teamfights failed to keep up. Chi Shuo went around and killed the opposite shooter. When Fujita wanted to go around, Cheng Xing had already flashed away.

Tianhuan played 5 against 4, successfully won the team battle and ended the game.

2:0, Tianhuan defeated GOW.

Tianhuan 5 people got up and went to shake hands with each other.

Fujita stood up, held Chi Shuo's hand, and said with emotion: "MOON, you are amazing, you have maintained the state of S6 for so many years, and you are calmer than before."

Chi Shuo said politely, "You are also very strong."

Fujita smiled and said, "I'm going to retire. This stage has always been dominated by young people."

When Chi Shuo listened to his words, his mood was complicated.

E-sports is indeed an industry that eats youth food. When you get older, your reaction will slow down. Even a 0.1-second error in fierce competition may affect the battle situation.

One day, he will also retire.

But he hopes that there will be no regrets to retire at that time.

He will fight with Yangyang until the last moment, and then leave this beloved arena with Yangyang.

Chi Shuo and Ye Shaoyang looked at each other, stepped forward, and gave Fujita a friendly goodbye hug to the old player who has been competing for 6 years.

At the scene of the game, the information of Tianhuan's first qualifying group was posted on the public screen.

The domestic audience was jubilant, and the live broadcast room was also swiped by the barrage of "Tianhuan Niu Beer".

[It was really cool to watch Tianhuan's game, and he played very confidently in every game! 】

[When playing in a group, I never hesitate, I go up when I should, and I withdraw when I need to withdraw. The 5 people cooperate in a tacit understanding, unlike some teams that are sticky and anxious. 】

[Tianhuan of the World Championship is already a very comprehensive team with no weaknesses. 】

[Tianhuan come on, go ahead! 】

Yao Mu said with a smile: "Congratulations to Tianhuan, three consecutive 2-0 games in the group stage, all wins and advance to the quarterfinals!"

Brother Dong said: "The media in some countries said that our Tianhuan team had great luck in this grouping. In fact, luck is also a kind of strength. Only a team with strength can grasp good luck!"

Yao Mu said: "Yes, opportunities are only given to those who are prepared. In the next knockout rounds, I hope Tianhuan will make persistent efforts and achieve good results!"

In the final result of Group C, Tianhuan ranked first and GOW ranked second, and qualified for the qualifying.

Compared with the "no suspense" of Group C, the competition of other groups has become particularly fierce.

In Group A, the American champion team FNO won three consecutive victories, and the first place in the group qualified; however, Beimu and South Korea TOC have a record of 1 win and 1 loss. The showdown between the two teams will determine the final promotion list.

Ye Shaoyang also came to watch this game. The two sides were in a stalemate in the early stage of the game. Fortunately, Bei Mu was very good at seizing the opportunity. Da and Xiao Zhao Yibo killed TOC's mage shooter in a team battle. The game ended neatly and advanced to the quarterfinals.

In Group B, Jing Zhe faced a situation where strong enemies were waiting, and he was finally eliminated with the third result in the group. It was TIP, the runner-up in the Korean division, and AMT, the champion in the European region.

In Group D, ATB, the champion team in the South Korean division, made it through without a doubt.

The list of the top eight has been determined. Two teams from China, South Korea and Europe will advance, and one team from North America and Japan will advance. Jing Zhe and Moon Shadow World Competition escorted out after the group match.

The blogger "Poison Milk", who previously predicted that Tianhuan and Beimu would advance to the top 8, and Yueying and Jingzhe would be eliminated, commented on Weibo: "My prediction is still very scientifically based. In Group D, qualifying is as difficult as reaching the sky; Moon Shadow’s top laner and shooter are very strong, but the jungler and mid laner still need to work hard, and the teams in Group D are all very strong in the midfield, so it’s not surprising to get out.”

Netizens said: "Blogger, please predict the result of 8 into 4!"

Poisoned Milk said: "Tianhuan is the first in Group C, and the European HER who plays second in Group D has a good chance of winning; Beimu Group A is second in Group A and plays first in Group B. European AMT, but don't forget that Sean is also from Europe. , I know very well the habits of European teams. Beimu is very strong bilaterally. It is not so easy for Vanessa to kill Zhao Xinping. The duel between the two world-class female A players is very worth looking forward to. I personally prefer Beimu, after all, Xinping's sister More experience than Vanessa."

Some netizens left a message and asked: "Then do you think it is possible for Tianhuan to win the championship?"

The poisonous milk replied: "Tianhuan, I guess the best result is the runner-up. ATB is too strong, none of the 5 players in the championship team last season were replaced, Tianhuan's Lieyang and Fanxing only debuted this season. The newcomer has little experience in the competition, and the probability of defeating ATB is not high."

But Tianhuan's fans are still full of hope.

After all, Tianhuan is a team that often creates miracles.

Besides, Lie Yang is not an ordinary newcomer.

He was the mid-lane demon king who had five kills in the first game of his debut and ended with five kills in the final game of the finals. He was the winner of the MVP award in the S10 season and the champion of the World Individual Championship.

Such a player, predicted by the standards of a rookie, is it too underestimated?

After returning to the hotel, Ye Shaoyang saw Yue Ying and Jing Zhe's group in the lobby. Jing Zhe and Yue Ying's journey in the World Championship had ended ahead of schedule, and everyone was in a mixed mood.

Ye Shaoyang stepped forward and hugged Xie Weiyu tightly.

Xie Weiyu smiled and said, "It doesn't matter, we will treat it as a trip abroad to increase our experience in the competition."

Ye Shaoyang patted his shoulder and asked, "When will you return to China?"

Xie Weiyu and Xu Zhuo looked at each other, and Lao Xu smiled and said, "I won't go back yet, anyway, this season is over, and I have nothing to do when I go back. Let's just stay and be your sparring partner."

Xie Weiyu nodded and said: "Well, your next opponent, HER, we met in the group stage. They are from Germany, and their tactics are quite special. I discussed it with Xu Ge, and also asked the coach's consent. Stay with the sky. Huan, let's play scrims, help you guys, and improve yourself by the way."

Beside him, Fang Zhengqing came over and said, "It's a coincidence, we have to stay for a few more days, let's just practice together."

Ye Shaoyang warmed his heart, looked at them and said, "Thank you."

Xie Yuan smiled and said, "No thanks, we also need to be paid for being a sparring coach."

Chi Shuo looked at him and said, "Don't worry, I'll cover your meals for the next six months and help you gain ten pounds."

Xie Yuan: "...Are you revenge or reward?"

A group of people around laughed.

Fang Zhengqing patted Chi Shuo lightly on the shoulder, and said, "Although I have never had a tacit understanding with you, this time, I am optimistic about you, come on."

Xie Weiyu also said to Ye Shaoyang: "Yangyang is the most handsome Omega in my heart. He will definitely beat South Korea's Park Yuanxi. We will stay until the day of the finals and go to the scene in person to cheer you on."

Ye Shaoyang and Chi Shuo looked at each other.

On the way to realize their dreams, they have many opponents and many friends. I am very fortunate that so many friends are willing to stay and help them in this World Series.

There can only be one champion in the end, and someone is destined to be eliminated early. However, those who were out did not hold any resentment, but were willing to stay and accompany them to cheer for them who were still on the field.

If Tianhuan can reach the finish line, it will be the glory of the entire Huaguo Division.