Katowicz is located in the Silesian province in southern Poland. It is the administrative capital and largest city of Silesian province, and is also a center for heavy industry, transportation and science and culture.

Although Katowitz has so many names, in Zhao Yiyang's view, if this city is based on Chinese standards, it can only be regarded as a "small city".

However, in Europe, most cities are of this size as "small towns", and there are relatively few giant cities like London and Paris.

Zhao Yiyang prefers such small cities. Although the infrastructure of small cities may not be as complete as international metropolis, it is better than quiet and you don’t have to get stuck on the road when you go out.

The industrial city of Katowitz has been well known to gamers around the world for a huge game-related project over the past two decades.

In 2006, Intel Germany cooperated with ESL, the world's top e-sports league, to establish the IEM Extreme Masters. In the past decade, the IEM's global finals have gradually been placed in this Polish city.

From the ancient SC and WAR3 to the later CSGO and dota, as well as the currently popular PUBG, IEM's projects basically cover the most influential e-sports games in the world.

In addition to withdrawing from the IEM League in 2017, the IEM game can be said to be a carnival day for world e-sports fans.

The history of the CSGO project in Katowitz can be traced back to 2014. The first major in that year was carried out in Katowitz, but it was called EMS ONE at that time. Later, in 2015, it was changed to ESL ONE. Finally, Katowitz and clones were separated, one with the name of IEM and the other with ESL ONE.

Here, not only are there huge venues, but also the most enthusiastic audience in the world, who will cheer for every team that performs wonderfully on the field.

Tianlu has never appeared on such a stage. This time, they came here with only one purpose, that is, they can complete a competition in front of tens of thousands of audiences on the main stage.

"This is the esports holy place!"

Getting off the plane and at the airport, Tianlu's team members could already see many fans wearing e-sports club uniforms. Most of these fans came to Kato this time to support the team they love.

“TYLOO!TYLOO!”

Suddenly, the Tianlu team members who were about to walk out of the airport heard a sound of shouting their names coming from a distance.

The few people looked at the sound and found that they were several white people. Some of them were wearing FaZe uniforms and some were wearing MOUZ uniforms, but they were indeed calling Tianlu's name.

"come on!"

Tianlu's team members did not go there, but just greeted these friendly CSGO enthusiasts.

"I guess these Europeans must have seen that we have performed well recently, so they took the initiative to say hello to us! When we came to Europe before, no one paid attention to us!"

After getting on the bus, the little ghost recalled the scene just now and said.

"Isn't this a good thing? Isn't competitive sports like this? As long as you have grades, you will have attention and fans!"

Indeed, this slight change has begun to occur in subtle changes from the depths of the team members' hearts. They have tasted the taste of victory and naturally do not want to return to the original again.

It only took more than half an hour to arrive from Katowicz's airport to the hotel where the event organizer arranged for him to stay. After arriving at the hotel, Tianlu found that there were not many teams in the hotel at this time.

The reason is very simple. In Kiev, the sli s4 game has not ended yet, so some teams are still staying in Ukraine.

The team participating in IEM Katowitz this time is not inferior to the sli finals that have not yet been played.

Except for an Australian team ORDER, the other 15 teams are ranked in the top 21 in the world, and VPs are just the last place, 21.

Among the top ten teams in the world, all of them were present, except for NAVI and MOUZ, and these two teams happened to be the champion and runner-up of this Sli finals.

"Everyone cleans up their rooms first, and then gather in the training room!"

Datou gathered everyone in the training room. After eating some food simply, Tianlu started the training competition again.

The training opponents they received today are the French Dream Team G2, which was just eliminated in Sli, and the NIP, another dynasty team in Sweden.

Zhao Yiyang is undoubtedly the most excited about being able to train with NIP. Not only Zhao Yiyang, but other Tianlu players are also looking forward to this game.

Because, in the NIP lineup, there are two very popular star players, that is, the elderly duo - the two-time TOP1 winner GeT_RiGhT, and his best partner, which is very popular among CS players around the world, the talented elderly - f0rest.

These two legendary figures who have been in power since the 1.6 era have entered middle age by 2018, but their strength cannot be underestimated.

"I can finally fight with Lao Fo!"

Zhao Yiyang muttered in a low voice, and it happened that the little devil sitting next to him heard this.

"Are you a fan of Old Fo?"

"Of course, I just grew up watching Lao Fo's game!"

Indeed, in the current professional arena, many people, like Zhao Yiyang, grew up watching the game of F0Rest and Brother Hua like Navi, and also watching the game of these people, gradually became interested in this game.

"Then you will educate Lao Fo well in the training competition later!"

The little ghost has a relatively unique brain circuit and is not very good at speaking, but Zhao Yiyang is already used to it.

"You'd better be careful, don't be beaten away by 30-year-old elderly people!"

In the training match that afternoon, Tianlu won 2-0. To be honest, this NIP is really a little worse. In this BO2 training with Tianlu, the best record was the 30-year-old fo, who was already 30 years old, and the other three young people basically didn't perform well.

However, after Tianlu and NIP's training matches were completed, the grouping of this IEM Katowitz has officially come out.

In the past, Katowitz's competition has been held as a major several times, but there are times when it is not a major.

If it is a major, it will naturally follow the major competition system. If it is not, then follow the IEM competition system.

The last time Kato was the Astrails, they were at their peak and they also won major.

This year's Kato is still divided into two groups, each with eight teams, playing double-defeated knockout matches.

This competition system is not like the Swiss round. Because the first round of the competition is BO1, it is easier to get upset.

Tianlu was assigned to Group A, and the teams in the same group include SK, Team A, Liquid, C9, Gambit, Cowboys and AVANGAR.

Judging from this grouping, Tianlu's strength is probably around fifth place, so they still have the opportunity to appear in the double-loss competition.
Chapter completed!