The sadness is also because your strength is not enough. If you are strong enough, you will have enough confidence.

Although the activity that night didn't take long, it made these players feel some different atmosphere in the tense competition atmosphere, which to some extent relieved the tension and pressure of the knockout round.

"Yang Shen! What have you been called by the organizer for?"

When Zhao Yiyang returned to Tianlu's training room from downstairs, he faced the infinite curiosity of his teammates.

"Just played a small game!" Zhao Yiyang said while throwing a dart with his hands: "Chicken shooting game!"

Of course, my teammates didn't know which "chicken" he was talking about, and they all showed a clear expression: "After all, they are professional CSGO players, and I guess this kind of small game will not leave this range."

"No, we are really shooting 'chicken'!" Zhao Yiyang explained seriously, but his teammates didn't want to listen at all.

"Is it fun?"

"What reward did you get in the end?"

Faced with the questioning of his teammates, Zhao Yiyang had to tell him his record: "I ranked third in our group and did not advance to the finals, but I won a meal with Gla1ve!"

"Damn! So good!"

"I would have learned some English if I had known it. This kind of activity looks pretty good!"

In fact, every player hopes that he or she will have the opportunity to appear among the world's top professional players, which means that others recognize him or her. However, for Chinese people or people who can't speak English, this kind of activity is born without them.

After all, in the world of CSGO, Europe will always be the center of the territory and the Americas will also occupy a place. In this case, everyone will use English for foreign exchanges, but the Chinese team does not have such an opportunity.

"Okay OK! Let's gather together, I just came up with another tactic..."

Just as the team members kept asking about the event that Zhao Yiyang participated in just now, YNK in the corner suddenly asked everyone to come over and gather.

After all, tomorrow will be the game. No matter how everyone performs on the field or the result is, at least they must have a clear conscience before the game.

...

On March 4, 2018, all major e-sports projects of IEM Katowitz have basically entered the knockout stage, not only CSGO, but also other projects, such as StarCraft 2 and dota.

As the highlight of Kato in previous years, CSGO competitions have always been on the prime time of the day, that is, at night.

Therefore, the four BO3s in the quarterfinals were divided into two days, with two BO3s on the first day and another BO3 on the second day.

As the first team to enter the quarterfinals, Tianlu and G2's BO3 also played in the first game on the first day.

In the afternoon of the same day, Tianlu's team members came to Kato's offline venue, Spodek Stadium.

In a town with only 300,000 people, this gymnasium can accommodate 15,000 spectators at the same time. Of course, when holding e-sports events, there will definitely be seats on one side that cannot be used because of the large stage and screen. Even so, it can accommodate 10,000 spectators.

On the morning of the knockout stage, the StarCraft 2 game was played in this venue. Although Zhao Yiyang had played StarCraft 2 for two years, he did not have time to pay attention to the results of the StarCraft this year.

In the afternoon, the venue ushered in the dota2 event competition. It is also under the V Society. The dota2 event system is still very different from CSGO. This year, Kato also successfully won the qualification of a dota2 major, so there is also a dota project this year.

As a ten-year dota player, after arriving at the venue, because there was no computer to warm up the players, Zhao Yiyang and other players found a place in the audience to watch a secret team that was invincible by the Chinese team LGD against ti.

The game was very exciting, but for local audiences, their interest in dota is obviously not as high as CSGO.

According to Zhao Yiyang's naked eye, the attendance rate of the venue in the afternoon's Dota competition was only half, less than 5,000 people.

However, as this game progresses, more and more people enter the venue. Needless to say, these people are all coming to watch the CSGO competition.

In the end, the Chinese team LGD fought hard for three games, but still failed to defeat the Secret Demon King and was scored into the loser group.

After the dota project is over, it is finally the CSGO project's turn.

The staff on the scene were also turning to the time to change the stage, and the two teams Tianlu and G2 who participated in the first game were also allowed to enter the opponent in advance for debugging.

"This is the battle room!"

This is the first time Zhao Yiyang has entered a real opponent in two lives, and it is a battle room with audiences.

Looking at the opposite platform surrounded by glass, he couldn't help but ask: "Is the battle room really soundproof?"

"Of course, it's not soundproof! Or how can there be something that can soundproof when facing the shouts of tens of thousands of viewers!"

Mo also thought of the first time he entered the battle room, and he could no longer remember what the game was, but the scene was only a few hundred people at the time, which was a huge venue that looked like now.

"It's over, I'm a little nervous!"

Sitting in your seat, you can see the situation of half of the venue as soon as you look up. Although it was only 5:30 in the afternoon, the attendance rate in the venue was almost 70%.

70,000 people are 7,000 people, and Zhao Yiyang has never played in front of so many people.

"No! Brother, don't be nervous!" Although he was also very nervous, the little devil still said to Zhao Yiyang sitting on his left.

"I don't think you should be nervous, you should be excited! Guys! This is one of the home courts of CSGO. It is the dream of many players to be able to compete in this venue!"

YNK, who realized his dream with another identity, was obviously not right. His face was flushed, and he was obviously stimulated by the scene in front of him.

Yes, every player hopes to be recorded in history, and Kato's stage is the best mark of their career, because it is CS's home court and has the best audience in the world.

As time approaches 18 o'clock bit by bit, more and more people are in the venue, including many people who may not play games. They will also take their children to such venues to experience the fanatical atmosphere.

"Welcome to the scene of IEM Katowitz in 2018!"

With the host's appearance, the atmosphere in the entire venue was instantly ignited. Zhao Yiyang, who was sitting in the battle room, also intuitively felt the heat wave brought by the abortion.

"It's so crazy!"

He has only seen this kind of scene on computer screens before, but only when you are in the scene can you feel the fanaticism brought to people by CSGO.
Chapter completed!