"it's over!"

Zhao Yiyang woke up from his sleep. At this time, he had returned to the base in Kiev, Ukraine. However, whenever he closed his eyes, all the things that came to his mind were the just-concluded Katowitz's arena.

Tianlu lost to FaZe, which was expected. All Tianlu members, including Zhao Yiyang himself, had no special thoughts about the defeat in this game. If they could not beat them, they could not beat them, and there was no way.

FaZe, who defeated Tianlu and entered the finals first, lost to fnatic who struggled to defeat Astralis with a score of 2-3. The final was the final among these two teams, but FaZe won the runner-up in another major competition.

Major runner-up plus Cato's runner-up, although the results look absolutely good, for a team like FaZe that only regards the championship as its only goal, it is undoubtedly the biggest failure.

Especially after you win the runner-up once, you no longer want to get the second place. You either break the shackles and become the champion, or you just can't make it to the finals, and there is no such dream that is close at hand but is like a bubble in the water.

On March 11, when Tianlu returned to Kiev, they once again took the flight back to China. The reason was very simple. In the next half month, there will be three events waiting for them in China.

These three events are the Asian qualifiers of the Dreamhack Masters, the Sli Chongqing Invitational and the Asian qualifiers of the IEM Sydney.

Overall, the time is quite fast, but after these three games are over, they will have a nearly one-month offseason, and the Dreamhack Marseille will only usher in the Dreamhack Marseille Station at the end of April.

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"Everyone is cleaned up and leave on time at 2 pm!"

Datou and the players repeatedly emphasized the time they set off because he could feel the physical fatigue of the players.

In the three months of the beginning of the year, they first flew from China to Atlanta, the United States, then flew back from Atlanta, and then flew to Ukraine, and then flew from Kiev to Katowitz, Poland. They just returned from Poland to Ukraine two days ago, and now they are going to return from Ukraine to China.

Just watching this series of formation, you can feel the physical fatigue of the contestants. If it is the first time or the previous time you go abroad, you may still feel the freshness brought by the journey, but when the journey becomes normal, people will only feel fatigue from it.

However, this is the fate of CSGO players, or one of the disadvantages of not having a league-based competitive sports. Although there are a lot of opportunities for external stands to fight in the cup system, it also consumes the enthusiasm of the players.

The only reason that allows players to persevere in the world year after year is probably the bonus you can get after participating in the competition.

"I can finally return home!"

When Zhao Yiyang saw the boxes of clothes in his room, he suddenly felt this kind of emotion.

Although they felt the training atmosphere of the European team these days, experienced the ladder strength of European passers-by, and even achieved the best results since Tianlu started the team, but on the eve of returning home, he still felt impatient.

Because all the things that concern him the most are in China. His parents, his girlfriend, and even Chinese delicacies, such as barbecue, hot pot and various foods, are completely unavailable to come into contact with in foreign countries.

Even after they won the semi-finals of Kato, Tianlu's celebration banquet for his team members was actually a cooking pot for himself by buying some materials in the local market.

However, such a simple meal is the biggest compliment for the contestants.

"I will have to have a barbecue first, then two hot pots, one Chaoshan beef hot pot, and one Chongqing hot pot!"

After stepping onto the plane, Zhao Yiyang made a promise to his teammates around him.

"I want to eat too. I miss the spicy hot pot downstairs of the base!"

"I want to eat braised pork!"

After being hooked by Zhao Yiyang, all the taste monsters in everyone's body woke up. They felt bored when they saw the food delivered from the first class cabin on the plane.

In the past, when going abroad, the organizers were actually only responsible for providing the players with economy class air tickets, but for a long journey like Tianlu, players would usually upgrade their own classes.

But this time, the air tickets returned to China were paid by the club themselves. Even on the day they entered the semi-finals of Cato, General Dawn had already spoken. At least before Cologne, as long as they went abroad to play games, they were all first class!

Rich! This is Zhao Yiyang's evaluation of Liang Liang.

In fact, he also knew that even if every flight was first class, for people like Liang Liang, it was just a splash of water. However, wealth was wealth, and being able to pay for others was enough to prove how much Liang Liang liked the CS game and the Tianlu club.

"By the way, 5E found us here and wanted us to do an activity!" On the plane, Datou suddenly said to his team members.

"Ah? What kind of activity is it? I really don't want to participate in such an activity!"

Little Knight is a very "lazy" person. He doesn't want to participate in such activities except games. But there is no way. This event was invited by 5E, and it is difficult for the club to refuse.

"Don't worry, it's not a hard-working event, it's just an exhibition match. You can just play it online!"

It turned out that a few days later was exactly the time for the 5EPL new season to start, and Tianlu also got a very good result, so 5E invited Tianlu and two groups of people to play two BO1 games respectively to create momentum for the new season.

One group of people was the best players in the 5EPL last season, and the other group was the teams organized by some anchors themselves.

Of course, even if the first team is almost all active professional players, if the Tianlu fights with these two groups, there is still no suspense.

However, the exhibition competition focuses on a gimmick. For the current domestic CS environment, just having a name from Tianlu is enough to attract a large number of attention.

Moreover, because Tianlu has achieved great success in the world recently, many players in the outer circle have also begun to pay attention to CSGO.

It even shows that the daily active users of domestic CSGO players have increased by 100,000 in the past two months.

Although this number is undoubtedly a very small number compared to other games, the base number of Chinese CS players is very small, and this number has increased by almost 50% compared to before.

This is the feeding back of e-sports for projects. With the increase in the release time of a game, it is unlikely to rely on the breakthrough in gameplay to attract players. At this time, game manufacturers will come up with other ways to increase user stickiness. E-sports is undoubtedly a very good sign.
Chapter completed!