On November 2, the weather was sunny.

Entering November, the temperature in the Magic City has also dropped significantly. Moreover, many teams set out for the competition venue in the morning, so Zhao Yiyang felt a little cold as soon as he walked out of the hotel door.

This time Sli's competition venue was selected as the gymnasium of Jing'an Sports Center. This gymnasium has hosted many e-sports events, so placing the competition here will relatively save time and effort.

A total of eight teams participated in this competition, divided into two groups. Tianlu, HellRaisers, Heroic and Spirit were placed in Group A. The group stage still chose the GSL format, but this time Sli was obviously better than the just-concluded Asian minor.

The schedule should be more formal, and every game in the group stage will be played in BO3.

The game lasted for four days in total. The first two days were the group stage and the last two days were the knockout rounds. The group stage did not open the auditorium, so if Tianlu wanted to feel the atmosphere of the home game up close, they had to show up.

On the stage two days later, that is to say, they want to qualify as a group.

On another timeline, Tianlu rarely made it to the main stage in such domestic international competitions. Moreover, in Zhao Yiyang’s memory, Tianlu from the previous world was very successful in this Sli competition.

Here, he also failed to break through his upper limit. He ranked last in the group very skillfully and was directly eliminated.

Therefore, Zhao Yiyang hopes that since his arrival has changed Tianlu's fate in the Asian Minor, he also hopes to go further with the team in this event.

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It was already 9 o'clock in the morning when Tianlu arrived at the competition venue. Since there were spectators entering the competition this time, there were only two battle rooms on the stage.

In order to prevent any problems when the team debugs the machine, before the start of today's first game, each team will have the opportunity to enter the battle room to simply debug the machine.

However, as everyone has been saying, e-sports is really not on time. It was almost 11 o'clock before the first game of the first day officially started.

"Okay, welcome everyone to watch this BO3 between Heroic and Spirit."

The on-site commentary came to his ears. Zhao Yiyang had just opened his eyes and planned to watch the game through the screen in the lounge.

"How's it going? Are you feeling better?"

"Much better than yesterday, at least I have enough energy to play the game!"

Offline competitions in e-sports have always been considered a physical job. Take CSGO as an example. If two teams play a BO3 game, it will take at least two hours. If there is a bonus in a certain map,

time, then the competition market will directly expand.

Moreover, during these two hours of competition, the players' attention is highly concentrated, so often after the game, the players will have a feeling of "floating", similar to the feeling of "floating" just after swimming ashore.

situation.

It is also for this reason that in CSGO events, there are very few finals that are BO5. Looking at it now, it seems that only the ESL series finals will use BO5.

The first game was between a Danish team and a CIS team.

In terms of the hard power of both sides, Team X, Heroic, is obviously stronger than Spirit.

There was no upset in the whole game. Team

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In fact, for the nuke map, it seems that only some teams with better tactics will choose this map.

Take Tianlu for example, they are not even very skilled at throwing smoke in the outfield of this map, so they have never considered playing this map at all.

But here's the problem. In the Asian competition before, everyone's map pool was not very deep, and basically they could only play four maps. Therefore, in terms of BP, there was only a saying about who picked first, and it was not too obvious.

The advantage of the picture pool.

However, in this kind of real international competition, the map pool advantage of European or CIS teams becomes very large. If Tianlu meets a European team in the game, it is very likely that it will be on the third map.

I came to a map that I was not familiar with or had little training.

After the first game ended, another half hour passed before the second game started.

In the second game, the Cowboys, who had just played against Tianlu, took the lead. What they were about to face was HAVU, an emerging team from Northern Europe.

Although this team is not strong at this time, and can even be said to be relatively weak, there are still many players in this team who have truly proven themselves after two years.

For example, the future ENCE duo, Finland's strongest genius Sergej and the handsome conductor Aleksib.

At the same time, there is also a sniper OttoNd in this team, who also performed well in the Berlin major in 2019. Of course, the reason why he is well-known to CS players is because of his ID and a certain e-sports "star" in China.

similar.

Although these people will all be first-class professional players in the future, in 2017, they were actually about the same age as Zhao Yiyang, and even sergej was only 16 years old at this time.

Although the geniuses who have not yet grown up can fight back and forth against the top 20 teams in the world, at the critical point, the disadvantage caused by the lack of experience still does not allow them to have the skills.

With the ability to harvest the game, it was a pity that they lost with a score of 0-2.

However, 16-year-old Sergej did once again show his genius in this game. Although he lost the game, his rating of 1.21 was the highest in HAVU.

On the other hand, NAF, who had been overshadowed by Zhao Yiyang in the Asian Minor, seemed to stop being so angry and went on a killing spree in this game, taking 62 kills and only dying 37 times, with a rating as high as 1.51.

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Finally, after the first two games of BO3, it was Tianlu's turn to play.

After sitting backstage for a long time, Zhao Yiyang finally had enough energy. At this time, he could feel that although his physical condition had not yet returned to its peak, his mental state had been completely adjusted.

What they will face is a very powerful enemy in Group A of their group, and the HellRaisers team that is currently ranked closest to them.

At this time, there are still some names in this international team that everyone has heard of, such as the team’s veteran ANGE1, as well as powerful players like Deadfox and ISSAA.

"come on!"
Chapter completed!