Although the name of the Korean league is shouted loudly from top to bottom, the competition venue is far from being big.

Including the auditorium, it is only six or seven hundred square meters in total.

The first two rows were filled with coaches, staff and players from each team, and the remaining rows were filled with tickets for the audience.

The reason why it seems to be thundering and raining is because of the problem of league positioning.

Because since '97, financial crises and economic crises have occurred in Asian countries one after another, and the ordinary people are very short of money, and there will not be many people who come to watch the games.

Therefore, KeSPA's main game is live TV, covering the whole country, since you can watch it at home without spending a penny, there is no need to rush to the competition venue to spend money to watch the game.

Only loyal fans will come to watch the game.

Therefore, the small playing field is not that it is not taken seriously, but it is not necessary.

KeSPA's competition is based on team matches, that is, fan battles, that is, team matches, and ring matches.

At the beginning, each team will have one player to play, and whoever wins will continue to stay on the stage and wait for the opposing team to choose the next player to challenge, knowing which player will run out first, and the victory will belong to the side that has not used up.

Merlin sat in the third row because he was a guest, and sitting in his position, he could easily see the picture on the screen.

As soon as the match began, Merlin was shocked by the level of both sides.

Whether it is discipline, accuracy of operation, hand speed, or the ability to guess the opponent's strategic intentions, they far surpass the American players.

Even though he himself is a two-time national champion of StarCraft, he feels that compared to the two people who are competing on stage, victory and defeat are like five or five.

Although I have always heard that the professional league in South Korea is of a high level, because KeSPA strictly prohibits the leakage of game videos, and the video data is still not fast enough in this era of Internet speed, it is difficult to spread to the past.

Therefore, the high level that Merlin imagined was not as high as the level of the two players in front of him.

The shock lasted for a while, and Merlin thought of the waiter he had seen in the Internet café a few days ago, the waiter was so strong, he had a chance to beat him, and the professional players in the professional league should be stronger.

"How are they the best in the team?" Merlin asked his escort in English.

The escort is one of the leaders of KeSPA, and he naturally knows the StarCraft project very well.

He explained to Merlin, "None of them are the strongest players on their respective teams. As you know, our league is based on a tournament format. If you start with the best player, and if you waste too much concentration and your level drops, you are likely to lose against a player of his strength.

Therefore, the first players to play are generally the lower strength of the team. ”

That's a low level?!!

Merlin was going crazy.

The level of these two players in front of them is very likely to win the top three players in the national league in the United States.

Most of the players in the United States are far less clear in their thinking than the two players in front of them.

And the operation is much worse.

However, although he was shocked by the statement of the accompanying personnel, he still agreed with it in his heart.

Why do you agree?

That's because StarCraft is really a very energy-intensive game.

Don't look at a game, it's often about half an hour at most.

But from the first seconds of the game, players in the middle of a match won't feel easy.

This trend is more pronounced in confrontations at higher levels.

Even Merlin has now given up a little bit of the way of training by playing ladders on the 10,000-household battle platform every day.

Because often after ten sets, Merlin doesn't know what he's doing.

The whole head has almost become a lump of paste, and the movements and reactions in the hands are completely subconscious behaviors.

If in the beginning, playing StarCraft was still a pastime, but when he is now at a high level and relies on the whole to make money, it is just a very repetitive job.

By the way, doesn't it mean that man-to-person battles, player-versus-player games tend to change a lot, and there will never be two games of the same kind?

That being said, the higher your level, the more likely you will know that there are only a few routes to victory in a game that seems to have infinite possibilities.

In other words, the changes throughout the game have been constricted.

And after the goal of the game is to win, any player will choose to play in a way that is easier to win.

Therefore, the development of "StarCraft" to the present is more about the process and response.

It's like when you play Go, you don't have a few moves, and the same is true for StarCraft.

If two opponents meet for the first time, neither of them knows the details of the other. Generally, as long as you follow the standard process, you will know whether the other party's level is weaker than yourself, or much weaker than yourself, or on par with yourself, or stronger than yourself, or even invincible.

It's like when the scout forces of the two sides meet, if the opponent's level is really weak, Merlin can use a small wave of scouting to kill the opponent's whole family.

And the difference lies in the understanding and proficiency of the game.

Everyone cultivates the same martial arts secrets, some people are strong, and some people are weaker.

In fact, esports is as brutal as any sport, and if you want to be a professional player, although you also value hard work, you also value talent or talent.

If someone has talent and doesn't work hard, then he will never be able to enter the professional team.

Some people don't work hard and have no talent, just an ordinary player.

And some people are hardworking and talented, he is the strongest king of the game.

The saddest people are not those who don't work hard at all, but those who are willing to work hard but have no talent.

I can only watch others surpass me little by little, and I can't do anything about it.

Of course, the cult of athletic competition also comes from this.

If it is an achievement that can be achieved by anyone, even if it is owned, it will not be respected.

Those who are respected and strong are people who can do what others cannot.

For example, the professional players of various teams in "StarCraft" are to take a group of talented and talented people who are willing to work hard to give those ordinary players chicken blood.