Since they did not grab a place in this season's official event, the group stage of this year's ESL was also simplified and adopted an online format.

As expected, the offline stage of this ESL will not start until February 15th, and the main stage does not adopt the GSL winner-loser bracket double-elimination format commonly used by Ti and other official W Club cups, and the main event only has four quarter-finals, two semi-finals and one finals, and the overall stadium competition cycle has been compressed to four days.

After all, Shencheng Meiben Center is not a small venue with a small name, although it has the same sponsors as ESL, but counting the installation cycle, the one-day venue fee has also exceeded five figures, soaring towards six figures, and it is always a good thing for the organizer to save a day's rent.

But it's not good for others.

"They didn't say that there is no home stadium schedule these days......"

The girl who almost had the words "wind and dust" on her face casually pushed the trolley box, and then threw herself beside Lu Xinlei: "I can only count on you to lift my hand now-sister!" ”

The girl who had been entrusted with such a heavy task tilted her head to look at the other party, blinked her eyes, and said the next sentence as if she had not been asked:

"So how many of you are coming?"

"Probably...... bar. ”

The girl's college roommate, ranked fifth, Jiang Yunxi, who constantly emphasized that she was Lu Xinlei's sister, nodded: "We have been looking at the information of your club, and we started to discuss it after your roster was released a while ago, and after asking you if you would play a few days ago, you said that you would, and we made up our minds." ”

She leaned back tactically and buried herself in the back of the sofa in the reception room: "I was the first to come...... It's the first one to be hit. ”

"No," Lu Xinlei still didn't laugh, "You should be the only one who can't find a place to live." ”

"Huh?"

The girl lowered her head and flipped through her phone: "Except for you, several others have sent me screenshots to say that they have booked a place to settle down in advance...... Well, it's really just you. ”

"Oh."

Jiang Yunxi's voice dropped suddenly, and it seemed that he really realized that he hadn't thought it through: "Then it's not an excuse for them not to tell me in advance that there were no offline matches in the group stage two days ago." ”

Realize a fart.

Lu Xinlei suddenly wanted to sigh, but she reacted in time and bit the tip of her tongue.

It's not a very responsible thing to blame for her mistakes to something that has little to do with it, but she doesn't have a position to raise this now, not to mention that the girl in front of her is actually not unaware that her too hasty actions have caused trouble to others, and this kind of excuse is actually just to make herself comfortable.

That's what girls are.

Lu Xinlei, who almost forgot that she was also a girl, sighed in her heart.

"So what are you going to do this time?" The girl asked a more direct question, "But first I have to confirm one thing - did you buy tickets for the competition venue?" ”

"You don't have to worry about this," Lu Xinlei's sister patted her handbag, "No matter how reckless I am, I won't forget this." ”

"That's fine."

The girl took her eyes back and put it on her phone: "I'll ask the coach if I can give you Mao a bedroom to come out, uh-"

Before she finished speaking, she flew over, and her sister's arms were broken, and the second half of the sentence was just enough to make people understand the meaning of the sentence was also squeezed into her mouth by the arm she held.

"I knew I didn't have to worry about ...... here"

Lu Xinlei, who was held by her in the crook of her arm, rolled her eyes vigorously after finding that the other party couldn't see her expression.

But there's nothing wrong with that. After stealing out the gap to type the short message to Hai Ziming, she also dropped her mobile phone, turned over her hand and scratched Jiang Yunxi's cheek pressed against the top of her head.

Then things were decided like this, when the main team didn't use the main base in this good area, Hai Ziming, who could still speak two sentences in the entire club staff group, used the equipment here basically at will, and for this girl who gave a considerable degree of attention to either side, as long as she didn't put forward the request of "this base is not well lit, let's tear down the ceiling", Hai Ziming will try her best to agree.

So in this group stage of ESLone, CRG - although it is only a member of the reserve team, but now TDG is really going to play under this name - has such an energetic mature girl like a small dog in the base.

Although from the overall appearance, to be honest, Jiang Yunxi, who is also in the category of "cute" and is quite above the average level, cannot be said to be more outstanding than Lu Xinlei, but compared to Lu Xinlei, who can naturally unfold a "no one close" force field while sitting there, this girl who can talk to others quite naturally eats more openly among the other guys in the base.

Lu Xinlei has nothing to say about this situation, of course she knows that her performance is indeed close to autism, but this will not affect her actual training and life, and this is not her problem.

In most cases, she just wants to concentrate on doing something, and it doesn't matter what she is doing, what she wants to pursue is the state of "concentration", whether it is concentrating on a single row, concentrating on special training, concentrating on analyzing videos or finding a TV series from the Internet to watch it attentively, in essence, she is actually letting herself have no time to think about other messy things.

In this series of "concentration", it is not that there is no gap of "concentrating on communicating with others", but it is also a blessing of concentration, when she does these things, others do not dare to talk easily without anything serious.

That's actually good, everyone does everyone's thing, and everything is not wrong.

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The group stage group has actually been announced a long time ago, and the day after the girl received Jiang Yunxi, it was the time for the group stage to officially start.

- So how free Jiang Yunxi is for this girl to run over at this time.

and the current TDG, or, at least the one who should be called into a group is CCT from the CIS region - the title sponsor is Coca-Cola, which can also be called Coca-Cola; DODO Dodo in the European Division and SVS, a midstream team from the C League, except for SVS, which is considered to be looking up in China, the other two teams are just first-line middle and lower teams in this division that generally can't compete for official cup places.

Of course, it's not that SVS are so strong, they are a little further down in the C-League standings than NW, who are also directly invited, and they were also brushed off early in Minor's open qualifiers, so they have the opportunity to participate in this ESL open qualifier.

That's right, in addition to the eight teams invited directly by the ESL, there are also eight teams selected through the open qualifiers of the six major regions - but this open qualifier is not open to all players like the official W Club Cup, in fact, only those regular club teams that have registered are eligible to sign up for the competition.

Today's group stage opener was played by two directly invited teams from Group C and DODO.

Before the start of the game, Hai Ziming finally found Yu Yang and Lu Xinlei, who had agreed to play half of the group stage before the game, and asked them how they were going to practice this "half and half", and the two chose the latter between letting one person play a full round and then changing to another person and letting the two play separately in BO2 of each game. And Lu Xinlei, who lost in the rock-paper-scissors that decided who would play in the first game opener of BO2, could only sit in the spare seat in the training room and watch her teammates debug the equipment.

The tournament organisers are already in place, and the online tournament will inevitably be a notary, but they did not signal that they want unrelated personnel to leave the venue - in fact, there is no need, there are more tournament officials in the CRG base than in the offline stadium.

The team, which consisted of two court judges, two photographers and a spokesperson, suddenly gave the already spacious training room a bit of a cramped feel, but fortunately, they were all professionals, and they all controlled their bodies and stayed in the places that had the least impact on the players.

In addition to the two cameramen who were present: one of them was responsible for fixing the camera position to shoot the venue and the presence of the game players, and the venue cameraman who kept the file to prevent the situation of the substitute game, his job function is more similar to that of the referee, he does not need to turn on his camera before the official start of the game, and there is nothing to do now; The other person is different, he walks around the training room with a camera on his shoulder, filming every player and sometimes directing the players to make their own movements in order to shoot.

The two girls in the whole room, Lu Xinlei and Jiang Yunxi, who were the most eye-catching, received his greatest attention at the beginning, and he did exchange his work with Hai Ziming and the two girls: after taking material for the documentary after the ESL ended, he also got a certain permission to shoot.

Jiang Yunxi, who was completely an outsider, refused to show his face in the face of this situation, so he simply left the training room and came to the lounge to fish.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, as the spokesperson finished checking the table, the field referee also checked that there were no illegal plug-ins installed in each game machine, and no macros were set on the external equipment, and the venue cameraman turned on the camera, and the game officially began.

The opening game of the four groups started at the same time, and coincidentally, the opening game of the four groups only took place in Group C in two directly invited teams, so on the Whale War platform, which purchased the domestic exclusive broadcast rights for the ESL series in the next few years, the most popular among the four commentary streams that opened at the same time was Group C.

However, most of the audience also knows that CRG's home team is preparing for the Stockholm Major Championship, which will be held almost at the same time, and the "CRG" that is playing here is nothing more than a reserve team, except for those who swiped the screen in the live broadcast room "CRG is not playing Major? And "Is the Major an ESL this time?" Most of the rest of the spectators who understand the situation are only following this match because NW's group stage does not start until the second round of Group D.

They just clicked on CRG's games to kill time – but then they discovered their blind spots.

"XDM, there is an inner ghost, withdraw!"

In the live broadcast room, as a player's perspective, the fixed picture on the referee position of the venue is played, and in this picture, Lu Xinlei, who is facing away from her teammates who are BP, is just a small figure partially obscured by the back of the e-sports chair.

"This is the family of the team member?"

"Your family members over there wear team uniforms?"

"Family members wear mourning clothes to control their emotions, and the festival mourns smoothly."

Because of boredom, Lu Xinlei, who did not broadcast the game live, but indirectly followed the game in the live broadcast room of the war whale, of course, could also see these barrages.

This kind of behavior is actually not a violation, the live broadcast of the war whale has a delay of six minutes compared to the live time, and when the girl saw herself appearing in the picture, the live broadcast happened to be the BP link, and in reality, the teammates behind him had already taken the lineup and were preparing to match the line.

This feeling is quite amazing, the girl looked at some of her figures exposed in the live broadcast screen, and couldn't help but want to play a prank, so she turned the chair, naturally stood up in front of the camera, and walked around the competition room - this is also not illegal, before the game starts, the objects they carry have been strictly inspected, and Lu Xinlei, who has been watching the live broadcast, will also be checked by the referee behind the venue from time to time to check the background program.

There is no possibility of cheating, so there is no suspicion of such an action, and the vast majority of those present are adults, and there is always mental endurance at this point.

And Lu Xinlei didn't do anything overdone, she didn't bypass this row of machines to the front of her teammates, just walked around the aisle between the two rows of computers facing each other, and then returned to her position again and sat down, and more than five minutes later, the sudden outbreak of the barrage also made her feel that this trip was worth it.

“？？？？？？？”

"Brothers, what's going on?"

"CRG has female players?"

"It's not news, brothers, don't you look at the club squad?"

"K god K god I want to watch the girl play the game"

Although there are occasionally some words that are not very eye-catching, but on the whole, it is okay

Although there are occasionally some words that are not very eye-catching, but on the whole, although there are occasionally some words that are not very eye-catching, but on the whole, they are okay

Although there are occasionally some words that are not very eye-catching, but on the whole, it is okay

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