In contrast to the so-called "Riverside Night Talk", which does not meet the audience until the official broadcast of the BO3 match, the media interviews of each major team appear on the pages of major public media on the day of the media day.

Most of the questions asked directly to the coaches and players of each team are from official ESL reporters, and the content of these interviews is inevitably the same, and these questions and answers all point to the upcoming ESL main event. All the teams that have the confidence and desire to compete for the championship did not hide their ambitions in this Q&A.

But.

These modest or flamboyant rhetoric did not attract the attention of the audience, and even NW's star mid-laner Nnnn's uncharacteristically ruthless remarks that would have caused a wave of discussion on the forum have not received much attention until now.

Or rather, these contents are all stolen attention by the same "news".

And the protagonist of this "news" is now waiting in the personnel passage of the venue.

"Just go out."

As the announcer in the main arena announced, the players and coaches of the North American team Tornado, who were ahead of the Conquerors, walked out in order to receive cheers, leaving less than a minute for the young Conquerors to prepare.

Of course, for those who have been playing in TDG for half a year, or even more, and have considerable experience in offline competitions, such a scene is not too big, and they and the other staff on the scene are more worried about the "focus" in the team.

"The opening ceremony will be unveiled this morning, so don't be nervous."

The venue staff responsible for guiding the team through the field consciously took on the task of removing pressure for the girls who were playing for the first time:

"You don't have to be nervous when you really play, these people on the field are Dota players, and they are all in reverence for players who can play professional games, and if you play at your own level, they are your fans."

In the face of such an earnest enlightenment, Lu Xinlei, who originally had no nervousness, became a little constrained - she didn't explain that she "actually suddenly had more than ten years of experience in offline competitions", and now this kind of small competition is completely drizzle, and she can only nod her head like a chicken pecking rice.

"yes, got it."

Her last reply overlapped with the presenter's voice coming from the end of the aisle:

"The next one to enter is the top team from the CN region, Conqueror Gaming, and they are invited to enter with applause!"

"Okay, that's not too much, just line up and walk out."

The staff walked two steps quickly and came to the position of Hai Ziming, the leader of the team. Today, the head coach of TDG specially wore a CRG team uniform, but it was just the opposite of the white design on the players, not only did there be no advertisement from the sponsor of the team uniform, but the color scheme was also just the opposite.

"Coach, today's black team uniform is quite handsome."

"The main thing is that there is no psoriasis."

The inferior road combination that followed closely behind Hai Ziming laughed and laughed without a match, disrupting Lu Xinlei's thoughts that she might have been thinking, and when she took her attention away from the anti-colored team uniform on her head coach, she had already come to the exit of the aisle-

Then, all that remained in her ears was the voices of the audience.

Rao was mentally prepared with her good intentions, and when she faced so many spectators, she was also quite shocked.

"Don't be nervous, don't be nervous."

Nie Hongfu, who noticed the footsteps of the girl in front of him, reminded him in a whisper behind his back, in fact, he was only frightened, and Lu Xinlei, who was far from the point where the six gods were ownerless, also immediately resumed her pace.

What scared her was not the "large number of people" itself, but "there were too many people compared to her expectations".

She had never expressed her opinion directly about the ESL, but of course the girl had her own judgment: as a little-known tournament with a few second-tier teams competing for the championship and popularity, this tournament was just another commonplace gambler's in the former world. And such a game, even if there is an offline stage, the income won from the audience can never balance the expenditure of the game.

So at the beginning, she just thought that the audience in the ESL stands this time would not exceed the crowds of the two brothers, and even thought about how much money it would lose for the organizers to rent a venue in Meiben, Shencheng.

- Judging from the current situation, it is still the mindset that limits her imagination, with the heat of the venue at today's opening ceremony, the ticket organizer alone can pull back a large part of the expenditure.

"The two-front Conquerors sent two whole teams at the same time this month, Stockholm and Shencheng, and now in front of everyone is a young team full of vitality, and the audience who follows the C2 League must be familiar with them, if it were not for the ban on the same club team not being able to appear in the same league, this team will also be a force to be reckoned with in the C League."

"They were seeded No. 1 with four wins and two draws in Group C the day before yesterday, and they were drawn in the first round against Tornado Tornado, who finished second in Group B.

The two hosts of the arena briefly and briefly introduced the conquerors who appeared on the stage, and did not favor any one player, nor did they have too many personal feelings, and they were indeed businesslike.

But there is a difference in the situation in the broadcast seat, after the camera swept from the leader Hai Ziming to Xia Zhen in the back of the palace, the director's picture has been focused on Lu Xinlei's body.

This also made her height at the lowest point in the "concave" formation of the team fully displayed.

"The next thing to enter is the dark horse from the CIS region, the CCG team, and they are invited to enter with applause!"

With such a curtain call from the host, the director reluctantly moved the screen away from the girl's unrestrained posture and broadcast the appearance of the second seed CCG in Group C, but even if the picture has been cut out, these few seconds of close-up are enough to trigger a discussion.

"Is child labor allowed in esports?"

"I'll see who else dares to do well when this is broadcast."

"I couldn't see the height on the base screen before, and I guess I was not fifteen or sixteen years old."

And on those forums, the reaction of the discussants is more obvious in the discussion thread that has been fermented for a longer time - this topic has started as early as yesterday, if there are still some viewers in the previous group stage who live on the client watch page and are too lazy to pay attention to the live broadcast of the game, there is no reason not to watch the team interview that was directly released.

However, these seemingly ignorant characters are often suspicious of some counterintuitive things, and even have a conspiracy theory attitude, and they naturally form another argument:

"Can she really play?"

"Isn't it, CRG is shameless to this extent?"

"There is no strict monitoring in the group stage, maybe it is to let her show her face, and someone else will play the game."

"Anyway, the mule is drawn by a horse to come out for a walk, and if the conqueror insists on not letting her play, it will be a real hammer."

"I guess the CRG management is trying to make some trouble."

"Advertised. Don't look at it, you might be ......"

Whether it's comments with anticipation or malicious speculation, it has nothing to do with the girl standing on the stage at the moment, and after the opening ceremony, she probably guessed the public opinion situation and took back her mobile phone and didn't search for these things for the first time, but followed the team to prepare to temporarily return to the backstage and wait for her own game to start in the afternoon.

It's not that you leave the venue and go back to the hotel where you stay, after all, although the road is not too far, there will still be an hour wasted back and forth, and the current team, or at least Hai Ziming, needs to hurry up every minute to prepare for the next game.

- Now that I think about it, there is a reason why the opening ceremony was so popular, and the first game of the morning can be said to be a well-deserved focus match, with CN's veteran club NW playing against the same veteran TRB Red Bull team in Europe, which was originally considered an old rival in the major official competitions, and they met again here after not getting an official cup place in this half season.

Naturally, the attention it can attract goes without saying.

Lu Xinlei glanced down at her phone, she did miss a lot of information during the period of time she was on the stage, the most conspicuous of which was.

"You're really short standing there, hahahahaha"

The girl blinked twice and clicked on the message from Wu Leyi.

"I saw you, I saw you"

"I have a very good temperament after wearing the team uniform."

"I'm here at 214, I should be there in the afternoon, if you have time, you can run out to find us, we're all here"

Although separated by two screens and a considerable distance, she could still feel the other party's mood when sending these messages.

If you really have to make an analogy, it is to see your own goose go out of the village to bite the dog.

The girl was amused by this analogy that suddenly appeared in her mind, and then looked up to find her mellow coach standing in front of her:

"What do you see, smiling so happily?"

Hai Ziming took off the staff uniform with the main black color and put it on his shoulders as usual.

"It's nothing, it's just that I saw the message my roommate sent me." There is no need to hide this matter, and Lu Xinlei also answered truthfully, "They are all in the venue now......"

The girl, who was not very familiar with the Meiben Center, turned her head and looked in the general direction of the "214" area through the window dug out of the wall of the backstage walkway, but to be honest, it was too far away, and her eyesight was quite good, and at this distance, she could only see the black pressed human head changing color with the lights of the venue.

"Hmm...... You laughed like that, I thought you saw your boyfriend. Hai Ziming, who made such a joke as if testing the bottom line, did not receive any disgust from the other party, the girl just stared down at the mobile phone and typed, and shrugged her shoulders by the way.

"I'm still single — and I'm not prepared to say anything else."

"In this way, I thought that today's college students would embrace youth one by one." The head coach of TDG, who didn't know what was going on in his mind, said, "I didn't go to college seriously, and I don't know what the situation is." ”

"I don't really know." After the girl sent the message in her hand, she put away her mobile phone and looked up at Hai Ziming, who kept a relatively polite distance from her, "What's the next arrangement?" ”

Since the girl had taken the initiative to bring the topic back on track, Hai Ziming did not continue to chat: "Probably not, I have already watched this Tornado game in the evening after the draw yesterday, and you know that it is lackluster in short." ”

"So going back now is probably just continuing to practice adaptation," the head coach tilted his head and glanced out the window, "your words, in fact, it's not bad for two or three hours of training, if you need it, I can give you a morning off, and come back at the end of the lunch break to finally prepare for the game." ”

"Huh?" The girl, who was thinking about how to find her roommates during her lunch break, was shocked by such a declaration, "Is this okay?" ”

"If you think that if you don't train for a few hours, you won't be able to beat the mid-laner on the opposite side, of course not."

Hai Ziming took two steps back to the side and made a way out of the way: "But I think it should be no problem, our current strength doesn't really need to squeeze your time every minute to train." ”

"That's great," the girl's hair seemed to be beating after receiving such permission, "and can I go over now?" ”

"Yes, you can take off your clothes first."

"Huh?!"

"Don't run to the stands in your uniform...... I changed my clothes. Hai Ziming, who noticed that there was a problem in his words, scratched his ears and decided to rely on the old man this time, "If you don't bring it, you can go to other teammates to borrow a coat and put it outside." ”

"Uh-oh." After perceiving her negligence, the girl didn't dig too much into the problems in the other party's words, suppressed her emotions, and then said hello to Hai Ziming and returned to the dressing room.

The head coach looked at her back and was silent, as if he was recalling something, but finally did not say anything.

For players who face this kind of big scene for the first time, mentality is often the first factor that restricts the level of performance.

Training can't solve this situation, even those professional counselors can only counsel, and the stress and other mental problems faced by players who are on the professional stage for the first time must be solved by themselves after all.

There are some people who are born with big hearts, and this kind of problem cannot be called a problem, while there are some people who are good at self-enlightenment, and it is not too difficult to solve such problems.

And those who might have a problem, no one knew they were going to trip in such a place until the problem was revealed. There are not a few such people Hai Ziming has seen.

For them, Hai Ziming, who has no achievements in the field of psychology, can only let them look for factors that may allow them to relax, and this factor largely comes from the outside world, or family, or the support of friends can allow them to overcome these problems to a certain extent.

It's just an adventure, or an attempt.

Hai Ziming stomped his foot and pulled his mind back on track - in this situation where there was no help with his fists, his task was much heavier than that of the team members who could take a half-day off at any time.