In any case, such a competition is just a thatched stage in front of the real Dota top event, and it can't be on the stage compared to the just-concluded Global Invitational Tournament, but this platform is already the most direct starting point for Lu Xinlei to climb that peak, and she doesn't feel that she has any characteristics that can stand out overnight compared to the other 26 million active players.

It's not that she hasn't fantasized about the kind of plot that happens to her after being appreciated by the big guys and being promoted to the left and right right and going to the sky from then on, but this is just a fantasy, and even the esports genre rarely involves how an ordinary player can "normally" become a top professional player - the road is too long, and there are too many uncertainties to do and encounter.

It is not enough to have the strength of one in a million, it is far from enough.

Even if you take her live broadcast as an example, the situation has not changed, since the drainage of Brother Bird last weekend, her live broadcast room has once again returned to a tepid situation, and the grand occasion of almost the whole network discussion that day seems to be just a flash in the pan, and only part of the heat brought by it has precipitated into regular fans. Although such a situation is normal, it is a little less ideal for girls who will inevitably have a little idea of "soaring after becoming famous in live broadcasts".

On the other hand, it might be easier to give up. This is indeed a royal road full of glory, enthusiasm and dignity, but there are only forty people who have been able to follow this path and finally climb to that peak. And Lu Xinlei's biggest reliance now is just her own physical performance and the man's game understanding, and with these things alone, it is not enough to engrave her name on the champion shield.

So, should we stick to this path? Such a question accompanies the girl into dreamless dreams.

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In a certain sense, this kind of thinking is only a certain understanding of reality, but it is not too in-depth, or it is unfounded.

Eight hours later, Yinling.

Not far from Yinling and? The dawn of the two cities came almost at the same time, and now, while the dreamless girl was still asleep, someone had already woken up.

Lang Guangnan, or rather, the more well-known A-god AckX in the circle, has already sorted out his outfit before the sky is bright, and CRG, which has achieved the third-place result in the just-concluded Ti8, has given all the players a long vacation, and until the next season's domestic league is ready to start training, all the players, including him, are not required to train strictly.

But of course, as a decorated veteran who has been with the club for two years and has been in his career for more than a decade, he knows what the behind-the-scenes workers in the team are doing now.

The people who worked behind the scenes: coaches, assistant coaches, analysts, and even the staff who recruited talent for the academy team did not enjoy the holidays, and they didn't even think that the third place was very important - they believed that the team was overshadowed by two games in the BP session, and the biggest responsibility for not making it to the finals was themselves, and these data analysts and members of the coaching staff were working hard to study the team's shortcomings exposed in this The International. So as to develop a targeted training plan and even transfer arrangement.

But now these have nothing to do with Lang Guangnan, although he also misses the hard work of these people, but these are indeed their responsibilities, all he has to do is to give his best performance in the league next season and compete for the team to qualify for the next World Invitational Tournament.

All he has to do now is to relax himself as much as possible to adjust his condition, and the schedule of The International, which lasted for almost a whole month in August, has allowed him to overdraw his physical strength and energy like a taut longbow, and these quantifiable states have reached a relatively complete level in the first two weeks of adjustment, and those unquantifiable mentality and willpower even he does not know how much he can recover.

But it was no problem, he sorted out all his equipment and walked out of the house, to the garage.

He has enough accolades, and as a successful person in the past perfect tense, he continues to fight just so that he can continue to make his voice heard in this field. This is his choice as a veteran, if all he wants is to be a successful person in peace, the various capital he has accumulated for his career is enough for him to have no worries in his life, but no matter when the media interview is chosen, he has never seriously considered retiring.

As a 29-year-old player, this insistence is somewhat puzzling, but almost all professional and former pros support him.

First, AckX's style of play has undergone several obvious transformations with his age, but miraculously it has not declined, obviously he is getting older, and his reaction speed and concentration should have begun to decline significantly, but the figure of the years has not left any traces under his hands.

And secondly, everyone who hasn't lifted an Aegis thinks everyone should fight to lift it, and everyone who has lifted a champion Aegis knows how mesmerizing it feels to be at that moment when the whole world is focused on you and all the cheers and thunder are coming for you.

No one wants to see a handsome player with both strength and dreams retire from active service, and the only time for him to announce his retirement is to be on the podium after he wins the Ti championship again.

Lang Guangnan also knows the thoughts of these people, although the reason why he continues to fight in the main force of the first-line team is not entirely true, but this explanation cannot be said to be wrong.

He rolled over and stepped onto the locomotive and started the engine, loud enough to shatter the rest of the morning's dreams, but fortunately he was in his single-family mansion in the suburbs, and there were no people close enough to wake him up—young people didn't choose to live here, and the old people who would faintly hear the engine woke up sooner than he did.

This is one of his daily lessons, and it is also one of his main hobbies outside of Dota, just like the man in another world who thinks he will calm down when he cleans the table, the best place for Lang Guangnan to calm down and think seriously is on the locomotive running on the intercity highway in the early morning.

In fact, this journey will not take him much time, the early morning of summer comes much earlier than other seasons, and when he returns to his starting point, the sun has just completely put its body into the eastern sky, and there is still time in this morning.

As the captain of the team, he has to deal with the staff behind the scenes to a certain extent, and while the rest of his teammates are busy enjoying the rare leisure of the offseason, the early morning ride is already a rare time in his day, completely reserved for himself.

"The training plan can be the same as last season's," the next league season will officially start in October, and the team's training camp will be before that, and it is really not too early to deal with these issues, "Do you have any news from the academy side?" ”

The end of the chat app fell silent for a while, presumably rummaging through information. In the first half of last season, the average age of the entire team has reached 25 years old, which brings not only rich experience but play, but also an inevitable decline in physical function. In fact, last season's average age of CRG's first-team teams was one of the largest in the entire capital league.

Although a young Carry player was brought in after the first Major of last season, the problem they are facing now is the loss of activity due to the aging first-team squad, and not all professional players can maintain the same level of performance as he does at the age of 30.

However, this problem is not very serious, as one of the old giants in China, CRG has a complete youth training system and team, what they have to do is to select those who can gain a foothold in the first team from these seedlings, and then test their run-in with their own team in the arranged training matches.

After the former Carry player chose to retire bravely, the 25-year-old mid-laner on the team also had the idea of retiring, and he did not hide this idea in several post-match gatherings of his teammates: the fame and prize money brought by the Ti third place and the prize money were actually enough for him to find the next step in his life.

For this kind of thing, Lang Guangnan did not say anything special, e-sports is always a bowl of youth, especially for those players who fight in the first team, and in the mid laner position, which requires higher physical performance such as reaction speed, older age can almost only have a negative impact.

He respects the choices of others, and from the team's point of view, the team must also find someone who can replace his veteran - even he doesn't know how long his passion will last, and these players who are already over 25 years old can lose their career and choose to retire at any time.

Even for those of them who have already established themselves in the first team, impacting, or impacting the Ti championship again, is an unattainable bubble-like dream, and at this point, there is no essential difference between them and Lu Xinlei's problems. While they have proven themselves to be among the top 26 million Dota players on the CN server, they can only claim to be competitive among the other top players selected from the world's 60 million player base, not the unstoppable.

Although this factor does not crush a person with pursuits, when the understanding of life gradually exceeds the pursuit of dreams, such a reality will inevitably tell them how to choose the path.

However, if the fire in that person's heart is burning all the time, the road is not so important.

Lang Guangnan - AckX took off his helmet and put it on the seat of the locomotive, and as he was about to leave the garage to start his arrangements for the day, the ringing of his cell phone caught his attention:

"God A, there's an interesting one here"

The news came from his behind-the-scenes boss and friend, a rich guy with a bit of a mysterious relationship with CRG's entire club and the company behind it.

"An anchor recommended by Brother Bird two days ago, young and very powerful, Brother Bird's evaluation is that he can play the game with a little training and training"

"Brother Bird gave a stream of guidance, but I think that if this person is really so powerful, he will definitely be sought-after if he is really popular, so I first controlled a comment, pinched the traffic a little, and didn't let this person be recommended. If you have a poisonous eye, help us inspect the goods first. ”