But of course, before facing the "expected" worst enemy, NW, the conquerors are the obvious enemy.

Due to their style of play, the PredatorS, known as the Malay Tigers, have been well-known despite their modest results after the Ti6 season – mainly due to their highlight-reel performances in Ti6, when PS stumbled into the Ti6 Main Event as an obscure team, and after barely reaching the upper bracket in the group stage, they were met by TRB, which was the peak of the year.

TRB, who was eliminated in the first round of the ESL in 2019, had Meglio who did not lose any first-line carry and was able to take out a hand of Meglio from time to time, and Magician, who almost faintly became the world's No. 1 and No. 2 position that year, and the goal of that Ti was of course to win the championship, and whether it was the audience or the odds given by the bookmaker, it can be seen that TRB was the favorite to win the championship in that Ti.

But the TRB team was defeated neatly in the upper bracket by the then only scratched up, and the fledgling PS was neatly defeated, and they quickly adjusted their form to gain a foothold in the lower bracket, but only two rounds later, PredatorS, who had been defeated in the second round of the upper bracket, reappeared in front of them.

It's another 2-0, like a spell, and like a gap that seems to be shallow but makes Lux sigh, although this PS that staged a mess on Ti6 to kill the master was ultimately just a supporting role of how invincible the champion team was that year, but that year's TRB was at most just a background board to add power to the supporting role.

However, Ti6 has been around for two years now, and PredatorS, who completed the feat of being the favorite to win the championship with a double kill, has now undergone almost earth-shaking personnel changes, and although the system they are best at in the early melee brawl still retains the flavor of the year, it is no longer as sharp as it was back then after several changes in the version.

On the third day of the main event, the start of the playoffs semi-finals, the two groups were decided in the first draw for the playoffs: NW in the left half against CCG, who had caused a lot of problems for the conquerors in the group stage, and in the right half of the group, the conquerors and their next opponents.

However, the conquerors who were going to race in the afternoon did not need to rush to the stadium in the morning.

In other words, you don't have to wake up early in the morning on match day as you normally do, which is not a good thing for esports players who are used to going to bed late and waking up late.

- Except maybe for Lu Xinlei herself.

As always, she woke up early, and two memories from her mind helped the girl adjust to it quickly, provided that no one thought there was anything wrong with her doing so. Counting the time wasted washing and dazing, she also arrived at the training room at about half past eight in the morning — two hours earlier than her teammates.

At this point in time, she could have one to two hours of time at her disposal, but Lu Xinlei, who walked into the training room with the same mentality today, saw two characters on the seat that should have appeared in an hour and a half:

Her head coach has already been in place in advance, and Xia Zhen, who was suddenly brought out of the fish form yesterday, is also sitting at the computer in front of Hai Ziming, typing intensively on the keyboard.

"Morning."

"Early."

It's not an unusual situation, it's an official competition in the afternoon, and it's not strange to meet anyone here now, so Lu Xinlei just nodded and said hello to them and prepared to find a place to sit down by herself - not next to Hai Ziming and Xia Zhen.

In daily training, the distance between the two of them is not close - before the ESL is ready to start, Lu Xinlei, who deliberately keeps her distance, is outside the circle of main players, and after the ESL starts, Xia Zhen, the only one who is pressed in the list as a substitute, takes her place, although now both of them are players waiting for the game in the first team, but the inertia of thinking still drives her to find a more marginal position, until she is stopped by Hai Ziming:

"What are you doing this far over there?" It seemed that Hai Ziming, who just couldn't get up and came to the training room, yawned, and pointed to Xia Zhen, who was speechless in front of him, "If you also play in a single row, I will look good if you two sit closer...... But there's not much point in playing solo now. ”

"So what can you do?"

Lu Xinlei, who didn't find anything important in the coach's words, turned around and walked in the direction of the two, the eyes on the bridge of Xia Zhen's nose reflected the light of the rising sun outside the window, and the girl couldn't see his eyes clearly.

"Wait until he's done with this game." Hai Ziming looked at the situation on Xia Zhen's screen, "It's almost over, and then you can see if you can play RPG together." ”

"Huh?"

Facing the girl's subconscious doubts, Hai Ziming nodded: "That's right, let's play RPG." ”

As the name suggests, the RPG here is unlikely to be short for "rocket-propelled grenade", but it is indeed a role-playing game, and in the context of Dota 2, these three letters refer to a series of player-made maps that come with the in-game arcade.

In the other part, the "RPG" is a reference to the Dota 2 Battle Pass, a mini-game that comes with the booklet — this year's theme is five players teaming up to play a dungeon.

"It's not possible to practice tactics in the morning, it's unlikely that anything will be unearthed by practicing routines, and personal training is not in a hurry for a few hours - in fact, when they all wake up, we will have at most an hour of training time." Hai Ziming rubbed his hands, "So I'm going to let you guys team up to try RPGs - it's a big deal to relax before the game." ”

"It's no problem......" The well-founded statement made Lu Xinlei have no doubts, but before that, there was a more basic question before today's arrangement: "But I didn't buy a book." ”

"Huh?"

This time it was Hai Ziming's turn to be puzzled.

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The book, BattlePass, and the Dota 2 World Invitational Battle Pass are also one of the main reasons why the Ti series of events has been able to maintain the highest prize pool in esports.

Every gamer can get this Battle Pass in the game, and depending on the level of the book, players can get a lot of - and a considerable number of - and a lot of them will be out of print in the future - in-game items, including items such as hero cosmetics and in-game effects, and also unlock some new in-game gameplay, such as the voice roulette that can play the opponent or teammate mentality at any time during the game, and this RPG mini-game as an add-on.

The most direct way to improve the sub-level of this book is to recharge with krypton, 30% of the income earned by Qixun and W Club through recharge will be invested in the World Invitational Tournament of the current year as a prize pool, and a considerable part of the other 70% will be invested in the operation of major leagues and official tournaments in the next year.

This information is now understood by Lu Xinlei, part of it comes from Lu Yaofeng's memory, and the other part comes from his own observations and observations: in this world, the operation mechanism of the Ti book will inevitably change, in the former world, the release time of this Battle Pass is only a few months in the summer, and here, players can buy and recharge the Ti book at any time throughout the whole season, and the end time of this book activity in the strict sense is the end of Ti every year, However, the new season's Ti Battle Pass won't give players much of a chance to breathe.

In 2018, for example, on August 26, the finals of the finals, the Ti8 Battle Pass was discontinued, and less than a week later, on September 2, the Ti9 Battle Pass, which warmed up the Ti9 season, was released.

With the exception of the Sbeam platform sale in July, the percentage of deposits in the Battle Pass is fixed at any time of the year, and this special can only be purchased per person.

In general, due to the particularity of this set of Battle Passes, almost all Dota 2 players will intersect with it, and even professional players standing at the top will laugh and joke "Isn't my Krypton book equivalent to paying myself a salary", while bringing the level of the Battle Pass to a height that ordinary people can't reach-

But it doesn't include Lu Xinlei, she always feels a little insulated from these in this world.

"Because the few immortal videos released now don't feel very good......" Lu Xinlei recruited from the truth, "and these level items are also a bit ...... Stupid.,So I never thought of buying a book.。 ”

Of course, the main thing is that it was poor before - and it is not much better now.

"That's right."

Standing in the girl's position and thinking about it for a while, Hai Ziming also accepted this statement: "The immortal videos of the past few years are okay, but the immortal accessories of the book in the past two years are indeed a bit too much special effects, and they are a little incongruous on the heroes." ”

"So what to do, I don't necessarily have the money to fix this now." Xia Zhen's on-screen game was nearing the end, and the wandering swordsman he wielded, Sven, had begun to wield his iron fist to impose the final sanctions on the other party.

"Then I'll give you the whole one first, count it in this month's salary-" Hai Ziming made his final decision, "It's a bit unreasonable to even buy a book for a career...... I don't see any cosmetic items on your account. ”

"Actually, there is."

In this regard, there is no need for Lu Xinlei to conceal it: "I used my roommate's live broadcast account to do live broadcasts before, but the game account is the current one, and I have been stuffed with a lot of things by adding friends...... But most of them aren't pretty. ”

"Well, what's not so good?" Although Hai Ziming can stand in the other party's position and think about it, he doesn't know the other party's aesthetics too well, and while taking out his mobile phone to give Lu Xinlei's payment link to make money, he also asked by the way, "I think most of the accessories in Dota are pretty good." ”

"Mainly, well, it can't be said to be ugly, or it doesn't match."

The payment process is very fast, so fast that people can't even produce the feeling of "I just spent money", and Lu Xinlei is not spending her own money now: "The original modeling of many heroes in Dota is very good, and it is okay to replace some parts, and some of the changes are very large, but the video without changing the basis makes people feel very incongruous." ”

"And there are too many special effects, which also affects the look and feel." She added.

"Anyway......" Xia Zhen on the side didn't know when he had taken off the headphones, and Hai Ziming also noticed his movements, "It's just right, you're done playing here." ”

"The two of you will see if you can form a wild team car and play a dozen RPGs."

"I really want to play RPG." Although Xia Zhen didn't look surprised, he was still a little helpless, "But it's okay." ”

"There is a very good one in this RPG game, five people go down to the dungeon, there must be communication and division of labor." Hai Ziming clicked on the most popular one in several Battle Pass mini-game items lined up, "If you're not familiar with it, it's easy to roll over even the lowest difficulty for the first time." ”

"So you're very experienced."

"Of course." Faced with Xia Zhen's ridiculous interjection, Hai Ziming was also happy to hit the snake with the stick, "I can't beat you with regular Dota, and the RPG won't let me hit hard?" ”

"Okay then," Xia Zhen shrugged and half-straddled the headphones on his shoulders, "Then you will take our two inexperienced children?" ”

“…… Have you forgotten what you're here for? ”

After an inexplicable pause for two seconds, Hai Ziming declined the invitation, "I didn't sleep well last night, let's see if I can make up for another hour of sleep before those boys get up, you two actually don't care whether you play RPG or not now, I am ready to wait for everyone to gather at a table to do this project." ”

"But it's best for you to play a dozen first, and the double C position is good for running in before the game."

The TDG coach stood up from their side, waved at them without hesitating his balance of -220, left a serious "come on" and left.

And the two people in the training room also suddenly fell silent: Lu Xinlei was hesitant to open the few immortal treasures that could open immortal items as a gift from the purchase of the Battle Pass, while Xia Zhen scratched his head and didn't know what to say.

"Forget it," In the training room where there was no one else, the girl's self-talk was also clear, and Lu Xinlei's current "self-talk" was actually said to the people next to her, "Let's open these immortals." ”

She glanced back at Xia Zhen, and he who had been staring at the girl's side face on the side was startled by the sudden accosting: "Anyway, it's open when it's open, so let's open it now." ”

Lu Xinlei nodded, then clicked the mouse, and the young man's eyes also turned from her face to the result of unboxing on the screen—in the following ten seconds, his expression quickly turned from normal to collapsed.

"What's this, the creeping coat of arms—it should be relatively rare, last in line."

Of course, Lu Xinlei, who understood the value of this thing that she opened in the third round of the Immortal Bottle, thought about it for a while, and decided to pretend to be stupid, and on the other side, Xia Zhen seemed to have been frightened:

"This ......"

The corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching, and he didn't know what to say.

"It's a good thing."