Chapter 190: True Heroes

The 2003 ESC can be said to be the most difficult time in the history of Chinese CS to compete in the international arena, but it is also the most exciting one for Chinese.

The seven-member Chinese delegation landed at Charles de Gaulle Airport only two days before the competition, and they were greeted by no fans, no flowers, no applause, and no media reporters.

A group of boys stood in the cold wind for more than two hours before Li Chenjie, a representative of the Chinese Embassy in France and an interpreter, arrived to greet them.

In the first half of 2003, a large-scale infectious disease appeared on the southern continent of China:**.

The disaster caused the French Consulate General to make it difficult for the Chinese players to apply for visas, and the AS team encountered a series of medical examinations when they arrived, and by the time they arrived in the small town of Poitje, it was only two days before the start of the tournament.

The warm-up match could not be played, the adaptation match did not have time to participate, and the most glorious thing was that none of the Western powers were willing to play a friendly match with the AS team.

Lack of adaptation, language barriers, psychological gaps, and lack of respect from foreigners...... These made Lu Fei sigh.

When he came to represent the U.S. team last year, he was so well equipped.

There are coaches, team leaders, personal translators, the bosses of the US Embassy, private doctors, assistants, ACTV reporters, CNN reporters, BBC reporters, and even US President George W. Bush to take care of them, but what about today's Chinese athletes?

They have nothing, they just have loyalty and faith in CS, and the determination to keep going.

"Come on, I support you and always support our own team of Chinese." Lu Fei and AS Team Captain Laixi shook hands tightly.

LaixiLaixi is the kind of captain who is full of momentum at first glance, and he is completely different from that Taiwanese Gu Xianyong: "Thank you, we will be serious, and we will never lose face to us Chinese." ”

Lu Fei shook his hand tightly, facing the warriors who were about to come on the field, it was useless to say anything else at this time.

In this tournament, the result of the draw of the Chinese team was very unfavorable, especially CS, AS drew into the veritable group of death: French landlord GG, American giant zEx, and German tank PP.

A commentator from the British newspaper The Sun commented: "The luck of the Chinese delegation is too good to say that it has already entered the finals ahead of schedule. ”

This sentence really made Lu Fei and the others angry and worried.

Today's zEx is more powerful than last year, and the top management has once again poached Sunman from coL, and although the lineup has not changed much from before, it definitely has the strength to win the championship: boms, LeKtriK, Dkt, sunman, and Volcano.

"It's a team that can compete with 3D." Vesslan and Lu Fei watched the game together.

zEx's strength has increased dramatically, and the only thing that hasn't changed is the arrogant and arrogant character of this bunch of people, and Sunman's foul mouth.

At the Q&A before the start of the game, Sun Man obviously forgot the lesson Lu Fei had taught him: "What? You're asking me again about the level of Chinese players, rubbish! I don't care about you! ”

The audience was in an uproar.

Sunman's arrogance has long been famous, but no one could have imagined that he would dare to make such a statement at the World Series.

What made the Chinese even more angry was still to come, the etiquette before the start of the game, the whole zEx team refused to shake hands with the AS team members.

"Yellow people are also worthy?" Sunman said disdainfully.

Lei Ming, who was in the audience, couldn't help it on the spot, stood up and waved his fist: "My day your mother, mother, you deserve it?" Dog's day garbage, American bitch, fuck you. ”

"Come on, rise up! Come on, AS! Lu Fei and the others stood up and shouted for the AS brothers.

The reporter put the microphone to the mouth of the captain LaixiLaixi, facing the audience all over the world, facing many cameras and lenses, LaixiLaixi took a deep breath and said angrily: "Our Chinese team came here to challenge the highest level in the world, we hope to compete with the strongest opponent, if we want to play against opponents weaker than ourselves, afraid of meeting real masters, for the strong, that is a shame, an eternal shame, that is not our Chinese style." ”

In the last two sentences, LaixiLaixi yelled at the camera completely.

At this moment, the blood of all Chinese in the world was boiling.

Lu Fei was also moved by this famous captain, what is the demeanor of a general, this is called the demeanor of a general.

Although the momentum is there, the gap in strength is still there.

The match between AS and zEx adopts flexible tactics, allowing opponents from across the ocean to appreciate the strategic wisdom of the East.

But the short-term lagging zEx is not a master to mess with after all, and the rich experience of the tournament quickly pressed AS down, and in the end AS lost to the third seed team by a very small score, but AS has many bright spots in the game, which has impressed Lu Fei.

Sure enough, the AS team defeated the powerful PP team from Germany in the next match, which was the first time that the Chinese team had defeated the Western powers in the World Series.

But after all, AS was fighting abroad for the first time, and he was not experienced enough, and finally lost to the host GG, who had the best time and place, but AS's fighting spirit has been deeply imprinted in the hearts of many audiences.

Not only the Chinese audience, but also the blonde and blue-eyed viewers from other countries were moved by the spirit of the AS team to face difficulties in the face of strong opponents, and they all gave a thumbs up.

At the moment when AS was eliminated from the competition that day, the fan group from New Jersey, USA, after watching all the games, sent a T-shirt to the AS team, and the T-shirt had an excited message for the AS team:

“Youvefoughtamarvelousbattle.ThebraveandresolutespiritofyourChinesereallyimpressedtheorld.Youaretruechampion.Youguysdidagreatjob”

(You played very beautifully, the tenacity and courage of the Chinese have left a deep impression on players all over the world, you are real warriors, you are the best, I wish you deeply)

This T-shirt bears witness to the brave spirit of China's CS pioneers.

"Sunman has always been arrogant and rude, Lu, please trust my friend, if we meet them, we will definitely give you a bad breath." Vesslan comforted Lu Fei like this.

Meng Yang of the AS Shen Halberd in France and the Q3 project lost to the world champion, and Guo Bin of AR3 also lost to the "World No. 1 Brother" by a slight disadvantage, and the Chinese delegation was wiped out in Paris, France.

Lu Fei's expression was very ugly.

The 2003 ESC, like the 2001 Winter CPL, became a classic that was difficult to surpass.

Because there were too many shocking upsets in this World Series, and it also witnessed the birth of a new generation of legends, that is, the great success of the tactician Vesslan.

This is Vesslan's one-man ESC, the prodigal son who has been in the CS world for three years of hardship and hardship, and finally reached the throne of the world champion.

Starting from NIP, he has worked in coL, SoA, Allstars, eoL, AdrenGX, MDK, and Wandering, and he is the second legend to become the champion of the ESC competition after Lu Fei.

The CPL finals in '01 are known as the "Battle of the Century", and the finals of the ESC in '03 are also one of the classic moments in memory, known as the "Road of Kings".

The new army led by Vesslan, Team9, has become the biggest dark horse in history, and has hung three German carriages Mouz, mT, TAMM, pressed the Finnish skate blade Dsky, destroyed the Swedish GameOnline, and the British aristocratic 4K, and destroyed SK in the winner's group very thrillingly, in fact, it is normal for SK to be defeated by Team9, because Element was originally Vesslan's apprentice, BDS made a low-level mistake, He shouldn't have let Element design tactics in this game, Vesslan knew too much about Element, and again, Team9's "freezing tactics" actually killed 3D, and finally defeated the host GG team and successfully advanced to the finals.

And zEx is even crazier here, first hung up China's AS, strung Germany's PP, sent all the Germans back to their hometowns, and then planted a big heel, was crushed by 3D and fell into the loser's group, in the loser's group, the North American players' super personal heroism broke out, and the stars led by sunman played that crazy headshot shot, zEx will be 3D again, this time 3D can no longer bear it, and was eliminated, zEx was upset again, and went crazy to eliminate the fantastic SK, Sunman's arrogance and wildness made the world remember him again, and finally zEx and Team9 met in the finals.

There was no suspense in this finals, because zEx's strength was many times stronger than the new team of Team9, but from the first game, zEx was doomed.

Why?

Because in the first game, Vesslan fulfilled his promise to Lu Fei: he must take a bad breath for his Chinese friends.

Team9 has a pair of famous Gemini constellations - Luciano and Lucchese, known as the "Double L Combination", these two people have always been unknown novices, and in 03 they were cultivated by Vesslan to become the most insidious and cunning Camper in the world, so the lewd stream and the insidious stream shined in this competition.

What's interesting is that Luciano is a tailor who studies fashion design in Milan, Italy, and before the game, Sunman laughed at people as always, saying that they only use scissors to cut cloth, not guns.

As a result, in the first game of the decisive map Desert II, Luciano killed Sunman with a knife.

Yes, you read that right, Sunman was stabbed to death by Luciano in the chaos while he was demolishing mines.

When Sunman was stabbed, at least 100 million people around the world couldn't believe their eyes.

And the most dramatic scene is when a CNN TV reporter, who has always liked to get into trouble, immediately pointed the camera at the game stage Sunman, which is a super large close-up, the screen freezes for a minute, and the audience around the world may not be less than 50 million people to see Sunman's expression.

Famous Mike? Zhu Yiqun ridiculed sarcastically: "Yo, have you seen it, look at his face, I heard that when a person is stabbed to death with a knife, his face should be purple-red, but why is his (sunman's) face green, like the color of a frog, ah, even his eyes are green, my mother......"

The audience burst into laughter on the spot, and even Lu Fei and Lei Ming couldn't help but be amused.

Sunman was so angry that he wanted to pinch Team9's little foxes to death.

In fact, it's good that he's not angry, but this anger is bad.

zEx had an overwhelming advantage in the following games, but every time Sunman was eager for revenge, and his reckless attacks turned the good situation into ashes, not once or twice by Team9.

Anger – that's a big no-no in CS.

Team9's style is to rely on "yin", the camp method is really varied, it takes everyone's eyes to see, the most exaggerated one is in the key game, Lucchese is a light rod USP extremely shameless yin zEx three AK and an AP, zEx is completely yin and no temper, Team9 also laid the victory.

In the end, zEx missed out on the trophy, and sunman paid the most painful price for his open-mouthedness and youthful vigor – a World Championship.

This is a lifelong regret that is difficult for any player to make up.

Overall, although Sunman's performance in the entire tournament was flawed, he missed the championship in the final battle, and after returning to the United States, he was collectively bombarded by North American media of all sizes, and attacked him completely, especially CNN's Zhu Yiqun, who scolded him in a roundabout way.

Sunman's career was in a slump for a while, and if it weren't for Mr. Lake, who had always appreciated his talent, to poach him back to coL for the third time, Sunman's future would have been really worrying.

The 2003 ESC was undoubtedly a success, and it was also the most glorious time in the history of CS, with endless regrets and sighs, Lu Fei and his party returned to China with the official delegation.

What awaits them is the qualifier for the CG China Division right away.

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