Chapter Ninety-Eight: Warm-up Exercises

In many world-class competitions, compared with the well-known CG, CPL, and ACON, ESC can be described as a very unique and professional competition.

CG organized by the South Korean government, which is equivalent to the World Cup of football competitions, has very strict requirements for players, such as players of the same team must have the nationality of the same country, pre-selection in the designated competition area, age restrictions, and must be professional players, with regular sponsors, etc.

The charm of CG is reflected in the national honor, but also in the maturity of the competition system of the team and region, and it is the most standardized competition for professional events.

The CPL in the United States is very different from CG, CPL was born in 1997, earlier than CG, it is mainly oriented to the people, focusing on the strength of masters, and the restrictions on players are not as strict as CG, in other words, as long as you have a team belonging, a club belonging, as long as you can get the registration fee of dozens of dollars, as long as you have the strength, no matter what nationality you are, an amateur player or a professional player, you can participate.

Taking the MDK club as an example, although the current main players come from several different countries, they can all represent the MDK logo, and if they win, then it is a victory for MDK, not for the United States, China or South Korea.

CPL has the most far-reaching influence in the world, and its competition process is also the most intense and cruel, if a CPL counts the participating teams in various major regions around the world, the number is as high as tens of thousands, of course, you can imagine that it is a very severe test of its own strength to fight a bloody way from tens of thousands of teams.

However, the ESC held in France is very different from CG and CPL, it successfully borrowed the competition system of the two world competitions, combined with France's own culture to create, very has its own characteristics.

The first is that the participating teams must be selected, strictly speaking, this Masters Invitational Tournament cannot be regarded as the first in the real sense, except for this one, the pre-selection of each subsequent session is stricter than CG, and the team that can fly to Paris is either the overlord of the famous side, or the CS celebrity.

Secondly, ESC divides the competition system into two groups of winners and losers, that is, the winner's group and the loser's group, and adopts a single-picture preselection, double-elimination and single-defeat group, so that the game will not appear prematurely strong encounters, and can also give the losers the opportunity to be reborn and resurrected, reduce the luck component, and make the whole competition more enjoyable.

The last feature, which is also the most attractive part of ESC, is the combination of fashion elements and professional competitions.

It's not like the CPL where just a few tables and benches are placed there after the game, and there are many entertainment programs arranged before and after the game, such as CS babies, celebrity singing, fashion shows, wine tastings, and parties, making the game more like a carnival.

And how professional is it?

Lu Fei and his entourage had only heard about it on the plane before, and when they rested for a night, and when they actually arrived at the Versailles Convention and Exhibition Center to participate in the opening ceremony the next morning, the group was stunned.

Before entering the gate, just looking at the appearance of the entire convention and exhibition center, Lu Fei can easily think of those luxury shopping malls, with the flags of more than 50 countries and regions flying over the exhibition, and huge advertising posters of ESC hanging on the outer wall, as well as posters of major sponsors and clubs.

A giant electronic screen in the center shows the event schedule repeatedly.

For example:

14 April 2002

14:30 p.m. Paris time

Session: Group E, E1, E3

Venue: Hall 3

Map: De_Inferno

Mode: Win or Lose Group Single Picture 24 Turns

Opponents: (Great Britain) VS (United States)

Line-ups:

MDKSoVS4KNatu

MDKLeonVS4KMangiacapra

MDKRayVS4KGoodFella

MDKKayVS4KAkings

MDKKillerVS4KDay

Referee Panel:

Referee: Marcelo? Song (Argentina)

Technical referees: Vikadot (Chile), Kirii Matsukami (Japan)

Third official: Joseto Hosseto (France)

Broadcast Teams: BBC Television, Al Jazeera, HLTV France Division

Narrator: None

Just the event preview column is enough to see the organizer's requirements and operations for details.

After entering the main venue, the leaders of the players from all over the world were already seated, and the opening ceremony was very streamlined and perfect.

First of all, the president of the organizer Ligarena will speak, and his speech, of course, will not drag on for a long time like a Chinese-style speech, and then a representative of the state official of the French government will speak.

This was followed by a fashion show with a team of French supermodels taking to the stage to celebrate the opening of the competition.

"Good, good, very good." Lu Fei watched it with relish.

Alice was very dissatisfied with the smiling eyes he looked at those beauties, because when supermodel Suzanne performed on stage, she obviously threw a wink at Lu Fei, Lu Fei smiled, and the monkey was also happy.

Alice was.

After the opening ceremony, these professional models led the teams to visit the function halls of the venue.

There are mainly three places: the audience hall, the competition table, and the broadcast seat.

The audience hall adopts the Korean theater model, which is completely a large movie theater, a functional hall can accommodate 3,000 spectators, and the audience hall of the main venue can accommodate 30,000 spectators.

"The giant electronic screen in the center of the stadium allows you to see the game very clearly even without binoculars." Suzanne explains.

"Well, it's rare to find such facilities even in the United States." Chris replied.

The broadcast booth and the competition table are separate from the audience hall, it exists separately.

This broadcast seat reminded Lu Fei of the control room of the secret military base in those movies, which was not only huge in scale, but also equipped with multiple computers and instruments, which showed the strength of the broadcast function and the number of staff.

"During the competition, they work here for more than 10 hours a day, broadcasting every game to the world in all directions, and as long as your home country has bought the broadcast rights, you can see your heroic performance anytime and anywhere." Suzanne explained.

Lu Fei nodded, he was completely shocked by such a professional broadcast.

The stage is the most important place for everyone to pay attention to because it involves the environment in which the players are present.

The stage in the central hall is in an American style, and in addition to the necessary glass soundproofing, there are very dazzling light blue lights, making the stage look more like a starlit stage.

"When you're in the round of 16, you're ready to fight on a stage like this." Suzanne said.

"Oh? So what about not entering? Lu Fei asked.

Suzanne smiled, "The previous group stage was played in the players' hall, which is also the place you will be familiar with this morning, please come with me." ”

When the player hall appeared in front of him, Lu Fei felt like he was back in China.

Because it's like an Internet café, thousands of machines are shining, it's very lively, and many famous players are here.

"These machine settings are provided by Inter and Nvidia, and the configuration is absolutely world-class, which will help you perform at a better level." Suzanne continued, "You can pick and choose the machine to debug, and if you are not satisfied with the mouse and graphics card, you can ask the person at the workbench over there to replace it for you, you just need to sign it." ”

Lu Fei let out a long sigh: "What is a profession, this is called a profession." ”

"There is no official race this morning, we have arranged an unofficial LAN warm-up match for you, you can go there and debug the machine now, good luck to you." Suzanne kept flattering Lu Fei, and it seemed that she had a good impression of Lu Fei.

"Thank you." Lu Fei said with a smile.

Suzanne smiled: "I admire you very much, and I will wish you success." ”

"Thank you."

Suzanne glanced at Alice, who didn't look good, and then left with a smile.

"What's an unofficial warm-up game?" Alice asked.

"In layman's terms, it's LANPUB." Lu Fei said with a smile, "Actually, there is such an arrangement in the world competition, because you can't always play without being familiar with the machine, it seems that the organizers have a lot of research on CS, and arrange such a professional PUB melee, so let's try the feel now." ”

The group chose a remote corner and sat down, and then entered the LAN network.

After refreshing, ten sets of large server logos with "ESC" printed on the screen appeared.

Seeing these servers, Lu Fei once again sighed at the professionalism of the World Series, the details are accurate to such an extent, China's CS lags behind the West, it is really not an ordinary gap.

After clicking on a group of servers and entering, the picture is the familiar desert two.

Looking at the IDs of the scuffle between the two sides, Lu Fei and his party were surprised.

Some IDs are unfamiliar to them, but some are well-known:

SKPotti

SKHeatoN

SKXeqtR

3DMiller

3DKim

4KNatu

4KMangiacapra

mT

mTRonan

mTalle

aAaEmkill

aAaKyo

zExDkt

zExDrax

AdrenGXVesslan

AdrenGXNaikon

……

What does it mean if you see so many powerful IDs in the same PUB server?

Not to mention how excited the monkeys were, even Lu Fei's hands trembled a little.

Just these more than ten IDs, the fans that their owners have, I am afraid that there are more than 500 million people in the world, and they are competing with them, who can describe that feeling?

The MDK people have chosen to join the police force.

On the police team's side, there is a very strong lineup, Dkt, Drax, and these people are all playing on the avenue with AP.

On the bandit side, but it is a master of the rifle stream, HeatoN, Potti, XeqtR, etc.

In fact, the two sides fought more fiercely, but not enough.

You often see a master kill up to two people in a row and then be killed, without the shocking performance of the demo.

In one game, HeatoN and Potti went straight to the door with a small pistol Rush, and the body was dismembered by the zEx people, and the slightly awkward picture caused a burst of laughter in the server, and these superstars even typed and chatted on the screen.

After playing a few rounds, Lu Fei simply took the sand eagle and started playing on the platform in Area A.

In this kind of warm-up PUB, many players will not easily kill, for the simple reason that they will never expose their strength until the critical moment.

This is like if you have 100 combat power points, you will only take out 10 combat power points to familiarize yourself with the feel, despite this, HeatoN and Potti still have two games where they teamed up to kill 7 people in seconds, which caused many players to exclaim.

"The strength of these two people is indeed not ordinarily high." Lu Fei sighed secretly.

Although he sighed, Lordaeron did not understand this truth.

After more than 20 minutes of PUB conduct, he suddenly copied M4 and killed fiercely, which caused the masters in the server to exclaim.

Who is this MDKKiller?

Lordaeron couldn't help but feel a little proud: "Let you know how powerful my killer is." ”

Lu Fei sighed: "You are too careless. ”

Lordaeron was not convinced: "Am I careless? OK, then you just watch. After speaking, he lifted the M4 and jumped out of the small road, and actually killed the two bandits under the middle gate in the air.

MDKKiller shoots 4KNatu!

MDKKiller shoots 4KM Angiacapra!

His marksmanship is really good, after Lu Fei's ** during this period of time, he has made great progress, but one thing has not changed, that is, his arrogant character.

"That's just the way 4K is a master." Lordaeron laughed.

Lu Fei's heart moved, and he was about to say something, but after thinking about it, he still stopped.

Because in the first game of MDK this afternoon, the person against him was 4K.

How strong this team from England is, Lu Fei also wants to see how strong it is.