And just like that, we're through the preparation period, and we're all about to play our first top-flight playoff game. We don't need to be reminded that the intensity of the playoffs is not the same as the regular season. Many teams choose to hide some tactical play and even newly developed skills during the regular season, but when it comes to the playoffs, no one will be left behind. Because in this game, as long as you lose, there is no "back" at all, and in the face of such an opponent, of course, we can only go all out.

Another unfortunate aspect of the draw, according to the official schedule, our game against September 8 was scheduled to be the opening game of the playoffs. As we all know, the playoffs and the regular season are two completely different games, and the first player is relatively disadvantaged, especially for a league newcomer like us. If there are other teams that can play a game or two first, let's take a look at it, and see if any of the teams have made a deeper understanding in the playoffs, and confirm each other in our hearts. And now in this situation, in fact, we are also very uncertain, although the regular season is the second record, but we do not know what kind of position we are in in the playoffs.

The only fortunate thing is that the team doesn't have their own home stadium on September 8, so this crucial playoff opener will be played on our home turf. Familiar environment, familiar venues, no travel fatigue, longer preparation time, these are our advantages.

On the day of the race, I didn't follow the team's bus, but arrived at the stadium alone two hours early. My original intention was to get to the backstage of the arena and use the limited time to play two more rounds of the arena on the computer in the backstage lounge before finishing my makeup.

I thought that the venue should be empty at this time, and I never thought that the gate was already crowded with enthusiastic fans, although the door had not yet been put in, they still waited patiently at the door of the venue, as if they wanted to receive the support as soon as possible.

The scene was much better than the final I watched in my hometown last year, and due to various factors, the attendance at that time was simply miserable. At that time, I would never have imagined that after nearly a year of hard work, the popularity of the league would actually rise to this level.

According to the latest statistics, the number of viewers in the league and the average number of online users of the game have reached 80% of the peak of that year, which is unique in the history of game development.

There are many domestic and foreign stand-alone masterpieces that have been reset, and only a few of them can reach the sales of the original version that year. And the optimized version or reset version of the online game is even more general in terms of recovering the lost popularity of the game, even if some old players have fresh pictures or briefly return to the pit for the sake of "reminiscing about their youth", but it won't be long before the game content will make them recall the reason for retiring from the pit in the first place.

There is no doubt that over the past year, I have witnessed and participated in an extraordinary journey in the history of gaming. I quietly entered through the back door of the venue, but even though it was as cold as the back door, there were still a few fans hanging out there. When they recognized me, they were surprised that I was not on the bus, but came to the venue alone, and they immediately surrounded me for autographs and group photos. Seeing that there were still people to inform the "big army" in front of me, I hurriedly found a gap and slipped into the venue with the help of the security guard at the entrance with my participation pass.

When I was still sitting in the backstage, I saw that the game section had been updated with news, saying that four hours before the start of the game, some fans found Chen Liao alone at the back door of the stadium sneakily not knowing what he was doing, and there was also a photo of the time that I don't know who took it secretly next to the news.

The match was about to start, and I didn't have the energy to pay attention to the lace, so I hurriedly played a few arena matches to warm up my hands. A few hours later, the game started as scheduled, and we took the stage and waved to the audience one by one under the guidance of the host, and when it was my turn, there were some strange noises below in addition to the usual screams, which I believe also had something to do with that little episode before the game.

After that, we shook hands with the teammates of the opponent's September 8th team one by one, and when it was my turn to shake hands with Huang Chao, he raised his eyebrows and whispered, "Young man, you have a good game of psychological warfare." The handshake was so short that I didn't even have time to react to the meaning of his words, let alone respond, and we went back to our seats.

It seems that the September 8 team is also very concerned about our movements, and Huang Chao understands my somewhat unusual behavior before the game as part of psychological warfare. It seems that the pressure of the playoffs is really high, and everyone is nervous, so I decided to go to the court early, probably because of the nervousness. And the other party actually understood my move as psychological warfare, and it seems that he was thinking too much because of nervousness.

After a while, the equipment and operating environment were debugged, and the competition officially began.

In this game, we took a very different approach. Since the battlefield map elements were changed to random refreshes, the original four-one split has been gradually broken, and many similar strange tactics have emerged in an endless stream, and they can also reap miraculous effects to a certain extent. As a result, strategy on the battlefield is even more important, with more variables and a more bizarre situation.

At the beginning of the game, we adopted a three-two split strategy, with three inches of sunshine and Li Tanhua walking back to the mountain, and my senior sister and I walking on a sunny day and rainy days. This split was the result of repeated trade-offs by the coaching staff, which also involved a chain of suspicion with the opposing coach, and the pre-match conversation went like this:

Zhou Zhenyu: "The key to this split strategy is how to make Chen Liao not face up to Huang Chao in the case of choosing one of the two. ”

Me: "I've already gone through special training, and to be honest, I'm not afraid even if I run into him." ”

Zhou Zhenyu: "It's your business not to be afraid, what I want to do as a coach is to ensure the victory of the team." ”

Leng Zi: "Data analysis has pointed out that if you can avoid the Yellow Nest in the battlefield match, then our win rate will increase by about ten percentage points. ”

Me: "Have you counted my special training results?" ”

Leng Zi: "I'm assuming that you have a 120% exchange ratio with him, what do you think?" ”

Hearing this, I naturally couldn't refute it, even after the special training, I didn't have the confidence to play a 20% advantage against Huang Chao.