The weather is gradually getting cooler, and the city of J in the north is affected by the cold air, and now it is necessary to wrap in a thick down jacket when going out. Therefore, in order to enhance the viewing experience of fans and avoid the situation that players have "cold hands" to affect their performance, the entire half-month opening cup will be held in an island city in the south.

As the start of the race drew closer, we went to the event venue early to prepare and train for the final sprint. In recent days, the whole game and the league have been like a pool of stagnant water, and there is not a single wave to be seen, but we all know that this is the calm before the storm.

Not long ago, the relevant state departments smashed a large transnational drug trafficking ring near the southwestern border, which gives us unrelated people reason to believe that justice will finally be served.

I know very well that this half month is not only the half month that decides the year-end champion, but also the half month that determines the life and death of the game. Half a month later, whether we board the plane in disgrace, worried about our uncertain future, or enjoy the sun, sand and coconuts of the city depends on the development of things in the past half month.

The first group game, against the book.

As the opening match of the Open Cup, the championship and runner-up competition of this year's Reincarnation Cup is really a topicality. While the number of fans in person and online viewing systems is overwhelming, everyone on our team believes they can change that – starting with this match.

During the handshake before the game, the lights came over and whispered to me during the handshake: "You didn't take out everything more than two months ago." ”

I nodded.

He patted me on the shoulder: "Yes, come on." ”

I can't figure out if his words are an encouragement from the legendary seniors to the juniors who come to challenge, or the so-called trash talk used for mockery before the game.

The lights are right, in the final of the Samsara Cup two months ago, I didn't give everything. This is also a decision that everyone in our team has discussed repeatedly, not because we don't want to win the championship, but after rational analysis, the time is not yet ripe for us to defeat the book, and new skills and new tactics also need a period of training to grind. So, instead of revealing your tactical intent and skill reserves early, bet on a heavier open-roll cup.

We didn't have everything we prepared for in the final, but we did our best, and in this situation, we lost to our opponents, but we were still confident about the future.

However, I know very well that this year's opening cup may be my last chance to truly overcome the lights. Kim is twenty-three years old this year, which can be considered the end of his career for an esports player. While he's been formidably dominant this year, there's no one for sure how long he'll be in this form, even if he's in the limelight.

Not only that, but his teammates are generally not younger, with the oldest Long Night already seeing a noticeable dip in form this year, and in the eyes of most event analysts, the rest of their team is also at the "tail of their peak". Although they may be stronger this year than in previous years due to the lack of injury troubles and the fact that they are becoming more and more proficient, in the foreseeable future, His Excellency will inevitably gradually step down from the altar. No one can be at the top all the time – that's the biggest rule of sports.

I'm in my twenties, and the average age of our team is nineteen, as many people say: "The future is ours." "As long as there are no major accidents, in another two or three years, it will be logical for us to defeat Your Excellency. But I'm greedy, and I don't want to be in a later comment:

"Oh, Chen Liao, that's the player who came up after Jin Yan went downhill, and at the peak of the lights, Kezhou didn't have to fight at all. The same is true of the Longyuan clan, if all of them are four or five years younger, this clan will not be able to fight. Alas, if you want to talk about the golden period of the league, it has to be the time when the sky and the moon compete for hegemony and the lights are not yet dominating, and then even if there are no tigers in the mountains, the monkey will be the king. ”

If you can only beat an opponent when he gets old, it means that it is not you who will defeat him, but time. From this point of view, time is more of a problem for us than the rest of the people of the book - the opportunity to prove ourselves head-on, once and once less.

At the beginning of the game, Zhou Zhenyu once again emphasized in the microphone: "You are already proficient in those sets of tactics, what routines to use under what circumstances, and what to deal with should be very clear, and I shouldn't need to command." ”

Zheng Mingchuan: "It's okay, coach, even if they can't remember, I remember it clearly, it's really not good, when I come to the main call, it's definitely no problem." ”

Me: "It's up to me to prepare for so long, guys, come on, winning or losing today is secondary, the most important thing is to achieve the first tactical intent." ”

At the beginning of the game, we adopted an extremely unrestrained tactic, which is the so-called "new thing", and this system was established for the book.

My senior sister and I walked the back mountain, and the others walked front, and the key to this set of tactics was cooperation and command.

In the battlefield of "Book Title", a person can command many kinds of troops, but depending on your attributes, each military section will also have a corresponding command proficiency. For example, I command swordsmen with the highest proficiency and are the most handy to use, and if I want to command archers, I can do it, but due to the low command proficiency, there will be command delays and ineffective command transmission problems compared to swordsmen.

For example, if I ask my swordsmen to form a "goose-shaped formation", then the private soldiers may respond within 5 seconds and set up the formation according to the pre-set formation. But if I'm commanding the archers, they'll probably be in formation after ten seconds, and ten or so out of 100 people might be fishing out of the box.

Therefore, command proficiency is very important in professional competitions that require extremely high command accuracy, so from the beginning of the professional league, everyone has formed the habit of what weapon the player himself uses, and he himself also carries a similar weapon.

However, for the sake of ease of operation, there is one thing that "Title of the Book" does not really do enough, that is, the command is a similar "over-the-distance effect", that is, no matter where your player character is and how far away it is, your private soldiers can always receive your command at the first time.