It's July, the Samsara Cup will start a week later, and today we will go to the designated place in the league to take makeup photos, and at the same time, today will also be the first day we wear the "team uniform".

Due to the official arrangement of the tournament, the entire filming of the league was carried out in one day, so all 16 participating teams gathered at the filming location on this day.

A makeup photo is a photo that has been taken for the athlete to use throughout the season. For example, when you are given relevant data analysis or you perform brilliantly, the photo attached next to it is the makeup photo you took at this time.

Historically, photographers have you put on some embarrassing or shameful poses, but this year, the league has been reformed, starting with the spring season, and all the players' makeup photos have been taken with new technology. That is, the motion and model capture technology that is more used in the field of action games and CG films. This kind of technology has a wide range of applications in games corresponding to traditional sports such as football and basketball. After all, buyers want to see games that replicate the looks and actions of their favorite stars as much as possible.

So this shoot is not just a pose for that station, but a dozen game movements with motion capture and image capture equipment, and then walk two steps. The final result is not just a few individual photos, but a 3D model that is equivalent to the accuracy of the game's graphics. This model will work with traditional live streaming and interactive viewing systems to provide players with a better viewing experience.

While waiting for the shooting, we chatted with the staff for a while, and the other party said that there was no need to worry about the ugly model he built, and the artist would try to make up for it on the basis of being able to identify it. The team uniforms were also added through technical means in the later stage, trying to restore the actual effect when we wore them.

After a day of shooting, we drove back to the base. A week after preparing for the game, the opening match against the Forgotten Worries team will be the first of our new home.

Three days before the start of the game, the official media of the Forget Worry team released a promotional video called "Bond", which is also the first time that their team has appeared in the promotional video after the reorganization, looking at the unfamiliar faces in the picture, fans naturally won't buy it too much, but fortunately, they still start from the idea, and in the video it highlights how their teammates have a good relationship in private, how united and friendly they are when they play games together, and how tacit they cooperate in the game, so, There are still many fans who eat people's design, and they feel that the new team is still very worth looking forward to.

Originally, they promoted theirs, and we prepared ours, and it had nothing to do with us when people made a video to promote themselves. However, in the last minute of the video, the footage of our team playing in the minor league was edited. Considering that we are their opponents in the next game,It's normal for them to operate like this.,But in just one minute,The BGM on the picture is very strange.,It's very oppressive.,The tone of the whole picture has been darkened a few degrees.,And the pictures of a few of us selected are mostly from the perspective of upward shooting.。 Looking at it overall, it feels like our Longyuan team is a veritable great demon king, and their Forget Worries team will challenge us as brave men.

Finally, a few of their young players said in the video: "Although the opponent is strong, I believe that the bond between our teammates can work miracles. ”

The whole video almost made me laugh at the end, although you forget that the team is now reorganized, and the strength is not as good as before. But in the past few years, the record has been good, and it can be regarded as a traditional hero, so there is no strong team background at all. And how did a team that had just come in from the minor league suddenly become a big demon level opponent.

To put it more bluntly, although the team is full of young players, the average age of the entire team is the second lowest in the league, but the first from the bottom is our team. Is it really good to shape ourselves as "brave men" and "evil dragons" in this way?

My teammates and coaching staff agreed with me about this, and we decided that since we were the Great Devils, we had to show them the horrors of the Great Demons.

On the day of the competition, we came to the stadium early to prepare, and the players of the Forget Worry team were all newly promoted from the academy team, and the information and characteristics we could collect about them were very limited, and we had no estimate of their strength and style of play. But what is certain is that they may not cooperate more tacitly than us under the sign of "bonding".

Because they formed a temporary army after the team was reorganized, they have played some training matches together at most, and we have been baptized by the baptism of official competitions for half a year, so we are very clear about each other's strengths and weaknesses and the timing of our own entry in team battles. So I believe that even if we don't know much about our opponents, we can get off to a good start in the top flight as long as we play our own.

A short time later, the staff informed us that the competition was about to start and we were ready to take the stage. Since we were a home team, it was only natural that the away team would be the first to come on and the five of us would take the pitch with our own devices. At the request of the pre-broadcaster, we bowed to everyone, and then every time the host called out a person's ID, that person took a step forward and waved to the audience.

About two-thirds of the audience was seated in the huge arena, and considering that the venue was originally used for other purposes, and there were more seats than the average esports stadium, I was already very satisfied with the attendance rate. At least not to have to wave at an empty venue, that's an awkward thing.

But I didn't think that something even more embarrassing had happened. Because I have to bring two mice and a keyboard with me every time I appear, I have more things on my hands than my teammates. As a result, I didn't put everything in one hand in advance before the host called my name, and as soon as he shouted, I was a little scrambling, causing the keyboard to fall to the ground, causing a burst of laughter from the audience. But fortunately, this kind of formal mistake is not a bad debut in my top league, and only by seeing the real chapter under my hands can I see the essence of an esports player.

After the simple debut ceremony, we sat down on both sides with the Forgotten Worries team. Behind the two rows of computers used by our players is a huge screen that broadcasts the status of the game.

I simply debugged some equipment and officially entered the arena.

Surprisingly, the attendance rate of the online arena was much higher than that of the in-person arena, and it could almost be said to be full.