Chapter 1225: Group Stage!
Only the best can join the professional club!
It's actually a very simple truth.
Last year, there were already a lot of newcomers to the Phoenix Esports Academy who joined the club, and the players of these clubs have been playing in the domestic league for a year, which is a year less than the current newcomers.
And the players in the second phase are not necessarily more potential than the players in the first phase.
Another point is the issue of cost.
A professional club must calculate the cost of replacing players.
The prices of these newcomers are not cheap, and if there is no big increase in spending this money, clubs that are not particularly wealthy will not consider it.
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Compared with the performance of domestic PHX, Zhou Yang still puts all his energy into the training of the national team.
The importance of this tournament is self-evident, and the impact of this Esports World Cup is huge at a time when the esports industry is becoming more and more important.
After arriving in South Korea, the Chinese team also settled in the hotel prepared by the Korean government!
Because of the large delegation, the Chinese team also lived alone in a hotel, and the leaders of several projects occasionally communicated together.
To everyone's surprise, Zhou Yang has deep insights into other projects.
Needless to say, CSGO is an FPS game, and it is impossible for a gun god-level character like Zhou Yang not to play, and the training of many domestic gunners must be completed on the self-built map in CSGO.
Before Zhou Yang played professionally, when he was in junior high and high school, Zhou Yang had been playing Dota, so he also knew Dota very well.
StarCraft, as the fairest RTS game, Zhou Yang has also played it, and he can be regarded as a cloud player.
RTS is a real-time strategy game, without any luck component, just as a competitive game, Zhou Yang feels that it is the most suitable type for e-sports.
However, the popularity of e-sports has little to do with his fairness, just like Guoshu Go, sometimes difficulty is also a key factor restricting players from getting started.
A game without popularity is destined to not have much impact.
Zhou Yang has witnessed the tactics of StarCraft a few years later, even if it is an ordinary tactic a few years later, it is advanced for current StarCraft players.
While some of the proposals are not available depending on the version, many of them are very useful suggestions.
A genius like Zhou Yang has an understanding of almost all e-sports projects, and it is perfect to be the leader of Chinese e-sports.
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Delegations from all over the world have also come to Korea one after another!
The arrival of the E-sports World Cup in South Korea is also a recognition of Korean e-sports.
The Korean delegation is also determined to get a good result at home!
The initial goal is to win 2 championships!
One is the champion of the StarCraft project, and the rest is the one to fight for.
However, it is not easy for a country to win one championship.
The start of the race is getting closer and closer!
The lottery ceremonies for each project are also being held one after another!
There are 9 people in each group of the Glory project, and the 4 groups of ABCD play 3 rounds of round-robin matches with each other, and the top 18 in total points enter the finals.
In other events, 8 people from each group will participate in the round-robin competition, with the top 4 advancing and the last 4 eliminating.
The signing of the glory project is not particularly important, after all, the strength is there, and there are not many strong teams in the group of the Chinese team.
If you play normally, it won't be a big problem to get to the finals.
In other events, except for CSGO and StarCraft, where the Chinese team is not very sure, it is not difficult for other projects to qualify.
CSGO and StarCraft are both popular in European countries, and it just so happens that Europe is the country with the most participants in the Esports World Cup this time.
And the level of esports in European countries is generally very high.
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August 15th!
The much-anticipated World Cup has finally started in Seoul, South Korea!
The opening ceremony lasted for 1 hour, and the world audience was drowsy, but the next competitions officially kicked off the World Cup!
On the first day of the game, the Rongguang Chinese team did not need to play, and the idle Rongguang fans also went to watch the games in other events.
Domestic esports fans are not the same now as they were a few years ago, and there was a legendary chain of contempt for domestic esports fans a few years ago.
StarCraft players despise War3 players.
War3 players despise Dota players.
The players of Dota despise the players of LOL.
LOL players despise Honor of Kings players......
This chain of contempt gained a lot of recognition back then, and it was basically determined by the difficulty of the operation, but over time, domestic players have also grown a lot.
There will still be, but it can be fun when a fan of a game goes to see a match in another game.
Just like what Zhou Yang said, everything must be thought about first.
If you don't think about it, you make some remarks, and it's basically not much different from a keyboard warrior.
In other events, the Chinese team made their debut on the first day!
In the CSGO event, the Chinese team defeated the Australian team 16-8, and lost to the favorite Brazil 7-16 in the second game.
One win and one loss ended the first day of the group stage.
In the StarCraft event, Li Peinan, the core player of the Chinese team, is also in a relatively slow state, and the Chinese team also lost to the German team after defeating a fish belly team, which is also a record of one win and one loss.
In other events, the Chinese team also maintained a complete victory.
It wasn't until this Esports World Cup that everyone found out that China's FIFA level was actually okay.
Everyone knows the strength of China's DOTA and LOL, but there are fewer FIFA players, this is different from what FIFA22 and FIFA23 are standalone, it is an independent game, and it will be slightly more attractive to boys.
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The competitions of each event are broadcast on the esports channel throughout the day, because it is the summer vacation, most students lock the TV channel to the esports channel around the clock, even if they don't watch it all the time.
In this way, you will find 6 e-sports projects, no matter which one of them is exciting.
There is no superiority in the game, putting aside prejudice and watching the game from the perspective of appreciation, and in the process of cheering for each Chinese team, everyone also feels the charm of other projects!
Dota team battles, LOL excitement, CSGO confrontation, FIFA excitement, interstellar blood!
Each item can bring a different experience to the player.
When the FIFA Chinese team played in the group stage, every goal stirred everyone's nerves!
Because the Chinese national team has a limited level in real life, it is difficult to enter the World Cup, but in the Esports World Cup, the Chinese team is not weak!
There are thousands of fans in China, and this time it can be regarded as a dream of Chinese fans, the FIFA national team plays on the field, just like the real national team on the field!
China's glorious national team also appeared on the second day of the game!
This time, the starting lineup, the Chinese team sent the main force to play the opening game!
Then let the blue team go to the group stage of round 2.
CSC players make their first appearance in the World Cup!
The group stage is also in the stadium, but the stadium on the Korean side is not very large, and the audience is not very large.
On the first day of the group stage, the Chinese team showed its crushing strength!
Won 3 single-game games in the 5 group games!
With a margin of nearly 30 points, they are far ahead of 2nd place!
It can be seen from the scene that the teams of other countries are very jealous of the Chinese team.
When they see the position of the Chinese team, they will take the initiative to avoid it.
To a certain extent, this also makes the CSC game more relaxed.
With the strength of CSC, there are not many teams that can pose a threat to them in this field, and these teams do not want to go head-to-head with the Chinese team in the group stage, so CSC is also happy to relax.
Compared with the group stage of the Chinese team's glory project, it is still a little better to look at other events, at least there is suspense, and it will worry about the qualification of the Chinese team.
But the glory project basically made it to the finals, and it was not interesting to watch.
The group stage of Glory will be played in 6 days, and the other events will be played in 4 days.
On the third day, many projects have ushered in the key battles for qualifying!
The opponents and their strength are very close, and this victory will also directly affect the qualifying places.