After the third "Eternal War" World Cup in December 2011 in Cologne, Germany, a group of players announced their retirement.

The first Beijing of China, the second Los Angeles of the United States, and the third Cologne of Germany, the "Eternal War" year-end World Cup series has traveled to three continents.

Those are a group of players who really have a strong influence in this event, including Chinese players, South Korea, Europe, America or other regions. Before the game, many of them announced that this World Cup would be their last professional match, and that they would still play Eternal War in the future, but as pure players...... Or the identity of the anchor, not the professional player who competes on the battlefield.

Especially those Chinese players, as the world's first server, local players, many of them joined the competition almost from the launch of the game in March 08, became the first batch of professional players, participated in the first "Blue Fish Cup" at that time, and witnessed the rise of this game from China, to the world, and now the history of becoming the world's first online game.

Many of them also transferred from other game projects, including Warcraft 3, StarCraft and Counter-Strike, and when they moved to the field of "Eternal War", they were already experienced veterans, and then in this game, with the popularity of the game, they spent a brilliant career in their later years, which can be regarded as a glorious return to their hometown.

Of course, the most influential of them is actually Tracy Lin Xinran, who is about to turn 21 years old, which should be said to be so far...... Not necessarily the most influential, but it must be the most well-known e-sports professional player, even many people who don't play games at all know that there is a girl named Tracy who is very good at playing games, very beautiful, and makes a lot of money by shooting a lot of advertisements.

Measuring a person's influence can sometimes indeed be measured by people outside the circle, just like if your grandmother knows the name of an entertainment star, it means that the person is really popular.

That's what Tracy is.

In fact, in this World Cup, Lin Xinran is no longer in the best condition, mainly because of the thirst for honor, and he is no longer the one who was lying in Ye Shenxi's arms after losing to Odin in the ESCL China Finals of "Warcraft 3" ...... Ahem, the unconvinced Tracy.

The career of a professional player is already in her old age, but she is still in the mood for a good life in real life, she has not yet graduated from college, she has entered the professional circle since "Warcraft 3", in addition to training every day, or training, there is no other way to entertain, such a life has been 5 years, it's time to get bored, and I want to enjoy other lives, maybe in addition to being difficult to have a boyfriend, she can do other things now, invest in starting a company, travel to learn musical instruments, take a driver's license and even a pilot's license, Supplement your cultural knowledge and read books, sit in the corner coffee shop on a sunny afternoon, drink coffee, wear sunglasses and a sunhat, and continue to drive on the road, listening to the wind in your ears.

In fact, after the first session, she already had plans to gradually fade out, but she didn't think about what to do after retiring, but a film and television company sent her an invitation, but she felt that her acting skills and went to act, which was self-destructive, so why bother trampling the eyes of her fans. Travel can be relaxing but can not always become the focus of life in the future, anyway, there is no hurry, think slowly, after the Longyan platform is launched, it seems to have found another interesting thing, you can replace the training, you will not be so tired, and you can communicate with others.

She still participated in this year's World Cup, and as a substitute and member of the coaching staff, she only played a small game in the first group stage and never played again. Players and fans alike also knew that that was how she said goodbye on stage, on the field.

In the semi-finals, after a five-game battle with a bladder burst, they were blocked from the final by the Ukrainian team with the Navi club as the main team, and stopped in the semi-finals. In the final three or four finals, they defeated another veteran powerhouse eliminated by South Korea, Russia, and won the third place, which is also the worst result achieved by the Chinese team since the start of the "Eternal War" World Cup.

In the final final, the Ukrainians in this tournament were aggressive, defeating the Koreans who failed to hit the championship again with an aggregate score of 3-1, winning the final championship and completing the end of the monopoly on the Chinese.

No one can always be undefeated, this is an objective law, and a large number of comments from many domestic and foreign media after the game expressed their attitude: "Eternal War" has begun to enter a new era, and the Warring States era has come.

The Chinese division is still the highest level in the world, and the Chinese team is still the strongest national team in the world, even if they lost to Ukraine this time, they are still ranked first in the world, and the same is true in the minds of players and the media, but the gap between other countries and them has narrowed. The new players after the Chinese team will no longer face various competitions with a conservative mentality, and they should have a stronger desire for honor in the next edition, and the challenge attitude that I must take back what I lost.

From the perspective of players all over the world, perhaps this is also a fortunate thing, a family that has been dominant for too long will also be aesthetically fatigued, more and more legends are born, more and more heroes are born, and "Eternal War" will go one step further and usher in a more prosperous global prosperity.

On the second day after the end of the game, the herring official held a very grand retirement ceremony for those who retired after this World Cup34 players from 13 countries around the world, it should be noted that not all of these 34 participated in this World Cup, some of them were specially invited by herring from all over the world to watch the game, such as Li Yihui, he was a substitute player for the Chinese team last year, although he did not play, he was also considered a meritorious member, and he was basically in a semi-retired state, and the last half a year has been mainly live broadcast, almost announced his retirement in person.

The retirement ceremony was a tribute to their contribution to the global promotion of the game, which has given players so many exciting games over the past four years, and thank them for choosing this game.

Some of them accepted the invitation of the club and continued to work as coaches or analysts, or club promotion after retiring. Some can speak well, talk fluently and funny, will step on the commentary seat, serve as the broadcast commentary of some events, become the official event commentator of the herring, and will still be active on the screen. Some will go back to school, apply to some universities, get higher education, and enrich themselves. Some will become the anchors of the Longyan platform, and Qingyu has also signed a contract, or choose to take a break first, do something else and then think about how to go in the future.

At that time, Ye Shenxi and the general manager of He Luo Studio went to Cologne in person and awarded honorary badges to the players.

The host is also the official host of the Qingyu E-sports Center, which is now headquartered in Huangpu, and has more than 100 event hosts and commentators in various languages, all of whom are officially certified and will also receive salaries. First of all, he reviewed the history of the Eternal War for 3 years and 9 months, and the glorious moments of these players' careers, the players also spoke separately, telling some interesting and worthwhile stories in their careers, which were all positive energy anyway, and the venue was happy and the atmosphere was harmonious.

Then Ye Shenxi and Lu Liang came to power, one awarded badges and the other ...... Serve flowers.

Ye Shenxi greeted each of the contestants cordially, shouted their IDs, fully expressed his importance to them, and chatted casually.

When he walked in front of Lin Xinran, Lin Xinran's eyes were bent into crescent moons, and he smiled: "It's the third time." ”

"Huh? What third time? Ye Shenxi didn't react for a while.

"It's the third time I've given the award."

Ah, by the way, this is the third time that Ye Shenxi has presented the award to Lin Xinran as an award presenter, although this time it is not strictly considered an "award".

The first time was the Herring Cup in June 08, and the first time was the first World Cup in December 09, Lin Xinran won the trophy awarded by Ye Shenxi himself as a champion, and those two events were also the most significant events for "Eternal War", the former was the first official event of the game, and the latter was the first Intercontinental Nations Cup competition, so Ye Shenxi attended as an award guest. After that, he never gave anyone another award.

"Yes, for the third time." Ye Shenxi nodded.

Three awards, among the objects are Lin Xinran.

"What are you going to do after that?"

Since the end of the first World Cup, after Lin Xinran made a similar confession after the celebration banquet, the two of them have actually become much more estranged than before, and there is also a reason why Ye Shenxi deliberately avoided it, and the two used to occasionally chat about games. Later, Lin Xinran opened the live broadcast and interacted a little more, and among the speeches of a bunch of netizens that flashed quickly, Lin Xinran was able to find Ye Shenxi's speech very accurately, which is the terrifying dynamic vision of professional players, and the two can still chat in front of the audience, that is, the chat method between the anchor and the heavyweight local tyrant and water friends.

Ye Shenxi really didn't know what Lin Xinran was going to do next.

"Full-time anchor, right...... I think it's about four hours a day. ”

"Four hours is still full-time."

"I'm going to get my pilot's license when I have some time to do something else."

"Female airplane driver."

"I've signed it all up."

"When will I take subject 1?"

"Poof...... Module 1...... The third subject is not a side shutdown, a straight line overtake, and a turn signal for a left turn...... That's still quite difficult, and if you don't do it, you'll fail, haha. ”

"By the way, I've always wanted to ask you, what does the title of your live broadcast room mean, GX?"

Lin Xinran's title in the live broadcast room has not changed since she first started the live broadcast, and in a bunch of anchors who change their titles every day to keep up with hot current events and make fancy articles to attract the audience's interest, her "Tracy~~~~~GX~~~~~" as always is simply a clear stream.

This GX has also become one of the historical unsolved cases of the Dragon Eye platform, players and viewers have been guessing for most of the year, not speaking Chinese happy, high salary, funny, sensual, dog blood and the like, the English word gateaux (cream cake), the phrase Global Exchange (global communication), and even Gedankenexperiment (mind experiment) This association has been guessed, the Japanese Yu-Gi-Oh GX or Gundam X (Gundam X), There are also a few interpretations of Spanish or French-German......

"You kind of asked, I thought you didn't have curiosity."

"Can that tell me the answer?" Even if it's out of politeness, I'll have to keep asking.

"You've been talking to me for so long...... Is Mr. Xia's side OK? ”

"Okay."

"GX, it's Guo Xiang......"

Ye Shenxi didn't know what to say, and remembered the sentence "When we first met at Fengling Ferry, I saw Yang Guo for life." "What else can I say......

Lin Xinran smiled and said: "Anyway, I still said the same sentence before, I haven't changed my attention, you can do whatever you should do, I will be myself, or just have normal interactions, should you give the next one?" ”

The two turned their heads, and Li Yihui beside him had a strange expression on his face, but he didn't dare to look at these two of them, his eyes looked straight ahead, his eyes looked at his nose, his nose and his heart, and he did not dare to move at all. The face is full of "I don't know, I don't know, I don't hear, I don't know, don't ask me......"

In my heart, it is rumored that the two have an ambiguous relationship, Tracy has been in love for many years and has always been fruitless, and it is true that she dares to love...... In a society governed by the rule of law, there is no such thing as killing people and killing people.

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Li Yihui is now at the peak of his life, he joined the circle of professional players after graduating from college in 08, and now he has passed his 25th birthday, a real late bloomer, he really met very, and he also trained hard like crazy, and now he has become a super popular player, in terms of popularity, it should be able to be counted in the third gear, Tracy is the only one, the first single in each major area, the first AD Those big-name players are the second gear, and then it's up to him, after all, he is also a person who has been selected for the national team.

The people who usually interact with each other are all real rich second generations, and in cities like Huangpu, they can be regarded as rich second generations. This is not the tens of millions of families in the previous university, what kind of rich second generation is that, and then I gradually became too lazy to contact it...... There are also the owners of various clubs, because they are old, slightly mature and emotionally intelligent, and the owners and investors of major clubs are also quite friendly.

He also has some investment projects now, in addition to his own online store, needless to say, and those rich people will also partner in some investment projects, people may not care much about the money, they just like to watch his games, and they can be regarded as his fans.

In addition, he is also a full-time anchor, certainly much more diligent than Tracy's little hen, almost 6 to 8 hours a day without interruption, occasionally taking a leave of absence The audience is also very understandable, and now the popularity of the Longjing platform is soaring, in the "Eternal War section" with the largest number of viewers, Longjing is now in the world's Chinese, English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, Korean and French A total of 6 sites, his live broadcast room attention and viewership are top.

Advertisements from third-party manufacturers are often received, and there are even some small and medium-sized game developers around the world who send him an email hoping that he can experience his game live, and he will definitely offer some advertising money, so that their games can have more promotion channels.

Before the advent of "Eternal War" at that time, an ordinary game folk master in college, faced with the confusion of graduating from his senior year and not knowing which way to go, how could he have imagined that he could go to such a height now.