After the official start of the World Cup, the Chinese team won the first few games without any pressure, and the same was true for the seeded teams in the other three groups, which was expected by players and gaming media around the world.

A total of four seeded teams were set up in this competition, distributed in four groups. This is based on the average competitive score of each country, which is China, South Korea, the United States and Russia.

Russia has its own exclusive Russian server, and although it opened a little later than Europe, people in this country are clearly more passionate about Eternal War than players in some Western European countries. Based on the player base of this game, their internal reports are of course extremely valuable, which are the company's own wealth.

It's freezing in Russia, and what is the best way to entertain if you don't want to go out, and the game can be ranked second.

And the colder the place, the more people need a passion and passion to resist this difficult climate, and do it if they don't obey, and have a fighting instinct. This character is also reflected in the tactics and style of the Russian national team, highlighting a reckless character.

But this kind of recklessness is not the kind of unintelligent, stunned, in the group stage, they directly came up with a few sets of tactics that no one has ever seen, and from some angles, it even refreshed people's perception of this game, and the opponents were also stunned on the spot.

This kind of daring creativity has also attracted a lot of fans, and if you are to judge the team with the fastest rise in popularity in this tournament, it should undoubtedly be Russia. After a few games, in the matches held in China, in addition to our own hosts, the Russian team should be ranked first in popularity, even surpassing South Korea.

After four days of two rounds of the group stage, four teams were eliminated, and the organizers had no intention of stretching the schedule very long, and the 12 teams that qualified then gathered together in Beijing to start the offline competition.

Ye Shenxi is still very stable, he only plans to go to the capital on the day of the finals, and he has to rush back the next day, because this time is really busy.

Within the Qingyu team, the time when "Getaway" can be launched and meet with players has begun to become clear, from the initial project is expected to be two years old, that is, at the beginning of 11, after the scale of the intermediate team has expanded to a certain extent, and they are all veterans of the industry for many years, the total number of personnel in the entire team has reached 270 people, an increase of one-third compared with Ye Shenxi's original preset of 200 people.

And in this large team, there is no kind of beginner player who is simply responsible for basic coolie work, other game companies in China like to do this too much, but whenever a game comes out to promote the slogan, it must be three years of research and development, a team of 100 people, an investment of hundreds of millions and so on...... Some of them are indeed true, such as a team of 100 people, but the quality of the team is not to be mentioned.

In the herring team, the proportion of employees with more than three years of large-scale game work experience is as high as 70%, about 40% of them are more than five years, and the proportion of foreign gamers is also 21%, mainly distributed in Salmon Studios in Seattle, and there are also some ...... here in Funan This is a truly strong team.

Even if they are newcomers, they are undergraduate, graduate and even doctoral students who have come out of the educational background of the top universities in China, and are extremely talented and passionate about games. Newcomers refer to their newcomers to the game industry, not 22-year-old undergraduate graduates, some newcomers are 28 years old and really run for three.

Since then, the progress of the entire project has ushered in a wave of acceleration, and the team members themselves can feel a sense of pushing back. At that time, the company also set the target time for the launch of the game to be within 2010, and now with the completion of more systems, various detailed NPCs, scenes, cities, shops, puzzles, mini-games These functions began to accumulate in large quantities, and Ye Shenxi decided to start speeding up again.

Now the launch time of "Getaway" is preliminarily set for next summer, that is, from now on, the time left for Henggong and Salmon Studio is only a little more than half a year, and the Spring Festival holiday has to be removed in the middle.

He himself leads by example, in addition to attending the World Cup final for the time being, the artistic life is recorded, well...... In addition, there is a summons at any time in the capital~ There may be some industry summit forums that cannot be pushed off, and there may be some more important award ceremonies abroad...... Aside from these few mundane tasks, I was immersed in the project.

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After the game entered the knockout round, for the audience around the world, the tension suddenly came to the fore, and the group stage had already been eliminated...... Players usually watch the game with their own teams and players, but in the World Cup, the first object of support will undoubtedly be their own country.

Of course, if the player you like doesn't meet the team from your own country, you will continue to support it.

Even with a lot of ordinary viewers who don't usually watch e-sports games, this time they will choose this game to watch during the break, just like many of us usually don't watch hockey, curling and other sports at all, but when we met it at the Central Five during the Olympic Games, we will still stop the remote control, and we can chat with family and friends with relish.

The top eight teams from each group stage advance directly to the upper bracket, while third place goes to the lower bracket.

But in the first round of the knockout round, there was a big upset, and the Chinese team, the top team in Group A, lost directly to the third place Brazil team in Group C in the first round of the upper group, and then was directly beaten into the lower group. You must know that after two rounds of the previous group stage, a total of six games of the Chinese team did not taste 100, and even the South Korean team with the lowest odds to win the championship also lost one, and after the group stage, the odds of the Chinese team approached South Korea all the way, it can be said that now the two teams are in the eyes of the outside world, and the probability of winning the championship is almost the same.

But not to mention South Korea, now even the other two seeded teams, the United States and Russia, have not yet met, but they lost to Brazil, which is from the South American region and has only been on the South American server for half a year.

Thanks to the organizer's competition system, it is a double-elimination system, otherwise this one will go home directly if you lose...... Ah, you don't have to go home, this is in China, just dissolve on the spot.

Now the whole network exploded.

The first thing that came was all kinds of criticism, both from players and the media, to this attitude. Because it was not only a loss, but a loss to the Brazilian team that did not pay much attention to it before the game, and the process of losing the game was not good, not a speculative overturn after crushing the opponent in the whole game, nor a regretful defeat in your back and forth, but the kind of disadvantage that was established from the beginning and continued until the end.

"It's okay if you can't play football, and now you can't even play "Eternal War"?"

"It's an ugly game, and I really regret wasting more than a hundred dollars to buy a ticket to the stadium to watch the game."

"I didn't go offline, and I regretted spending money to open a box of tickets for online spectators."

"You also said that you want to win the championship, but you didn't make it to the quarterfinals? Laughed at me. ”

The players' rhetoric seemed a little excited, after all, their expectations for this game were too high, and there were also some criticisms of the players, although Tracy, as the captain, couldn't say how bad the performance was, but it didn't meet everyone's expectations, and it seemed that there were a lot of black fans overnight.

This is one of the characteristics of this era, you can be on the altar because of one game, or you can fall into the abyss because of another, ups and downs, up and down, frequent and exciting.

The media also began to analyze what was wrong with the Chinese team, and they listed a lot, such as participating in the World Series for the first time and being too nervous in the face of an unprecedented huge tournament bonus...... Nonsense, which team is not participating in the World Series for the first time, and who is not nervous? This argument is not valid.

It could also be that the swelling of the tournament and the individual packaging of the players has allowed this group of youngsters to achieve success that is difficult for their peers to achieve. Think of people who are the same age as seventeen or eighteen, less than twenty, most of whom are still on high school campuses, and their biggest hope is probably physical education once or twice a week.

Then I often waited until the math and English teachers walked in and told them that the PE teacher was sick today, that I would substitute for the teacher, and then handed out a set of freshly printed papers.

And the professional players now have a lot of income, especially the group of people in the national team, who are the best among them, not only making money, but also having a large number of fans, starting to have commercial activities, corporate sponsorship, and media interviews from time to time...... These brought them to a height that the older generation of esports players could not have imagined.

At an age when the mind is not yet mature, how difficult is it to not swell?

This reason has been recognized by many players.

However, when Tracy was interviewed by reporters, he first took the main responsibility for the defeat, apologized to all the players who followed them, and as the captain, took the criticism on himself.

Then he said that there was no other reason for losing the game, don't think about it, just didn't play well. I'll be going to adjust before the next game and get back to the feeling I had in the group stage.

In the face of criticism, the more you don't find a reason, the easier it is to gain the understanding of others...... And losing the game is really not the reason for her alone, everyone did not play well, relatively speaking, she is still the most reassuring one in the Chinese team.

On the other hand, when Tracy appears in the video, it's really hard for players to get angry when they see her face on the screen.

I had to sigh and continue to wait for the next game, after all, the Chinese team has not really been out yet.

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Ye Shenxi also watched Tracy's interview video in Funan, and felt that the competition experience in the past few years has really made her mature a lot, far more than what she should look like at the age of 18. Speaking of which, he and she have known each other for almost eight years, at first it was just a communication between the producer and the core players, and then Lin Xinran left "Eternal" to enter the AR3 professional arena, and only in 07 did he know what she looked like for the first time, and then they met for the first time and became friends in reality.

She has always looked like a loli, petite, thin arms and legs, why is it like the world, but she really has her own plans in her heart, she has made decisions about many things, and then goes on very firmly.

This is naturally inseparable from her experience of leaving home at a young age and going out to work alone.

She used to compare her with Xia Qingyu in her heart, she was soft on the outside and rigid on the inside, weak on the outside, but very independent. And Xia Qingyu looks hot, but when the two of them are together in private, they are reckless and very clingy.

Of course, this comparison can only be kept in mind......

He has always felt that Lin Xinran has a kind of pathos, from his family background, to the past of living independently away from home, and then the AR3 project continued like that, losing to Odin in the China finals, defeating the moon demon in the world finals, but losing to Mushroom, who won the final championship in the end, as if he was transferred after "officially establishing diplomatic relations" with himself, he won a lot of championships after entering the "Eternal War" project, his career is thriving, he has attracted countless fans, and he has cooperated with the king, Various sponsorships are also coming to the door.

Let's hope she won't continue the pathos of the past.

Ye Shenxi thought about it and still didn't call Lin Xinran to comfort him, and wait until he went to the capital to chat.

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Indeed, as Lin Xinran said, after being beaten into the lower bracket by Brazil, the Chinese team quickly regained its competitive form, and eliminated many strong teams that fell from the upper bracket all the way in the lower bracket, the United States and Russia. It can be said that the more they fight, the more courageous they are, and the hope of the counterattack has been re-opened to the people, including the other two seeded teams, and the evaluation of various social networks and media has begun to change again, cheering for them.

"Don't be pressured and treat every game like it's the last."

"It's okay to play with style, you don't have to pay so much attention to winning or losing, it's okay to lose, just show our own things."

"Come on, I will always support you."

Hiss...... Aren't you the ones who started squirting when you first lost a game......

The two seeded teams, the United States and Russia, met the South Koreans one after another, and then both ended up being swept 2-0.

The Koreans showed their superior tactical execution in the game, especially against the Russian team, which was portrayed by the media before the game as a duel between "extremely mechanical precision execution" and "unbridled creativity".

The Koreans have never shown any sense of innovation in this project, and their best tactics are rarely original, and they only start to learn and practice after the new tactics that have emerged from other servers have been proven to be really powerful, and through their execution and cooperation, they have carried forward and achieved the ultimate in profits, and they are invincible in the local and world arenas.

In this respect, they are inferior to the Russian team, but they can win.

They won all the way to the final and got a ticket to the Bird's Nest, and in this tournament, they also lost one game in the group stage, and they have not dropped even a small point in the rest of the games, showing super dominance.

The media exclaimed that Koreans are monsters.

After half a month of bloody fighting, the two finalist teams were finally produced, as many people expected at the beginning, China and South Korea, although there may have been great wavering among them.

On December 13th, the Bird's Nest will hold the final of the final of the World Finals, which is a bit of a mouthful, but fortunately there is no upper bracket advantage in this tournament, so the Korean team should go straight to the battlefield with a score of 1-0.

The consideration of the blue fish network and the modern torch is that in the BO5 game, the 1-0 advantage is too great, which detracts from the excitement of the game, and the winner of the upper bracket has a few more days of rest than the champion of the lower bracket, not only that, but they have played a total of 9 games in the entire schedule, 6 games in the group stage and 3 games in the knockout round.

The Chinese team played a total of 12 games before the finals, 6 group games, 1 upper bracket knockout game and 5 lower bracket matches, especially the more final knockout matches, each of which will consume a lot of energy and physical strength, which is also an advantage for the upper bracket champion South Korea.

Moreover, this is also a format that has been announced a long time ago, and the audience and the media have approved this plan.

The Bird's Nest has a total of more than 90,000 seats, but certainly not all seats can be watched well, what can players on the back of the big screen see...... There are also tricky positions such as the two sides of the elliptical are also convenient for watching the game, so the official has sold a total of 26,000 tickets this time, which is divided into 5 levels, and the price ranges from the cheapest distant grandstand ticket price of 180 yuan to the most expensive infield VIP ticket 880 yuan, although it is only the first event to be held, but with the popularity of this game, as well as the specifications of this competition, some players and media even feel that the ticket price is cheaper this time.

Even the price of some domestic second-tier singers' concerts can't compare.

Moreover, the herring network has previously announced that after the first World Cup is held in China, it will carry out a "global tour" from the next one...... In other words, the World Cup final will not be held in China in a short period of time.

The city to be selected in the next session has not yet been determined, but judging from the effect of this final held in Beijing, there should be many teams and cities that will contact the herring fish network and apply to host it.

Driven by foreign journalists and tourists, the city's popularity, and the promotion of the city's image as an open, inclusive and trendy city are all very helpful.

In addition to the 2,000 or so free tickets for in-game events and public relations tickets for some institutions or companies, the 26,000 tickets that were sold out on the official website and ticketing website were immediately looted.

It can indeed be described by the word robbery, although it is not like some kings and queens of heaven and queen concerts tickets are gone in a few seconds, or the website of the Ministry of Railways is not available at all, and the tickets are empty when they are boarded, but within three days, more than 20,000 tickets have been completely sold out on the official website and several ticketing websites.

Even before the official start of the finals, VIP tickets have been speculated to a price of more than 2,000 yuan on e-commerce websites such as Dibao.

Scalpers really won't let go of any profitable tickets.