Chapter 31: Touching the head and killing the foul

On Sunday, August 12, each event of the ESCL China Offline Finals will determine the final place to represent China in the year-end Seattle World Finals after yesterday's group stage and morning knockout round.

A total of 8 projects After two days of fierce competition, all the results have been settled, except for the most popular finale "Warcraft War 3" project.

The Warcraft War 3 and 4 finals have just ended, and Team Cool from Titan defeated their opponents to get the last ticket to Seattle. The final championship and runner-up finals are about to begin, and the places in the World Finals of both sides have been obtained, and they are competing for prize money and honors, and at the same time revealing the suspense of the ESCL China Division.

At this time, the Funan Gymnasium was full of people, and the spectators who had watched the game all day did not feel tired at all, but became more and more excited, and the shouts became louder and louder.

“Odin! Odin! Many people shouted this ID, Odin from the ME team player, in 2005 and 2006, won the ESCL "Warcraft 3" World Championship for two consecutive years, which has never been done by anyone in the history of ESCL. Although there is no official and authoritative ranking of esports players at present, in the eyes of most people, he is a well-deserved number one and absolute king. In the previous regional qualifiers and this China finals so far, not a single loss, not even a small point has been lost, and it has come to the present with an absolute crushing attitude, only one step away from the Chinese championship.

An even louder voice shouted another ID: "Tracy! Tracy! ”

Tracy from Team SW also entered the semi-finals with the first record in the group, and stood in front of the legendary Odin all the way. Her birth is not limited to a budding talented newcomer, but the first time a female professional player has appeared in the entire Chinese e-sports field, and she is so young and beautiful. Although some teams have also formed their own women's teams, it is more of a commercial and team image consideration, and they are also some performance projects that they participate in. There is such a girl competing with the boys and playing dazzling results, which makes the 16-year-old Tracy almost overnight become the goddess of national e-sports.

With a legend on one side and a goddess on the other, this final pushed the atmosphere of the entire stadium to the climax.

Xia Qingyu and Ye Shenxi are also sitting in the stands at the moment, since she is resting today, she will follow Ye Shenxi to watch the game. Originally, she planned to go home to accompany her parents, but she was busy some time ago and hadn't been home for more than a month, but how could she admit that she wanted to come and see the netizens Ye Shenxi had never seen before, what the professional female e-sports players were like.

Xia Qingyu is a little surprised by the development of the e-sports industry, her understanding of this industry only comes from the introduction of some game magazines that she has read before, what is not enough to eat, the boss owes wages and bonuses, training in a black Internet café and the like, but she didn't expect it to have developed well.

Strictly speaking, the game circle and the e-sports circle are two circles, but the e-sports circle is always an extension of the game circle.

After a short break, the host re-entered the stage and began to say some warm-up words.

"Are there any Odin supporters on the scene, let me hear your voices!" The audience cheered, and the audience raised the lantern signs and glow sticks in their hands and shook them vigorously.

"What about Tracy's supporters?" The stadium erupted in higher decibel screams, more light signs and glow sticks.

"Now let's ask the two contestants, Odin~~~ and Tracy~~~, to come on stage!" deliberately dragged out the tail note, looking very professional......

Amid the majestic live music and the tsunami-like shouts of the audience, Odin and Tracy, dressed in their respective team uniforms, slowly walked out of the backstage and waved to the audience. And Xia Qingyu finally got to see Tracy's true face of Lushan, even with her usual conceit, she had to admit that in terms of appearance, female netizens had to fight with herself.

She stabbed Ye Shenxi beside her, and didn't speak, but the meaning of her eyes was conveyed very clearly, you kid is very discerning, and Ye Shenxi could only smile back with an embarrassed smile.

The organizers know how to take advantage of the popularity of the two players, and the host briefly interviewed the two players about the game, and then let the two sides put down cruel words.

Odin is a veteran player, and of course he has a proper response to this kind of thing, which shows his confidence and does not make his opponent angry, so he is very tactful. As a junior, Tracy showed enough modesty to her predecessors, and she spoke mildly, and anyone who was familiar with her would sincerely admire her acting skills.

When the two contestants walked into the glass houses at opposite ends of the stage, the much-anticipated competition finally began.

In the first game, both sides started off regularly, with Odin choosing the Archmage to quickly open a mine, while Tracy chose to practice the Warden level quickly, which did not put pressure on Odin's minor. Although Tracy used precise micro-manipulation to jam the archmage and complete the kill in the early engagement, Odin, who had the economic advantage, bought the archmage directly from the altar and completed the counterattack. In the middle of the game, Odin took the lead in upgrading the base and chose to rebuild the Archmage's Blizzard, and cooperated with the tank to pull out Tracy's mine, and in the face of a huge disadvantage, Tracy had to play GG.

Losing the first fight, and losing the first game without a chance at all, seemed to be a bit of a blow to Tracy's confidence, and Odin was still Odin, rubbing her temples, and seeing through the close-up of the big screen that she seemed to be looking for something in the audience, the fans cheered even more enthusiastically.

The beginning of the second game seems to be a copy of the first game, which is also a choice of the Warden who has risen to level 3 and the archmage who has opened the mine, but this time it is clear that Tracy's reconnaissance has done a better job than the previous game, and the summoned mercenaries have harvested the Terran infantry wandering in the field with powerful piercing firepower, and at the same time, relying on the level of the lead, they have taken down Odin's archmage with a level 2 poison dart, and have an advantage. After the main base was upgraded to level 2, Tracy chose the combination of the ballista and the fawn, and pushed off Odin's ore in one fell swoop, and at this time, Odin bought the panda Brewmaster and wanted to put pressure on Tracy's ballista with fire-breathing skills, but at this time, Tracy's Warden was already level 5, and Odin had to quit the game first.

Finally pulled back a game, all Tracy's fans breathed a sigh of relief, even Xia Qingyu felt this tense atmosphere, in addition to the messy relationship with Ye Shenxi, she also hoped that this petite and delicate little sister could win the game.

"Hey, what do you think?" Xia Qingyu asked Ye Shenxi.

"I don't know." Ye Shenxi's answer was neat.

"It's your netizen, you just say that you think she can win."

"It's because I'm a friend that I said I didn't know." Ye Shenxi was also helpless, from his eyes, although the score was one to one, but the tiebreaker should be the veteran Odin had more advantages, the first two Odin did not make obvious mistakes, but Tracy appeared a few times, all of which were made up for with a burst of explosive APM, but they were all very dangerous, and people were frightened.

And with Odin's old ways, there should be an unreleased ultimate waiting for Tracy.

Sure enough, at the beginning of the third game, Odin adopted a completely different strategy than the first two rounds, directly knocking out the militia and following the archmage towards Tracy's base, knocking on the arrow tower in front of her base. And Tracy didn't expect that the opponent actually changed the safe start of the first two rounds in the tiebreaker, and adopted such a risky tactic, and hurriedly recalled the demon hunters who were leveling up in the field to go home to defend.

At this time, the huge experience gap between the two was reflected, and Tracy was obviously a little panicked in the fierce attack, the defense became more and more stretched, and the building kept bleeding, and the elf couldn't repair it. Odin's towers were erected in front of her base, and in the end, Tracy uprooted the Tree of Life and was unable to resist the attack, losing the match.

The young Tracy showed her terrifying maneuvers again in this match, but in the end she lost out on the tournament experience.

She leaned back in her chair and sighed at the ceiling, then got up to shake Odin's hand, who had already walked behind her, and returned to a polite smile to congratulate her opponent. And Odin lifted the championship trophy in the cheers of the audience, Ye Shenxi looked at it from afar, and Tracy stood behind Odin, also looking at the trophy, slightly distracted.

I don't know who took the lead and shouted Tracy's name, so the audience began to sound "Tracy!" over and over again. Tracy! ”

Of course, Odin wouldn't mind this situation, because he knew that these cries were for comfort and encouragement.

"It's a pity." Xia Qingyu also bred a feeling of regret, and was a little worried about whether the little girl would be hit hard.

"Yes, she's still young." Although Ye Shenxi is also regretful, the national runner-up is already quite good at her age, and this is only the first time she has participated in a national competition.

"How old is she?" Xia Qingyu was a little curious.

"Uh, 16."

"That's really a young man." She originally wanted to complain that you can do it at such a young age, but think about it, forget it, although it is a joke, it is too inappropriate.

Alas, Xia herring is more and more potential to develop into vinegar jars.

After the award ceremony, the media interview ended, Ye Shenxi sent a text message to Lin Xinran, and finally met her at the door of the gymnasium.

By this time, night had fallen, the spectators had long since dispersed, and the huge stadium had returned to silence after two days of revelry.

Xia Qingyu has already gone back, Ye Shenxi has no need to mix with her when she meets her friends, besides, the other party has just lost an important game, and it is when she is vulnerable and needs to be comforted, so she naturally doesn't want to see any outsiders.

She knows where to "make trouble", and sometimes playing a little emotion is also a kind of fun, but the place where she should be interested should also be interesting, and she doesn't have to be so eager to enter Ye Shenxi's social circle.

Lin Xinran looked relaxed, walked up to Ye Shenxi, and saw that Ye Shenxi was a little distressed: "I got the ticket to the World Finals, and I'm going to go abroad to compete, it's amazing." 'He didn't mention the process of today's game.

Lin Xinran put his hands behind his back and squinted at Ye Shenxi: "You really came." ”

Ye Shenxi was surprised: "Didn't you have a watch table among you, I thought you saw me, I was self-inflicted." ”

Lin Xinran pouted and said, "How can so many people in the stands find you, it's just to let you know that I'm watching you." ”

Ye Shenxi said speechlessly: "At that time, you still have the heart to play this kind of trick...... Wait, this sentence is a bit winding, I'll go through it first. ”

Lin Xinran shook his head: "I was very nervous at that time, I felt that if you were looking at me, you also knew that I was watching you, and I might not be so nervous." ”

After a moment, he added, "After all, it's just an acquaintance of yours here." ”

Hearing such sincere words, Ye Shenxi's heart was a little agitated, he knew that behind her pretending to be a relaxed smile, it was just a 16-year-old girl's first time to experience this kind of major game loss, a normal loss.

He just wanted to give the girl in front of him a little comfort for a while, stretched out his hand, hesitated for a moment or touched her head: "It's already good, the first time I participated in this kind of top event, I won the second place in the country, and I won't be nervous next time." ”

Ouch, touch your head and kill! That's a foul!

Lin Xinran was slightly stunned, then leaned forward, put his head on his chest, turned his head and pressed his face against him for a moment, and said leisurely: "I didn't expect it to be a little sad." ”

Ye Shenxi just rubbed her head and said softly, "It's okay, it's fine." ”