Chapter 61: If You Don't Advance, You Will Retreat?
The Seoul E-sports Stadium is located in Gwangjin District, where many famous e-sports clubs in South Korea, such as SKT, Samsung, CJ, etc., are located, and there is a tendency to form an e-sports city, so Gwangjin District can be described as a famous e-sports district in South Korea. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
After Lee Sang-hyuk and the others got out of the car, they found that there were many reporters standing in front of the Seoul E-sports Stadium, and the competition venue was very different from the Gwangju Gymnasium, where they played in the Gwangju group stage before! After all, the latter is a stadium in itself, which was only temporarily expanded into an esports stadium for small and medium-sized esports events, while the former is a place designed and built entirely for esports, and its concept is also adhering to the concept of e-sports first.
As a venue that can accommodate a large number of spectators to watch the game on the spot, in order to eliminate echoes and give the audience the most perfect live experience, Seoul E-sports Stadium can be said to have spent a lot of thought on the sound reduction of its indoor sound, and the interior walls of the entire building are all made of sound absorption treatment in terms of materials and design, so it can be said that the e-sports building of this scale is no more than a handful of hands in the whole world.
On the other hand, the Seoul E-sports Stadium, as a world-class e-sports building, will actually be used to host an amateur national high school student e-sports league, which can also be seen that the Korean e-sports atmosphere reborn by Lee Sang-hyuk in this life is strong.
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"Look, isn't that the school bus of Gwangju Science and Technology High School?" Among the reporters standing in front of the e-sports stadium, one of them saw Lee Sang-hyuk and their school bus slowly approaching, and couldn't help but stretch out his hand and ask his peers beside him.
"Well, it's indeed the school bus of Gwangju Science and Technology High School, so Smile must be on it." Someone looked around and confirmed it carefully, and said affirmatively.
As soon as the words fell, other reporters with microphones immediately called the staff with cameras next to them, and swarmed in the direction of the school bus of Gwangju University of Science and Technology, after all, this kind of amateur high school league is not as good as those star-studded professional leagues, and these reporters naturally can't find a good entry point to make an eye-catching report like they usually interview those e-sports stars. Therefore, Lee Sang-hyuk, who has become a quasi-national e-sports idol at the moment and has recently been in the music industry and has set off a music frenzy, has naturally become the best choice for these reporters waiting in front of the Seoul E-sports Stadium.
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"Lee Sang-hyuk, do you have confidence in this competition?"
"Smile, do you think there are any players in the other school teams in this league who deserve your attention?"
"Lee Sang-hyuk, after you used Raven in the previous competition, there have been rumors on the Internet that you are the first Raven in Hanbok, but there are also many players who question this, they think Theshy's Raven is stronger, what do you think?"
"Lee Sang-hyuk...."
Lee Sang-hyuk, who had just gotten out of the car, had not had time to enjoy the whole picture of the Seoul e-sports stadium in front of him, but he was surrounded by a crowd of reporters, and all kinds of questions were thrown out in an endless stream, which immediately made him noisy. Fortunately, there were a large number of students traveling with him on the school bus this time, and under their cover, Lee Sang-hyuk finally walked all the way into the e-sports hall after answering a few questions in a hurry.
At this moment, another school bus slowly drove in front of the Seoul E-sports Stadium and stopped at the parking lot.
After the car stopped, the door opened, and everyone in the car walked out, and those students who had never seen the Seoul E-sports Stadium in reality couldn't help but be amazed when they saw such a gorgeous e-sports building.
At the back of the car were a boy with slightly long hair and a girl with inconvenient legs and feet in a portable wheelchair.
"Slow down, I'll hold you, come." The boy walked in front, turned around and carefully dragged the wheelchair down slowly, and when he reached the step where the wheelchair landed, the boy took a step down and then supported his feet on the ground, and vigorously picked up the wheelchair and the girl in the wheelchair, carefully took a step back, and then slowly put it down.
"Tired, you hold me, in fact, I can slowly support myself down." The girl couldn't help but say with some distress when she saw the slight protrusion on her forehead and neck when the boy lifted the wheelchair before.
"Ha, don't get tired, you're very light, lighter than a wheelchair." The boy shook his head, pushed the wheelchair to keep up with the crowd walking in front, and said witty things to the girl in the wheelchair with a smile on his face.
"Ah, really, Hyunwook, don't lie to me." The girl in the wheelchair gently brushed a strand of hair scattered on her forehead with her hand, turned her head and said with a smile.
"How could I lie to you, I'm the most honest person in our Shengyao High School." The boy named Cui Hyun Wook said without blushing, "Na, if you don't believe me, you can ask the classmates in front of you, and they will definitely say that I am not." ”
"Huh?" The girl couldn't help but be stunned by Cui Hyun-wook's inconsistent self-questioning and self-answering.
"Well, because they've always thought I'm the most honest person in Gwangju." Choi Hyun Wook paused and said with a smile.
"Haha." The girl was amused, sat in a wheelchair and nodded with a smile and said, "Na, we Hyun-wook are the most honest people in Gwangju." ”
At this time, among the students who were walking in front of Shengyao High School, there was a sudden burst of discussion.
"Ah, who's that guy in front? Why are there so many reporters interviewing him, is it the same as us to participate in the competition? ”
"Smile, Lee Sang-hyuk of Gwangju Science and Technology High School, should be here to participate in the competition, after all, this is the top 16 match, and it is impossible to let the substitute go on again."
"yes, I watched the previous two games, and I really almost lost."
"Well, I don't know why he didn't go before."
"I should be busy with the matter of "Music Bank", didn't he play on stage this Friday, and won the championship of this issue."
"Oh, really, that's amazing."
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Listening to the previous discussion, Cui Xianxu, who was pushing a wheelchair, couldn't help but sink slightly, and an inexplicable glimmer flashed in his eyes.
"Are they talking about that Smile from Koha?" The girl in the wheelchair didn't notice the change in Cui Xianxu's face behind her for the first time, and said unconsciously, "I heard that he is very strong, I hope this competition will not be encountered at the beginning." ”
"Well, I also hope that they don't get eliminated and can make it to the final." Cui Xianxu nodded, and whispered as if he was saying it to the girl in the wheelchair, as if he was telling it to himself, "Because this time, I must prove that I am stronger than him." ”
"Well, our Hyunwook is the best." The girl in the wheelchair obviously also felt the change in his mood from Cui Xianxu's words, and couldn't help but smile slightly and put her hand on Cui Xianxu's hand pushing the armrest of the wheelchair and shook it hard.
In fact, Choi Hyun Wook does not have any thoughts about this Smile who is in Gwangju with him, on the contrary, it can even be said that since Lee Sang-hyuk's name of 'Gwangju Hokage' began to spread slowly on the Internet, Choi Hyun Wook once paid attention to this peer who was about the same age as himself, but was equally talented in e-sports.
But because Lee Sang-hyuk gradually participated in some entertainment activities in order to improve the situation at home, and recently he didn't even play the game because of the music bank, which gradually made Choi Hyun-wook, who had been paying attention to him, slowly become a little disgusted, because he always insisted that e-sports, like any other sports competition, requires a lot of training, and if you don't advance, you will retreat, and you must not be distracted.
Therefore, this time, in addition to insisting on his own opinion, Choi Hyun Wook actually wants to 'wake up' Lee Sang-hyuk through the game in his heart, so that he realizes that he is now drifting away on the road of gradual change.
But whether Lee Sang-hyuk is really 'not advancing or retreating', and starting to make a profit doesn't matter for the time being, after all, he stood at the top of the e-sports pyramid in his previous life and penetrated South Korea with a 'surreal' phenomenon, and whether this 'reality' theory can be applied to him remains to be studied. But this kind of 'if you don't advance, you will retreat', in fact, since e-sports has gradually become entertaining in South Korea, it has long been put forward by some people in the e-sports circle, and there are also a group of people who support this view.
However, as the level of entertainment of e-sports in South Korea is getting higher and higher, so that a new group of 'e-sports entertainment circles' is gradually formed, and this view has gradually been abandoned by the mainstream view, after all, the current situation in South Korea at this time is that the e-sports circle is the entertainment industry, and the e-sports star is the entertainment star, because many people are clearly aware of the other difference between e-sports competitions and other sports competitions is that their essence is to entertain the public.
But after all, people's thinking is independent, and it is naturally difficult to change once the opinion is formed, so this does not affect the small number of people who adhere to the previous view, obviously, Cui Xianxu of Shengyao High School is one of them at this time.