Chapter 114: The eight-in-four group stage opens again
The organizer of this exchange of esports players between the two countries is the Korean Esports Association, and after a series of tours, there is no official professional league to watch because the last season has just ended, and the new season has not yet begun.
However, this is not difficult for the Korean E-sports Association, there is no official competition, so amateur games can also be, and there are not many amateur games that can be worth watching for Chinese professional players at the moment, and the Samsung Cup National High School League is undoubtedly an excellent choice for the eight-in-four group stage.
So, after staying in Korea for about two or three days, Smile and his entourage, accompanied by an accompanying interpreter, visited the trainers, conference rooms, tactics room, etc. of Korean professional players, and continued to taste Korean special food and feel the enthusiasm of fans for e-sports players, and finally went to the Seoul E-sports Stadium not far from their place of residence under the arrangement of the organizer.
Because, today is the time for the Samsung Cup National High School League Eight-in-Four Group Stage Competition.
At the same time, Lee Sang-hyuk also took the school bus today, and the group of the same high school came to the Seoul E-sports Stadium again under the leadership of team leader Choi Jae-woo.
After the group got out of the car, Lee Sang-hyuk immediately noticed that the atmosphere at the scene today was a little different compared to last time.
How so? It's a little too noisy and lively.
It can be seen from the large increase in the number of on-site security personnel.4,wāww.
However, those fans and viewers were holding all kinds of support items in their hands, and because they were far away from Lee Sang-hyuk and the direction in which they parked, Lee Sang-hyuk couldn't see what was written on the sign in their hands for a while.
"Brother Zaiyu, there are a lot of people today. Are there any other celebrities coming? After the jungler in the Kegao team got out of the car, he looked at the team leader Cui Zaiyu with excitement in his tone and said.
Truly. A high school amateur professional league, although there are popular players like Lee Sang-hyuk in it. But there are too many fans here today, which is no less than the number of fans at the OGN scene last year, but last year's OGN was also the result of many e-sports entertainment stars gathering together, Lee Sang-hyuk asked himself that he did not have such an appeal, and judging from the various support items held by the fans, it is obvious that he is not a fan of a single person.
Cui Zaiyu saw this situation after getting out of the car, and naturally there was no lack of curiosity in his heart, and after hearing the words of the jungler in the team, he couldn't help but look around. But he still couldn't see it clearly, as the team leader, in order to maintain the dignity of the team leader, he naturally couldn't say that he didn't know at this time, so he could only pretend to be serious and said, "What's the matter, just play today's game, let's tell you first, today's game order is still in the second game, and the game is still against Shengyao High School." Be sure to do your best. ā
When Cui Zaiyu was making a serious effort to give a lecture, there was a sudden exclamation from the crowd standing around the e-sports stadium in the distance, followed by all kinds of excited shouts.
Choi Jae-woo couldn't help but stop talking, and tried to look over again in confusion. It seems that I want to hear something from the cheers of the fans, but there are many people, and I can only vaguely hear strange syllables such as "weixiao".
The other end of the stadium parking lot. Shengyao's school bus also came from Gwangju, and the group got off the bus. Choi Hyun-wook, who was lagging behind, got the girl in a wheelchair out of the car again, and pushed the wheelchair to keep up with his teammates.
"Yikes. I didn't expect smile's popularity to be so high, and he was also the king of passers-by, which was too unfair to us Hyunwook. Seeing the crowds of fans gathered at the entrance of the e-sports stadium, Shengyao's team leader couldn't help but sigh and regret.
Cui Xianxu, who was pushing a wheelchair behind, pouted disdainfully when he heard it, and the girl in the wheelchair also smiled knowingly, and then touched Cui Xianxu's hand on the wheelchair.
"Brother, those don't seem to be fans of smile." After listening carefully, the midlaner in the Shengyao team couldn't help touching his chin and said with a puzzled face.
"Ah, who else could it be if it wasn't smile?" The leader of Shengyao said noncommittally.
"Will it be other stars coming, like last year's OGN." The ADC in the Shengyao team had an idea and said his own speculation.
"Hey, do you think this is the Pro League?" The assistant who walked beside him said with some amusement, and then added, "Even if the organizer invites those stars, it can only be the finals, what are you doing in the group stage of eight into four?" ā
"Yuncheng has a point." After hearing this, the top list in the Shengyao team smiled and guessed, "Could it be that there is some great person who is here as a guest, that is, the stars of those professional teams." ā
"It's possible what you're saying." After slowly approaching, Sheng Yao's team leader also noticed that something was wrong at this time, he pointed to a nanny car that had just arrived behind him and said, "Look, is that a Samsung Club car?" ā
The direction of his finger was the Samsung, white and blue teams that had just arrived from the base
"Brother, they just visit, why do they have to let us come." As soon as he got out of the car, P said with some unhappiness.
If there is no competition for professional players like them, most of the daily training time is placed in the second half, that is, from midnight to early morning every day.
Over time, most players will choose to train in this time period, which has caused many times that professional players in Rank training, if they choose to train during the day on weekdays, it will be difficult to match similar opponents, and the waiting time will be relatively long, which not only loses the meaning of training, but also is very inefficient.
Like Lee Sang-hyuk last time, the reason why he was matched with a professional player in the promotion tournament was purely because of those people's deliberate sniping.
But the time period from midnight to early morning is different, this time period is the time period when all professional players night owls go out collectively, and most of the top 50 professional players will be online in this time period, so that they can naturally quickly match opponents with similar strength, and over time, it has become a fixed training time for many professional players.
But on the other hand, from midnight to early morning as training time, it is undoubtedly a very happy time to sleep well in the morning, and getting up early in the morning is an extremely painful experience.
"Don't say it's useless, the fans are in front." Dandy, the jungler of the white team, glanced at the sleepy-eyed imp on the side, as well as his appearance that had just gotten up, and couldn't help but remind, "If you don't want to ruin your image, hurry up and straighten out your chicken nest." ā
"Poof." Deft, who was walking aside, glanced at IMP's messy hair and couldn't help but laugh.
"Hekui, you're still laughing, come and help my brother take care of it." IMP also realized that there was something wrong with his hair, and when he saw Deft snickering next to him, he couldn't help but "bully" the youngest newcomer in the team
In the same way, after a group of professional players from China came to the Seoul E-sports Stadium and got off the bus, they were also taken aback by the crowd of fans in front of them, and the PDD in the IG team held up their fat bodies, ran over and patted the smiling shoulders and said, "Ya'er, I didn't expect you to have so many fans in South Korea." ā
"That's, fat brother, don't look at me on the road to resist pressure, but our brother Cheng's ADC is really strong, you know what it is called by Koreans?" After hearing PDD's words, Strawberry couldn't help but raise her eyebrows and asked proudly.
"I know this, the world's No. 1 ADC." IG's midlaner, who is also fat, squeezed over and replied.
"Bud, you can say this." PDD glared angrily,