Chapter 10: A Difficult Road Ahead
Originally, Sun Yi's planned interview content was all disrupted, and now he can only happily watch all the members of the WT team firing at the TBK team, and he can also feel the deep affection between the two teams before, it is clear who is strong and who is weak in e-sports, and the results speak, the two teams have fought dozens of games, and the WT team basically wins, and the TBK team is also used to being pointed at by the WT team after losing the game, so they are also very careful to listen.
The two teams have been communicating for more than half an hour, and the WT team finally felt that there was nothing worth spraying on, and sat down quietly and looked at Sun Yi with some embarrassment.
"I'm sorry, I'm used to it, I can't stop saying it." Lan Yu looked at Sun Yi and said.
Others, including members of the TBK team, also hurriedly apologized to Sun Yi, who waved his hand and didn't care, signaling the interview to continue.
The interview effect in this issue is very good, and there are indeed many people who pay attention to the reaction of these two new teams after the preliminary round, and the WT team was widely praised for its 1-1 draw with the powerful EDG team, but there are also many people who said that from the first game, the WT team's two games are up and down, with very unstable factors, and they do not have the real temperament of a strong team, but it is naturally much better than the TBK team.
The TBK team was criticized for almost nothing, but Sun Yi wrote in an interview with "Esports Weekly" that it was still very authentic, euphemistically mentioning that the TBK team may be because they have just entered the professional league, and all the habits are not adaptable, hoping that the audience can give them more confidence, and one or two failures do not mean anything.
The appeal of Esports Weekly and Sun Yi is strong, and the criticism of the TBK team has slowly faded, while the discussion about the WT team is not over, and they will face the WE team next week, and the final result is unknown.
The second day of the tournament also went ahead as scheduled, again with two four-team matches, and after all the matches were over, the standings for the first week of the first round were released.
In the first week, the EDG team defeated the WT team and accumulated one point each; OMG defeated TBK 2-0 to accumulate two points; Team WE is 2-0, and Team LGD is tied for first place with OMG with two points; The IG team and the royal team are tied 1-1 and each earns one point.
In previous years, there were not many games that were able to start with two tied for first place and four tied for second, which also means that the equalization of the strength of the domestic professional league is becoming more and more serious, but there are two rounds of 16 games to compete, so the final ranking is not visible at all.
However, the WT team and the TBK team are really going to have a headache, because their schedule is like a devil, on the whole, there are basically no weak teams in this year's professional league, if you really want to talk about weak teams, the WT team, the TBK team and the LGD team are counted as slightly weaker, and the strong teams basically have to brush points on them, like the WT team was able to grit their teeth yesterday and grab a point on EDG It is not easy.
WT team next game will accept the league's loudest, the most fans of the WE team baptism, in the face of this absolutely old team, the WT team has no chance of winning, so the current goal is just the same as the first round, ready to temporarily grab a point to keep the draw, and then through the weak team to grab points to chase up the ranking, and the TBK team will have to face the EDG team, if you lose again, then the start of the serious disadvantage will greatly affect the TBK team's next career journey.
The royal team, which was slightly weak before, has also increased its strength after the introduction of Korea's former No. 1 jungler Insec and auxiliary Zero, plus they themselves have a very sharp team veteran ADC, the royal family has now made a great breakthrough in both rhythm and strength in the lower lane, and last season also had a good performance.
The WT team almost has to turn these strong teams again, and the last round of the game is to face the relatively weak TBK team and LGD team, the devilish schedule will easily destroy the confidence of the WT team members, and in addition to the more familiar TBK team, the LGD team is actually very strong, they belong to the kind of team that dares to fight very hard, and dares to play tactics in the game. So many teams also have a lot of headaches when facing them.
All in all, the road ahead is difficult, and it will be difficult for the WT team to find a way forward that can lead to a bright future among these wolf-like teams, so they can only try to raise all their concentration to the highest level, grit their teeth and move forward, hoping that they will not collapse early due to strong pressure before they get there.
The WT team and the TBK team watched the second day's game on the spot, no better than other professional teams, for the professional league, they only know everything on the video, and those are different from what they saw on the spot, so although many teams returned to the training base early after the game, the two teams still stayed on the spot to watch very seriously.
As the leader of the WT team, Ye Qing is also very busy during this period, with a lot of matters that must be contacted by the official, including some interview invitations to deal with, and she is also one of the current tactical analysts of the WT team, and she also needs to find time to discuss the tactics of the next game with Lan Yu and the members of the WT team.
But she had a very fulfilling life, although she was very tired all weekend, but she learned a lot, this kind of social practice is not everyone has the opportunity to participate, and because she is a newcomer, and a very beautiful girl, she will get very serious answers and help every time she goes to a place to humbly ask for advice, which is also a natural advantage of girls.
Many teams set their training base in S City, because it is very close to the professional arena in T City, and the players do not have to have to work hard, the base camp of the WT team is in H City, although the distance is not very far, but every time you come, you basically have to take a plane or high-speed rail, which is also a test for the physical strength of the players, are worried about what will happen to this team that has no substitutes.
It is worth mentioning that, as Lan Yu said before, those media who had made things difficult for them before the start of the professional league and disgusted people with all kinds of malicious questions were unanimously crusaded, and the WT team had a photography team with the team, which was Yan Xue's documentary team, and many media performances were clearly filmed that day, and Lan Yu's response to them was also put on the Internet, which set off countless discussions for a while.
The mainstream large media dominated by "E-sports Weekly" and some game channels that have cooperated with H City jointly spoke out to boycott this kind of bad media that discriminates against players in general, and at the same time called on the official to boycott the cooperation with these media.
This kind of thing just needs an opportunity or an excuse, and the media involved were silent for a whole day, and after looking for various relationships to no avail, they began to come forward to apologize, and in the face of the anger of many professional teams and fans, they said that they would definitely let the reporters strengthen their learning in this area, and then correct many previous shortcomings.
Of course, having said that, many media are dedicated to attracting attention with negative news about e-sports, which is also related to the current e-sports environment, basically normal players will pay attention to the official news, and the official news can be sent out in addition to the victory or defeat of the game and the change of score data, there is nothing to talk about, at most make some interesting video highlights to attract views.
A piece of negative news can spark a large-scale discussion, such as the departure of two members of EDG's original WE team, which has sparked a super big discussion at the instigation of various promoters, and many media outlets have benefited from it.
This matter lasted for several days before it subsided, and the WT team has attracted much attention and praise from other teams because it has become the leader of this matter, and other teams have long been unbearable to many media, but the relationship is intertwined, and they are afraid that the image of the team will be damaged because of this, but the WT team has no such concerns, and is itself a recognized rookie, in the eyes of players, will there be a more unbearable image than the rookie team? As a result, the image of the WT team has improved a lot.
The domestic professional league and the North American game are almost synchronous, because they are all officially approved professional leagues, so the WT team has no communication with the TSM team and the C9 team for the time being, but occasionally send an email, Lan Yu received a congratulatory email from TSM's Dyrus and C9Hai, after all, the first game of the game was still won, which is a good start.
Foreign countries began to pay more and more attention to China's professional leagues, and Lan Yu also vaguely got a little information through their exchanges, at present, South Korea dominates the entire League of Legends world, and it is difficult for tourism teams in North America or Europe and other regions to go further, because many playing styles were invented by South Korea and then prevailed in other regions, but although China is relatively weaker than South Korea, it is currently within reach for teams in other regions.
Therefore, even teams like C9, which claims to keep up with the development of Korean tactics, have begun to turn their attention to China, trying to surpass China by studying the changes in Hallyu play in China, which is why the WT team received greetings from North America just after the first match, and they are also paying attention to the domestic game.
The WT team has prepared a lot of things in this week's time, as a new team, they not only have to do countless reviews of the failed games, but also have to watch a lot of the next opponent WE team game, of course, the more you look at the heart, the more cool the heart, the professional team is not only strong in terms of individual strength, but also the almost impeccable tacit understanding and tactical background between them.
Although the members of the WE team have changed again and again in the past two years, under the influence of the only two remaining members of the former world champion, many things have been retained, such as the stability of the line and the understanding of support capabilities, the WT team has a set of global support tactics at its peak is very eye-catching, and the midlaner at that time is also known as the world's No. 1 card, and the new Korean midlaner has a very good understanding of the hero of the card master, and it is estimated that it will occupy at least one forbidden position.
The day before the competition, the WT team did not continue training, because there were only five people, and if the training was too high-intensity, it was likely that the body would not be able to bear it, so the five of them were just discussing the lineup and tactics very easily, and making various predictions for this week's games.
Five sets of tactics have been prepared for the final finalization of the debut, based on the various heroes that the WT team is currently good at, the WT team is actually very good at tactical innovation under the leadership of Lan Yu, but it is found that too new tactics in the domestic competition often do not play the desired results, because the domestic strong teams are generally the kind of stable with a hint of radical style, and many new tactics have lost their role in the face of this calmness.