The International, the full name of AL, is a global Dota 2 tournament hosted by V Society, which is known as the World Cup of Dota 2 by Dota 2 players.

The International is held every two years, and each time there will be 20 teams from five continents competing for the championship over the course of a week.

The top 16 teams from around the world will be invited directly to the invitational, while the remaining four spots will come from Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Africa and Oceania. The winner of each region will be awarded directly to The International.

The competitions in these four regions are also known as qualifiers.

Qualifiers in each region are not available to everyone.

Generally speaking, only teams that have won tournaments or have very well-known players will be eligible for qualifiers.

That's why Team OK was able to get a spot in the qualifiers in such a short period of time after the reorganization.

In the qualifiers, 12 teams from each region will compete for the only ticket to the world stage.

For Xu Yunlong, this will be a great opportunity.

The first two editions of The International were directly invited, and there was no such thing as qualifiers, so it was called The International. In the third edition of this year, in addition to the significant increase in the prize pool, a qualifier channel was opened. This has given many emerging teams hope, but even with the qualifiers, there are still many teams that can't get into the circle.

Places are limited.

Therefore, the teams that can enter the qualifiers have different pride and pressure.

For that only ticket to Seattle Stadium.

"There are a total of 12 teams in the Asian Qualifiers, and you all know that. Eden, Spiritgaming, Demon, and Per in China, Banana, Blade, and Void in Malaysia, and three in Singapore, Smile, Brownbear, and Fluxns. Finally, there are two Korean teams, Star and theUniverse. We met Team Smile in the first round, and then each team had to play a single-round robin BO1. The top four are promoted, the rest are eliminated directly, and then the first and second in order enter the winner's group, and the third and fourth are the loser's group, with BO3 in each group. The winner of the first and second picks will directly enter the finals, the winner of the lower bracket will play the loser of the upper bracket in Bo3, and the winner will play the winner of the upper bracket in Bo5, and the winner will get a ticket to Seattle, all understand? ”

Xiao Qingyue wrote down the schedule for this period on the whiteboard, a total of seven days. Every day is a crazy competition, the schedule is full, not to mention training, and the rest time is also compressed.

The single round-robin tournament is a two-day tournament. Each team plays eight to nine games a day, and if you can play for an hour per game, you have to play at least eight hours a day.

The competition is not better than the usual training, although it seems that the training is already very tiring, but the one-hour game can definitely withstand the three-to-four-hour training intensity, so eight games a day is still very tiring.

"We didn't meet a domestic team today." Zhu Quehuang glanced at the schedule and said, "Tomorrow, the three teams will play together." ”

"Don't underestimate foreign teams. Not weak. Xu Yunlong was eating breakfast, not to mention lunch, and said quite seriously: "The first smile is a tough battle, last year's smile ranked 21st in the world, and it was a pity that one person entered the invitational tournament." This year's ranking is also in the thirties. It's not bad, it's a strong enemy. ”

"Oh!" Zhu Quehuang nodded, "Then what am I going to use today?" ”

"Our preferred lineup is still the elf small system, I use the elf, Brother Long's small." Xuan Wu followed Zhu Quehuang's question and began to make tactical arrangements. "This set has the highest winning rate at present, and as a foreign opponent, we should not know much about us now, the probability of a banning elf is less than 20%, and other positions can be selected according to the opponent's banpick."

"What if the elf is banned on the other side?" White Tiger asked.

"No one should do that for the first three rounds, but after three rounds, the rest of the teams should notice our tactics, so you can take out Lane the Water Man or the Void Witch Doctor later. Xiao Zhu's recent Lane data is very good, and it can be considered. As for the mid and bad laners, the hero pool of the two of you is okay, and it will be decided according to the changes on the spot. However, the first choice is still the fire cat and the wood harvester, unless the opposite side is very strong and then comes up with a hero like the blackbird. Leave us a hand for ourselves. Xuan Wu said and got up and wrote down three sets of lineups on the whiteboard, "There are still two hours before the game starts, everyone can practice first." ”

"I'll open the room, and we'll play twos and threes. You don't have to be very serious, just the feeling of grabbing the mending knife. Don't run out of energy before the game. Xu Yunlong said and opened a room and let everyone into the room.

Standing behind the five big boys and looking at their serious looks, Xiao Qingyue and Leng Muxue looked at each other and smiled, and both turned their heads to help prepare water and food.

Soon two hours passed.

The organizer sent an invitation to the room, and Xiao Qingyue notified the five people as soon as possible, so the five of them quit the practice and entered the host's room full of energy.

Their OK team was assigned to the Dire side this time, and the smile was on the Radiant side.

It was up to the smile to ban first, and at the first hand, they banned Carl.

"Well, that's good." Xu Yunlong nodded, Ye Qiu's face turned red instantly, and the white tiger glanced at Ye Qiu and snorted.

Smiling data Leng Muxue didn't collect much, although the tickets for the Southeast Asian game were bought. I've fast-forwarded every game to watch, but Smile doesn't seem to have any special system, the only thing that is powerful is that their mid-laner with Fire Cat or Wine Fairy is quite powerful, so Leng Muxue's advice is: Just ban the heroes who threaten you.

So Xu Yunlong banned the bat with his first hand.

Soon the smile made a second-hand ban, werewolf.

Xu Yunlong sighed in his heart, the werewolf prophet advanced, it was the lineup he liked to use very much in the original OK, and it seemed that the opponent had also done a lot of research.

So the second hand, he naturally banned the fire cat.

It depends on what the smile holds in the first hand.

Half a minute later, Smile finally took out the first-hand hero, the Prophet.

"They want to bring the line." Xuan Wu made a judgment.

"Look at their choice again, shouldn't they just lead the line" Xu Yunlong said and chose the elf Io according to the discussion, but second-hand, he thought about it.

"What's wrong? Don't you just take Xiaoxiao? Ye Qiu asked.

"Not yet." Xu Yunlong suddenly smiled and chose a bounty hunter, "Then divide the people." ”

However, just after Xu Yunlong finished choosing the bounty, Smile chose Chen.

"Huh?!" Zhu Quehuang was stunned for a moment, he had also played the hero Chen, but Chen was very afraid of the bounty. Open the stealth and directly match you to the dawn, what experience has to be divided into half and always be ready for the danger of being killed, this smile in front of their bounty face, what does this mean?

"No wonder the world rankings have dropped so much." Xu Yunlong sighed, "Obviously, I want to advance, and then I won't play other heroes, so I can only choose this." ”

"I think maybe the Singapore side has a different style of play." Ye Qiu said.

"Three bans the ice soul." Xuan Wu spoke up and pulled Xu Yunlong's thinking back to the game. The Ice Soul is very restrained in advancing the system, and it is reasonable to smile and ban.

Xu Yunlong quickly banned the third hand, the panda wine fairy.

So the two good heroes who smiled were banned.

And Smile thought about it for a very, very long time this time, and finally banned the centaurs.

"Looks like they think our bounty is soy sauce." Xu Yunlong smiled, "It's very smart." Then he banned the dragon knight.

Break the opponent's advancing lineup, and there is no way to push the tower at speed.

After almost understanding the system on the other side, Xu Yunlong took the small and elf small system in the third hand, a system that they would definitely not lose.