TI, or Ships, is a global esports tournament for the Dota 2 project.

The tournament is held every two years, and each edition will invite the top 16 teams in the world to play the wild card matches in four regions at the same time, and no one place in each region can enter the main tournament of the invitational, and a total of 20 teams will participate in the invitational tournament. The 20 teams will be divided into four groups of five teams in each of the ABCDs for the group stage.

In the group stage, each two teams will play a BO3 match, with a win worth 2 points and a draw worth 1 point, and the first and second places in each group will be determined by points to enter the next round of screening.

In the screening round, the winners of each group will enter the upper bracket for BO3 competition, the winner of the upper bracket will directly enter the finals, and the remaining three groups will enter the knockout round. The second place in each group will be eliminated in the lower bracket, and the first in the lower bracket will enter the knockout round.

In the knockout round, the three teams in the upper bracket will face the champion of the lower bracket in a BO3 points competition, with the first team entering the finals, and the winner of the upper bracket in the screening round will compete for the overall championship, and the other three teams will be ranked third to fifth according to their respective points.

This year marks the third edition of The International.

"What time does the game start?" With a big yawn, Xu Yunlong stretched and moved his neck.

It's already ten o'clock in the evening, and after that, it's individual training, there is no team training, but after all, it's TI, and the game still has to be watched.

"Let's start at 12 o'clock, let's take a break." Xiao Qingyue said and took out a drink from the refrigerator.

"I'm here to help." Qi Mei, who had naturally blended into the OK base, took the Coke that Xiao Qingyue took out with a smile, hugged it and walked in front of the team members who were moving in place, and handed the Coke to them.

"Thank you for your hard work." Xiao Qingyue smiled at Qi Mei gratefully. In the past two days, Qi Mei has been helping to take care of the sundries in the OK team. What help write the courier order, help with cleaning, laundry and cooking, in short, has been playing the role of free labor.

Xiao Qingyue also said that she would pay her salary, but Qi Mei resolutely refused, and only asked Xu Yunlong to be his master if he had time. Just teach her to play Dota 2, and she wants to surprise her brother when he returns.

Xiao Qingyue thought about it, and didn't think there was any big problem, so she agreed. I also talked to Xu Yunlong and asked him to spend half an hour to an hour every day to play with Qi Mei.

Although Xu Yunlong didn't want to waste this time, and Ye Qiu also recommended himself to be Qi Mei's coach for this glorious and great position, Qi Mei didn't seem to appreciate it, and only asked Xu Yunlong to teach her alone.

Xu Yunlong couldn't resist her, so he could only agree.

"Qimei, where's my drink?" Seeing that Qi Mei took Coke for Xu Yunlong and Xuanwu, but he didn't, Ye Qiu was a little unhappy.

"Sister Qingyue, what's the hurry." Qi Mei has long been familiar with the people of the team. It's not so polite to speak, either.

"If you don't give it to me, it's fine." Ye Qiu blinked, looking expectant.

"Don't, go by yourself." Qi Mei snorted, turned her head and ignored Ye Qiu, turned around and walked to Xu Yunlong's side. His attitude immediately turned one hundred and eighty degrees, his voice became sweeter, and he asked with a smile, "When will Brother Long have time to teach me tonight?" ”

"You're already playing well." Xu Yunlong is still not used to talking to Qi Mei, after all, he has only known each other for half a month, so he is not very familiar.

However, Qi Mei didn't do it, and grabbed Xu Yunlong's arm and began to be coquettish.

"I still want to play with the water man. Brother Long, you water people use it so well, teach me. ”

Click. From Ye Qiu's seat came the sound of something breaking.

"What's wrong?" Xu Yunlong looked up at Ye Qiu.

"Nothing, nothing." Ye Qiu shook his head with a smile, indicating that it was normal to be together, but he quickly hid the pencil that he had broken.

"Xiaoqiu, do you like Qi Mei?" Zhu Que Huang leaned over and asked in a whisper in Ye Qiu's ear.

"Where, how can there be!" Ye Qiu's face flushed, and he retorted with a glare. "Who likes that flat-chested one?"

"If you hear this, Qi Mei will definitely be beaten." Zhu Quehuang looked at Qi Mei, who was still entangled with Xu Yunlong, with a frightened expression, and was relieved that she hadn't heard Ye Qiu's words.

"Hear it, hear it......" Ye Qiu also glanced at Qi Mei, seeing that she didn't pay attention to her meaning at all, her face showed a little sadness.

White Tiger pushed down his glasses. Snorted: "Doomed to be lonely all your life." ”

"Damn, what do you mean?" Ye Qiu was stunned, and immediately looked at the white tiger unhappily.

Baihu ignored him, staring at the computer screen by himself, chatting with his friends on Q.

"It's okay, Brother Long looks like Qi Mei is boring, you have a chance~" Zhu Quehuang looked like he knew very well, and patted Ye Qiu's shoulder.

Ye Qiu blushed directly, lay on the table, secretly turned his head sideways, looked at Qi Mei who was smiling briskly, and gradually looked stunned.

"My brother is also participating in this TI." And Qi Mei was talking to Xu Yunlong about C5 at this time, "His ID is Lin." ”

lin？！ Xu Yunlong didn't really care about Qi Mei's words, but after hearing this ID, he frowned. If you talk about Lin in the United States, there is only one, and that is the original GS's mid-laner genius boy. But it seems that he was only 16 years old at that time, and he disappeared after playing ESL for one term. However, his performance at ESL was nothing short of blinding.

Later, it is said that many teams approached Lin, but none of them succeeded.

By now, Lin would be a freshman.

"My brother has already finished college, otherwise my mom and dad wouldn't have let him play DOTA. I remember that he also played in the team of Sun, but his father objected, so he had to leave. Later, I negotiated with my dad and said that I would let him play after graduating from college, so my brother completed the credits one year after college and got his graduation certificate, and then C5 invited him to join in the first half of the year, and he joined~ How about it, my brother is amazing. ”

It's amazing. Xu Yunlong will not deny this, in his impression, that ESL, Lin's blackbird cried directly after the game after beating Liang Yu. The score of 0-8-5 is really ugly for a midlaner, not to mention that five of the heads were killed by Lin in the early stage, which is the most unacceptable for Liang Yu, who has been playing Dota for a long time.

After that, LIN disappeared for a long time, and GS also had a new mid-laner, although it was not as good as LIN, but it was also very powerful.

If what Qi Mei said is true, Lin decided to return to China after Ti3......

"When the time comes, your brother will return to China, can we have a meal together?" Xu Yunlong began to plan in his heart.

"Yes! Absolutely!! Qi Mei saw that Xu Yunlong had finally taken care of himself, not to mention how happy she was.

Two hours later, the opening ceremony of the third edition of The International officially began.

Looking at the signal broadcast on TV in Seattle's Key Stadium, there are four Chinese flags fluttering, saying that it is not exciting or not excited, it is all fake. After all, as a Chinese, watching the flag of my motherland appear in such a large-scale international event, that feeling is still very surging.

It's just that this year, this place, which he has been to twice, has no figure of him holding the national flag.

"Ti4, I'll take the flag." However, when he was in a hurry before he came, Xuan Wu suddenly came up with such a sentence.

"I want to take it too!" Zhu Quehuang also jumped up, and also made a gesture of holding the flagpole and waving the flag, "Xiu Xiu! Super handsome! ”

"Hmph, it's just a flag." The white tiger laughed haughtily, showing his disdain.

"The captain can hold the flag." Xu Yunlong opened his mouth.

"However, you have to go to the Key Arena first." Ye Qiu raised his head and looked at Xu Yunlong at this time, "Captain B, it's up to you next year." ”

Xu Yunlong was stunned for a moment, then sighed, took a deep breath, and looked at the big TV screen with a firm gaze.

"Okay, Ti4, the five of us are holding the flag and running around the arena three times."

ps：

Sorry for the late update.,I forgot to update it by eavesdropping on the post bar.