As one of the top five dota events in the world, the SL League has been held annually since its inception. However, since the year before, in order to synchronize with TI, it has been changed to biennial. This year's SL not only has three regular season divisions: the Americas, Europe, and Asia, but also the China division has appeared on the SL stage as the fourth division.

Originally, Chinese teams needed to participate in the Asian qualifiers to enter SL's Kiev offline competition, but now there are two offline spots in the Chinese division, which gives Chinese teams more opportunities. Of course, this is also the advantage that China has in the top 20 of the world's top 20.

This year's regional trials are divided into two parts, one is the qualifier and the other is the tryout.

Qualifiers are teams that are not invited to participate in the Qualifiers and will compete in a single round-robin BO2 scoring format over a three-day period, with the two teams with the highest points advancing to the Qualifiers and competing for the top two spots in the regional rounds with the invited teams.

After getting the top two places in the regional competition, they can enter the offline final in Kiev in Ukraine, which is officially to compete for the first place in this competition.

The offline finals are likewise divided into two parts, the group stage and the knockout stage.

The eight world's top teams will be divided into two groups, A and B, and the format will be BO1. The top two teams from each group go to the upper bracket, while the bottom two go to the lower bracket. When the two groups of winners and losers are established, the knockout stage begins. The upper bracket is a BO3 for each match, while the lower bracket is the first two rounds of BO1, and the loser is eliminated directly, and the advance and the loser in the upper bracket play a BO3 knockout round. Finally, the first in the upper bracket and the first in the lower bracket will play the BO5 Grand Final. And the winner of the upper bracket will have a one-game advantage.

In the newly added China region, a total of six teams were directly invited.

There are six teams: SY, CODE, SG, NF, MZ and OK. The remaining teams can register. Depending on the number of registered teams, the start time of the competition and the number of matches that will start at the same time will be determined.

After three days of fierce fighting, the final result did not surprise many people. Two new RR and BH teams both qualified.

After the end of the winter transfer period. Both teams have been reorganized. In addition to the fact that the captain XI and the quick who played carry did not change, the RR team poached Eden's two-yuan general, the captain Ji and Zhang Chunjie in the third position, and a foreign aid from the Korean star team in the fifth position, ODD Jun Jiren. And BH has also made major adjustments, retaining the meat master in the No. 1 position of the captain and the phantom night in the No. 4 position, and poaching Li Ming, the No. 2 position of MLGB, and Gao Shan in the No. 3 position, and the biggest trick is probably that they dug up Guo Shi, the No. 5 position who was originally selected in SY.

Basically, the top teams still treat their players very well, and there are very few players who transfer when they are stable. Especially in this five-person combination, cooperation and tacit understanding are the most important. Once transferred, it takes a lot of time just to get used to each other, let alone be able to play at a high level.

Regarding Guo Shi's departure from the team, Xu Yunlong also specifically asked Ye Zebei what was going on. Ye Zebei only said that the ways were different and did not conspire with each other, but Xu Yunlong guessed that it was very likely that BH had opened a better bargaining chip.

As for SY's new No. 5 position, it is the former captain of the second team who became a substitute last year, Zheng Duo.

When Ye Qiu knew the news, he didn't show much surprise. It seems that he had expected such a situation to happen, so he just sighed and continued to train himself.

"This is a great opportunity for us." On the eve of the game, Xu Yunlong sat on the sofa. looked at the players sitting around and said, "SY, because Guo Shi's departure will definitely have an impact, so we have the ability to rush to the first place." The group stage may not be particularly good. But I hope you learn something in every fight to restrain your opponents. ”

"What about foreign teams? What to do? Suzaku Huang was a little worried.

"Believe in our style of play, believe in the effort we've put in over the years. And. It's a race, and no one knows what's going to happen, right? ”

"Will GS participate?" The white tiger pushed his glasses. Asked directly.

"Yes." Xu Yunlong nodded, "As long as we enter the Kiev line, we will have a chance to fight them." What kind of team GS is, you have to feel it with your eyes and hands. ”

"Very strong~" Qi Lin blinked.

"Moreover, this time, after the discussion between me and Xuanwu, the starting members have changed."

Saying that, Xu Yunlong glanced at the people in front of him and nodded to Xiao Qingyue, who was sitting on the side.

Xiao Qingyue stood up, opened the book, and said calmly: "Carry, Xu Yunlong, Solo, White Tiger, Offline, Qi Lin, Support, Ye Qiu and Zhu Que Huang." Xuanwu, sub. ”

"Huh?!" The other four, who had not received the message, shouted together.

"Brother Xuan's substitution?!" Vermilion Bird Huang's eyes widened, "How can this be!" Brother Ming Xuan is so strong! ”

"I don't understand." The white tiger also said that it was unacceptable.

"Oh!! I'm finally able to play! Qi Lin was happy.

"Why should I play the number four position?" Ye Qiu was a little angry, "I'm not convinced!" ”

Xu Yunlong looked at Ye Qiu, but he didn't expect him to say this.

'It's not that you're not good enough, it's that in recent training you've been doing better in the number four position. It turns out that you are asked to play the No. 3 position, because you rarely use your brain when you play, and my requirements for you are only to be able to resist pressure and not die. But during this time, you are a lot smarter, and there is no way to bring rhythm in the early stage in the third position, but it is different in the fourth position. This was brought up by Xuanwu and me. He believes and thinks that you can play better than him in the number four position. Do you understand the meaning of this action? ”

Ye Qiuleng paused for a moment and turned his head to look at Xuan Wu.

Xuan Wu nodded: "Actually, you are very smart and very good at observing the situation, so." I want you to try out the rhythm of the whole team in the regional qualifiers. ”

Ye Qiu clenched his fists and didn't say anything more. Just silently hung his head.

On March 9th, the SL League China Trials officially began.

8 teams play a single-defeat round robin of BO1. is also playing points, and the top four are directly promoted.

The OK team faced the old rival NF team in the first round, although there was a little episode in the middle that led to a wave of team annihilation, but after that, Xu Yunlong's little Naga six gods directly turned the tables, and still won the opening without danger.

After singing all the way and winning three games in a row, even the commentator felt that the OK team was also a little unstoppable after the New Year. Although every commentator didn't understand before the game why the OK team had to use Hai Na Baichuan as a substitute and lose the losteve to play such an important position as the number four position, it came down after a few games. Ye Qiu's excellent sense of rhythm made all those who followed the game applaud without clapping.

After OK won SY, more people began to pay attention to the reorganized old team.

Just when everyone thought that OK had a good chance of qualifying first in the group, OK's winning streak was stopped by Team RR.

"I thought it was so powerful, but that's it." XI deliberately walked to the OK rest area after the game to taunt a few people, but found that there were only Xiao Qingyue, Leng Duxue and Qi Mei in the rest area to sort out the game records.

"Who are you?" Xiao Qingyue raised her head when she heard XI's voice.

"I'm the captain of RR, Ximenan, and my ID is XI." XI still said politely, "Excuse me, what about the B gods?" ”

"Ahh Those stupid people. Xiao Qingyue sighed, shook her head with a wry smile, "It's all in the toilet." After winning SY yesterday, I had to go out to celebrate in the evening, and then a few people ran to eat skewers. I had a collective diarrhea today. I'm sorry. If you have anything, tell me and I'll relay it when he returns. ”

XI's smile froze on his face, and he just said nothing before turning back to his lounge.

"Taunt is comfortable?" Season glanced at XI, who came back with a black face. Huh.

"You already knew?"

Looking at the season's face that didn't show any joy, XI's smiling look looked a little scary.

"I ran into it in the toilet this morning." Season said calmly. "But winning is winning, and that's not going to change. It's just that we don't have a chance to qualify now. ”

"There are so many opportunities. However, it has only been a few months since I was formed, and I didn't expect to make the cut. "XI is very sensible," it's just a little upset that this team is OK. ”

"There shouldn't be a team in China that is happy with them." Zhang Chunjie opened his mouth at this time.

"Why?" Jun Ji-in had just arrived from South Korea and didn't know much about the state of China.

"Because they're so unassuming." Zhang Chunqiu said very naturally, "But I have won so many championships in one year, and I can be directly invited to enter the main qualifiers of SL China." Compared to the old teams like SY, what qualifications do you think OK has to stand there? It's all newcomers. But it doesn't matter, it's just that it's not impossible for God B to wear four legs. ”

"I think Team OK is very powerful." Jun Ji-hyun disagreed with Zhang Chunjie's statement, "Everyone is very powerful, of course, Broker is even more powerful." ”

"I told you you you don't understand." Zhang Chunjie shrugged his shoulders, "I think it's better not to play training matches with OK in the future, let them practice better and better." When I was in Eden, I felt like I was playing too many practice matches, and OK was improving too fast, helping them train to make me look like idiots. ”

"What about the other teams?" XI frowned.

"SY will definitely not stop fighting, Ye Zebei is this kind of person. Guo Shi also said this to me at the beginning, and proposed not to play a training match with OK, otherwise he would be surpassed sooner or later. But Ye Zebei felt that this was a win-win situation, so he refused. Then Guo Shi couldn't get angry, so he went to BH. NF is already getting knocked stupid by OK. There is training every day, but the results, you have also seen. SG won't train with OK, after all, Xuanhuang and God B have a diaphragm, so SG's ranking has risen very quickly. ”

"Don't think too much about it, OK is a strong team, and they win the game just because they're strong, it's as simple as that." The season interrupted Zhang Chunqiu's complaints, "It's more useful to find your own reasons than to complain about them." ”

"Whatever." Zhang Chunjie shrugged his shoulders and said nothing more.

Next one, OK vs. BH. Team OK still lost the game.

In the final battle against SG, naturally he didn't win.

Although barely squeezed into the ranks of the promotion. But everyone thinks it's just OK luck because of BO1. They will have to stop at the semi-finals.

After a day of adjustment. On March 13, the selection of the top four in China officially began.

The group obtained from the first round draw is OK vs. SG, while SY vs. CODE.

Since OK lost to SG in a single-lose round-robin, most people are optimistic about SG in this game.

"You're all right."

In the lounge, Xiao Qingyue looked at the six people sitting in a row in front of her, glared at her, and expressed her dissatisfaction.

"It's all right!" The six replied loudly in unison.

"It's a shame to lose the game by eating a bad stomach on match day! If you don't get the first place, you can qualify. Give me 20 hours of training when I go back! A week in a row! ”

"Mom!" The screams rang out directly.

"Twenty hours a day, tired to death."

"With SY here, it's so difficult to get the first place."

"If you win, we can win!"

"Whew...... Twenty hours......"

“…… A bunch of idiots. ”

"Alright." At this time, Xu Yunlong opened his mouth, and the lounge instantly became quiet.

'Regardless of the result, try your best to play well, that's the only thing we can do now. Don't overthink it and just enjoy the game. ”

Three o'clock in the afternoon. The semi-finals have officially begun.

The first is the BO3 round of SY vs. CODE.

When CODE came up, it banned the two powerful heroes of werewolf and bat, and robbed the prophet and the necromantic dragon, and SY banned the two heroes with the highest use rate of CODE in the single defeat, and took the shadow shaman and Carl. Three-four-handed CODEban a mid-laner dragoon and a one-digit puppy. He took the elven dragon Parker and a core ghost. And SY banned Panda and DOOM Dad, and took Rubick and Steelback. IN THE LAST HAND, CODE TOOK THE ICE GIRL, AND SY TOOK DAZZLE.

"CODE is going far." After seeing BP. Xuanwu, who was sitting in the stands, sighed.

Xu Yunlong also agreed with Xuanwu's point of view, CODE didn't know what was wrong. It seems that the state has been very bad lately, and there were internal contradictions some time ago. Although no one left the team, the contradiction did not seem to be resolved.

I don't know what Zhao De thinks.

The game begins.

Rubick and Dark Shepherd who came up to the Dire side SY went down the road to protect the steel back, and the ghost necromantic dragon on the opposite side plus the ice girl Gangsan, and the prophet of Qian Zhi in the third position of CODE was in the upper lane and a person was inferior to the third position of SY Leap Earth's Youdan Carl. In the middle lane, Li Yue's Parker vs. Hua Qingtian's Shadow Shaman.

"Huh?! God of War didn't use Karl?! Use the Shadow Shaman midlaner?! Zhu Quehuang's eyes widened, his whole body leaned forward, and he looked at the big screen with the guardrail, looking incredulous, "Isn't the Shadow Shaman a support hero?!" ”

"Heroes don't really have support or non-support." Xuan Wu said on the side, "It depends on who uses it." You B God can blow you up with Carl even if you use Ice Girl. ”

"Really?!" Zhu Quehuang looked like he wanted to go back and try it.

"Fake." Xu Yunlong glared at Xuan Wu, "Heroes also have their own strengths and weaknesses, otherwise they are all the same strength, so there is no need to divide the five positions." But the strength and weakness of the actions are only in terms of relativity. The God of War's use of the Shadow Shaman is just a strategy, not that this method is good, but that this method is suitable in the eyes of the Northern God. So much for. ”

As he spoke, Runtu, who was nicknamed the chairman in the circle, killed Qian Zhi's prophet with a fire card, and Hua Qingtian, the god of war who wandered to eat talismans, made a gank by the way, and in this unexpected time, he helped his teammates to fight four or three, and directly killed the three people in the lower lane of the CODE, and established the advantage of four heads within a minute.

Seeing that Zheng Duo's Dai Ze helped the shaman add a thin burial at the last moment, saving the shaman from being taken away by the ghost, Ye Qiu pursed his lips.

When he left SY, he never thought that Zheng Duo would be able to climb to this position, but now it seems that he is really going to compete with him, and he is not an opponent that can be ignored.

At 5 and a half minutes, CODE two soy sauces help swim, and Parker takes away the Shadow Shaman of Hua Qingtian first, but he is also taken away by Carl's Skyfire. In the 8th minute, Rubick and SS supported the road and won the 1 tower of the Radiant disadvantage, and at this time, the chairman's Carl was already in phase and gold in hand, and at the same time, the ghost of Sun Yan, the No. 1 position of the CODE, was less than 30 mending knives, and was crushed to death by the three people of SY, and he didn't even dare to come out of the tower.

In 10 and a half minutes, SY pushed in a group, consuming most of the blood of the middle 1 tower.

In 12 and a half minutes, Parker made the first move to Karl, who led the line in the middle, Sun Yan saw the opportunity, and the ghost took the big and got the head, but Parker was also killed by the reactive Karl with Sky Fire and Fire Man, at this time the head was 6 to 2, and SY was ahead.

At 13 minutes, the prophet who led the line on the road received a notice from his teammates to prepare to retreat, but the timing was not right, and he was caught by Rubick and the Shadow Shaman for a little slow movement and sent back to the spring. Then Ye Zebei commanded the assembly in the middle lane, completely mastered the rhythm with the advantage of the lineup, and pushed off the CODE middle lane 1 tower without hesitation.

At 15 minutes, the Shadow Shaman and Rubick lead the way and push down the road, killing the Ice Maiden and taking the tower money, but the Prophet and the Ghost also kill the Shadow Shaman and Rubick with instant support. After that, a tug-of-war began, with Darkherd and Steelback killed one after the other, but the Prophet and the Ice Maiden were also harvested by Karl. In the case of a small number of CODEs, SY took advantage of the situation to take the next generation of Meroshan, and the head led 11-6. (To be continued......)