Chapter 232: Qualifiers
The Dota Asia League is a major tournament dedicated to the esports sport of DOTA, with two charters: the Regional Qualifiers and the Grand Finals. The total prize fund is 1 million, and the champion has 600,000.
The regional qualifiers will be held in each country, and the finals will select the 32 strongest teams from the qualifiers to compete for the championship in Shenzhen, China. Each country can pick two teams to participate, while China, as the host country, can qualify for four. This is the prerogative of the Asian League over the host and is not limited to China.
China's qualifiers are divided into four major regions: East China, South China, West China, and North China because of their vast territory and large number of participating teams, and the first place in each region can advance to the finals of the Asian League. The city of Shenzhen is divided into the South China Division, and the venue of the competition is just at the Shenzhen E-sports Stadium, and the qualifiers will last for more than ten days.
Zhang Xiaohai and his entourage set off in the morning and arrived at the Shenzhen E-sports Stadium at about 11 o'clock at noon. It's a majestic building that looks like a water cube, and there are already a lot of players coming in and out, most of them Dota enthusiasts. Zhang Xiaohai, as the captain of the team, went to the referee group to sign in and draw lots, while the team manager Avril took the team members and Ling'er to the foothold she had arranged before to put their luggage, and met at the door before one o'clock in the afternoon.
After separating from everyone, Zhang Xiaohai stood in front of the magnificent e-sports hall and looked up, only to feel that the e-sports stadium in Shenzhen was much more magnificent than Ningbo and Yanjing, and couldn't help but exclaim: "No wonder the Asian League will be held in Shenzhen, it makes people feel very professional at first glance!" ”
After sighing at the grandeur of the e-sports stadium, Zhang Xiaohai walked into the e-sports hall, through the sparse crowd at the door, Zhang Xiaohai asked the security guard at the door, and then went straight to the referee's room. A few minutes later, Zhang Xiaohai's figure appeared in the referee's room, and as soon as he entered it, Zhang Xiaohai suddenly found that there were two guys with conspicuous hair in the room. One is a red hair, while the other is a golden retriever, and by looking at its skin, you can tell that it is a foreigner.
Especially the red hair, Zhang Xiaohai stared at him for a while and recognized him as the master who had a hurried relationship with Hengyu Internet Cafe at that time. As for the golden retriever foreigner, Zhang Xiaohai is more strange, what does it mean for a foreigner to participate in the qualifiers in China?
Just when Zhang Xiaohai looked around at everyone, the captains of the other teams in the referee room recognized Zhang Xiaohai and shouted, "Then, isn't that the moon god?" ”
As his words ended, many players in the referee room focused their eyes on Zhang Xiaohai and looked at it carefully, and Shaoqing broke out into a heated discussion.
"I'm rubbing, it's really the god of the moon, isn't he in Yanjing, how did he get to the South China Division?"
"It's over, there's no hope of qualifying now."
"Why are you so unlucky, you ran into the moon god, hey!!"
…… The strength of Moonlight has been well proven in the club league and is recognized by countless players, who believe that they are not Zhang Xiaohai's opponents. In the referee room, except for the two players with conspicuous hair, the other players were almost feeling sorry for themselves, and Zhang Xiaohai's eyes only swept to know who should be paid attention to in the South China Division.
The blonde foreigner was Mark, who was instructed by Major Qin to join the QS club, and although he was not very good at Chinese, he also heard the discussions of the players around him and knew that the moon god was moonlight. He was very arrogant, and coupled with Qin Shao's words, he didn't dare to agree with the strength of the Moon God.
Then his eyes couldn't help but turn to Zhang Xiaohai, looked him up and down, couldn't help but disdain, and provoked in his not very fluent Chinese. "In my opinion, the moon god is a bed bug, if you take out a random team in the United States, you can pinch him to death."
His obviously provocative words suddenly quieted the atmosphere in the referee room, and Zhang Xiaohai's eyes also subconsciously noticed the foreigner, his eyes wandered slightly over him, and then fell on the team logo in front of his chest, and his brows immediately frowned. "QS, isn't this the club that my brother established? Could it be that he is representing Team QS? ”
Thinking of this, Zhang Xiaohai couldn't help clenching his fists, stepped forward a few steps and said with a smile: "I'm not a bedbug, I'll prove it to you in the future games, but now I want to know, what does it mean for you to come to China to participate in the Asian League, you still represent the Chinese team." ”
"Oh, I see." Zhang Xiaohai slapped his forehead and pretended to suddenly realize: "You appear here, and you still have the logo of the Chinese team, and there is only one explanation, that is, you United States has joined our Chinese territory, so you can represent the Chinese team in the Asian League." ”
“shutup!” Zhang Xiaohai's words made Mark very angry, and immediately interrupted him with a loud rebuke, pointed at Zhang Xiaohai's nose, and scolded in his not very fluent Chinese: "Moon God, I Mark remembers you, and you will pay for your words." ”
"Please!!" Zhang Xiaohai looked at him coldly and did not back down.
The-for-tat between the two made the atmosphere in the referee room cold to the extreme, although the players supported Zhang Xiaohai in their hearts, but the backstage of the QS club represented the Qin Group, you must know that this group is very influential in Shenzhen, if you accidentally offend them, it is estimated that it will not be easy to mix in the future, so they almost all chose to remain silent.
After the atmosphere in the referee's room was cold for a while, it was mediated by the referee, but Mark's anger towards Zhang Xiaohai had already been planted, and the latter pouted and went to the referee to draw lots with a calm face, not taking Mark in his eyes at all, but his eyes swept over the red-haired boy who was watching the play next to him from time to time.
There is a good saying: dogs that bite people don't bark, and the real masters are very low-key. The red-haired boy belongs to this kind of person, Zhang Xiaohai has never been able to see through this person, and he only looked at Zhang Xiaohai and Mark-for-tat just now.
"It seems that this person may be the biggest obstacle if he wants to win the qualifiers in South China." Zhang Xiaohai frowned and kept this person in his heart.
At 12 o'clock at noon, the captains of each team drew lots, and a total of 128 teams in the South China Division signed up for the competition, divided into two divisions for the competition, there were no seeded teams, and only the first place could qualify for the finals. Zhang Xiaohai drew B14, that is, the object of the first round of the game was A14.
After drawing lots, Zhang Xiaohai did not stay in the referee's room for a long time, but waited at the door of the e-sports hall. Two o'clock in the afternoon was the first game, and when I got off the bus, I made an appointment, Zhang Xiaohai went to sign in for the draw, and Avril led the team members to put their luggage.
About half an hour later, Avril and her team hurried over, and after having a casual lunch at a nearby restaurant, they began to prepare for the first round in the afternoon.
Shenzhen is a place where the dragon is crouching tiger, Zhang Xiaohai doesn't dare to be careless, the Asian League is a cross-international dota professional event, and teams that think they don't have the ability will basically not sign up, and everyone who signs up has their own set of playing styles, and their strength cannot be underestimated.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, the first round of the qualifiers in South China officially began. The RCG team led by Zhang Xiaohai made its debut in the official competition, which attracted the pursuit of countless media, except for Zhang Xiaohai, the identities of the other four members of the team became the object of media attention for a while.
Of course, while they are paying attention to the RCG team led by Zhang Xiaohai, they are also paying attention to other teams, such as the QS team that has just formed a club but has a huge momentum, the first few members of this team are all obscene men, and their strength cannot be underestimated, and the new American player Mark is the captain of the original famous American team RED, and the RED team led by him can be ranked in the top three in the United States.
In addition, the VP team in the top four of the last Asian League is also the object of media attention, and its fantastic tactical play has won it a lot of honors.
In addition to these popular teams, the media is also digging into some dark horse teams. The first concern is naturally the KM team led by the red hair, although the team that dominates the e-sports casino is not treated by the opponent, but the players' attention to them has not decreased but increased, especially the reason why they came out of the mountain has aroused their curiosity.
There are also several teams in the Dark Horse series, all of which have more or less achieved some good results.
At the official start of the competition, these media personnel will be blocked out by the organizers of the esports stadium, while the participating teams will enter the competition venue in turn under the guidance of the referee. Avril and Ling'er, who were the team managers, were also blocked out, and the two of them had no choice but to wait outside.
"Come on, Xiaohai!!" Ling'er shook his fist at Xiaohai, and after Zhang Xiaohai received it, he nodded to it, and immediately led the four teammates of RCG directly into the five seats on the 14th in the B division, and began to debug the mouse and keyboard after sitting down, and at the same time, the referee on the 14th established the host. After the debugging was completed, Zhang Xiaohai and other five people entered the host of the 14th one after another, Group A was in the guard, and Group B entered the natural disaster.
According to the rules, the RCG team entered the Scourge and the opponent was a team called Bey. Zhang Xiaohai hadn't heard of it, and turned his head to look at his teammates, and they all shook their heads to indicate that they didn't know, and it seemed that they were not famous.
"Don't take it lightly!!" Although the other party is not famous, Zhang Xiaohai still does not dare to despise it. The knockout round is a game to win or lose, and he can't afford to lose.
In fact, this bey team is still very famous in the online competition, and its strength is not bad, and it even threatened Luo Shaoyun, but in the end, they still lost, but their spirit of fighting hard to the end touched many players.
After the teammates on both sides were ready, the system began to count down the seconds, and before the game started, Zhang Xiaohai and the other five people were quickly warming up their hand speed, and the speed of their left hand flying on the keyboard caused players who were also playing on the left and right sides to be stunned.
"So fast!!"
What surprised them even more was the next game.
(To be continued)