When the China ESC qualifiers began, the South Korean ESC qualifiers registration had just begun.

The reason why South Korea's ESC qualifiers will be so many days slower than China's ESC qualifiers is because these days happen to be the finals of one of South Korea's highest-level events, the SPL League, which is the same as China's top professional players who don't particularly attach great importance to ESC.

Just one day before the start of the competition in China's ESC divisions, the championship and runner-up match of the Korean SPL League was between two clubs, SKT and Oongjin.

The first two South Korean SPL league titles were held in Busan. Busan is a beautiful and famous port city surrounded by the sea on three sides, with a perfect combination of wide white sand beaches and a beautiful coastline, and the venue of the competition is built directly on the beach like many live concerts. The number of visitors exceeded 100,000 each time. (Except for the discrepancy in the timing of the game, it is entirely true, and the venue for the finals of the Korean professional league in several countries in history has been built directly on the beach, and you can see the bikini beauties on the beach while watching the game.) The number of people who entered the venue exceeded 100,000 at the most, and I have to admit the fanaticism of interstellar fans. This year, the CG finals of 09 will be held in Chengdu, and occasionally there will be no accidents to go to the scene to feel it. Finally, I have to praise the quality of the Korean professional league interstellar audience, if the country builds such a large open-air competition venue on the beach, when 100,000 people leave, the beach will definitely be a mess, n more garbage, look at the Korean competition venue is much cleaner, this is still worth learning. The SPL League championship and runner-up match was played in Gangwon Province, South Korea.

This place is not as famous as Busan, and this is probably the reason why South Korea chose to play this time. Although it is not as famous as Busan, the scenery is extremely beautiful, and the most beautiful Seoraksan Mountain in Korea is located in Gangwon-do. It is a natural tourist attraction with fresh air, a mirror of streams, a mountain of Seorak, and the East China Sea connected to a fresh mirror. Choosing this place for the competition is bound to greatly promote the tourism industry here and make it a small fire. The venue of the game is also temporarily built in the open air, and the curtain is on the ground, and it will be dismantled quickly after the game, clean and slippery, and when watching the game, the green mountains and white clouds are unique.

The battle for the championship and runner-up in this year's SPL league is between two clubs, SKT and Oonjin.

When it comes to the SKT Club, it can be said that anyone who knows a little bit about the interstellar sounds like thunder. The full name of the club is SKTELT1. Two of the greatest interstellar players in Korean interstellar history are from these two teams, Slayerboxer and Iloveoov, who performed the master-apprentice battle that brought tears to many people's eyes.

And Oonjin's club has a mediocre record in the history of South Korea, and there are no particularly big-name players in the team now, so it is surprising that they can go so far in the playoffs this tournament and go all the way to the final championship and runner-up finals.

The format of the SPL championship and runner-up competition is now different from the domestic points-based league, the system of the championship and runner-up competition is a best-of-four end system, and the clubs of both sides will send a player to play each game, and the winner will be won in one game, and whichever side wins four games first will win the game. (The competition system mentioned in these mentions is slightly different from the current competition system, interested students can check it themselves, and there are also broadcast drops in China) ipxterran sat on the spot to watch the game between SKT and Oonjin, and next to him sat his wife, the first beauty in the Korean interstellar world Icegirl, the two of them attended the game as special guests, and played a 2v2 with the other two guests on the spot. (The story of IPXTERRAN and Icegirl can be seen that the puppet's "SC Flower on the Other Side" has been lifted anyway~~Don't pay a penny~) Because the championship and runner-up finals of SPL can be said to be a carnival of Korean stars, just from the scale of attracting so many people, you know the status of this competition in the minds of Korean interstellar fans, so it can also be said to be a very face-saving thing to be invited to be a guest.

However, the reason why ipxterran agreed to be a guest is not just because he feels face-saving, but more importantly, because he wants to come and see.

Foolishman wasn't very well-known before this season, and he was already twenty-six years old, which is already a big brother compared to many professional players, because generally speaking, young people around 20 years old have the fastest reaction speed, and it is easy for players in this time period to adjust to the best and produce results. This is the reason why many seniors who have been playing for many years are helpless in front of many rookies who have not dried up. At the beginning of the season, Foolishman didn't play well, but after he beat the top players in the Samsung club, everyone slowly began to realize that he seemed to be in surprisingly good form this year. In the second half of the league, his winning rate has reached an astonishing 80 percent, and his Terran doesn't seem to be particularly hot, in so many rounds of the league, he didn't appear once in many of the best games of the round and the best players of the round, but his performance is extremely stable, and basically the losing game is not his mistake, but because of luck or other reasons such as the quality of the map.

Prior to this, ipxterran had been slowly observing Foolishman for a long time, and he found that Foolishman, like himself, was a late-blooming player. This kind of player just doesn't seem to have much talent, and it's been stable for a few years, but suddenly one day it seems like he has an epiphany, and his level suddenly improves dramatically.

Because he is also a late bloomer, of course IPXTERRAN admires the Foolishman, and like IPXTERRAN, this group of players, has always had a goal, that is, one day to be able to put .., to create a dynasty of Chinese interstellar, and then Korean Interstellar has not won a championship, even if IPXTERRAN later became a great achievement, it was also met with the amazing Gou Xiaoyun, Nalan Rongrong and Fang Shaoyun, and the best result was the third place in CG twice.

ipxterran They were okay in that era, although they didn't have characters like Gou Xiaoyun, who was the number one in the world, and Nalan Rongrong, who was the number one in the world, but they were only one line worse than them, and the king-level players who could compete with them were endless, such as flyzerg, honyung and others at that time. Even if the CG champion can't beat the Chinese player, in many leagues and multi-player competitions, the Korean player still wins many times. There is no top one like Fang Shaoyun, but there is only one line behind, and the number of South Korea is more than that of China. However, after this batch of king-level players retired one after another, the aura of the Korean interstellar world seemed to have gone to China, and there were very few amazing and brilliant players, and finally came out with geniuses like Lin Shanya and Jin Yaohuan, but Lin Shanya was also seduced by Fang Shaoyun's apprentice to go to China and became a Chinese player. Although Jin Yaohuan is powerful, his surname is not stable, and he was killed by Fang Shaoyun and Liu Zhulang in several important games. Now the leading players in South Korea are all players at the level of Jin Shengjun, the fighting god. At most, these people are competing with the dying Tyrannosaurus rex Zhou Kenglong, and they are slightly worse when they meet Huang Qian, Xiaoshi and others.

Now suddenly a late bloomer, the level is stronger than Jin Shengjun and others, ipxterran can't help but go to the scene to watch the game, after the game he also wants to talk to Foolishman, anyway, there is only one intention, that is, to help Foolishman improve a little more, to be able to compete for the CG championship.

Many interstellar players can be said to have worked hard for the honor of the country. And this SPL did not disappoint IPXTERRAN at the beginning, and like many people had a premonition before the game, this first game is a blockbuster showdown!

The result of the first game is very morale-friendly. Especially this kind of game is a win-win game, if the first game wins, the second game is lost, it is also 1 to 1, the psychological burden of the third player on the field is not so heavy, but if the first game is lost, it will be different, if the second game is lost, it will be directly 0-2 behind, the third player on the field must be under great pressure as soon as he plays, and if the third game loses again, the fourth player is estimated to be sweating on his head before he plays, because he hangs, The whole game is over. Someone has made statistics that in the history of SPL, the winning rate of the team that won the first game and finally won the championship exceeded 60%. Many of the scores are even 4-0, 4-1, a disparity that is rare in ordinary games.

Because the pressure of the whole game is different, imagine what it feels like for 100,000 people to look at you in the dark.

The first game. And the first player sent out by SKT is also their Protoss player with the highest win rate this season and the best form before.

Before, with the exception of Kim Yoo-hwan, he is definitely in the top three among the active professional players. But in the midst of the exclamations and cheers of the audience, after seventeen minutes of love battle, he was pushed to death by the foolishman.

The Foolishman's style of play seems to be very unremarkable, that is, from the beginning, it is constantly pushed out, and then after a while, it is harassed with a transport plane. But ipxterran saw it very clearly, and the victory of the foolishman was better than sophistication and meticulousness.

His push to Foolishman feels like a Chinese player of his generation, RVA's Wen Wan. Wen Wan is known as a gentle knife, also known as a grinding plate. The reason why he has such a nickname is because Wen Wan's advancement seems to be tepid, but the opponent is easy to be pushed to death by him. Wen Wan's advancement is not the kind that wants to push you to death all at once, but will push your salvation place by slowly advancing and forcing you to consume. You don't have the resources to quickly deploy high-tech troops, or switch to other tactics. And to do this, it is necessary to be experienced enough, and the whole formation must be quite stable no matter how the opponent rushes. Foolish is like this now, and one of his transport planes didn't die from beginning to end, and he didn't ask for a single airdrop to take advantage of it, basically if his transport plane was threatened to be knocked down, he wouldn't be airdropped, preferring to go around for a while and then look for an opportunity. Many times he dropped two tanks, knocked out three or four probes before and immediately put away and left. This kind of harassment is not particularly strong, but it is like a maggot attached to the bone, which always makes the opponent feel unpleasant. An unrestrained Protoss player would rather be thrown a base than be disturbed by his opponent at all times. And before is an unrestrained Protoss player. Foolishman's style of play is completely specially formulated for him.

Obviously, it is so many years of accumulation and experience that has finally made Foolishman accumulate a lot.

Seeing the foolishman kill before, ipxterran was very excited, and he thought that even if it was. Go play. Amid the shouts and cheers of the supporters, Soulkey, who was second to the court in the Oonjin club, defeated SKT's second-place player Lineshine to take a 2-0 lead.

SKT, the club with the strongest record in history, withstood the pressure at crucial moments, and third-placed player Heynoja beat Oonjin's Gomyheart to level the score at 1-2. But in the next game, SKT was in the most dangerous situation, and their fourth-place player Helan lost to Oonjin's Alittle, and the score became 1-3 and reached match point.

With just one more loss, SKT Club will lose the title of this SPL League.

However, for ipxterran, the real surprise began at this time.

SKT FC played in this crucial battle, and it turned out to be a 19-year-old player who had never played this season, and who still looked childish.

As soon as this Zerg appeared, it turned out to be a direct two-line throwing flying dragon, and he threw the fifth Terran player in the Oonjin Club alive so that he couldn't even get out of the door, and he was directly thrown to death with a flying dragon.

Extremely strong! ipxterran saw that lovepeace was throwing the flying dragon in the double line, and the development of the family did not stop in the slightest, otherwise he would not be able to continue to maintain his flying dragon, and he killed the opponent directly with the flying dragon.

It can be seen from many details that in the past few years, there has never been such a strong Zerg player in South Korea.

From LovePeace's very calm and confident expression and SKT's ability to put him in such a critical time, IPXTERRAN has come to a very positive conclusion that LovePeace is SKT's secret weapon that has been hidden in the snow! This is definitely a talent rookie that hasn't emerged in Korea for a long time!

In the eyes of IPXTERRAN and many people in the audience who were extremely shocked and excited, the match between SKT and Oonjin came to a fever pitch, and SKT's next sixth player also defeated Oonjin's sixth player to tie the score at 3-3.

And when SKT's seventh player came on the field, the vast majority of people in the entire arena, including IPXTERRAN, felt that SKT was basically the champion of the SPL.

Because of the strength of SKT's entire team, they are still ranked first in the league, and they have not played until now, and it is also before the appearance of a secret weapon like lovepeace, the second master in the team, sexdrone. The Oonjin club only relies on the stable performance of a few players this year, whether it is the overall strength or the thickness of the bench, it is obviously not comparable with SKT, some of the previous good play, in the league with a high winning rate have already played, and the remaining few are veterans who have declined.

However, to everyone's surprise again, the last player to play in Oonjin turned out to be a rookie who had also not played in the league.

And this Zerg player has only been playing for a few minutes, and all the spectators present have already shouted. Even ipxterran and the others couldn't help but stand up all at once.

Hand speed!

All the people are concerned about the outcome of this game at this time, but the newcomer of this oonjin, the hand speed of outfree!

Outfree's is so fast that almost everyone can't see it clearly. In just a few minutes, all the viewers were already sure that none of the current Zerg players in South Korea, no, all the active interstellar players in South Korea, was as fast as him!

The average hand speed of Sexdrone is also more than 300, but now compared to his speed, it seems to be as slow as a tractor!

Even the commentator of this game was shocked, he directly called up the real-time hand speed test software, and the numbers that kept jumping on the big screen of n live broadcasts turned the entire competition venue into a boiling ocean.

Five hundred and three! Five hundred ten!

Such a number made ipxterran's brain go blank, and at the same time, only the shadow of Nalan Rongrong flashed in his mind. For a while, there was only one sentence that echoed in the hearts of n Korean audiences, and we also had an interstellar player with super hand speed in South Korea!

SexDrone's level is enough to rank in the top 10 among the active players in South Korea, but in the face of Outfree, he is also a Zerg player, and he is simply beaten to the point where he has no power to fight back. At the beginning, Outfree forcibly slipped a few dogs into his base, and Outfree forcibly slipped the dog in, and lost more dogs, and of course his dog also killed into Outfree's base, and both sides were at each other's base at the same time to make their own dogs, which was already an extremely thrilling double-line work, but Sexdrone found that Outfree's dog was in his base, and actually jumped into a double line.

This is already a three-line dog, and this kind of three-line that not only has to defend the opponent in the base, but also has to be the third line of his own dog, compared to the ordinary three-line, it is much more difficult, such a jumping dog, so that sexdrone is already unbearable. But the development of outfree did not stop, and then after both sides came out of the flying dragon, he could actually control such a jumping dog when he controlled the flying dragon!

What speed is this?

Sexdrone fainted directly, and was beaten to the ground, and was beaten to death by Outfree in less than thirteen minutes.

When IPXTERRAN saw Sexdrone play GG, he stood in the middle of the arena and laughed maniacally for two minutes.

Seeing ipxterran laughing like this, many people thought that ipxterran was a supporter of Oonjin's black club, but so many people couldn't understand the inner world of ipxterran.

They are a group of people who watched the rise of China's interstellar, and Gou Xiaoyun, Nalan Rongrong and others stepped over from them, and the Korean interstellar was slumped. More than anyone else, they want to regain their lost ground. But most of them are already old and useless, and they can't go into battle to fight hard. can only wait for the later people to regain the former honor, but after so many years, South Korea's first hope of turning defeat into victory Lin Sun-ah and Kim Yao-hwan died. In the past two years, South Korea's aura seems to have run out, but now it is different, I thought that there was only one foolishman, but the fact is that three of them appeared at once!

Three can be impacted. But after the game, he was the first to find the head coach of the Oonjin club.

The head coach of Oonjin Club was his teammate of the national team and an old acquaintance Jinsir.

When he saw Jinsir, his first sentence was to say, "Oh Mom~~~ (Korean ~~ means oh my God!) Jinsir, you slut! Thanks to our good relationship, you have such a master, and you didn't even tell me, the hand speed is more than 500! You didn't tell me! ”

"Huh? Why should I tell you? Jinsir said, "You're not the head coach of the Korean national team. You're a retired player. No matter how powerful you are, it has nothing to do with you. ”

"I..." ipxterran held for a long time before he said, "That's right! You actually said that to me! I'm not the head coach of the national team, what's the matter, I can't contribute to South Korea! ”

"Haha, just kidding, kidding you." Jinsir laughed, "It's not for secrecy. To be honest, if I hadn't thought that KTF would suddenly kill such a powerful one, I wouldn't have let Outfree go. I am ready to let Outfree hide its strength, and prepare for ESC to win the championship in one fell swoop, which will surprise the Chinese. ”

Originally, because Jinsir was amusing himself, IPXTERRAN couldn't help but want to scold this guy, let him 1v1 with himself, and abuse him well, but when he heard the second half of his sentence, IPXTERRAN became serious all of a sudden, and after a deep groan, IPXTERRAN asked Jinsir, "Are you going to let him participate in ESC?" ”

"yes." Jinsir nodded and sighed, "We haven't won a decent championship in Korea for a long time, it's time to win it once and cheer up all Koreans." ”

Jinsir thought that if he said this, ipxterran would definitely give a thumbs up and say yes, but when he said this, ipxterran immediately scolded, "You idiot!" ”

"Idiot?" Jinsir was a little stunned.

"Of course." ipxterran looked at Jinsir and asked, "Is ESC or CG important?" ”

"Of course CG is important." Jinsir replied.

"That's why I said you're a pig!" ipxterran shouted, "Then you still let him participate in the ESC and continue to hide!" ”

"But... ESC also.... ”

"It's also an international event second only to CG, right?" ipxterran's fingers were almost on Jinsir's forehead, "You think about it with your head, even if you win ten ESC championships, what's the use of not winning one CG championship, ten ESC championships are not as good as a CG championship!" ”

“…。” Jinsir was stunned for a moment.

That's true, no matter how strong ESC is, it's a little worse than CG, even if you win the ESC championship, you can't win the CG championship, it's not that taste in everyone's hearts, because almost everyone will think that it's because others don't pay attention to that game, so you will be allowed to win the championship, such a championship is a bit like someone else's charity, not a desperate fight with strength.

"Do you think that with Outfree's current strength, if Fang Shaoyun and them look at it, will CG be sure to win against Fang Shaoyun?" Seeing Jinsir's stunned look, ipxterran immediately went on to question Jinsir.

"There is a chance to win, but the winning rate will not exceed 40%, no, it may be 30% at most." Jinsir frowned, as soon as the name Fang Shaoyun was mentioned, many people like him and ipxterran would feel a headache, "Ourfree's competition experience and strength in some aspects are still inferior to Nalan Rongrong, and even if it is Nalan Rongrong, the other party Shaoyun may have a better chance of winning than Fang Shaoyun now." ”

"That's it. You also put him in the ESC. ”

"I'm a little confused by you. Even if he doesn't play in ESC, he still loses more than wins when he meets Fang Shaoyun. It's better than not even getting a championship. ”

"You pig! Now it's not him alone, he's not alone! ipxterran looked at Jinsir and said depressedly, "Aren't you still a foolishman!" You train him for me, I promise that before CG, let him also become a person who can face Fang Shaoyun and have a forty percent chance of winning, just like me back then. ”

"You faced Fang Shaoyun back then. There's only a 30% chance of winning. Jinsir said.

"Damn!" ipxterran's face turned red, "Don't talk nonsense, and it's not your family, KTF doesn't still hide a lovepeace, look at his style, even if he meets Fang Shaoyun now, it is estimated that he has a thirty percent chance of winning." You've also learned probability, and if you've played games for so long, you know that even if it's three threes, when you deal with one person, the odds of winning are more than three. What's more, we still have a Kim Yao Hwan. ”

After a pause, ipxterran continued, "Although Jin Yaohuan is an unsuccessful guy, which makes Boss Jimo quite annoyed, but with his surname, CG will definitely participate directly in China at that time, and grab a CG place in China, and he will have a 30% chance of winning against Fang Shaoyun." In this way, there are three of us who can qualify here, and if he can qualify over there, these four, do you think that the CG champion this time may have a big surname? ”

Hearing ipxterran say this, Jinsir's palms suddenly sweated.

He knows very well that if this is the case, CG may not win the championship, but big.

Because the sum of four threes is definitely not as simple as three percent, because it means that all four games are likely to lose, and as long as one is not careful, it is possible to be defeated by one of them. In this way, the probability of defeat is definitely much higher.

This is a bit like when they were all there, and Gou Xiaoyun grabbed the CG championship.

Back then, several of them were one line worse than Gou Xiaoyun, and they may have a winning rate of three or four percent, but they were also at least three players of this level, and sometimes in the game, they could really kill Gou Xiaoyun or Nalan Rongrong, because after all, the accidental surname factor in the interstellar game is very large, a physical discomfort, a poor performance of a map, and even a problem of luck in pathfinding, in the duel of players with close strength, it may affect the final result.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Because it has been a long time since there have been several powerful figures in South Korea, there has been a chance for a top player like Shaoyun to encircle and suppress.

This opportunity is even better than the previous opportunity, because at that time it was not only double insurance, but also four insurance. Lin Potian, Gou Xiaoyun, Nalan Rongrong, Fang Shaoyun, there were so many players of this level in China at that time. Kill one, and two or three. But now there is only one such character left, Fang Shaoyun. Although there are willow chasing waves that have begun to rise in the sky, after all, they are still not as experienced as Fang Shaoyun. It's a little easier to fight with.

After a few seconds, Jinsir was completely moved, he looked at IPXTERRAN, "It's no problem on my side, I can let Foolishman and Outfree not participate in ESC, so that they can get a rep in this game at most, and they can't study Outfree's style of play, but what about KTF's side, if their newcomer Lovepeace participates in ESC, then CG's chances will be much less, and he won't show up, I'm definitely a fifty percent chance, and if he shows up, fifty percent will become four percent at most. ”

"What's so hard about that?" ipxterran said to Jinsir with disdain, "I'll just talk to their head coach again, although their head coach is from a professional background and is not familiar with us, but I will say, at least give us a face, anyway, you don't let them play again, and you hand over the foolishman to me from today." ”

"Good!" Jinsir clapped hard with ipxterran, "What if.b!" I really miss the time when I won the game with Boss Jimo and went to drink together to celebrate! ”

……。

"That's it!" After separating from Jinsir, IPXTERRAN went to KTF's head coach Omolin non-stop. As he expected, as soon as he said it, Omolin immediately made a decision and decided to continue to hide Lovepeace until CG. After completing such a lobbying, ipxterran's mood was a little excited, because this time was after all, after all, a ray of hope re-emerged in the Korean interstellar community after many years, and there was a great hope that there was a chance of close to four or five percent.

"By the way, aren't their ESC qualifiers starting right away?" As soon as I thought of Jinsir's ESC, Iprexterran couldn't help but open the webpage immediately after returning to see the list of Chinese applicants. And as soon as he saw it, ipxterran immediately laughed, "Haha, this rookie, he actually signed up for this competition." ”