"Random races?" The staff in charge of registration heard Chen Dongqing's words, lifted his glasses, and said, "Are you sure?" ”

"I'm pretty sure." Chen Dongqing smiled and nodded.

The staff didn't ask much and registered this information.

Chen Dongqing was the last to arrive, and when he registered, the sixteen players of this year's WCS were completely decided.

In two days, everyone will start a life-and-death battle for the group stage 16 into 4.

Only those who advance in the group stage will officially participate in BlizzCon and qualify for the WCS Knockout Round.

The next day, the day before the start of the competition, Blizzard and NetEase's official blogs also officially issued information about the players in the WCS group stage.

(Here brothers remember to open the new illustration mode at the starting point, and then there will be an illustration on it, because it is difficult to express the complete information of this table in words, and it is suspected of hydrology when it is written out, so I simply made a table and inserted it in the middle of the article, which is more intuitive.) ）

As soon as the information of this contestant was issued, it immediately aroused heated discussions among the majority of players.

I have to say that in this information sheet, there is a player's information that stands out from the crowd and is quite abrupt.

The eighth player in the standings of the non-Korean division: ilex.

Nationality: Chinese, Race: Random, Points: 3000, Remarks: Shanghai Champion

The champion of the Shanghai station comes with 3,000 points.

In other words, this person only participated in one Shanghai competition, and did not participate in any other competitions.

But he was stunned that he just relied on this one competition to qualify for the WCS.

Do you think that makes sense?

And the most eye-catching thing has to be the [random] displayed by Ilex in the race column.

Yes?

Random? What about this whole work? Not going to win this is?

As soon as this information was issued, it immediately aroused heated discussions among major players around the world.

In the domestic forum, the response from players was particularly enthusiastic.

At this time, StarCraft 2, NGA and other major game forums, the discussion of this highlighted an explosion.

【？？？ Ilex to play randomly? Crazy, right? 】

[It can be seen that this B went to travel from the beginning, and he didn't plan to win the championship at all]

[I don't plan to win the championship, I can understand, after all, China's interstellar is not good, but if you choose a random race, the attitude is too bad, right? ] 】

[Forget it, what's there to blame, being able to enter this game is already him winning glory for us]

[Alas, but I'm speechless, I think Brother Shu really has a chance to win the championship]

[Haha, don't be funny, you don't really think that ilex can win the championship, right? ] 】

[Indeed, he is the first person in the history of LOL, and the honor level has long been full, who still needs you as a WCS champion? ] Is gold content the same thing? 】

Countless players have discussed and discussed, in fact, it is nothing more than an argument: ilex can participate in this competition is already to win glory for the country, next, let's take one step at a time, and if you can enter the top four, it will be considered a success.

I have to say, very optimistic already.

That's the gap in player expectations.

The audience of the LPL has championship expectations for their own teams, so the person who says the phrase "the top four is considered a success" has to be hacked for a lifetime.

But this side of the interstellar. The top four belong to the ancestors, and there is light! You hurry up, the ball is on!

Based on this situation, Chen Dongqing's "willful behavior" of choosing a random race, not many people criticized him, and it turned out to be a complete understanding!

Of course, there are still a small number of viewers who have a trace of expectation for this.

Brother Shu has already created many miracles, what if he can really win the championship with randomness?

Believe Brother Shu!

But this belief was quickly shattered.

Shortly after the announcement was issued, many people said that they saw Chen Dongqing and Lin Qianhua in Disneyland in Anaheim

This young couple seems to be really rushing for a vacation, and in the afternoon, they were stunned to play the project all over the place, and met a lot of fans halfway, Chen Dongqing was happy to take a group photo, quite easy-going.

After coming out of Disneyland, Chen Dongqing and Lin Qianhua found a star-picking restaurant for a meal, and then came to Huntington Beach.

It is a world-famous surf spot with an extended coastline and a relatively safe coastal environment, so you can surf safely without drowning.

Of course, it's November and Los Angeles is in the autumn and no one surfs, but that doesn't stop locals from coming to the beach for a walk.

Chen Dongqing met some fans here, and after a happy group photo, he and his girlfriend walked on the beach at dusk.

Lin Qianhua said helplessly: "You are going to compete tomorrow, don't you practice today?" That's too lax, isn't it? ”

"There's no need, didn't you fight Serral in the morning?" Chen Dongqing chuckled and said, "This game is quite simple, and I don't have any pressure to play. ”

"Interstellar is easy!?" Lin Qianhua said angrily: "Others say that this is the most difficult game!" ”

Chen Dongqing said happily: "This is different. ”

Why do you say that interstellar is the hardest? In fact, the reason is very simple, just because this is a pure 1v1 game, you win if you have strong personal ability, and lose if you have weak personal ability, it's as simple and rude as possible.

But unfortunately, personal ability is Chen Dongqing's strength.

LOL competition, in addition to personal ability, it depends on the face of teammates.

In QG's game, they never lost because of Chen Dongqing's collapse, basically because other roads collapsed.

If the S game is changed to the SOLO competition, then Chen Dongqing can win a hundred championships in a row and get this game all the way!

The difficulty of interstellar, for Chen Dongqing, is pediatrics.

That's why he switched to a random race.

This race can give full play to his personal ability.

"It's up to you, if you say simple, it's simple." Lin Qianhua grabbed her boyfriend's arm and said with a smile: "Since it's so simple, it shouldn't be difficult to win a championship, right?" ”

"Don't worry." Chen Dongqing is quite confident, "This champion, I am quite confident!" ”

The clock was fast approaching November 11th.

Chen Dongqing, who has a strong sleep ability, has adjusted his schedule at the moment, got up on time at ten o'clock in the morning, first had a breakfast of bread and milk with his girlfriend, and then walked into the training room and entered the training state.

For the sake of the afternoon competition, let's practice.

As for the opponent of the training match, he changed his person, and he made an appointment with Neeb, the American god king, a two-time champion of the tour, and the first point of non-Korean players.

There is no way, South Koreans have to account for half of the places in the interstellar competition, and this is the result of Blizzard's restrictions, otherwise, there are more Koreans.

The biggest characteristic of Koreans is that they pay attention to collective grouping.

In this kind of championship competition, they don't play training matches with foreigners at all.

But it's also reasonable, how many years the interstellar competition has been held, how many years have the Koreans won the championship, do they need to train with the outside?

There was no way, which led to Chen Dongqing having to make an appointment with non-Korean players.

But I have to say that Chen Dongqing has rich experience in Hanbok qualifying, and he has played with these Korean players.

After fighting Serral and Neeb successively, he can actually feel that the level of a non-Korean player like this is not weaker than that of a Korean player.

The two played all the way to one o'clock in the afternoon, close to the time of the match.

Before leaving, Chen Dongqing also saw the message sent by Neeb in the custom room:

[Hey, bro, let's cheer together for today's game, let's surprise those damn Koreans together!] 】

The format of the WCS group stage has always been a "GSLvsWORLD"

Each group is two Koreans and two non-Koreans.

In the first round of the competition, Korean players will face off against non-Korean players to determine the upper bracket and the lower bracket.

Then the winner and the winner play, the loser and the loser play, accumulate two wins to advance to the knockout round, accumulate two defeats and leave, it's as simple as that.

Therefore, Neeb and Chen Dongqing will have their own Korean opponents today.

Chen Dongqing looked at the words in the chat bar and replied with a smile: "It's a must!" Today we will definitely win! ”

It didn't take long for Chen Dongqing to pack up his mouse and keyboard and walk towards the Anaheim Convention Center.

In the middle of the course, Chen Dongqing took a closer look at the grouping situation and the schedule.

WCS2017 year-end finals group stage top 16 groups:

Group A: STATS, soO, Snute, ilex

Group B: Dark, Nerchio, Rogue, Neeb

Group C: TY, Kelazhur, herO, Elazer

Group D: INnoVation, SpeCial, GuMiho, Serral

Chen Dongqing was last in Group A.

The knockout rounds are divided into three days, all of which are in the form of BO3, and the winners and losers of the two groups of AB will be determined on the first day. On the second day, two groups of CDs were decided.

Then wait until the third day to finalize the quota.

To explain simply, if Chen Dongqing is strong enough, then win one on the first day and one on the third day, then it will be easy to win two wins and advance.

If the weakness falls into the lower bracket, then there is more to fight.

If it's weaker and the loser bracket still loses, then you can only send it.

It's a classic double-elimination format, and it's not complicated to understand.

Chen Dongqing looked at his opponent today - Stats.

Yesterday, Coach Park specifically told him that this person is a hard stubble.

As one of the three champions of this year's GSL, with 12,875 points, he is the first Korean player in points!

It is no exaggeration to say that this person is the best of all the players in StarCraft this year, and he is the favorite to win the championship.

Chen Dongqing met this kind of opponent on the first day, which can only be said to be bad luck.

Coach Park said on the side at this time: "It's okay, don't be under pressure, if you lose, let's work hard in the losers' group, the difficulty for us to qualify is not too high." ”

Chen Dongqing waved his hand and said with a smile: "What pressure can I have?" Just watch me perform. It's not that I haven't been abused! ”

StarCraft has always had some quirky titles.

Innovation is called Lu Bu's title, which is already normal, and what is even more strange is that it is a variety of "books".

The word "Ben" comes from the word "Honza", and in the era of Star One, it was the title given by the Korean Star League to players who had dominated long enough.

But in the Interstellar II era, this title has a little more comedic meaning.

For example, Chen Dongqing's opponent Stats today is called "Extraction".

The reason for getting this nickname is also very simple, because he has a shoehorn face and a huge chin

Because they are the first match in Group A, Chen Dongqing and Baben will be in charge of the performance of the group stage opener.

After Chen Dongqing was inspected, he didn't rest too much, and followed the host's guidance to the stage.

Chen Dongqing glanced at Baben, who was standing opposite.

Well. The chin is really long.

Baben is very sensitive to other people's gaze, and he immediately felt that ilex, the B, was staring at his chin.

Baben snorted coldly, and then sat back in his place.

Hehe, little ilex, don't you understand any politeness?

I heard that you won against the Korean team on LOL some time ago? You wouldn't think interstellar and LOL could be the same, would you?

Even if you are the first person in history on LOL's side, when you come to Interstellar, you have to give me an honest plate!

This game will let you learn to respect!

On the other side, Chen Dongqing's heart did not fluctuate, he sat on the computer on the other side of the stage, adjusted the sensitivity of the peripherals, and then entered the competition server.

Seeing the players on both sides taking their seats, interstellar players all over the world were itching, and they couldn't wait for the game to start quickly.

They really want to see how far this ilex, who has chosen a random race, can go.

The interstellar old boy live broadcast room at this time.

Although it was late at night, Huang Xudong and Sun Yifeng, two middle-aged men, did not sleep, but rarely stayed up late and began to watch today's game.

At this point, the map for the first game was already shown: Amethyst Guard.

"Come on! ilex！ There was a hint of hope in the tone of Xudong Old Immortal, "Although the probability of winning is not high, I hope to show you your strength!" ”

At this time, in the barrage, a burst of doubts sounded.

【？？？ Poisoned milk pulls out the original, right? 】

[Ilex is stable]

[Utilitarian milk is not advisable]

[This is not easy to use even if Xudong Lao Xian exerts his strength, the main reason is that ilex's hand is too random and too tricky]

[Indeed, if you play other players, forget it, Baben's recent form is too good, it's really hard to say]

Somewhere in Seoul, South Korea.

Faker, who has returned from Jeju Island, has entered the holiday period, and as the absolute heart of SKT, he certainly does not need to think about renewing his contract.

With nothing to do, Faker, who was about to sleep, suddenly remembered something, and he clicked on twitch and found the live broadcast of StarCraft.

In the screen, the first game between ilex and Stats has begun.

And through God's perspective, you can see that ilex is lucky in this game, and randomly got his own good race, the human race.

Faker got a little interested, expanded the live stream to full screen, and watched the game.

He also wants to know how far Ilex can go in the interstellar finals.

At this point, the two sides have entered the busy opening construction, and this one is relatively flat on both sides.

Like Serral and Neeb before him, Stats obviously has no experience in dealing with random masters, and he is faced with a black map, and in the face of this extremely scarce information, he thinks for a moment, chooses to start the game defensively, and then excludes scouting to find information.

Chen Dongqing's Terran Race actually suffered a loss against the Protoss, and almost all of his few defeats were lost in the hands of the Protoss.

But now that he has the information advantage, everything is starting to turn around.

Can the other side imagine that he is a Terran? Even if you can think of it, can you know what tactics he is?

The map of this game is Amethyst Guard, and the map routes are intricate, and many paths need to destroy rocks to get through.

But there is one trick that can be ignored directly, and that is airdrops!

Chen Dongqing was sure that the opposite side would not attack, and he didn't even bother to do defensive work.

The Protoss against the two ships of soldiers, generally directly out of the hunt before the pressure, can generally give the barracks gas mine open and only out of the spear Terran wave of dry pieces.

But this time, Stats was completely unprepared, but when he found out that the Terrans were two ships, it was too late.

This time, the two ships didn't even throw themselves into the three mines, but flew across the map and directly to the main mine of the Protoss!

Fourteen good brothers hung cigars and held machine guns, landed on the stimulant, and directly turned on the killing mode!

Stats' face changed drastically, and APM also soared to the limit, sending troops to fight back!

But Chen Dongqing's operation is full, and the fourteen spearmen are like arm commands, as long as there are remnant blood soldiers, they will be directly loaded on the ship invincible, and then get off the ship after replenishing blood, and fourteen will be twenty-eight envoys!

Stats' face grew darker and darker, and he tried his best to do it, but it was in vain!

At this time, you can see a grand occasion, Chen Dongqing's spearmen are not killed one after another, but the blood volume is slowly declining at the same time.

Before the Spearmen's HP drops to zero, the Protoss' living force has been slaughtered!

Relying only on a wave of airdrops, Chen Dongqing directly killed all the Protoss units!

Faced with such a huge exaggerated disadvantage, Stats knew that there was no hope of a comeback, and five minutes ago, he was full of confidence, typed "GG" in the chat bar, and chose to surrender.

1-0！

(End of chapter)