"Okay, everyone is welcome to watch the semi-finals of the top four. The two duels between the top four can be called epic duels. They are two duels between South Korea and the United States. It can be said to be full of highlights. I think every player
Everyone has the same feeling as me, that is, I hope our two Korean players can win the final victory, so please support our players!"
In order to highlight South Korea's support and emphasis on e-sports, the first e-sports competition funded by the Korean government was arranged at the Olympic Main Arena in Seoul.
In this world, South Korea also successfully hosted the 24th Olympic Games.
However, it was still called Seoul at that time. In the original world, Seoul was renamed Seoul in 2005, but it was earlier in this world. It happened to be renamed three or four years after Bamboo Traveling Star traveled through the world.
This stadium, which has hosted world-class Olympic events, is now used to host the first e-sports competition, which has been promoted by the Korean government as an epoch-making progress.
This means that mankind is gradually moving rapidly from the past industrial age to the information age. After the information age, more new competitions of this type will emerge, bringing new vitality to the international economy.
This is actually just trying to make people believe this.
However, Zhu Yuxing, a person who came from the digital information age, agrees with it, but it is a bit doubtful whether South Korea's Bangzi can lead the information age.
The population base is too small, and it is the first developed country in the world with negative population growth. It is okay to engage in e-sports, but it will be difficult to engage in any big initiatives.
At this time, there were more than 30,000 spectators in this stadium, which could accommodate nearly 70,000 people.
Most of them are people who are bored and come to join in the fun by giving them free admission tickets.
But as long as they are willing to come, it is enough. The rest is to get them interested through the competition of video games.
Twenty thousand people are still somewhat scattered in a venue with 70,000 seats, but this is already very impressive for e-sports that has just started.
The vast majority of the 20,000 people are Korean players or people joining in the fun.
When the commentator offered to cheer for the players, the entire stadium immediately burst into cheers.
Koreans are a very competitive race, and sometimes they even develop a mentality that is close to abnormal victory and defeat. You can watch a scene of a showdown with a superpower. Each one of them wants their own country to win more than the other one.
In the center of the stadium, even sound insulation equipment could not completely block the players from hearing the cheers.
At this time, Li Mingzhe felt as if something in his heart had been activated.
"The game officially started. Our player Li Mingzhe chose the Zerg camp. This race is said to have the highest winning rate according to relevant statistics. The opponent used the Protoss. It can be said that we had a certain advantage from the beginning."
"Yes, as long as Lee Ming-che plays steadily, continues to produce infantry, and then launches a counterattack like last time, then the probability of winning is still very high."
"Huh? You see, the American Carl player seems to have built the population building just outside of Li Mingzhe's field of vision. Why is it built so far away? Will it not be destroyed? Isn't this a meaningless consumption of one's own resources?"
"I don't quite understand. What's the purpose of this? Isn't this kind of population building supposed to be hidden to prevent it from being destroyed and causing the population to be restricted?"
On the field, Li Mingzhe chose to quickly produce infantry and invested all his funds like crazy on the most profitable primary unit, springtails.
But Karl from the United States chose another path and controlled a construction unit to arrive not far from Li Mingzhe's base and start building a population building. A building without any defense force is so close to the enemy. Isn't this a waste of his own resources? The enemy is ready at any time.
It's possible to destroy this kind of building, right?
Many people still don’t quite understand what this strategy is.
But Zhu Youxing knows it too well.
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People in this world don't have a deep enough understanding of the gameplay. After all, this game has only been released for a few months, and a bunch of people are developing new gameplay every day.
However, this kind of surprise usually only has an effect in the early stages of the game.
As StarCraft becomes more thoroughly understood by people, it will be difficult for the survival-oriented gameplay to survive.
This kind of building units around the enemy is a very disgusting method, but it is also a method allowed by the rules.
The purpose is to build a group of turrets with strong defensive and offensive capabilities outside the enemy's field of vision, and then use these turrets to limit the enemy's living space.
This is commonly known as tower rush, a fort offensive tactic.
It is difficult for a very basic springtail unit like Li Mingzhe to quickly dismantle the fort building. In comparison, it is simply a dimensionality reduction strike.
Even if Li Mingzhe discovers it, as long as one fort is built, multiple infantry units can be successfully replaced and the opponent's rhythm can be disrupted. This is very efficient in tactics.
What Zhu Youxing really didn't expect was that this rogue gameplay method, which players in the previous life had been searching for a long time to find, would be discovered by people in this world so quickly.
Due to special rules, protoss units must be produced within a certain range of the population building if they want the building to operate stably.
That's why Carl from the United States first built a population building outside Li Mingzhe's field of vision.
Before people understood Karl's intention, the population building had been completed.
Immediately afterwards, Karl built three fort buildings in a short period of time at an extremely fast speed.
At this time, the commentator and the audience seemed to realize something.
"Hey wait, building a fort next to your opponent is a bit exaggerated, isn't it? Is it still possible to play like this?"
"Li Mingzhe, please find out quickly. The other party has already built a fort in front of your house!"
"It doesn't matter, don't panic, our Li Mingzhe has a large number of soldiers, and he can destroy these forts with just one charge!"
"Yes, that's it!"
At this time, the expressions of several Korean consortium representatives around Zhu Youxing were a little unsightly.
They can't understand the game, but at least they can understand the battlefield situation a little bit.
After all, video games cannot be compared with real battlefields, and the rules are completely different.
If you were to build a bunker at the enemy's doorstep on a real battlefield, you would be seeking death. However, in the game, there is no need to consider supplies or population damage.
"Discover it quickly! Discover it quickly!"
While Karl calmly continued to build more forts and population buildings, Li Mingzhe tried to explode troops again, and then, at this time, he was finally ready to launch an attack.
But from Zhu Youxing's point of view, he was basically finished.