In mid-May, Gu Yun arranged all his work in advance, took a leave with the counselor, and the entire Nanhu Club gathered and headed for Shanghai.
The reason is simple. At the North American PAX game show in May, Valve announced news about the second Dota 2 International Invitational Tournament (Ti2). This tournament will be held at the Benaroya Concert Hall in Seattle at the end of August. The prize pool is also 160.
Ten thousand U.S. dollars.
The winner will receive one million dollars exclusively.
As soon as the news of the competition came out, the five young people immediately realized that the magical days of training during the day and enjoying freely at night were coming to an end, and the real test was about to come.
In order to prepare for the game with all his strength, Gu Yun made a decision at that time. During this period, the Nanhu Club would have to move from Jiangcheng to Shanghai in order to make an appointment with the first-line professional team for training.
The place with the strongest e-sports atmosphere in the country is Shanghai, and this time Nanhu Club is participating in the Ti2 regional qualifiers.
As a new team that has never participated in an international competition, there is no chance of a direct invitation. The only chance is to fight its way through the qualifiers held in Shanghai in the Eastern Division.
Valve summed up its experience from the first International Invitational Tournament and made some adjustments to the competition system based on direct invitations from all Ti1 teams, allowing teams from all over the world to have the opportunity to participate in DOTA2's largest event.
For the first time, Ti2 selects some teams through regional qualifiers, which are divided into the Eastern Division and the Western Division. The first place in the regional qualifiers advances to the main event, and the second place in the regional qualifiers passes the wild card round to compete for the last spot in Seattle.
"Damn, there are too many beauties in Shanghai."
A group of six people had just arrived at Shanghai Hongqiao Airport. Liu Xing's eyes no longer knew where to look, and the flowers were becoming more and more charming.
"Brother, look at that! I'm hungry!"
The refuser, who had always been taciturn and whose pronunciation of Mandarin was not standard, couldn't stand it anymore. He turned his head and tugged on Liu Xing's clothes, pointing at the young and slender figure at the exit.
The girl who caught everyone's attention was wearing a floral light green dress with a string of pearl necklaces hanging around her neck, which made her fair skin as smooth as milk.
Her smart eyes seem to be able to speak. She occasionally turns her gaze to look at you, as if she is seeing the clear summer sky in her pupils.
There is such a woman in the world. When she is expressionless, she seems to have achieved immortality. When she smiles at you, you can't wait to drag her into the world of love.
That's right, her distant gaze met the group of six people, and the smile on her lips was extremely sweet.
"here!"
The team members looked at each other in confusion. The boss quickly called everyone to come to Shanghai. He didn't even book the accommodation in advance. When asked, he said that someone had arranged it. Could it be this ridiculously beautiful little girl in front of him?
Gu Yun led a group of people to the vicinity, and Wen Jue said hello to everyone.
After not seeing each other for a while, Gu Yun found that Wen Jue had become beautiful again.
Some girls are talented. She only needs a slight change to transform from the girl next door to a sexy model. After adapting to the company for a while, she turns around and becomes an intellectual white-collar worker. As long as she is not careful, she will run to the Bund.
He raised his cocktail to the camera in a charming manner.
"I've prepared a place to stay. Get in the car this way."
Outside Hongqiao Airport, two cars were parked and waiting early. The five brothers just happened to get into a Buick GL8, and Wen Jue and Gu Yun got into another car.
The car started slowly and headed towards the training base prepared by Wen Jue in advance.
The two of them were sitting in the back row. They hadn't seen each other for half a month. There was a fresh and elegant fragrance in the tip of their noses. With the girl's pure attire today, Gu Yun's heartbeat actually accelerated.
Jo Malone, blue bells.
"When did you change your perfume?"
Gu Yun moved slightly to the side.
"Hey, Mr. Gu, that's strange. I thought you only cared about work and making money."
On the days when they didn't meet each other, most of the WeChat messages the two of them exchanged were about work matters.
Shanghai has been a holy land for petty bourgeoisie since ancient times. There are countless coffee shops. It is not easy for coffee justice to carve out a niche here.
Even so, we can’t just talk about work, right?
Wen Jue's words clearly meant something.
Gu Yun quietly squeezed Wen Jue's little hand, and the fingertips felt cold: "You're telling lies again."
"I don't care about those growth figures and expansion plans at all. The reason why I want to do coffee justice is all because of you."
"Most others care about whether you fly high, but I only care about whether you are tired from flying."
"Coming to Shanghai for training is just an excuse. In fact, I just want to come and accompany you."
The masters compete with each other, and there is truth hidden in the process of playing tricks.
On the surface, Wen Jue said that Gu Yun only cared about work during the chat, but in fact, her complaint was that he had not come to Shanghai for so long and left her alone on a business trip, not caring about her at all.
Gu Yun first explained the reason for discussing work, and then played two emotional cards. In addition, he noticed the changes in Wen Ju's details as soon as they met, which proved that he had her in his heart.
After a few words, Wen Jue was coaxed on the spot. The girl gently leaned her head over: "I'm really tired during this period."
"Although we were very successful at the coffee show, many shopping malls in other cities came to us for talks. But in Shanghai, the project is not so easy to promote, especially some old shopping malls, most of which have coffee shops, but they still don't recognize us.
brand."
Gu Yun helped smooth Wenju's hair: "Leave the rest to me. You have a good rest these days and don't have to think about anything."
The car stopped on Lingshi Road in Jing'an District.
It is also nicknamed the "Cosmic E-Sports Center". On this road, there are many e-Sports clubs gathered, as well as many e-Sports-related companies such as Riot Games, Tengjing Sports, Super Sports Group, and Hero Sports VSPN.
A group of six people got out of the car and found that the training environment here was no less impressive than the well-arranged base in Jiangcheng.
"Sister-in-law, the place you found is great! We thought we would stay in a hotel this time and train in an Internet cafe."
Chen Tianyu happily opened the main computer case in front of him, turned around and praised Wen Jue.
Wen Jue blushed at the word "sister-in-law". It was the first time in her life that she was called this name, which made her feel numb.
"I made an appointment with the ig team for training tonight. Cheer up. Now your opponent is no longer an online team."
After everyone assigned their rest rooms, Gu Yun also put down his luggage and came out to give the team members some instructions.
"From today on, everyone must devote all their energy to preparing for competition and training. Mobile phones are prohibited 24 hours a day. If you need to call home, please report to me. It is strictly forbidden to go out to meet fans without permission!!!"
When the last sentence came out, several team members exchanged ambiguous looks with each other.
Shanghai is the capital of e-sports. Rather than saying that Shanghai chose e-sports, it is better to say that e-sports chose Shanghai.
Compared with traditional sports, the development of the e-sports industry is closely related to the city's economic development level, which determines the city's hardware configuration and competition environment.
Venues that hold large-scale events need to have a sufficiently high-quality network environment, complete lighting, displays, audio equipment, etc.
Venues, audiences, players, everything in Shanghai is the best in the world.
If there were no such rigid rules, the Nanhu Club, which is well-known in the live broadcast circle, would land in Shanghai and there would definitely be many fans visiting. If someone accidentally misfires and the results are affected, it will not be worth it.
Gu Yun arranged the training schedule for the team members in the evening, and the cooking aunt was in place at the same time.
After ten years of hard work, Nanhu Club finally took the first step on its journey.
