The International Invitational Tournament, whose full name is ional, is a global Dota 2 event hosted by V Club. It is called the World Cup of Dota 2 by Dota 2 players.
The International Invitational Tournament is held every two years, and each time a total of 20 teams from five continents will compete for the championship within a week.
Among them, the top 16 teams in the world will be directly invited to enter the invitational tournament, and the remaining four places will come from the four competition regions of Asia, Europe, America, and Africa and Oceania combined division.
The championship award will directly enter the International Invitational Tournament.
The competitions in these four divisions are also called qualifiers.
Not everyone can participate in the qualifiers for each region.
Generally speaking, only teams that have won tournament championships or have very well-known players can qualify to participate in the qualifiers.
This is also the reason why the OK team was able to obtain a spot in the qualifiers in such a short period of time after the reorganization.
In the qualifiers, 12 teams from each region will compete for the only ticket to enter the world stage.
For Xu Yunlong and others, this will be an excellent opportunity.
The first two International Invitational Tournaments were all by direct invitation, and there was no qualifiers, so they were called International Invitational Tournaments. This year’s third edition, in addition to a substantial increase in the prize pool, also opened
Qualifier channel. This gives many emerging teams hope, but even with the qualifiers, there are still many teams that have no way to enter this circle.
Seats are limited.
Therefore, teams that can enter the qualifiers all have different pride and pressure.
For the one and only ticket to Seattle Stadium.
"There are a total of twelve teams in this Asian qualifier. You all know it. China's is Eden (e) and our Oathkeeper (oathkeeper), and Malaysia's is Banana (Banana), Blade (Blade), and Void
(void) There are three teams, and there are three in Singapore, namely smile, brownbear and fluxns. Finally, there are two Korean teams, star and universe.
(theuniverse). We met Team Smile in the first round, and then each team had to play once. It was a single round-robin bo1. The top four advanced, the rest were eliminated directly, and then the first and second picks entered the winner group, and the third
The four-place group is the loser group. Each
Group bo3. The winners of the first and second picks directly enter the finals. The winner of the loser group will play a bo3 game with the loser of the winner group. The winner will then play a bo5 game with the winner of the winner group. The winner
You will get a ticket to Seattle, do you understand?"
Xiao Qingyue wrote the schedule for this period of time on the whiteboard. There were seven days in total, and every day was a crazy game. The schedule was full, not to mention training, and the rest time was also compressed.
The single round robin lasts for two days, and each team plays eight to nine games every day. If each game can be played for an hour, it means that the game must be played for at least 8 hours every day.
Competitions are no different than usual training. Although training may seem tiring, a one-hour competition can definitely outshine the intensity of three to four hours of training, so eight games a day is still very tiring.
"We didn't meet any domestic teams today." Zhu Quehuang said after looking at the schedule, "Tomorrow the three teams will play together."
"Don't underestimate the foreign teams, they are not weak." Xu Yunlong said seriously while eating breakfast, not lunch, "The first game against Smile is a tough battle. Last year Smile ranked 21st in the world.
, it’s a pity that we entered the invitational tournament just one place short. This year’s ranking is also over thirty, which is pretty good, and we are a strong opponent.”
"Oh!" Zhu Quehuang nodded, "Then what should I use today?"
"Our preferred lineup is still the Elf system. I use Elf, Brother Long's system." Xuanwu followed Zhu Quehuang's question and began to make tactical arrangements. "With this system, we currently have the highest winning rate, and as a foreign player
The opponent probably doesn’t know us very well now, the possibility of banning the little elf is less than 20%, other positions can be chosen based on the opponent’s banpick.”
"What if the opponent bans Little Elf?" Bai Hu asked.
"No one should do this in the first three rounds, but after three rounds, the remaining teams will probably notice our tactics, so they can use Waterman Lane or Void Witch Doctor later. Xiao Zhu's recent Lane data
Very good, you can consider using it. As for the mid laner and off laner, the hero pools of both of you are pretty good.
, it will be decided based on the changes on the scene. But the first choice is Fire Cat and Timbersaw, unless the opponent is very strong and brings out heroes like Blackbird. We have to leave a hand for ourselves." Xuanwu said, getting up and writing on the whiteboard.
Three lineups were prepared, "There are still two hours before the game starts, so everyone can practice their skills first."
"I'll open a room, let's play two against three. You don't have to be serious, just feel good about catching last hits. Don't use up all your energy before the game." Xu Yunlong said, opening a room and letting everyone in.
room.
Standing behind the five big boys and looking at their serious expressions, Xiao Qingyue and Leng Muxue looked at each other and smiled, then turned to help prepare water and food.
Two hours passed quickly.
The organizer sent a room invitation, and Xiao Qingyue notified the five people immediately, so the five people quit practicing and entered the organizer's room in high spirits.
Their OK team was assigned to the Dire side this time, while Smile was assigned to the Radiant side.
Smile first banned and picked first. In the first move, they banned Karl.
"Well, that's good." Xu Yunlong nodded, Ye Qiu's face instantly turned red, while Bai Hu glanced at Ye Qiu and snorted.
Leng Muxue didn't collect much data about Smile. Although he bought all the tickets for the Southeast Asian games and fast-forwarded through every game, Smile didn't seem to have any special system. The only thing that was better was their mid laner.
It's quite powerful to use Fire Cat or Brewmaster, so Leng Muxue's advice is: just ban heroes that threaten you.
So Xu Yunlong banned the bat first hand.
Soon Smile made a second-hand ban, werewolf.
Xu Yunlong sighed inwardly. The werewolf prophet's push was the lineup he liked to use very much in the original ok. It seemed that his opponent had also done a lot of research on it.
So in the second move, he naturally banned Huomao.
It all depends on what you hold in your hand when you smile.
Half a minute later, Smile finally showed off his first-hand hero, the prophet.
"They want to lead the way." Xuanwu made a judgment.
"Let's take a look at their choices. They probably won't just take the lead..." Xu Yunlong said as he chose the elf Io as agreed upon, but on the second hand, he began to think about it.
"What's wrong? Why don't you just take Xiaoxiao?" Ye Qiu asked.
"No need for now." Xu Yunlong suddenly smiled and chose a bounty hunter, "We will divide them up when the time comes."
However, just after Xu Yunlong chose the bounty, Smile chose Chen.
"Eh?!" Zhu Quehuang was stunned for a moment. He had also played as a hero like Chen, but Chen was very afraid of bounties. With stealth turned on, you would be paired with you until dawn. You would have to share half of the experience and be prepared to be killed at all times.
The danger, this smile is holding Chen in front of their bounty, what does this mean?
"No wonder the world ranking has dropped so much." Xu Yunlong chuckled, "Obviously I want to advance, and I don't know how to play other heroes, so I have to choose this."
"I think maybe the playing style in Singapore is different," Ye Qiu said.
"Bing Hun is banned three times." Xuanwu said, bringing Xu Yunlong's mind back to the game. Bing Hun was very restrained in advancing the system, so it was reasonable to ban him with a smile.
Xu Yunlong quickly banned Sanshou, Panda Jiuxian.
So the two heroes who were good at Smile were banned.
This time, Xiaoxiao thought about it for a very, very long time and finally banned the team.
"It seems they think our bounty is just soy sauce." Xu Yunlong said with a smile, "Quite smart." Then he banned the dragon knight.
If you break the opponent's pushing lineup, there will be no way to push the tower quickly.
After almost understanding the opponent's system, Xu Yunlong took the third move of Xiao Xiao, Elf Xiao Xiao's system, a system they would never lose. (To be continued...)
