Throughout April, Whistling's schedule was very easy. Except for the round at the end of the month, the rest were weak teams in the lower half of the standings.
After sending Linhai away, the atmosphere in the team became a little looser and the training also relaxed.
The league started in September last year, and it has been more than half a year now. There was only a one-week break during the Spring Festival. The Whistling team, which is mainly composed of veterans, has reached the point of exhaustion.
In previous years, the team's ranking would generally fluctuate between seven and ten. If you are not careful, you will fall behind, so you have to grit your teeth and persevere no matter what.
However, it's impossible to improve your condition with fatigue. Most of the time, Whistling's record will suffer a big decline in the last one or two rounds, unable to score the points it deserves, and ultimately, regrettably, fall at the threshold of the playoffs.
And even if they manage to survive, if they have to face one of the best teams in the league two weeks later, Wuxiao will be exhausted, unable to make it far, and fall directly in the first round of the playoffs.
In fact, this is not the case for Wuxiao alone, almost every team that catches the last train of the playoffs is like this. Misty Rain, Void, and Excellent Era have always been like this.
However, this year Wuxiao is different. After a 10:0 victory over Linhai, Wuxiao has opened a sufficient distance from the void behind it. As long as it performs normally in the last few rounds, it is impossible to lose the sixth position.
And in view of catching up with Yanyu, they will encounter Tyranny with competing styles in the playoffs, and Wuxia Shangxia will have little motivation for this.
For every one place difference in the final ranking, the dividend received by the club will differ by 1 million. For Linhai, who is in financial distress, this is an income that can help him survive, but for Wuxiao, although it is also a considerable amount of money, in the end
It's not worth fighting to the death.
There was no pressure on the team's performance for the time being, so Lin Jingyan simply arranged for the veterans to rest and let the young people and some bottom substitutes who had been unable to play in the game play.
The lineup for the weekend match against deputy squad leader Ming Qing was arranged early.
Qiu Fei was the first to appear in the individual competition, followed by Zhao Yuzhe and Lu Yiming. The three players in the group competition were Guo Haoran, Song Qixuan and Fang Rui. These six, plus Priest player Ruan Yongbin, are all the candidates for Team Howl to go north to Tokyo.
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In the first half of the year when he was still at Excellent Era, Qiu Fei played against Mingqing, also in an away game. At that time, Excellent Era won 8:2, which was not an easy win.
Although Qiu Fei could no longer remember the names and skills of his opponents after looking at the information, Qiu Fei still remembered their use of the map. Their meticulousness and tenacity left a deep impression on him.
That time, Excellent Era encountered considerable resistance in the duel. In the individual competition, both Liu Hao and He Ming lost successively, and only Qiu Fei won a victory after playing for three minutes.
The situation in the group arena was similar. Shen Jian and Guo Yang failed one after another, and it was only the captain Ye Xiu who turned the tide to ensure that they did not lose two points.
Seeing that the team was so relaxed, Qiu Fei felt that the game might be difficult if he took it lightly, so he went to Lin Jingyan alone to persuade him to take this game seriously.
Lin Jingyan said to Qiu Fei: "Don't worry, just treat this game as adjusting to your condition. We already have enough points, it doesn't matter even if we lose a few points. From now on, Xiao Qiu, you have to adjust your mentality.
Our real next game is the first round of the playoffs, against the third place in the league. The next few regular season games, no matter how they are played, it doesn’t matter. Our goal is to win
We can reach beyond the second round this year.”
Qiu Fei actually wanted to say that the first round of the playoffs was still a month and a half away, and it seemed a bit too early to start making adjustments now. But judging from Lin Jingyan's tone, the matter had been settled, so he said nothing more.
Qiu Fei's life was simple and regular with training, rest, and trumpet practice. After several rotations, it was time for the weekend competition again.
Mingqing is a young team that just entered the league this year. They followed Xuanqi's successful relegation experience and invited former Thunder captain Li Bo as coach.
Then, under the guidance of this veteran, Mingqing introduced several rotation and substitute players from the two giants Blue Rain and Tiny Herb who were unable to compete in the game as pillars. Most of their remaining players were actually no better.
Qiu Fei played a few more professional-level games.
Swordsman player Shang Shanhe, who played against Qiu Fei last time, will compete in the group stage this time. In the first individual match, Qiu Fei faced off against elemental mage player Tian Gaozhi.
Tian Gaozhi is also one of the players introduced by Mingqing this season. However, compared with the captain and deputy captain Song Pingxiao and Shang Shanhe from Blue Rain, his background is a bit dull.
Last season, Tian Gaozhi played the main role in the Time Team. In the end, the Time Team ranked 19th and was eliminated together with the bottom Wuji Team. The team was relegated to play in the challenge game nicknamed the resurrection match, and Tian Gaozhi was eliminated due to his performance.
Not bad, he got Li Bo's approval, transferred to Mingqing, and was able to stay in the league and continue to hang out.
The news that there were only seven players coming from Wuxiao could not be concealed from the opponent. But Wuxiao played Qiu Fei in the first game of the individual competition, which was beyond Mingqing coach Li Bo's expectation.
The elemental mage has no advantage against the flexible magician. In addition, there is a large gap in strength between the two players. The winner of this game was decided in just one and a half minutes.
Ma Tao Ze Feng didn't even take damage to a quarter of his health, so he won the first point without any bloodshed.
Qiu Fei's easy victory made his teammates underestimate the enemy even more, thinking that Ming Qing was nothing more than that.
Finally, what Qiu Fei was worried about happened. In the second individual competition, Zhao Yuzhe was defeated by former Tiny Herb substitute player Shi Zhibo, and then Lu Yiming was defeated by Wei Guangji, a rookie in the same profession as him.
In both games, Mingqing players took full advantage of the self-selected map and took the lead from the beginning. After the individual competition, Mingqing led 2:1.
In the following arena games, Mingqing's home field advantage continued.
Shang Shanhe took advantage of the natural traps on the map to directly deceive Guo Haoran, and won his first victory without any effort. Song Qixuan who followed was no match for him, and was defeated after a battle.
The roaring arena match collapsed too quickly, and two people were gone in the blink of an eye, which made the guard general Fang Rui dumbfounded.
Thieves are not a powerful profession to fight against in single combat. Fang Rui defeated Shang Shanhe and Wan Yifu after him, and Gui Mi Sui's blood volume was very low. Facing the last Captain Ming Qing, he had no chance of recovery.
After the first half, Wuxiao only scored one point. This made the Mingqing fans at the scene very excited and cheered for the home team with overwhelming momentum. They hoped that the team could continue their efforts and achieve a big victory to add a glimmer of hope for relegation.
However, the advantage of the home map has its limits. When the strength gap widens to a certain extent, no matter how well the map is used, it cannot determine the outcome of the game.
Qiu Fei once again became the key player.
Although he still used his horse to ride on the west wind in today's team competition, just like he used Luohua Fengyu in the last game, Qiu Fei used his own skills to arbitrarily shatter Mingqing's formation, opening the door to victory for Wuxiao.
6:4, the final winner is still Howling.
I arranged the schedule again, but it really doesn’t correspond to the original work one-to-one. Sun Xiang’s first battle in Excellent Era, against 301, was clearly stated to be 22 rounds. The rest of the schedule is here, and the seventh to last round on April Fool’s Day must not correspond.
Once it is installed, this BUG will simply not be rounded, and new contradictions will arise if it is changed. The other two teams of the Condor Team were canceled and replaced by the original Wind Raider Team. The original work was written as Seven Seasons, Time, and Wuji were eliminated together.
Now we are an unknown team that was eliminated in the ninth season.