This year's Spring Festival is on January 23rd, which is earlier than in previous years. Pei Qian looked at the calendar and calculated the time. After the exam this week, he will spend a lot of energy on spending money and settling accounts.
When he came to Moyu Internet Cafe, Pei Qian drank a drink and checked his phone to see if there was any recent news.
"Huh? Foreign media revealed that FV club was unable to get an appointment for a training match?"
Pei Qian didn't want to pay attention to the news about the fv club. However, this news was on the front page of the game and e-sports section. He didn't want to not pay attention to it.
After seeing this news, Pei Qian perked up and quickly clicked in to check it out.
This is a piece of gossip from foreign media, and the source of the foreign media’s news seems to be clubs in Europe and the United States.
The news itself is very simple. The reason is that this media went to interview various European and American clubs that entered the quarterfinals before the start of the quarterfinals, and briefly asked about their current status and training match conditions. One of the clubs said, fv The club made an appointment with them for a training match, but they didn't accept it.
Of course, there is no stone hammer for this kind of gossip, not even chat records, but the media that broke the news is still relatively famous, so it was quickly reprinted by major media.
The quarter-finals won't start until the weekend, and the GPL Spring Split will also start this Saturday, so there won't be much news in the e-sports circle during this period. Such a piece of gossip without a rock hammer made the headlines and sparked heated discussions.
Pei Qian doesn't know whether the Longyu Group is involved, but seeing the popularity and discussion of this news, it is impossible to say that there is no troll behind it at all.
There have been a lot of comments below this news, and many people are badmouthing the fv club.
"No training games? Isn't this too tragic?"
"Then you still have to play with a hammer. Is it possible that you can only play in the ladder game? Aren't you going to be beaten to death in the quarterfinals?"
"This must be a dereliction of duty by the club's management, right? You must make an appointment early for a training match. If you make an appointment when the training matches are fully booked, you will definitely not be able to make an appointment!"
"Do you really think I can't get an appointment because my time is full? Why are you so simple-minded? If you were on a really strong team, would they miss the opportunity to play a training match with you? They would squeeze out time even if they forced you to do so! Obviously they think you are a loser. , so I’m looking for excuses to shirk it!”
"Just go to foreign live broadcast platforms and forums and you will understand. They are all using ioi noob. People think you are too good. Playing training matches with you is a waste of time."
"What about the other two clubs? They went back to China directly? They are both domestic teams. Why don't you stay and practice together?"
"You're a sparring partner. When your club loses, isn't fv just adding insult to injury? Still helping you as a sparring partner?"
"Haha, if you ask me to say that this is all fv's fault, wasn't it quite fun to do Weibo before? Almost all the teams participating in the World Championship were laughed at. Other clubs didn't say anything, but they could feel it in their hearts. No grudges? It’s fine now, you’re isolated, you can’t even get an appointment for a training match!”
"It's hopeless. This year's ioi World Finals was really exciting. The qualifying rounds were a mess, and both teams were eliminated in the group stage. The number one seed didn't play any training matches and just spent the whole day on Weibo. After all, it is estimated that it will be 3:0 by then, so that’s it, let’s see the GPL.”
"The match hasn't started yet, so there's no need to be so anxious to badmouth me, right? It's said that Sug is still sparring."
"It's useless. The level gap between domestic and foreign countries is too big. Isn't SUG going to be beaten? He doesn't even have the opportunity to play training matches with European and American teams. How can he study other people's tactics and playing styles? His understanding of the game has been thrown away.
It’s a big chunk, and this can’t be made up for by relying on operations!”
There are all negative voices on the Internet, and even the few players who support the fv club don’t have much hope.
Moreover, the fv club has been active on Weibo, and the Longyu Group has hired some trolls to lead the way, so fv's popularity with the public is not very good.
Now that the negative news of "no training games to play" has come out, it has made the players who already had no confidence in the domestic teams even worse.
In short, the Internet is full of gloom and misery.
Pei Qian flipped through the comments and couldn't help but feel happy.
sure!
Is this the so-called universal force of heaven and earth?
Even foreign clubs are starting to give me a thumbs up?
Pei Qian did not ask Wu Yue whether the news was true, because it was most likely true.
Teams in the same division tend to stick together when playing training matches. After all, they don’t want to reveal their unique skills to other divisions.
Moreover, fv is the only domestic team left in the quarterfinals. Those European and American teams team up to play training matches and isolate the fv club. Objectively, it can also greatly weaken the strength of the fv team and reduce their competitors.
Due to emotions and reasons, foreign teams have very good motives for doing this kind of thing.
Pei Qian was very happy and had made preparations in advance.
After the fv club was eliminated in the quarter-finals, he would immediately call Wu Yue to express his condolences, telling everyone that they had tried their best and not to be sad, and that they would continue to play in Los Angeles until the end of the world finals and then come back!
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Meanwhile, Los Angeles.
On the second floor of the Internet cafe, the two teams fv and sug are still conducting daily training seriously.
At this time, Wu Yue was looking at the news on the Internet and was furious.
“Are these European and American teams sick?”
"It's fine if you don't accept our training matches. Why are you so loud and talkative?"
"You're crazy! Why do you think we care less about playing training matches with you?"
The fv club has a dedicated data analysis team and two training teams. There is really no need to play training matches with European and American teams. Not only may you not be able to practice, but your tactics may also be exposed.
But seeing that the game was about to start, Wu Yue felt that it was not appropriate to have never played any training games, so he thought of inviting a random European and American team to play, which would be a warm-up before the game and stabilize the players' mentality.
Unexpectedly, he went to several European and American clubs to make appointments for training matches, but was rejected by all of them!
As for the reason for being rejected, these clubs will of course not state it clearly, and will only use the excuse that "the training matches are already fully booked."
But in fact everyone knows it well.
There are more than ten hours of training in a day, how can it be fully booked for just training matches?
If it's a very important training match opponent, you can definitely squeeze in some time.
Therefore, the response of these clubs is for two reasons: first, they feel that fv is too weak and the training matches are ineffective, and they are not willing to waste time; second, they deliberately group together to isolate fv, affect fv's training status, and kill one of them conveniently
opponent.
Wu Yue didn't take it too seriously at first. Anyway, if you don't have an appointment, you will have an appointment. The fv club has no shortage of these training matches. If everyone doesn't like each other, they will break up.
In the end, I don’t know which club was so loud-mouthed and told the media, and the news spread!
This made Wu Yue very angry.
"Tell the team members that you will kill me in the quarter-finals, jump over the tower, jump into the spring, dance and highlight the flag all over again!"
"Don't these European and American teams look down on people? Let them feel what cruelty is!"
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January 7, Saturday.
Pei Qian slept until noon before getting up, feeling refreshed.
I just finished a very important closed-book exam last Friday, and Pei Qian felt good about himself. So I played games until late at night when I had fun, and today I slept until I woke up naturally.
Pei Qian still has two final courses to review this weekend, but one is open book and the other is closed book, so he shouldn't be as stressed as before.
Pei Qian plans to relax a little, go to GPL to watch the game on Saturday, rest at home on the weekend, and then take some time to simply read a book.
This weekend is like a holiday for e-sports viewers.
This afternoon, the GPL Spring Split will officially begin.
The schedule of the GPL Spring Split is very full. After all, there are now 16 teams in the entire league, and they have to play Bo3, so except for Monday when there is no game, there are games at other times.
Moreover, although there is no game on Monday, a review program will be arranged to briefly review last week's game, review some key battles, play with the memes that appeared in the game, and interact with netizens.
In terms of time, GPL can be said to be a high-intensity activity seven days a week, and the audience can watch it every day.
At the same time, the ioi World Finals has also entered the quarter-final stage. There will be two bo5s every day on Saturday and Sunday to directly determine the top four places.
Due to the time difference and schedule, the quarterfinals of the ioi World Finals are held at 5 a.m. the next day domestic time, which is more friendly to domestic audiences.
Watch the opening game of gpl on Saturday afternoon, watch the ioi quarter-finals on Sunday morning, continue watching gpl in the afternoon, and continue watching the ioi quarter-finals on Monday morning...
It can be said that the schedule is full, and it is fun to watch it all at once.
Although there are not many ioi players in China, ioi is the world finals after all, and Longyu Group has been sparing no effort to promote it recently. Coupled with a series of previous public opinion disturbances, the level of attention is still very high.
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In the afternoon, Pei Qian wore a mask and came to the venue of the GPL Spring Split.
A preseason game was held last month, and several new teams have already appeared. Some problems that occurred during the game have been repaired and improved, and plans have been made for some emergencies that may occur.
Today’s opening match is scheduled for the h4 team and the shg team. The former is the world champion, while the latter is a team formed by Shenhua.
Since the formation of the shg team, it has attracted much attention. After all, Shenhua has done very well in football. Using football to play e-sports can be seen as a dimensionality reduction attack. Many people are looking forward to them. performance.
In the previous preseason, shg also played several times and performed well. After this period of preparation and running-in, the main lineup has been determined and has made rapid progress. Based on the situation in the training match, Zhang Yuan finally decided to let They come to start the opening game, which can be regarded as giving this team a better opportunity for exposure.