The opening ceremony of the GPL Spring Split was relatively simple. First, the promotional video for the Spring Split, which received an extremely enthusiastic response, was played on the big screen. Then the captains of each team appeared on the stage, and the host introduced the origins of these clubs to the audience one by one.
and star players.
The captains of the sixteen teams correspond to the sixteen battle flags in the stadium, and also correspond to the sixteen warriors dressed as heroes in the promotional video CG.
The audience at the scene were also old spectators, and they were very supportive, with bursts of applause and cheers.
Then, the game officially started.
Strictly speaking, the scene of the GPL Spring Split is much worse than that of the Ioi World Finals. After all, they are not the same level of competition in terms of positioning. The Ioi World Championship is held in a large venue that can accommodate 20,000 people. The scene is definitely
It's much more atmospheric than the GPL Spring Split.
But the advantage of the GPL Spring Split is that the details are better.
From the very beginning of the GoG Global Invitational Tournament to the subsequent pre-season games, the entire operations team of GPL has accumulated a wealth of experience.
On the one hand, the rules are clear, various emergency plans are very detailed, and the probability of problems is very low. Even if problems occur, they can be solved quickly and will not cause too serious broadcast accidents;
On the other hand, the audience's preferences are almost ascertained, and the necessary links are made as good as possible, and all unnecessary links are cut off.
Just like the opening ceremonies of many e-sports competitions, they like to have some cosplay or song and dance performances, but most of the audience is relatively indifferent to this, so GPL has completely cut off such redundant links to bring the purest experience to the audience.
Watching experience.
Therefore, in terms of the audience's perception, although the GPL venue is relatively small, it is very formal in all aspects. From the details, you can see the degree of care in preparing for the event, so it does not appear to be a bargain.
Soon, the game officially started.
Although shg is a new team, it performed very well. It dared to fight and fought hard. After three games with the h4 club, it was a pity that it lost.
But even so, shg's performance on the field still won the applause of the audience, and some of its outstanding decisions and operations sparked heated discussions on the forum.
Pei Qian was also satisfied with what he saw at the scene. He took out his mobile phone and opened the live broadcast room to see the reactions of netizens.
However, some discordant sounds appeared on the barrage.
"Is this the h4 world championship? Playing back and forth with a new team that has just been formed?"
"This shows how valuable the GoG Global Invitational Tournament is. Everyone understands it."
"With h4's strength, it can still beat foreign teams. I don't need to say more about the quality of those foreign teams that have been hired with money, right?"
"I have long said that the competitive level of GoG is not good. The so-called 'dominance' of domestic teams is just because no one abroad plays it!"
"What's so great about paying a foreign uncle to study with you?"
There is a group of people with unknown origins who are frantically "entertaining themselves" in the live broadcast room, belittling the value of GPL and even the GoG Global Invitational Tournament.
This is the same routine as the previous post "Domestic e-sports started late, has a weak foundation, and must continue to work hard." It constantly uses a wrong logic to brainwash the masses: Gog abused foreign teams because there are no foreign teams.
People play, so the gold content is not high; ioi loses to foreign teams because the Chinese people are not good at it, so the gold content is very high.
Finally, it was concluded that ioi is much larger than gog.
This statement has been discussed before, but now that the GPL has started, it has been mentioned again. It is obvious that these people with ulterior motives are trying to dampen the popularity of the GPL Spring Split and create publicity for the knockout rounds of the Ioi Global Finals.
Many GoG players were very angry and argued with these players in live broadcast rooms and forums, but to no avail.
These troublemakers are all professional trolls. If you present facts and reasons to them, they will act as if they cannot see you. They will just use their own fallacies to continue to mess around with you, and they will also treat you with weird and personal attacks. Once you get the upper hand, confront him.
Instead of spraying, I fell into his trap.
The two groups of people were quarreling with each other, which made the GPL live broadcast room into a mess. The game was originally very exciting, but no one discussed the content of the game and they were all arguing, which greatly affected the experience of watching the game.
Pei Qian was not angry at all, but was very happy.
Longyu Group and Mr. Zhao finally worked, which is so touching!
You can watch the fv club match at 5 o'clock tomorrow morning. As long as the fv club loses, the Internet will definitely be very lively!
Although Pei Qian doesn't think this public opinion turmoil will affect the GPL league's profit, it is better than nothing!
Pei Qian decided to go to bed early tonight and get up at 5 o'clock tomorrow morning to watch the fv club game.
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At 1 p.m. Los Angeles time on the 7th and 5 a.m. Beijing time on the 8th, the quarterfinals of the ioi Global Finals will officially begin!
There are four best-of-5 games in the quarter-finals, which will be played over two days, Saturday and Sunday, Los Angeles time. The fv team will be the first to go on the field to face the European club cem team that previously destroyed the domestic team in the group stage.
CEM is also a veteran European and American team similar to Fry. It showed great dominance in the group stage, qualifying with a score of 4-0, and even beat the domestic team in the same group.
Get started.
All the staff of the fv club were waiting backstage, and Wu Yue and Manager Lu looked a little nervous.
Although they fully trust the strength of the players, winning or losing in e-sports is not so absolute. The opponent is not a weak team, and the fv club is not 100% sure of winning.
Moreover, this is an offline game, and the European and American teams are playing at home. It is hard to say whether the players will be unbalanced and perform abnormally because of the cheers of the other party.
"Here comes the show!"
I don't know who shouted, and everyone looked at the screen in the background.
At the same time, thunderous applause and cheers came from the venue!
cem was the first to appear. Each of the five team members had confident smiles on their faces. They waved frequently to the audience and enjoyed the applause and cheers of the crowd.
Next came the fv club. The audience was also very considerate. Although the cheers were a little lower than those of the cem team, they were still very enthusiastic.
After all, fv Club is constantly active on Twitter and interacts frequently with major clubs, so it has also gained a good reputation among foreign player groups.
However, the comments made by netizens on foreign live broadcast platforms were not so kind, with overwhelming "3:0" and "ioi noob".
Obviously, most foreign audiences just think that the FV club is very capable, but do not recognize their competitive strength.
In the minds of most viewers, this will be a match without any suspense. It is estimated that it will be difficult for the fv club to score even a small point.
The members of the fv club could not see the barrage, and of course they would not be affected. They just enjoyed the cheers and applause at the scene, waiting to conquer the 20,000 spectators with their performance in the game.
There are not so many bells and whistles in the quarter-finals and semi-finals, and the game quickly enters the BP stage.
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At the same time, Pei Qian had just gotten up.
I turned on the TV, took out the potato chips and Coke and sat on the sofa, just in time to watch the BP session between the two teams.
The barrage is still very chaotic, and the players are fighting together.
There are some weird gogs who are just for their own entertainment, some who keep scrolling "Swim back", some who cheer for the fv team, and some who keep flashing meaningless numbers to block the screen. It's simply no experience watching the game.
Obviously, in the opening match of Gog yesterday, the trolls invited by Longyu Group pissed off the Gog players, and today some Gog players also came to fight back in the ioi game.
As a result, it was impossible to watch the barrage of both sides of the game.
Pei Qian was also speechless, but just as he was about to close the barrage, he saw a string of question marks floating across the screen.
"????"
"Fv is so stubborn? Will you unleash chaos and misfortune?"
"A total of four games were played in the group stage and all were smashed. Are we still going to play?"
"Is it because the fv club doesn't play training games, so it doesn't know how abnormal this hero is? That's not right. Even if it doesn't play training games, it should at least take a look at the group stage, right?"
"I understand, it may be that fv thinks that he will be defeated 3:0 anyway, so he can find an excuse to throw chaos and misfortune, and it seems that he lost not because of his talent, but because of BP issues. This wave, this wave of fv is in
The fifth floor!”
"You can turn off the live broadcast, go have breakfast, and come back in 30 minutes to watch the second game!"
"I really have your fv!"
"I have already seen the next script. Chaos and Doom will appear in twenty minutes, and three waves of team battles will end the game."
"Who is the coach of the fv club? You can release this stuff, maybe your brain is flooded? Or is it because the accommodation and food conditions in Los Angeles are so good that your brain is rusty?"
"The coach seems to be...Old Zhou? Damn it, isn't this the auxiliary player of the original dge club?"
"Huh? A guy who plays gog came over to be the head coach? That's ridiculous. No wonder he unleashed Chaos Doom! This is not playing gog, brother!"
Several groups of people were quarreling in the barrage before, using repeated words to attack each other, just like a melee of heroes. But after the ban ended and CEM directly grabbed the hero "Chaos Doom", the content of the barrage immediately changed.
been unified.
Everyone is talking down the fv club!
Only then did many people notice that the coach who came to BP was Zhou Pengyuan.
As a former GoG star player, Zhou Pengyuan has not appeared in the public eye since he came to Los Angeles.
This was his first BP appearance, and as a result, he released this version of Chaos Doom, which is recognized as purple and must be banned. It was a blockbuster.
Pei Qian was a little curious and searched for the hero "Chaos Doom" on Qiandu.
This is a new hero recently released by ioi. It looks like a dark cloud. It is a long-range hero but its range is only slightly higher than that of melee. Its strength lies in its good group control ability in the mid-to-late stage, and it is both powerful and powerful.
Once you enter the team battle stage, you are almost guaranteed to win.
A total of four games were released in the group stage, and all the teams released were smashed without exception.
Everyone thought that this hero should buy a house in the ban position and would never appear in the knockout rounds. Unexpectedly, the fv club came up and released him.
Pei Qian couldn't help but cheer up, "Fv Club can do it, try your best!"
This kind of demeanor reminded Pei Qian of the legendary three-player iron man and five-player Galio, who had an iron head and didn't want to win.
Pei Qian was chewing potato chips while watching the next game.