On the morning of Saturday, January 14th, Los Angeles time, and in the early morning of January 15th, local time in Jingzhou.
Today is the match day for the top four of the ioi global finals, and the fv team is ready to go.
In the hotel, Ye Zhizhou, Bao Xu and others waved goodbye to the team members and watched them board the minibus.
The backstage space at the competition venue is limited and cannot accommodate so many people. However, the data analysis work of Ye Zhizhou, Bao Xu and others has come to an end and they can take a rest.
As the coach, Lao Zhou took part of the tactical team to the scene, and Ye Zhizhou and others were free to move around.
Of course, if new tactics emerge after the semi-finals, we still need to continue to analyze them and provide tactical support for the fv team.
A week has passed since the quarter-finals. During this week, many European and American teams have sent out invitations to the fv team for training matches, and the fv team’s response has been the same: Sorry, our training matches have already been held.
The arrangements are full.
This is not a lie, after all, the fv team has indeed scheduled a full training match with SUG and its own second team, with more than ten hours of training time every day.
It's just that the fv team is unwilling to change its training plan and compete with these European and American teams.
"Let's go have a drink?" Ye Zhizhou suggested.
The others readily agreed and went to a small bar nearby. This bar would broadcast the live broadcast of the Ioi Global Finals. It was a pleasure to watch the game while drinking.
But they didn't notice that in the corner of the lobby lounge area on the first floor of the hotel, there was a Westerner with slightly bald hair, silently drinking coffee and paying attention to the situation of the fv team.
Eric looked at the huge logistics team of the fv team and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
Some time ago, Eric's failure to promote the ioi national server made Dayak Group very disappointed, so he replaced Chretien to be responsible for the operation of the ioi national server.
The domestic market is so huge that no multinational company wants to give up.
After Chretien took office, he made a series of drastic changes, including modifying the gameplay of ioi, cooperating with Longyu Group, etc. At present, it seems that although it is difficult to say whether it is a success or a failure, at least the momentum is building.
Therefore, in the eyes of the top management of Dayak Group, the trust in Chretien is unprecedentedly stable.
This is very difficult for Eric to handle.
He is also one of the top executives of the Dayak Group, so he cannot be beaten directly to the end, and his job and status in the company can be saved no matter what.
But everyone who can sit in this position is very ambitious. Eric sees Chretien doing better and better in his former position, which must be difficult to accept.
Eric did not give up, but chose to lie dormant, silently watching the battle between gog and ioi, and waiting for opportunities to move.
Although the current situation is very passive for Eric, and in the eyes of the outside world, there is no possibility of him making a comeback, Eric himself does not think so.
Because before returning to Los Angeles, he had carefully and thoroughly investigated Tenda's various methods of promoting Gog, and had a conversation with Mr. Pei.
Eric knows very well that even though Chretien is doing well now, he cannot succeed.
Because Chretien has no idea how terrible Mr. Pei is.
Eric knows very well that the methods used by Chretien now, including changing games, organizing competitions, etc., are all used by Mr. Pei long ago. How can you succeed if you use Mr. Pei's tactics to deal with Mr. Pei?
Obviously, Mr. Pei's counterattack has begun unknowingly, and Team fv is the way that Mr. Pei found to break the situation.
From the domestic Ioi qualifying rounds to the series of "performances" of the fv team in the world championship, it seems that there is a vague shadow of Mr. Pei. But Eric has no intention of telling Chretien or Dayak his judgment.
The top management of the group.
For Eric, his own interests are far greater than the interests of Finger Company. Handing over precious information now cannot gain the maximum bargaining chip for himself, and it may not be adopted.
Eric took a sip of coffee, stood up and left.
After the ioi global finals, the second round of the confrontation between Dayak Group and Tenda Group should determine the winner.
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At the same time, Jingzhou.
Pei Qian has already gotten up, eating breakfast and waiting for the ioi global finals to start.
After entering the semi-finals and finals, the game time has become much friendlier to domestic players. After all, there is only one bo5 game a day, so the time arrangement will be more flexible.
"This opponent in the semi-finals looks quite fierce. It should be of some use, right?"
"You beat the fv team in a small round, isn't that too much?"
Pei Qian had some small expectations inexplicably.
There is still a little time before the game starts, and the wonderful performance of fv and its opponents in the quarterfinals is still playing on the screen to warm up.
Pei Qian was eating breakfast while watching the barrage in the live broadcast room.
"Fv, rush me! Come on!"
"I don't ask you to improve. Just stay where you are in the quarterfinals. Let's do another 3:0!"
“Come on, come on, come on!”
But even at the critical moment before the start of the foreign war, there were still sunspots who continued to cause trouble and continued to use words such as "gog to entertain themselves" and so on.
Pei Qian couldn't help but sigh, these navy soldiers are quite dedicated, Longyu Group must have stuffed a lot of money.
Of course, there may be some people who are either trolls or just plain black men.
But the navy does things with money, and it’s puzzling why the black man works so hard when he can’t get any money.
Pei Qian had just taken a sip of his drink when he suddenly saw a barrage and almost spit out all the drink in his mouth.
"Trolls, stop trying to argue. If you want to argue, go ahead and use the excuses!"
"aeeis fully automatic lifting machine can meet all your demands for lifting!"
"The jacking machine is so much fun, I suggest all the trolls have one."
"There are so many people being fished by trolls? You are too young. Buy a bullshit machine to exercise your mentality. After using the bullshit machine, you will feel that the rank of the trolls is too low and it is not worth it.
One stick!"
Pei Qian was dumbfounded when he saw that the direction of the barrage had turned inexplicably.
"What happened? Why did the topic turn to the lifting machine?"
"When I looked at it on Friday, the sales volume hadn't been very high yet?"
Pei Qian has been busy checking the work status of various departments in the company for the past two days, and he no longer cares about the leveraging machine. As a result, something happened if he was not careful!
He hurriedly took the mobile phone, clicked on the mall to check, and found that more than 300 units had been sold in the mobile phone mall alone!
Moreover, this is only the quantity purchased by owners of Otto mobile phones. The fully automatic intelligent bar lifter is also sold on some other shopping platforms and is also sold on the official website of Otto Technology. If these are added together, the sales volume will be very impressive!
"Could it be that Changyou didn't listen to what I said, or did it promote it?"
Pei Qian hurriedly checked online, but couldn't find any publicity about the fully automatic bar lifting machine.
"It's crazy. It seems to have become popular out of nowhere, and it seems to have started from a game forum?"
"Fuck! Old Qiao!"
Pei Qian browsed for a long time and finally found Qiao Liang's Weibo. He gritted his teeth in anger.
But he took a closer look at the number of comments and reposts on Weibo and saw that they were not high, right?
Obviously Qiao Liang played a role in fueling the explosion of the fully automatic bar lift machine, but it was not the main cause.
This thing seems to have become popular naturally. There is no particularly obvious broadcast point, but everyone seems to like it.
Pei Qian is also completely confused. He really can't understand why everyone likes this thing.
Amid Pei Qian's confusion, the game officially began.
The two commentators were also in great condition, working hard to boost the atmosphere in the field, and they did not hesitate to speak highly of the fv team and praise them wildly.
Although the fv team is not favored by the ioi official, it is the only remaining team in the country after all. If we don’t brag about fv, how can we brag about foreign teams? That is definitely not appropriate.
Pei Qian could only comfort himself: "It's okay, just try your best to breastfeed the fv team..."
The game will soon enter the bp interface.
On the fv team's side, coach Lao Zhou was holding a small notebook with a relaxed and indifferent expression. The players were also talking and laughing, and they seemed to have no pressure.
The mentality before the game is very important. It is important to have a serious attitude and seriousness, but if it is too tight, it may cause the players to be restrained and perform abnormally.
What's more, the fv team has made full tactical preparations, and the players are in great shape, and of course they are full of confidence.
Looking at the opponent's state, he is also full of confidence.
Especially the opponent's coach, standing behind the players with a small book in his hands, looking like he was strategizing and high-spirited.
The coach looked to be in his early thirties, with a neatly trimmed beard and a suit. He looked very reliable at first glance.
Pei Qian breathed a sigh of relief. It was already the semi-finals. As expected, there was no weak team.
The quarter-finals were played a week ago. The opponent must have studied the game videos repeatedly and found a way to target the fv team.
Everything was normal in the banning process. The opponent banned the hero that fv team had performed well in the previous quarterfinals. It was fv team's turn to choose first.
Then the fv team backhandedly selected a hero with zero appearance rate in this world championship.
The camera showed a picture of the opponent's coach. The expression of the coach, who was confident before, changed from confidence to doubt, and then to confusion and confusion.
He looked at the game screen with some disbelief, almost thinking that he had seen it wrong.
Then, he began to communicate frantically with his team members.
Although he was speaking in English and the content of these exchanges would not be released, the audience could still roughly figure out what he was talking about.
"Can you beat this hero?"
"Which way did you go?"
"This should be specifically for popular systems, which system is it for..."
The coach was confused. He had no idea why fv wanted to grab this hero. Moreover, he had never played against this hero in training games before!
The time for selecting players passed by second by second, and the opposing team obviously did not study the reason. In the end, they selected two heroes that they thought were strong versions of the heroes, and used the tactics they were best at and most familiar with.
However, this seemed to play into the fv team's plan. Without any hesitation, Lao Zhou let the team members lock down two more heroes in seconds, specifically targeting the opponent's good tactics!
This second lock directly produces a powerful psychological deterrent effect.
One side thought twice before locking the hero until time ran out, while the other side locked it in seconds without hesitation and made a decisive decision.
Pei Qian sighed melancholy, deeply worried about the fate of the other team.