The two-day break between the group stage and the quarter-finals seems to be non-existent for the national team members.
Close your eyes and open them again, review the game, study the Russian team's battle video, and finalize the team competition strategy against the Russian team; close your eyes and open them again, fine-tune the team tactics, and study the characteristics of the arena map.
In this process, there is also a race against time, interspersed with everyone's daily unshakable training.
Zurich local time, at five o'clock in the afternoon on July 23, everyone collectively got on the bus and set off; at six-thirty, dinner was delivered (the smell was so good that the Russian team came knocking on the door...ignoring them) and started eating; at seven-thirty, dinner was served.
Come on.
Today, the area covered by the five-star red flag in the stands has become larger than last time.
In each of the three group matches, the area occupied by the Chinese audience expanded, making the players who looked back before the game feel extra warm every time.
In the first game against the German team, the red flags in the stands were sparse and scattered;
In the second game against the Japanese team, the Chinese audience gathered together could already sing a magnificent song;
Before the third game against Sweden, a life-and-death battle that was crucial to qualifying for the group stage, the Chinese audience on the Chinese team's side had already filled half of the stands.
But this time, national flags of various sizes covered two-thirds of the stands on the side of the Chinese team.
There was a man wearing a national team support uniform, with his sleeves rolled up above his elbows, and he was vigorously waving a national flag that was as tall as a person and more than five feet long;
There is a cute little girl named Yuxue sitting next to her mother, holding a small red flag as big as her palm and swaying it back and forth;
A beautiful girl used oil paint to draw red squares on her cheeks, and then dipped it in gold powder to carefully outline five stars...
Of course, Blue Rain, Blue Tiny Grass, Green Tyrant Picture, black, red, reincarnation, black, white, and yellow... There were obviously more fluorescent sticks and fluorescent boards in various cheering colors than last time. Zhou Zekai was sharp-eyed and even saw someone giving a big hug.
I don’t know if Gun Chuanyun and others were brought all the way from China, or if they were customized on-site locally.
As for the penguin doll next to the standing sign, which is the same height as the standing sign but is wider than a circle...
Zhou Zekai decided to pretend he didn't see it.
In comparison, the sparring partners who were wearing team uniforms, holding laptops or tactical tablets, and sitting solemnly in the VIP seats looked a little different from normal.
"Okay, now we see that both players have taken their seats in the competition." At 7:30 local time in Switzerland and 1:30 a.m. Beijing time, the TV broadcast of the World Invitational Tournament started as usual with Pan Lin's speechless words:
"In the first two rows of the Chinese team's match seats, none of the 14 seats are vacant. It seems that Zhang Xinjie is recovering well and can play normally in this game."
"Yes, this is really good news." Li Yibo responded: "Especially when we learned this morning that the World Invitational Tournament Organizing Committee approved the Korean team's application and issued a supplementary rule. All participating players must use their own
The account card used in the professional league will be played."
"In other words, an incident like Ye Xiu's use of Shi Bu Zhuan on the field in the third group stage game will never happen again."
With a flick of the brush, the barrage thickness on the monitor screen increased rapidly at a shocking speed.
"The stick is the most annoying!"
"I just like to do these little tricks! Black whistle for the Olympic Games... Black whistle for the World Cup... Unplug the power for lol games..."
"I'm not saying that, there are loopholes in this rule. For example, if Liu Xiaobie is playing in a game and suddenly gets annoyed by the sound of rain, can he agree to it?"
“Isn’t it stipulated that you can only use the national team account?”
"Other teams didn't agree! I went through the wall and read the news, and it was said that other countries were not interested in such modifications. They wanted to free up substitute players and compete as regular players. It's troublesome if there are too few people supporting it!
"
"What about now, have you settled the fight?"
"No news yet..."
Seeing that the barrage had changed from a complaint to a chat, Pan Lin was sweating in his heart and quickly changed the topic:
"The rules of the knockout round are similar to the domestic playoffs. The competition system is a team competition in the arena. Each team will have 5 people in the arena and 6 in the team competition. The head points will be calculated. Each side has the right to choose a home game. The home and away games are the same.
If the extra draw results in a draw, a backup map will be drawn that day, and 20% of the blood will be restored for overtime."
Barrage indicates emotional stability.
We all understand the rules, it’s just the same as the domestic playoffs anyway, no additional explanation is needed... Please introduce the handsome guy from the Russian team... Oh, more importantly, there is also the young lady...
Although everyone knows about Russian aunties, given the age of e-sports players, the ones appearing now are all high-quality beauties!
Of course, as gold medal commentators in the Honor world, it is impossible for Pan Lin and Li Yibo to lose their integrity and fall into this position. Their introduction work is still satisfactory:
"The Russian national team is a relatively young team. Russia's Glory Professional League has only been held for 8 seasons so far, with 18 teams participating in the competition."
That is to say, it develops slower than China and has fewer people... Of course, everyone knows the overall economic level of the country. There are some things that I won’t say in the pre-match introduction:
"The average age of the players participating in the World Invitational Tournament this time is 22.8 years old, and the average playing age is 4.5 seasons. In comparison, the average age of the Chinese team, including the team leader, is 24.79 years old, and the average playing age, excluding retirement, is 6.8
season."
The two specially emphasized additional conditions caused a barrage of 233333.
"The captain of the Russian team, Alexander Ivanovich, is also a battle mage and uses a spear as a weapon. Alexander has played for six seasons so far, which means he debuted in the same season as Zhou Zekai. Except
In addition to him, there are other players from the Russian team..."
Pan Lin flipped through the list in his hand and read it in one breath:
That kind of thing can be recited after the players from both sides come on stage. Now, a lot of Russian names are announced in one breath, such as Ski, Hof, Vitch, etc., going around and around, anyway,
No one remembers it either, okay?
"It is already 1:55 a.m. Beijing time and 7:55 p.m. Zurich local time. There are still 5 minutes before the start of the game. We saw that Ye Xiu had already stood up and walked to the referee's bench, probably to report the first player to play.
.The first contestant’s name was printed on the big screen. He is——”
With a bang, the shouts in the audience instantly became louder.
Next to the human-shaped sign held high, the fat penguin swayed twice and fell onto the shoulders of the two people in the front row.