Three players compete in the StarCraft 2 World Finals.
The most eye-catching one is undoubtedly the high-burning one.
However, there are many hidden dangers. Even the countless fans of Gao Ran who have always had full confidence in Gao Ran do not dare to say that Gao Ran can achieve good results this time.
The first reason is Gao Ran's hand injury, which has happened on the previous FIFA World Finals stage.
Moreover, the amount of operations in StarCraft 2 is larger and more frequent.
Whether a hand injury will affect Gao Yan's performance is also a key question.
The second reason is that Satan is too strong now.
After losing to Gao Ran 2-4 in the last final, Satan conducted extremely high-intensity games and training.
Completed 7 consecutive championships in various competitions...
Except for a few top players, all other players were defeated in his hands in just two or three rounds.
The recent state is almost crazy.
Moreover, Gao Ran has just finished playing in the FIFA World Finals, and it is said that he will need to recuperate when he returns.
When jumping from one project to another without enough preparation time, the audience doesn't know how much strength he can exert.
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If Gao Ran is in a normal state, everyone believes that Gao Ran can complete all seemingly impossible tasks.
But there are too many unknown situations now, and hand injuries have always been a thorn in everyone's mind.
Since the cancellation of BlizzCon a few years ago, the annual World Finals has been held in Katowice.
This place is very familiar to me, I have had good memories in this place before.
After feeling that there was nothing wrong with his wrist, Gao Ran gradually started his recovery training.
The number of training sets per day is not many, but the training quality is very high.
After hearing about Gao Ran's return, many first-line Korean players were willing to practice with Gao Ran.
Although Gao Ran is a tactical player, he basically does not use tactics during practice.
Normally play operational offense, and sometimes don't use random races to fight.
Practice one race specifically.
A random player cannot have any shortcomings in his level of the three races.
Otherwise, if you are randomly assigned to a weak race, it will be like shooting yourself in the foot.
A lot of gossip has been spreading out before, and one of them is very outrageous news that Gao Ran's hand is broken...
Gao Ran did not refute the rumors, but the rumors were refuted by Dream’s official Weibo.
The official girl also asked Gao Ran for a picture of him training and said that he was preparing for the StarCraft 2 World Finals.
As soon as the news came out, everyone was instantly relieved.
Being able to return to normal training status so quickly, it seems that the hand injury was not a big deal.
Maybe it's twisted or something else.
Only a few people knew about the news that Gao Ran was about to undergo hand surgery after the StarCraft 2 World Finals.
Apart from Gao Ran's family and friends and the top management of Dream Club, only Wan Wenxi knows the specific news.
Friends from other clubs, including Dota2, PUBG, StarCraft, and FIFA clubs.
They didn't know Gao Ran's specific surgery plan, but they knew it from chatting with Gao Ran and from other people's information.
This hand injury is no small matter.
At least it's not as small as people think.
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People in the Korean StarCraft circle originally thought that Gao Ran would give up on the StarCraft 2 finals, including Satan.
He is very much looking forward to completing his revenge on the big stage.
Fortunately, Gao Ran did not disappoint him.
In the battle with top Korean players, Gao Ran gradually found his operational feel, and his winning rate became higher and higher.
This kind of news must have reached Scboy's ears through the mouths of Time and others.
After seeing rumors on the barrage that Gao Ran had broken his hand, he also said:
"Gao Ran is already undergoing interstellar training."
"And it is said that the winning rate is very good, so don't worry."
"You're right, Brother Sun. Before, I didn't believe that anyone could switch between the two finals perfectly."
"But it is indeed a bit exaggerated to be high-burning."
"Fortunately, it's from China."
"Well, we will be on the same flight as Li Peinan and the others in a few days, so we can just wait and watch the high-burning game."
"Whether the hand injury has any impact on the game can actually be seen through the operation of the Star Game."
"We have all seen how powerful Gao Ran is, and everyone will see clearly when the time comes."
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Gao Ran started packing his luggage at home again.
This year can almost be regarded as a full year of fighting.
He doesn't have enough rest time like other professional players who juggle two projects.
He had to devote himself to training. For nearly a whole year, Gao Ran was training and competing.
The life of a professional player is very boring, and high-burning is not only boring but also hard.
Gao Ran's parents also wanted to go abroad to play this time, but Gao Ran refused.
There was no special reason, it was just that Gao Ran felt it was unnecessary and his parents were simply worried about him.
After hearing that Jia Ning would pass, Gao Ran's parents stopped insisting.
Gao Ran is engaged in e-sports, and they also have a lot of understanding of e-sports.
And judging from the current public opinion on the Internet, Gao Ran is still very "tolerant" of this expedition.
Everyone is saying that Gao Ran can accept whatever results he achieves this time.
But what Gao Ran's parents don't know is that, after all, once Gao Ran fails to achieve good results.
What is supposed to come will still come.
This is the current status of the Internet.
Gao Ran knew it very well, and he had no reservations this time.
He knows that there are many people who want to challenge him in this arena, so come on.
Before the World Finals in Katowice, all major and minor events have concluded.
Each year we are divided into groups based on points, which is fair, just and open.
There are 8 groups, Groups A to H, with 4 players in each group. The group stage adopts a Bo5 double-elimination format.
The winner's group champion and the loser's group champion will advance, and the subsequent top 16 to the champion will all be in a single sweepstakes format.
Bo7 in the final, Bo5 in all others.
The groups are divided according to points, that is to say, Group A consists of the players ranked 1st, 9th, 17th and 25th in points.
The same is true for other groups.
Although Gao Ran won one tournament, he only played in one tournament and did not play any minor competitions.
Gao Ran, who is ranked 7th in points, is the top seed in Group G and is placed in the same group with three other players.
Under this competition system, the top half is groups A, C, E, and G.
The lower half is groups B, D, F, and H.
It's the same in the group stage, the winner of the winner's group will play the loser's winner of the other group.
Gao Ran's opponent has also been determined.
Trap, a Korean Protoss player ranked 15th in points.
Daniel, a young man from the UK, ranks 23rd in points.
There is also the South Korean Zerg player Soo, who is ranked 31st in points and has not played many games this year but advanced to the finals in a thrilling way.
Overall it's not particularly strong, but it's not easy either.