This time the Major will be held in Bucharest, Romania.
Bucharest is also a famous e-sports venue in the world. Dota2, StarCraft, and CSGO have all held world championships here.
Dream announced early that the main players would enter the training camp and chose to participate in the PAL Asian Championship with an all-substitute lineup.
For this Bucharest Major, Gao Ran chose to bring 6 players after careful consideration and temporarily put Smy on the bench.
Smy can also understand this decision, as there are indeed some fluctuations in his status at this stage.
Ye Rong was also directly promoted to the main force.
In the World Series, except for Gao Ran, Ye Rong has no competition experience. Ye Rong has played in several offline professional games, and has gradually become familiar with Dream during training.
The playing styles of Ye Rong and Smy are completely different. The former is a core position play, while the latter is a sacrifice position play.
In the past month of training, Dream, CSC, Tyloo and other domestic strong teams have practiced a lot of games and gradually figured out an improved style of play.
This style of play can not only bring out Ye Rong's advantages, but also make Gao Ran more free and relaxed.
The high-energy games in the past were really "too tiring".
You have to command, but you also have to kill people to win the game, which is the final point.
But if Ye Rong plays, there is no doubt about the talent of this Dream team.
Ye Rong is more than twice as strong now as he was when he first joined Dream a year ago.
He finally waited for an official opportunity to play.
Gao Ran said this to him:
"I just like your fearless spirit."
Ye Rong, this kid, can only serve two people.
One is Gao Ran and the other is Zhou Zijian.
Gao Ran was so strong that he didn't say anything about it and even helped him get a formal contract in advance.
If it weren't for Gao Ran, he wouldn't know which team he would be on now.
Zhou Zijian is the one who has been practicing with him. Since he entered Dream, Zhou Zijian has sparred with him the most.
From being crushed at the beginning to being 50-50 now, Ye Rong's progress has been very obvious, and he is also very grateful to the seniors and brothers who have been helping him.
Compared to Zhou Zijian and others, Ye Rong is really not mature, and is even a little childish.
But Gao Ran likes his unyielding spirit. If there is one person in the entire team besides Gao Ran who has no fear at all towards the so-called Navi, Liquid, or Team A.
This person is only Ye Rong.
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Before heading to the Bucharest Major, the entire Dream team also accepted an exclusive interview from domestic media.
In the exclusive interview, he did not talk about changing the main players.
However, it can also be seen from the team members interviewed that Dream’s main members have changed after this training camp.
But Smy also has to be prepared at all times, because if a player has a problem with his condition during the game, he has to step in at any time.
When asked about his goals for the Bucharest Major this time, Gao Ran rarely answered seriously:
"First of all, I think the goal is one thing, and then the result is another."
"Our goal is the world championship, and this will never change, but if you ask me how far we can achieve it, I don't know."
"This is the truth. I can only tell you that our team's potential is huge, and a Major world championship is not impossible."
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Everyone understands the meaning of Gao Ran’s words. Simply put, it depends on Dream’s condition.
If the level of the world's top teams is 80-100, Dream is 70-100.
Once Dream's young players are allowed to open up and put their talents into full play on the court, Gao Ran believes that world championship is definitely not a dream.
As an experienced veteran player, he is constantly working hard for the championship.
So I’m not surprised that I won the first round of the Major this time, and I’m not surprised that I won the world championship.
Who can tell clearly.
Before heading to the Bucharest Major, Dream’s six participating players were also announced.
【Dream.Fire】
【Dream.Z1】
【Dream.Eyes】
【Dream.Tang】
【Dream. Larkspur】
【Dream.Smy】
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About ten days in advance, Dream took a flight to Romania with the anticipation of CSGO fans across Asia!
Dream has now become the hope of CSGO in Asia.
Dream is also the most popular team in other Asian countries.
Since the AJOR World Championship, Asian teams have basically just gone out to mess around, and are generally considered to be weak.
In the past, teams like the Cowboys would go to the Asian competition to compete for spots. Although everyone was aggrieved, they had nothing to say.
As the most influential FPS game today, CSGO really has nothing to do with Asians.
This time Dream can be considered as carrying the hope of Asian FPS.
Bucharest.
It is the largest city in Romania and the sixth most populous city in the European Union.
It has a very long history.
For these young people who went abroad for the first time, it was definitely a different competition experience.
After almost 2 days of flying, all members of Dream arrived in Romania exhausted.
Their time is 5 hours behind the domestic time, which means that they start at 10 o'clock local time and 5 o'clock in the morning domestic time.
Generally speaking, it is a relatively friendly time for domestic CSGO fans.
You can watch it when you wake up in the morning, and you can watch it all day long and into the evening.
Ajor is not like DO's Major, which is purely the highest level event in the world. Unlike Dota2, there is Ti above the Major.
The Major World Championships held twice a year will also focus the attention of CSGO fans around the world.
In terms of the number of viewers of top e-sports events, it is definitely in the first echelon, and it is definitely not a niche game.
Dream has no friends at all in such a foreign country...
Teams like Tyloo who often come to the Major may come here and have teams practice with them.
But Dream doesn’t know any of the teams, they are just a new Asian team.
It all depends on Ye Jianing to make contact.
After about 2 days of time difference adjustment, Dream gradually returned to training status.
Generally speaking, only the legendary group of the Major can be regarded as the main game, so all previous games must be completed in the training room of the hotel.
Dream’s opponent in the first round has not yet been decided.
Usually three days before the game, each team will draw lots.
Then the first round of the new challenger group will take place.
The new challenger group will also have a five-day, five-round competition. There will be a Bo1 game every day, and the schedule is relatively easy.
3 wins lead to promotion, 3 losses lead to elimination.
The draw for the first round is 8 seeded teams versus 8 unseeded teams.
Dream's tournament points are still very high. It is a seeded team and has the right to draw lots.
Among the 16 teams in the new challenge group, there are not particularly many good teams. There are only about 2 teams. Like CSGO clubs in Europe and the United States, there are almost no weak teams.