Chapter 51.1: They had to do it even if it was impossible! (1/2)

The gratitude and resentment between FTW and 3U could also be said to be endless.

When FTW was in its heyday, 3U hadn’t been established for long. That year, the entire China competition zone was looking up to FTW. Not to mention chasing after them, just looking at them a few times made people’s eyes painfully dazzled.

At the time, 3U’s management had been extremely envious of FTW’s Team of Gods and had vowed to build a new dream team.

They smashed a lot of money into this endeavor and bought in many foreign players, yet their results were terrible, and it had only made them shaky and unstable.

In the same year, FTW’s Team of Gods disbanded, and FTW’s foundations became as shaky as sand. Their situation was comparable with the 3U that had caused all of their own problems.

At the time, the two bases had been situated close to each other, and they’d often arranged training competitions together, working hard to climb up together.

Unfortunately, FTW held on, but 3U’s management lost everything and ran off.

Later on, someone took over 3U and made a new plan. They looked for two years and finally dug up a big treasure in 2020.

That treasure was Asleep.

It was also from 2020 that 3U was gradually able to stand up again.

3U had learned to be scared of being poor. They had finally obtained a trump card and desperately tried to squeeze out his value. Asleep was a person who didn’t care about worldly affairs, and at the time, many people worried that this child would be gnawed to the bone by the capitalists.

Unexpectedly, his low-key childhood friend, who’d entered the team with him at the same time, was very clever.

Although he was only 19 years old, he was able suppress the stupid and impetuous 3U management team completely with just his EQ and brain.

Asleep was indeed easy to bully, but with Cong Yi blocking everything in front of him, one would have to ask Cong Yi for permission first before bullying Asleep.

In 2021, FTW wasn’t the only team that looked hopeful.

Having had one year of experience in the competitive arena, Asleep and the stable 3U were now equally ambitious!

The foreign fans might not be very interested in FTW vs 3U, but the fans in China were definitely happy.

There was only a one hour time difference between Group A’s training camp location and China. The live time for this training match couldn’t be any better. Traffic hurtled up in a sharp peak, and it wasn’t worse than the traffic for an official game.

Moreover, out of the 18 teams attending the training, FTW and 3U were actually the first to have a training match. This achievement only proved that the China competition zone was killing it this year!

They were very familiar with each other. The BP process didn’t require much thought. Chen Feng was very familiar with 3U and easily broke up some of their routine lineups.

He didn’t target Asleep because it wouldn’t have much of an impact: They both had junglers as their cores. Coming up against Close was nothing but a nightmare for other teams.

The 3U coach was equally direct. They went the usual route and only focused on targeting Close.

Are you saying that he couldn’t be targeted?

They had to do it even if it was impossible!

Although ‘nightmare mode’ and ‘hell mode’ was almost the same, who would want to go to hell if they could simply have nightmares?!

Finally, the line-up was determined.

The FTW side was very conventional: divine warrior, berserker thief, earth mage, light priest, storm hunter.

3U’s side was pretty good, too: blood warrior, hidden thief, immortal warlock, elemental shaman, raider.

In comparison, FTW was more focused around their jungler core. Basically, all talents would be cooperating with the berserker thief. In order to free up Bai Cai to follow the berserker thief, Yue Wenle had taken the storm hunter that was able to protect itself.

3U’s side was more balanced. The blood warrior was a little less tanky compared to the divine warrior, but its damage was higher, and it could be used to cut down the earth mage in the later stages. The hidden thief didn’t have the same ability to carry the rhythm of the game compared to the berserker thief, but it had a higher survival rate, and it was a talent spec that restrained the storm hunter. The immortal warlock was a magic assassin (spell damage type assassin), and in the earlier stages, it could go around the enemy’s tower to kill the earth mage once it had its ultimate move.

All in all, the line-ups were well matched, and winning or losing would be based on individual performance.

Because the game was being streamed live, the competition committee had arranged for two commentators.

After the commentators made a whole pile of meaningless chatter about the line-ups and their problems, they began to discuss the contestants.

“FTW’s odds of winning are a little higher. We’ve all seen Close’s berserker thief in the arena.”

“It’s hard to say. Asleep killed Close many times last year!”

“The player Asleep is indeed capable. Especially when paired with his support partner Cong Yi, it’s definitely a combination where one plus one equals more than two.”

After saying this, there was a scrolling comment that stabbed where it hurt, “While FTW’s side is just one plus one equals one.”

It could be seen that this was one of Bai Cai’s haters with a glance, ridiculing the way that Bai Cai didn’t take the initiative, didn’t step out of line, and didn’t make mistakes, but definitely also didn’t add anything to the game.

The canyon was projected up onto the big screen, and everyone’s gazes were drawn to it.

The start of the game wasn’t smooth. The hidden thief came over to steal into FTW’s jungle. At this time, Close was in the jungle area near the top lane, and Bai Cai was keeping watch near the river.

The scrolling comments started up again, “Brother Cai, ah, Brother Cai, you won’t die, but if you want to preempt others, holy shit…”

Just when everyone thought that Asleep would be successful in stealing the jungle creeps, Bai Cai, who usually walked a standard route, took his mid-laner with him and went down to the jungle area.

“Did the God of Wealth wake up?”

God of Wealth – refers to Bai Cai

“He moved! FTW’s number one lazy person took the initiative to attack!”

From a God’s eye view, they could see Bai Cai lead Ning Zhehan into their own jungle area, and Close clicked on teleport after they opened up the team’s vision of the area.