Chapter 68: War Song (1/2)
“Why!”
Wei Xiao’s mentality was collapsing.
This big hearted player who wouldn’t collapse even if he lost several dozen solo games in a row or encountered an extremely strong team who could turn him into a permanent ghost, actually ended up losing it due to the organizers.
Why were they limited to only one game? Why!
Hadn’t they said that those who were ranked in the top three could freely pick their opponents for the training match? Why had they changed it just like that!
What was going on with the organizers? Couldn’t they let people train properly!
However, there was practically nobody else out of the nearly 100 contestants from the 18 competition zones who thought the same way as Wei Xiao.
Most people, even if it was his good brother White Cabbage, were all relieved.
Playing only once was great, would anyone really be able to stand it if they had to play every day?!
Because this rule change was too big, the competition committee had to give the contestants an explanation for it, so the host was very careful when she explained the reason for the change.
This time, it wasn’t FTW’s fault. Although it was somewhat related to them, FTW’s inability to play according to common sense wasn’t enough to slap the competition committee awake.
It had been two teams from Group B who’d forced the competition committee to realize that there was a problem with their rules.
One of the teams was EVE, nicknamed ‘painkiller’ by others, and the other team was RR from the China competition zone.
EVE’s mid-lane was Xie He, a starter from the former Team of Gods, and RR’s mid-lane was China competition zone’s new starter, Moonlit.
At first, nobody had discovered that there was a problem. The scent of gunpowder was very faint in Group B on the first day of the points competition, and nobody had even tried very hard to score points during the free matches.
RR didn’t stand out in a training camp filled with powerful players. Even the domestic champion FTW was neglected, let alone RR.
However, RR’s captain, Money, was a special one. He used his own money to encourage his teammates, “Brothers, go for it! I’ll subsidize 10,000 yuan for every point you guys get!”
Winning a game was three points, and if they played seven games and won all of them, it would total 210,000 yuan.
RR’s team members immediately grew excited and started to score points like crazy.
As a result, RR charged into third place and was even able to push EVE out of the top three.
Captain Mo liked to indulge his team. Knowing that his mid-laner wanted to have a fight with Glory’s number one mid-laner, he waved his hand in a grand gesture and selected EVE for the training match.
In a sense, EVE’s mid-lane and RR’s mid-lane Moonlit had similar attributes. They were both hedgehog-type mid-laners, and they poked at others more fiercely than their own junglers. They fought over the lane soldiers super quickly and became even more extreme when they were given support.
EVE’s jungler was their team captain, and RR’s jungler was also their captain.
Both teams relied on the linkage between their mid-lane and jungler to madly stir up trouble.
The scent of gunpowder exploded within minutes as soon as the two teams met.
On the first day, EVE hadn’t taken it seriously. This was particularly the case for Xie He, who hadn’t placed any importance on Moonlit at all. Nobody could have guessed that RR would actually manage to turn the tables and win the game.
This matter really stabbed the hornet’s nest.
Back then in the Team of Gods, the one with the worst temper was this fellow with the word ‘”He”’ in his name.
God Xie belonged to the type who looked like they liked to spend their years quietly and steadily, but in fact, his character was very fierce, and his play style was very aggressive. When he went wild, he could fight one against nine––that’s right, he would even fight his own teammates.
Moonlit was really implicated innocently in this matter. However, on the second day, EVE charged to first place and picked RR for their training match.
RR was really different this year. Ever since the addition of Moonlit, the entire team had done a 360 degree turn. They changed from the previous Money-led ‘I might be silly, but I have a lot of money’ style and became a fierce, ‘kill, just f*cking kill’ style wild dog team overnight.
Think about it; Moonlit was someone who’d been tempered by the Grandmaster for hundreds of games, yet still insisted on continuing to play professionally. His mentality couldn’t be compared with that of ordinary people.
Xie He wanted to punish him?
Moonlit wanted to turn the tables and kill him again!
The conflict between these two teams had effectively reached a conclusion.
In fact, everyone could see that EVE was much stronger than RR. A Xie He who was playing seriously was completely able to hang Moonlit up then beat him down.
Reasonably speaking, the matter would be over after they won the game, but no, Moonlit’s unwillingness to accept his loss managed to stimulate Xie He.
So what if he won? This brat’s eyes still showed that he wasn’t admitting defeat!
So, on the third day, RR, who’d fought back into third place, picked EVE, who’d dropped off the top three again.
These two teams were really locked in, and their attitude seemed to say that this matter wouldn’t be over until the other party died.
The competition committee looked into it…
How the hell had it turned out like this?
The purpose of winter training was to promote interaction between many teams. How had it become two teams going back and forth like this!
The other teams also responded vaguely, “RR’s situation is a little too tragic. If this continues, they might retire from the game after they return home.”
The investors were also unhappy about it, “EVE will definitely win. There’s no suspense when watching this kind of game.”
“The fans are crying and kicking up a fuss.”
Group B’s management team talked to Group A’s team, and Group A immediately replied that their own top three teams had all picked FTW, already resulting in a change in the rules.
Both parties thought it over: F*ck, this wasn’t right!
The original intention behind this rule was that strong teams wouldn’t place so much effort into the points competition training matches, so they wouldn’t be so serious in the free matches. The ones who made it to the top three every day would be relatively strong teams, but not the top ones, and they hadn’t expected this entire mess to happen.
The really powerful teams had inexplicably developed a strong desire to win, and then they all picked easy targets from the China competition zone.
Wasn’t that just bullying China?!
China was one of the competition zones with the highest number of Glory players. The competition committee felt that they couldn’t allow this big daddy to feel aggrieved, so…
They changed the rules!
The 18 teams could only fight against the same team once in the points competition;
Teams who had a negative total score over three days would lose their qualification to compete for the final prize pool elimination battle.
The last day of training was changed to an elimination battle for the prize pool. All qualified teams could participate in the competition, and the teams would be matched together at random. If they lost, they would also lose their prize pool.
The final winner would take home all the prize money!
Everything was worked out.
The entire points competition process was completed and released!
After listening to the whole process, many teams who had been at negative points over the past two days suddenly had different expressions on their faces.
Originally, they’d wanted to take it easy and save their strength so that they could perform well in the last round. Yet as a result… the competition committee no longer gave them the opportunity to develop so casually.
The investor daddies expressed: To hell with developing slowly. If the teams didn’t come here to compete, then what were they here for?
Wei Xiao wasn’t worried about negative points. What he was concerned about was––
“RR is so strong, Moonlit is also pretty good!” He was looking forward to the domestic competition!
“Elimination matches for the prize pool are interesting. Caicai, do you want to make a fortune?” Laozi wanted to take first place!
Brother Cai, who’d just been cued, had no fighting spirit: Get lost, I don’t want to, I can’t do it!
What was he thinking? He even wanted to make a fortune? Was he treating PRO and L&P like decorations?
The prize pool elimination matches on the last day became a carrot on a stick that hung in front of Wei Xiao that barely pacified his collapsing mentality.
Alright then, for better or worse, the last day would be exciting enough, so these days in the middle could be considered as bitter training.
Wei Xiao cheered up.
Before the game, FTW and L&P had a friendly (trash talk) exchange.
Gary spoke in a very serious tone, “Play well. This is probably the last time for us to play against each other during training.”