Chapter 298 Xiao Shiqin wants to open a wine
It will take some time for Naraka: Bladepoint to carry the glory of all the chicken-eating ancestors and bring a little shock to the e-sports circle.

Before that, some other leagues are about to start.

For example, Interstellar.

After that nirvana version update, in order to attract enough fresh blood and let the old players fully adapt to the new RTS game mode,

The StarCraft Tour was not prepared immediately, but waited patiently for half a year until everything was ready before officially announcing the specific time of the start of the tournament.

The StarCraft competition abandoned the league system that is currently the most popular in the e-sports circle and switched to a simpler and more brutal grand prix.

The biggest feature of a Grand Prix or Cup competition is that it completely separates the participating players and teams from the organizers.

The only way for participants to benefit from the competition is to strive for a higher ranking and thus get a more generous bonus.

If you give up and are content with the status quo, you won't have a penny.

The league was disbanded, and the original Star League teams and players were devastated. They could no longer take the league's dividends and play rotten.

Although the organizers of the event had no intention of leaving any place for them.

Compared to Honor, although the game itself is rather corrupt, at least the professional circle is thriving and full of talented people. The original StarCraft League is really a pool of rotten mud.

The type that even dogs would shake their heads when they see it.

Even if we keep this group of people, can we expect them to win glory for the country? To achieve honors in international competitions?

It would be better to look forward to when LJL can defeat the four major regions and win an S championship.

This is a perfect opportunity to use a thorough tournament reform to get back to basics and give StarCraft e-sports events a brand new start.

As for the future of the Chinese Star System...

So far, the two most important ones are drinking and chatting happily in a luxurious restaurant in Hankou.

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"To be honest, this is outrageous. That guy got 6,000 points for a random race! If he specialized in a race, I think he would get 6,200 or 6,300 points at least. He's almost as old as me!"

"And his operation is actually quite stiff. I don't know why, but his hand speed seems slow, but his awareness is quite formidable. With a little practice, maybe he can fight with you, Boss Xiao!"

A 17-year-old Kyoto guy was putting a piece of beef into his mouth with chopsticks, recalling with great excitement the master he accidentally discovered in a group.

"Then why didn't you poach him? We at Thunder accept anyone with talent like that, okay?" Xiao Shiqin took a sip of the soup slowly.

Li Peinan clapped his hands: "I invited him! But he didn't agree!"

"Although he's good at playing games, his grades are even better. He was accepted by a fraternity school of the University of Chicago in White Eagle. They said there was a scholarship of $36,000 a year, but he didn't accept it."

(First of all, this is just an easter egg. This player's StarCraft skill is too buggy. His combat power is destroyed when he releases it. Just watch it for fun.)
Li Peinan said with some regret: "36,000 dollars a year is not a lot. It's a pity to give up the opportunity to become famous in the professional game for this."

Then he stood up and strolled to pay the bill.

Xiao Shiqin quickly pulled him back, his face darkening, "I've already told you that you haven't played in a match to earn money yet, how can I ask you to pay?"

Li Peinan is a good kid in every way, except for some of Mr. Jing's bad habits, such as not taking money seriously.

After all, Xiao Shiqin is a multiple-time All-Star for Glory. His career salary alone starts at eight figures, so it is understandable that he is generous.

And Li Peinan...he relied on his noble Beijing household registration and family background.

In fact, the reason why this kid became famous in the StarCraft circle in the beginning, besides being a talented teenager who ranked among the top ten in the country at the age of only sixteen or seventeen, was because of his unique generosity.

In fact, Li Peinan's level was just so-so at the beginning, and there were indeed many players in the national server who could beat him.

But once this guy is badly beaten by others, he will immediately pester the other party to review the game or play a teaching round.

If you don't want to, then please enjoy Li Shao's lavish spending.

You know, high-ranking players in StarCraft don't have as much money as the masters of Glory.

After all, in Glory, even if you don't play professionally, you can still earn a lot of extra income by being a manager in a big guild and occasionally getting a few better weapons and equipment to sell on the market.

As for StarCraft, even professional players can't make much money, let alone improve their rank among casual players.

There aren't many people who can refuse Li Shaoda's generous offer.

So Li Shao paid for things along the way in this way, either by transferring money online or by treating people to meals. He played countless teaching games and review games, and finally honed his skills bit by bit.

Until now, in terms of technology alone, I have already entered the professional level.

Originally, Li Shao, a promising young man, was discovered by Brother Sun and Brother Huang, and joined the team founded by the Gai Shi Shuang Xie.

But unfortunately, Shuangxie’s brain wasn’t working well some time ago, and he was almost attacked by the neighboring LOL circle.

This situation can be traced back to the MSi period, when Fanhua participated in the competition.

On the way to Los Angeles, the wealthy LPL would certainly not be stingy with the travel expenses, and all members of Fanhua, including the coach, sat in the best first-class cabin.

This made many old men feel flattered.

You know, during the glory era, because the home courts were scattered all over the place, these players often flew in the sky.

But the airfare for the whole team is really not cheap, and they have to fly at least 19 round trips in a season.

Therefore, some small clubs usually only provide economy class tickets to their players.

For a better team like Baihua, it is only after the fourth season that players can enjoy business class treatment.

This trip comes with first-class cabin standards, which is the first time Zhang Jiale has enjoyed this in the e-sports circle.

I felt a little emotional at the time, so I took a photo of the first-class cabin, posted it on Weibo, and expressed my feelings a few words.

The e-sports industry is indeed getting better.

It just so happened that when Huang Ge posted this, he was live streaming. When he saw this Weibo post, he didn’t know whether he had a brain seizure or his cerebral cortex was messed up by poison milk.

Suddenly, I had an inspiration and made a few sharp comments across projects.

The general idea is that the spirit of the older generation of e-sports players is commendable, while the young people today cannot endure hardship.

Originally, his words actually had the intention of flattering Zhang Jiale to gain popularity, after all, Zhang Jiale is not a young man.

The result, as expected, broke the defense of countless fans.

The values ​​of today's young people cannot stand the standard cultural dregs PUA such as "suffering is a blessing".

Especially the LPL side, who had just put all their efforts into reaching the top in the World Championship, but suddenly a fat guy with no historical achievements came along and shamelessly pointed fingers at their idols.

Can this be tolerated?
Huang's fatherly speech almost instantly ruined his popularity and also attracted a big attack from LPL. Although the StarCraft community has indeed experienced a wave of explosive development after the game's rebirth, the threshold for RTS games is still there.

In addition, the league has not yet been organized, and it can only be regarded as an adopted son in the Tenghai game series.

No matter how much the interstellar world expands, it can never get any faster.

Especially compared with LOL, which created an e-sports miracle, it is really the gap between an ant and an elephant.

Huang Ge’s Weibo, live broadcast room and all other social media were completely destroyed that night.

Brother Sun, who didn't understand the situation at first, said a few words without thinking on behalf of Brother Huang, and soon he became the target of the LPL fans' attack.

Especially when Fanhua achieved great success in MSi, especially when they beat the Korean team without any chance of fighting back, the LPL fans' charge became even more intense.

No, if we remember correctly, in some small competitions outside the StarCraft league, as long as they dared to invite players from South Korea to participate, even if they were unknown players, they would be able to beat the Chinese players to win the championship.

Why should the gaming community, which is used as an ATM by South Korea, try to take advantage of the LPL, which has been beaten by South Korea to the point where it can't take care of itself?
As a result, the good reputation that Brother Sun and Brother Huang had accumulated through their hard work in the circle over many years collapsed completely in one day.

As a result, many of the projects they operated suffered a huge blow.

And at the critical moment, it was Xiao Shiqin who stepped in to sort out the mess.

As the only person with a lot of connections on both sides, he doesn't want to see the entire circle explode because of such a storm before his own game even starts.

He first contacted Zhang Jiale and explained the situation.

Zhang Jiale himself was also confused and had no idea what was happening. When he saw Xiao Shiqin coming to act as a peacemaker, he immediately agreed to work together to settle the matter.

Afterwards, Xiao Shiqin spent some more time talking to Brother Sun and Brother Huang, who were both stubborn and stubborn, and finally calmed down.

Afterwards, both parties almost simultaneously posted on Weibo announcing that everything that had happened before was a misunderstanding and expressed their willingness to reconcile.

Thanks to Zhang Jiale's growing influence after winning the championship, the matter was finally settled.

Although the storm has passed, the blow suffered by Brother Sun and Brother Huang was real.

With their reputation ruined, they can no longer carry out many projects, such as this youth training StarCraft team.

After many twists and turns, Li Peinan finally came to Thunder, the strongest StarCraft club in China.

Together with Xiao Shiqin, who is currently ranked first among the Protoss players in the country, they form Thunder's current StarCraft lineup and are ready to compete in the next World Tour.

Without saying anything, Xiao Shiqin pushed Li Peinan onto the chair, ran to the front desk to pay the bill, and then sat back down under Li Peinan's sullen look.

Li Peinan tried to change the subject awkwardly: "Boss Xiao, there seems to be some heavyweights in your group for the competition the day after tomorrow?"

"It's okay. Raynor from Italy and Innovation from South Korea are stronger." Xiao Shiqin nodded slightly, but he didn't look too serious.

The official StarCraft competition has a slightly special competition format.

Regular competitions are world tour open tournaments held in various locations around the world. All players can participate regardless of their nationality.

In addition to prize money, the players' rankings and results in each stop of the tour open will also be converted into corresponding points to determine whether they can participate in those heavyweight leagues.

It is precisely because of this competition system that even Li Shao, who has just left the Novice Village, has the opportunity to encounter foreign players in the competition.

Focus on a direct dialogue.

"Foreign players..." Li Peinan pondered, "especially those from South Korea. I don't know if they are really that strong. I heard that they are a country founded on e-sports."

The StarCraft community still has a very deep impression of South Korean players. After all, StarCraft before the revision can be said to be the starting point for South Korea's e-sports nation.

There is even a saying that the reason why StarCraft, which was at its peak before the rise of Glory, never held world-class competitions was largely to prevent players from other countries from suffering psychological trauma from being beaten by the South Korean country.

In some small competitions at that time, the organizers would sometimes invite professional players from South Korea to play in the competition at their own expense. Unless there were any accidents, these people would basically win the championship.

The domestic masters, not to mention being completely powerless to fight back, were mostly at a disadvantage.

Now, many years have passed, although Kespa, who once led the Korean StarCraft to glory, is no longer around.

However, in the minds of many veterans in the StarCraft circle, the impression that Korean players are very strong and the best in the world is still quite deeply rooted.

It even affected new generation players like Li Peinan.

Xiao Shiqin couldn't help laughing as he listened to Li Peinan's chatter: "It's not that mysterious, especially in these years."

"I specifically asked Zhang Jiale how he felt about playing against the South Korean team."

"According to him, the characteristics of baseball players are that they are very talented and have solid basic skills, which shows that their youth training is indeed very good."

"But in terms of tactical thinking, I don't know why, it's a bit crude."

“Besides, it’s quite utilitarian.”

Although Xiao Shiqin is considered a veteran in the interstellar circle, he is from a glorious background after all.

He doesn't have so many filters for foreign players.

And because he is also good at League of Legends, when studying the overall situation of South Korea's StarCraft, he can even analyze some clues through the battle situation of the neighboring LOL games.

In his opinion, South Korea's e-sports is indeed very strong. Having inherited many legacies from the KESPA era, they have the world's top talent selection and training system.

However, to say that they are the strongest in the world as a whole is a joke.

For a while, Xiao Shiqin went to the Korean server and competed with the masters there for a while.

His feeling was that the basic skills were indeed strong, but one by one, although some advanced tactics could be used, they always felt a bit rigid.

It is similar to the feeling LCK gives Zhang Jiale.

So, although he attaches great importance to them, Xiao Shiqin has no intention of being afraid of the players from the Baseball Country.

He had played against that Innovation many times in the Korean server. He was a very strong opponent and was ranked among the top Terran characters he had played against.

But, I can't beat him!
Unconsciously, there was a faint flame burning in Xiao Shiqin's eyes.

"Whatever the past was, what glory they had."

"In this new era of e-sports, it's time for them to understand one thing."

"CN StarCraft, BEST StarCraft!"

　Update in advance because I have something to do in the evening, and the next update will have to wait until before twelve o'clock.

　　The author doesn't understand how to play the game StarCraft, so I won't write too many details about the game. If there are any questions, please forgive me.

　　
　
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