Chapter 344: Can this also cause the dragon to raise its head?

While the EDG guys were studying their plan to kill the King of Assassins, Samsara was also conducting their intensive pre-match training.

However, it was not training related to the competition content, but rather——

Zhou Zekai's stress-resistant training for big scenes.

Samsara didn’t have the ability to see through others’ eyes, so naturally they didn’t know what potential EDG, whom they were about to face, had.

In their opinion, if there is any factor that will affect Samsara's chances of getting off to a good start in the opening match, it would probably be Zhou Zekai's condition.

The only factor that could affect Zhou Zekai's state of mind is probably his social phobia.

Zhou Zekai, who was awarded the Gold Award for being frugal with words by his fans, has always had negative social skills.

He is particularly bad at handling large and lively scenes.

If you ask him to shoot a commercial or attend a press conference, he can do it meticulously, and his business ability is among the best among professional players.

But if you ask him to attend a fan meeting or something, he would tremble on the stage.

During the Glory era, because the competition environment was relatively closed, theoretically the players could not show their faces in front of the audience for the entire game, so Zhou Zekai would basically not be affected by this.

However, as the LOL league leads the trend of e-sports, under the promotion of Pei Yunteng, who has always been good at directing famous scenes, the situations in which players need to face the audience in the competition have begun to increase little by little.

The competition venue has also begun to be changed to an open one, or simply played on the main stage.

It got to the point where the players had to play under the watchful eyes of their fans throughout the entire competition.

For Zhou Zekai, this is a natural debuff.

During the rematch of the ninth season of Glory, even at Samsara’s home stadium, amid the cheers of fans, Zhou Zekai’s condition was inevitably greatly affected.

The reason why he made several ridiculous low-level mistakes that day was not only because he was not able to switch from CS mode to Glory mode, but also had a lot to do with his own ups and downs in form.

But the current CS league...

Produced by Tenghai, it focuses on excitement and player marketing.

It goes without saying that the scene will be even more grand and spectacular.

At that time, whether Zhou Zekai can keep his composure will become an important factor in determining the outcome of the Samsara game.

Even though his mentality was a little off, Zhou Zekai's strength was still top-notch, but in the eyes of the always cautious and thorough Samsara uniform team, perfection is always the right thing to do.

Therefore, during this period, in addition to the usual training, the most common thing done by the Samsara coaching staff was to take Zhou Zekai to participate in many activities.

No matter how lively and commercial it is, it is just to train Zhou Zekai's psychological ability to withstand big occasions.

Zhou Zekai was taken around by the Samsara management to perform everywhere, and wherever he went, he was greeted by the deafening screams of Samsara's die-hard fans.

It is said that Zhou Zekai's legs and feet were weak when he walked during this period.

Such frequent commercial activities naturally attracted some additional criticism.

In the eyes of some fans who do not know the truth, Samsara's move is to ignore the team's performance and be eager to cash in on Zhou Zekai's traffic, which is extremely ugly.

If most fans didn’t think that the opponents of Samsara in the next league stage were not competitive enough, they would have already been angry at the Samsara officials.

As for training Zhou Zekai's ability to deal with big situations?
Given Zhou Zekai’s previous good performance in endorsements, apart from people within Samsara, did anyone know that Zhou Zekai had such a weakness?
So, amid the outside world's controversy, Zhou Zekai participated in all the activities he could.

However, it is true that after this period of compulsory training, Zhou Zekai's communication skills and psychological quality in this area have really improved to a considerable extent.

At least, when reporting information, people are no longer as frugal with words as before.

Although my mental state has not yet been tested in a real big scene, I can at least complete some small and medium-sized activities relatively without pressure.

This made the Samsara uniform team breathe a sigh of relief.

See, we said we are working hard for the future of the team!

Doesn't this solve a core problem for Zhou Zekai that could have a significant impact on him?

As for the money earned from fan events...

That's just a by-product!

"Tonight is the opening game, don't feel too much pressure, just try to get into good shape." Samsara's coach said this at the pre-match meeting, with a hint of guilt in his tone.

In any case, Zhou Zekai did miss a lot of training during the time he was away attending events.

As for the remaining members of the Samsara team, training can still proceed normally even though there is substitute player Du Ming taking over.

But the problem is that Du Ming's strength does not support the same tactics as when Zhou Zekai was there.

Therefore, there is a question mark as to how effective this part of the training is.

And today, we are about to face the opening game, and our condition is definitely not the best.

But in the coach's opinion, it's all worth it.

The reason why Samsara has been able to prosper to this day is because of its extremely clear understanding of itself.

In other words, it means knowing who is the boss of the team.

The coach understood that as long as Zhou Zekai, and now perhaps Sun Xiang, could give full play to their abilities, the future of Samsara would be bright.

Even if there are some setbacks, it is an acceptable price to pay.

Moreover, it is hard to say whether there are any difficulties.

Even though the Samsara players are not in their best condition, they can win the game not only when they are in their best condition.

After all, who was Samsara’s opponent in the opening match?

EDG?

Is it the LPL next door that got beaten up by the almost 30-year-old Mingkai? The rookie team fighting for the relegation match?

The CSGO division is also full of a bunch of unknown rookies?
That seems like a good win indeed.

On the Samsara side, the players are indeed not under much pressure.

It's not like they haven't fought against other opponents in the league before.

They had competed in some unofficial small cup competitions before, and without exception, Samsara won by a crushing victory.

EDG didn't encounter this before, but they did play against one of Samsara's defeated opponents and eventually lost 1:2.

From this perspective, it probably doesn't pose any threat.

It's not that Samsara is exaggerating, but anyone with normal intelligence would not think that EDG, a newly formed team with no achievements, is qualified to compete with Samsara, a team with so many honors and whose players have been famous for a long time and are at the top of their game.

They are just a few young guys who are just starting out. Even if they have good talents, how far can they go at this age?

But Samsara seemed to have inadvertently forgotten one thing:

Back then, they were still a weak team, but they started to rise because they discovered a young boy...

On the other hand, EDG's pre-match preparations were much more intensive.

No matter how confident they are, these guys don't think they can win the reincarnation without any preparation.

Even because of Zhou Zekai's notorious reputation, they didn't think they could win by facing off against the gun.

Although these young people may be crazy and brave, they have a very clear understanding of their own and their opponents' strength.

After several young people discussed together, they all agreed on one thing:

If you want to make your own mark in this game, you have to make some risky moves.

Coincidentally, this EDG team has no lack of courage to take risks and do big things.

Especially a future big star.

……

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, cspl finally ushered in their opening match.

At the strong request and self-recommendation of Samsara, the home stadium of the game was chosen to be Samsara's former home stadium.

After all, this place has rich experience in hosting competitions, and the territory is large enough, which saves Tencent Esports the trouble of finding a special place to build its home stadium.

In addition, no matter how other teams protest, Samsara is destined to be an important guarantee for the ratings of CSPL in the next one to two years, so it is normal to give this harmless face.

However, by choosing this old place, they inadvertently once again whipped the corpse of the already Buddhist Glory League next door.

Both opening ceremonies were held at the Samsara home ground, so why is the difference... so huge?
In fact, Honor spent a lot of money to host that opening game.

The on-site decorations and special effects were the best, and even a fireworks show was specially arranged. The scene alone was shocking.

But they lacked something compared to Pei Yunteng——

heritage.

Pei Yunteng organized the competition in a grand manner. In addition to spending money on the layout and decoration, he also added various elements that made people excited.

The most typical one is music.

With the support of Riot Music Production Company, how can the theme music produced by Tenghai be comparable to the one sung by Honor who hired a popular young actor?
On the CSGO side, Pei Yunteng originally planned to pick a good song from those classic music boxes.

But after careful study, I decided to use the tiles from next door.

There's nothing we can do. Except for the last two years when the theme song of the S-League was postponed possibly because of the transfer of the operation center, which of Riot's theme songs is not the best?
For example, "Die for You" was finally selected as the theme song for the first season of the CSPL League.

(Although there is EDG, superpower is still too weak, so it is not considered. Please be informed)

As soon as this song was released as the league's theme song, it set off a global wave.

I don’t know how many young people walking on the street can hum a few lines like “This could be the day I die for you”.

It's okay in China, but in those English-speaking countries, I don't know how many people are scared. How come their own children suddenly shout every day that they want to die for someone?
This indirectly led to a surge in business among psychologists.

At the Huaxia live show, as this divine song that made people involuntarily excited resounded, the special training that Zhou Zekai had received in the past few days of Samsara paid off. When he went on stage, facing the thunderous and even hysterical cheers, Zhou Zekai not only did not show any abnormality, but even smiled and waved to the audience, which was unusual.

With just this wave of his hand, countless fans were so excited that they almost fainted.

This calmness even made the EDG players who were unaware of the truth a little envious.

This is a well-seasoned superstar. We can't compare to his demeanor.

Kang Kang looked at the Samsara team who were the center of attention, and listened to the cheers that were not for EDG, and couldn't help but clench his fists secretly.

That was simply his dream.

Because of this, the fighting spirit of EDG players, including Kang Kang, has been stimulated tenfold or a hundredfold.

"Let's go, it's time to go on stage, don't let others make fun of you!"

……

The scene was extremely lively, and the same was true in the live broadcast room.

"No, Fujiko is really a music company? How can you make such a great theme music for a league?"

"What's the big deal? The ones in the next area are even better. MSi's Nirvana, the trailer PV's Rise, which one isn't the best?"

"There are also promotional videos. I can only say that Fujiko put a lot of effort into making things, and the quality is really amazing."

The discussion was lively and most people were immersed in the top-notch audio-visual experience at the opening ceremony.

It was not until the EDG players came on stage amid the host's passionate introduction that some people's attention was attracted.

Samsara’s home ground naturally has no shortage of Samsara fans.

So where are the EDG fans?

Um... probably not.

So far, EDG in this life has not had any representative works in their careers, and their performance in the next division has been stumbling, so naturally they don’t have much of a fan base.

However, because there was official support, there were still some cheers when the five EDG players came on the stage.

Even many of Samsara’s fans joined in the cheering and support.

If the players and coaches of Samsara still have a certain degree of importance and respect for EDG, then the fans really don't take EDG seriously.

"By the way, does anyone know the origin of this EDG?"

"There is a division in the LPL next door, and it is on the edge of the relegation stage."

"I remember now. It was the team of geniuses that was beaten up by my coach Ming Kai himself, right? The Ming Cult is almost thirty years old, right?"

For the EDG club, the most famous event at the moment is that they lost the game with Baozi absent and Mingkai taking over as head coach.

Although MingKai can even be ranked in the upper middle among LPL junglers if we insist on talking about his strength, he may not be able to get a good deal if other teams come.

But who can blame the fact that the head coach is warming up, which is such a show effect?

Since then, the EDG club has taken on a bit of a comedian vibe, even to the point where it affected the CSGO division.

"No matter how you think about it, EDG is pretty pitiful, having been used as a background twice in such a short period of time."

"Don't be stressed, one point is no loss, two points is a big win, three points is a champagne!"

"… Do you think it is possible…"

"No, forget it. With Samsara's configuration, how can EDG win?"

Amid the chaotic noise in the live broadcast room, the game for the first map officially began.

Map, Death Amusement Park.

Entering the game, based on the result of the previous coin toss, EDG got the right to choose the side and chose CT.

In fact, at the beginning, Teng Hai had thought about having a knife fight to choose sides, which would also add some highlights and excitement to the game.

But amid complaints and opposition from various teams, the idea was abandoned.

After all, in order to fight against the Samsara gang, apart from Zhou Zekai, everyone else needs to make some transformation and adaptation.

But knife fighting?

Fighting with the top professional players of Honor?

It would be better to give the right to choose sides directly to Samsara, at least there is no need to worry about the team members' morale being broken in the knife-fighting game.

EDG chose the defensive side, which is recognized as the advantageous side in this map.

At the beginning of the pistol round, EDG played a gambling point defense.

Four people guard B, leaving Simon alone to defend A.

Simon rushed to the sewer entrance immediately, but did not go in. He just listened for footsteps.

I only heard the rumbling footsteps of the bandits approaching and knew that I had made the right choice.

"Heading towards A, the bandits' footsteps." Simon reported the location and retreated without hesitation.

Qiuqiu immediately went to area A to provide support.

While Simon was retreating, he set up a mid lane, hoping to collect a toll, but failed and had to retreat.

This shot also revealed a lot of information.

"Discovered." Jiang Botao frowned slightly.

The opponent has taken the information and I am on guard. It seems unrealistic to speed up.

"Control it first, and then... turn to B!" Jiang Botao thought for a moment, and then immediately gave the order.

I'm not sure if the guy in the front has any teammates, so I just slow down and control the sewers and construction site.

When the opponent gets the information that you are moving to A, they should deploy troops to defend, and then moving to B may reduce the pressure.

Qiuqiu and Simon didn't gain any information at point A, and thought that the reincarnation point was most likely changed.

But by the time they started to defend, Samsara's attack was already imminent.

"Hold on, brothers!" If the people inside the point cannot hold on to this wave, then they will basically be too far away to return to defense.

The offensive pressure of Samsara was indeed at its maximum. Smoogy was caught moving and was forced to retreat to ABC.

Kang Kang was left alone guarding the oil barrel, facing the first wave of attacks from Samsara.

Seeing that he was in a helpless situation, Kang Kang shot madly but failed to score.

After one magazine was used up, he was forced to look down at the ground to reload, to avoid exposing himself and getting killed.

And at the time when he was changing bullets, the main attack team of Samsara was almost approaching his face.

Sun Xiang rushed to the front and had already reached the edge of the oil barrel.

"Kang Kang lowered his head to reload, but Samsara had already rushed over. He must be planning to kill Kang Kang and then immediately clear out the bombs!"

The on-site commentator explained the situation, and his tone showed a bit of concern for Kang Kang's situation.

After all, being attacked by Sun Xiang is basically a ghost story, let alone being attacked by Sun Xiang, Zhou Zekai and Jiang Botao at the same time.

I don’t know if Kang Kang will be scared when he changes the bullet.

It really is.

After Kang Kang changed the ammunition, he looked up and saw three Lao Dengs rushing directly towards his face. He was frightened.

However, during this moment of shock, he fired a shot as if it were a conditioned reflex, and then lowered his head and squatted back at the fastest speed in his life.

"I'm going to die, I'm going to die, I'm going to die!" Kang Kang's adrenaline was rushing and he was frantically thinking about what to do.

But he didn't know what a sensation his shot just now caused.

"Oh my God! What just happened? What was that shot about?" The commentator was stunned for two seconds before he realized what was going on and exclaimed.

At the scene, countless people were dumbfounded.

Kang Kang changed the bullet, raised his head and fired a shot, then immediately squatted back. The whole set of actions took less than 0.5 seconds.

But it was this shot—

"EDG.ZmJJKK used a USP pistol to headshot and kill Lunhui.Hengdao."

That's right, he had no aim at all, it was just a reflex shot that hit Sun Xiang right in the forehead.

So much so that Sun Xiang himself was stunned when he saw the death scene.

No, what happened?

I was killed in seconds?
In the live broadcast room, there was a brief gap in the barrage.

The perspective happened to be Kang Kang's. He lowered his head to change the bullet, then raised his head at the speed of light, fired a shot and squatted back down. Then, Sun Xiang fell down.

No, this is also possible?
Is it luck? Or is it strength?

Whatever it is, at least in terms of visual perception, this shot is unparalleled.

The barrage of comments was interrupted for a few seconds, and finally a little genius slowly reacted, recalled the scene just now, and then an idea came to him.

"Is this the legendary dragon raising its head?"

　First update, strive for 8,000 today.

　　Give me some monthly tickets or something.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)