Chapter 347 The start and the end.

Samsara's opening match did not cause much controversy on the field.

Perhaps it was because after a brief period of loss, the team regained their form and killed too quickly and too fiercely, demonstrating their dominance to the fullest.

So much so that a considerable number of fans who do not like to watch the entire game but love to make sharp comments and cheer after the game, when they wake up and check the scores, they will find that Samsara seems to have won quite beautifully.

Of course, there were fans who raised some questions about the back-and-forth between the two sides in the first half of the first game.

But as the screenshot of Kang Kang's "Dragon Raising its Head" went viral, these people naturally attributed it to EDG's bad luck.

All in all, after the opening game, in the eyes of most people, Samsara is still the invincible and powerful team.

However, EDG did not lose all. Although they were generally defeated, many famous scenes were made into videos and animated images and began to circulate widely in and out of the circle.

For example, Kang Kang's Dragon Raising its Head, and the sniper shot that knocked Zhou Zekai over with the help of flash and grenade during the gun battle.

Another example is Qiuqiu's two extreme endgames that were all cleared, and Zhou Zekai's Qin Wang circling the pillar...

Don’t ask whether he won or not, just ask if he is handsome or not?
It has to be said that FPS games like CSGO do have the ability to attract shallow fan circles.

Especially the ability to stand out from the crowd is quite excellent.

After all, many people who don’t play games don’t understand the team battle positioning in League of Legends, the dragnet in StarCraft, or the chaotic battles in Naraka.

But they still understood the simplest and most intuitive tactic of raising their guns and firing.

If this EDG team was not so stunning in appearance, especially when facing the handsome team of Samsara, they were beaten to a pulp.

Just this wave can create another team of internet celebrities.

However, even though they were at a disadvantage in terms of appearance, EDG still gained their first wave of traffic thanks to this opening game and Kang Kang, a natural-born superstar with a strong sense of camera.

It also laid the first small foreshadowing for their future growth and evolution.

However, that is all a story for later.

All in all, the outside world did not have any doubts about Samsara's performance.

Inside the Samsara world, Jiang Botao originally intended to complain about his superiors' arrangement to give Zhou Zekai psychological training and make money at the same time, which was a waste of time.

But as Zhou Zekai's social attributes were really developed a little bit, attracting the attention of all the team members, the matter was left unresolved.

In the final analysis, the members of the Samsara team still hold a certain kind of inertia in their thinking:
In terms of hard power, we are still a strong team at the CNCS gap level. As long as we can adjust our condition well, we can be invincible in the league in theory.

But the question is, are they really as invincible as they think?
It seems, but not necessarily.

After two days of rest, Samsara faced their second opponent, WNV.

Well, this is a very unfamiliar name, and almost no one in the reincarnation world has ever heard of it before.

Since the start of CS, in the survey report of Samsara, WNV's threat has been ranked last among all the teams that won the first game.

The reason is very simple. This is a fairly pure Internet cafe team.

In the beginning, it was formed by chance in a small Internet cafe by a group of pure passers-by without any youth training foundation. They began to play unofficial small competitions everywhere and lived on the prize money.

Later, as we played more games and won more championships, we gradually attracted attention and eventually received some investment and formed a club, but in essence it was still a standard Internet cafe team.

Such an opponent does not seem to have any qualifications to even challenge Samsara.

After all, no one in the Samsara team has opened their third eye, so they don’t know how terrifying this WNV is.

So when Pei Yunteng saw the nonchalant attitude of the Samsara players during the trash talk session before the game, he knew that this Samsara team was likely to suffer a heavy loss.

Who is wnv?

The new generation of e-sports viewers may not be familiar with this team, but for some older, real veteran players, this name is a household name.

They won the first world championship in the history of Chinese CS in 2005, the timeline of Pei Yunteng's previous life.

What stage was Chinese e-sports at that time?
The Blue Speed ​​Internet Cafe incident happened just two years ago, the ban on gaming consoles had just been issued, and the SARS outbreak had just ended.

In Beijing, where WNV is located, there is not even a single open Internet cafe.

It can be said that at that time, in terms of hard conditions, CN e-sports was truly in its darkest era.

But even under such conditions, that WNV team made it all the way to the position of world champion, achieving the highest glory of CNCS so far.

In the worst social environment, with the worst preparation conditions, we reached the top in the world.

There is no need to say much about its value.

Their captain, Alex, was a man who almost followed the Chinese national football team to eat sea cucumbers, but eventually became a CNCS legend.

A versatile commander and gunner.

In 03, he was able to lead the DU team, which had just been reorganized for a month and had not yet fully integrated, to win the WCG China Championship and then reach the quarterfinals in the World Championship.

After coming to WNV, he took over the command and led the team to win the championship.

In other words, although this WNV looks like an Internet cafe team and was formed not long ago,

But what they are best at is to grow rapidly in a harsh environment and within a tight time frame, and then compete with the strongest teams in the world.

In the first map, Samsara, who was originally planning to help the players find their feeling, was beaten up by WNV. This was the first time they lost a whole map since the formation of the CS team.

WNV was clearly well prepared for this game. One of the captain Alex's favorite things to do was to watch videos, and he watched all the previous videos of Samsara's games against the outside world.

Then, based on Samsara's performance, we set a trap for them in the BP stage and chose a map that Samsara was least familiar with in the first game.

Then he worked day and night for several days to come up with some tricky prop positions to give Samsara a hard time.

You know, CSGO is still a new game, and it is far from having more than ten years of tactical accumulation like Pei Yunteng in his previous life.

Therefore, even for Samsara, his mastery of tactics was far from perfect, and the flaw was discovered by the genius Alex.

At the start of the game, the unguarded Samsara was caught off guard by WNV's command and props coordination, and started with a 1:4 lead.

Afterwards, although Samsara put away some of his initial frivolity, he planned to use his real skills to replicate the script of the opening game.

But in the next few rounds, after the "serious" Samsara and WNV fought several times but still failed to gain much advantage, Samsara suddenly realized one thing:

There is really no difference in level between WNV's strength and theirs.

Indeed, after the training of Glory, in terms of hard operations, Samsara is still half a step ahead of WNV.

But WNV's Alex and sniper jungle are also two top-level gunners. Even if they are not as good as Zhou Zekai and Sun Xiang, they are not much worse.

When the power gap was not that big, WNV, who had studied the maps and tactics more thoroughly, finally took the first map without any danger even though they encountered a desperate counterattack from Samsara.

After the fight, there was silence.

No fan could have imagined that Samsara would actually lose to an unknown Internet cafe team.

It is said that on that day, there were so many hysterical screams at the scene that the authorities had to ask security guards to clear the fans out early, leaving only online viewing.

Although the atmosphere in the live broadcast room was not much better. After the game, the atmosphere in the locker room suddenly became solemn.

Originally, everyone in the management was a little worried. Having not experienced that game, they still believed that the boys' defeat was caused by their wrong decision.

After all, the outside world is almost ready to expose and burn the "unscrupulous capitalists" of the reincarnation management for this.

But after the Samsara players returned to the lounge, they had no intention of fighting with the management. Instead, they discussed the next tactics intensively with coach and commander Jiang Botao as the center.

When the cautious Samsara manager took the opportunity to ask Jiang Botao what was going on, Jiang Botao just sighed and replied to the Samsara manager with something that made his face change suddenly.

"Heroes are everywhere in the world, wnv, very strong."

The good news is that the failure of the reincarnation is not entirely the fault of the management.

The bad news is that the opponent’s hard power can really compete with Samsara.

Now, the management of Samsara, who originally wanted to make money and win the championship without doing anything, has to think carefully about the upcoming competitions.

In the second game, Samsara used all his strength and chose the map they were most familiar with among the remaining two chapters.

After losing a game, all members of Samsara gave their 200% performance.

WNV, who had just won a game, was slightly unbalanced in mentality.

There's no way. The previous Samsara was praised too much. It's really not easy for WNV, who got the first victory in Samsara, to control his emotions.

After all, mentality and emotional management may be the few areas where they differ from professional players.

Especially Zhou Zekai, who tasted failure for the first time since switching to CSGO, and he put on an even crazier performance in this game than in the previous one.

KD achieved a terrifying 27/7 massacre, which gave reassurance to the already panicked fans of Reincarnation.

The reason why the number of kills seemed just like that was because Sun Xiang was killing like crazy and stole a lot of the roles from Zhou Zekai.

In the second game, they won by a crushing score of 16-3.

In the deciding game, WNV also showed a desperate attitude. They had dug holes for Samsara in BP in more than one picture.

In this picture, the two sides can be said to be fighting extremely bloody. The scores rose alternately, and the fans' hearts began to jump up and down with the scores.

The game ended up going into two overtimes before the Samsara team managed to win the game with slightly better on-the-spot performance and gradual adaptation to Alex's tactics.

After the game, the collapse of public opinion and doubts about reincarnation were naturally inevitable.

But as the organizer, Feng Xianjun was quite satisfied.

"Mr. Pei's vision is still as sharp as ever." He couldn't help but sigh.

If the previous EDG only needed some time to train and grow to become a top-notch team,
Then after this game is over, the combat power distribution of CSPL will have to be re-ranked.

For the authorities, this is undoubtedly a good thing.

There is no risk of offending millions of Samsara fans and being hung on the street lamp by Cyber, and the suspense of the next game can be guaranteed.

The most important thing is that, in the future, the CSGO league will also have stories to tell.

After running LPL for so long, one of the most profound insights Feng Xianjun has gained is that the league needs their stories.

Why has LPL become so popular? In addition to the first-mover advantage, the most important thing is the top teams. Each team has its own story and reasons to win.

Happy has Ye Xiu's Last Dance, Blue Rain is one step away from S8, Fanhua has a group of old guys who have never won a championship, and even second-rate teams like Justice League have countless stories to tell.

This means that no matter which team wins the championship in the end, they will create an immortal legend.

As for the previous cspl, apart from reincarnation, there didn’t seem to be many stories to tell.

But it's different now.

EDG became famous at a young age, WNV came all the way from an Internet cafe...

There are finally more stories to tell.

WNV and EDG are in for good luck.

Having successfully fired the first and second shots for the "anti-reincarnation" cause, they will probably have to enjoy a period of resource tilt.

As long as I try harder in the next competition, I won't have to worry about not having the opportunity to become famous...

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Now that we have mentioned LPL, we have to talk about the current status of the summer season.

There haven't been any footage of the LPL for such a long time. Besides the fact that the author really doesn't have the ability to explain the game clearly, it's mainly because there hasn't been much to say about the LPL since Fanhua's failure.

Compared with the LPL in another world, this LPL, which has introduced many Honor professional players, certainly has advantages in strength and initial attention.

But it is also destined that the LPL in this life will not have as many strange things as that makeshift team.

Therefore, there are not many major events worth writing about.

However, even if these reasons are put aside, this version of League of Legends and LPL is indeed a relatively dull period.

The tempo of the game was lengthened a lot due to more vision control games, and games lasting forty to fifty minutes were common.

It puts more pressure on operations and tactics, which seem "not so exciting", and also makes the LPL game scene slightly less enjoyable.

Fortunately, this time, the League of Legends game is still in a period of rapid development and there is no shortage of players.

So there is no need to worry too much about the audience not understanding the game.

After the usual double round-robin, the regular season situation of the LPL Summer Games has gradually become clear.

Fanhua finally got the top spot in the regular season as she wished.

After all, they are not RNG. After being defeated by the Optimistic Family, they began to fall at the speed of light and almost became ticket sellers in S12.

Knowing their shame and then becoming braver, they swept away the others in the subsequent games and demonstrated the value of the MSi championship.

Zhang Jiale won the most small-game MVPs in the summer season. According to the rules, he will automatically become the regular season MVP of the summer season.

But for him now, this regular season MVP is just a bunch of pots and pans.

Under the king Fanhua, the playoff prospects of other teams become a little subtle.

　Updated, there may be another update today.

　　I feel like this paragraph really hits upon my weak spot, and every word I write feels extremely difficult.

　　In addition, I was delayed a lot due to illness and moving.

　　Brothers, give me a chance to adjust.

　　Kneel down.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)