The two teams had already stepped onto the stage.
The team competition was the highlight of the day. The outcome of this match would determine the life and death of the two teams. Life was heaven, death was a year of hell. And for Team Excellent Era, it would be an even deeper hell. Two years in a row in the Challenger League? Even Excellent Era would be too embarrassed to call themselves a powerhouse. Sun Xiang, Xiao Shiqin, these All-Star level players had sacrificed a year for Excellent Era's future. But when it came to the Challenger League, it was hard to say if they would have another year of patience.
They had to win!
They didn't need Tao Xuan to remind them of this belief. The future was something they had high hopes for, but it was something they had to personally grasp and create.
As for Team Happy? They had only been a team for a year. To the outside world, they had reached their limit no matter what step they took. And now, they had reached the final step of the Challenger League. This was already very surprising. Beat Excellent Era? This was inconceivable in many people's eyes. Even those who hoped for this to happen couldn't help but think so.
The difference in strength was too great.
Many people knew this, including Happy.
But the reason why the competition was interesting was because no one could be 100% sure of who would win or lose until the end of the match. If the difference in strength on paper could decide the outcome, then was there even a need to fight?
Victory would always be won by fighting with real swords and spears, not by comparison.
The two teams had a total of twelve players. At this moment, they had already entered their respective player booths. The map for the team competition was gradually taking shape. On the screen, the loading progress of the twelve characters was displayed and the introduction of each character was shown.
Wu Chen hadn't played in the offline matches, so his character's exposure was naturally very low. Now that he had suddenly appeared on the roster, the audience was filled with curiosity towards his character. It wasn't easy for them to see Wu Chen's character, Dawn Rifle, but everyone was disappointed.
Dawn Rifle was originally an important character in Team Everlasting, but after the disbandment of Team Everlasting, all of his valuable equipment had been sold. When Happy was upgrading his character's equipment, he didn't get any Silver equipment for his Launcher class. He only had a few Level 75 Orange equipment to choose from.
In the end, Wu Chen finally managed to gather a full set of Level 75 Orange equipment for Dawn Rifle. In the game, this would make him look extremely strong, but in the professional arena, especially in front of a powerhouse team like Excellent Era, a character with a full set of Orange equipment wasn't enough. Just by looking at this character, Wu Chen didn't seem like a secret weapon that Happy would use against Team Excellent Era.
After the characters from both teams finished loading in, the final lineups for the two teams were shown.
For Team Excellent Era, Wang Ze would be the sixth player, while the other five would be the starting lineup.
For Team Happy, Baozi was the sixth player, while the other five players were the starters.
He was actually a starter?
The audience once again broke out into discussion. After seeing Wu Chen's character, everyone was more willing to believe that his appearance was due to Happy's helplessness. As a result, when they saw that he was still in the starting lineup, they were quite surprised.
At this moment, the system's countdown ended, and the team competition officially began.
The map was Ancient Maple Forest Road.
As the designated map for the most important offline competition of the Challenger League, Ancient Maple Forest Road was still a very comprehensive map. However, this time, the battlefield had been moved from the city to the wilderness. The long and serene road passed through the two corners of the map. On both sides of the road were maple trees. The bright red maple leaves rustled in the wind. This was naturally the origin of the map's name. However, a map couldn't just be made up of an ancient road. On both sides of the road, behind the maple trees, there were hills, rivers, mud pits, and rocky mounds. Whether or not it was appropriate to include all of these geographical features in one area wasn't important in a competitive map. Competitive maps focused on making the battlefield more diverse, especially in a designated map like this. It couldn't be biased towards one style. This would make it seem as if the team that suited that style had gotten the home map.
The match began.
The two characters spawned at the two ends of the ancient road. This spawn point was the default sixth player swap area. Apart from this, this map also had four swap areas, evenly distributed on both sides of the ancient road.
Team Excellent Era's five characters began advancing as soon as they entered the map. They skillfully got into formation. It could be seen that they had been trained for this map for a long time.
Qiu Fei's Combat Form led the way. Xiao Shiqin's Life Extinguisher wandered around him. The distance between them wasn't fixed. Zhang Jiaxing's Cleric, Woven Shadow, followed behind under the cover of these two characters. Woven Shadow was also a famous Cleric in the Alliance. The powerhouse Excellent Era didn't have any weaklings.
Shen Jian, who had performed terribly in the group arena, didn't dare to make any more mistakes. Lian Jin, the Striker, followed closely behind Woven Shadow, as if to protect him.
Behind them was Team Excellent Era's true ace, One Leaf Of Autumn. He stood at the back of the team like a great general holding the line.
It looked like a messy formation, but everyone's distribution was clear. As they advanced along the ancient path, Excellent Era maintained this formation. The one who was relatively more flexible and free seemed to be Xiao Shiqin's character.
On the other hand, Happy's side didn't display the complete coordination and discipline of Excellent Era. However, their movements were still orderly. All of the characters turned left and ran. They clearly weren't planning on directly clashing with Excellent Era.
"How will the two sides perform?" Pan Lin couldn't wait any longer. From the start of the match until the start of the match, this was the fourth time he had asked this question.
"It shouldn't be surprising that Happy chose to use a tactical movement strategy. There's a clear difference in skill between the two sides. They need to be flexible with their strategy in order to have a chance of winning this match. "Li Yibo said.
"However, Excellent Era also has a Master Tactician, and he seems to be in top form today. Will Happy's strategy be effective?" Pan Lin said.
"Let's see Happy's formation first!" Li Yibo said.
Team Happy's five characters circled around to the left of the ancient path. They had a clear sense of direction. It was clearly a tactical move made after studying the map. However, Team Excellent Era's footsteps had already come to a stop. Those who had studied the map would have a clear idea of where they would appear in their field of vision if they didn't use any tactical maneuvers and directly collided with each other. Excellent Era's current position didn't have any targets in sight, so they naturally knew that Happy wouldn't fight them head on.
Excellent Era wasn't surprised by this. The team immediately changed directions and headed to the side of the ancient path. Pan Lin was very excited when he saw this because Excellent Era's choice of direction was the same as Happy's. The two sides would have a chance to meet in the northwest region of the map.
The broadcast quickly switched to a map of the area. The battle hadn't started yet, so it was better to let everyone familiarize themselves with the terrain first.
The audience was even more nervous now. On the zoomed projection, both sides were tiny little people running towards their respective targets. Team Excellent Era's five characters still maintained their formation, while Happy's five looked as scattered as ever. As the distance between the two sides closed, the projection zoomed in. The scenery and characters became clearer and clearer.
Soon!
Just as everyone was thinking this, they heard a boom. Happy's most unexpected player, Wu Chen, fired the first shot of the match.
Dawn Rifle fired, but it didn't seem to have any purpose. The cannonball that flew out randomly exploded on the ground. This shot really did look like a misfire.
However, Team Excellent Era made an obvious adjustment. The distance between the two sides had reached a point where they could hear the sound of the shot.
"Their direction is very clear!" Pan Lin shouted when he saw Team Excellent Era's adjustment. Just by hearing the sound, Team Excellent Era had a clear direction after adjusting. It was towards Team Happy's position.
"Is Happy preparing to set up an ambush?" Li Yibo saw Happy's actions, but didn't dare to jump to conclusions. In a 5v5 match, the power of an ambush wasn't as great as expected. Its main use was to catch the opponent off guard and seize the initiative. However, in a match where the disparity in skill was too great, taking the initiative in one attack wasn't enough to win the match. Excellent Era had the ability to take back the initiative after the enemy had made their move.
"It … doesn't seem like it …" Pan Lin said.
Happy's character didn't scatter and choose to hide. Instead, he immediately retreated. In the end, Excellent Era missed, but from the sound of the shot, they knew that Happy had indeed been here before. When they were about to reach this area, they began to be on guard against Happy's ambush. Their careful actions were a bit laughable in the eyes of the audience. Excellent Era's fans hated that they couldn't warn their players that the opponent had moved.
Excellent Era quickly determined that their opponent had moved. At this time, the formation of the team also made some changes. They spread out, no doubt to increase the area of observation and search. But at this moment, another shot suddenly rang out. Wu Chen's Dawn Rifle had fired another shot out of nowhere.
Excellent Era heard the sound and rushed over. However, Happy once again made them miss. When Excellent Era came over, their formation once again shrunk back. Their cautious appearance made the audience look at each other in dismay.
If they were hoping to wear down Excellent Era's spirit, wasn't Happy's strategy a bit too childish? As long as they didn't pay attention to this type of harassment, what damage could it do?
But at this moment, Wu Chen's Dawn Rifle fired a third shot. Team Excellent Era seemed to be patient and chased after him once again. And this time, Team Happy finally changed. The team split into two. Wu Chen's Dawn Rifle left the team and began to fly solo.
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