In the Team Competition of the playoffs, there would be different playstyles depending on the results of the group arena. This was one of the more troublesome aspects of the new competition format. Not only the losing team, but even the leading team in the group arena would have to think of a way to fully utilize this advantage in the Team Competition.
After the two teams calmed down the various emotions brought about by the group arena, they began to nervously deploy and make arrangements.
"Happy is currently leading by two points. This is quite different from what we expected before the match," Pan Lin and Li Yibo also summarized the current situation during the break between matches.
"Mmm, Happy originally had the opportunity to obtain a greater advantage. If Su Mucheng had defeated Zheng Xuan, they would have had three points. This kind of advantage is quite rare in the new format of the group arena, "Li Yibo said.
"Yes, but unfortunately, Zheng Xuan narrowly won that match. It's a pity for Su Mucheng," Pan Lin said.
"Team Blue Rain is already very unlucky today. Zheng Xuan's victory can be considered as redeeming some of their decline," Li Yibo said.
"Happy's Mo Fan was the biggest highlight of the group arena today! He completed a 1v2, and one of his opponents was Huang Shaotian. It was truly a beautiful performance, "Pan Lin praised.
"Yes, Mo Fan's performance was indeed very surprising. Actually, in this season, Mo Fan's appearances in Happy's matches weren't enough for him to be considered a core member. However, in this group arena, his performance was definitely a core member, "Li Yibo said.
"Yes, I can already see a lot of comments from the players. They are all praising Mo Fan's performance! I just saw a Weibo post by a netizen named Gou Sang (I randomly picked a name from Weibo fans, I hope you don't mind!). He's calling Mo Fan the 'Great God Killer'. It seems like he's connecting his victory over Huang Shaotian with his victory over Sun Xiang, "Pan Lin said.
"Haha, defeating a top god twice is indeed very valuable for a newcomer. However, we'll have to keep an eye on Mo Fan's performance to get the title! "Li Yibo smiled.
"Yes." Pan Lin nodded, then continued to operate the computer to browse through the current Weibo discussions about this match.
"Oh, this …" Pan Lin hesitated for a moment.
"What's wrong?" Li Yibo leaned over to take a look.
"Zuo Chenrui is spamming the screen," Pan Lin said.
"Oh? What did he say? " Li Yibo was amused. Zuo Chenrui was also a famous writer in the circle. Because he was very subjective, his comments were often unexpected. Furthermore, Team Blue Rain was his favorite team in this match. Now that they had lost so unexpectedly in the group arena, there was no way he would be able to sit still!
"Zuo Chenrui gave that tree a hundred million points," Pan Lin said. With Zuo Chenrui's temperament, there was no way he wouldn't be sarcastic about Happy's unfairness. Of course, Pan Lin wouldn't be able to read out those things in their program.
"Hahahaha," Li Yibo laughed. He knew Zuo Chenrui. He could totally imagine what kind of expression that guy would have when he saw Huang Shaotian's Troubling Rain lose 50% of his HP to that felled tree. Li Yibo suddenly felt regretful. If only he could invite Zuo Chenrui to be the commentator today. Just based on that wonderful expression, Li Yibo didn't mind having another commentator steal the show.
The two of them continued to browse through the netizens' comments. After chatting about the upcoming situation, the team competition was finally about to begin. The contestants from both teams began to enter the field under the signal of the referee.
Team Blue Rain: Yu Wenzhou, Huang Shaotian, Lu Hanwen, Zheng Xuan, and Xu Jingxi. Song Xiao was the sixth player.
Happy: Ye Xiu, Su Mucheng, Fang Rui, Qiao Yifan, and An Wenyi. The sixth player was Wei Chen.
"Ah! Happy sent out Wei Chen! "Pan Lin was a little surprised.
Wei Chen and Blue Rain had a history, but because this history was too old and Wei Chen's presence wasn't strong, basically no one paid attention to this topic. And the playoffs weren't a place to arrange teams for the sake of a topic. Happy chose Wei Chen here, which was more or less surprising.
How much of an impact Wei Chen could have was a big question mark. With his current ability level, from the pitiful number of appearances he had in the regular season, it was hard to call him a high-end player. And his history with Blue Rain had been so long. When it came to knowing oneself and knowing one's enemy, he might not be as good as Ye Xiu, Su Mucheng, and Fang Rui, who had battled with Blue Rain for so many years. What was Happy's intention in sending Wei Chen up? It was really hard to guess.
Blue Rain's performance was calm.
Happy was a new team, and the biggest characteristic of a new team was that its battle strength was built and developed as it competed. And teams like Blue Rain, Micrograss, Tyranny, and other teams in the Alliance were all mature and stable. They wouldn't be like new teams, going one way one day and another the next. Only a new team that had been rebuilt would constantly experiment and change.
Happy, on the other hand, had played the entire regular season under this kind of rhythm. Many people might not have noticed this point.
"Immaturity should be the biggest flaw of a new team, but … Happy made it their biggest characteristic." This was Yu Wenzhou's definition of Happy before this match.
Because of their immaturity, because of their constant experimentation and change, Happy eventually became a kind of uncertainties.
This was something a mature team should try to avoid, but a new team, since they couldn't solve this problem in a short period of time, they might as well magnify this problem.
Yu Wenzhou's view was supported by data. From the statistics that Blue Rain's technical department had done according to his instructions, it was clear that Team Happy's rotation had changed. As the rookies in the team continued to grow, Team Happy's rotation had been increasing, all the way until the end of the season, Wei Chen and Luo Ji had both joined the rotation.
This wasn't a sudden decision. From the statistics, it could be seen that the addition of these two players to the rotation was completely in line with Happy's increased rotation curve this season. It was just that these two players had only joined at the end of the season, so there were too many gaps in the early stages. In the end, their performance was less, so they were more conspicuous.
Every player in Happy's team was operating to the fullest, and all of this was probably for the sake of the playoffs. Team Happy had been aiming for the playoffs from the start.
Fighting for the championship!
This wasn't something that Ye Xiu said casually to tease everyone. He was serious. From the first day of the regular season, he had been planning, adjusting, and training the entire team with this goal in mind.
Up until now, Yu Wenzhou's biggest opinion of Happy was that no matter what lineup they put out, he wouldn't be too surprised. This was because they had always been in this kind of oscillation, and they weren't as stable as a mature team. But in their oscillation, they had achieved a kind of balance. They weren't absolutely stable, but they were relatively stable.
The most terrifying person in Happy's team was still Ye Xiu. Not only did he have the intrepid battle strength of 37 consecutive victories in the individual competition, but he also had the ability to control and deploy the entire team to the point where he could do it with ease.
And now …
"Just surrender!" This person shook Yu Wenzhou's hand and smiled.
"Haha, it doesn't seem like there's a need for that right now!" Yu Wenzhou laughed.
"There will be one soon," Ye Xiu said.
"You shut up!" Huang Shaotian cut in.
Ye Xiu grabbed Huang Shaotian's hand with one hand and patted the back of his hand with the other. "You have to take care of the plants and trees!"
"Scram scram scram!" Huang Shaotian flung his hand away. To the side, the referee couldn't bear to watch. This knife was really ruthless!
The players walked past one by one, greeting each other before the match. They were usually arranged in a fixed order. For example, the sixth player was usually the last in line. So Wei Chen was the last to walk in front of Yu Wenzhou.
"Captain Wei," Yu Wenzhou called out as he extended his hand.
To the side, Huang Shaotian didn't wait for anyone to come before taking the initiative to approach.
"Captain Wei," he called out in the same way, his tone very respectful. Even Ye Xiu, who could be considered his senior and had achieved three consecutive championships before him, had only been chased away by him with a "scram scram scram". Because this person in front of him was too different. If this person didn't exist, perhaps he, Huang Shaotian, would just treat Glory as a pastime. In his free time, he would run over to the game and be a scourge. After that, he would continue to live a normal life. Until one day, he would be so busy that he even forgot about this pastime and let Glory completely disappear from his life.
But he met Wei Chen.
It was this person who changed his attitude towards Glory. It was this person who made him interested in becoming a pro player. It was this person who finally brought him to Team Blue Rain. It was this person who helped him walk the path of growth.
And then, he left. And he, with the name of the Golden Generation, officially stepped into the pro scene. In the end, he controlled the character named Sword Saint and galloped through this stage, possessing a vast world that he had never dreamed of.
Everything was because of this person in front of him.
And after he left, they completely lost contact. Huang Shaotian had thought about meeting him again, but he never thought that it would be in such a way. On the field, opponents, and in the playoffs, it was a fight to the death, the cruelest opponent.
But none of this could change Huang Shaotian's feelings for Wei Chen.
If he had to answer who was the person who had influenced him the most in his life, his answer would only be this person's name.
"Surrender!" Then he heard the person who had influenced him the most in his life, the person he respected the most, say this.
"Cough, how can that be!" Yu Wenzhou smiled.
Huang Shaotian didn't have much of a reaction. Because he wasn't surprised at all by this person's words. Even though this was someone he respected, he really was someone who had no bottom line.
"What a pity. I really can't bear to defeat you on the field!" Wei Chen sighed.
"Us too!" Yu Wenzhou said.
"But you've already defeated me," Wei Chen said.
"I was just lucky," Yu Wenzhou said.
"It won't happen this time," Wei Chen said. "I'll do my best."
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