After fighting in City Q for nearly a week, Happy finally returned to their home ground, City H. What greeted them was a torrential downpour.
Samsara, Happy.
One team was the champion team of two consecutive seasons, the other was a new team that had just entered the Alliance. These two teams, which seemed to be worlds apart, finally met in the finals.
No one dared to look down on Happy again. No one would casually treat them as a grassroots team again.
Ranked sixth in the regular season, defeating Blue Rain and Tyranny in the playoffs, Happy was currently attracting everyone's attention with an unstoppable momentum.
At this point, what people wanted to see wasn't just the birth of a new dynasty. There were also many Glory players who wanted to see the birth of a miracle. A new team that had just entered the Alliance and would never rest until they won the championship.
At midnight, the first round of voting for the championship, as well as the entire series of votes, had opened. At eight in the morning, eight hours had passed, and the two teams' support ratings were actually neck and neck.
It had to be known that before, whether it was against Blue Rain or Tyranny, Happy's support ratings were always one side behind. Even if their team didn't lack All-Stars, even if their team had the Best Rookie, even if they had brought too many surprises this season. But in the playoffs, Glory players didn't have high hopes for them.
Until today. Until now.
Defeating Blue Rain, defeating Tyranny.
Happy had received enough trust. In the pre-match support polls, they actually didn't lose to Samsara and were on equal footing with Samsara.
Samsara: 51.6%.
Happy: 48.4%.
Samsara had a slight lead, but no one was in the mood to care about this small gap. For Happy to be able to tie with Samsara like this was enough to show how extraordinary they were. Perhaps whether it was Blue Rain or Tyranny that made it to the finals, it would be impossible for them to tie with Samsara. But Happy just happened to be. In a situation where they weren't favored, they unexpectedly made it to this point. This made even more people interested in them, and people began to look forward to another surprise.
Three days later, in City H, Xiaoshan Stadium, would that be the place where the miracle would begin?
The heavy rain washed over Xiaoshan Stadium. Because of the rainstorm, the streets were unusually deserted. No matter how excited and passionate Happy's fans were, there was no way they could cheer for Team Happy in this weather. However, Happy Internet Cafe's business was exceptionally good in such weather. The internet café was no longer like an internet café. Even the aisles were filled with people. They found an excuse to hide from the rain and entered the internet café to chat about the upcoming finals. Even for those who had seats, only a few of them were still fiddling with the computers. Everyone was discussing with the people around them.
They may or may not know each other.
None of this was important. Now that they were gathered here, they had a common hope, a common expectation: Happy to have won the championship!
Happy Internet Cafe's second floor could be considered Team Happy's base. Even for a team that had already made it to the finals, the simple and crude infrastructure of the team could not be changed in a short period of time.
Right now, all of Happy's players were gathered in their training room, which was definitely the worst in the entire Alliance.
Yesterday, they had rushed back to City H overnight. Even such terrible weather did not affect their flight. Then this morning, everyone was once again unaffected by the weather and appeared in the training room punctually.
This kind of discipline was what Happy had requested during the regular season. After the playoffs, Ye Xiu advocated for self-adjustment. The team did not arrange too many training plans. They mostly left it to the players to arrange their own time.
But right now, it was the finals, and they were only one step away from the championship. Happy's players spontaneously followed the discipline of the regular season and gathered just like that.
"What's going on? Didn't I say that there were no plans for this morning and that everyone should rest well?" Ye Xiu said when he saw the room full of people.
Everyone looked at him with disdain. Can't you look at your own position before you speak? You said that there were no plans to rest well in the morning, but didn't you appear here yourself? When you speak like that again, can you not speak in such a matter-of-fact tone?
"Okay! Since you're all here, let's enjoy Samsara's spectacular performance in the playoffs! " As Ye Xiu spoke, he had already put down the projector screen and started broadcasting the information on Samsara that he had organized at some point.
There was no need to doubt Samsara's strength. Happy wasn't the first person to start paying attention to Samsara's strength. In the first round of the regular season, they had been swept by Samsara. In the second half of the season, when the two teams switched home games, Happy wouldn't have been able to obtain three points.
However, their results in the regular season didn't affect Happy too much.
Blue Rain. Tyranny.
Hadn't these two teams defeated Happy twice in the regular season? But in the playoffs, the one who had the last laugh was Happy.
Using historical victories as a reference was something that the media loved to do. Their job was to find topics to talk about, and referencing the past confrontations between the two teams was undoubtedly a very accurate way of thinking.
But for pro players and pro teams, past defeats were just learning experiences. They wouldn't belittle themselves because of these defeats, but they would feel that defeating their opponents was difficult because of these defeats. Every match was a new beginning. Every victory needed to be created anew with both hands.
Samsara's failure to win in the regular season had nothing to do with the current situation.
On this point, Happy's belief was incomparably strong. They weren't held back by their past defeats. Under Ye Xiu's lead, they analyzed the Samsara team that they would be facing in the playoffs.
One day, two days …
The sky cleared after the rain.
Happy's home stadium, the Excellent Era party of the past, the Happy party, gradually began to appear on the streets that were dominated by Samsara's supporters. Everyone knew that Samsara had returned. The reigning champions, Team Samsara, who were charging towards their third consecutive championship, had graced City H with their presence.
As the saying went, a strong dragon couldn't suppress a local snake.
But as soon as Samsara arrived, the atmosphere of Happy's home stadium changed. It was as if a fierce dragon had crossed the river.
From this moment on, the surrounding areas began to increase security to prevent any conflicts between the two teams of fans. Fortunately, these fans were all Glory players. If there were any conflicts, 80% of the time, they would find a place to pull out their computers and start a Glory PK. Direct street brawls didn't fit the temperament of Glory's hardcore fans.
As a result, as a competitive sport, it was inevitable that there would be conflicts between fans. But situations that escalated to the point of endangering personal safety were extremely rare. This was because they had a different way of resolving conflicts. Most of them were happy to unleash their brains and violence in Glory.
The day of the match drew closer and closer. The two teams of fans gradually gathered. On the streets, the atmosphere seemed harmonious, but in private, who knew how many intense Glory PKs had already occurred in front of the computers in the surrounding Internet Cafes. One day, Happy's Wu Chen even left the Internet Cafe with a dark expression on his face with a group of people, majestically marching off to who knew where. But in the end, he still came back with a dark expression. He probably didn't get off easy.
Happy's side had Wu Chen, but Samsara was here for the finals. Their guild leader, Three Realms Six Paths, was the leader of the players. At this time, he was personally stationed in City H. Right now, he was leading a group of Samsara's subordinates and turning the Grand Internet Cafe into their battle center. The two teams hadn't officially started fighting yet, but the conflict between the fans of the two sides was already escalating. However, under the control of the two guild leaders, at least it didn't escalate into a field PK in the game. Most of the time, everyone settled their problems in the Arena.
Clearly, under these circumstances, the two guild leaders still didn't lose their cool. In a field PK, no matter who had the upper hand or who lost, the other guilds would take advantage of the situation. The two guild leaders didn't forget their true responsibilities. They didn't allow the conflict between the two teams to escalate and affect the balance of the game.
However, this was only temporary. After all, the match hadn't started yet. If the players' emotions were stirred up by the match, then they would explode. In the past, the two guilds had many large scale field battles in the playoffs. It was all because the guild leaders couldn't control the situation after a certain point.
Guild Excellent Dynasty supported Excellent Era. They were originally one of the strongest guilds in the game. But because they had reached the finals four times, each time a world war broke out. This time they fought one, the next they fought another. For four years, they fought another year, but their opponents kept changing. After four years of fighting, the Excellent Era's dynasty was interrupted. Excellent Dynasty's strength was also greatly damaged. Afterwards, when Glory became known as the Three Great Guilds, Tyrannical Ambition, Herb Garden, and Blue Brook Pavilion, the once prosperous Excellent Dynasty wasn't able to become one of the Four Great Guilds.
It was because of Excellent Dynasty's example that the other guilds were especially careful in this aspect.
After Excellent Era, Team Micrograss reached the finals three years in a row. A small war broke out, a large war broke out, and the third time passed peacefully.
The small war happened in Season 5, when they met Team Hundred Blossoms. At that time, Team Hundred Blossoms lost Sun Zheping due to a serious injury. In the finals, they were determined to win the championship for Sun Zheping, but unfortunately, they lost to Micrograss. After the match, the fans of the two sides immediately started fighting in the game, but at that time, Sun Zheping officially announced his retirement due to his injury. Team Hundred Blossoms wasn't in the mood for a world war. In the end, the matter was left unsettled.
In Season 6, Micrograss lost their consecutive championships to Blue Rain. After the match, the world war between the two sides was shocking. It could be said to be the fiercest battle in the history of the game. Because of this battle, the two teams became mortal enemies.
In Season 7, Micrograss met Team Hundred Blossoms again. Both teams had experience in the finals, so they understood the unfavorable situation of the war spreading to the guilds. As a result, this time, under the efforts of the two guild leaders, the situation in the game was controlled and no war broke out. This became the only peaceful resolution so far.
In Season 8 and Season 9, there were guild wars, but under the guidance of the respective guild leaders, they mostly just let out a sigh of relief and didn't hurt each other.
But this time, Samsara and Happy, two guilds that couldn't be called the top guilds in the game, began to lead the trend of a possible world war.
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