The opening ceremony of the GPL's Spring Competition was relatively simple. First, the promotional video for the Spring Competition was broadcasted on the big screen. Then, the captains of the various teams appeared on stage. The host introduced the origins and celebrity players of these clubs to the audience.
The captains of the sixteen teams corresponded to the sixteen flags in the venue. They also corresponded to the sixteen warriors dressed as heroes in the promotional video and CG.
The audience at the venue was also a veteran audience. They were very supportive as they applauded and cheered incessantly.
Then, the competition officially began.
Strictly speaking, the scene of the GPL's Spring Competition was much worse than the IOI World Finals. After all, they were not on the same level in terms of positioning. The IOI World Competition was held in a large venue that could accommodate 20,000 people. The scene was definitely much more grand than the GPL's Spring Competition.
However, the advantage of the GPL's Spring Competition was that the details were better.
From the beginning of the GOG international invitational tournament to the later pre-season competitions, the entire operations team of the GPL had accumulated a lot of experience.
On one hand, the rules were clear, and the various emergency plans were very detailed. The probability of problems occurring was very low. Even if problems occurred, they could be resolved quickly and would not cause too serious a broadcast accident.
On the other hand, they had more or less figured out the audience's preferences. They would do their best in the necessary segments and cut off all unnecessary segments.
It was just like how many E-Sports competitions liked to have cosplay or song and dance performances at the opening ceremonies. However, most audience members were not interested in this. Thus, the GPL completely cut off such unnecessary segments to give the audience the purest viewing experience.
Thus, the audience's perception was that the GPL venue was relatively small, but it was very formal in all aspects. From the details, they could tell how much effort they had put into preparing for the competition. Thus, it would not look cheap.
Soon, the competition officially began.
SHG might be a new team but they performed very well. They dared to fight and fought with the H4 Club for three rounds before losing regrettably.
However, even so, SHG's performance still won the applause of the audience. Some bright decisions and operations caused a heated discussion on the forum.
Pei Qian was also very satisfied. He took out his cell phone and opened the live-stream, wanting to see the netizens' reactions.
However, there were some discordant comments on the bullet screen.
"The H4 World Champion is just like that? They fought back and forth with a new team that had just been formed? "
"From this, we can see the value of GOG's international invitational tournament.
"With H4's strength, they can still beat up foreign teams. I don't need to say more about the quality of those foreign teams that they hired, right?"
"I have long said that GOG's competitive standards are not good. The so-called 'dominance' of domestic teams is only because no one plays it overseas!"
"What's so great about paying a foreigner to accompany you?"
"Amuse yourself, amuse yourself, amuse yourself …"
A group of unknown people were crazily 'entertaining themselves' in the live-stream, belittling the value of the GPL and even GOG's international invitational tournament.
This was the same as the previous post 'Domestic E-Sports Started Late, Has Weak Foundation, and Has to Continue to Work Hard'. It kept using the wrong logic to brainwash the netizens: GOG tortured foreign teams because no one played it overseas, so it was not worth much; IOI lost to foreign teams because the local people were not good enough, so it was worth much more.
In the end, he concluded that IOI was much better than GOG.
This argument had already been made once before. Now that the GPL competition had started, it was brought up again. Obviously, these people with ulterior motives were trying to attack the popularity of the GPL Spring Competition and promote the IOI Global Finals.
Many GOG players were very angry. They argued with these players in the live-stream and forum, but it was useless.
These troublemakers were all professional haters. If you presented them with facts and reason, they would pretend not to see it. They would only use their own twisted logic to pester you endlessly. They would also use sarcasm and personal attacks against you. Once you got carried away and started arguing with them, you would fall into their trap.
The two groups of people arguing with each other caused the GPL live-stream to be filled with foul air. The competition was originally very exciting, but no one discussed the content of the competition. They were all arguing, which greatly affected the feeling of watching the competition.
Pei Qian was not angry at all. Instead, he was very happy.
Long Yu Corporation and Boss Zhao had finally worked. How touching!
They would be able to watch FV Club's competition at 5 AM tomorrow morning. If FV Club lost, it would definitely be very lively online!
Pei Qian did not think that this bit of public opinion would affect the GPL league's profitability, but it was better than nothing!
Pei Qian decided to rest early tonight. He would wake up at 5 AM tomorrow to watch FV Club's competition.
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At 1 PM on the 7th in Los Angeles, 5 AM on the 8th in Jingzhou, the top eight of IOI's global finals officially began!
There were a total of four 'best-of-five' matches in the top eight. They would be played on Saturday and Sunday in Los Angeles time. FV Team would be the first to compete against the European club, CEM Team, who had previously killed domestic teams in the group stages.
CEM was also a veteran European and American team that was similar to FRY. They had shown extremely strong dominance in the group stages. They had qualified from the group stages with a 4-0 result, and they had even tortured the domestic team in the same group until they could not lift their heads.
The staff of FV Club were all waiting backstage. Wu Yue and Manager Lu looked a little nervous.
They had complete trust in the strength of their players, but the outcome of E-Sports was not that absolute. The other party was not a weak team, and FV Club did not have 100% confidence in winning.
What's more, this was an offline competition. The European and American teams were considered to be fighting on their home ground. It was hard to say if the players would lose their mentality and perform abnormally because of the other party's cheers.
"It's time!"
Someone shouted, and everyone turned to look at the screen backstage.
At the same time, thunderous applause and cheers came from the venue!
CEM was the first to appear. All five members had confident smiles on their faces as they waved at the audience, enjoying the applause and cheers.
FV Club was next. The audience at the venue was also very respectful. The cheers might be lower than CEM Team's, but they were also very enthusiastic.
FV Club had been working on Twitter and interacting frequently with various major clubs after all. Thus, they had also gained quite a reputation among foreign players.
However, the netizens on foreign live-stream platforms were not so kind. "3: 0" and "cn" were all over the place.
noob”。
Obviously, most foreign audiences only felt that FV Club was very good at performing, but they did not recognize their competitive strength.
In the hearts of most audiences, this would be a competition without any suspense. FV Club would probably find it difficult to even get a small point.
The members of FV Club could not see the bullet screen comments. Of course, they would not be affected. They only enjoyed the cheers and applause at the venue, waiting to use their performance in the competition to conquer the 20,000 spectators.
The top eight and top four competitions were not that fancy. The competition quickly entered the BP segment.
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At the same time, Pei Qian had just woken up.
He turned on the television, took out potato chips and Coke, and sat on the sofa. He happened to see the BP segment between the two teams.
The bullet screen comments were still very chaotic. The players were fighting.
Some were sarcastic and GOG was for their own entertainment. Some kept spamming 'swim back', some cheered for FV Team, and some kept spamming meaningless numbers to block the screen. There was no viewing experience at all.
Obviously, the fake reviewers hired by Long Yu Corporation had angered GOG's players at GOG's opening battle yesterday. Today, GOG's players had also come to IOI's competition to fight back.
In the end, the bullet screen comments on both sides could not be watched anymore.
Pei Qian was speechless as well. However, just as he was about to close the bullet screen, he saw a series of question marks floating across the screen.
“？？？？”
"FV is so stubborn? Releasing Chaos Misfortune? "
"There were a total of four rounds in the group stage, and all of them were destroyed. Why are they still releasing it?"
"Don't tell me FV Club doesn't know how perverted this hero is because they didn't play mock competitions? That's not right. Even if they don't play mock competitions, they should at least watch the group stage, right? "
"I understand. Perhaps FV felt that they would be defeated 3: 0 anyway. They could find an excuse to release Chaos Misfortune to make it seem that they did not lose because they were noobs, but because of the BP problem. This wave, this wave of FV is on the fifth level! "
"You can turn off the live-stream now. Go have breakfast. Come back in 30 minutes to watch the second round!"
"You really have your FV!"
"I've already seen the next script. Chaos Misfortune will develop in twenty minutes and end the competition in three waves."
"Who is the coach of FV Club? How could they release this thing? I'm afraid there's something wrong with their brains, right? Or could it be that the food and accommodation conditions in Los Angeles are too good that their brains are rusty? "
"The coach seems to be … Old Zhou? Holy sh * t, isn't that the original support player of DGE Club? "
"Huh? Someone who plays GOG came over to be the head coach? That's f * cking ridiculous. No wonder they released Chaos Misfortune! This isn't f * cking playing GOG, brother! "
Previously, several groups of people had been arguing non-stop in the bullet screen comments. They had been attacking each other with repetitive words, just like a group of heroes fighting in a chaotic battle. However, after the BAN ended and CEM snatched the hero 'Chaos Misfortune', the bullet screen comments were immediately unified.
All of them were criticizing FV Club!
Only then did many people notice that the BP coach on stage was Zhou Pengyuan.
As a former GOG celebrity player, Zhou Pengyuan had not appeared in the public eye ever since he came to Los Angeles.
This was his first time going on stage for a BP. In the end, he released Chaos Misfortune, which was widely recognized as a purple team that would definitely be banned in this version. It could be said to be amazing.
Pei Qian was a little curious. He searched for the hero 'Chaos Misfortune' on Qiandu.
This was a new hero that had only appeared in IOI recently. It looked like a dark cloud. It was a long-range hero, but its range was only slightly higher than that of a melee fighter. Its strength was that it had good team control ability in the middle and late stages. What's more, it was tanky and had output. Once it entered the team battle stage, it would almost definitely win.
There were a total of four rounds in the group stages, and all the teams that were released were smashed to pieces without exception.
Everyone thought that this hero should have bought a house in the BAN position and would never appear in the elimination competition. They did not expect FV Club to release it immediately.
Pei Qian could not help but feel invigorated. FV Club was not bad. They had lived up to his expectations!
This style reminded Pei Qian of the legendary Iron Man Three and Five Iron Man Five Iron Man Gallio. He was iron-headed and did not want to win.
Pei Qian chewed on his potato chips as he watched the competition.
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