Los Angeles time, January 14th, Saturday morning, Jingzhou local time, January 15th.
Today was the day of the IOI global finals' semifinals. FV Team was ready to leave.
In the hotel, Ye Zhizhou, Bao Xu, and the others waved goodbye to their team members and watched them board the minibus.
The backstage of the competition venue was limited and could not accommodate so many people. Ye Zhizhou, Bao Xu, and the others had already finished analyzing the data. They could rest for a while.
As the coach, Old Zhou brought a portion of the tactical team to the venue. Ye Zhizhou and the others could move around freely.
Of course, if new tactics appeared after the semifinals, they still had to continue analyzing and providing tactical support for FV Team.
It had been a week since the top eight competitions. During this week, many European and American teams had sent invitations to FV Team for mock competitions. FV Team's reply was the same: I'm sorry, our mock competitions are already full.
This was not a lie. After all, FV Team did have a full mock competition schedule with SUG and their own Team Two. They had more than ten hours of training every day.
It was just that FV Team was unwilling to change their training plan and fight with these European and American teams.
"Let's go have a drink?" Ye Zhizhou suggested.
The others readily agreed and went to a small bar nearby. This bar would broadcast the live broadcast of IOI's global finals. They would drink and watch the competition at the same time. It was simply wonderful.
However, they did not notice that in the corner of the lounge on the first floor of the hotel, there was a slightly bald Westerner quietly drinking coffee while paying attention to FV Team's situation.
Eric looked at FV Team's huge logistics team and could not help but fall into deep thought.
Some time ago, Eric's failure to promote IOI's local server had disappointed Dayak Corporation. Thus, they replaced Chrétien to be in charge of the operations of IOI's local server.
The domestic market was too huge. No multinational company wanted to give up.
After Chrétien took office, he made a series of drastic changes, including modifying IOI's gameplay, cooperating with Long Yu Corporation, and so on. From the looks of it, it was hard to say if it was a success or a failure, but at least it was done.
Thus, in the eyes of the upper echelons of Dayak Corporation, their trust in Chrétien was unprecedentedly stable.
This was very difficult for Eric to handle.
He was also one of the upper echelons of the Dayak Corporation, so it was impossible for him to be pushed to the bottom. His job and position in the company would be preserved no matter what.
However, those who could sit in this position were all ambitious. It was definitely hard for Eric to accept that Chrétien was doing better and better in his former position.
Eric did not give up. Instead, he chose to lie low and watch the battle between GOG and IOI silently while waiting for an opportunity to strike.
Although the current situation was very passive for Eric, and in the eyes of the outside world, he had no chance of making a comeback, Eric himself did not think so.
That was because he had seriously and thoroughly investigated Tengda's various methods of promoting GOG before returning to Los Angeles. He had even had a conversation with Boss Pei.
Eric knew very well that although Chrétien was doing well now, he could not succeed.
That was because Chrétien had no idea how terrifying Boss Pei was.
Eric knew very well that Chrétien's current methods, including changing the game, organizing the competition, and so on, were all used by Boss Pei a long time ago. How could he succeed if he used Boss Pei's methods to deal with Boss Pei?
Obviously, Boss Pei's counterattack had already begun unknowingly. FV Team was the way Boss Pei had found to break out of the situation.
From the domestic IOI qualifiers to the series of "performances" by FV Team in the international competition, there seemed to be Boss Pei's shadow. However, Eric did not intend to tell his judgment to Chrétien or the upper echelons of Dayak Corporation.
To Eric, his own interests were far greater than the interests of Finger Games. He would not be able to obtain the biggest bargaining chip for himself if he handed over the precious information now. What's more, it might not be accepted.
Eric took a sip of his coffee and stood up to leave.
The winner of the second round between Dayak Corporation and Tengda Corporation should be decided after the IOI global finals ended.
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At the same time, in Jingzhou …
Pei Qian had already woken up. He ate breakfast while waiting for IOI's global finals to begin.
After entering the semifinals and finals, the competition time was much friendlier to domestic players. After all, there was only one set of 'best-of-five' matches a day. There would be more freedom in scheduling.
"This opponent in the semifinals looks quite fierce. He should be able to be of some use, right?"
"It's not too much for you to win a small game against FV Team, right?"
Pei Qian inexplicably felt a little expectant.
There was still some time before the competition began. The screen was still playing the exciting performance of FV and their opponents in the top eight to warm up.
Pei Qian ate breakfast while watching the bullet screen comments in the live-stream.
"FV, charge! Come on! "
"I don't need you to improve anymore. Just stay where you are in the top eight. Let's do another 3: 0!"
"Come on, come on, come on!"
However, even at the critical moment before the foreign battle began, there were still haters who kept causing trouble and continued to spam words like 'GOG is entertaining itself'.
Pei Qian could not help but feel emotional. These fake reviewers were quite professional. Long Yu Corporation must have given them a lot of money.
Of course, there might be people who were not fake reviewers but pure haters.
However, the fake reviewers were working for money. Why were the haters still working so hard if they could not get any money? That was very puzzling.
Pei Qian had just taken a sip of his drink when he suddenly saw a bullet screen. He almost spat out the drink in his mouth.
"Stop arguing, haters. If you want to argue, go argue with the bickering machine!"
"AEEIS Fully-Automated Bickering Machine will satisfy all your requests for bickering!"
"The bickering machine is fun. I suggest that all haters have one."
"There are so many people who are being fished by haters? You're too young. Buy a bickering machine to train your mentality. After you're done with the bickering machine, you'll feel that the haters are too low. They're not worth fighting! "
Pei Qian was dumbfounded as he watched the bullet screen comments change direction for no reason.
"What's going on? Why did the topic change to the bickering machine? "
"Didn't they not sell much on Friday when I saw the sales volume?"
Pei Qian had been busy checking on the work of the various departments in the company for the past two days. He did not care about the bickering machine. In the end, something happened!
He quickly took his cell phone and opened the Merchant Shop to check. He realized that more than three hundred units had been sold in the cell phone Merchant Shop alone!
What's more, this was only the number of Otto Technologies cell phone owners had bought. The Fully-Automated Intelligent Bickering Machine was also on some other shopping platforms. Otto Technologies' official website was also selling it. The sales volume would be very impressive if all of them were added together!
"Could it be that Chang You did not listen to me and advertised it?"
Pei Qian quickly checked online but could not find any publicity about the Fully-Automated Bickering Machine.
"This is weird. It seems to have become popular for no reason. What's more, it seems to have become popular from the game forum?"
"F * ck! Old Qiao! "
Pei Qian finally found Qiao Liang's Weibo post after flipping through it for a long time. He gritted his teeth in anger.
However, he took a closer look at the comments and reposts on Weibo. They weren't high, right?
Obviously, Qiao Liang had played a role in the explosion of the Fully-Automated Bickering Machine, but he was not the main reason.
This kind of thing seemed to become popular naturally. There was no particularly obvious broadcast point, but everyone seemed to be particularly fond of it.
Pei Qian was completely confused as well. He really could not understand why everyone liked this thing.
The competition officially began while Pei Qian was confused.
The two commentators were also in their best state. They tried their best to drive the atmosphere in the venue and praised FV Team generously.
FV Team might not be favored by IOI officials, but they were the only remaining team in the country after all. If they did not praise FV, should they praise foreign teams? That would definitely not be appropriate.
Pei Qian could only comfort himself. "It's fine. You guys work hard and try to make FV Team fail …"
The competition quickly entered the BP interface.
On FV Team's side, Coach Old Zhou held a small notebook with a relaxed and indifferent expression. The team members were also chatting and laughing. They did not look like they were under any pressure.
The mentality before the competition was very important. It was important to be serious and serious, but if they were too tense, it was very likely that the team members would be restrained and perform poorly.
What's more, FV Team had already made sufficient preparations in terms of tactics. The team members were also in a fiery state. Of course, they were full of confidence.
On the other hand, the opponent was also full of confidence.
This was especially so for the other party's coach. He stood behind the team members with a small notebook in his hand, looking like he was strategizing and high-spirited.
This coach looked to be in his early thirties. His beard was neatly trimmed, and he was dressed in a suit and leather shoes. He looked very reliable.
Pei Qian heaved a sigh of relief. They were already in the semifinals. There were indeed no weak teams.
The top eight had been played a week ago. The other party must have studied the competition footage repeatedly and found a way to target FV Team.
Everything was normal in the Ban segment. The other party had banned the heroes that FV Team had performed well in the top eight previously. It was FV Team's turn to choose first.
Then, FV Team chose a hero that had zero appearances in this international competition.
The camera turned to the image of the other party's coach. The previously confident coach's expression changed from confidence to doubt, and then to confusion.
He looked at the game screen in disbelief, almost thinking that he had seen wrongly.
Then, he began to communicate crazily with his team members.
Although he spoke in English and the content of the exchange was not broadcasted, the audience could still roughly guess what he was talking about.
"Can you fight this hero?"
"Which path is it?"
"This should be specially targeted at the popular system. Which one is it targeting …"
The coach was confused. He did not understand why FV wanted to snatch this hero. What's more, he had never fought with this hero in the mock competition before!
Seconds passed by. The other team obviously did not manage to figure it out. In the end, they chose two heroes that they thought were strong in the version and played the tactics that they were best at and most familiar with.
However, this seemed to be exactly what FV Team wanted. Old Zhou did not hesitate at all and got his team members to lock down two more heroes in seconds to specifically target the other party's best tactics!
This one second lock directly produced a strong psychological deterrent effect.
One side thought about it over and over again before locking down the hero until the time ran out. The other side locked it down without hesitation. The difference was obvious.
Pei Qian sighed melancholically, deeply worried about the fate of the other team.
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