Chapter 196 The first round of the playoffs, starting with 301
In order to sign Su Mucheng, Chu Yunxiu and the others were willing to take a salary cut next season, but Wang Zi did not disclose this matter.
The most urgent thing now is not how to sign Su Mucheng.
Ye Xiu has agreed to join Misty Rain, and Su Mucheng is a bundler and cannot escape.
The most important thing for Yanyu right now is the Glory playoffs that will start in two days.
In the playoffs of the ninth season, the focus is how Team Mist and Rain will fight for the championship and how to complete Team Mist and Rain's second consecutive championship.
This season, Yanyu has the best record. Their opponent in the first round of the playoffs is Team 301.
This year’s Team 301 has also been strengthened. They not only introduced Glory’s chief judoka Li Yihui, but also introduced EU professional master Bai Shu from abroad.
Coupled with Yang Cong, the captain of 301, 301 has formed a Big Three team this year.
It’s just that the giant Li Yihui is a fake giant. With a wrong mentality, it will be difficult for him to return to the top.
But no matter what, the strength of Team 301 has increased a lot.
Being able to reach the playoffs this year is a good proof.
In addition to these two signings, there is another key point that has improved the 301 record, which is the change in Yang Cong's playing style this season.
Yang Cong is the number one assassin player in Glory. He debuted with Wang Jiexi. Like Wang Jiexi, he is one of the few good captains in the Glory League who sacrifices his personal honor for the team.
Everyone knows that assassins have a super powerful skill - a life-threatening blow. Tyranny also relied on Ji Leng's life-saving blow against Ye Xiu to defeat Excellent Era in the finals. , won the first championship in team history.
As the chief assassin player of Glory, Yang Cong has never made a life-saving blow in a team competition.
Without the assassin who threatens to risk his life with a single blow, the combat effectiveness will naturally be greatly reduced.
There is a saying that you don’t have to risk your life to strike, but you must be able to risk your life to strike.
In this way, we can threaten and deter the enemy.
But Yang Cong never had to risk his life in a team match, so he would not be able to have the proper deterrent effect on the enemy.
But why doesn't he use it?
That’s because skills like Life-Sacrificing Blow are a sure-kill move that will lead to death. Once Yang Cong uses Life-Sacrificing Blow, although he can kill his opponent, he will also be reduced to residual health, which is almost the same as Yu and the other party exchange one life for another.
If Yang Cong is just an ordinary main force of the 301 team, it doesn’t matter if he trades one life with his opponent, it’s not a loss.
But he is the captain of 301, and 301 is a weak team. Once he and his opponents die together, leaving a group of teammates with average strength, there will be no one to direct the battle.
So, for the sake of the team, he sacrificed his strongest killing move, just to make the team better.
This kind of sacrifice is exactly the same as Wang Jiexi of Team Tiny Herb.
Wang Jiexi gave up the magician style in order for his teammates to adapt to his own rhythm.
In order to keep leading his teammates, Yang Cong gave up his life-threatening killing move.
However, this year, the team has introduced two great players, Li Yihui and Bai Shu, especially Bai Shu, who is a tactical commanding knight player. With Bai Shu here, even if Yang Cong and his opponent die together, there will be Bai Shu continued to lead the team to fight.
So, this season Yang Cong no longer needs to hide himself, but can fight with confidence and boldness and become a true assassin player again.
This also caused 301's record to skyrocket.
Wang Zi is not careless about Team 301.
Now 301 is definitely a strong team, and Yang Cong, who has a sure-kill blow, is definitely a dangerous person.
Two days before the game, Wang Zi took Yanyu and others to study ways to deal with 301.
By watching the 301 game video, I came to the conclusion that the best way is to let one person trade with Yang Cong.
As for this candidate, the most suitable one is Li Hua.
The two professions are branches of the dark night system, one is an assassin and the other is a ninja. The nature of the professions is similar. If Li Hua can personally entangle Yang Cong and die together with Yang Cong, it will be the best result for the Yanyu team. . Wang Zi and the others have plenty of ways to deal with the remaining Li Yihui and Bai Shu.
The key question is whether Yang Cong is willing to trade with Li Hua. This depends on Li Hua's performance.
As long as Li Hua can entangle Yang Cong so that Yang Cong cannot deal with others, then Yang Cong's threat will not exist.
After the tactics were properly arranged, Team Yanyu finally made their first appearance in the playoffs.
The match between Yanyu and 301 was also the first playoff game of the ninth season.
The first game is at Yanyu’s home court.
Because of Yanyu’s current surge in popularity, the Olympic Stadium rented during the regular season can no longer meet the requirements of the Yanyu team.
So in the playoffs, Yanyu rented the Su Center Stadium, which can accommodate 50,000 spectators.
The 50,000 audience tickets, with an average price of 300 yuan per ticket, were sold out in one day, and many spectators were unable to buy tickets.
Fifty thousand tickets, with an average price of 300, total revenue from the tickets alone is 15 million!
This is the influence Yanyu had after winning the championship last year.
If Yanyu and 301 can play to the third game, then Yanyu can host one more playoff game and collect at least 15 million more in ticket revenue.
It’s no wonder that the league strictly prohibits match-fixing and the penalties for match-fixing are so severe.
How many cadres can withstand the temptation of 10 to 20 million yuan from a fake match?
However, Yanyu’s goal is to win the championship, and she will not ruin her future for a small sum of ten or twenty million.
On June 16, at 6:30 in the evening, the first round of the playoffs of the Glory Season 9 Professional League begins.
Members of Team Yanyu and Team 301 stood on the center stage of the stadium.
Chu Yunxiu extended his right hand towards Yang Cong with a smile on his face: "Team Yang, congratulations on reaching the playoffs this season."
Yang Cong also smiled and shook hands with Chu Yunxiu gently: "Congratulations."
Chu Yunxiu smiled and said: "But your playoff journey may end here. "
Yang Cong didn't show any weakness at all: "If that's the case, I will too. I can only accept it, but I believe that our 301 will advance."
"It depends on your performance."
The two captains finished their greetings. Afterwards, both sides returned to their seats and waited for the referee to confirm the player information.
After confirmation, the five-man roster for the arena competition was announced.
The five players on Misty Rain’s side in the group competition are: Wang Zi, Zhang Jiale, Li Hua, Chu Yunxiu and Lu Yining.
The five people competing in the arena at 301 are: Yang Cong, Li Yihui, Gao Jie, Zhang Fei, and Bai Shu.
There is nothing surprising about the lineup. They are the five players with the strongest singles ability from both teams.
The only surprising thing may be the first match between Wang Zi and Yang Cong.
Yang Cong is also a seasoned master in the league. He debuted with Wang Jiexi. Although he did not shock the entire league as soon as he debuted like Wang Jiexi, Yang Cong's talent is not bad, and he has been among the top masters in recent years.
Wang Zi is a talented newcomer who suddenly appeared last year. In his rookie season last year, he defeated three titled masters and was in the limelight for a while.
Facing the Chief Assassin player of Glory today, can Wang Zi still perform at a dominant level?
The moment the player list was announced, most netizens on the Internet were optimistic that Yang Cong would win.
After all, the assassin profession is the nemesis of the human shield profession.
Moreover, Yang Cong has a nickname, that is, the meat shield killer. He is a lone assassin who is feared by all the meat shield professional players in the league.
(End of this chapter)