Chapter 83 This is a fan, be gentle!
Early the next morning, Zhang Wei arrived at the WCG Beijing Division competition site.
In today’s competition, the top eight players will determine the champion, second and third place. The competition format is double elimination. It doesn't matter if you lose a game. You just need to enter the loser's bracket. If you lose again in the loser's bracket, you will be eliminated.
So you only need to win two games in a row to enter the top three, and win three games in a row to enter the finals, guaranteeing a top two spot.
Looking at the list of players, three of the top eight players are from the wNv team, which is worthy of being a veteran e-sports team in China.
With the ID of the wNv team hanging, Zhang Wei finally found a player he had heard of: xiaOt!
xiaOt Sun Liwei is a veteran figure in Chinese e-sports. He debuted at the age of fourteen. He was the first StarCraft player and is known as a "genius boy". After transforming into Warcraft 3, he is also regarded as China's first generation of beast king.
After xiaOt retired, he established the eStar team. Players who follow Honor of Kings and CrossFire should know something about this team. This team has achieved good results in these two projects.
In fact, it is a bit far-fetched to say that xiaOt is the king of beasts. In his career, xiaOt has not won the world's top honors. At his peak, he did not have a dominant performance. At most, he was Dominate the country.
In the game of Warcraft, the three players who can truly be called the kings of beasts are those three: Grubby, the beast king of the Netherlands, Lyn, the beautiful beast king of South Korea, and Fly100%, the AV beast king of China.
The nicknames of these three are derived from their achievements, image and personal hobbies.
Special explanation, my personal hobby refers to watching, not shooting.
In 2004, grubby was already the top player in Europe, and the other two beast kings were still hanging out in Internet cafes.
The talented player xiaOt was the most famous player in the country at that time.
When xiaOt appeared on the field, he immediately attracted everyone's attention.
In the previous group match, xiaOt was placed in Group D. It was the first day of the competition and happened to be separated from Zhang Wei, so Zhang Wei saw xiaOt in person for the first time.
Compared with the photos of later generations, the current xiaOt still looks immature, not tall and thin, and looks like a middle school student.
xiaOt's game also attracted the entire audience. Dozens of people gathered behind xiaOt to watch him play.
The conditions in the sub-division area are simple, and there is no live broadcast of the game on a big screen. If the audience wants to watch the game, they can squat directly behind the players and watch from the first-person perspective of the players.
Being an e-sports audience in that era, you had to have very good eyesight. At that time, 17-inch monitors were still the mainstream, and you couldn’t see the screen clearly even from a few meters away.
However, the game atmosphere where the audience is right around you is indeed very good. Just imagine that you are playing games in an Internet cafe, and a large group of people are watching you. You make a beautiful move, and everyone around you applauds. Isn’t it quite a sense of accomplishment?
The first round of the quarter-finals was held at the same time. Everyone was paying attention to the star player xiaOt. Zhang Wei's game was naturally left out.
Zhang Wei’s opponent is also a member of the wNv team. Zhang Wei has never heard of him. This player uses night elves. When he encounters Zhang Wei’s wave, several arrow towers stand up. He was directly pressed to death at home.
Although Warcraft is a real-time strategy game, tactics still come first. Even if the operation of two people is one level worse, if the tactics are restrained, it will be difficult to win the game if the operation is good.
Zhang Wei's operation is actually very average, but SKY's tactical system is really ahead of its time.
Moreover, the wave flow used by Zhang Wei always eliminated the opponent's Tower Rush in the early and mid-term. There are no very cumbersome operations in the early stage of the game, which avoids losing competitive operations in the middle and late stages, and can cover up the shortcomings of his own operations to the maximum extent.
The opponent in the second game is an undead. Although the undead have an advantage in defense, this opponent has really never seen SKY's Ippolyu move, and they really can't defend Tower Rush. All correct options are circumvented.
Unknowingly, Zhang Wei, who has won two games in a row, has reached the finals of the winner's bracket. If he wins one more game, he is guaranteed to be the runner-up!
However, Zhang Wei still did not attract much attention at this time, and the audience's eyes were all focused on xiaOt.
XiaOt’s opponent this time is also a top player and has represented China in international competitions. A match between two star players is definitely better to watch.
When two strong players competed, xiaOt, who was in better condition, had the upper hand and had the last laugh.
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xiaOt, who had just defeated a master, was still surrounded by the joy of victory.
"Who is my next opponent? ZW? Never heard of it!"
The opponent is a stranger, and xiaOt is already used to it. When he goes abroad to play games, he often meets many players whose names he has never heard of.
xiaOt inquired again and found out that this ZW player was using Terran, and he immediately felt that he had made it to the finals.
Before SKY developed a wave of flow, the human race was always pressed to the floor and rubbed by the orcs.
Sitting next to the computer, xiaOt had just finished debugging the machine when he saw Zhang Wei coming across from him.
“Brother xiaOt, can we take a photo together?” Zhang Wei said and took out a point-and-shoot digital camera.
“A group photo?” xiaOt was slightly startled. The game hadn’t even started yet, and his opponent came to ask for a group photo first. What kind of trick is this?
Got it, this opponent is my fan!
Since you are my fan, do you want to show some mercy and be gentle during the competition?
xiaOt was full of thoughts, then he stretched out two fingers and made a gesture, completing the group photo.
Zhang Wei happily returned to his seat, thinking that when he got to the finals in China, he would have to take a photo with SKY.
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At the beginning of the game, xiaOt started with a prophet and brought two wolves to harass.
In this era of Warcraft, the orcs’ harassment of prophets at the beginning is a nightmare for all human players. The key point is that I don’t know what the human players were thinking at that time. Even though they knew they would be harassed, they were unwilling to build an arrow tower at home for defense, and they often opened mines naked. Isn’t this making it more difficult for themselves?
Based on the understanding of future games, towers must be built for defense, so Zhang Wei honestly built a tower at home.
When xiaOt's prophet arrived at the human family's home, they found that the towers had already been built. If the human race turned into three or four militiamen, there would be no room for harassment.
"It seems that this fan still respects me very much. He even built a defense tower at home! Forget it, since he is a fan, be gentle, stop harassing, and start leveling up!"
At this time xiaOt has a complete mentality of playing games with fans.
A few minutes later, the second technology was completed. As soon as xiaOt put down the second building and pressed the second hero Tauren Chief, he saw several small red dots on the map appearing near his base.
Cut the screen, Zhang Wei's great mage, with a beast king, as well as some infantry and militiamen, rushed over.
"The second hero is the Beast King? What kind of play is this?" xiaOt was slightly stunned, he had never seen this play before.
Next, the human race directly threw three towers on the ground, and the infantry cooperated with the summons and began to demolish the second building under construction by the orc race.
The building under construction was very fragile. After several rounds of attacks, xiaOt had to cancel the construction. At this time, xiaOt's troops had also returned to defense.
Seeing xiaOt return to defense, Zhang Wei did not continue the attack and huddled directly under his arrow tower, waiting for the arrow tower to be built.
xiaOt also realized that once the arrow tower was built, it would attack his own building, and he would be at a disadvantage by then, so he decisively launched a charge.
The offensive and defensive patterns changed instantly, Zhang Wei became the defensive side, and xiaOt became the offensive side.
But after a round of charge, xiaOt suffered a loss of soldiers and generals, and the arrow tower on the opposite side had already been built!
"Holy crap! What's going on? I'm going to lose! Is this attack so fierce? It's still in the arrow building tower, and it's about to hit my base! Aren't you a fan? Didn't you say yes to the fans? Do you need to be gentle? Why am I almost beaten to death by fans!"
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The key point of SKY's first wave is that when the second volume is upgraded, The mage brought the wave suppressed by the Beast King.
Since the Beast King is a neutral hero, it can be recruited directly from the tavern, and the time to create it is faster than creating a hero from your own altar.
This also makes it possible for two heroes to have an advantage over one hero when they are just upgraded.
In addition, the skills of the Archmage and the Beastmaster are both summons. The two heroes each bring two summons, which is equivalent to four more summons.
Therefore, there will be a point in time where two human heroes bring four summons to deal with one hero, six against one, giving an absolute advantage in strength.
And after optimization by many human players, SKY's wave of suppression tactics in the early and mid-term has gradually evolved into TowerRush's wave of stabbing you to death.
Zhang Wei used this tactic of arrow tower riding in the face.
It's like playing LOL or King of Glory. You only have one hero, but you have to fight with two of the opponent's heroes and a team of newly added soldiers within the attack range of the opponent's defense tower. Is this a big deal?
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Historically, SKY’s first wave of success was when they defeated xiaOt, which was at its peak. At that time, SKY was only using a rudimentary style of play and had already defeated xiaOt. Therefore, it is reasonable that xiaOt cannot resist the trend.
Seeing that his main base was about to be shot down by the arrow tower, xiaOt launched a wave of desperate charges. All the heroes and soldiers died, and then he had no choice but to play GG.
The spectators watching the battle behind them all let out incredible exclamations.
"xiaOt lost! xiaOt actually lost!"
"Who is the opponent? ZW? I have never heard of it, but he can beat xiaOt!"
"The key is that ZW is a human race. ! The human race fought against xiaOt, and they won!"
"I felt that xiaOt didn't even have any resistance! The opponent rushed over and killed xiaOt in one wave!"
"This ZW is already the winner's group champion, which means he has obtained a spot in the national competition! Whose general is this!"
"Huh? Isn't this ZW the one who asked for a photo with xiaOt just now? He is a fan of xiaOt! Or I took the photo for him!"
"What do you mean? xiaOt lost to a fan?"
The fact that xiaOt lost to his fans spread instantly among the audience.
After the game, xiaOt didn’t even want to shake hands with Zhang Wei.
Being surrounded by a large group of people watching the game, and if you win, everyone will cheer and applaud you. The atmosphere is great, and I feel great too.
But if you lose, the atmosphere will be really bad. Every sigh at this time seems to be stabbing you in the back!
The key is that I was beaten up by a fan!
This feeling is like when you hold a concert and then hand the microphone to a super enthusiastic fan, and the fan immediately gives you a dolphin sound, and his singing skills are better than yours.
Are you embarrassed? Is it a shame? Do you want to find a crack in the ground and crawl into it?
Thank you for your monthly support! This chapter is 3,000 words long, and it’s another part of e-sports that I feel guilty about. Every time I write about this plot, I’m afraid I won’t be able to read it. But this plot only lasts for one and a half chapters, and it will be over in the next chapter. Those who don’t understand World of Warcraft, hold on!
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