Before playing against the FJ team, they had to play against a mid-to-lower-level team - the WWW team, also jokingly called the URL team or the Surfing team. They always hovered on the edge of the playoffs but could never make it, so they simply started to use some tricks, and the results were good in every game.
Although the results may not be good, the team's popularity has clearly increased.
Before the match, Gu Yang told the players in the locker room, "They never follow a routine in picks and bans. I can't figure out the patterns. I wouldn't be surprised if Teemo went jungle and Lee Sin went top."
Xu Qing joked, "Go knock on the door next door, you never know if you'll see the lineup you mentioned one day."
Gu Yueshuang happened to be researching some strange lineups recently, and asked, "Are these two feasible?"
Zhou Yao quickly dispelled her thoughts: "How can Lee Sin play top lane? Not to mention the difficulty clearing the minion wave, his skills are too easily affected by the minion wave. I have to move around if I want to attack. And the opposing jungler is always ganking, making it difficult to escape."
Qin Ye said succinctly: "No, Teemo is too slow in clearing the jungle."
"Is that so..." Gu Yueshuang pondered, "Team 3W can come up with such a strange lineup, they must have trained privately..."
Gu Yang was afraid that she would get stuck in a rut, so he said, "First, practice the chosen lineup of the version. Don't blindly follow them. It's easy to get into trouble."
Gu Yueshuang shook her head: "We are now almost in an open BP situation. It's too easy to target us."
Although they have won three consecutive games so far, their shortcomings are also obvious - the players' hero pools are too shallow.
During the draft, you can tell who is using which hero at a glance. There are fewer games now, so they haven't been fully studied yet.
After playing a few more games, it will be difficult for them to get their most comfortable heroes and lineups.
Gu Yueshuang's idea was relatively simple. Either she could take up more BAN slots so that her teammates could get the heroes they were comfortable with; or she could train a hero that would not be banned and could fight five people at once.
She used to play by intuition, but was forced to learn how to command in the secondary league, but the effect was not very good, so she habitually did not have any illusions about her teammates.
Acceptance is one thing, trusting it is another.
Lin Yanqiu rubbed her hair and said gently, "You don't have to think about carrying it alone. There are five of us playing together."
Her hair is soft and fluffy, and feels very nice to touch.
Gu Yueshuang subconsciously slapped his hand away and said, "You can't touch a girl's head..."
The moment she blurted out the words, she realized that she was wrong and quickly changed her words, saying, "Even if you are beautiful, you can't touch a boy's head casually."
Lin Yanqiu's face darkened a little.
Because of his poor physical condition and prone to illness, his classmates had been teasing him as "Lin Daiyu" for many years.
He was finally freed from this kind of teasing after leaving school, and he didn't want to be called "sister" as a feminine name anymore.
Xu Qing thought she was still playing the same joke, so he said, "Don't let a joke drive all our junglers away. We don't have any substitutes on our team, and we can't handle a two-on-five situation."
Gu Yueshuang made up an excuse: "I just finished styling my hair, I can't touch it casually-"
Zhou Yao laughed: "I didn't realize you were the type of person who would rather 'have your head cut off, bleed, but not mess up your hair'."
Lin Yanqiu calmed down and realized that it was not right for him to touch someone else's hair casually. He said, "I'm sorry. But don't call me beautiful anymore."
Gu Yueshuang blinked, wanting to say that he was indeed handsome. Red lips, white teeth, delicate features, a standard beauty, why couldn't she say that?
Lin Yanqiu's ears turned red from her fixed gaze, and as if to emphasize, he added, "Anyway, you are not allowed to say it."
Gu Yueshuang: “…Oh.”
She scratched her head in confusion, thinking that this might be the little thoughts of men, so she just went along with it.
Each of them has very strange thought processes and they might suddenly get angry at any moment, but fortunately they have a short memory and don't hold grudges.
The staff came to remind us: "Get ready to go on stage."
A group of people stood up and lined up on one side of the stage entrance.
Generally speaking, they would stand in order of their profession, with Gu Yueshuang in the middle, but before going on stage, she was used to standing on the other side to keep a distance from the group of men.
The 3W team members on the other side saw them standing so far apart and shouted, "Are you having a conflict?"
Xu Qing explained, "Don't worry about it. Their team just loves to chat and they're really good at it."
Gu Yueshuang never wanted to lose an argument, and Youzai replied, "Yes, we had an argument over who would get the MVP award."
The 3W team members chuckled and said, "Then we will definitely win the MVP."
Only if you win will you have the chance to be selected as MVP.
Unexpectedly, the joke came true and the 3W team won the first game.
POG got a strong bottom lane combination of Xayah and Rakan, while the opponent's bottom lane was Lucian and Blitzcrank, and the mid laner was Galio.
This auxiliary has excellent awareness, and the robot can basically hook anyone accurately. As long as Lin Yanqiu is hooked by him, he will lose half his life if he doesn't dodge.
Seeing that he was easy to catch, the opponents kept targeting the bottom lane, often using four-on-two attacks.
Only ten minutes into the game, the bottom lane tower already had only the last layer of plating left.
"Why is the mid laner here again?"
Lin Yanqiu was a little anxious after being beaten - he hadn't been targeted like this for a long time, and Gu Yueshuang rarely let the opponent's mid laner run around.
Gu Yueshuang was also a little confused: "This Galio doesn't eat the minion wave..."
The mid laners I encountered in the past would at least push the line before supporting other lanes. 3W's mid laner simply treated himself as a support and did not greedily take on soldiers. As long as there was no risk of the middle tower falling, he would not be on the line.
And even if he returns to the line, he is not reluctant to share his line of troops with the jungler.
He and Gu Yueshuang are completely two extremes.
The bottom lane was disconnected early, resulting in the lower half of the jungle being occupied by WWW. Qin Ye also lost the rhythm, and POG might not even be able to find a way to turn the game around.
After the first game, the POG players returned to the lounge covered in dust.
Gu Yueshuang was a little confused. She knew that the 3W team liked to play tricks, but she didn't expect them to be so exaggerated.
"How can there be four people protecting one person protecting Lucian?"
She was puzzled. Lucian was not a late-game hero, and this lineup had no damage at all in the late game.
Gu Yang knocked her head with a pen to sober her up, saying, "This is what I need to consider, not you. I'm done with the draft, so you players should just focus on winning, not on how this draft came about."
The atmosphere in the locker room after a loss is always not good.
The regular season is BO3, best of three games. If they win the next two games, they can still get this small point.
Zhou Yao was impatient: "This lineup will definitely give us an advantage in the late game. The bottom lane disconnected too early."
Xu Qing's tone wasn't very good either. "They're always four-on-two. It's like the top, mid, and jungle are all occupying the bottom lane. Your top and mid are neither developing nor holding the opponent. How are you going to play the bottom lane?"
Lin Yanqiu pressed his forehead, looking like he had a headache, and his tone was a little weak: "We were targeted too hard, and there was no way we could leave the tower."
Xu Qing complained: "Not only is it not safe to leave the tower, it's not even safe under the tower."
Fang Butao added, "The vision is terrible too. Your map is completely dark."
——Although it is usually very dark, Xu Qing will still go out to place a few wards. Although there is less visible vision on the map, it is not a complete blind spot like today.
Gu Yueshuang asked, "Does this match look similar to the training match we played against Team FJ?"
Zhou Yao took a breath and said, "It seems to be true."
He suddenly understood why Team FJ retreated after fifteen minutes.
It collapsed too quickly, and there was no hope at all in the later stages. If I stepped out and looked at it, I might be able to win by dragging it to the later stages, but when I was on the court, there was no hope at all.
The more anxious you are, the more mistakes you will make.
Xu Qing asked tentatively, "Let's pick Xayah and Rakan mid and jungle in the next game, fighting poison with poison?"
Gu Yang asked: "Do you want to ban the robot?"
Gu Yueshuang had never been hooked by the robot, so she looked at the bottom lane group.
After all, it will be them, not her, who will be facing off against them.
Under normal circumstances, Lin Yanqiu might want to compete with him, but today he was a little powerless.
If they lose another game, they'll lose that point. A perfect regular season would earn them 19 points, but they've already got three and lost two. He doesn't want to lose a single point going forward.
This kind of thinking invisibly increases the invisible mountain of pressure on your back.
Although he always comforted Gu Yueshuang and told her not to carry it alone, when it came to himself, he couldn't help but get stuck in a rut.
After all, Gu Yueshuang is young and it is her first time playing in LPL, so there is no reason to let her carry the team forward.
He is different. He is a senior and should stand up now to stabilize the morale of the troops.
——But for some reason I couldn’t open my mouth, I wanted to speak but no sound came out.
There was a voice in his heart that kept reminding him——
The opponent obviously does not have a late-game lineup.
If he could hold out a little longer in the bottom lane, maybe he could win?
Would it be better if he got hooked one less time?
Seeing him hesitate, Xu Qing said, "BAN it. My robot is not good at playing. If I play well, we can grab it first."
As he spoke, he forced a smile to try to comfort everyone.
Zhou Yao clapped his hands: "Be optimistic, brothers, don't be depressed, we still have two more chances."
Fang Butao patted their shoulders one by one and said, "Right, right, right. Relax a little and don't put too much pressure on yourself. It's okay if you lose. It's only one point. There will be many more opportunities later."
"Go away, stop saying such discouraging things." Gu Yang pushed him aside and said to the other players, "Don't think about anything else. Just focus on playing well in this match. Fight hard and don't regret it later when you review the game."
"good!"
Everyone seemed to agree, but in fact, their smiles were uglier than crying. The atmosphere was still heavy and had not improved.
We are just pretending to be optimistic.
When everyone left the lounge and only Fang Butao was left alone, he shook his head and said, "These kids are good at pretending to be mature, but their ability to withstand setbacks is still not very good."
POG chose the Xayah, Rakan, mid and jungle lineup as planned, which actually fooled the WWW team.
When people saw that it was Frost who took Xayah and punished, there was an uproar at the scene, and the live broadcast room was full of question marks.
3W's team voice chat also sighed: "They are quite good at playing. Xayah and Rakan mid and jungle? So bold."
In the first fifteen minutes, POG was indeed leading.
But starting from the fifteenth minute, POG seemed to have changed players and suddenly started making some low-level mistakes. The support was caught when he went into the bush, the output was killed instantly when he moved too aggressively, and the jungle resources could not be controlled. None of the five players were normal.
Fang Butao's understanding of the game was not very good, but he knew that there was a high probability of losing this game when he looked at the status of the five players on the court.
Gu Yang was so angry that he slapped his thigh: "You are so anxious."
They knew this lineup couldn't sustain a late-game lead, and fifteen minutes was a crucial point for them. In the previous game, 3W's lead at fifteen minutes was larger than theirs in this set.
Tension is contagious. When one person starts making low-level mistakes out of anxiety, the entire team will become nervous. The more nervous they are, the more likely they are to make mistakes, and the more mistakes they make, the more nervous they become, thus falling into a vicious cycle.
Gu Yang looked at the dejected children, not knowing how to comfort them. He tentatively asked, "How about we take half a day off to adjust our mood? We can review it tomorrow afternoon?"
No one answered.
I don't even have the face to take a holiday.
Gu Yang smiled awkwardly twice, trying to ease the atmosphere: "Don't look so sad, go back and have a good meal first, or you won't scare Grandpa Lin next door."
Fang Butao pulled him aside and said, "Let them recover on their own. This isn't just a problem for one person."
Gu Yang also seemed to be deflated: "I have problems too."
Fang Butao also remained silent. It was useless for him to say anything at this moment as this group of people would not listen.
They have to come out on their own.
The group of people were absent-minded while eating. Chef Lin couldn't stand the lifeless children, so he simply went back to his room to sleep and let them wash the dishes themselves.
A group of people finished their meal in silence, cleared the table in silence, and washed the dishes in silence.
Fang Butao really couldn't understand why these kids were so fragile at such a young age. They were so depressed just because they lost a game.
He also didn't understand why people on the Internet were so angry. Usually, there were not many people interacting on the official blog, but today, after the game, there were two thousand comments within ten minutes, all of which were curses.
It’s just a loss of a game, is that a big deal?
If POG loses the game, their regular season ranking will fall behind for a short time. They need to win a few more BO3s and break into the top eight in the regular season standings to have a chance to enter the playoffs.
These audience members didn't lose anything, so why are they getting so angry?
At most, the audience who came to watch the game felt that they had lost out, but they didn't have many fans at the scene.
Fang Butao couldn't stand the oppressive atmosphere any longer and said, "I'll go walk the dog for you."
Lin Yanqiu nodded: "Okay, thank you Brother Tao."
"I……"
Gu Yang hesitated to speak.
He was not good at comforting people. He said he would give them half a day off today, but the children didn't seem happy.
Normally, when the time comes to have a holiday, everyone can’t wait to have fun.
Lin Yanqiu was very polite: "Coach, please help us research our next opponent. FJ is a tough guy. Thank you for your hard work."
"Okay." Gu Yang agreed, but he was still worried and warned them seriously, "Go to bed early. It's over now and we need to prepare for the next one."
"good."
Lin Yanqiu smiled bleakly.
The five people returned to the base but no one turned on the computer. The base was unusually quiet today.
It's rare for the lights in the training room to be turned off so early. Usually, the lights here are on until at least three in the morning.
At about midnight, Gu Yueshuang could no longer hear any noise downstairs. Even the dog next door was asleep, and the base was unusually quiet.
She was afraid of waking others, so she didn't dare turn on the light and went downstairs to the training room in the dark.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I reached the first floor, someone pulled me over and covered my mouth.
Gu Yueshuang subconsciously wanted to throw him over her shoulder, and then she heard a familiar voice——
"Shh, don't make any noise, it's me."
Gu Yueshuang slapped his hand away: "Lin Yanqiu?"
"Hiss..." Lin Yanqiu took a breath of cold air. This slap was much harder than the one she had hit him in the daytime.
"Sorry, sorry..."
Gu Yueshuang secretly thanked herself for restraining herself in time. If she had really been thrown over the shoulder, it would probably have woken up everyone in the building.
Lin Yanqiu wondered, "Are you using milk-scented shampoo?"
Why do I always smell like milk?
"How is that possible?" Gu Yueshuang rolled her eyes in disgust, but unfortunately he couldn't see the eyes in the dark.
Gu Yueshuang asked: "Don't you have a headache? Why don't you sleep?"
Lin Yanqiu walked over to turn on the computer and said, "I can't sleep."
Gu Yueshuang: "Me too, I'm lying in bed with my mind full of my plans for today's meal. My phone screen is too small to see clearly, so I want to review it on a big screen."
——It was actually an excuse. To them, small screens and big screens were the same. She actually wanted to practice RANK more.
But she was afraid that if she started RANKing, Lin Yanqiu would not sleep even more.
If you don’t get enough sleep, your resistance will be lowered. If Lin Yanqiu gets sick again, it will probably be her responsibility.
As soon as the two people turned on their computers, Zhou Yao and Qin Ye also came down in the dark. They were stunned for a moment when they saw that the screen was on even though the lights were not on.
Zhou Yao: "Hey, I thought I was the only one who couldn't sleep. So you all can't sleep too?"
Gu Yueshuang was furious: "The more I think about it, the angrier I get. I didn't feel this frustrated even when I lost consecutive RANKs and dropped from 1,000 points in King to Master."
Zhou Yao asked, "Where's Xu Qing? That kid must be unable to sleep."
Lin Yanqiu: "I went out to buy barbecue."
Gu Yueshuang wondered: "Why not order takeout?"
They were in the villa area, and it took at least half an hour to walk to the barbecue restaurant.
Lin Yanqiu pursed her lips and said, "Maybe he couldn't sleep and was afraid of disturbing me, so he just found an excuse to go out."
Zhou Yao raised his phone and said, "You don't know how much of a scoundrel this guy is. He couldn't sleep and didn't dare walk at night because he was afraid of the dark, so he ran next door to wake up Brother Hei."
Everyone: “…”
With all this commotion, the atmosphere wasn't so oppressive anymore. Gu Yueshuang said, "Tell him to buy more. I'm hungry too."
Qin Ye: "Replay?"
"Come."
A few people simply pulled out a projector and a screen, so that they didn't have to turn on the lights and the four of them could review the situation together.
Zhou Yao said: "It's really not a problem of operation, but a problem of mentality."
The loss in the first set gave them a bad psychological hint, making them think they would win if they could drag the game to the later stages. But in the second set, they felt they would definitely lose if they dragged the game to the later stages.
It's all negative psychological suggestion, and every operation is distorted.
When Xu Qing came back with the barbecue, he saw four people gathered in the training room and reviewing their work on the projector. He was stunned: "You guys didn't even wait for me to review? I'm so ashamed to bring you barbecue."
A few people shared the barbecue with a smile. Zhou Yao said firmly, "I'm sure you've reviewed it yourself... It's not too late to come now."
Xu Qing bit the meat off the skewer viciously and said, "I really doubted my mentality for playing professionally for a while. The more I thought about it, the angrier I got."
Gu Yueshuang smiled bleakly: "Who isn't?"
Xu Qing walked over and gave her a bottle of iced Coke, saying, "I brought this especially for you. I thought you had a really good attitude, but today you seem to be in such a mess."
"Thank you." Gu Yueshuang took the Coke and cooled her face, then shrugged. "It's mainly because when we lost the game before, my teammates had bigger problems than me, so I felt confident in scolding them, you know? But this time, it's really my fault that's bigger..."
So mourning is inevitable.
Qin Ye glanced at her strangely and asked, "Are you still stuck in a rut?"
Gu Yueshuang: "No."
——You answered too quickly, it’s obvious that you are guilty.
Lin Yanqiu asked: "Did you read the forum today?"
Gu Yueshuang: “No.”
Lin Yanqiu asked again: "You didn't follow your own pace?"
Gu Yueshuang: “No.”
Lin Yanqiu breathed a sigh of relief: "Let's uninstall it for a while."
Gu Yueshuang: "Ah?"
She thought there was something strange going on and subconsciously wanted to take out her cell phone.
Lin Yanqiu quickly held her down and explained hastily, "Reading forums when you're not in a good mood can easily lead to depression and getting stuck in a rut."
Gu Yueshuang thought about it and knew what the content of the forum would be without even having to think about it.
I scold myself so often that I have experience.
"I'll uninstall it so you don't keep nagging me."
Gu Yueshuang uninstalled several e-sports related apps in front of them.
When you are feeling down, reading the scolding can help you sober up and be less arrogant.
But there is no need to look at it when you are feeling discouraged. You are already at the bottom of the valley, and if you find someone to throw stones at you, you will be buried by the stones if you cannot climb up by stepping on them.
She was very clear that there was something wrong with her mentality, so she uninstalled it decisively.
Zhou Yao suddenly laughed out loud and said, "Actually, sometimes I don't even feel like you're only seventeen. You're more stable than many people in their thirties or forties."
He is also very sensible and corrects his mistakes as soon as he realizes them, but he is extremely persistent in what he has decided on and no one can persuade him otherwise.
Gu Yueshuang thought to herself, yes, after all, I have lived a few decades longer than you.
Zhou Yao continued, "I thought you would cry after winning the first game, but you didn't. You were so calm, as if that was the way it should be."
Xu Qing thought differently: "I thought he would cry if he lost. He was beaten up and scolded so badly when he came to the LPL. If it were me, my mentality would have collapsed. But he took the lead in scolding himself online... Anyway, I don't have that mentality."
Zhou Yao echoed: "Really, I've been playing for several years and I haven't developed this mentality yet."
Sometimes I even get so angry at the bad reviews online that I can’t sleep.
Sometimes, even though it is clearly not his fault, he is still scolded by netizens.
When he looks at those bad reviews, he can't help but think: "What the hell do you know?"
But I still can't help but feel resentful in my heart. Once I have some free time, I get so angry at these hurtful remarks that I want to punch the wall.
Zhou Yao added, "I'm actually quite relieved. Perhaps it's only when you're so angry you can't sleep that I really think you're like a minor."
Qin Ye: "There are also times when I can come up with some weird BP routines."
Lin Yanqiu added: "And using milk-scented shower gel, childish."
Gu Yueshuang: “?”
False accusation!
Xu Qing was curious: "Are you still secretly drinking milk? Do you want to grow taller?"
Gu Yueshuang: “???”
Lin Yanqiu: "It's actually pretty good to be a kid. If the sky falls, my brothers will carry it."
Gu Yueshuang knew they were trying to comfort her, but she always didn't know how to respond to their kindness, so she simply retorted: "Oh, you're comforting me on the surface, but you're actually just talking to yourself."
Lin Yanqiu admitted bluntly: "Yes."
The little animals just huddle together for warmth during the winter.
Gu Yueshuang didn't expect them to admit it so bluntly. She was stunned for two seconds before she started to act aggressively again: "Don't be so depressed! If you're depressed, there's no end to it!"
Several teenagers ate skewers under the projector light and couldn't help laughing.
Xu Qing pretended to be fierce with her: "Shut up and review the situation. If you keep arguing, you'll wake up the black guy next door."
Gu Yueshuang: "..."
It was you who woke him up! Why are you trying to pass the blame on me?
The author has something to say: Furry friends gather together to keep warm during the winter, so spring is not far away~
Seeing the confusion in the comments, let me explain the competition system:
Here, there are 20 teams in the LPL. The regular season is played in BO3 (three-game two-win system). Winning a game earns one point. The top eight teams in points can enter the playoffs. At present, this loss is three wins and three losses, which is a very moderate and reasonable result.
The playoffs will be played in a BO5 (best of five) format, with bilateral bubble matches. The lower the ranking, the more BO5 matches will be played, with a minimum of two games and a maximum of four games.
In other words, as long as you are in the top eight in the regular season, you have a chance of winning the championship.
Thanks to a salted fish for throwing a rocket launcher!
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