Chapter 1 A Team and B Team

One team went into the private room, while the other set up five computers in the main hall, close to the private room.

Logically speaking, the second team should have gone in to watch the match, but Zhang Yuan was worried that the h4 club might feel it was unfair, like the second team was on the sidelines directing the first, so he didn't let the second team watch.

For the sake of fairness, Team Leader Su suggested that both team leaders go in to watch, observing without speaking or directing.

Zhang Yuan happily agreed.

Actually, Team Leader Su was being a little cunning. Seeing the lineup on the other side, with a coach and a special tactical advisor, if he let Coach Li and Advisor Ma go in and direct the game, how could they possibly play?

Of all these people, Team Leader Zhang seemed to be the one who understood the game the least, so letting him go in wouldn't hurt.

So, Ma Yang and Li Yaling waited outside.

Huang Wang turned on the computer and asked the other team members, "Should we play a solo queue, or a custom game?"

Generally speaking, they should play solo queue. After all, a training match would definitely take longer than a single solo queue game. By the time they finished solo queue, the training match would be over.

However, Lao Zhou looked at the internet cafe's computers with disdain. "Let's do a custom game. These computers don't seem to have very good specs. If I play solo queue, I'm afraid I'll lose points."

Huang Wang thought about it, and it seemed that was the case.

He couldn't help but worry about the first team. After all, the internet cafe's computer configuration couldn't compare with ROF's, and he didn't know if Jiang Huan and the others would be able to get used to it.

Ma Yang was a little bored. He had originally wanted to go in and watch the match, but his special status as "Advisor Ma" had alerted Team Leader Su.

He had no choice but to watch the second team members practice custom games.

Coach Yaling subconsciously moved her arms and wrists.

Not having time to work out during her time in Shanghai was quite painful for her, but after all, it was for work, and there wasn't much she could do. Now that she had nothing to do, moving her muscles and bones was better than nothing.

Twenty minutes later.

The second team's custom practice had just started to get into the swing of things.

In the daily, unwavering custom practice process, these team members had also summed up a set of effective practice methods.

At first, everyone thought it was boring and just messed around, but gradually they began to consciously analyze some data, repeatedly use skills to enhance muscle memory, and now they even repeatedly practice each skill of each hero.

Having gotten used to this boring practice, twenty minutes was only halfway through.

However, at this moment, the door of the private room opened.

Zhang Yuan walked out with a blank expression.

Huang Wang was stunned. "The match is paused? Someone disconnected?"

Only twenty minutes had passed. Including the ban and pick phase, the actual game time was probably only fifteen minutes. It should be the middle of a fierce battle.

Why was he coming out now?

However, the door of the adjacent private room also opened, and Team Leader Su also walked out with a blank expression. He happened to see Coach Yaling, who was stretching her muscles.

Team Leader Su's expression changed.

Why was the other coach making this movement?

Was this...a demonstration?

Sure enough, they were here with ill intentions!

Zhang Yuan and Team Leader Su looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

They were pushed flat in less than fifteen minutes!

All three lanes collapsed, the jungler was feeding, and they pushed all the way to the base without even taking the Dragon.

In fact, if the DGE club had spawn camped, the match time could have been extended, but Jiang Huan was obviously a steady person, with twelve points of respect for his opponents, so he went all out and quickly pushed the base.

The result was that both team leaders were dumbfounded.

Zhang Yuan was also puzzled. The opponents were also professional players. Although the team hadn't been formed for long, they were all selected from the ranks of King and Master. How could they be so easily crushed?

Team Leader Su was also puzzled. That's right, could it be that my players are all fake Kings and Masters? Was I deceived?

How could they have no power to fight back?

Obviously, there was a world of difference between Kings.

Those teams that dominated the secondary leagues became experience pinatas on the stage of the top leagues, being beaten in every way imaginable. A team of five Kings, without good tactics and cooperation, would only be beaten when facing a regular army.

Zhang Yuan had said from the beginning that he wanted the first team players to go all out.

So Jiang Huan used all kinds of tricks. The h4 players had never seen this in high-end ranked games, and they felt that their understanding of the entire game had been subverted. They were beaten 0-5 at the start and lost their entire jungle. They quickly lost their fighting spirit, and their subsequent symbolic resistance all became garbage time.

In short, the final kill count was fixed at 0-14, and this was on the premise that the first team didn't want to kill too many people and just wanted to end the battle quickly.

Zhang Yuan was too embarrassed to say anything. He couldn't say, "Sorry, our people were too heavy-handed. I'll tell them to hold back a bit next game," right?

Team Leader Su coughed awkwardly. "Team Leader Zhang, this...the gap between the two sides seems to be a bit too big. After all, our club has only just been established for a short time. In order to ensure the training effect, why don't...you switch to the second team?"

Team Leader Su understood. The five people on the other side's first team were simply not human. The gap was so big that there was no need to play a training match at all. Continuing to play like this would not only have no training effect, but would also cause the players' confidence to collapse and they would begin to doubt their lives.

But the second team...

They looked obviously more physically fit than the first team, so their strength should be much worse, right?

Zhang Yuan also had this intention in mind, and nodded in agreement. "Okay, Huang Wang, bring your keyboard and mouse and go switch with the first team."

Huang Wang was also at a loss. Even if the other side lost, they shouldn't have been pushed flat in fifteen minutes, right?

This Jiang Huan was too ruthless! He didn't show any mercy at all.

You should have realized that the other side's level was inferior to yours halfway through the game, so why did you still go all out? At least give the other side some face.

Seeing DGE's second team start to pack their things, Team Leader Su quickly returned to the private room.

Obviously, he was urgently formulating tactics and boosting morale.

Huang Wang was about to enter the private room when Zhang Yuan stopped him.

"That, the first team seems to have been a little too heavy-handed. If they beat the other side too badly, and they don't want to practice with us anymore, wouldn't that be a wasted trip? And it wouldn't look good for us either."

"I'm not saying to deliberately throw the game, but I'm just saying that you should try to play more steadily and drag out the time, understand?"

Huang Wang patted his chest. "Don't worry, I know what to do!"

The first and second teams switched places, and the door of the private room closed, but this time Zhang Yuan didn't go back in.

Ma Yang was a little curious. "You're not going in to watch?"

Zhang Yuan silently shook his head. "It's too tragic, too inhumane, I really can't watch it anymore..."

Ma Yang became even more interested when he heard this. "Really? I want to see!"

Zhang Yuan quickly stopped him. "No, let's just go back to the hotel and watch the replay."

If "Advisor Ma" went in, the other side would definitely be suspicious.

The first team members also started custom practice.

Ten minutes passed.

Half an hour passed.

Fifty minutes passed...

Zhang Yuan looked at his watch and wanted to go into the private room and ask what was going on.

Could it be that there was a bug in the game, so it was paused?

Why was it taking so long?

While he was observing outside, the door of the private room opened, and Huang Wang walked out.

Zhang Yuan quickly asked, "How did it go?"

Huang Wang patted his chest. "It's settled! The time is definitely long enough this time!"

He lowered his voice and said, "Every time we had an advantage, we would deliberately throw a wave, so that both sides would return to the same starting line and continue playing. It's just a pity that they had a serious mistake in their last team fight, and we accidentally and subconsciously got a clean sweep, so we couldn't act anymore and had to push the base."

Zhang Yuan blinked his eyes in confusion. It sounded reliable, but he felt like something was wrong...

The door of the private room on the h4 club's side also opened, and three team members lined up and rushed to the internet cafe's restroom.

The other two team members leaned weakly in their computer chairs, as if their bodies had been emptied.

In contrast, Huang Wang and his group were still jumping around, showing their physical advantage.

Team Leader Su's face didn't look much better than his team members'.

If the previous game was a sudden death, then this game was a death by a thousand cuts...

Every time the other side took the lead, they would throw a wave with clumsy acting, so that the economies of both sides would return to equilibrium.

But this was too obvious, it was almost a turn-based game!

What was more humiliating than being wiped out in a team fight was that you knew that the other side would ruthlessly wipe you out in the next wave, then send warmth in the next wave, and then ruthlessly wipe you out again in the next wave...

But you just couldn't do anything about it!

The h4 team members had long discovered this pattern. As players with integrity, they naturally chose to resist desperately when the other side was playing seriously.

However, after resisting a few times, they found that resisting or not resisting didn't seem to make any difference in the outcome...

What was more tragic than a quick death was being played like a toy in the palm of the other side's hand...

It was too infuriating!

The key was that every time the other side sent warmth, the economies and equipment of both sides were basically the same, but they still couldn't win.

This was a sense of fatalistic powerlessness.

If everyone was dazed because they lost too quickly in the last game, then everyone clearly realized the gap between themselves and the other side in this game, which lasted too long.

Especially in the long battle, the h4 team members had become mentally confused, and their operations were completely deformed in the end, so Huang Wang and the others accidentally and subconsciously got a clean sweep.

Both sides were a little embarrassed.

Seeing Team Leader Su's expression, Zhang Yuan instantly realized what was going on.

Obviously, the acting was too clumsy and the other side had seen through it!

What was more terrible than having no emotional intelligence was thinking that you did...

But Huang Wang couldn't be blamed for this. These people were all internet addicts, so how could you expect them to have any emotional intelligence?

If they really had emotional intelligence, would they have killed Boss Ma 0-28?

Team Leader Su was a little melancholy. "Team Leader Zhang, do you...have a third team?"

A question that struck at the soul.

He was also very helpless. With their team's level, they couldn't tell which team, the first or the second, was more powerful. Anyway, they were both being abused in every way imaginable.

The gap was too big, and the training was not effective at all!

For the people of DGE, abusing too many noobs would easily lead to a decline in skill; for the people of h4, being abused every day would not improve their skills, but would easily destroy the players' confidence.

Zhang Yuan was stumped by the question, "Do you have a third team?"

He was silent for a long time, looked at Ma Yang, and suggested, "How about...Advisor Ma, you go on stage for a while?"

Give the team members some weights to balance the strength of both sides?

Before, Zhang Yuan thought that Ma Yang was just here to make up the numbers.

Now it seemed that Boss Ma was a crucial weight on the scales of strength between the two sides!