Chapter 334 Interview Black Hole

Three hours later.

"Let's congratulate the FV team, once again winning with a crushing 3:0 score and successfully entering the final!"

"With domestic teams consistently being underestimated, the FV team has brought us one surprise after another with their extraordinary performance and unfathomable tactical reserves. I believe that on the final stage next week, they will be able to present us with an outstanding performance, just like today..."

"Please take a short break, don't leave. FV team members will be interviewed later."

The two commentators for the domestic broadcast were very excited. After explaining the FV team's final 3:0 score, one of the commentators almost seemed to be out of breath, making people want to hand him an oxygen tank.

But this was understandable, because the FV team played so inspiringly!

The sense of oppression when snowballing was simply suffocating!

Before, many people were still worried that the FV team's 3:0 victory in the quarterfinals was because their opponents were too weak.

That team in the quarterfinals was also a European and American team. Although they won with a crushing victory in the group stage, Bo3 and Bo5 are two different games, and many people suspected that the opponents in the group stage were simply too poor.

But after the semifinals, no one discussed the strength of the opponents anymore, because there could be no weak teams in the semifinals!

This time, the FV team's 3:0 opponent had also undergone the baptism of the quarterfinals. Although they entered the semifinals with a 3:1, no one doubted their strength.

And the FV team once again ended the battle with a clean and neat 3:0, not losing any small games all the way to the final. This was enough to prove that their strong dominance had begun to emerge!

Some people were already discussing the FV team's "championship potential."

Pei Qian looked at the barrage of comments that filled the screen like a carnival, and at the unprecedentedly high popularity of the live broadcast room, which was at least two or three times higher than in the group stage, and felt very complicated.

Logically speaking, in the esports field, a domestic team winning against a foreign team and strongly entering the finals should be a great thing worth celebrating for every esports enthusiast.

As an esports enthusiast who unconditionally supported domestic teams, Pei Qian should have been in this mindset.

But as soon as he thought about his shares in the FV team, Pei Qian couldn't be happy at all.

The current FV team was already very dangerous. Pei Qian could foresee that even if the FV team lost the final, as long as it wasn't too ugly, they would still be able to become the number one IOI team in the country!

Although in the esports field, most people believe that the runner-up is the biggest loser, this statement also has prerequisites and contexts.

The key lies in the audience's expectations: if the audience thinks there is a chance to compete for the championship, but finally gets a runner-up, they will definitely criticize; but if the audience thinks that it is difficult to even qualify from the group stage, but finally gets a runner-up, it far exceeds expectations!

The main thing was that the other two teams played their supporting roles well, being eliminated in the group stage and greatly lowering the audience's psychological expectations, giving the FV team a broader stage.

After showing the highlights of the entire game, the screen switched to the interview area. The official host and translator from Finger Company were already prepared. This time, the interviewee was Pan Ying, the captain of the FV team.

There was also an interview after winning the quarterfinals, but at that time, the host from Finger Company and the interviewed team members were obviously not very well prepared, especially the host. She probably never thought that FV would win.

Therefore, the interviews were all very conventional questions, without any program effects and without causing much impact.

This time, the host was obviously well prepared.

After a brief introduction and greeting the audience, the interview officially began.

Host: "We saw that in the two games since the quarterfinals, you have defeated your opponents cleanly with a 3:0 score. Was this result unexpected for you? After all, your opponents are also very strong teams. What was your own estimated score before the game started?"

Pan Ying was still as taciturn as before, without too many excited expressions. After carefully listening to the translation, he said into the microphone: "Not unexpected, the estimated score was 3:0."

The host was a little surprised: "So confident? As far as I know, team tactics often have two styles: one is the pre-prepared type, which is to study several systems and then pre-consider all the emergencies encountered in the game, so that the game always develops according to their own tactics; and the other is the on-the-spot performance type, where the coach pays more attention to the players' status and chooses good heroes for the star players, making some changes on the spot. Which type does the FV team prefer?"

Pan Ying said: "99% of the time, it's the first type."

Host: "So everything that happened in these two games was actually in your plan, right?"

Pan Ying nodded: "Yes."

Host: "So the team coach never improvises based on the players' status and the opponent's lineup?"

Pan Ying thought for a while and said: "It just so happened that the opponent's performance was all within the expectations of our coaching team, so there was no need to improvise."

The host continued to ask: "In these six small games, the FV team used a total of 22 different heroes. Is this also a planned thing?"

Pan Ying nodded: "Yes."

Host: "Is this all of the FV team's tactics? Or are there many tactics that haven't been used yet? Will you consider using new tactics in the final?"

Pan Ying: "It depends."

The host smiled awkwardly. Pan Ying was simply an interview black hole. Every answer was short, with only two words, and the longest was just one sentence. This interview was really difficult.

But after all, she was an official host, and her professional skills were still excellent. Finally, the interview was almost over. The host said: "The last question, choose someone who has always supported you and say a word to him."

Pan Ying thought for a while: "Let's talk to CEO Pei."

"Thank you very much, CEO Pei, for your tactical guidance. Without CEO Pei's guidance, encouragement, and support, and without CEO Pei helping us build confidence, we would never have been able to get to where we are today!"

"We will definitely prepare seriously and strive to get good results in the final to repay CEO Pei's support for us!"

The interview ended, and the excited audience had not yet recovered from the joy of victory, and sent barrages to interact with each other.

"Say a few more words! The host is speechless, the interview black hole can't be led!"

"Haha, Pan Ying is really stingy with words, but it may also be that he is tight-lipped, in order not to leak tactics?"

"I'll lose if he says one more word!"

"Why do I feel like he's pretending? The FV team has played until now, and the two 3:0 victories were all within their expectations? They don't even need to improvise on the spot?"

"How many new tactics has FV come up with in these two games? There are team fight lineups that are different from the past, split pushing, and early lane invasion and suppression... and this is not all of the tactics?"

"Six small games used 22 different heroes. If I were the opponent, I would have vomited. What are you playing? How do you ban!"

"Today the opponent's coach is already dizzy. FV first picked a hero that no one has ever used before, and the opponent was directly embarrassed. It feels like a whole week of preparation was wasted!"

"The final thank you to CEO Pei is a bit too utilitarian, right? CEO Pei is the boss. Although he is a sugar daddy, how could he give them tactical guidance? Could it be that CEO Pei is a hidden game master?"

"CEO Pei is the designer of *gog*, what's wrong with giving the FV team some tactical guidance? Don't be blinded by CEO Pei's identity as an entrepreneur and investor. His main job is a game designer!"

"CEO Pei is also behind this? CEO Pei is really everywhere!"

"CEO Pei went to the scene to support the FV team during the qualifying competition, didn't he? This is not surprising!"

Pan Ying's "black hole interview" quickly spread throughout the Internet, and the FV team's tactical reserves also became a hot topic on the Internet.

Others couldn't understand Pan Ying's subtext, but Pei Qian could.

Thanks for the support, this was obviously referring to the business class tickets and the Ritz-Carlton Hotel;

Thanks for the tactical guidance, this was obviously referring to the tactical choices in the previous qualifying competition!

When the FV team was fighting fiercely for the top seed spot in the domestic qualifying competition, the FV team fought for ten rounds and was in a difficult situation. Some team members questioned Pan Ying's play style, feeling that it was not easy to win.

It was Pei Qian who overruled all opinions and decided to continue using this play style, which unified the team's thinking and allowed Pan Ying to continue leading the team and continue improving.

What's more, it was CEO Pei's decision to let Ye Zhizhou, Zhou Pengyuan, and others lead the team and do tactical analysis.

So Pan Ying believed that the person who helped the FV team the most was CEO Pei!

But for Pei Qian, this was very despairing.

That's not what I meant at all!

He didn't expect that a casual word from him could give Pan Ying so much confidence, creating such a monster team like FV under a series of coincidences!

Fortunately, the audience didn't know these things.

Now most people were obviously still immersed in the joy of the game's victory, mainly discussing the wonderful operations and tactical details in the game. They didn't pay much attention to Pan Ying's interview and CEO Pei mentioned in the interview.

Pei Qian breathed a sigh of relief, which was a blessing in disguise.

However, just as he was about to turn off the TV and close the forum to go have lunch, he suddenly saw a new post on the forum.

《The routines used by the FV team are obviously variations of *gog* tactics!》

"I felt that the FV team's play style was very familiar before. Now that I think about it carefully, whether it's lane invasion or split pushing, or team fight cooperation, it seems to have the shadow of the *gog* team! The tactics of several veteran *gog* powerhouses have all been taken over and applied flexibly, but because they were played in the *ioi* game, it's not that easy to see!"

"Just look at the head coach of the FV team and you should understand. Old Zhou is a star player in *gog*, one of the ten members of old DGE. He's using *gog* tactics to play *ioi*!"