Chapter 1 A Random Schedule

Recently, Qiao Liang's schedule has been quite free. He sleeps until he wakes up naturally every morning, gets up around 10 o'clock, eats breakfast while watching videos, takes a break after eating, and plays games for a while. After eating lunch at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, he gets sleepy on time, sleeps until 3 o'clock in the afternoon, basks in the sun on the sofa, and before he can do anything, it's dinner time. After dinner, the GPL competition is about to begin.

There's no helping it. Many times, two or three hours pass unconsciously while browsing short videos and forums on his phone. It's hard to control his cheap hands.

Although Qiao Liang is well aware of this situation, he still browses his phone when he should be doing other things. Not everyone can easily resist this kind of fragmented entertainment.

"Huh? Rabbit Tail Live is going to have a competition at 3 o'clock in the afternoon? The old DGE team is going to reunite?"

"Is this an event to regain popularity?"

Qiao Liang hasn't used Rabbit Tail Live for a while because he has to AFK (away from keyboard) for an hour, and he's too lazy to do it every day.

Qiao Liang is also very dissatisfied with this "mandatory one-hour" rule and has complained about it many times in his fan group. He even thought about talking to President Pei and asking him to cancel this completely unreasonable rule, but in the end, he decided against it.

If it's about games, Qiao Liang feels that he still has a little bit of say, but how to manage the live broadcast platform is entirely Tengda's own business. If Qiao Liang were to speak up, it would be a bit presumptuous, which wouldn't be good.

What's more, Qiao Liang feels that Rabbit Tail Live is not Tengda Group's most core business anyway. Since they insist on messing around, let them do it. Anyway, they will definitely change it back after running into a wall for a long time.

So after that, Qiao Liang hasn't used Rabbit Tail Live for a while. After the netizens finished scolding, the online popularity gradually decreased.

However, this event obviously made Rabbit Tail Live the focus of discussion among netizens again.

Qiao Liang roughly scanned the players' comments, and most of them were still negative.

"Rabbit Tail Live will have a competition of the old DGE team from 3 pm to 5 pm, the promotional picture has already been released, you can pay attention to it!"

"Are there still people using Rabbit Tail Live? No way, no way?"

"You can persist in being forced to AFK for an hour every day? You're a ruthless person."

"Is Rabbit Tail Live's brain broken? Are they burning money? The popularity was good before, but the mandatory one-hour rule cooled down the website's popularity. Now they're bringing out the DGE players to promote it and hype it up for them. Purely brain-dead!"

"That's right, the players still have to train every day. Arranging this kind of special entertainment competition can't maintain their state or strength. The players are also forced to do business for President Pei's sake. Rabbit Tail Live, do you have any self-awareness? Stop torturing these players!"

"Everyone, don't go to see it, don't increase their popularity! After a period of time when no one watches it and the popularity drops, it will naturally stop!"

Although some fans are full of expectations for this competition, the overall comments are still mostly negative.

There's no helping it. Rabbit Tail Live had offended the passersby audience a bit too harshly before.

The scolding had just disappeared, and as soon as this competition was promoted, the passersby audience remembered Rabbit Tail Live's silly rule, and the fact that this event was a bit like asking the DGE players to help clean up the mess made more people scold them.

"This year's audience is really strict."

Although Qiao Liang is also very dissatisfied with Rabbit Tail Live's rule, he doesn't react as strongly as others.

After all, he is a freelancer, and it is easy for him to AFK on his phone for an hour. He just needs to leave his phone on the side while playing games.

If it were other activities, Qiao Liang wouldn't bother to AFK for an hour, but the DGE team members haven't played a competition together for several months. Although it's a gimmick, Qiao Liang still wants to watch it.

So, Qiao Liang opened the Rabbit Tail Live App, which he hadn't logged in to for a long time, turned on focus mode, and honestly AFKed for an hour, preparing to watch the competition at 3 o'clock.

After entering focus mode, a countdown and a cartoon character meditating appeared on the page, along with two lines of text.

"The reason why geniuses in the eyes of people are extraordinary is not because they are more talented, but because they have put in continuous efforts. Ten thousand hours of tempering is a necessary condition for anyone to become a world-class master from ordinary."

"Work eight hours a day, it takes at least five years to become an expert in a field; spend an extra hour every day to study a profession outside of your job, and after thirty years, you will also have some achievements in this field."

Qiao Liang couldn't help but sigh, "Although this function is quite retarded, this sentence still makes some sense."

The first paragraph is actually the so-called "10,000-hour rule."

Although people's talents vary, and the efforts required for success cannot be generalized, the "10,000-hour rule" still has its merits.

Because no matter how talented a person is, they cannot achieve results without accumulating efforts over time. Even the geniuses in history are no exception.

And the second paragraph is more like an extension of the "10,000-hour rule." In fact, most people, on the premise of doing their job well, as long as the job is of an accumulative and improvable nature, not repetitive labor, then they can become a professional in a certain field within five years.

And in theory, if you can spend an hour a day studying other fields in addition to work, as long as you are not blindly busy but systematically understand and learn some knowledge, you will always gain something if you persevere.

With his phone on the side and unable to browse, Qiao Liang had no choice but to turn on his computer and do something serious.

He had always wanted to take some time to make a chronology of domestic games, to sort out the development of domestic games and accumulate materials for future videos.

But this matter had been delayed for several months. Every time, he could only sort out two or three entries before giving up and silently playing with his phone.

This time, although Qiao Liang still couldn't help but want to play with his phone, when he saw the "Focus Mode" page displayed on the phone screen, Qiao Liang took back his hand that wanted to commit a crime and continued to work seriously.

An hour passed quickly.

Qiao Liang found that he was still a little unsatisfied, so he continued to work for another half an hour before saving his work results and preparing to rest.

"This focus mode seems to be a little useful. If you can resist playing with your phone, you can actually have a lot more time every day..."

Although he only worked for more than an hour, Qiao Liang was already satisfied and guiltlessly clicked on the live broadcast room of the DGE team's competition on Rabbit Tail Live.

At this time, Qiao Liang realized that the originally concealed live broadcast room title had been revealed: "Rabbit Tail Cup BP (ban/pick) Proof Competition!"

"BP Proof Competition? What kind of competition is this??"

Qiao Liang was stunned. Before, he thought it was just an ordinary entertainment competition or a friendly match. The DGE team would go up and play some signature heroes to satisfy the audience, but now it seems that the situation is not as simple as he thought!

This competition directly used the second stream broadcasting platform of the ICL league on Rabbit Tail Live, so the director, commentators, and other teams were readily available.

Two commentators were already introducing the rules of the competition in advance.

"As the name suggests, the 'BP Proof Competition' is to let two top teams test the strength of some BP lineups and prove whether it is the coach's BP problem or the players' problem."

"Today is the first game of the BP Proof Competition. We have carefully selected a classic game from last week's GPL. The blue side is an early poke lineup with almost no initiation, which was also angrily criticized by many viewers as a 'hellish BP' lineup. Today, the two teams will each use this lineup to fight against each other once, and verify through the 'controlled variable method' whether this BP is really a 'hellish BP'."

"If the 'hellish BP' side loses both games, then it can prove that it is a BP problem. If the 'hellish BP' side wins, then it can prove that it is a problem of the players' strength and tactical arrangements."

"If it is one win and one loss, we can also determine how many points each side's BP has by analyzing the two games. Whether the fault tolerance rate of this 'hellish BP' is high or low, stable or unstable..."

"After that, we will give a vote in the BP Proof Competition live broadcast room on Rabbit Tail Live, and the audience will choose the most 'hellish' BP lineup. The lineup with the most votes will be the lineup we will verify next..."

While the two commentators were introducing the rules of the competition, the live broadcast screen also showed the specific lineup of this game.

The rule of the BP Proof Competition is that the ten heroes and their respective positions cannot be changed. In addition, the specific talent configuration, gameplay, and equipment of the heroes are not limited.

Qiao Liang watched this game last week and still remembers it vividly. At that time, the coach of the blue side chose an early poke lineup, with only two unstable control skills for the whole team and no front row in the strict sense. As a result, they failed to handle the first-level team fight well and gave away a kill and two groups of wild monsters, and were directly pushed down by the opponent.

Moreover, from the perspective of paper strength, the blue side is obviously stronger.

So after this game, the coach of the blue side was scolded thoroughly, and this lineup was also jokingly called the "five-protect-one coach" lineup, and it failed to protect.

This time, DGE's first team will first use this "hellish BP" lineup, and DGE's second team will take the opponent's lineup to play a game; then the lineups will be exchanged, and another game will be played.

Of course, since the old Zhou, the commander of the original DGE second team, has retired and become a coach, a small support player from the current DGE club who is playing very well will fill in to ensure that the two teams are close in terms of paper strength.

Moreover, both teams were temporarily pulled together and have not been trained together beforehand. They rely entirely on tacit understanding, which is basically a fair game.

After listening to the rules, Qiao Liang instantly became energetic.

This "BP Proof Competition" feels very interesting!

If it is a friendly match or an entertainment competition, then it is really boring. You can't see the tactics, and the professional players may not play seriously, so it is not very watchable.

But this BP Proof Competition is completely played according to the regular competition. Both sides must strive for victory, which can maximize the intensity and excitement of the competition.

The most important thing is that this competition can finally solve a series of unsolved mysteries to a certain extent:

Is losing the game due to poor BP or the players not playing well?

Who should be blamed for this? The coach or the players?

The barrage coach always says "brain-dead BP". In terms of game understanding, is it "the eyes of the masses are sharp" or "truth is often in the hands of a few"?

Qiao Liang suddenly became interested because he also wanted to know the answer!