Chapter 150: Untitled
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
On the extre left was Mix battleteam. On the right, Tall Boots, Bug, Stickers, Nx, Skitters and more nas of battleteams were listed in order. The stats analyzer said, “I recomnd, we go from weak to strong. The later the training tournant, the less the local top battleteams have a grasp of our internal tactics and capabilities. Though we are stronger and have no fear of them, but using such a structure would be advantageous for the national qualifiers.”
“I’m afraid we can’t.” Mo Huaifeng shook his head lightly. “It’s the sa for all of us. If we play the strong teams later, and they catch us by surprise, it would be extrely disadvantageous for us, whether for our mindset towards the competition or the countering of tactics.
The stats analyzer thought for a mont. “That makes sense too. How about we do a give and take. Above average, below average, strong, average, going according to such a sequence, whether is it mindset or tactics, it should be more comprehensive.”
Mo Huaifeng nodded and said, “Skitters, Stickers, Wan Ning, Bug, Tall Boots, Nx, Bao Lu.”
As he listed, the stats analyzer noted it down on the white board with a marker, adding, “There’s still another eSports battleteam under Le Tian Club, W.J, ford last year, we can leave them to the end.”
Mo Huaifeng had no objections.
Only Ji Zhiyao was slightly stunned from hearing that.
W.J, this battleteam, the na sounded very familiar.
W.J...
!
Wasn’t that his opponent in the friendly match that he placed at Silver Throne Shopping Center before he beca a professional player?
What a small world.
Truly fascinating.
Ji Zhiyao was a little dazed, Mo Huaifeng caught his dazed look with a dart of his peripherals and asked, “What are you daydreaming about?”
Everyone looked towards Ji Zhiyao. Ji Zhiyao answered honestly, “This ti last year, before I beca a professional player, I played a friendly match against W.J.”
Mo Huaifeng upon hearing the ti fra, was reminded that he had asked Ji Zhiyao to play a match for him at the shopping center last year...
What a coincidence.
“Is that so?” The stats analyzer was full of interest. “I have only heard of this battleteam but still don’t have a concrete understanding of their competence. NoHomo, what do you think?”
Ji Zhiyao spoke frankly, “Especially lousy. Back then I played a round of solo against their jungler, he could not beat .”
Mo Huaifeng was quiet for a mont before he said, “Couldn’t even beat you before you were trained, rather lousy indeed.”
Catching the contempt in his voice, Ji Zhiyao rolled his eyes and suggested. “But using them to boost the team’s confidence before the national qualifiers would still be good.”
“Why are the both of you so complacent? Beware that they’ve already taken flight after training for a year.” The stats analyzer chuckled. “Then let’s still add them to the list. Anymore questions? If not, I am going to organize the list and let Yuan Wei go invite the teams.”
Everyone gestured that they had no objections.
Hence the stats analyzer took a photo of the white board and said, “I’ll organize it back at my office later, Yuan Wei, I’ll send it to you tonight.”
“Got it. I’ll start inviting them one by one tonight.”
The stats analyzer picked up the marker and started to write sequence numbers in front of the battleteams.
Ji Zhiyao looked towards the white board and realized that this sequence was the rankings from the previous national qualifiers.
Mix Battleteam, first.
Tall Boots Battleteam, second.
Bug Battleteam, third.
Followed by Skitters, Stickers, Nx, W.J had not been ford then, thus they were placed at the end.
The stats analyzer explained, “At every national qualifiers, locally, there will be 20 battleteams qualified to participate. The competing system is relatively simple, first these 20 battleteams will be divided into A and B groups, there will be a scrimmage within the group, the five victorious battleteams from each group qualify to move on. The remaining ten battleteam teams will then draw lots and go through a points segnt, after four rounds of competition, the top two teams with the highest number of accumulated points will compete against each other, the winner takes the number one spot and qualifies for the international league.”
“The competing system is generally so. As for the points segnt, each round between battleteams is made up of a 1v1 match, a 3v3 match and three matches of 5v5. The 1v1 gives two points, 3v3 three points and 5v5, five points. Hence, the respective small points and the overall total are both important, but even more important than that would be teamwork.”
“Anything else you are unclear of?”
Ji Zhiyao committed everything to mory and shook his head with the others,
Seeing that the stats analyzer had finished speaking, Yuan Wei nagged on as usual like a mother. “There are more things to take note of, Captain will advise all of you when the ti cos. But all of you must take note, be sure not to cause trouble, before the national qualifiers end, you all must be well-behaved, keep your tails between your legs. Just in case any accidents happen and you are banned from competing. Things can still be arranged for the mid-laner and jungler positions, for the rest, the consequences will be unimaginable. Once the participating na list is submitted, it cannot be changed at the last minute. It’s not so bad if one person cannot compete, if you implicate because there are not enough numbers and the team cannot compete, just wait for Captain to kick you out.”
With that, Yuan Wei stared eagerly at Mo Huaifeng. Ji Zhiyao followed suit and found that Mo Huaifeng very kindly made a “hmph” sound through his nose.
This guy better f*cking not be a fool.
The stats analyzer cleaned off the words on the white board. “It will essentially be these teams that we will invite for the training tournants, there won’t be any change. Except for Skitters and W.J, we have played against the rest previously. All of you think back properly on their distinguishing features. In a while I will go send the organized materials on the battleteam to all of you, study up by yourselves, do watch the videos of last year’s national qualifiers too.”
Everyone nodded without a word.
Everything that was to be instructed was finally done so, the stats analyzer moved the white board to a side, Yuan Wei also walked out of the training and sat on the sofa outside. Mo Huaifeng shifted his chair, “Let’s start training.”
Everyone shifted their chairs back to their seats in succession.
Ji Zhiyao had just settled in when Mo Huaifeng knocked lightly on the surface of the desk with his knuckles. “NoHomo, co out for a while.”
Ji Zhiyao looked confusedly towards Mo Huaifeng and realized that he had already stood up, all he could catch was a back view. Hence he then looked confusedly at the rest, the others all had an expression of not knowing what was going on. He sucked in the corner of his lips and willingly followed outside.
Mo Huaifeng was standing under a tree in the yard, upon seeing him, so hints of a smile could not help but appeared on his face. Ji Zhiyao smiled too. “Captain, why did you call out here?”
The trace of a smile in Mo Huaifeng’s eyes beca deeper. “Heart to heart talk.”
Ji Zhiyao dropped onto the long bench at the side, asking lazily, “Because we are starting to play training tournants, you wanted to remind to properly adjust my fra of mind? Don’t worry, my ntality is great.”
“No.”
Ji Zhiyao looked questioningly at him. “Then why?” He thought for a mont and ca up with the most possible answer. “Could it be about who will go on between and Brother Xiao?”
“Mm.”
Ji Zhiyao surveyed the surroundings, after finding that there was no one, he patted the empty spot beside him and indicated for Mo Huaifeng to sit with him.
Mo Huaifeng sat down and freely leaned his shoulders against Ji Zhiyao’s, saying, “Xiao went to the hospital for a checkup, his wrist has completely recovered. The stats analyzer has also done a comprehensive analysis for him, currently he cannot match up to his peak period, but there also isn’t much of a difference. If nothing goes wrong, for the national qualifiers, Xiao as the starter, will be the main player. But there are also chances for both of you to take turns going on, you must adjust your mindset accordingly.
Each starting player has always been the battleteam’s first choice, because they are better in terms of chemistry with their teammates and also their ability. Take Xiaofei as an example, though he was Mix’s mid-laner reserve, he rarely had any chance to go on officially, during usual trainings, he also rarely worked with starting mbers.
Since Ji Zhiyao ca to Mix battleteam, he essentially trained as the sixth starting mber. Battleteam activities, training tournants, practice with ranked matches, there would always be a fixed place for him. All of a sudden, Ji Zhiyao was expected to return to being a reserve. Mo Huaifeng was worried that he wouldn’t be able to turn his fra of mind around well.
Ji Zhiyao went speechless in a second, when he looked up again, his eyes were bright as he said, “I am indeed a little sad.”
Mo Huaifeng pursed his lips.
Ji Zhiyao continued, “But Brother Xiao’s hand injury recovering, is a rather happy thing. I finally don’t have to worry about being blad when we lose competitions in the future.”
Mo Huaifeng froze and his lips promptly curved up.
He had forgotten, Ji Zhiyao might be mischievous, but he had never been disappointing.
“Don’t worry. I’m still young, there are still many years to co.”
“Mm.”
Ji Zhiyao turned his body and looked at him. “What about the training tournants? Am I to take turns with Brother Xiao?”
Mo Huaifeng nodded. “Yes. Heng, Xiaofei, Xiao and you are to practice rotating your turns. Because we don’t know if Xiao’s hand injury will relapse, your training mission won’t be easy.”
Ji Zhiyao exhaled deeply, seeming like he was completely relieved. “That’s great, I thought that I was going to be idle this sumr vacation.”
“No chance.”
He reached out his hand and grabbed Ji Zhiyao’s one.
Ji Zhiyao held his hand too and let go after a while, his tone relaxed as he said, “Let’s go Captain, back to training!”
...
Training in preparation for the national qualifiers was much tougher than before.
The most obvious change was, to ensure there was ti to train, the dinner parties for everyone in Mix had gone from three to four tis a week to once every two weeks.
That afternoon, Mix battleteam welcod their very first training tournant, against Skitters.
Skitters Battleteam had already existed since the Chinese eSports scene just started, it was considered one of the earliest battleteams in the scene. Their forr batch of mbers retired after participating in the national qualifiers three years ago, the current batch of mbers was a new generation of players selected by the club, all were very young.
These three years, they took part in various big and small competitions and also left behind so video materials. After the stats analyzer observed and analyzed their gaplay, he ca up with a distinguishing feature of Skitters.
Stable.
Way too stable.
They were completely unlike eSports newbies who were filled with eagerness, instead they were more like wily old foxes that had been around for several years. No matter what battleteam they were up against, they would always adopt the practice of making progress through ensuring stability, attacking with the way of defense and rarely initiating an attack.
After a discussion, it would be Xiaofei and Xiao going on for this tournant.
Ji Zhiyao moved a little stool and sat behind Xiao with his notebook, preparing to take notes while watching the matches. Heng sat behind Xiaofei.
After selecting their champions, the match began right away.
Xiao could not control his itch once the match began and called Xiaofei along, both of them charging towards the opponent’s blue daddy.
Skitter’s jungler had probably saw them in the mini map and sent a signal telling his teammates to wait there. The levels and abilities of both teams were very low, after fighting head-on for a while, Xiaofei and Xiao decisively retreated.
K: “Develop wretchedly, don’t wander daddies.”
Xiao: “Chill chill. It’s because I haven’t played training tournants in a long ti, I’m just feeling slightly excited.”
Xiao returned to their jungle and began farming creeps.
Because Skitters was really too boring, only quietly killing waves of minions in their turrets, only their turret defense was top class. Even Mo Huaifeng who all along not keen of creating trouble was a little annoyed and said, “Get so tank equipnt, dive the turrets for kills. Xiao take note of the opposite jungler.”
Xiao grinned. “Roger.”
Telling him to take note of the opposite jungler, wasn’t it telling him to get ready to counter jungler anyti?
Even if they don’t like fighting, they would have to when the opportunity was created!
Xiao changed his equipnt and stealthily made his way to the opponent’s jungle. When Skitter’s jungler moved closer, being completely unaware, Xiao who had been hiding for long rushed out and thrashed him.
At the sa ti, Mo Huaifeng who already lost his patience at the bottom lane put on his equipnt and directly finished off the opponent’s top laner.
Two kills broke the 15 minute long deadlock situation with no kills.
However this match dragged on until the 50th minute. Both teams were as firm as rock, everyone harmoniously developed and dragged the match to a later stage.
Ji Zhiyao watched till even his head hurt.
Heng: “Goodness gracious, even the last match against Tall Boots at the previous national qualifiers hadn’t been this disgusting. Fortunately it was Xiaofei who went on today and not . Xiao, does your hand hurt?”
Xiao: “Still fine. F*ck, are you sure these are new numbers? Why do they not have any sense of vigor at all! Nothing like my son, full of vigor and energy, rebuts the whole world and the team dictator.”
Nuo cackled: “Amazing huh Xiao. For Chinese New Year next year, NoHomo would have couplets to hang outside his dorm’s door.”
Ji Zhiyao had a speechless expression.
Mo Huaifeng saw a chance and pushed down the second last turret in the middle lane whilst hiding in the bushes, then said, “Xiao take the big dragon, Xiaofei bait. Lure them all to the middle, we’ll push directly from the middle lane.”
K: “Tell I’m not the only one who caught the impatience in Captain’s tone.”
Mo Huaifeng: “I urgently need to pee.”
Following the mindset of “no matter what we cannot delay Captain from going to the toilet”, Xiaofei went to the middle lane and died gloriously in the face of their enemies, the middle lane directly beca a complete ss. Xiao took advantage of that to take down the big dragon then obediently hurried to the defense turret to join the rest.
A training tournant that dragged on for 50 minutes, finally ended within the last five minutes. In the last mont, Nuo who was used as a human shield and pushed out to block three of the Skitters’ players received affectionate gazes from everyone, Mo Huaifeng’s expression beca incomparably relaxed and made an exception in patting his leg before hastily running towards the bathroom.
According to Nuo’s own words: “Turns out in Captain’s heart, I’m of greater importance than his physiological needs.”
His eyes were teary, Ji Zhiyao was especially tempted to get him to sober up quickly.
He wrote the last word and put his notebook away. Looking up, he saw his Captain, like a son of an aristocratic family, leisurely walk out of the bathroom, swung his hands and said, “Break for the afternoon, co back before 9 PM at night to train.”
Nuo cheered loudly, bouncing around the whole room in a pair of oversized pants. “I’m dying of hunger, I want to eat at the sauerkraut fish place at Chang Jing Road, Captain’s treat please!”
K asked, “Brother, did you not eat lunch?”
“If I had not eaten lunch I would have fainted long before the tournant. This al can be taken as my afternoon tea, aren’t you hungry after defeating that bunch of rock n from Skitters?”
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