Chapter 164 The Most New Faces

The team with the most new faces at the All-Stars event was Team Tiny Herb.

Xu Bin transferred to Tiny Herb and took over Deng Fusheng's knight character, Dugu. His performance for the half-season was exceptionally outstanding. This player, who was already highly regarded in the circle, finally gained the popularity to match after joining a top team. This season, he successfully entered the All-Stars.

Another one was Gao Yingjie. The well-known young genius of Team Tiny Herb has been growing up under protection. He missed the opportunity to compete for the Best Rookie award, but after becoming an official main player for Tiny Herb, he was immediately selected for the All-Stars. This genius's performance met people's expectations. In the past half-season, he repeatedly had core-level performances in Team Tiny Herb, and a general's demeanor was developing. Moreover, he and the team's god Wang Jiexi belonged to the same team and the same class. The number of votes he received under such circumstances can be described as quite solid.

Because fans usually vote for the players they like and support the most. And Glory fans are usually Glory players themselves. The class they like themselves, to a certain extent, limits the players they will like.

Gao Yingjie and Wang Jiexi were in the same team and the same class, which meant that they had to divide the votes of Tiny Herb supporters and also divide the votes of Magician players. It was much more difficult to squeeze into the All-Stars than under normal circumstances.

Similar to Gao Yingjie's situation was Blue Rain's Lu Hanwen.

Lu Hanwen was called the biggest discovery of this season. This youngest professional player in history has been constantly attracting the audience's attention since his first appearance. His skills may not be mature enough, and his experience may not be rich enough, but his passion and vitality on the field are something that many god-level players do not have.

If you let a general expert analyze the voting, Lu Hanwen may not be able to be selected. But the All-Stars is a fan vote, and there is no rational analysis here. Voting does not mean that you are the strongest, it means support and love for you, expectation and blessing. Lu Hanwen won these in the player group, so he deservedly became an All-Star.

Another new face was the Judo player Lu Bowan from the newly crowned champion team.

Lu Bowan performed prominently in last season's playoffs, leaving a very deep impression. After winning the championship, he naturally gathered considerable popularity. In the summer transfer market, Team Samsara made a big purchase of the All-Star Judo character from Team Tiny Herb. However, at the beginning of the new season, Lu Bowan was still operating his Judo character Yunshan Luan in Samsara. Soon everyone discovered that the classic Judo silver equipment originally belonging to Zhanyi Luanfei had now been armed to Yunshan Luan. Team Samsara did not seem to care about the popularity of an All-Star Judo character like Zhanyi Luanfei.

Such an operation obviously meant the fall of an All-Star character, which made many Judo players who loved Zhanyi Luanfei very angry. Yunshan Luan seemed to have lost some supporters innately, but no matter what, the result of this All-Star vote showed that Lu Bowan and his Yunshan Luan were once again on the list, becoming a new generation of All-Star Judo players.

The above four are the new faces in this All-Star, and all the others have been selected for the All-Stars at least once. Established players have stable fan support, so it is difficult to fall out of the list in such a vote. Especially some god-level players, even if their performance this season is extremely bad, or even if they haven't played much at all, they can be forcibly selected based on the fans' love alone.

Of the 24 people selected, the most embarrassing one has to be Zou Yuan of Team Hundred Blossoms. This is the second time Zou Yuan has been selected for the All-Stars. But in fact, with his skills, his fame, and even his performance on the field, he may not have such high popularity.

He was selected last year because he was operating the top god-level character: the Sharpshooter Dazzling Hundred Blossoms. The fans voted for the character and forcibly sent him to the All-Star throne. What about this time? Because of the incident that happened in the summer when Zhang Jiale returned and joined Tyranny, and then Tyranny acquired Dazzling Hundred Blossoms, many people were extremely unhappy. So, smashing votes for Zou Yuan and his current character, Blossoming Landscape, became an act of defiance for these people.

Thus, with such a special event, Zou Yuan once again entered the All-Stars. Such a method made Zou Yuan feel completely unlucky. Besides embarrassment, it was just embarrassment.

In fact, there are some special reasons why there are four new faces in this year's All-Stars.

Xia Jiwei, Tiny Herb's All-Star player Deng Fusheng's retirement, vacated an All-Star seat, but even more powerful was Excellent Era, which was directly eliminated to play the Challenger League, which directly vacated three stable All-Star seats. And behind these vacant seats, there were a large number of unowned votes. It was okay to say about Deng Fusheng, after all, a considerable number of his votes were cast by Tiny Herb fans. When he retired, it was a very logical choice for these people's votes to be directly transferred to his successor Xu Bin or other Tiny Herb players. And Excellent Era's side was embarrassing. The entire team was eliminated, leaving the Excellent Era fans with nowhere to cast their votes. As a result, they naturally looked for pleasing votes or voted for unpleasant competitors... Thus, it was reasonable for dazzling rookies like Lu Hanwen to directly kill into the All-Star seat. This season, there were really a lot of neutral votes.

In the end, this season also became the All-Star with the most professional vacancies in history.

Glory has 24 classes, and the All-Stars has 24 people. The meaning of this is quite obvious. But from the first session to the present, there have never been exactly 24 All-Stars corresponding to 24 classes. The most tragic class is the Summoner class. So far, no player of this class has become an All-Star. In comparison, the previous All-Stars was considered more comprehensive in terms of classes. There were only two classes missing: Summoner and Guardian Angel. Ghost Swordsman and Thief were repeatedly selected.

And in this season's 24 All-Stars, there were as many as five pairs of class duplicates.

There is no need to mention Li Xuan and Wu Yuce's Ghost Swordsmen. They have always been repeatedly selected. In addition to these two, the two major teams, Tiny Herb and Blue Rain, also made contributions, clearly repeating Magician and Swordsman.

Then there is the Thief class, which repeated the pattern of last season. Tang Hao and Lin Jingyan were both selected. However, this time Tang San Da has become Tang Hao's character, and Lin Jingyan's hand is the Thief character Dark Thunder that Team Tyranny rebuilt for him.

And another pair of grudges between the same class is much deeper than this pair of Thieves. Coincidentally, this pair of grudges also has some subtle connections with Tang Hao and Lin Jingyan.

Because Tang Hao was born in Team Hundred Blossoms, and Zhang Jiale is now Lin Jingyan's teammate in Team Tyranny. This time, he returned to the All-Stars after a year of retirement with Dazzling Hundred Blossoms, and he collided with Zou Yuan and Blossoming Landscape, his successor in Team Hundred Blossoms.

What kind of collision will these people have at the All-Stars? This has already made the busybodies restless. It's just a pity that these four cannot collide in the way of a rookie challenge match. It's hard to say whether their direct collision will occur in the final All-Star game.

All-Star Weekend brings all professional players and characters together, and it is full of various complex and strange relationships.

Opponents on the field, friends on the field.

It is easy to say this, but there are very few who can handle it properly. Especially those players who transferred with controversy, when facing their old clubs again, how many can still be calm and peaceful as if nothing happened?

Everyone will not be rude enough to develop PK off the field, but on the field, it is more than normal to vent with various emotions. And this kind of catharsis is actually a more anticipated highlight than harmony.

The Electronic Sports Weekly, which was published before All-Star Weekend, combed through these highlights for fear of chaos in the world. Another year of All-Star Weekend began in such a grand background. Team Happy, a group of four consisting of Ye Xiu, Baozi, Chen Guo, and Tang Rou, also arrived in City B that day.

The four people who were tragically delayed by the plane were picked up by Lou Guan Ning from the moment they got off the plane. A special car took the four directly to the Tiny Herb home stadium, where the All-Star Weekend event was being held. When the person in charge of receiving was still studying how to lead the way, Ye Xiu had already guided the others into the stadium with ease. However, Ye Xiu was not very familiar with finding seats. He had not sat in the audience seats much.

The location of the tickets that Lou Guan Ning got for Ye Xiu and the others was of course not bad. They were much better than the three that Chen Guo got last year. Due to the flight delay, the opening show of the All-Stars had already ended when the three entered the venue. At this time, the content of the first day of the event in the past had already begun: the Rookie Challenge.

This season, holographic projection technology has been fully introduced into the competition site. After half a season, the audience has fully adapted to and liked this method. The on-site viewing experience has undergone a qualitative leap, and the box office of each team's home stadium has set new records this season. Of course, the activities of All-Star Weekend are no exception and will also use this technology.

When Ye Xiu and the other three found their seats and sat down, the first Rookie Challenge match was already over, and the players had left the stage. The four who were busy giving up their seats did not even figure out who was fighting whom.

The on-site commentator was already fairly announcing the match list for the second Rookie Challenge match.

On the rookie side, the one who played was the most eye-catching rookie of this season, the youngest professional player in history who seemed to be the best rookie after half a season, Lu Hanwen of Team Blue Rain.

Blue Rain and Tiny Herb are mortal enemies. It is conceivable what kind of treatment Blue Rain players will receive this All-Star Weekend in Tiny Herb's territory. However, when this 14-year-old little player stood on the stage, he made the Tiny Herb fans feel a little unbearable to boo. In the end, the applause was only sparse.

The host on the scene also knew that Lu Hanwen was currently popular, so he talked to him about more topics. Lu Hanwen was not stage-frightened at all. He said one for one and two for two. The atmosphere was harmonious.

Until the end, the host asked the question that everyone was most concerned about: "So, who is the player that Little Lu is going to challenge this time? Let me guess, is it your senior from the same team, God Huang Shaotian?"

"No." Lu Hanwen shook his head.

"Oh, then who will it be?" The host was very confident in his guess, but he was slightly surprised when he heard this answer.