Chapter 1146 Opportunity and Challenge

Explaining Happy's matches is truly full of opportunities and challenges! Pan Lin couldn't help but sigh. Happy seemed to never lack topics, but traps were always everywhere.

Of course, this time it couldn't be said to be Happy. Mi Xiu Yuan was a member of Thunder, but Thunder's opponent was Happy. Pan Lin's first hatred was habitually placed on Happy first. Fortunately, this kind of guess was only a kind of expectation, not the kind of definitive tactical explanation in the match. It wasn't too awkward when the situation the commentator said didn't happen, but there was already a shadow in Pan Lin's mind.

The match broadcast still gave Mi Xiu Yuan enough screen time.

Losing within a minute in the individual competition was an embarrassing thing for a professional player. But Mi Xiu Yuan on camera seemed to be emotionally stable. After returning to the Thunder team's player area, he even received a standing ovation from his Thunder teammates. Dai Yanqi was only a third-year player who had just finished his rookie period, but she acted like a big sister, and ruffled Mi Xiu Yuan's head fiercely.

"It seems... Thunder has given up on Ye Xiu's round, and simply sent a newcomer up to gain some competition experience." The guest commentator Li Yibo carefully observed for a long time, and finally spoke.

"Uh, I don't know what kind of growth this defeat in less than a minute will bring to the player." Pan Lin said, his words slightly sarcastic, obviously a little dissatisfied with Thunder's approach. As for whether he was unhappy with this arrangement, or because he didn't show off the secret weapon as he wished, it was unknown.

The match continued. After Ye Xiu, it was Su Mucheng's turn. Thunder sent Fang Xuecai to meet her, another assassin player. In the end, Fang Xuecai was no match for Su Mucheng, and Happy scored another point.

2 to 0. The crowd was excited, and shouts like "10 to 0" echoed in the stadium again.

As a result, in the third match, the player Thunder sent was actually Xiao Shiqin, while Happy's was Mo Fan.

Xiao Shiqin was known as a tactical mastermind, but his one-on-one strength was also not weak. He was often the last guard in Thunder's lineup, but this round, he came out in the individual competition. What kind of rhythm was Thunder's arrangement?

"Xiao Shiqin versus Mo Fan... these two actually met in the Challenger League last season. At that time, it was in the new format's team competition. Xiao Shiqin's performance in that match was very good, winning three in a row. Let's see how these two will do today when they meet again." Commentator Pan Lin hyped up the atmosphere of the match.

As a result, the duel didn't have the twists and turns he was hyping up. Xiao Shiqin steadily defeated Mo Fan.

Pan Lin and Li Yibo didn't know how to comment. The scene was too tepid. Everything was just as it should be, as if that's just how it was.

However, the loser's mood wouldn't be as calm as the scene.

Mo Fan, who walked off the stage, wasn't in his usual expressionless state. His gaze stayed on Xiao Shiqin on the other end, and his face revealed an obvious look of thinking.

Losing to the same person twice, Mo Fan was also actively looking for the problem. Even if there was a gap in strength, the match wasn't just about calculating strength. The way to use strength was the final deciding factor.

Watching Mo Fan's attentive appearance, Ye Xiu didn't say much. At a certain level, more was needed to be understood on one's own. After all, the one who truly understood and knew themselves was themselves. Others often only played a role in indirectly pointing out the way and clearing the fog.

How to defeat Xiao Shiqin?

If this kind of proposition could be done by one person with Ye Xiu's few words of guidance, then the level of professional players would be too worthless.

After the individual competition, Happy was leading 2 to 1. 10 to 0 was already impossible, and the scene showed some emotional downturn. Happy's fans' appetites had been whetted by Happy's continuous gorgeous performances. Not getting 10 to 0 could even make them feel some dissatisfaction. Happy, which wasn't a powerhouse, had the expectations that only powerhouse fans had.

Next was the team competition. Pan Lin and Li Yibo both believed that Happy had a certain advantage. After all, Thunder's players' fame and strength weren't very outstanding. Happy at least had Fang Rui sitting there, and Tang Rou, whose image had been ruined, but whose explosive power on the field was still there.

"If there are no accidents, Happy should have a greater chance." Li Yibo's wording had been cautious to a certain extent. He didn't dare to use words like "win", and only dared to say "greater chance". Greater chance didn't mean they would win. Li Yibo was really quite cunning.

As a result, the team competition was won by Happy as expected.

Pan Lin announced the result that they expected, and found that he was a little uninspired.

What's going on? Was he not used to not being slapped in the face when explaining Happy's matches? Was he a masochist? Taking advantage of the long break before the team competition, Pan Lin deeply examined himself.

At the edge of the competition field, the two teams' players were planning for the upcoming team competition.

"There's a somewhat unusual feeling," Fang Rui said.

"Say it," Ye Xiu said.

"I can't say it, it's a kind of intuition," Fang Rui said.

"This old man also feels that something is wrong. It's too calm," Wei Chen said.

"The team competition won't be easy," Ye Xiu said.

"You mean, they're saving their strength?" Wei Chen said.

"Saving their strength isn't necessarily the case, but their strength in the individual events is indeed not too strong. But losing points so calmly shows that they have unparalleled confidence in the team competition," Ye Xiu said.

"Believe in themselves? Could this really be the secret to their team competition being so strong now?" Fang Rui had obviously read the interview with Xiao Shiqin about why Thunder was so excellent this season.

"If you're not confident, there will be many choices you don't dare to make in tactics. The more confident you are, the more choices you can make, and the more changes there will be," Ye Xiu said.

"Doesn't what you're saying sound like you're talking about Xiao Shiqin? He's always been quite confident, right?" Fang Rui said.

"Now his confidence isn't just in himself," Ye Xiu said.

Fang Rui understood a little, and the others also understood something. Everyone subconsciously turned their heads to look at Thunder's side. As a result, Thunder's players were also looking at them from afar. When their eyes met, Xiao Shiqin waved to them in a friendly manner.

"This match really lacks a bit of gunpowder..." This scene was also captured by the live camera, but the program broadcast was currently playing commercials. This was just a private comment that Pan Lin made after seeing the picture. It wouldn't be good to say that in a live broadcast. You would have to comment on the positive aspects, such as the two teams being harmonious and friendly.

"This match won't be easy. Everyone concentrate. We'll slow down the initial pace a bit," Ye Xiu said.

He would naturally research every opponent he had to face, research the opponent player's style and the team's tactical style. However, the Thunder team, this team that was very eye-catching in the team competition this season, was really difficult to target.

They weren't like Samsara. Samsara's strength in the team competition was inseparable from their players' and characters' strength. The Battle God halo on One Autumn Leaf was now being washed away by Samsara bit by bit. In Samsara, One Autumn Leaf was no longer the unique "one". Here, they also had another "one", One Shot Through the Clouds.

Sun Xiang and Samsara didn't have the incompatibility problems that many people had guessed and worried about. Thus, under Samsara's strong record, he and Zhou Zekai's powerful combination was given the title "two no. 1" by reporters this season. Two number ones, referring to the two strongest players, two characters whose names both contained the number one.

With such powerful characters, such a tough combination, Samsara had achieved an undefeated record in the team competition. But what about Thunder? Their players, as seen in the individual events, didn't have top-notch combat power, but their team competition could maintain 14 wins. Why? Tactics!

Thunder had always been a team that relied on tactics to establish itself, but it had never established itself to such a tough position through tactics. Currently, the public opinion in the circle said that if Thunder could maintain such a tough team performance throughout the season, then the saying of the four tactical masters of the alliance should perhaps be changed. Xiao Shiqin should be taken out of it and become an existence that was even higher than the other few.

After all, Ye Xiu, Yu Wenzhou, and Zhang Xinjie, whether in the past or now, had more chips in their hands than Xiao Shiqin. Their teams, like Samsara, had super strong single entities.

This was like a chef cooking.

Ye Xiu, Yu Wenzhou, and Zhang Xinjie had good ingredients and cooked delicious dishes, and their level was very high.

But Xiao Shiqin was someone who took ingredients that were not as good as the above three, but made equally good, and perhaps even more delicious dishes. With such a comparison, who was more outstanding seemed clear at a glance.

When this was first said, there were many respondents, but soon someone sharply pointed out: In last season's Challenger League, Ye Xiu took super bad ingredients and defeated Xiao Shiqin, who had gorgeous Excellent Era ingredients. How do you explain that?

Thus, the other side took the direct conversations between Xiao Shiqin and Yu Wenzhou and Zhang Xinjie this season as an example. In the team competitions, Xiao Shiqin's Thunder won, which was also a very solid example.

Thus, the only suspense left was Ye Xiu.

This time, the ingredients in Ye Xiu's hand were much better than in the Challenger League. The rookies had grown, the players had the additions of Su Mucheng and Fang Rui, and the characters also had the All-Star characters under these two, and the other characters had also been greatly improved.

Looking at Thunder's lineup, compared to the likes of Su Mucheng and Fang Rui, the starlight suddenly dimmed a lot. In terms of characters, it was still the gradual accumulation style that their team, which was not wealthy, had had for many years.

Ye Xiu's ingredients had greatly improved, while Xiao Shiqin's ingredients had regressed a lot compared to Excellent Era. How would the two meet again this time?

As the start of the match approached, the live commentator had already found the highlight of this round's team competition, which was the tactical dialogue between the two masters.

Whoever wins might be the existence above the four tactical masters.

Pan Lin didn't say this directly, but many people thought of it. Everyone's eyes were fixed on the screen. The match began.