Chapter 149 Hand Exercises

"Hand exercises," as the name suggests, are exercise and relaxation methods specifically targeting the hands. For professional esports players, the hands are undoubtedly the most important tools. With limited resources, Team Happy can only do common exercises. In wealthy clubs with high-end medical teams, they can even design more specific hand exercises tailored to each professional player's unique operating habits, resulting in better results.

In addition to the hands, which need special protection, the overall mental state of professional players must also be ensured. It's obviously not good if their hands aren't tired, but they feel mentally exhausted. This kind of conditioning is even more complex, with diet, lifestyle habits, and circadian rhythms all having an impact.

Team Happy's current training focuses on helping Tang Rou, Bao Zi, Luo Ji, An Wenyi, and others improve their skills. However, in professional teams, training not only helps players improve but also serves an important function in regulating their state.

Everyone experiences ups and downs in their condition, and through this scientific and systematic regulation, teams aim to align these fluctuations with the rhythm of the competition. The ideal outcome is for players to reach their optimal physical and mental state every Saturday night. Therefore, how to train is actually a profound science, and it awaits continuous research by those in the Glory field.

Now that Team Happy is gradually getting on the right track, they naturally need to pay attention to these aspects. Unfortunately, Ye Xiu doesn't know much about the scientific basis for these training methods, so he can only rely on his own experience and arrange various training methods based on each person's situation.

The current training camp that Team Happy is conducting would be considered a training match in a professional team. It's a relatively comprehensive training method. Generally, teams wouldn't schedule training matches every day because this comprehensive approach is too exhausting. Training is meant to regulate and improve, not to drain the players.

This day of training left everyone exhausted. The next day, Ye Xiu didn't organize everyone to hunt down professional players in the game again. Instead, he arranged some lighter recovery training.

In the blink of an eye, another day passed, marking the end of the week. With the start of a new week, Bosses began to respawn. After a day of recovery, the members of Team Happy were ready to go again. Waiting in the game would be too time-consuming. The benefit of having a guild is that they could go online after receiving information.

As for the major clubs, their professional players were also eager to get back in action in the new week. However, professional teams were clearly reluctant to let their professional players expend their energy on this. They had established a rotation system. With ten or so professional players on each team, the same few wouldn't be fighting every day. They would take turns. And as the competition day approached, most teams would call it quits and focus on preparing for the match.

Team Happy also kept a close eye on the rhythm of the major clubs and set out with a clear target in mind. For example, during the early morning hours, there would definitely be no professional players present. They needed a good routine to maintain their physical condition! So, following the pace of the professional teams, Team Happy also adopted an excellent routine. During the day, they actively waited for news from the guild. As soon as they heard anything, they would strike. They didn't target Bosses, but instead focused on the characters of professional players. They weren't picky, whether it was a core god, a first-line main player, or a substitute. If they found one, they would attack.

Soon, Team Happy, a team that didn't focus on killing Bosses but instead specialized in causing trouble, was seen as a thorn in the side by the major teams. Everyone should know that they weren't going to wild Bosses to socialize, but to compete with each other. Although there was some fighting with other professional players, everyone's main goal was the Boss. Battles that weren't related to the Boss would be resolutely avoided. But Team Happy didn't care about any of that. These guys would attack any professional player they saw, regardless of whether it was related to the Boss or not. Once, they even found a suspected professional player's alt account in the main city and mercilessly took them down on the spot...

Because of Team Happy's disruption, many guilds painfully missed out on good opportunities to take down Bosses, and many professional players went home every day after Boss raids filled with anger...

In the blink of an eye, February passed, and the professional league completed four rounds of matches in this month. At the end of the month, they began the routine summary of the month's events, including the on-site attendance of each match, the viewership of television broadcasts, the viewership of online broadcasts, and some overall technical statistics. The Glory Alliance is not only the organizer of the events, but also the operator. They need to obtain various benefits by operating the Glory Professional League. From a certain point of view, the Glory Alliance can be seen as a company, and the chairman of the alliance is the CEO of this company...

As a result, when the February event summary came out, many of the data were shocking. The most direct point was that the number of mistakes made by players in the matches throughout February increased sharply. Compared to the January event summary, it was an explosive increase.

And the distribution of mistakes was even more bizarre. The data showed that the teams ranked in the top ten of the league contributed seventy percent of the data for this explosive increase in errors.

What was wrong with these teams?

The league staff further analyzed the data and found that the subsequent distribution of errors was quite balanced, with each team and each player contributing. By comparing the data with historical records, the staff discovered that this was truly a historical February. Several teams and dozens of players broke their historical records for the highest number of errors in this February.

In fact, there were many jokes and discussions about errors circulating during this month's events, but until this final summary data, no one realized that the errors were so widespread.

What do errors mean?

Errors mean poor condition, which means poor performance.

Poor performance means the quality of the matches played is poor. Poor match quality means that the audience will dislike it. The audience disliking it means losing the market, which is a terrible thing for the Glory Alliance. What happened to cause so many teams to slump collectively? And they were all powerhouses in the league. On the other hand, the middle and lower-ranked teams outside the top ten were particularly shy in the increase of errors this month, and they actually lost to the powerhouses in this strong category of making errors.

The league didn't dare to be negligent. After compiling the February event summary, they immediately gathered people to begin research and discussion.

The league is also full of talent, and many former professional players who have retired from the professional scene work in the league. What special things happened to these teams and these players in this February? These professionals quickly found it.

With the new version update, all teams needed new materials to upgrade their silver weapons. Therefore, starting in January, professional players from various teams gradually entered the game to help. After the Spring Festival, this phenomenon reached its peak. Even on the day of professional matches, some players from teams that didn't have much ambition for the league were spending their energy in the game.

"I have some information here." One of the staff members participating in the meeting distributed a stack of documents to each attendee. "This shows the complete monthly summary of the professional league during each Glory update period. Please pay attention to the green data, and compare it with the red average data. It can be clearly seen that professional events are affected by updates. The most direct change is the increase in errors. The reasons are multifaceted, including changes in equipment, changes in skills, and the distraction of energy in the game to obtain equipment materials..."

"Haven't we discussed this phenomenon a long time ago?" After skimming through the document, the chairman of the league, Feng Xianjun, put it back on the table. "But this time, the explosive increase in errors clearly doesn't conform to the usual pattern. That's why we're holding this emergency meeting to find out what's going on. The information from the game developers is that although this level 75 update took several years to create, it's not a reshaping of the game's settings. All developments are within the original rules, so logically speaking, the errors affected by the update should also conform to the changes of previous updates. No, it should be said that with the improvement of Glory's level, the adaptability to the latest version should be even stronger. The impact should be even smaller. That's the pattern that our data summaries have always told us. As a result, this time there's an explosive increase in errors, so there must be another reason."

"How about... we organize these teams and players to have a talk? The data is so obvious, I believe they must know the reason." Someone suggested.

"Let's do it this way..." Chairman Feng Xianjun nodded and approved the plan.

Subsequently, the league dispatched personnel to actively visit various teams to investigate the situation. Soon, feedback came back. There was no need to summarize, as the reasons discussed by each team were surprisingly consistent.

Ye Qiu, Team Happy.

Two keywords left Chairman Feng Xianjun speechless for a long time.

"This kid..." Looking at the name, Feng Xianjun felt like his migraine was about to flare up.

As the most glorious professional player in Glory history, Ye Qiu's status is beyond question. But such a successful and popular player was not well-received by the league.

The former chairman of the league, Jin Chengyi, once lamented that Ye Qiu's existence had delayed the development of the Glory Alliance by at least two years.

Many people interpreted this sentence as Ye Qiu's monopoly of championships, which caused the professional league to lack suspense and reduce its appeal in the early stages. However, those in the know understood that Chairman Jin Chengyi's words actually referred to Ye Qiu's lack of cooperation in publicity.

As the creator of the Excellent Era dynasty and the undisputed Glory number one, Ye Qiu should definitely have been the Glory spokesperson of that era. But unfortunately, this number one refused to participate in any activities. The league couldn't use his popularity to promote the events. In the end, the star players who were built up were all defeated by this person. This embarrassed the league, and countless Glory players suspected that there was some kind of conspiracy, or some kind of unspoken rule. Otherwise, why wasn't it Ye Qiu?

Even though Ye Qiu later issued a statement clarifying, players were happy to use their imagination and speculate, leaving the league red-faced.

Unable to take advantage of Ye Qiu's momentum, the league's promotional work was twice the effort for half the result. That's why Jin Chengyi had the lament that Ye Qiu's existence had delayed the development of the Glory Alliance by two years.