Chapter 157 Broken River

According to the league's regulations, each team's home field map cannot be used more than twice in the same season; otherwise, if all teams repeatedly use the same map, it would obviously make the competition much less interesting. There are also regulations between two seasons: the competition map of the new season can reuse the map of the previous season, but it must not exceed half of the number used in the previous season. And the home map used for two consecutive seasons will be prohibited from being used in the third season.

There are 20 teams in the league. Each team has 38 games to play in a season, including 19 home games, which means there are 19 opportunities to choose a map. To comply with the league's regulations, they must practice more than 10 maps. By the next season, half of the old maps cannot be used, which means that 5 new maps must be added to continue to comply with the regulations.

It can be seen that 15 maps can ensure that a team can use them cyclically every season while complying with the league's regulations. However, if only 15 maps are used cyclically, it will become a set pattern after two seasons, and everyone will know which ten maps are used each season. Therefore, teams usually use more than 15 maps, and the maps used each season are quite flexible.

Team Happy is a new team, and the newcomers are all blank slates. They started practicing competition maps from scratch. As for them, it is impossible to guess which maps they will choose. But the problem is that Happy is not all newcomers. Ye Xiu, Su Mucheng, and Fang Rui are all professional players with considerable experience. They all have their own strengths and familiar competition maps.

Directly choosing the maps they are familiar with and then teaching the newcomers to adapt seems to be a simpler method. Team Hundred Blossoms deduced it this way when preparing for the battle, and then estimated the maps that Happy would choose for their home field.

The result: Broken River.

Let alone professional players, I'm afraid that the Glory players at the scene are not unfamiliar with this map. This is a very famous classic map in Glory history. In the team battles of the online game arena, from 2 vs 2 to 10 vs 10, this is a super popular map. Some players are not familiar with any map, but they have some research on this map.

To put it bluntly, this is a map that anyone can treat as their home field. Such a map should not appear on the professional arena. Because the home field advantage in the professional arena is mainly reflected in the map selection. Choosing such a map is equivalent to giving up one's own advantage.

Too many people understand this principle. From the official start of the game, when the loading screen showed that it was Broken River, there were various discussions at the scene. In the broadcast of the Thunder vs. Void match, Pan Lin did not disappoint and did another interlude. He also chatted with the guest Li Yibo about why Happy would choose this map, forcing Li Yibo to talk about his views. At this time, the Thunder and Void were fighting fiercely on the field...

Happy and Hundred Blossoms continued on the field.

Happy, who went straight to the avenue, arrived at the severed river before Hundred Blossoms. Since they did not see Team Hundred Blossoms on the avenue before, Happy naturally knew that the Hundred Blossoms players had advanced in a roundabout way.

But, from which side did they go around?

The audience in God's perspective knew, but Happy didn't.

As a result, Ji Leng, the assassin in Team Hundred Blossoms, showed his figure from the Stone Forest, but after seeing Team Happy, he immediately retreated.

The audience had already seen the attacking formation set up by Hundred Blossoms in the Stone Forest. However, isn't this kind of temptation too low-level?

As a result, the five members of Team Happy actually rushed towards the place where Ji Leng had appeared and then disappeared. The home audience was suddenly anxious. Chasing after seeing someone is the awareness of amateur players. How can professionals do this?

As a result, at this time, they saw the characters of Team Hundred Blossoms adjusting their positions.

Professional players shouldn't do this, the audience knows it, and Team Hundred Blossoms certainly knows it better. So their main target is the attack from behind.

Team Happy did not go around behind, but this is not considered a trick. Because the Hundred Blossoms' formation mainly defends against attacks from behind, but they have not neglected the attention to this side. Their formation can be adjusted instantly. Even ordinary viewers can see that everyone is too familiar with this map. The location chosen by Team Hundred Blossoms for the ambush is a comprehensive choice.

Without neglecting either the front or the back, Hundred Blossoms finally waited for Happy.

The five members of Happy arrived outside the circle, and the audience held their breath, but they didn't leave.

Then, the five members of Team Hundred Blossoms watched speechlessly as a goblin swayed in from the outside.

Team Happy, which did not send a summoner into battle, just sent in a summoned beast, because they had the unspecialized Lord Grim.

The five members of Hundred Blossoms stared blankly at the weakest of the summoned beasts. It came alone, so naturally there was no threat. But the courage of the summoned beast was commendable. When it came in and saw a target, the goblin immediately waved his big stick and rushed up, while throwing a stone at his target: the assassin Ji Leng.

Throwing stones is the goblin's skill as a summoned beast. But don't underestimate this simple and crude attack. This attack has a 20% chance of causing dizziness. Just for the sake of this 20% chance, it would not be too surprising if a Battle Mage, Elementalist, or Witch brought a goblin.

But speaking of it, the attack speed of throwing stones is slow enough. It is possible to be hit suddenly in a chaotic battle. But like now, throwing it in the face, those who can't dodge should be ashamed.

Zhou Guangyi controlled Ji Leng and easily dodged it. Then the goblin swayed in front of him, and Ji Leng solved it with three or two strokes. Then, another goblin came in.

The goblin cannot summon two at once, but the character will receive a signal when the summoned beast dies. So, as soon as it was solved by Ji Leng, Ye Xiu immediately let Lord Grim make up for one, and then, it came in again.

"What are they doing?" Mo Chuchen, the healer player in the Hundred Blossoms channel, couldn't help but ask.

"Concentrate," Yu Feng said. He felt that this affectation was probably to distract them. That's what he thought, but he didn't have the confidence to say it in the channel. In fact, he was also fiercely speculating in his heart, what exactly is this trying to do?

The second goblin came, and the Hundred Blossoms' position did not change. So this time it still prioritized Ji Leng as the attack target, rushed up, and then was solved by Ji Leng in a few strokes.

The third one came.

The five members of Hundred Blossoms were exasperated, and at the same time, they understood. This repeated teasing with a goblin is actually telling them: Don't be naive, we can't break in.

What would happen if the five members of Hundred Blossoms just didn't come out, and the five members of Happy just didn't go in?

This question is more difficult to answer. The tactics in a team are far more complicated than in individual duels. Mo Fan's actions were quickly penalized with two yellow cards, but in team competitions, if such a stalemate occurs, the referees need to weigh it for a long time. Although their judgments have unquestionable authority on the field, it is possible to determine after the game whether their performance is reasonable, especially this kind of judgment that is particularly difficult to make, which is a scene that referees have always been reluctant to encounter.

But right now, the referee of this game is not entangled at all.

Because the scene did not actually stalemate. One, two, three goblins entered one after another, and the other members of Happy were also moving. Su Mucheng, Fang Rui, Qiao Yifan, and An Wenyi were all going around to the back.

Yu Feng's initial judgment was not wrong. This affectation was to distract them, and then, attack from the east and strike in the west.

However, shouldn't Hundred Blossoms' attention be so scattered that they couldn't see the people behind them? Their mood was a little impetuous, but their formation was not disturbed at all. No matter which side attacked, or both sides flanked, they still occupied a considerable advantage with sufficient arrangements.

At this time, the fifth goblin sent by Lord Grim finally arrived, and Ye Xiu also communicated with the other party in the public channel.

"How many are there?" Ye Xiu asked.

"5..." Yu Feng replied speechlessly.

"How many do you want to count?" Ye Xiu asked.

"..."

Now going out, they may have set up an attack formation outside. Team Hundred Blossoms speculated. And if they don't go out, Happy doesn't seem to dare to attack, but if they continue to stalemate like this, the referee will intervene sooner or later. How will this situation be judged? It is obviously unreasonable to force Happy to break in when they know there is an ambush. But now Happy is blocking the exit, forcing Hundred Blossoms to go out, which doesn't seem very convenient.

At this moment, the members of Hundred Blossoms deeply realized the difficulty of being a referee.

"Maybe it will be refreshed?" Zou Yuan said.

The situation where it is impossible to say left or right, refreshing to break the deadlock, has also appeared in professional games.

"Wait for a refresh?" Zhou Guangyi said while solving the fifth goblin. He didn't like this kind of stalemate very much. In fact, he wasn't very interested in this kind of ambush, even though he was an assassin player.

The final decision, of course, was to be made by the captain, Yu Feng. He was thinking... and the sixth goblin had already swayed in, and everyone was numb.

"I see..." Zhou Guangyi was about to type a word with some meaning when he suddenly felt something flash in front of him. Then, he saw three shells spraying flames, which were much faster than the swaying goblin.

Zhou Guangyi didn't care about typing anymore. He rolled over, and three shells exploded in the position he had just escaped. The other four people almost suddenly came back to their senses after the explosion.

All eyes turned to the front, searching for the enemy's figure. This sudden attack made them all forget the clear division of labor at the beginning.

The opportunity is in this instant.

Behind the five members of Hundred Blossoms, the four members of Happy immediately entered.