Hu Die Lan
Chapter 1169 Team Competition, Prepare!
This time, the audience at the scene was truly shocked.
They already felt it was incredible that Tang Rou could fight Yu Feng head-on and be evenly matched. Winning would be a pleasant surprise. But now, with half her health remaining, Tang Rou had actually defeated the third Baihua player... Although Fallen Flower Wolf Melody (Luohua Langji) of Yu Feng had already had one-fifth of his life reduced by Boundless Sea (Hai Wu Liang) of Fang Rui at the time, but one and four-fifths, this situation, even if regarded as a one-on-two, probably no one would think it was too much, right?
A rookie, in the second round of her professional career, had completed the feat of defeating two opponents in a row, and one of them was an All-Star superstar.
What's going on?
What's going on?
The audience was stunned for a long while. Applause, screams, cheers, all exploded in the entire stadium. The on-site broadcast announcing the results of the individual competition, assisted by multiple loudspeakers, was instantly killed. The sound of applause filled every corner of the stadium. Even some Glory players who weren't particularly fond of Happy but had just come to watch a lively event, deeply realized that they were likely witnessing the rise of another Glory star.
Tang Rou had already walked out of the player booth. The crazy cheers and applause that arose for her in the venue did not make her feel uneasy at all. She raised her hand in the air, letting everyone at the scene see her waving fist.
The scene became even more enthusiastic.
This was truly a remarkable victory, belonging to Tang Rou, and also belonging to Happy. Various spontaneous slogans had already been sung neatly in the stadium. Home court, this was the true home court, enough to make opponents feel guilty and frightened.
The noise lasted for a long time, to the extent that the on-site broadcast couldn't even announce the next match item according to the procedure. Fortunately, even if no one announced it, everyone was very clear that after the individual competition, the team competition would of course be the highlight. And so far, Happy was leading Baihua 4 to 1, if they could win the team competition again, 9 to 1, it wouldn't be a complete victory, but it would be satisfying enough. Especially with such a wonderful performance in the individual competition, it had simply stolen the spotlight from the main event, the team competition.
The audience was so excited, and of course the Happy old and young would not hide their joy.
"Too beautiful!" Tang Rou was hugged by Chen Guo as soon as she returned to the player's seat. Many wolf howls suddenly came from the audience seats closer to them. The eye-catching scene of two beauties hugging made many people couldn't help but make obscene noises.
"Well done," Ye Xiu also praised.
However, they couldn't just be happy during this time. After the individual competition, the break time before the team competition was relatively long. Teams usually took this opportunity to make some minor adjustments or changes based on the opponent's condition discovered on the spot or some other issues. So, after a brief celebration, the whole team gathered together and began to prepare for the team competition.
The same was true for the Baihua team. However, happy things could be celebrated later, but what about the repressed atmosphere? Did they mean to say, "Let's be happy now, and we'll be depressed later?"
Obviously not. Although the opening of the individual competition was unfavorable, Mo Fan's technical foul gave them a big gift. With an almost two-on-one advantage, the result was that the opponent reversed the situation. Baihua's morale was now completely at a low point. When Zhu Xiaoping came down, his teammates' consolation was just going through the motions. Obviously, from the bottom of their hearts, everyone was very disappointed.
"What's wrong, what's wrong with everyone? Cheer up, the game is not over yet. There is still a team competition, which can help us grab enough points!" Yu Feng, as the captain, had to stand up and cheer up his teammates. But the effect was not significant. Although everyone looked like they were cheering up, Yu Feng could see that they were basically just catering to his words. Their fighting spirit had not been ignited by this.
How could this be?
Yu Feng knew that his words were nothing special, and probably everyone would say them. But he clearly remembered that when he was in the Blue Rain team, facing various unfavorable situations, even in the eighth season's finals, when the home team was 2.5 to 7 behind Samsara, Captain Yu Wenzhou's simple words could change the atmosphere of the whole team.
The game is not over yet...
This seemed to be the sentence that Yu Wenzhou said most often. Now that Yu Feng was also the captain, at this time, what he blurted out was actually the sentence he had heard the most in his former team. But why was the effect so different when he spoke and when Yu Wenzhou spoke?
Yu Feng was very depressed and helpless. And he had never experienced such an embarrassing fall behind. Being defeated by a rookie in a one-on-two, including him, the captain and core...
Was it because he was one of the reasons for the team's loss of morale, so now his speech made everyone a little disapproving?
There was not much time for Yu Feng to think about the knowledge of being a captain. Seeing his teammates in low spirits and with scattered morale, he couldn't do anything about it. He could only calm himself down first, calmly deploy the upcoming team competition, and hope to infect his teammates with his emotions.
The two teams were making arrangements for the team battle, and the audience was still immersed in the victory of the individual competition just now. And the scene was also taking this opportunity to constantly review the highlights of the individual competition. On the electronic screen, there were also holographic projections of the competition field, all using various freezes, close-ups, and slow-motion replays to show Tang Rou's might in the battle just now.
Of course, the Baihua players and fans could also see this, and of course it would make them very unhappy. But this was Happy's home court, who would care about their emotions? This was the so-called home-court advantage. After all, the home team's fans were the guarantee of their long-term box office!
The players were actively preparing for battle, the audience was enthusiastically reviewing, and what about the media?
Pan Lin, the commentator who was broadcasting the Thunder vs. Void match, after hearing about the twists and turns of the individual competition and Tang Rou's one-on-two victory over the two Baihua players, including Yu Feng, once again forcibly interspersed in the broadcast and introduced the situation on Happy's side to the audience.
The e-sports channel received countless hotline calls from viewers that night. Some politely asked which channel could watch the Happy vs. Baihua match to understand the broadcasting system. The more fiery ones directly questioned why they didn't broadcast the Happy and Baihua match.
The TV station couldn't blame Pan Lin. They were also regretting it. But who could have predicted that Happy would explode with such brilliance in this match beforehand?
The live broadcast on TV could only continue helplessly, while on the online broadcast, the number of clicks on the Happy vs. Baihua match soared, completely crushing the other nine matches. Some online media that could publish news in real time had quickly put up drafts and published Tang Rou's performance on the headlines of their respective websites. As for print media, such as newspapers and periodicals, that were not so timely in publishing news, various reporters couldn't help but describe this round of the individual competition with great enthusiasm.
Was the next team competition still important?
In their opinion, it was no longer important. No matter what the result of the team competition was, Tang Rou's god-like performance in the individual competition today would be tomorrow's headline. They only hoped that Tang Rou would not suddenly have a low tide in the team competition. But even if there was a low tide, it seemed that it could be organized with a dramatic description of being an angel one moment and a devil the next. In this way, there could be something to write about anyway. The reporters were excited, writing vigorously and freely, until the team competition was about to begin and the players began to enter the arena, then they reluctantly began to pay attention to the match again.
For the team competition, Happy's lineup was: Ye Xiu's unspecialized Lord Grim (Jun Mo Xiao), Su Mucheng's Launcher Dancing Rain (Mu Yu Cheng Feng), Fang Rui's Qi Master Boundless Sea (Hai Wu Liang), Qiao Yifan's Ghost Swordsman One Inch Ash (Yi Cun Hui), An Wenyi's Cleric Little Cold Hands (Xiao Shou Bing Liang) as the starting lineup, and Tang Rou's Soft Mist (Han Yan Rou) as the sixth player.
On Baihua's side, the starting lineup consisted of Yu Feng's Berserker Fallen Flower Wolf Melody (Luohua Langji), Zou Yuan's Spitfire Dazzling Hundred Blossoms (Fan Hua Luan Jin), Zhou Guangyi's Assassin Cold Season (Ji Leng), Zhu Xiaoping's Summoner Wind Carved (Feng Ke), Mo Chuchen's Cleric Arrogant Wind Scattered Flowers (Ao Feng Can Hua), and Zhang Wei's Witch Senro (Sen Luo) as the sixth player.
Happy made a slight rotation in the lineup. The inclusion of Cleric An Wenyi was inevitable, and Qiao Yifan had also not played in the previous individual competition. Baozi and Mo Fan, who played in the individual competition and the individual competition, were both sitting on the player's bench at this time.
On Baihua's side, except for the replacement of healing player Mo Chuchen, there were no other players who had not appeared in the individual matches. This degree of replacement was usually not considered a rotation.
The players from both sides entered the stage, bowed, and after shaking hands and other formalities, entered their respective competition booths. The referee confirmed that both sides were ready, confirmed that the match was about to begin, and the countdown echoed throughout the venue.
Finally, the team competition officially began.
The competition map: Broken River.
The entire map was a standard square, divided into four triangular areas by diagonals. The symmetrical triangular areas above and below were two stone forests, and the symmetrical triangular areas on the left and right were two triangular forests. The roads in the stone forest and the forest were more tortuous and complex, and the intersecting diagonals, from the northeast corner to the southwest corner, were a thoroughfare, while the northwest to southeast was a river, but in the center it was blocked and cut off by the thoroughfare running from northeast to southwest. The name Broken River came from this.
The Broken River had a turbulent current, but it flowed backwards. The cut in the middle seemed to be the source of the river. However, when it flowed to the northwest and southeast corners, it reached the edge of the map. Here, the Broken River was made into a waterfall, which was actually an open map exit. However, if a character exited from here, they would be directly declared dead and withdrawn from the competition.
The two teams refreshed in the southwest and northeast corners, respectively. In addition to these two points, there was a character exchange area in each of the four triangular areas.
The Baihua team refreshed in the upper side of the map, the northeast corner.
The Happy team refreshed in the lower side of the map, the southwest corner.
The connected avenue ran straight through, with no obstructions. Walking along the avenue, the two sides would definitely appear in each other's sight very soon. The Happy team charged directly along the avenue, but the Baihua team chose a roundabout route. The team quickly entered the triangular stone forest in the north.