On the morning of Saturday, January 14th, Los Angeles time, and in the early morning of January 15th, local time in Jingzhou.
Today is the competition day for the top four of the ioi global finals, and the FV team is ready to go.
In the hotel, Ye Zhizhou, Bao Xu and others waved goodbye to the team members and watched them board the minibus.
The backstage space at the competition venue is limited and cannot accommodate so many people. However, the data analysis work of Ye Zhizhou, Bao Xu and others has come to an end and they can take a rest.
As the coach, Lao Zhou took part of the tactical team to the scene, so that Ye Zhizhou and others could move freely.
Of course, if new tactics emerge after the semi-finals, we still need to continue to analyze and provide tactical support to the FV team.
A week has passed since the quarter-finals. During this week, many European and American teams have sent invitations to the FV team for training matches, and the FV team’s response has been the same: Sorry, our training matches are already fully booked.
This is not a lie. After all, the FV team has indeed scheduled full training matches with SUG and its own second team, with more than ten hours of training time every day.
It’s just that the FV team is unwilling to change its training plan and compete with these European and American teams.
"Let's go have a drink?" Ye Zhizhou suggested.
The others readily agreed and went to a nearby small bar together. This bar will broadcast the live broadcast of the ioi global finals. It is simply enjoyable to watch the game while drinking.
It’s just that they didn’t notice that in the corner of the lobby lounge area on the first floor of the hotel, there was a Westerner with slightly bald hair, drinking coffee silently while paying attention to the situation of the FV team.
Eric looked at the huge logistics team of the FV team and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
Some time ago, Eric’s failure to promote the ioi national server made Dayak Group very disappointed, so he replaced Chretien to be responsible for the operation of the ioi national server.
The domestic market is too huge and no multinational company wants to give up.
After Chretien took office, he made a series of drastic changes, including modifying the gameplay of ioi, cooperating with Longyu Group, etc. At present, it seems that although it is difficult to say whether it is a success or a failure, at least The momentum is building.
So in the eyes of Dayak Group executives, trust in Chretien is unprecedentedly solid.
This is very difficult for Eric to accept.
He is also one of the top executives of the Dayak Group. It is impossible for him to be beaten directly to the end. He can keep his job and status in the company no matter what.
But everyone who can sit in this position is ambitious. It must be difficult for Eric to accept that he sees Chretien doing better and better in his former position.
Eric did not give up, but chose to lie dormant, silently watching the battle between GOG and ioi, and waiting for opportunities to move.
Although the current situation is very passive for Eric, and in the eyes of the outside world, there is no possibility of him turning around, Eric himself does not think so.
Because before returning to Los Angeles, he had carefully and deeply investigated Tenda's various methods of promoting GOG, and had a conversation with Mr. Pei.
Eric knows very well that even though Chretien is doing well now, he cannot succeed.
Because Chretien has no idea how terrible Mr. Pei is.
Eric knows very well that the methods used by Chretien now, including changing games, holding competitions, etc., are all used by Mr. Pei long ago. If you use Mr. Pei's tactics to deal with Mr. Pei, how can you succeed?
Obviously, Mr. Pei’s counterattack has begun unknowingly, and Team FV is the way that Mr. Pei found to break the situation.
From the domestic ioi qualifying rounds to the series of "performances" of the FV team in the World Championships, there seems to be a vague shadow of Mr. Pei. But Eric did not intend to tell Chretien or the top management of the Dayak Group his judgment.
For Eric, his own interests are far greater than those of Finger Company. Handing over precious information now will not give him the biggest bargaining chip, and it may not be adopted.
Eric took a sip of coffee, stood up and left.
After the ioi global finals, the winner should be decided in the second round of the confrontation between Dayak Group and Tenda Group.
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At the same time, Jingzhou.
Pei Qian has already gotten up, eating breakfast and waiting for the ioi global finals to start.
After entering the semi-finals and finals, the game time has become much more friendly to domestic players. After all, there is only one BO5 played a day, so the time arrangement will be more flexible. < /p>
Pei Qian had some small expectations inexplicably.
There is still a little time before the start of the game, and the wonderful performance of FV and its opponents in the quarterfinals is still playing on the screen to warm up.
Pei Qian was eating breakfast while watching the barrage in the live broadcast room.
"FV, come on! Come on!"
"I don't ask you to improve. Just stay where you are in the quarterfinals. Let's do another 3:0!"
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"Come on, come on, come on!"
But even at the critical moment before the start of the foreign war, there are still some sunspots who are still making trouble, and continue to use words such as "GOG for self-entertainment" .
Pei Qian couldn't help but sigh, these navy soldiers are quite dedicated, Longyu Group must have stuffed a lot of money.
Of course, there may be some people who are either trolls or just simple sunspots.
But the navy is paid to do things, and the black man can’t get the money.Why you are still working so hard is puzzling.
Pei Qian just took a sip of the drink when he suddenly saw a barrage and almost spit out all the drink in his mouth.
"Stop trolling, trolls, go and use the trolling machine to argue!"
"AEEIS fully automatic trolling machine can satisfy all your demands for trolling!"
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“The bar lift machine is so much fun. I suggest all the trolls get one.”
“There are so many people being trolled? You are too young. Buy a bar lift machine and exercise. Just think of your own mentality. After fighting against the barrage machine, you will feel that the rank of the trolls is too low and it is not worth fighting at all."
Looking at the barrage, the direction of the barrage has turned inexplicably. , Pei Qian was dumbfounded.
"What's going on? Why did the topic turn to the leveraging machine?"
"When I looked at it on Friday, the sales volume hadn't been very high yet?"
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Pei Qian has been busy checking the work status of various departments in the company for the past two days, and no longer cared about the bullshit machine. As a result, something happened if he was not careful!
He hurriedly took the mobile phone, clicked on the mall to check, and found that more than 300 units had been sold in the mobile phone mall alone!
Moreover, this is only the quantity purchased by OTTO mobile phone owners. The fully automatic intelligent bar lifter is also on some other shopping platforms and is also sold on the official website of OTTO Technology. If these are added together, the sales volume will be Very impressive!
"Could it be that Chang You didn't listen to me and still promoted it?"
Pei Qian hurriedly checked online, but he couldn't find any publicity about the fully automatic bar lifting machine at all.
“What’s wrong? It seems to have become popular out of nowhere, and it seems to have started from the game forum?”
“Fuck! Old Qiao!”
Pei Qian browsed for a long time and finally found Qiao Liang's Weibo, gritting his teeth in anger.
But he carefully looked at the number of comments and retweets on Weibo. They were not high, right?
Obviously Qiao Liang played a role in fueling the explosion of the fully automatic lift bar machine, but it was not the main cause.
This thing seems to have become popular naturally. There is no particularly obvious broadcast point, but everyone seems to like it.
Pei Qian is also completely confused. He really can’t understand why everyone likes this thing.
Amid Pei Qian's confusion, the game officially began.
The two commentators were also in great condition, working hard to boost the atmosphere in the field, and they did not hesitate to praise the FV team.
Although the FV team is not favored by ioi officials, after all, it is the only remaining team in the country. If you don’t promote FV, how about promoting foreign teams? That's definitely not appropriate.
Pei Qian could only comfort himself: "It's okay, just try your best to breastfeed the FV team..."
The game soon entered the BP interface..
For the FV team, coach Lao Zhou was holding a small book with a relaxed and indifferent expression. The players were also talking and laughing, and they seemed to have no pressure.
The mentality before the game is very important. It is important to have a serious and serious attitude, but if it is too tight, it may cause the players to be restrained and perform abnormally.
What's more, the FV team has made full tactical preparations, and the players are in great shape, and of course they are full of confidence.
Looking at the opponent's state, he is also full of confidence.
Especially the opponent's coach, standing behind the players with a small book in his hands, looking like he was strategizing and high-spirited.
This coach looks to be in his early thirties, with a neatly trimmed beard and a suit. He looks very reliable at first glance.
Pei Qian breathed a sigh of relief. It was already the semi-finals. As expected, there was no weak team.
The quarter-finals were played a week ago. The opponent must have repeatedly studied the game videos and found a way to target the FV team.
Everything was normal in the banning process. The opponent banned the hero that FV team had performed well in the previous quarter-finals. It was FV team's turn to pick first.
Then the FV team backhandedly selected a hero with zero appearance rate in this World Championship.
The camera showed a picture of the opponent's coach. The expression of the coach, who was full of confidence before, changed from confidence to doubt, and then to confusion and confusion.
He looked at the game screen in disbelief, almost thinking that he had seen it wrong.
Then he began to communicate frantically with his team members.
Although he is speaking in English and the content of these exchanges will not be released, the audience can still roughly figure out what he is talking about.
"Can you beat this hero?"
"Which path should you take?"
"This should be specifically for the popular system, which system is it for? It’s a trap..."
The coach was confused. He had no idea why FV wanted to grab this hero, and he had never played against this hero in a training match before!
The time for selecting players passed by second by second. The opponent team obviously did not study the reason. In the end, they chose two heroes that they thought were strong versions of the heroes they were best at and most familiar with. That set of tactics.
However, this seemed to play into the FV team's ambitions. Lao Zhou had almost no hesitation and asked the team members to lock two more heroes in seconds, specifically targeting the opponent's good tactics!
This second lock directly produces a powerful psychological deterrent effect.
One side thought twice before locking the hero until time ran out, while the other side locked it in seconds without hesitation and made a decisive decision.
Pei Qian sighed melancholy, deeply worried about the fate of the other team.