China, Shanghai, Division of E-Sports Association.
Fang Hao, who was sitting in the president's office, held the phone, and while talking to Chu Fangnan on the other end of the phone, he looked out the window leisurely.
The night is vast, with occasional stars twinkling and flickering.
The thoughts of the chairman of the China Shanghai E-Sports Association could not help but be affected, and there was a kind of sigh and emotion that time flies and vicissitudes of life.
then.
then.
Four years ago, he switched from DOTA to the professional e-sports field in charge of the national service League of Legends. At that time, the national service DOTA professional circle had already achieved unprecedented brilliance. Even if those great gods retired, they still established them. The national service DOTA professional circle has an unstoppable position in the world.
At that time, League of Legends was just a Moba e-sports game that was just emerging.
At that time, he was the vice president of the Shanghai E-sports Association branch. When he was just assigned the task to be in charge of LOL, many people in the association were not optimistic about the new field he was in charge of.
But he put his heart and soul into it and got to work.
Everything is difficult at the beginning. At the beginning of his work, he encountered too many difficulties and obstacles. Back then, the domestic LOL professional e-sports was almost a blank, and even the offline regular professional events could not get very good results. carry out.
Venue, sponsorship, personnel, equipment…
Wait wait, it's all a question.
But fortunately, the few professional players in the national server at that time, like him, had sincere enthusiasm for this emerging game, and continued to work hard in such difficult times and in such a difficult environment, bit by bit. Achieved and achieved results.
That's why the world finals came later. A team like that in their national server became one of the only two teams in the Asian division, and flew to London, England to participate in the finals of the S1 season.
…
"At that time... It's not an exaggeration to say that we were overjoyed when we heard the news that our team had qualified for the finals—"
Chu Fangnan couldn't help but sigh.
Fang Hao laughed:
"Yeah, that's really not easy. The hard work pays off, and it's always worthy of excitement and joy."
But at that time... even if their team made it to the finals, it wasn't all smooth sailing.
Because Fang Hao also clearly remembers how serious a dispute was caused in the World E-sports Association because of such a problem.
In my memory, those scenes and those angry and arguing voices still seem to be close to my eyes and echoing in my ears:
"I'm the vice-chairman of the China E-Sports Association! Maple's age issue has been reported in our LPL league at the time and retained as a special case. We have reported this matter to the World E-Sports Association earlier! "
"You must give an explanation for this matter today!"
"If we don't give a result today, none of us will walk out of the gate here!"
The picture in memory flashed through his mind like a revolving lantern, Fang Hao couldn't help but smiled again.
The excitement of the year.
Straight talk of the year.
Even in the headquarters office of the World E-sports Association, he directly slapped the table and scolded the bosses of the association headquarters.
The thrilling moments at that time have now become memories worth cherishing.
And the team that they had placed high hopes on, did not live up to their hopes and fought all the way to the end.
Unfortunately…
It was one step away from the championship in the S1 season.
Thinking of this, Fang Hao couldn't help shaking his head slightly, and he also had regrets and regrets in his heart.
The team that year, the five young players, each of them is absolutely talented and powerful, and their strength is definitely qualified to compete for the final championship trophy, but it is just a little bit of luck. will regret it.
But now, three of those five people have left, and although the remaining two are still struggling in the professional circle, only one fat man, Tian Tian, has achieved results and became the No. 1 top laner in the national service, "Yuanshen" ".
…
In fact, in Fang Hao's view, the most outstanding talent was definitely not Fatty.
Even in this year's finals, Ueda Tian has already played such a stunning performance in the world. Among the five players in the team that year, his talent and potential can only rank in the top three.
The second is their ADC.
The first is the 15-year-old genius mid laner at the center of the dispute back then—
Maple.
"If those few people were still working hard in the professional e-sports circle now, the current lineup of professional players in the national server should be at least twice as strong—"
Chu Fangnan couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
Fang Hao nodded slightly:
"Perhaps, even among the seven kings and the four emperors, there should be one or two more places in the national uniform."
After speaking, Fang Hao couldn't help but sigh again.
The defeat in the finals that year may have been too heavy a blow for the young Maple. Such a cruel reality made it difficult for the talented mid-laner teenager to face and accept it, so he left so early. professional gaming arena.
otherwise…
With the strength that Maple was able to defeat Phoenix head-on in the past, and the person who is now the head of the four emperors can face head-to-head without falling behind—
Today's four emperors of e-sports must have his place.
His thoughts retracted to reality, Fang Hao shook his head and asked casually:
"Will the two groups of your game be over in a while?"
"Many people should have to wait to go home to watch the live broadcast of KG playing SSK tonight, shouldn't it be delayed?"
Chu Fangnan nodded: "Well, just now the first group was Shisan Gaoda Shixi Middle School, which has already ended. Now the second group is already in progress, and it should be the Shanghai High School Affiliated to the top four."
"Shangwaifu High School? Last year's runner-up team?" Fang Hao raised his eyebrows, but his attention was somewhat attracted by another group of teams mentioned by Chu Fangnan: "However, the Thirteen High Team is this year's new team? I don't seem to have any impression of last year-"
…
In the competition venue of the 16-school league in Shanghai, the second group of the quarter-finals on the stage will soon come to an end.
Because the strength of the High School is really too strong.
As expected of last year's runner-up team, both in terms of overall strength and tactical execution, they completely overwhelmed their opponents. Coupled with that fierce style of play, the first game only cost 25 yuan. It's easy to win in minutes.
At this moment, when the second ongoing game was also in the early ten minutes, the situation on the scene had already fallen into the control of the purple side of the Shanghai Waifuzhong team.
Under the stage, everyone in the thirteen high e-sports club team in the guest seat of the front row players all looked solemn and solemn.
They all felt enormous pressure.
Attached to the middle school…
stronger than last year.
In other words, last year's e-sports club team was still too weak, and they were easily crushed and defeated without feeling the real fear of the opponent; and now the 13-high team has made obvious progress and improvement. I have only really begun to feel the terrifying strength of this runner-up team last year.
"Can you really win-"
Liu Yue couldn't help but murmured.
Shen Ze and Wei Dong also remained silent.
Even Ouyang closed his mouth.
Lin Feng, on the other hand, looked at the OB screen on the spectator screen with a very serious expression, and made a serious judgment for a long time:
"This team..."
"Strong!"
"However—" Lin Feng suddenly changed the subject after speaking, his tone was full of resolute and decisive fighting intent: "We still have to win!"
Backstage at this time, Chu Fangnan had just hung up the phone.
Just when he was about to take a break, a staff member of the e-sports association walked over quickly and handed a document to Chu Fangnan:
"Brother Chu, this is the information about the top eight teams this time."
"The information about the members of the Thirteen High Teams you want should also be in it."
"Okay, hard work." Chu Fangnan nodded to his subordinates with a smile, and after the subordinate staff turned around and left, he lowered his head and began to look at the team information in his hand.
Soon he turned to the page of the Thirteen High Team.
Then, his eyes swept over the contents of this page casually.
And when he swiped to a certain line of text in the data...
As if seeing something, Chu Fangnan's face suddenly showed an unbelievable shock—
(This, this!?)
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