LoL: I really didn’t mess up!

"Random race?" The staff in charge of registration heard Chen Dongqing's words, adjusted his glasses and said, "Are you sure?"

"I'm sure." Chen Dongqing smiled and nodded.

The staff registered this information without asking any questions.

Chen Dongqing was the last one to arrive. After he completed his registration, the sixteen players for this year's WCS were completely determined.

In two days' time, everyone will start a life-and-death fight to advance to the top 16 in the group stage.

Players who advance through the group stage will officially participate in BlizzCon and qualify for the WCS knockout rounds.

One night passed quickly, and the next day, the day before the start of the game, the official blogs of Blizzard and NetEase also officially released the player information for this WCS group stage.

(Brothers here, remember to turn on the new illustration mode from Qidian, and there will be an illustration on it. Because it is difficult to express the complete information of this table in words, and writing it out in full is also suspected of hydrology, so I simply made a table and inserted it in the middle of the article. Yes, it’s more intuitive.)

As soon as this contestant information was sent out, it immediately aroused heated discussion among the players.

It has to be said that in this information table, there is information about one player that stands out from the crowd and is quite unexpected.

The eighth player in the non-Korean division standings: ilex.

Nationality: Chinese, Race: Random, Points: 3000, Remarks: Shanghai Station Champion

The winner of the Shanghai Station will bring 3,000 points.

In other words, this person only participated in one Shanghai competition and did not participate in any other competitions.

But he was stunned to qualify for the WCS just by relying on this competition.

Do you think this makes sense?

And the most eye-catching thing is the [random] displayed by ilex in the race column.

ah?

random? What about putting this whole job aside? Don't plan to win this?

Once this information was sent out, it immediately aroused heated discussions among major players around the world.

On domestic forums, players responded particularly enthusiastically.

At this time, in the StarCraft 2 Bar, NGA and other major game forums, the discussion about this exploded.

【? ? ? Ilex wants to play random? Crazy? 】

[It can be seen that this B was traveling from the beginning and had no intention of winning the championship]

[I understand that I don’t plan to win the championship. After all, China’s StarCraft is not good to begin with, but choosing a random race is a bad attitude, right? 】

[Forget it, there is nothing to blame, he has already brought glory to us by being able to enter this competition]

[Alas, but I am speechless. I think Brother Shu really has a chance to win the championship]

[Haha, don’t be ridiculous, you really don’t think ilex can win the championship, do you? 】

[Indeed, I am the first person in the history of LOL, and I am already full of honors. Who needs you as the WCS champion? Is gold content the same thing? 】

Countless players have discussed and discussed it, but in fact it is nothing more than the same argument: ilex's participation in this competition has already brought glory to the country. Next, let's take it one step at a time. If you can reach the semi-finals, it will be considered a success.

I have to say, I am very optimistic already.

This is the gap in player expectations.

The LPL audience has expectations for their team to win the championship, so anyone who says "the top four is considered successful" will be blackmailed for life.

But on the Interstellar side, the top four have ancestors who all have light! Hurry up and score! It’s a ball!

Based on this situation, Chen Dongqing's "willful behavior" of choosing a random race was not criticized by many people, but they all understood it!

Of course, there are still a small number of viewers who have some expectations for this.

Brother Shu has already created many miracles, what if he can really win the championship with randomness?

Believe Brother Shu!

But this belief was quickly shattered.

Shortly after the announcement was made, many people said they saw Chen Dongqing and Lin Xianhua at Disneyland in Anaheim.

This young couple seemed to be really here for a vacation. They played around with the project all afternoon and met many fans along the way. Chen Dongqing took photos happily and was quite easy-going.

After coming out of Disneyland, Chen Dongqing and Lin Xianhua found a restaurant for a meal, and then came to Huntington Beach.

This is a world-famous surfing spot with an extended coastline and a relatively safe coastal environment. You can surf safely without fear of drowning.

Of course, the weather is now November, Los Angeles has entered autumn, and no one is surfing anymore, but this does not stop locals from taking a walk on this beach.

Chen Dongqing met some fans again here. After taking a group photo happily, he and his girlfriend walked on the beach at dusk.

Lin Xianhua said helplessly: "You have a competition tomorrow, why don't you practice more today? Isn't this too lax?"

"It's not necessary. Didn't you play against Serral this morning?" Chen Dongqing said with a chuckle: "The game of StarCraft is quite simple. I didn't feel any pressure when playing."

"Interstellar is easy!?" Lin Xianhua said angrily: "Others say this is the most difficult game!"

Chen Dongqing said happily: "This is different."

Why is it said that interstellar is the most difficult? In fact, the reason is very simple, just because this is a pure 1V1 game. If you have strong personal ability, you will win, and if you have weak personal ability, you will lose. It is as simple and crude as that.

But unfortunately, personal ability is Chen Dongqing's strength.

In LOL competition, in addition to personal ability, it also depends on the reputation of teammates.

In QG's games, they never lost because of Chen Dongqing's collapse. It was basically because other lanes collapsed.

If the S competition is changed to a SOLO competition, then Chen Dongqing can win a hundred championships in a row and get this game yellow all the way!

For Chen Dongqing, the difficulty of interstellar is child's play.

This is why he switched to a random race.

This race can give full play to its personal abilities.

"It's up to you. If you say it's simple, it's simple." Lin Xianhua held her boyfriend's arm and smiled: "If it's so simple, then it shouldn't be difficult to win the championship, right?"

"Don't worry." Chen Dongqing is quite confident, "I am quite confident about this championship!"

The time soon came to November 11th.

Chen Dongqing, who has a strong sleep ability, has adjusted his schedule now. He got up on time at ten o'clock in the morning, had a breakfast of bread and milk with his girlfriend, and then walked into the training room and entered the training state.

Since the game is about to start in the afternoon, I might as well practice some practice.

As for the opponent in the training match, there was a different person. I made an appointment with the American God King Neeb, a two-time tour champion and the first non-Korean player in points.

There is no way, Koreans have to account for half of the quota in the interstellar competition, and this is the result of Blizzard's restrictions, otherwise, there would be even more Koreans.

The biggest characteristic of Koreans is that they pay attention to group hugging.

In this competition for the championship, they don't play training games with foreigners at all.

But it is also reasonable. The Koreans have won the championship for as many years as the interstellar competition has been held. Do they need external training?

There was no way around it, so Chen Dongqing had no choice but to date non-Korean players.

But I have to say that Chen Dongqing has rich experience in Korean server ranking. He has played against these Korean players.

After playing against Serral and Neeb, he can actually feel that the level of non-Korean players with heads like this is not weaker than that of Korean players.

The two played until one o'clock in the afternoon, when the game was approaching.

Before leaving, Chen Dongqing also saw the message Neeb sent in the custom room:

[Hey, brother, let’s cheer for today’s game, let’s give those damn Koreans a little surprise! 】

The format of the WCS group stage has always been "GSLvsWORLD"

Each team consists of two Koreans and two non-Koreans.

In the first round of the competition, Korean players will compete with non-Korean players one by one to determine the winners and losers.

Then the winner will fight the winner, and the loser will fight the loser. A total of two wins will advance to the knockout round, and a total of two losses will be eliminated. It's that simple.

Therefore, both Neeb and Chen Dongqing will have their own Korean opponents today.

Chen Dongqing looked at the words in the chat column and replied with a smile: "It is necessary! We will definitely win today!"

Not long after, Chen Dongqing packed up his mouse and keyboard and walked to the Anaheim Convention Center.

Halfway through the race, Chen Dongqing took a closer look at the grouping situation and the schedule.

WCS 2017 year-end finals group stage top 16 groups:

Group A: STATS, soO, Snute, ilex

Group B: Dark, Nerchio, Rogue, Neeb

Group C: TY, Kelazhur, herO, Elazer

Group D: INnoVation, SpeCial, GuMiho, Serral

Chen Dongqing is last in Group A.

The knockout rounds are divided into three days, all in the form of BO3. On the first day, the winners and losers of the two groups AB will be decided. The next day, two groups of CDs were decided.

Then wait until the third day to finalize the quota.

To explain simply, if Chen Dongqing is strong enough, if he wins one on the first day and one on the third day, he can easily advance with two wins.

If you are weak and fall into the loser group, then you have to fight one more time.

If it is weaker and the lower bracket still loses, then it can only be sent.

It is a classic double-elimination competition system and is not complicated to understand.

Chen Dongqing looked at his opponent today again - Stats.

Yesterday, Coach Park specifically told him that this person is a tough guy.

As one of the three GSL champions this year, he has 12,875 points, ranking first among Korean players!

It is no exaggeration to say that this person is the one with the best performance among all the players in StarCraft this year, and is definitely the favorite to win the championship.

Chen Dongqing met such an opponent on the first day. It can only be said that he was unlucky.

Coach Park was standing aside at this time and said: "It's okay, don't be stressed. If you lose, just work hard in the lower group. It's not too difficult for us to qualify."

Chen Dongqing waved his hand and said with a smile: "What pressure can I have? Just watch my performance. It's not like I haven't been tortured even if I'm just trying to do it!"

There have always been some weird titles in the StarCraft circle.

It is normal for innovation to be called Lu Bu. What is even more strange is that it is called "original".

The word "Ben" comes from "Ben". In the era of StarCraft 1, it was the title of the Korean StarCraft League for players who were dominant for a long enough time.

But in the StarCraft II era, the title has become more comical.

For example, Chen Dongqing's opponent Stats today is called "drawing the foundation".

The reason why he got this nickname is also very simple, because he has a shoehorn face and a huge chin

Because they are the first game of Group A, Chen Dongqing and Ba Ben will be responsible for the performance of the opening game of the group stage.

After the inspection, Chen Dongqing followed the host's guidance and came to the stage without much rest.

Chen Dongqing glanced at Ba Ben who was standing opposite.

Hmm. The chin is really long.

Ba Ben was very sensitive to other people's gazes. He immediately felt that B. ilex was staring at his chin.

Ba Ben snorted coldly, and then sat back in his seat.

Haha, little Alex, don’t you know any manners?

I heard that you defeated the Korean team in LOL some time ago? You don’t think that StarCraft and LOL can be the same, do you?

Even if you are the first person in history in LOL, when you get to StarCraft, you still have to be treated honestly by me!

This game will teach you respect!

On the other side, Chen Dongqing had no fluctuations in his heart. He sat on the computer on the other side of the stage, adjusted the sensitivity of the peripherals, and then entered the competition server.

Seeing the players from both sides taking their seats, StarCraft players from all over the world were itching for the game to start quickly.

They really want to see how far this ilex, who chose a random race, can go.

The Star Old Boy live broadcast room at this time.

Although it was already late at night, the two middle-aged men, Huang Xudong and Sun Yifeng, did not sleep. Instead, they stayed up late and started watching today's game.

At this time, the map of the first game has been displayed: Amethyst Guard.

"Come on! Ilex!" Xudong's tone contained a hint of hope, "Although the probability of winning is not high, I hope I can show my strength to everyone!"

At this time, there was a burst of doubts in the barrage.

【? ? ? Poisonous milk is a waste of time, right? 】

[ilex is stable]

[Utilitarian milk is not advisable]

[Even if Xudong Laoxian uses his strength, it won’t work. The main reason is that ilex’s randomness is too tricky]

[Indeed, forget it if you beat other players, Ba Ben has been in such good shape recently, it’s hard to say]

Somewhere in Seoul, South Korea.

Faker, who has returned from Jeju Island, has entered his vacation time. As the absolute core of SKT, he certainly does not need to think about renewing his contract.

Faker, who had nothing to do and was about to sleep, suddenly remembered something. He clicked on twitch and found the StarCraft event live broadcast room.

The screen shows that the first game between ilex and Stats has begun.

From God's perspective, we can see that ilex was very lucky in this round, and randomly picked up the race he is good at, the human race.

Faker became interested and expanded the live broadcast to full screen to watch the game.

He also wanted to know how far ilex could go in the interstellar finals.

At this time, both sides have entered into a busy start of construction, and this game is relatively smooth for both sides.

Like Serral and Neeb before him, Stats obviously had no experience in dealing with random masters. Faced with a dark map and extremely scarce information, he thought for a moment and chose to start defensively, and then eliminated reconnaissance to investigate. information.

Chen Dongqing's human race actually suffered a disadvantage when fighting against the protoss. Almost all of his few failures were at the hands of the protoss.

But now that he has the information advantage, everything has begun to reverse.

Can the person on the other side imagine that he is a human race? Even if you can think of it, can you know what his tactics are?

The map of this game is Amethyst Guard. The map route is complicated and many passages require destroying rocks to open.

But there is one trick that can be ignored directly, and that is airdrop!

Chen Dongqing was so sure that the opponent would not attack at all, he didn't even bother to do defensive work.

When the Protoss fights against two ships of soldiers, they usually just go out to hunt and press forward, which can usually crush the Terrans who have opened gas mines in the barracks and only use spearmen.

But this time, Stats was completely unprepared, but when he discovered that the human race was composed of two ships, it was already too late.

This time, the two ships did not even invest in the third mine, but flew across the map and directly into the main mine of the Protoss!

Fourteen good brothers hung cigars and held machine guns. They hit the ground with stimulants and immediately started killing mode!

Stats' expression changed drastically, and APM reached its limit, sending troops to fight back!

But Chen Dongqing's operation is full, and the fourteen spearmen can be commanded like an arm. As long as there are remaining health soldiers, they will be directly loaded onto the ship and become invincible.

Stats' face became darker and darker. He tried his best to operate, but in the end it was all in vain!

At this time, you can actually see a grand scene. Chen Dongqing's spearmen were not killed one after another, but their health volume was slowly decreasing simultaneously.

Before the spearman's blood volume dropped to zero simultaneously, all the living forces of the Gods had been slaughtered!

With just one wave of airdrops, Chen Dongqing directly killed all the protoss units!

Faced with such a huge and exaggerated disadvantage, Stats knew that there was no hope of a comeback. Five minutes ago, he was full of confidence. He typed "GG" in the chat bar and chose to surrender.

1-0!