One hundred and twenty six: SNG
Split is a port city in southern Croatia, located on the east coast of the Adriatic Sea. It is the largest seaport in Dalmatia. It is also a historical city, health resort and tourist resort in Croatia. The southern coast of Croatia has a Mediterranean climate.
April to October is the best season for traveling.
The location of this DOTA PIT in Split is also a good travel opportunity for professional players. Of course, if you lose the game, you will not be in the mood to hang out.
On a sunny noon, Xiao Se got off the plane with his team.
After traveling back and forth several times in a row, Xiao Se was used to it, but several VGP players, especially Tianming and Dy, were going abroad to play offline for the first time, so they were inevitably a little nervous.
But for real professional players, excitement is always greater than nervousness.
PIT officially booked a team hotel for the players, and VG.P was the first to arrive, so after completing the simple arrangements, they quickly entered the rest stage. After all, they were tired of traveling and traveling, and they would be playing the game in two days.
In this PIT MinSL double-elimination elimination system, the eight teams will first be divided into two groups AB, and a BO3 round-robin competition will be held within the group. The top two in the group will advance to the winner's group, and the bottom two will fall into the loser's group. The knockout competition will be held at the dium center.
dium Centre, this complex Postli building is a sports center integrating sports, entertainment, culture and leisure. It is also a famous building in Split. Various large-scale activities will be held in this exquisite venue.
A lot of work has gone into making the PIT League possible to hold here.
Generally speaking, as the first Minor event, the official performance has been perfect so far. It just depends on whether the 8 teams can present a wonderful event to the audience.
What the majority of Dota players are most concerned about is undoubtedly VG.P who comes off the bench as Xiao Se.
Star players, who are young and capable, are definitely the ones who attract the most fans. So what should you do when you have a superstar player in your team?
Even professional players understand this. Therefore, before the game, VGP discussed numerous tactics around the middle. Xiao Se expressed his gratitude to his teammates for their full trust, but still only had one sentence: "You can do whatever you feel comfortable with."
Xiao Se wants to integrate into this team, not to change, nor to dominate the entire VG.P. He wants to do more than this. The most important thing is to make VG.P use r as the main core
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"So, are you willing to be a green leaf?" Bai Yu asked on the phone,
"It depends on who it is." Xiao Se said with a smile, "Actually, it doesn't count as being a green leaf, but if I show too much, the team may not be able to form."
Because Xiao Se will eventually return to SPS, whether VG.P can enter the Major will not have much impact on him. At most, it will cultivate a future opponent. But after spending a few days with R, he can feel the veteran's enthusiasm.
The desire to win is a bit scary. So far, looking at the level of interest of all active professions in the game Dota, Xiao Se only serves two people, one is his teammate AME, and the other is R.
If you build a team with these types of players as the core, the team's performance will definitely not be any worse.
It is a pity that no team will use a 24-year-old veteran as the core of the team.
It's cruel. The 24-year-old human body's golden age is already at the end of an e-sports player's career. Unfortunately, e-sports is so cruel.
"Desolate."
"Um?"
"What should I do if I suddenly start to admire you?" Bai Yu chuckled. In her opinion, being willing to serve as a companion is a more valuable quality than all others.
"Haha, that's not the case, is it?"
"It is said that newborn calves are not afraid of tigers. If I had achieved such results at your age, I would have been very happy. Really, you are so mature sometimes."
Xiao Se chuckled and did not explain anything to Bai Yu. In fact, it was not that he was young and precocious, but that he had already passed that age.
"That's it, come on for the game, bye."
"OK Bye Bye."
After hanging up the international call, he leaned back in his chair and stared blankly at the ceiling.
Now that he has decided to be a green leaf, he must seriously consider changing his playing style.
If SPS.ONE is the one-in-a-million top mid laner, then VG.P.ONE will be the ultimate thug with full tools.
"Why, you haven't slept yet?" r walked towards him in the training room. He had just returned from a late night snack and was about to go to solo queue to play on the ladder, when he saw Xiao Se sitting alone in a daze.
"Brother Jiajun, let me ask you a question."
"you say."
"Who do you think is more powerful, AME or you?"
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After a few days of preparation for each major team, PIT officially started the group stage.
VG.P drew lots to enter Group A and played against Vega in the first game. Xiao Se had heard a little bit about this team and knew that they were the third in the CIS, so he asked Sunny in China to collect some information about Vega.
Vega, the full name is Vega Squadron, is a team from the CIS region. It is not strong, but it is better because of its youth. The blue team comes standard with big sharks. This Vega has a man-eating look written on its face. Unfortunately, what they encountered was
VG.P.
The first round lasted 17 minutes, the second round lasted 29 minutes, and the two rounds together took less than an hour. r had two consecutive rounds with no fat removal + super PA, leading VG.P to crush the game with two rounds and steadily earn two points.
In the bag.
Although the game was short, Xiao Se was still very impressed with Vega's C and Flow in positions 2 and 3.
The details of C's mid lane are good, but sometimes they are in vain due to excessive movement. Flow in the third position performed extremely well. His big fish in the off lane put a lot of pressure on VGP in the mid-term. What made Xiao Se wonder is,
Why is such a capable player so unknown in the CIS region?
In the next two games, VGP easily defeated "Little Rocket" and "Unnamed", 4:0 without losing a single point.
After two and a half days of group stage competition, the final rankings are as follows:
Group A ranking: VG.P,Vega,infamous,Winstrike
Group B ranking: TNG, BH, Team AI
In this way, VG.P, Vega, and TNG will enter the winner's bracket, and the rest will fall into the loser's bracket. Tomorrow's first round of the winner's bracket, at the dium center, will be VG.P versus SNG.
This SNG is truly a passerby team. No one in positions 1-5 knows anyone. Looking through the personal information of the players, some of them are not even ranked. What puzzles Xiao Se the most is that SNG’s mid laner is actually
Only extraordinary.
Another amateur team?
Can an extraordinary mid laner lead the team to the Minor?
Things are definitely not simple.
Xiao Se called Qingtian in China, but even Qingtian, who often pays attention to foreign server competitions, didn’t know where SNG came from. He just said that their mid laner was very strong.
How strong will the extraordinary mid laner be?
Xiao Se thought this before entering the main stadium. It wasn't until the team photo of the five SNG members was displayed on the big screen on the stage that he realized that Qingtian's words were not groundless.
SNG's mid laner is indeed only extraordinary, because he doesn't play much in the ladder, and his ID is also very simple:
Chapter completed!