LOL: Can’t I play other games professionally?

Chapter 247: You, an amateur of three dan, start with Tianyuan when playing against eight dan?
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After completing the promotion tournament, Lin Ruo had a meal outside and returned to the club leisurely at noon while drinking Mixue Bingcheng.

The first phase of the holiday certification task was successfully completed, and the next step is naturally to enter the second phase of the execution task without stopping.

Registration for the Menglily Cup Amateur Open!
Without even having time to drink more milk tea, Lin Ruo sat on the gaming chair and opened the relevant website, quickly filling in registration information such as identity, place of origin, and rank.

Although he currently does not have an amateur three-dan certificate to upload materials, it doesn't matter.

It is sufficient to have the final results of the competition and to indicate that you have qualified for the next round.

After filling in all the registration information, Lin Ruo began to choose the events he would participate in.

The Menglily Cup covers a variety of Go fields and is mainly divided into professional open tournaments and amateur open tournaments.

With his current rank, he can only sign up for the Amateur Open Tournament, which is divided into three groups: open group, women's group, and senior group. A player can only sign up for one group.

In the final competition, the open group and the women's group will compete in mixed groups, but the final ranking will be determined separately.

I chose to register for the open tournament and soon received a notification that it was under review.

After about ten minutes, the review was completed and the registration information was confirmed again. Lin Ruo successfully obtained the qualification to participate in the Menglily Cup.

However, if he wants to enter the official offline competition, he must first pass at least five rounds of online PK, because no matter how many people register, only the final 128 will be qualified to enter the offline competition.

Considering that it is an amateur competition, the basic rules of the game are also very simple. It is not like a professional competition where it is common to last for as short as 1 hour or as long as 4 or 5 hours.

The basic time limit for each side is only 30 minutes, with 10 seconds added for each move. If the time limit is exceeded, the player will be deemed the loser. This greatly increases the ease and entertainment of the game, and will not make many amateurs feel that it is too long and boring.

However, it will inevitably make it a bit less fun for young players who want to become professional players.

At around 13: p.m., Lin Ruo packed up a bit and left the club with other teammates.

During the promotion tournament, the LPL third seed selection tournament also came to an end this afternoon.

OMG, which was in a continuous slump, was easily defeated by IG in the first round.

The next day, WE fought for five games and relied on xiye's Kassadin to steal the base, defeating IG with a score of 3:2 and won the last seed spot in S7.

The IG players who thought they had a sure win and were about to advance burst into tears in the player seats after their defeat.

Especially King Ning, his face darkened several shades and he glared at West fiercely.

The AD gap is too big.

It would be bad enough if he was beaten by Lin Ruo, but he couldn't even keep his composure when he beat his brother-in-law.

The bottom lane is against me.

Lin Ruo, who was preparing to attend the departure ceremony backstage, comforted King Ning who had just come down: "Don't be too sad. You're just a rookie for six months, but you've already led your team to fourth place in the LPL. It's already very impressive that you're only one step away from the World Championship."

King Ning nodded with both pain and happiness.

Yes, he is still young and he still has a future.

"Unlike me, I won the LPL Spring Championship and MSI Champion just six months after my debut." Lin Ruo added.

King Ning clenched his fists tightly. "The point you want to make is the second half, right?"

"No, actually, I want to say that you still have a chance to participate in the World Championship. That is to serve as sparring partners for several of our LPL teams during the World Championship. If we win the championship, you will have one-third of the credit."

"Free labor?" King Ning said coldly.

"Do not."

Lin Ruo said sincerely, "I believe in your IG's strength. I'm very optimistic about JK. I believe that having you as a sparring partner will be much more useful than playing scrimmages with other teams."

"After all, we're playing on home turf. Promoting the development of Chinese esports is everyone's responsibility. Think about it carefully."

Hearing this, JK next to him immediately agreed without waiting for King Ning's consent.

Just because of this LPL champion AD is very optimistic about this matter, he thinks it will succeed.

"Keep going at the World Championship, Master Lin. I'll be there for you as a practice partner anytime. I'll definitely work hard to follow in your footsteps next year."

"Very good. I believe you will definitely be the next champion AD carry."

The two of them boasted about their friendship so much that even King Ning, who was standing next to them, was stunned.

The LPL departure ceremony ended quickly.

It was just that everyone wore the official promotional and sold expedition uniforms and showed their faces and took some photos. Then, after a few passionate words from the host, the audience got excited and then dispersed to go home.

After returning to the club, Lin Ruo went about his holiday entertainment life as planned.

If his teammates ask him to go out for a walk during the day, he will go out, and at night he will go live without fail.

Play PUBG, Overwatch, and occasionally a couple of League of Legends games to make up the numbers.

Time quickly came to September 9th, and the Menglily Cup online preview match began.

In the first round of draws in the official system, Lin Ruo met his first opponent, an amateur sixth-dan chess player.

In the amateur Go competitions over the years, amateur 6th dan players should be around the middle level, and they also account for the largest group in the competition.

It took about an hour for Lin Ruo to defeat the opponent.

The game was very easy, and it could be said that it was done with ease. Lin Ruo roughly estimated the range of his current strength level, and it would not be a problem for him to play a game of chess for an amateur sixth-dan player.

So it shouldn't be a big problem to win the championship by defeating the seventh or eighth dan, Lin Ruo thought as he browsed the list of qualifiers on the official website.

Seventh or eighth dan...professional beginners...

Outrageous.

Lin Ruo took a careful look and found that there were some professional beginners participating in the competition. What was even more terrifying was that there was a professional third-dan player named Xing Hongcheng.

Because he had just achieved dan status this year and was only 14 years old, he was granted the opportunity to participate as an exception. The other five first-dan players participated for essentially the same reason. The official's intention was also to foster direct communication between amateur and professional players, thereby promoting the development of Go.

However, although…

The difficulty inevitably increased a bit.

This made Lin Ruo dare not sit idle at all, and he decided to cram and improve his level in the seven days before the competition.

After four consecutive rounds of preliminaries over the next four days, Lin Ruo felt that his luck was still rather bad.

Apart from the first two four-dan players, he actually met an amateur seven-dan player in the fourth round, and then met an amateur eight-dan player in the final qualifying match in the fifth round.

Sure enough, this kind of promotion also depends on luck.

If it were any other amateur third or fourth dan, he would have been gone long ago.

During the game, many Go enthusiasts in the Go forum were also following the game through real-time chessboard movements.

[An amateur 3rd dan player working as an amateur 8th dan player is too big a leap, absolutely impossible.]

【But he just did a seventh-stage one yesterday.】

[I didn't believe it at first, until someone told me he had only been learning for a little over two months.]

Is this how a teenager with an internet addiction could act? Did he switch to the wrong industry? It doesn't make sense.

【If you put it that way, I'll have to take a closer look. 】

[Tian Yuan, you're the first to take the initiative. Who are you looking down on? Are you pretending to be an expert? ]

As the black chess player, Lin Ruo attracted dissatisfaction from many viewers in the forum after just the first move.

In the field of Go, one must understand one thing as soon as one enters the industry: moves in the corners are of the greatest value and are also the direction that must be fought for at the beginning of the game.

This is because the corners are easiest to surround and most efficient, and are also easier to work with, making them more stable and less likely to collapse.

On the contrary, if you place your chess piece in the center of the board, not only will you not be able to surround the chess piece efficiently, but you will also put yourself in an extremely dangerous situation and be attacked at any time without being able to extricate yourself.

This is why almost all chess players will not play Tianyuan as their first move.

Playing Tianyuan at the beginning without thinking is equivalent to giving up half a piece.

Either they don't want to win, or they look down on their opponents and think they can play casually.

If the opponent was an amateur 8th dan who played like this, the audience in the bar would think it was nothing.

Give way to the children.

But how can you, a third-dan player, play like this against an eighth-dan player?

【He's crazy.】

[The opponent, a 9th-dan player, must be going crazy. This is a blatant humiliation.]

Internet addicts are just that: internet addicts. They don't understand respect at all.

If he wins, I'll respect him as a man. If he loses, I suggest he stay away from Go.

[This statement seems to apply to both sides. Whoever loses should not touch it anymore.]

It’s not as serious as the forum friends said. Lin Ruo just wanted to simply verify his current level.

Moreover, in his opinion, being the first-hand Tianyuan did not mean looking down on anyone.

It is just a posture that is biased towards offense, which will pull the game into an unconventional direction, or it can be said to be a melee, thus testing the player's ability to respond.

If this effect can be achieved, giving up half a piece is not a bad idea.

So Lin Ruo also placed his second move at the star position, with the main purpose of not wanting to waste time.

Netizens in the Go forum were completely furious.

Almost everyone hopes that the ninth dan player can teach this third dan internet-addicted teenager who has gone astray a lesson.

You don't really think that you can do whatever you want just because you defeated a 7th dan contestant yesterday.

【100% abused, left.】

Who does he think he is, trying to be creative?

Actually, we were all overthinking it. He was just a three-dan player. He probably just made a blind bet and thought he couldn't win by playing conventionally.

[You are the most reasonable one. He should be defeated soon.]

Netizens on the Go forum had confidently predicted that the game would end very quickly.

Just by the middle stage of the game, Lin Ruo easily defeated his opponent, a ninth-dan player, and qualified for the offline competition of the Menglily Cup.

Everyone was stunned.

[What the hell, they're already defeated in the planning stage, outrageous.]

[It simply cannot withstand the repeated attacks.]

[Oh no, this seems like genius.]

As a result, the bar friends changed their expressions faster than anyone else.

Having power means being able to do whatever you want.

When you fail to show off, you will be slapped in the face by everyone, but when you succeed, you will know how wonderful this world is.

(End of this chapter)