Glory of tactics

In terms of strength, Lu Hanwen is by no means the worst among Blue Rain's main players.

Everyone in the league knows that as long as captain Lan Yu is separated from his teammates, anyone can kill the all-star player.

The same goes for stability.

Why is Song Xiao called Mr. Key? It's because his performance always has ups and downs. On the good side, his performance in key games can always surprise people; but on the bad side, in less critical games, his performance is often satisfactory.

However, Wuxiao still focused on Lu Hanwen to break the situation. First, because he is the hub of Blue Rain's offense and defense. Once defeated, the situation will be seriously tilted. The second reason is that Lu Hanwen's tactical integration is still lacking, and he is often out of touch with the whole team.

Blue Rain is currently the most inclusive team in the league. No matter what kind of player he is, he can blend in and find a suitable position.

Huang Shaotian's swordsman fights like an assassin, Yu Feng's mad sword rarely sells blood, Song Xiao's qigong master Shi Dan Shi Shen, Zheng Xuan's daily pressure is too high and he has no fighting spirit, plus a healer who is used to being betrayed and always on the front line. , anyway, there are already so many members with distinctive personalities, so having more swordsmen with styles similar to Mad Sword shouldn’t be a big deal.

Tyranny, Excellent Era, Whistling, Tiny Herb, Linhai, Blue Rain's only five defeats this year were all away games.

In other words, it was a complete victory in the home team competition. Even Xiao Shiqin and Zhang Xinjie, who were as famous as Yu Wenzhou, could not achieve such a terrifying record.

Fortunately, Wind Howl's regular season ranking is higher than Blue Rain. According to this year's new competition system, if the first two games are tied, the third game will be at the home court of the higher-ranked team.

In last year's finals, the second round of the team competition was decided directly without even a team competition. This caused league officials, broadcasters and sponsors to all suffer certain losses.

Although this situation is just accidental and the only one in so many years, the change to the finals format has finally been implemented after several seasons of discussion.

The second phase of this year’s offline challenge is to test the waters for this purpose, and the competition period is much longer than in previous years.

The group stage was completed at the end of April, and in less than ten days, more than half of the twenty teams selected from the auditions went home.

Of the remaining eight teams, five of them - Baihua, Xuanqi, Xihuo, Zhuxian and Xingxin - are teams with professional backgrounds.

Although Xingxin seems to be a grassroots team, Ye Xiu, Su Mucheng, Wei Chen, Wu Chen, and Qiao Yifan are all from professional teams. The luxuriousness of the team roster is only slightly inferior to that of Baihua's famous generals.

Such a lineup would not have surprised anyone in the playoffs two years ago, but now it is reduced to competing for a challenge championship, which is really a trick of God.

However, it is this unprecedented high-quality challenge that has made league officials pay special attention to it and set up a new schedule. It is also testing a new competition system for the playoffs.

In the new competition system, the original individual competition and group competition in the first half were merged into a new five-on-five group competition, with scores calculated based on the number of opponents defeated.

In the second half of the team game, the game method remains unchanged, with five starters and one substitute. However, the scoring method has also changed to based on the number of heads.

Facing the new schedule and points method, the entire game's tactics and strategies must be adjusted, and adapting will definitely take a process. Therefore, the officials gave each team in the challenge twenty days to adjust. It was not until May 20 that the offline challenge resumed.

The schedule for the second phase of the offline challenge matches the playoffs. Although the difference between the on-site and online audiences is more than an order of magnitude, only one game is scheduled every day. It is not crowded together like the first phase, making it impossible to balance it. .

Eight advanced to four and the second player team in Group D was soaring. Happy won without any difficulty.

Easily won in two rounds.

In this round, only Zhuxian and Xihuo tied in two rounds, and a third game was needed.

Xihuo was outnumbered by Hundred Blossoms in the group stage, and in the knockout stage they lost a nominal home court. Although the second away game was a random map and the home team had no right to choose the map, it was somewhat emotionally affected and continued to sink after a hard battle.

However, Zhu Xian is only one step further than Xi Huo.

Xingxin, who did not play in the play-offs, had twice as much rest as Zhu Xian. On Monday and Thursday of the last week of the league's regular season, Xingxin advanced to the finals by winning two straight games.

Baihua on the other side had a crushing attitude all the way. They killed Xuanqi twice a day later than Xingxin, and also got the ticket to the finals with ease.

The specially allocated play-off time was not used, but the league officials had no intention of holding the final in advance.

The current schedule is just right. The two (three) games of the Challenge Finals are held just in the window between the league's regular season and playoffs. The popularity will be inherited without being diverted, which is very conducive to the league's offline Plans for the Challenger League to develop into a secondary league.

The first game between Happy and Baihua was on the first day of Wuxiao's regrouping. In the afternoon, I will study the tactics against Blue Rain, and in the evening, I will ponder the impact of the new competition system, which is just right.

In the afternoon training, there were those who held tactical meetings, those who did recovery training alone, those who played against each other, and those who were familiar with the new configuration. The entire first team was scattered, as if they were still on vacation. But in the evening, they were already neatly sitting in the large conference room, looking like they were about to fight.

"Tell me, who do you think everyone likes?" Fang Rui asked, provoking the topic.

"Of course Xingxin!" Qiu Fei replied without hesitation.

"I didn't ask you." Fang Rui rolled his eyes at him, looked around and said, "Where are the others?"

"I think Baihua will probably win." Shu Kexin said straightforwardly, "Judging from the first two rounds of the knockout round, it is obvious that Baihua is in better shape and loses fewer points. You think so, sister?"

Shu Keyi nodded slightly, but didn't say much.

Di Chang agreed from the side: "I also think Baihua is stronger, and at the same time the whole thing is more balanced. Look at that Dark Light, it's a mess! There are also Steamed Bun Invasion and Destruction Tireless, I don't know what they are fighting. But Han Yan Rou is awesome!"

"It doesn't matter if the pastor's hands are cold," Ruan Yongbin added.

"The ones you mentioned are all pure newcomers. Except for Soft Mist, the others have little chance of appearing in the finals. Just looking at the main players, Xingxin's chances of winning are still quite high," Guo Yang said.

"I'm also optimistic about Xingxin." Sun Leshi said, "The tactics are tough, with ghost swords or warlocks controlling the field, guns and artillery support, and an all-powerful Sanren. Their lineup is perfect and has many changes. The only thing to worry about is I’m afraid there is only one position for the pastor.”

"No, let's add one more thing, tactical stability under high intensity." Lin Jingyan said, "The challenge was too easy. They had not experienced a real test until the finals. This is a hidden danger."