Chapter 171 The Atmosphere of a Small-Scale gpL

Friday afternoon.

Pei Qian was in his office, reviewing the latest report submitted by Shang Yang Games.

This weekend, the IOI qualifiers and the GPL preseason were starting at the same time, a direct collision in terms of schedule.

The GPL preseason, needless to say, had been the focus of players' attention from the moment it was announced until its official start. They were practically itching to get in.

Apart from the fixed share reserved for internal company staff, tickets for the GPL preseason had long been snapped up. Viewers who couldn't get tickets could only watch on live-streaming platforms or go to Ming Yu Internet Cafe to soak up the atmosphere.

Long Yu Group had also poured a lot of resources into promoting the IOI qualifiers, using channels such as the IOI national server website, some video game websites, clubs, and independent media outlets.

In the promotional process, Long Yu Group linked the IOI qualifiers with several veteran clubs and the IOI World Championship, and the promotional effect was quite good.

On the one hand, slogans like "Challenge the Pinnacle of the World" sounded lofty. On the other hand, the fame of several veteran clubs like SUG was well-known, and they were familiar faces to e-sports enthusiasts, objectively enhancing the gold content and recognition of this qualifier.

Long Yu Group's promotion was later than FV Club's, but they clearly spent a lot more money.

FV Club spent three million on promotion. Estimating by this standard, Long Yu Group's promotion expenses must have reached at least ten million or so.

Pei Qian wasn't sure if it was FV Club's promotion that stimulated Long Yu Group, or if Long Yu Group had already finalized its promotion plan, but it was just two days late.

But none of that mattered. The IOI qualifiers now had attention, and it wouldn't be completely overshadowed by the GPL preseason as before. This was a good thing for Pei Qian.

Pei Qian looked at the time. It was four o'clock in the afternoon, almost time to get off work and welcome the wonderful weekend.

He closed the Shang Yang Games report, shut down the computer, and prepared to happily go home and sleep.

Just then, there was a knock on the office door.

"Knock, knock, knock."

Pei Qian was taken aback. Why was someone reporting for work on Friday afternoon?

"Come in."

As soon as Pei Qian spoke, Tang Yishu opened the door and entered.

She looked a little travel-worn, having probably rushed back to Jingzhou from the capital and come straight over.

"Senior, tomorrow is a day off. I was afraid I wouldn't make it in time, so I came to report directly," Tang Yishu said, her chest rising and falling slightly, clearly having jogged a bit on the way.

Pei Qian poured a cup of tea: "No need to rush. It's not something particularly important. It's okay to talk about it on Monday. Here, have some tea."

Tang Yishu took the teacup and took two small sips before beginning to recount her experiences in the capital.

"Senior, at the incubation base, those independent games have quite a few bugs. The level of completion seems very poor. But their work efficiency is not bad. I have already followed your instructions and forcibly required them to play ten hours of games every week."

"At Cold Noodles Girl, I... I didn't see anything. Everything seems fine. The decoration and service are good, and business is booming. It's just that when I went, there was a small problem in the kitchen, and the dishes were a bit slow to come out."

"Oh, and when I went, I happened to meet some people. The boss of Cold Noodles Girl seemed to be introducing them to something, but I... I didn't hear clearly what he was introducing."

Tang Yishu, as instructed by Pei Qian before she left, observed the incubation base and the Cold Noodles Girl store from her own perspective, and then tried her best to recall and introduce the details she had noticed to Pei Qian.

Pei Qian stroked his chin, his brow furrowed slightly.

The things Xiao Tang reported were a mixed bag for him.

The incubation base has a lot of bugs? Well, that was expected. Independent games originally have many bugs, and with Xiao Tang's halo, just fixing bugs would make these independent game developers feel overwhelmed.

In this way, bugs would greatly distract their energy, and the game development progress would definitely be greatly slowed down. This was good news.

The work efficiency of these producers was very high. This was not a good sign, but forcibly playing games for ten hours a week should be able to divert their energy for game development, just like bugs.

In other words, there were only some minor problems on the incubation base side, all within his expectations, and had been roughly alleviated.

But the situation on the Cold Noodles Girl side was not optimistic.

Tang Yishu, as an ordinary consumer, didn't find any faults in terms of dining environment, service attitude, or food taste. This shows that Meng Chang did a good job!

It's actually enough for a fast-food brand to achieve this level.

Just like those large chain fast-food brands, their meals are indeed tastier, but to say they're particularly delicious? Not really.

The essence of fast food is speed, in standardized procedures, so that all meals can maintain taste and quality at a relatively high level, given the premise of speed.

According to Tang Yishu, evaluating Cold Noodles Girl by the standards of a fast-food restaurant, it undoubtedly passed.

The only problem might be the speed of serving, but this was mostly because it was affected by Xiao Tang, not the fault of the Cold Noodles Girl kitchen.

Even President Li's Ming Fu Family Banquet couldn't withstand it, let alone an ordinary fast-food restaurant like Cold Noodles Girl.

Everything should return to normal after Xiao Tang leaves the store.

Doesn't that mean... in the eyes of ordinary consumers, Cold Noodles Girl basically has no flaws?

Decent food and service, coupled with Meng Chang's explosive marketing ability, and the continuous funding from Round Dream Ventures...

This project is going to cause trouble sooner or later!

Even if the store doesn't make money, with Meng Chang's active fundraising, the valuation of Cold Noodles Girl will inevitably skyrocket, and Round Dream Ventures has many shares in Cold Noodles Girl, which is equivalent to holding a hot potato, and the longer they hold it, the hotter it gets!

Xiao Tang also said that Meng Chang was receiving some guests and introducing them to various details of Cold Noodles Girl.

Who are these people? If they were ordinary friends, would Meng Chang personally receive and introduce them at the store?

Mostly investors!

Cold Noodles Girl's store is doing well, and Meng Chang is eloquent, so it may not be long before he fools other investors into joining the game.

Cold Noodles Girl's valuation will definitely rise again and again!

After making this deduction, Pei Qian suddenly realized that the situation seemed to be much more dangerous than he had imagined.

Of course, Pei Qian couldn't be sure whether Cold Noodles Girl would become a big hit, but considering his character, he didn't dare to take the risk.

It seems that he had to prepare himself mentally for leaving and stopping the profit in advance.

But in the current situation, it would probably be difficult to sell off the 8 million he invested at a low price. He could only reluctantly earn some and cut his losses as soon as possible.

If he takes it any further, he'll earn even more.

Pei Qian silently noted this matter down, preparing to go to He Desheng next week and ask him to find a suitable time to sell all the shares of Cold Noodles Girl, and not continue holding them.

After asking a few more detailed questions, Pei Qian became even more convinced of his views.

"You've worked hard these past two days. There's no Manager Pei's example meeting tomorrow, so go back and rest well and study hard."

...

...

December 10th, Saturday.

GOG's GPL preseason and IOI's qualifiers started at the same time!

Although they started at the same time, the schedules of the two sides were very different.

The GPL preseason would run until the end of the month, so only two to three Bo3s were arranged each day, starting at 1:00 PM every day and ending at around 9:00 PM at the latest.

The IOI qualifiers were different. Because there were fewer participating teams and it was basically just a formality, a spot in the World Championship had to be decided quickly, so the schedule was very tight.

There were games all day on Saturday and Sunday, from morning to night, and the entire qualifier would be completed in two days to determine the three World Championship slots.

This seemingly unscientific schedule was specially arranged by Zhao Xuming of Long Yu Group, mainly for the following considerations.

The first was to achieve a certain drainage effect.

Compared with the GPL preseason, although the opening time was the same day, the IOI qualifiers started in the morning. Many players waiting to watch the GPL had nothing to do in the morning, so they would definitely come to watch the IOI qualifiers, objectively achieving the purpose of drainage.

The second was to squeeze out time for the teams to prepare for the World Championship.

Zhao Xuming had already received internal news from Kreddit that the World Championship would use the new version of the game, making appropriate adjustments to the gameplay to showcase the new look of IOI.

At present, the new version of IOI has gradually gained recognition from some players around the world, and internal research by Finger Company has found that the new version does speed up the pace of the game, strengthen the confrontation, and thus improve the viewing experience.

Therefore, using the new version for the World Championship can show those "stubborn" old players the interesting aspects of the new version of IOI, and can also better attract new players.

But the change of version has a great impact on each team, so Zhao Xuming hoped that the qualifiers would be completed as soon as possible, so that the three teams going to the World Championship could start training for the new version of IOI earlier.

The last was to seize the time to go through the motions and prevent accidents from happening.

E-sports are different from traditional sports projects, and the strength gap between teams is not that big. Many times, if the game version changes slightly, the strength comparison of the teams will be reversed.

If the time is extended, it cannot be ruled out that some teams will improve with each game.

Zhao Xuming hoped that these three veteran clubs would qualify, so naturally he wanted to avoid this situation as much as possible.

Compressing the schedule and completing it all within two days, the weak teams cannot improve with each game, and the result will be even less suspenseful.

...

Zhao Xuming was backstage in the studio, supervising the event on-site.

The staff were preparing in an orderly manner, the director was debugging the equipment, the players were arranging tactics in the backstage lounge, and the audience had already begun to enter the venue one after another.

Although the studio where the qualifiers were held could not be compared with the GPL venue, it already looked decent after the two days of intensive arrangement.

Except for the smaller venue and fewer spectators, there was nothing wrong with it.

Zhao Xuming was also a bit caught in a dilemma. He didn't intend to spend so much money, but FV Club's promotion did bring a lot of popularity. Long Yu Group was the event organizer, so it was really impossible not to show it.

He could only silently pray that this qualifier would be wonderful, so that the money would not be spent in vain, and he could buy popularity, and the cooperation between Finger Company and Long Yu Group would become more stable.

After checking all the work and confirming that there were no problems, Zhao Xuming breathed a sigh of relief, and his tense nerves also relaxed a lot.

However, at this moment, a burst of hurried footsteps came.

Zhao Xuming turned his head and saw that Ding Gan, the boss of SUG Club, walked over with a livid face, holding a piece of paper in his hand, looking very angry.

Zhao Xuming was stunned for a moment: "President Ding? Why are you so angry? Shouldn't you be preparing in the SUG Club's lounge now?"

Ding Gan was indeed very angry, but he didn't dare to lose his temper at Zhao Xuming. He handed the piece of paper over: "President Zhao! Why didn't you tell me about this kind of thing earlier?"

Zhao Xuming was confused. He reached out and took the piece of paper from Ding Gan's hand and found that it was the FV Club's roster.

Because the qualifiers were prepared in a hurry, and the rosters of many small clubs had not yet been completely determined, the organizer only finalized the rosters of each club yesterday.

Zhao Xuming was not familiar with these players and did not realize that there was anything wrong with FV's roster, and it was already very late, so he did not notify them separately.

The match between FV Club and SUG Club was this afternoon, so Ding Gan had just received the FV Club's roster, and he immediately flew into a rage and came to Zhao Xuming.

Zhao Xuming still didn't understand what had happened. He glanced at the FV Club's roster and didn't see anything suspicious. He asked, "What's wrong with this roster?"

Ding Gan was very speechless: "President Zhao, these five players from FV Club are all star players from the IOI divisions of our veteran clubs, and they were all bought by those GPL clubs before!"

"These five players are all very strong in individual strength. Now they have all gone to FV Club. This is a veritable dream lineup!"

"President Zhao, what do you think this means?"

Zhao Xuming was shocked and instantly realized the seriousness of the problem.

This meant that one of the three veteran clubs, including SUG, might be squeezed out of the qualification!

Zhao Xuming frowned, and said a little confused: "How could this be? Where did FV Club get the money to buy so many star players?"

Ding Gan was also very speechless: "How do I know! I just saw this roster. President Zhao, you have to take care of this matter. Our three clubs spent a lot of money to buy people and strengthen our teams in order to get this World Championship qualification. If someone else picks the fruit in the end, then, then it will be..."

Zhao Xuming was very annoyed: "How can I take care of this?"

"Is it possible to directly cancel FV Club's participation? How is that possible! They participate in the competition according to the normal process, and buy people and strengthen their teams in a normal way. If we forcibly cancel their qualification, wouldn't that make the players all over the country laugh at Long Yu Group?"

"Not to mention canceling their qualification, any small actions that are exposed will disgrace Long Yu Group and even affect the reputation of Finger Company and the upcoming World Finals."

"I can't do anything about this matter. You can only pray for yourselves."

"Long Yu Group has already given you three clubs the green light when buying people. If you still can't win the qualifiers, then you are just pure trash. I don't think you need to go to the World Championship!"

Ding Gan said with a bitter face: "President Zhao, think about it carefully, there must be something fishy behind this!"

"FV Club is just a small club. Where did they get the money to buy so many star players? The transfer fees of these players add up to tens of millions, and those GPL clubs are not short of money. Why would they sell them? There must be something wrong here!"

"President Zhao, aren't you afraid that GOG is deliberately trying to mess things up?"

These words moved Zhao Xuming. He had to admit that this was indeed a big doubt.

But Zhao Xuming thought about it carefully again, even if this was the case, he still couldn't do anything about it.

Everything FV Club did was in compliance with the rules. The qualification to participate was given by Long Yu Group, and buying people must have been done through normal procedures. There were no restrictions on the team's personnel before. Even if he knew that FV Club was involved with GOG, it was impossible to kick them out now.

Besides, if FV Club really squeezed down a predetermined club by its own ability, there would still be three teams playing, and the overall strength of the domestic teams would be stronger.

It's just that the interests of a certain veteran club would be damaged, which would not affect the overall situation at all. At worst, he could find a way to give them some compensation afterwards.

Thinking of this, Zhao Xuming waved his hand and said, "I can't control this matter. You can figure it out yourselves. I have tried my best to pave the way for you. If you don't win the qualifiers in the end, it can only mean that you are not capable enough, and you can't blame others."

"This..." Ding Gan opened his mouth, but in the end, he couldn't think of a more convincing argument, so he could only leave awkwardly.

On the way back to the SUG Club's lounge, Ding Gan became more and more angry as he thought about it.

He couldn't help but want to talk to Wu Yue, the boss of FV Club, but he finally resisted.

There was no reason to argue about this kind of thing.

He could only hope that the SUG players could fight for it and hold on to this World Championship spot!

...

In the afternoon, after leaving the Shanghai Maglev Station, Pei Qian took the subway directly to the IOI qualifier venue.

Between the opening ceremony of the GPL league and the IOI qualifiers, Pei Qian decisively chose the latter.

The reason was simple: it probably didn't matter whether he watched the GPL league or not, the popularity would definitely not be low. Pei Qian wanted to see the situation of the IOI qualifiers, preferably to confirm that FV Club would be eliminated, so that he could watch the GPL game with peace of mind.

This IOI qualifier was in a studio on the top floor of a shopping mall in Shanghai. Although it was not very large, it could only accommodate 600 spectators, the location was very good.

Pei Qian came out of the Shanghai Maglev Station and arrived after a few subway stops.

The qualifiers had already started in the morning. Pei Qian watched a few games on the high-speed train, but he hadn't played IOI much, so he didn't know much about the heroes and skills, so he found it a bit boring to watch. He only roughly saw that the strength of these teams was obviously divided into tiers.

The schedule of the competition was relatively strange. A total of eight teams were divided into two groups, and the four teams were determined after the group stage in the morning and afternoon respectively. Then, tomorrow, one team would be eliminated through the Bo5 knockout stage.

FV Club's game was in the afternoon, in the same group as the veteran club SUG.

The entire schedule was very full, so for Pei Qian, the best result would be to see FV Club eliminated this afternoon, so that he could rest assured.

If he was lucky enough to enter the knockout stage, Pei Qian would book a hotel nearby and watch the knockout stage tomorrow before leaving.

Of course, Pei Qian thought this possibility was very small.

Considering that there were more young people in Shanghai, Pei Qian still wore a black mask to cover his face in order to be low-key.

Although Jingzhou is now called the "E-sports Capital" by many netizens, attracting many young people to gather, there is still a big gap compared with super-first-tier cities like Shanghai.

The shopping mall was crowded with people, and many young people were chatting and laughing. The escalator upstairs was full of people.

Pei Qian glanced at the elevator, which was even more crowded, so he had to follow the crowd and take the escalator to the top floor.

"Eh, could it be that these people are all here to watch the IOI qualifiers? Long Yu Group's publicity work is doing a good job."

"I was worried that the number of people on the live-streaming platform was fake, but now it seems that even if there is some water, it shouldn't be too much."

"Well, this is a good sign! I hope it can divert more people from the GPL!"

Pei Qian had already noticed in the morning that the popularity of the IOI qualifier live-streaming rooms on major live-streaming platforms was not low, but there were not many barrages, and he was a little worried that the popularity was inflated.

But seeing this hot scene offline, Pei Qian felt much relieved.

He hoped that Long Yu Group and Finger Company could take root in Shanghai and create another e-sports capital to compete with Jingzhou!

Pei Qian continued to go up, there were many people here who came to shop, so the number of people gradually decreased.

Pei Qian didn't care, he looked down at his phone, anyway, most people should go to the top floor.

However, after going up a few floors, the crowd suddenly diverged!

About half of the people did not continue to take the escalator up, but stayed on this floor.

Pei Qian was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt something was wrong.

He put away his phone and looked up, this was the 7th floor, and the studio where the IOI qualifier was held should be on the 9th floor.

Looking more carefully at the destination of these people, Pei Qian's expression instantly froze.

There was actually a Ming Yu Internet Cafe here?

That's right, it was still the familiar Ming Yu Internet Cafe logo, and it was the Ming Yu Internet Cafe 3.0 E-sports Life Hall model.

The big screen outside the Ming Yu Internet Cafe was exactly the same as the picture in the live-streaming room, it was the countdown to the opening game of the GPL preseason. The two sides of the battle were EK and H4 teams, which were also the champion and runner-up teams of the previous Global Invitational Tournament.

It can be said that the opening game of the GPL preseason had a full lineup.

The character photos of the ten members of both sides were newly taken. Huang Wang and Jiang Huan, as the core C positions of the two teams, posed handsomely, and the strong muscles under their team uniforms could be vaguely seen.

In addition to them, the bodies of the other members have also changed significantly after this period of training, and their muscle mass has increased.

There was a large open space outside the Ming Yu Internet Cafe, and seats had been placed, and the audience had already sat down to watch the game.

Pei Qian was a little dazed for a while.

It turned out that the reason why he saw so many people when he went upstairs was not because of the popularity of the IOI qualifier, but because of the popularity of the GPL!

More than half of the people came to the Ming Yu Internet Cafe to watch the game!

But then again, how could a Ming Yu Internet Cafe suddenly pop up here?

When did this happen?

As early as a long time ago, after the Ming Yu Internet Cafe 3.0 model was successful, Pei Qian had already decided to let the industry run wild, and let Xiao Peng open Ming Yu Internet Cafes by himself. He could open them anywhere, as long as he ensured that the money he earned was spent.

Now it seems that this Ming Yu Internet Cafe should be the result of Xiao Peng's entry into Shanghai.

Pei Qian was very speechless.

Zhao Xuming of Long Yu Group was too bad at choosing a place!

Couldn't he choose a shopping mall without a Ming Yu Internet Cafe? Why did he have to compete with GOG?

But Pei Qian thought about it, and immediately realized another possibility.

Zhao Xuming must have carefully selected the venue for the IOI qualifier. It could not be too big or too small. There were not many studios in Shanghai that met the conditions, and they were basically in large shopping malls.

And Xiao Peng would definitely give priority to this kind of large shopping mall with a dense flow of people when opening a Ming Yu Internet Cafe 3.0 in Shanghai.

So... this collision seemed accidental, but to a certain extent, it was also inevitable.

It can even be imagined that a more terrifying possibility, maybe the most famous and largest shopping malls in Shanghai have already opened Ming Yu Internet Cafes?

Pei Qian couldn't help but shiver, he was frightened by his own thoughts.

Some things really can't be savored carefully, the more you savor them, the more panicked you become.

After looking at the time, Pei Qian decided to go to the Ming Yu Internet Cafe first, and then go to the IOI game site.

As soon as he walked in from the main entrance, Pei Qian was stunned.

Compared with the previous Ming Yu Internet Cafe 3.0, there seemed to be some subtle changes again!

The most eye-catching point was that the team flags of each team were also hung inside the entire Internet cafe, just like the GPL venue, and the team flag of the next game would automatically light up.

The front desk was distributing various small support items and souvenirs for today's game team, and the wall behind the front desk was displaying small figures of heroes, team uniforms of various teams, and some small items, and many people were asking for prices.

Compared with the initial 3.0 model, the current model has greatly improved in terms of atmosphere.

Because when the Ming Yu Internet Cafe 3.0 model was first born, although Xiao Peng said that this was a part of Tengda's big e-sports strategy, in fact, there was no shadow of the GPL league at that time. The e-sports life hall model was just a concept, and there was no physical object to support it.

But now the GPL league has been established, the participating clubs have been finalized, and even the GDL and the Internet cafe competition are ready. The decoration style of the venue, the matching team uniforms, and the details of the star players have also been improved.

Therefore, there are many materials that can be used to decorate the Ming Yu Internet Cafe 3.0, and it is no longer as monotonous as before.

The entire Ming Yu Internet Cafe was obviously built according to a miniature GPL venue. Whether it was the style or various details, it was aligned with the GPL venue, so that even if the audience could not go to the GPL venue, they could feel the atmosphere of the game here.

Moreover, for those players who participate in the Internet cafe competition, they can also experience the feeling of playing offline games earlier, gain fans and popularity in a small area, which is also conducive to supporting them to go further on the difficult road of playing professional games.

Most of the people in the Internet cafe were playing GOG, and some were drinking milk tea while leisurely waiting for the GPL to start.

And some of the people outside the Internet cafe were here specifically to watch the game, and some may have been tired from shopping and came to take a break.

But looking at the flow of people and the heat outside the Internet cafe, Pei Qian suddenly became a little worried about the IOI qualifier in the studio on the top floor.

The atmosphere outside the Internet cafe was very lively, and several young people seemed to be together, talking loudly.

"The game venue of IOI seems to be upstairs, do you want to take a look?"

"No interest, I don't know how to play IOI, what's the point of watching it."

"I watched it on my phone this morning. The gap between the teams is too big. Except for the two or three strong teams, the rest are rookies. There is no suspense, and I basically don't know the participating players. The game is not exciting at all."

"It's more interesting to watch DGE battle. Huang Wang vs Jiang Huan. I don't know how the level of the two teams has been maintained after not playing the game for so long."

"If there is a chance, it is better to go to the scene in Jingzhou to take a look. It should be more emotional."

"Indeed, the game must be watched with a group of people to be exciting. It is so lively to watch the game at the entrance of the Internet cafe, how high will the scene be? When I have a chance, I must go to Jingzhou to play for a few days, take photos in front of the club's door to commemorate the ganking of professional players, then check in at the original hand-painted GOG hero telephone booth, and finally watch a few GOG games, perfect!"

Many shopping malls in Shanghai also have shared telephone booths for GOG heroes, but the only fly in the ointment is that the hero original paintings on the outside are not hand-painted.

Therefore, most players still think that the original hand-painted hero original paintings in Jingzhou are the genuine versions.

From the conversations of these young people, it can be seen that both the shared telephone booth and the Ming Yu Internet Cafe 3.0 objectively play a role in accelerating the spread of GOG culture.

Many people were not very interested in the GPL competition, but as long as they have watched the competition with other friends in the Ming Yu Internet Cafe 3.0 and experienced the excitement of watching the game live, they will naturally want to go to Jingzhou in person and buy a ticket to see what it feels like to watch the GPL live.

Pei Qian turned around and left silently.

He originally thought of leaving Jingzhou to relax and watch the game in Shanghai, but he didn't expect to be suddenly hit by it!

This was too uncomfortable.

Arriving at the top floor, Pei Qian followed the crowd and the guidance along the way to enter the IOI game venue and found a seat to sit down.

Pei Qian had already watched the live broadcast of the IOI qualifier in the morning, and had a psychological preparation for the general appearance of the venue, but when he actually arrived at the scene, he still felt that it was a bit small.

It should be known that the GPL venue is 12 meters high, 4,500 square meters, and can accommodate up to 1,800 people, which is exactly 3 times the size of this venue.

However, it may be because of the layout of the camera positions and the switching of live broadcast shots, the director of the IOI qualifier did not give a lot of shots to the scene, so watching the game in the live broadcast room does not show such a big gap, which is good news.

Because he was delayed for some time by going to the Ming Yu Internet Cafe, so after Pei Qian sat down, the two commentators had already started to warm up the atmosphere.

At the same time, the members of FV Club and SUG Club also entered the arena one after another and began to debug their equipment.

The two commentators had good business skills and were very good at driving the atmosphere of the scene. After a simple opening speech and self-introduction, they briefly mentioned the situation of the game in the morning, confirming that the other two veteran clubs had already qualified and entered tomorrow's knockout stage.

After the group stage in the afternoon, two other teams will enter the knockout stage. Then the four teams will eliminate one, and the remaining three teams will participate in the World Championship.

After the warm-up, the topic of the two commentators naturally led to the two sides of the game.

"I really didn't expect that the first game in the afternoon would be the highlight, FV Club vs the veteran team SUG Club."

"Many viewers may not know much about FV Club and think that this will be a one-sided battle. In fact, I also thought that FV Club was the weakest team in this group before, but after getting the list of participating members, I realized that it was not the case."

"The members of FV Club are all star players from the IOI divisions of major clubs in the past, and they are all familiar IDs!"

"Although I don't know how long this team has been formed and how well they have been integrated, just looking at the lineup of this team, it is definitely worthy of being the IOI All-Star team that can be formed in China!"

"The first game in the afternoon may be even better than the game in the morning, so the audience who came to the scene in the afternoon are very lucky. The wonderful game is about to start, let us wait and see!"

The two commentators were full of enthusiasm, obviously full of expectations for the next game.

However, after listening to the commentator's words, Pei Qian's eyes became confused, and a question mark slowly floated out of his head.

?

All-Star team?

Strong?

Is this describing FV Club?

Is this describing the bottom team with only three members that I invested in?

Is there something wrong somewhere?