FV club's backstage lounge: Min Jingchao, Bao Xu, Wu Yue, and others were also paying close attention to the match.

The audience thought that releasing Chaos Doom was outrageous, but the people in the lounge didn't think so.

Because this was all pre-arranged tactics.

Although the hero Chaos Doom is very powerful in team battles once developed, as long as you choose a long-range, strong-laning hero in the early stage, paired with a strong jungler who can tower dive, you can directly gank and crush one lane. A Chaos Doom that can't develop is just food in team battles.

The reason why the teams in the group stage couldn't beat Chaos Doom was mainly because their thinking wasn't clear enough, and they weren't targeting it hard enough, always letting it develop for twenty minutes, and then they couldn't beat it anymore.

The FV and SUG players had repeatedly practiced this tactic for many games, including how Chaos Doom could counter it. The opponent obviously wasn't mentally prepared for this, so FV was almost certain to win.

The match officially began, and the FV club was like a precise machine, executing every step according to the tactics designed by Zhou Pengyuan.

At the beginning, they placed wards to detect the opponent's jungler's movements. Their own jungler quickly leveled up to 2 and went straight to the top lane. At the same time, their own top lane's long-range hero frantically pushed the lane from the start, pushing Chaos Doom under the tower. The jungler arrived just in time, and the two perfectly tanked the tower and directly killed Chaos Doom!

Before the enemy jungler could change their jungle route and rush over, FV's top laner and jungler had already left.

The player controlling Chaos Doom was obviously stunned. After resurrecting, they only dared to farm minions under the tower, and were harassed by the opponent's long-range hero to the point of not being able to take care of themselves.

Cem was in a dilemma. If they didn't help, Chaos Doom would be frantically harassed under the tower. The hero matchup plus the first blood advantage meant that it was basically unplayable. If they helped, and were counter-ganked by the opponent, it would be a mid-top-jungle explosion, and the whole game would be over!

Seeing that the game was unfolding completely according to their planned script, everyone in the backstage lounge breathed a sigh of relief, and their hearts completely relaxed.

Min Jingchao said with emotion, "I still overestimated the opponent. I thought they would be prepared when they saw us choose this lineup, but they didn't have any vigilance at all. Maybe they were still confused when they saw our lineup?"

Wu Yue hadn't participated in the daily training, so he was a little surprised to see his team's tactics executed so perfectly. "Choosing a hero that can suppress a single lane plus a jungler who can tower dive in the early stage can infinitely target Chaos Doom. Why couldn't other teams think of this?"

Min Jingchao smiled. "Mr. Wu, it's not that simple."

"A complete tactic is very complex, it's not as simple as rock-paper-scissors. Whether a certain tactic is just empty talk or can have a miraculous effect depends on the details and data calculations."

"First of all, the two heroes we chose for the top lane and jungle are rarely picked heroes. Their pick rate was very low before. Many teams that are superstitious about strong heroes won't consider them. Secondly, we did a lot of preparations around the tactics, including studying the opponent's jungle routes, setting up vision in advance to detect the opponent's jungler's movements, and frequently trading health in the laning phase to ensure the minion health and create tower diving conditions. Finally, in order to facilitate tower diving, our jungler brought special defense runes, which allowed them to escape with low health and not be traded one-for-one."

"The hero Chaos Doom is very weak in the early stage, and can't resist even under the tower. If it were other heroes, we definitely wouldn't choose to tower dive at level two."

"More importantly, we found that most IOI teams don't have a deep understanding of the damage and mechanics of the turrets, and mistakenly think that shrinking under the tower is safe in the early stage. But in fact, the damage of the turrets in IOI seems to be very high, but it's not as high as imagined. As long as you let the minions tank the first hit of the tower, and then use skills to avoid the last hit of the tower, it's enough to kill Chaos Doom..."

Wu Yue listened with admiration and nodded frequently.

Obviously, this is the power of data!

Other teams may have also thought about targeting Chaos Doom in the early stage to affect its development, but without the support of relevant data, they would never have thought of tower diving directly at level two.

Min Jingchao continued, "Speaking of which, this is also a tactic that once appeared in GOG. If it were the previous version of IOI, tower diving like this would be very risky, but after the new version of IOI was slightly adjusted to speed up the jungle speed, GOG's tactic can be used."

"We can only say that our cooperation with Finger Company's version updates is also good."

...

Jingzhou.

Pei Qian's hand holding the potato chips froze in mid-air, and he didn't bring them to his mouth for a long time.

Because the game trend being broadcast on TV was completely incomprehensible to him!

The FV team was directly infinitely ganking the top lane. This Chaos Doom was trembling under the tower the whole time. If teammates didn't come, they would die alone. If teammates came, they would die together, highlighting a tragic state.

The Cem team was obviously stunned. The teammates didn't know whether to help him or not. If they didn't help, this Chaos Doom would definitely explode, and wouldn't be able to develop at all. If they helped, they might explode together.

In repeated hesitation, they lost the initiative step by step.

On the other hand, the FV club was like a precise machine. Five players and five parts were operating perfectly, deploying vision, grabbing map resources, and ganking one by one. The huge advantage in the top lane quickly radiated to the overall situation.

In the end, in just 25 minutes, the FV club relied on the huge economic advantage rolled from the snowball to directly crush Cem and end the battle.

The first game ended in a crushing victory, and the score between the two sides changed to 1:0!

The match was temporarily suspended, and the players from both sides returned to the lounge to rest. The camera gave a close-up of Cem's players. The confident and proud smiles they had before had completely disappeared, replaced by confusion and bewilderment.

They had never seen the game played like this!

The easy wins in the group stage made them feel good about themselves. As a result, after encountering FV today, they suddenly felt that they were playing a different game from the group stage. It was a complete intellectual suppression. They couldn't use their strength and were beaten violently by the opponent.

The most terrifying thing was that the coach might not know how to play the next two games.

If losing the game was only because of the hero Chaos Doom, then they could just ban it in the next game. But losing this game was obviously a comprehensive and unreserved beating. Judging from the performance of the first game, the two sides were not on the same level in terms of tactical arrangements and details. How could they play this?

The members of the Cem team never expected to be hit so hard in the first game, and were blown up by a team that everyone recognized as weak. For a time, they couldn't accept this fact.

On the TV in front of Pei Qian, the direction of the bullet screen had also changed.

The voices that questioned why the FV club released Chaos Doom before had completely disappeared, and the screen was full of praises such as 6666 or awesome.

Even the internet trolls who had been persistently trying to stir up trouble had all quieted down.

This match was too good to watch!

Unlike the teams in the group stage, the FV club chose an early-stage lineup and just went for it. They started tower diving and killing people at level two, repeatedly ganking the top lane, and then invaded like crazy, eating up the opponent's jungle. The snowball rolled quickly, and they didn't give the opponent any chance at all!

They even spawn-camped and flashed their emblems in the end, highlighting their arrogance.

In fact, Finger Company's new revision of IOI was to speed up the pace of the game, strengthen the confrontation, and improve the viewing experience of the match. The FV club demonstrated the characteristics of the new version to the fullest, highlighting a violent and reckless style.

Watching Chaos Doom, which was invincible when released before, being repeatedly tower-dived and abused by FV, and dying and returning home twice in five minutes, the audience felt a strange joy.

The frustration of being ridiculed by foreign players as "cnioinoob" these past few days was finally vented!

However, everyone also knew that this was just the first game of the best-of-five series, and they couldn't be too blindly optimistic. The FV club had thought of a way to counter Chaos Doom, which was equivalent to releasing a big move and then winning.

In the next game, the opponent could just ban Chaos Doom themselves. It was still unknown what the outcome would be at that time.

Players who had previously been disheartened with domestic IOI now had a feeling of surviving a desperate situation, and cheered up to continue watching the following games!

...

Los Angeles, the match venue.

Zhao Xuming was in the audience, and his expression was overflowing with shock as he watched the FV team win one victory after another in a destructive manner.

During the nearly two-hour match, Zhao Xuming inexplicably had the illusion that this world was not real!

The commentators on site were the official commentators of Finger Company, speaking fluent English with great passion.

On the big screen, the purple side's forces had already attacked the blue side's high ground, and the final battle was about to break out.

"Cem has one player down first, and they're falling apart. FV is starting to chase after the victory! The miracle didn't happen. Cem tried to launch a perfect team battle at the last moment of the third game to save their fate, but they failed because FV anticipated everything with their pre-arranged vision!"

"FV has always maintained a perfect formation, advancing steadily like an invincible chariot, making the Cem players feel extremely desperate!"

"It's a pity that this is a match that can't be recorded in history, because this match ended the battle in just 25 minutes. This battle was so crushing that it's difficult for us to judge whether it's because we seriously underestimated FV's strength, or because Cem underperformed for some unknown reason?"

"But no matter what, the FV team, which was unanimously not favored before the match, showed their fangs in this match and proved their strength with three hearty victories. Perhaps all opponents must re-evaluate the true strength of this Eastern team. Obviously, their performance in the match is as amazing as their performance on Twitter!"

The English commentators on site did not hesitate to praise the FV club.

Obviously, today's match had completely conquered everyone, and even challenged their understanding of the game.

Zhao Xuming was in a state of confusion, and almost thought he was hallucinating.

FV actually beat their opponents 3:0 and entered the top four?

Moreover, each game was a quick massacre of around 25 minutes, and the scene was completely one-sided!

In the match, the FV club showed two different styles:

During the laning and snowballing phases, all the players completed their tasks as precisely as robots, and they could hardly be seen making any mistakes.

Once they entered the advantage phase, they played extremely aggressively, tower diving, flashing emblems, spawn-camping, simply not treating the opponent as human beings, and turning the quarter-finals of the finals into a newbie crushing game!

Obviously, this was something that could only be done when there was a clear gap between the strengths of the two sides and their understanding of the game.

Zhao Xuming was originally waiting for the FV club to be defeated 3:0 so that the hired internet trolls could increase their efforts, but FV actually defeated the opponent 3:0!

All the prepared remarks were in vain!

Now Zhao Xuming's only feeling was incomprehension.

Wasn't the FV team just a team with similar strength to SUG? To say that winning one game was a lucky break, but what about beating a European and American team 3:0?

Zhao Xuming even suspected that President Pei had secretly replaced all five members of the FV team, otherwise how could this earth-shattering change have happened in such a short period of time?

Not only Zhao Xuming didn't understand, but Longyu Group, Finger Company, and even audiences all over the world didn't understand.

President Pei's operation had completely touched their area of ignorance.