Chapter 1500 The Unexpected Lineup

In the team competition of the playoffs, different results in the individual competition can lead to different strategies. This is a rather tricky point under the new format. Not only the losing side, but even the winning side in the individual competition should find ways to fully exploit this advantage in the team competition.

After both sides had smoothed over the various emotions brought about by the individual competition, they began to make tense deployments and arrangements.

"Team Happy is currently leading by two individual points. Compared to the general expectations before the match, the difference is quite large." Pan Lin and Li Yibo also summarized the current situation during the break in the match.

"Yes, speaking of which, Happy actually had a chance to gain an even greater advantage. If Su Mucheng had taken down Zheng Xuan, they would have had three individual points. Such an advantage is quite rare in the new format's individual competition," said Li Yibo.

"Yes, but it's a pity that Zheng Xuan narrowly won that round in the end. What a shame for Su Mucheng," said Pan Lin.

"Team Blue Rain has been very unlucky today. Zheng Xuan's victory can be considered as salvaging some of their decline," said Li Yibo.

"Happy's Mo Fan is the biggest highlight of today's individual competition! He completed a one-versus-two, and one of his opponents was Huang Shaotian. It was a really beautiful performance," Pan Lin praised.

"Yes, Mo Fan's performance was indeed very surprising. Actually, in terms of this season, Mo Fan's appearances in Happy are not even at the level of a main player, but in this individual competition, he had a core-level performance," said Li Yibo.

"Yes, now we can already see many players commenting and marveling at Mo Fan's performance! I just saw a Weibo post from a netizen named Gou Sang (I just randomly picked a name from my Weibo followers, don't mind, right!), calling Mo Fan a 'God Slayer'. It seems they're linking this victory over Huang Shaotian with his previous victory over Sun Xiang," said Pan Lin.

"Haha, defeating two top-tier gods twice is indeed very valuable for a newcomer. But to take such a title, we still need to pay more attention to Mo Fan's performance," Li Yibo laughed.

"Yes." Pan Lin nodded, and then continued to operate the computer to browse the current Weibo topics related to this match.

"Oh, this..." Pan Lin hesitated.

"What's wrong?" Li Yibo leaned over to look.

"Zuo Chenrui is spamming the screen," said Pan Lin.

"Oh? What is he saying?" Li Yibo was amused. Zuo Chenrui was also a famous writer in the circle, and because his subjective color was super strong, his comments were often unexpected. And the Blue Rain team in this match was the apple of his eye, but the individual competition was lost so unexpectedly, this guy must be unable to sit still!

"Zuo Chenrui gave that tree a score of one hundred million." Pan Lin said just that one sentence. With Zuo Chenrui's temperament, he would definitely have no shortage of unfair, sarcastic remarks about Happy. Pan Lin was naturally not convenient to read those contents in their program.

"Hahahaha." Li Yibo laughed loudly. He knew Zuo Chenrui and could completely imagine the expression on that guy's face when he watched Huang Shaotian's Yu Fengsheng be smashed by that felled tree for 50% of his health. Li Yibo suddenly regretted that if he could have invited Zuo Chenrui to commentate on this match today, that would have been great. Just for that moment of brilliant expression, Li Yibo didn't mind having an extra guest in this commentary to steal the spotlight.

The two then browsed some more comments from netizens, and after chatting about the next situation, the team competition was finally about to officially begin. The participating players from both sides began to enter the arena at the referee's signal.

Blue Rain Team: Yu Wenzhou, Huang Shaotian, Lu Hanwen, Zheng Xuan, and Xu Jingxi started, with Song Xiao as the sixth player.

Happy Team: Ye Xiu, Su Mucheng, Fang Rui, Qiao Yifan, and An Wenyi started, with Wei Chen as the sixth player.

"Ah! Happy has sent out Wei Chen!" Pan Lin was a little surprised.

Wei Chen and Blue Rain had a connection, but because this connection was too long ago, and coupled with the fact that Wei Chen's presence was not strong, basically no one paid attention to hyping this topic. And the playoffs were not a place to arrange troops for the sake of topics. Happy actually chose Wei Chen to play here, which was somewhat surprising.

How much Wei Chen could play a role was a big question mark. Just based on his current ability level, judging from his pitifully few appearances in the regular season, it was indeed difficult to call him high-end. And his connection with Blue Rain was so many years ago. Talking about knowing oneself and one's enemy, he might not even be as good as Ye Xiu, Su Mucheng, Fang Rui, and others who had fought against Blue Rain for many years. What exactly was Happy's intention in arranging for Wei Chen to play? It was really hard to guess.

Blue Rain, on the other hand, seemed calm.

Happy was a new team, and the biggest characteristic of a new team was that its combat power was built and grown while competing. And like Blue Rain, Tiny Herb, Tyranny, and other teams in the league, everything about them was mature and stable. They wouldn't be like a new team, like this today and like that tomorrow. Only newly built teams would constantly try and change.

And Happy, the entire regular season was played at this pace. Many people may not have noticed this.

"Immaturity should be the biggest flaw of a new team, but... Happy has turned this into their biggest characteristic." This was the definition Yu Wenzhou gave to Happy before this match.

Because of immaturity, because of constant attempts and changes, Happy ultimately formed a kind of uncertainty.

This was supposed to be something that a mature team should try to avoid, but for a new team, since they couldn't solve this problem in a short time, they might as well magnify it.

Yu Wenzhou's view was supported by data. The statistics made by Blue Rain's technical department according to his instructions clearly showed the rotation changes of Happy's team. As the rookies in the team continued to grow, the rotation range of Happy's team had been increasing, until the end of the season, when both Wei Chen and Luo Ji joined the rotation.

This was not a sudden decision. From the statistics obtained, it could be seen that the addition of these two to the rotation was actually completely in line with the curve of Happy's rotation range expanding this season. It was just that because these two only joined at the end, there was too much blank space in the early stage, and the final performance was less, so it seemed more conspicuous.

Every player in Happy was fully operating, and all of this was probably for the playoffs. Happy, from the very beginning, was aiming to kill its way into the playoffs.

Contend for the championship!

This was not just Ye Xiu saying something casually to tease everyone, he was serious. From the first day of the regular season, he was planning, adjusting, and training the entire team with this goal in mind.

Now, Yu Wenzhou's biggest view on Happy was that no matter what lineup the other side fielded, he wouldn't be too surprised, because they had always been in such a swing and change, instead of being as stable as their mature teams. But, in their swing, they had also achieved a kind of balance. They were not absolutely stable, but they were also relatively stable.

The most terrifying person in Happy was, in the final analysis, Ye Xiu. He was not only a tough fighter with a 37-game winning streak in individual matches, but his control and deployment of the entire team had completely reached a point of ease.

And now...

"Just surrender!" This person shook Yu Wenzhou's hand and said with a smile.

"Hehe, there's no need for that at the moment!" Yu Wenzhou laughed.

"There will be soon," said Ye Xiu.

"Shut up!" Huang Shaotian interjected.

"You must cherish the flowers, grass, and trees!" Ye Xiu held Huang Shaotian's hand in one hand and patted the back of his hand with the other, talking intimately.

"Get lost, get lost, get lost!" Huang Shaotian threw his hand away. The referee on the side couldn't bear to look. This knife was really ruthless!

The players walked past one by one, making pre-match greetings. The arrangement was also generally in a fixed order, such as the sixth player, who was usually the last in the queue, so Wei Chen was the last to walk up to Yu Wenzhou.

"Captain Wei." Yu Wenzhou addressed him like this, extending his hand.

Huang Shaotian, who was on the side, took the initiative to come over before anyone else could.

"Captain Wei." He also addressed him like this, with a very respectful tone. Even Ye Xiu, who was considered his senior, and was a peak god who had achieved a brilliant three-time championship before him, was only driven away by him with "get lost, get lost, get lost." Because the person in front of him was too different for him. If it weren't for this person, he, Huang Shaotian, might just treat Glory as a pastime, running to the game to be a scourge in his spare time, and then continuing to live the life of an ordinary person in an orderly manner, until one day he was so busy that he even forgot this pastime, and let Glory completely disappear from his life.

But he met Wei Chen.

It was this person who changed his attitude towards Glory, it was this person who made him interested in professional players, it was this person who ultimately brought him to Blue Rain, and it was this person who helped him through the final road to growth.

Then he left, and he, however, in the name of the Golden Generation, officially stepped into the professional circle, and ultimately drove a character named Sword Saint, galloping on this arena, possessing a vast world that he had never dreamed of.

Everything was because of the person in front of him.

And after he left, everyone completely lost contact. Huang Shaotian had thought about meeting again, but he didn't expect it to be in this way. On the arena, opponents, and in the playoffs, a life-and-death, most cruel opponent.

But all of this could not change Huang Shaotian's feelings for Wei Chen.

If he were to answer who was the person who had the greatest influence on him in his life, his answer would only be this person's name.

"Surrender!" Then he heard this person who had the greatest influence on him in his life, the person he respected the most, say so.

"Cough, how can that be!" Yu Wenzhou said with a smile.

Huang Shaotian didn't have much reaction. Because he was not surprised at all that this person said such a thing. Although this was a person he respected very much, he was indeed a person with no bottom line.

"It's a pity, I really can't bear to defeat you on the field!" Wei Chen sighed.

"We are too!" said Yu Wenzhou.

"But you have defeated me." said Wei Chen.

"Just luck." said Yu Wenzhou.

"Not this time." Wei Chen said, "I will use all my strength."