In the end, I still lost!
Lin Jingyan sighed as he walked out of the competition seat.
Although there was some regret, this match didn't make him feel the slightest bit annoyed. He could accept this result with equanimity, and he wasn't unconvinced by losing to Fang Rui.
After all, he was past his prime, while Fang Rui was at his peak.
When it came to waving goodbye to the past, for two years he still couldn't forget his Tang San Da, but Fang Rui? He simply changed his entire profession. Clearly, Fang Rui was more decisive than him in this matter.
He really was old, and Fang Rui had a long future ahead of him!
Looking at the Xingxin competition seats on the other end of the arena, Lin Jingyan regretted that this was a team elimination赛 (sai, competition). Fang Rui couldn't come out of the competition seat before the match was completely over. He really wanted to take this opportunity to send Fang Rui his blessings. He didn't know if the two of them would have another chance to face each other on the field.
Silently watching over there for a while, Lin Jingyan walked off the stage, the blessing ultimately remaining in his heart.
Keep going, my friend!
With the end of this battle, the team elimination赛 (sai, competition) entered the second half. Counting Fang Rui, Xingxin still had three people on the field, while only two remained for Tyranny.
As Lin Jingyan left the stage, Tyranny's fourth player stood up.
Song Qiying, Tyranny's young Striker, joined this season and has been steadily growing as a rookie. He seems to be the future successor to Desert Dust. And now, on this important stage of the playoffs, Tyranny has entrusted him with a great deal of confidence, sending him onto the field. Tyranny isn't like Xingxin, where they have no choice but to use rookies. Yet Song Qiying still appeared in the fourth position of the playoffs' team elimination赛 (sai, competition), which is regarded as the main defender, making their intentions to support him obvious.
However, placing him in this position doesn't necessarily mean that he has truly become the main defender. The order in which players are arranged, to some extent, also explains the team's attitude towards this team elimination赛 (sai, competition).
"Tyranny's fourth player is Song Qiying! It seems they didn't plan to end the team elimination赛 (sai, competition) in the fourth position!" After seeing this arrangement, Pan Lin immediately began his analysis. In the playoffs' team elimination赛 (sai, competition), the fourth position is usually held by a core player. Everyone generally aims to win a four-on-five, striving for a two-point advantage to enter the team competition. Some are more aggressive, moving the core player to the third position, aiming for a three-point lead.
But Tyranny, with Song Qiying in the fourth position, then the fifth position is probably their core general, Captain Han Wenqing. This is the most appropriate arrangement.
Li Yibo came from Tyranny, and Tyranny's captain and core player have been Han Wenqing for the past decade. If the captain doesn't change and the core doesn't change, then the temperament of this team is difficult to change. So although he has been away from the team for a long time, Li Yibo could still easily speculate about Tyranny. But today, Han Wenqing came up to avoid fighting Ye Xiu, and now he didn't even stand in the fourth position, but instead sent the rookie Song Qiying.
The more familiar you are with a team, the more unfamiliar you feel when unexpected arrangements appear. Pan Lin brought up the discussion, and Li Yibo was stunned for a long time before he replied, "Playing away from home, they're being more cautious!"
A conventional answer. Li Yibo had lost the confidence to analyze Tyranny as a "Tyranny person." Today's Tyranny felt too different to him.
"Okay, let's watch Song Qiying's performance! It's also quite a coincidence that Song Qiying's first appearance this season was against Xingxin's Fang Rui, who is now on the field," Pan Lin said. "However... Fang Rui probably won't be able to fight for too long, right?"
Fang Rui can also be considered to have taken on two opponents in a row. He used a method that consumed a lot of mana to defeat Zhang Jiale's Dazzling Hundred Flowers, and then in this match against Lin Jingyan, although he eventually won, it was a bloody battle. Boundless Sea only had fourteen percent of his health left, and only eleven percent of his mana left at this time. He was indeed at the end of his rope.
"It's going to be difficult to win, but with Fang Rui's methods, Song Qiying will suffer a lot if he's too careless," Li Yibo said.
"Careless, that's unlikely, right?" Pan Lin said with a smile.
Li Yibo then smiled as well.
The current Song Qiying is no longer the Song Qiying who first appeared when facing Fang Rui last time. Throughout the entire season, as one of the most promising candidates for Best Rookie, Song Qiying has received a lot of attention. This Striker youth, who seems to be the successor to Desert Dust, has a temperament somewhat similar to Tyranny's vice-captain, Zhang Xinjie. Serious and meticulous. Although he is still a teenager, with this kind of temperament, it is impossible for him to be careless, right?
The match began during their discussion. Song Qiying's performance was as expected. Even the way he rushed at the beginning made people feel his extremely upright attitude.
He was carefully observing everything along the way, whether it was an area that would be touched during the battle later or not. He kept turning his view left and right.
However, the route he chose in the end was still to cut in from the middle. The audience had given up hope of seeing naval warfare or jungle warfare on this map. Because the manor castle in the center has indoor space, it also has concealment. It's meaningless to detour and then enter the center on this map. So neither team did such a thing.
In front of and behind the castle, the players from the two teams met for the seventh time, separated by the castle.
Serious and upright like Zhang Xinjie and Song Qiying, they probably had already completely thought through many steps after entering the arena before they even came on stage. Song Qiying, who had arrived at the back of the castle, did not hesitate. He didn't go through the back door, nor did he jump onto the top of the castle, but skillfully found a window and jumped in.
The two teams have fought several matches, all at this castle. Tyranny has seen almost every corner of the castle's structure.
Jumping in through the window, his vision immediately rotated, up, left, right, every position that his vision could reach was quickly scanned. Song Qiying quickly understood the situation in front of him.
He didn't find Boundless Sea. Then, it seemed like he had already thought it through. Long River Sunset walked towards the corridor on the right, turned into the second door on the corridor, and then, step by step, room by room, as if he was following a strategy guide to play the game.
Fang Rui's Boundless Sea had also arrived at the castle long ago. With not much health and not much mana left, how could he openly meet his opponent? Last round, he detoured to the back door, but he ended up being in sync with Lin Jingyan. He didn't want to use the same method twice. This time, he controlled Boundless Sea to climb up the front of the castle, not to the top, but directly into the second floor of the castle from the balcony.
The furnishings on the second floor were far more intact than on the first floor. Only the battle between Ye Xiu and Qin Muyun had taken place here, and then Ye Xiu and Zhang Jiale had flipped up to make a surprise attack. That wave only smashed a hole in the floor.
At this time, Fang Rui was controlling Boundless Sea to walk towards that hole. When he reached the entrance of the hole, he paid attention to the surroundings, chose a good position and angle, and Boundless Sea lay down.
Ambush...
In Glory's usually vast maps, this passive ambush method of waiting for the hare to come to the tree stump has an extremely low hit rate. It usually needs to confirm the target's route of action before it can be used. But Fang Rui didn't do any reconnaissance. He went straight to this hole and lay down...
The audience began to pay attention to when the system message would appear.
Because if someone were to just keep crouching down regardless of the hit rate, how long would this match take? Therefore, Glory has rules. The referee will decide whether compliance is reasonable based on the specific circumstances and will intervene if it is unreasonable.
Of course, deciding whether to crouch also requires some rigid rules. You can't just immediately rule that a character is crouching and intervene as soon as they crouch or hide in a corner. Crouching must be based on the condition that there has been no purposeful operation for 18 seconds.
Some players who are familiar with Glory's rules have already started counting seconds for Fang Rui.
But they are familiar, and the Wretched Master Fang Rui is even more familiar than them. At 17 seconds, Boundless Sea changed his posture.
Glory referees are not robots. They can deny this kind of cleverness that exploits the rules from their own subjective judgment. But in this match, the referee seemed to approve of Fang Rui's cleverness and didn't intervene at all after 18 seconds.
Boos rang out in the stadium, the boos came from Tyranny fans. The die-hard fans are familiar with the rules. They booed the referee because they felt that the referee's inaction at this time was biased towards their team.
The referee remained unmoved, because the boos were quickly drowned out by applause. If they wanted to influence the referee's judgment, it wouldn't be Tyranny's turn. This was Xingxin's home field.
"This, Fang Rui only changed the posture of his character. There's no change in his purpose. This should still be considered an unreasonable crouch of over 18 seconds, right?" Pan Lin questioned the referee at this time.
"Well, the referee will also deal with it according to the specific circumstances. First of all, both characters are in the castle, which greatly reduces the area of the battle map. The hit rate of this kind of squatting will be greatly increased, and the unreasonable nature is reduced. Then look, Song Qiying's Long River Sunset is now very close to this area and may step into it next. I think the referee also recognizes the success rate of this squatting, so he judged it to be reasonable and did not intervene. If Song Qiying's route selection avoids this area next, I think the referee will probably intervene," Li Yibo knew the referee's problem-solving ideas in great detail.
"So that's how it is... Then, wouldn't the fact that the referee should have intervened but didn't also convey some information to the players in terms of attitude?" Pan Lin said.
Li Yibo was stunned. Looking at the game screen again, the crouching Boundless Sea was no longer lying down, but had squatted up, and his palms were filled with flowing qi. He was already gathering power. But from his perspective, he couldn't see any trace of Long River Sunset, but he was confident and prepared for the sneak attack.
The foolish referee, believing that his judgment combined specific circumstances to assess the situation and was very reasonable and wonderful, was actually being used by Fang Rui.
This Wretched Master used the rules, observed the referee's attitude of inaction, and judged that Song Qiying was operating his character to approach his ambush area.
Chapter 1207 Squatting