Chapter 135 Electronic Sports Weekly

Saturdays were match days. On Sundays, various Glory portal forums saw all kinds of discussions about Saturday's matches, but most were from a player's perspective. The reports from major media outlets were mostly objective descriptions of the process and results, or direct transcriptions of comments from interviews. Truly professional commentary generally required a full day to properly digest the match. Electronic Athletics Home, considered the most authoritative within the industry, wouldn't begin its detailed reports and commentary until the Electronic Athletics Weekly was published on Monday.

On Monday, Chen Guo naturally couldn't wait to buy a copy of the Electronic Athletics Weekly. After looking at it, she was slightly disappointed. The Electronic Athletics Weekly's praise for Happy wasn't as overwhelming.

Tang Rou's outstanding performance in the individual competition was still praised, but Baozi's performance in the individual competition, and Mo Fan's expulsion in the team competition, weren't overlooked at all by the authoritative Electronic Athletics Home. However, what excited Chen Guo later was that the Electronic Athletics Home gave a high evaluation of Happy's team performance, especially the cooperation that took away Lihua Langji (Fallen Flower Wolfish Miscellany) in one fell swoop, which was referred to by the Electronic Athletics Home as a textbook classic. This description inevitably brought to mind Ye Xiu, known as the Glory textbook. Sure enough, Ye Xiu, who had received relatively little ink in those amateur commentaries, received praise in professional commentary reports that was no less than Tang Rou's. Even Fang Rui's transformation into a Qi Master received a lot of praise.

The reports and anecdotes about the competition were mostly completed by Chang Xian from the H City reporter station, but there were also many specially invited commentators from the Electronic Athletics Home for these commentaries. Those who could be valued by this authoritative media outlet were naturally not masters of empty talk. The commentary was relatively accurate and insightful.

And Chen Guo's personal favorite column in the Electronic Athletics Home was the scoring brief review of each player in hot matches. This column was also usually commented on by specially invited people. Different commentators had different styles, with laughter, scolding, and indifference, making it quite popular.

From a television broadcast perspective, the originally anticipated hot match for the second round was between Thunderclap and Howling Heights. However, the good thing about print media was that they could be wise after the event. Therefore, when they were published, the focus was on Happy and Hundred Blossoms.

Chen Guo quickly flipped to her favorite column, and it was indeed the familiar pattern she knew.

Individual competition, Ye Xiu vs. Zeng Xinran.

Ye Xiu, 5 points; Zeng Xinran, negative 4 points.

Yes, this column was sometimes just so unpredictable. Scoring was usually from 0 to 10 points, but here, Zeng Xinran was actually given a negative 4 points, showing how deeply disgusted they were with Zeng Xinran's performance. The subsequent brief review even wrote: Hundred Blossoms rookie Zeng Xinran's first match, through the match he told us one thing: he was here. In addition, he may have also told Ye Xiu a thing: it doesn't matter if your hands are a little rusty, there are opponents that you can win even if you chop off your hands. Considering that Zeng Xinran is, after all, a rookie, let's be generous and not give him a negative 5 points, let's give him a negative 4! As for the great god Ye Xiu, matches without the support of experts can't produce any heroic posture, 5 points!

The sarcasm and ridicule were quite forceful, even with a jest about Ye Xiu's "hands being a little rusty". Chen Guo laughed out loud without any politeness and glanced at the commentator who wrote this scoring brief review.

Sure enough, Zuo Chenrui, a Glory commentator who Chen Guo was not unfamiliar with, was known for his sharp and mean style. His comments always had a very strong subjective color, which was inconsistent with the fairness and authority of the Electronic Athletics Home. And the scoring brief review column, which clearly stated "Special commentary, does not represent the views of this newspaper," was probably the only place where Zuo Chenrui could appear in the Electronic Athletics Weekly. As a result, Zuo Chenrui, who commented with all kinds of affectation and exaggeration, had become the most popular special commentator in this column, with quite high popularity.

Chen Guo, on the other hand, quite liked to read this person's commentary. The key was that it was very funny most of the time.

After Ye Xiu and Zeng Xinran, it was Baozi and Zhang Wei's singles duel.

Bao Rongxing, 10 to 0 points; Zhang Wei, 5 points.

Just looking at the bold scoring for Baozi, Chen Guo had already laughed again.

The enigmatic rookie player Bao Rongxing, no one can see what his train of thought is in the competition, maybe even he himself doesn't know. The perfect performance in the first half, made Zhang Wei unable to find north; the inexplicable weakness in the second half, proved my enigmatic judgment of him. Zhang Wei, 5 points. Facing a 10-point performance, he was blown up; facing a 0-point performance, he blew up the other person! Bao Rongxing's performance was from 10 to 0 points, not from 0 to 10 points. This was the key to his victory.

Black! So black!

That's how Zuo Chenrui was. He spared no effort in blackening people. A player who could be ridiculed by him could basically be considered to have received his praise. And for Hundred Blossoms, this blackening was considered light. Players and readers familiar with Zuo Chenrui knew that he was a Blue Rain fan and a Tiny Herb hater. Blackening Tiny Herb was bottomless. When the Electronic Athletics Weekly wanted to do a scoring brief review of Tiny Herb's matches, they would never dare to invite him to do it.

After these two matches, it was Su Mucheng and Zou Yuan's third match.

Zou Yuan wanted to confront Su Mucheng head-on, but he took the wrong path and was completely suppressed. Zou Yuan wanted to solve Su Mucheng's suppression head-on, but in the end, he was blown to smithereens. In a word, Zou Yuan underestimated Su Mucheng's strength. In terms of technique, experience, and awareness, Su Mucheng was not below Zou Yuan, and she had 10,000 times more beauty than Zou Yuan. A comprehensive suppression victory was very logical. Su Mucheng's performance, 10 points; beauty, 10,000 points; Zou Yuan's performance, 5 points; beauty... forget it, no score, let's give him a bad review!

After that, the team competition.

Fang Rui, good reviews. Simple tricks, but able to succeed again and again. I have to say that this master of the despicable style, even after switching professions, is still so strong at digging pits. However, it can be seen that due to his unfamiliarity after the transformation, his current methods of digging pits are not rich enough. In the second half of the first game, he was forced to face Zhou Guangyi head-on. Fortunately, the pit he had dug before was deep enough to not trap himself. If the match ended there, Fang Rui, 6 points, but that Qigong Burst in the duel with Yu Feng is worth 10 points. (10+6)/2 = 8 points.

Zhou Guangyi was basically played with by Fang Rui in the palm of his hand. If Fang Rui had not switched professions and was still a Thief, he would either have died even more miserably, or he might have won the match because of his understanding of the Thief Fang Rui. I lean towards the former, so Zhou Guangyi, 2 points.

Yu Feng could have won against Fang Rui with very little damage. However, that Qigong Burst proved that he was still inferior to Fang Rui in calculation, 2 points; in the second game, the heroic stance in the center of the map is worth 5 points, and as a result, he killed his opponent in seconds based on this, 5 points; in the third game, facing a rookie head-on, he was blown up. Yu Feng made the same mistake as Zou Yuan: underestimating his opponent. However, compared to Zou Yuan, as an All-Star player, Yu Feng is still qualified to underestimate a rookie. Thank you Yu Feng's contempt for giving us a wonderful 1v2, worth 2 points. 2+5+2=9 points? That's not right, right? Oh, we forgot that Yu Feng played a total of three games and had to divide by 3, 3 points. Speaking of which, if I didn't say it, would anyone notice that Yu Feng played three games and actually played a 1v2?

Mo Fan, there's nothing to say. This is probably Happy's rookie's response to Hundred Blossoms' rookie Zeng Xinran. Zeng Xinran said that he had been there, so Mo Fan said that he had also been there. But I want to give him 2 points because without him, we wouldn't see a wonderful 1v2.

Zhu Xiaoping, as a Summoner who is said to be able to take on two or three, was blasted from the front by one character. I don't think we can always say that it's Feng Ke's fault. Zhu Xiaoping, 3 points.

Tang Rou, blast Yu Feng, 10 points! Blast Zhu Xiaoping, 10 points! Beauty, 10,000 points. Good review, no explanation.

Tang Rou, who performed the most amazing and outstanding, only had a few short sentences from Zuo Chenrui. This proves that this guy is good at blackening people and is too lazy to praise them.

In the final team competition, Zuo Chenrui continued his subjective commentary. Yu Feng, who was focused and sent away at the start, was once again heavily blackened. It seems that Blue Rain fan Zuo Chenrui has a big opinion on Yu Feng, who abandoned Blue Rain.

"What's making you so happy?" When everyone came to the Internet cafe to prepare for the new week's training, they saw Chen Guo giggling.

Chen Guo pushed the newspaper to everyone. Electronic Athletics Weekly, everyone was also familiar with it and knew that there weren't so many jokes to see on it. The most likely thing was that column.

Sure enough, after one glance, and then looking at the author, everyone was particularly clear.

"Who did this guy black again?" Fang Rui snatched the newspaper and read it carefully.

The blackened players were definitely not happy, but for others, reading Zuo Chenrui's stuff always felt quite cheerful.

"Hehe, hehe, hehe..." Fang Rui took the newspaper, looked at Zuo Chenrui's brief review, and soon began to giggle foolishly.

"Yo, you're being quite polite to me today." When he saw the commentary on the team competition, Fang Rui exclaimed in surprise. "I want to see what he says about Little Tang." As he said that, he scanned downwards. Given that this guy rarely praised people, players who had performed well would also be very curious about how this guy would comment on them in this situation.

"Tsk, tsk, to be able to get good reviews from Zuo Chenrui without explanation, Little Tang, you can be considered accomplished enough." Fang Rui said after reading the comments on Tang Rou.

"Really?" Tang Rou now also reads some Glory reviews and reports, but she focuses on learning and systematically searches for the information she needs. Zuo Chenrui's non-objective, exaggerated comments have never been on Tang Rou's study list. She knows nothing about this person.

"Actually, he has always been relatively polite to female players. Have you ever seen him try to blacken any female player?" Ye Xiu said.

"This..." Fang Rui thought about it, and there really wasn't one. He scanned today's again, and sure enough, there was no style that he should have for the comments on Su Mucheng.

"This guy, still has this bottom line, huh? I really didn't notice." Fang Rui said.

"Although it's a bit exaggerated, sometimes his comments are very insightful. Otherwise, with his irresponsible random spraying, do you really think he's hired by Electronic Athletics Home to be responsible for being funny?" Ye Xiu said.

"That's right." Fang Rui nodded seriously while holding the newspaper and reading, "That Qigong Burst in the duel with Yu Feng is worth 10 points. The commentary is really very insightful."

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