Chapter 338: No Championship Means Failure! The

September 26, 2023. The Asian Games officially opened.

The Asian Games feature 40 major categories and as many as 481 events, so the esports schedule is not particularly long.

Since League of Legends is the esports event with the most international teams participating, matches began on the very first day and will continue until the finals on National Day.

However, the first two days consist of preliminary rounds primarily for regional and wildcard teams, with little to see.

Thanks to the "Road to Asian Games" championship won by the entire WE roster in the mid-summer season, the CN representative team will advance directly to the quarterfinals group stage, skipping the first two days of preliminaries and effectively gaining two extra days to adjust and observe their opponents.

The KR representative team, however, must interact with international friends from Indonesia, Kazakhstan, India, Malaysia, and others.

But having gone through a month of intensive training, the KR representative team seems to be holding their breath.

They are striking with heavy hands throughout!

"That's the twenty-seventh point!!"

"The KR representative team's mid-laner Li Li Xianghe, who appeared today, has reached his twelfth consecutive kill using Tristana! The Indian player seems to have no resistance whatsoever!"

"In just 17 minutes and 55 seconds, the Indian representative team was defeated with a massive score of 0-31!"

"Congratulations to the KR representative team for becoming the final winner of the preliminaries! Advancing to the quarterfinals!"

【Damn, brother, why strike so hard? They won't come back next time!】

【Honestly, it's quite miserable. They traveled thousands of miles, trained for a whole month, only to be kicked out in a 17-minute speedrun. It's truly tragic.】

【Case closed! A volunteer insider revealed that the Indian team's training room was right next to the Korean team's, and they were subjected to toxic gas attacks every day. This is revenge!】

【Don't rush, maybe the Korean team is the same. Just playing two more games, hehe.】

【Hehehe, don't rush to pop the champagne. If someone gets a free pass to the quarterfinals only to be sent home in the semifinals, that would be a real joke~】

【Joy, the Tieba forums speculated based on match history that Faker is the one who trains the least, so he's likely a substitute. Why did he play today? Because they felt this was the only match they could win steadily!】

Given the massive gap in strength, this match was truly without suspense.

The CN representative team watching from the training room could hardly glean any valuable information, and they even had to worry about whether the opponent was deliberately misleading them, making it difficult to gather intelligence.

But the real focus is the quarterfinal draw ceremony about to take place on-site.

"Hasn't Master Ye come yet? The draw is about to start!" Xun looked around the training room for Ye Bo.

"He's probably still training," Shi Potian guessed.

"Still training! I've been trained to the point of vomiting this month, and we're going to the battlefield soon!"

Tian Ye interjected, looking up: "It's Master Ye, that's just how he is~"

Everyone smiled knowingly upon hearing this.

They had all been together this month, and occasionally they would see him resting temporarily in the training room.

And it was only then that Gala and Liu Qingsong, the two "outsiders," witnessed the legendary "Sleepwalking Training" for the first time, watching with their own eyes as his fingers moved frantically while he was asleep, seemingly with a method to the madness.

Even the bot lane duo was convinced of why everyone on the CN team trusted him so much after that.

You have to be convinced!

While waiting for the draw to begin, Gala opened a small game on his own.

Liu Qingsong leaned over to look at the pixel-style mini-LoL game: "What's this?"

Gala replied casually: "DodgeShow, a game for dodging skills. I saw Faker playing it on stream before, feels like it can train hand speed."

The broadcast was still going through the motions, and Xun walked over curiously.

Seeing that he only survived for over 200 seconds before dying, he mocked him: "This isn't working, Gala! Is your cheat malfunctioning?"

"This is quite difficult."

"It looks simple enough! Let me try!"

Xun watched, but it was just using the mouse and keyboard to move and dodge LoL hero skills flying from all directions.

It felt like anyone with hands could do it!

Not believing it, he took the mouse and keyboard—but after a serious attempt, he was defeated in less than 90 seconds!

He tried again: 77 seconds.

"No, no! Let me try again!"

Xun, who considered himself an operational player, got heated and tried repeatedly, but couldn't break the 100-second mark.

Everyone happened to have nothing to do, so they all took turns trying it out.

The best result turned out to be Xun's!

The worst was Shi Potian, who could only survive for a little over 40 seconds.

Watching Xun's frustrated look, Gala comforted him thoughtfully: "It's very impressive. I only lasted about 90 seconds when I first played. Guess how many seconds Brother Hu lasted the first time?"

Shi Potian laughed at himself: "Xiaohu? He can't be faster than me!"

"Yeah, Brother Hu only lasted 26 seconds!"

Everyone burst into laughter.

But thinking about it carefully, it's quite normal.

After all, Xiaohu, who has gained weight, no longer has any fighting spirit in his appearance, and he is no longer an "operational" player; it's reasonable for his hand speed to be slower.

Besides, playing professionally generally doesn't require any one ability to be particularly strong; balance is more important.

Unless that ability truly reaches a certain "extreme."

Gala continued chatting: "I played for a long time before I could steadily reach over a hundred. This game gets faster and faster over time. My personal record is over 700."

"1555.78??? That's cheating!!!"

Xun, who died before 100 seconds again, broke down.

"1557?" Ye Bo, who had just stepped into the training room, heard this and paused: "What did I miss? Who hit 1557 again?"

"Oh, Master Ye is here!"

"It's just in time, the draw hasn't started yet. I don't think it's my problem; it must be the game's problem!"

Ye Bo was pulled to the screen by Xun.

However, when he saw the game screen, there was a hint of surprise in his eyes.

He didn't talk nonsense, grabbed the keyboard and mouse, and clicked to start the game.

The six people behind him also leaned over their chairs curiously, wanting to see what kind of score Ye Bo could achieve.

"As expected of Master Ye, he's already over 100. It's light and easy."

"Learn from this, little Xun~ This is the gap in talent!"

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"Wait, he can dodge that too?"

"Master Ye, have you played this before?"

Ye Bo could even spare the attention to turn his head and answer: "This is indeed my first time playing this game, but I've played similar ones."

He said so.

But the six pairs of eyes behind him were widening.