The King's Avatar: Mathematics is King

Chapter 116: One against two and still not performing well?
"Ah?" The reporters were even more confused, not knowing whether what he said was true or false.

"Captain Ye, is what Luo Shen said true? Are you really playing the individual competition just to have some free time?" A reporter immediately ran over to Ye Xiu and asked.

“Of course not.” Ye Xiu said seriously, “I gave them such an important position in the competition in order to better train the new members of the team.”

"Then is it true that you wanted to regret it because you saw that Tang Rou was able to take on three people at once and felt that the ring match was more relaxing?" the reporter continued to ask.

"Of course it's fake, a slander! That was purely a slander against me by our deputy captain, I'm very sad." Ye Xiu said as he stretched out his right hand to cover his chest, pretending to be heartbroken.

“Ah?” Ye Xiu’s exaggerated performance made those who originally didn’t doubt him begin to believe that he really played the individual competition just to be lazy.

……

The next day, without any surprises, various news about the battle between Xingxin and Baihua made headlines on major e-sports media and portals.

Looking around, all you see is praise for Xingxin.

The person who was mentioned the most in this praise was undoubtedly Tang Rou.

The thrilling one-on-three match in the ring was truly unforgettable.

Many people even talked about the best rookie issue again. Originally, in everyone's mind, Luo Ji was the best rookie of the year.

But now it seems that Xingxin's rookie named Tang Rou may not be without a chance.

When Chen Guo saw these comments, he was extremely happy.

To her, no matter whether Luo Ji or Tang Rou was elected the best rookie, they were both her Happy members.

Opening the official website of Honor, after the second round of competition, there have been some changes in the standings.

Among them, Samsara, like Xingxin, won all the games again, with a total score of 20 points. Then, with the advantage of the first letter, it ranked ahead of Xingxin and topped the list.

Behind Samsara and Happy, Wind Howl, Blue Rain, and Tiny Herb all have 18 points, ranking third to fifth in alphabetical order.

The sixth place was Yanyu with 15 points. After the Yanyu team, the seventh place was the winner of this broadcast game, the Thunder team, with a total of 13 points in two games.

At this point, it looks like the top half of the standings so far.

Afterwards, Huang Feng and Xu Kong ranked eighth and ninth with 10 points respectively.

After that, Baihua, which had just been swept by Xingxin, ranked 8th with 10 points.

After Baihua, it is Tyranny, which was swept by Xingxin in the last round and ranked 7th with 11 points.

7 and Tyranny both have 12 points, but the alphabetical order puts them in th place.

After 301, it’s the league’s major mid- and low-level teams. After two rounds, no one has upset and rushed into the upper half; they all stay at the back obediently.

Saturday is the game day, and on Sunday you can see various discussions about Saturday's games on the major Honor portal forums, but most of them are amateur.

A truly professional review will usually take a day to digest the game.

The eSports House, which is regarded as the most authoritative in the circle, will begin to provide detailed reports and comments in the eSports Weekly published on Mondays.

On Monday, Chen Guo naturally couldn't wait to buy an e-sports weekly newspaper. Seeing the praise for Xingxin in it, Chen Guo felt very happy.

What Chen Guo likes most is the column on E-Sports Home that gives brief scores and comments to each player in hot competitions.

In the second round, although the TV broadcast was the match between Thunder and Void, judging from the match situation, there was no doubt that Happy and Baihua were the real hot spots.

Chen Guo quickly flipped to this column and saw that it was indeed the review of Happy and Baihua.

The first individual match, Ye Xiu versus Zeng Xinran.

Ye Xiu scored 5 points and Zeng Xinran scored 4 points.

The brief review reads: It was a typical match between a great player and a newcomer, there were no surprises. Great player Ye Xiu won the match very steadily, but he couldn't play very heroically without the support of another expert, so I'll give him 5 points; newcomer Zeng Xinran tried hard, but still lost the match very normally. Given that the loser can't get a higher score than the winner, I'll give him points as an encouragement to the newcomer.

After Ye Xiu and Zeng Xinran, it was the one-on-one duel between Baozi and Zhang Wei.

Bao Rongxing, 10 points, Zhang Wei, minus 5 points.

Yes, this column is sometimes so unreliable. The score is usually between 0 and 10 points, but here Zhang Wei was given a negative 5 points, which shows how dissatisfied they are with Zhang Wei's performance.

The brief review reads: No one could tell what the new player Bao Rongxing's game plan was, but judging by the results, he undoubtedly played perfectly in the first half, and in the second half he calculated that he could win by steadily exchanging blood, so he stopped playing randomly, which can be considered a steady performance, so there is nothing wrong with giving him a full score; in contrast, Zhang Wei, as an old player, was inexplicably beaten by a newcomer in the first half, and later on he even lost to the opponent in calculation ability, so I don't think it's unfair to give him minus 5 points.

The sarcasm was so strong that Chen Guo couldn't help laughing out loud and glanced at the commentator who gave the brief review.

It turned out to be Zuo Chenrui, a commentator known for his sarcastic style. His comments have always been highly subjective, which is inconsistent with the fair and authoritative nature of Esports Home.

The only place where Zuo Chenrui can appear is in the column of ratings and reviews, which is clearly marked as not representing the views of this newspaper.

However, his style is unexpectedly very popular and his popularity is quite high.

After Baozi and Zhang Wei, it was Su Mucheng and Zou Yuan.

There wasn't much to praise about the match between the two. Su Mucheng was stronger, so she won, that's all.

Of course, given Zuo Chenrui's style, it is impossible for him to just give such a simple review.

So after giving Su Mucheng's performance a full score of 10, he gave Su Mucheng's beauty 10000 points, and then Zou Yuan's performance was 5 points, and his beauty... he gave a direct bad review.

After that, it’s the ring competition.

Xingxin's Tang Rou, as a rookie, beat Zhou Guangyi, Yu Feng, and Zhu Xiaoping one after another, completing a one-on-three match. There is nothing much to say, 10 points out of 10000 need no explanation! Her beauty, points, also needs no explanation.

When it comes to Baihua's three people, it is a good time for Zuo Chenrui to show his skills.

Zhou Guangyi was beaten head-on by a rookie and died in a very ugly way. There is nothing much to say. He scored minus 5 points.

Yu Feng, as an All-Star player, was indeed qualified to look down on a rookie. However, even though Zhou Guangyi had already set a wrong example for him, he was still beaten by the rookie in the same way as Zhou Guangyi, with a minus of 10 points, no explanation needed.

Zhu Xiaoping, when his two teammates were beaten one after another, his mentality might have been affected to some extent, so it seemed understandable that he was beaten. And it was precisely because of his failure that we contributed a wonderful and perfect one-on-three game, so I will give him 3 points.

In the final team competition, Baihua and his teammates undoubtedly got a lot of low scores or even negative scores.

Luo Ji, who successfully played one-on-four and laid the foundation for the team's victory, got the only full score in the team competition.

As for the other members of Xingxin, it was just a group fight. I could do it too. Zuo Chenrui only gave them a score of 5 or 6 in the end.

"What are you so happy about?" As soon as Luo Ji and the others came in from the door, they saw Chen Guo standing there laughing foolishly.

Chen Guo handed the newspaper to everyone. It was the E-Sports Weekly. Everyone was familiar with it and knew that there weren't many jokes to read in it. The most likely one was that column.

It was as expected after reading it once, and when looking at the author, it was also completely within everyone's expectations. "Who is this guy slandering again?" Fang Rui picked up the newspaper first.

"It definitely won't be us, we are the winners." Luo Ji said with a smile.

“Hehe…that’s right.” Fang Rui did not play in the second round, so there would definitely be no comments from him, but he still watched it with great interest.

"Let me see what he will say about Xiao Tang." Fang Rui looked down directly. "Tsk tsk, full marks, no explanation needed, Xiao Tang has made great progress."

"He was the first to appear in the ring and perfectly challenged three opponents at the same time. How else does he need to explain?" Luo Ji said with a smile.

"That's right." Fang Rui thought about it and nodded in agreement.

"Zuo Chenrui's comments are quite good. Let's review this game based on his comments." Ye Xiu said.

"Okay." Luo Ji and others responded.

However, in this match, everyone on Xingxin played quite well and made very few mistakes, so the review was conducted very quickly, taking just over an hour.

And this is because Ye Xiu used Baihua as a negative example to tell the newcomers of Xingxin which mistakes they should not make.

After the review, training resumed as usual.

The life of a professional player is boring and repetitive, doing roughly the same thing every day.

The passion and burning energy must be released on Saturday night.

A week passed quickly and the third round of the league arrived.

With the preparation of the first two rounds, the third round seemed much more lively.

Even though Xingxin won both rounds and is now the most popular team, they are not destined to be the protagonists of this round.

Because in this round, there was a peak showdown, even Xingxin could not steal people's attention from this game.

In the third round of the regular season of the tenth season of the Glory Professional League, the Samsara team faced the Tyranny team at home.

The collision between last season's champion team and runner-up team was like a collision between Mars and the Earth, which occurred in the third round. How could the other games in this round compare with this one?

In the opening match of the tenth season, Tyranny was swept by Happy 10-0.

When people marvel at Xingxin's strength, they can't help but question whether several veteran players of Tyranny are really old.

In other words, maybe after winning the championship last season, they lost their fighting spirit.

All of this requires everyone to find the truth in subsequent games.

Now in the third round, Tyranny will face Samsara, their rival for the championship last season. There cannot be a better opportunity than this.

If Tyranny can win, it will undoubtedly shatter those rumors on the Internet.

But once they lose, the rumors will surely intensify.

For various reasons, the attention to this game has reached an unprecedented level.

Even the professional players themselves, many people are watching this game.

Before the third round of matches, in the preparation room of the Xingxin team, Luo Ji was fiddling with his mobile phone, obviously wanting to watch the match between Samsara and Tyranny during the break.

"I say, can you please pay attention to the impact? Can't you wait until the game is over before watching?" Ye Xiu said helplessly.

"But I feel like I have no chance to play in this game at all. It has no impact at all." Luo Ji said indifferently.

Xingxin's opponent in this game is Team Zhaohua, which is considered one of the lower-level teams in the league.

Because Wei Chen complained after the last game that he didn't have a chance to show up in the two rounds, Luo Ji put himself in the sixth man position in this round and let Wei Chen start.

As for the ring match, he believed that Tang Rou and Fang Rui should be able to handle it, and it would not be his turn as the defending general to take the stage.

"There are no weak teams in the alliance. Your attitude is wrong." Ye Xiu said seriously.

"Yes, but I believe Xingxin is stronger." Luo Ji's expression also became serious. "So whoever loses this game because of underestimating the opponent, causing me to play, will have to double the training for the next month."

When Luo Ji said this, his eyes glanced back and forth at Tang Rou and the others with ill intent.

All of a sudden, a few people who originally didn't take Zhao Hua seriously felt a tightness in their hearts.

Xingxin has so many new players that the training intensity is already scary. If it were to be doubled, no one would even dare to think about it.

In the third round of the league, the Xingxin team challenged the Zhaohua team away.

For the individual competition, the lineup is still the same as in the previous round.

As a result, Xingxin won all three games and entered the ring match with a 3-0 advantage.

At this time, the Xingxin fans who came with the team to watch the game were already shouting "10 to 0!" in the stadium.

Tang Rou was still the starting player in the ring match, and under the threat of double training if Luo Ji didn't play well.

Although she had no motivation because her opponent was too ordinary, Tang Rou played with great spirit and finally managed to complete a one-on-two fight before falling.

However, this one-on-two victory, which was originally a very good result, did not win much applause. It was obvious that the morale of Xingxin fans was also raised.

The remaining contestant from Zhaohua was naturally used by Fang Rui as a background to enhance his glorious and positive image.

The team competition still used the same lineup as the previous round, except that Luo Ji and Wei Chen swapped their positions.

Old Wei, who had finally gotten a chance to play, performed very hard. In the end, the battle ended without Luo Ji's turn to play.

The game ended. Although the scene was not as exciting as last time, Xingxin still won a score of 10 to 0 again.

The post-match press conference was attended by Ye Xiu, Wei Chen, and Tang Rou.

Originally, the reporters thought that this interview was meaningless and was just a formality. After all, wasn't it natural for Xingxin to beat a weak team like Zhaohua 10-0?

As a result, at the reception, even though no one accused anyone, Tang Rou stood up and apologized.

"At the end of the last game, I said that I would try to get another one-on-three match, but my performance in this game was not good. I feel very sorry for this," said Tang Rou.

"You still can't perform well when you're one against two, is this Versailles?" The reporters didn't say anything, but they all had the same thought in their minds.

(End of this chapter)