League: I really didn't tank!

Chapter 456 Another shutout!

[What a ruthless move! A clean kill!]

[Support the righteous massacre!]

No wonder the Japanese region has struggled to even reach the top 16 for so many years; their skill level is just too low.

There's nothing we can do about it; they simply don't play this game.

[With these two matches won, shouldn't first place in the qualifiers be secured?]

[It's definitely a sure thing, unless we lose to Mongolia, which is pretty much guaranteed!]

Seeing their team perform so well on the first day of the qualifiers, everyone on the Anti-Fighting Bar was naturally extremely excited.

For China, the pursuit has never been about qualifying, but about qualifying fairly and squarely, and qualifying with our heads held high!

The results of the first day of the competition were very satisfying for the audience!

One game was a losing battle all night, but a final team fight wiped them out; the other was a complete stomp.

It was very precise and also dealt a blow to the mentality of both sides' opponents.

The competition will obviously be much easier from now on.

On June 2, the Chinese team took to the stage again to face Macao and HK.

There's not much to say about this kind of competition. These two places are too small, and with such a large population, even if there are a few skilled players, it's difficult for all five of them to be truly outstanding.

An eighteen-minute push, a three-lane rampage, and the timely Baron kill at the twenty-second minute—the Chinese team easily secured two points!

On June 3, we will face Taiwan and Mongolia.

Perhaps the biggest obstacle on the road to victory is the Taiwanese team. After all, the provincial team has the structure of Karsa + Flash Wolves mid, bot and support, which eliminates the problem of team synergy. They also added PK, the top laner from the GREX team, which can be considered to make up for the small weakness in the top lane.

Fortunately, it wasn't a big problem. Although the opposing top laner had been strengthened this time, Chen Dongqing still crushed him with one hand. It made no difference whether he changed players or not.

The game lasted a bit longer, until the 32-minute mark. Chen Dongqing, playing Jarvan IV, and Xiangguo, playing Camille, made a perfect entry and completely destroyed the opposing team!

The last match, against Mongolia, was the easiest. With an invincible spirit, the Chinese team swept through the game in just nineteen minutes and won!

With this, the Asian Games qualifying rounds have concluded. Similar to the StarCraft event, the Chinese team advanced to the main tournament with a perfect 6-0 record.

As for the last two, they are similar to the interstellar project: second place is South Korea, and third place is Taiwan.

With this, the Chinese League of Legends team has temporarily disbanded and can now return home to enjoy the remainder of their holiday.

Tian Ye flew home on the same day the competition ended. He didn't perform on stage during his trip to Hong Kong; he treated it as a tourist shopping trip.

Things in Hong Kong are quite cheap.

However, the members who came from QG were not in a hurry to go home; they planned to wait for their teammates to return together.

After the League of Legends qualifiers concluded, the Dota 2 qualifiers began.

In the game DOTA2, while QG's dominance may not be as terrifying as in LOL, it is definitely top-tier.

After all, they are a team that won multiple major championships in the first half of the year. Although they lost in the SuperMajor finals a few days ago, they are indeed the Chinese team that went the furthest, and other teams can't even come close.

The five-man team for the DOTA2 project consists of:

Position 1: Wang Chunyu (Ame)

Position 2, Lu Yao (Somnus, also known as Maybe)

Zhang Ruida (Faith_bian), position 3

Xu Linsen (FY) at position 4

Lu Chao (Fenrir) at position 5

Chalices, the backup small forward (position 3).

The position 1, position 2, position 4, and the substitute position 3 are all from QG, with only two positions held by members from other teams.

The starting offlaner for position 3 is Faith_bian from Ehome, a very famous player. He was the offlaner for the legendary Wings in 2016 and is currently the most successful member of the old Wings team. He is also the absolute star player for Ehome, so his selection is quite reasonable.

There wasn't much of a choice for the position 5 player, since QG's position 5 player, xNova, is Malaysian, so they could only choose Fenrir from VG.

Actually, this player selection wasn't ideal, since position 5 and position 1 are supposed to play the same lane, but the players for these two positions don't come from the same team, which inevitably leads to some integration issues.

This same problem also occurs in the offlane and position 3/4 lanes. This combination is not a team and also needs time to gel.

When Chen Dongqing visited the DOTA2 training room once, he seemed to hear some internal arguments, which were obviously minor conflicts related to the game.

It's also worth mentioning that East Asia's overall strength in DOTA2 isn't particularly high (because South Korea doesn't play it), so there are only two spots available for the main tournament. The freed-up spot will be given to Southeast Asia.

Team cohesion issues and the reduction in available spots have added a layer of suspense to the qualification process for the DOTA2 tournament.

On the first day of the DOTA2 qualifiers, the rest of the QG players planned to go to Hong Kong for a stroll in the afternoon. Before they set off, Chen Dongqing went to the venue alone to watch the DOTA2 qualifiers.

In the first match of DOTA2, the opponent is Mongolia.

It has to be said that CNDOTA still has considerable dominance in Asia.

After all, DOTA2's main rivals are Europe and America. In Asia, although Mongolia and Southeast Asia have shown some promise, they haven't fully matured yet, and CN's strength is still quite significant.

During the match, Chen Dongqing could see the coordination issues between the Chinese teams, but with their basic game skills, they managed to maintain a firm grip on the game's advantage through their less-than-smooth teamwork and excellent individual skills.

AME once again played Morphling, perfectly combining farming and attacking, and his economy was far ahead of the rest of the game.

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, a victory is practically guaranteed.

But as always, there will be unexpected events.

As the game reached the 35-minute mark, the Chinese team's advantage gradually expanded, forcing the opponent to buy back. Just when the outcome was only a team fight away, a problem arose.

The minion wave pushed up to the enemy's high ground, but the Mongolian team did not give up. Axe King used his Leap Roar to initiate the team fight, and together with Invoker's Skyfire, they executed a very good team fight!

At that moment, Chen Dongqing narrowed his eyes slightly, sensing a glimmer of opportunity.

The Mongolian team's support players are Phoenix and VS, which actually lacks some crowd control to some extent.

If Ame's Morphling uses a wave to cut into the backline at this moment, and then uses the Manta Style's crowd control removal effect to break VS's hammer, he can directly use Dragon's Roar!

But Ame did not do that.

He chose to help his team deal with the Axe King in the front line first.

But once Axe has roared and gained full armor, he's no match for a Morphling.

Before he could even finish dealing with the front line, the Mongolian team's Karl unleashed a super shockwave and ice wall to control the field, and with the Monkey King's screen-filling clones, they managed to help the Mongolian team win this adversity team fight!

Ame ended up surviving alone, and seeing the remaining four members of the Mongolian team, he had no choice but to retreat in one wave.

Chen Dongqing frowned upon seeing this scene.

Given Ame's skill level, it's impossible that he missed this opportune moment.

Cowardice?

The result of their cowardice was that, facing the Mongolian team's advance, the four teammates could only spend gold to buy back, and the advantage they had accumulated for more than 30 minutes was wiped out in one fell swoop.

In the end, the Mongolian team fought harder and harder. They returned to the city to rest and then grouped up to secure the Roshan's Aegis. Relying on the Roshan's Aegis, they launched a final battle at the Chinese team's base where no buybacks were available!

Ultimately, with the economic balance at play, the Chinese team's overall lineup had no advantage and could only watch the game decline.

Sitting in the audience, Chen Dongqing sighed slightly.

The real reason we lost this match was because the player in the center position was too cowardly.

In Chen Dongqing's view, if they had rushed in and taken down the two supports, victory would have been theirs for the taking.

Unfortunately, Ame was undoubtedly affected by the previous reverse wave, and now he played timidly, ultimately losing the game in silence.

In any game, playing as the carry is always like walking a tightrope; veering left or right is not an option.

If you push too hard, it's a losing move that will hand you the game; but if you don't push at all and just stay put, you're bound to fail.

Domestically, countless players cursed and swore when they saw that the first match was lost.

Of course, they didn't blame Ame, but instead blamed Xiaomingbian (position 3 faith_bian) and fy (position 4) who were caught out first.

After all, judging from the results, AME only died once until the end of the game, and his economy was far ahead, making his stats incredibly impressive.

But cowardice is something that cannot be reflected in data.

Seeing this, Chen Dongqing lost interest in watching and got up to walk back to the hotel, where he happened to see the DOTA2 athletes returning from their defeat.

The remaining match is in the afternoon, and the Chinese team has a lunch break to adjust.

Having lost a game they should have won, the team members were visibly downcast, especially Ame, who walked at the back of the group, head down and lost in thought.

Chen Dongqing thought for a moment, then took the initiative to walk over.

As Chen Dongqing walked over, the members of the DOTA2 team all turned their attention to him. Although Xiaomingbian, the offlaner, and Fenrir, the position 5 player, were not from the QG club, they still maintained goodwill towards Ilex, the world-renowned number one esports player.

Chen Dongqing greeted the DOTA2 athletes with a smile, and then pulled Ame aside.

"What's wrong with you today?" Chen Dongqing frowned and asked directly, "Do you think you played well this game?"

Ame paused for two seconds before saying, "This is bad."

Chen Dongqing then asked, "You know you missed an opportunity on the enemy's high ground, right?"

Chen Dongqing was confident that with Ame's skill, it was impossible for him to miss that perfect opportunity to cut behind the enemy.

"I know."

Why didn't that wave go up?

Ame fell silent again.

"That night, you got drunk and asked me to take your place," Chen Dongqing said seriously. "I refused at the time because you still had a long way to go."

"For you, experiencing a defeat before TI is not a bad thing, because it helps you find the problem. You just need to solve the problem and you can become stronger."

"But it turns out I was overthinking it. You have absolutely no idea where your problem lies, and you've even gone down a completely wrong path."

Chen Dongqing sneered, "If this is all you're capable of, then you should just leave. Don't even bother with the Asian Games. I can take over now."

Chen Dongqing's words were quite strong this time, but he believed they were necessary.

In his two lifetimes, he had witnessed far too many regrettable instances of people losing matches due to cowardice.

Losing a match due to insufficient strength is not terrible; what is terrible is having a chance to win but missing that chance.

Watching an opportunity slip by without daring to seize it will haunt you for life, and you might even wake up in a cold sweat years later.

That's why Chen Dongqing is never afraid of taking the opportunity to operate. If he fails, he just loses. It's not like he can't afford to lose.

Therefore, in Chen Dongqing's view, Ame's reverse wave was not a problem at all; it was just an inevitable mistake under Ame's aggressive playing style.

It would be truly pathetic to become hesitant and timid because of such a small mistake.

Ame held Chen Dongqing in high regard. As he listened to Chen Dongqing's words, he pursed his lips tightly and dared not look up.

Chen Dongqing didn't need to say it.

After the match just ended, he kept reflecting and thinking about it.

Should someone be blamed for not meeting C standards?

I don't know about other games, but in DOTA2, if the carry doesn't carry, they'll be blamed.

As the carry, you get the best resources and the best protection. In any situation, the carry has no reason to enjoy twenty minutes of stealth farming time.

This kind of role should lead the team to victory.

What's wrong with giving away a win? Just remember this defeat, and keep killing in the next game!

Cowardice is the most terrifying thing.

Ame looked up and said seriously, "I understand."

As for what she knew, Ame couldn't say for sure.

This is a feeling and a spiritual realization that is difficult to express in words.

Chen Dongqing grinned, hooking his arm around Ame's shoulder. "Good that you understand. Take a good rest at noon, and give them a good beating this afternoon!"

Unfortunately, CNDOTA's opponent in the afternoon was also Japan.

This match will be simple.

After this failure, Ame underwent a small transformation, rediscovering his former spirit and even becoming stronger!

On the other hand, the Japanese team is not as strong as the Mongolian team.

Once the two sides meet, the outcome is already inevitable!

In this game, Ame picked Phantom Assassin, and instead of building Battle Fury for farming, he went straight for Desolator and Black King Bar, choosing a playstyle of sustaining through combat!

This playstyle is for stomping noobs. If you can't get any kills, the lack of development due to not having a Battle Fury will allow Phantom Assassin to remain invisible for the entire game.

But Ame had the confidence to choose, and the battle began.

In just 21 minutes, PA achieved a godlike kill streak thanks to the perfect ganking rhythm provided by the team's support!

In the final team fight, thanks to the perfect initiation by Xiaomingbian in position 3, Ame temporarily observed from the side and found a perfect opportunity to cut in. He directly entered the fray and killed the enemy's two supports with three strikes, and then picked off the remaining three enemies one by one!

Rampage!!!

The blood-red characters trembled in the center of the screen!

In League of Legends, Rampage refers to killing four people without dying yourself.

But in Dota 2, Rampage means a pentakill!

All five members of the Japanese team fell to Phantom Assassin's blade, completing their blessed release.

After this battle, the Chinese team pushed forward in one wave and easily won the game!

The score was 24:0.

Another shutout!

Maybe the pressure of yesterday's hospital visit and the finals exhausted me. I wrote 4,000 words in less than two hours yesterday, but I've only managed 4,000 so far today.

The main task was to compile the detailed outlines for the upcoming events, thoroughly clarifying the timelines for several major competitions in the second half of the year.

This time, the preparations are quite thorough, and the detailed plot outline is enough for me to keep writing until the end.

I'll just be taking a short break today, and I'll try to get back to 7,000 words of updates tomorrow~

(End of this chapter)