Perhaps some friends will be a little surprised to see the title: why such a classic "milk method" joke has not heard the wind at all.
In fact, the reason is very simple, it happened in the old "dead game" of "StarCraft 2".
But you can flip through the old accounts and help you recall the memories of this competition: in 2015, South Korea's innovation, known as Lü Bu, fell behind French youngster Sailorlord 0:4 in the National Cup (the format was grab 5).
Even if the disadvantage is so huge, our Xudong Laoxian is still full of confidence in Lü Bu, saying that it is impossible to be 5:0 - but the fifth game ended in Lü Bu's repeated sending of troops (even against the air defense Viking airdrop), And Huang Xudong also changed the name of Weibo to "poisonous milk color".
This name even caught Yang Mi's fish.
And this time the French performed the "speed of light surrender" competition, which made Lü Bu turn over the National Cup.
The first thing to know is that as a "dead game", the loss of spectators and players has led to the continuous shrinking of interstellar 2 events in recent years, and almost most of the events need to rely on players to generate electricity with love to maintain. The same is true of this World Cup.
In January this year, french game media O'Gaming announced the restart of the Interstellar 2 Nations Cup, bearing in mind that due to the epidemic and other factors, the tournament has been suspended for two years. The tournament's prize money also relies on crowdfunding from players, which is a fairly hard-won event for players and players.
European spectators who have not had the opportunity to watch the game offline for a long time have been rubbing their fists, having money to pay, and no money to bite their teeth and pay. Under the premise that the amount raised was 40,000 euros, the final amount raised exceeded 50,000 euros.
At this point, everything is smooth sailing. Two years after the suspension of the National Cup, spectators on the other side of the ocean want to see a wonderful interstellar two game, and those who participated in crowdfunding can't wait to go offline to watch the game, because the officially promised offline competition starts from the final four, when they can cash in on their tickets.
Just when the final four places were announced, an accident occurred.
This turning point, which is quite effective in the program, also needs to be explained in conjunction with the quarterfinals and the competition system. This edition of the Nations Cup began in the round of 16, and the competition was all BO7. The specific process is "1v1, 1v1, 2v2", so after two rounds plus a blind pick of heads-ups, enough for 7 rounds.
In the match between the Chinese team and the Mexican team, the two sides fought a 1:1 draw, and the Chinese team successfully flipped the game to win a point of 2V2, and then took advantage of the victory to chase, and won the next two 1v1 games in succession, advancing to the final four with a score of 4:1.
This also broke the previous best result of the Chinese team in the National Cup (quarterfinals).
It should be noted that due to O'Gaming's promise to the audience, the final four will be held after the offline competition, the Chinese team due to the epidemic prevention and control and the cost of round-trip, can not go to France to participate in the offline competition (even if you win the championship, the 10,000 euros of prize money may not be enough for the round-trip fee), not to mention the follow-up isolation and other links.
The Chinese team player "Li Peinan time" also took the initiative to reveal after the game: We have determined that the French are very happy, they said that the final four can play online.
This is undoubtedly a good news for domestic audiences, after all, if the mandatory offline competition is required, it means that the Chinese team's trip to the National Cup will end here. After the online competition was allowed, countless spectators have begun to imagine the scene of the Chinese team winning the National Cup.
But in the early hours of the morning, a microblog of time directly shattered this beautiful fantasy.
In a word: if you want to play offline, you can't come, then send a prize money (1000 euros) for the top 4 competition.
The Frenchman's wave of reversals made many domestic spectators say that they were completely unacceptable, and Cyan, another Chinese player in the National Cup, also replied in the morning.
At this point, it seems that it is only the Frenchman's "words without faith", don't panic, the real program effect needs to be combined with another quarter-final match in addition to the Sino-Mexican war.
Time also mentioned in the interview that the Frenchman at that time was quite happy and agreed to the request for an online match - the french were still "happy" because the match between the French team and the "peace team" (Russia, why not use the name of the country I think everyone understands) has not officially begun.
For foreign audiences, China's ability to reach the final four is a big upset, while on the other hand, before the showdown between France and Russia began, the outside world was almost one-sidedly optimistic about the French team. With the top player Clem sitting, the Russian team is completely free of well-known players. However, the final result of the game was that france lost in doubles and blind picks in doubles and blind picks with a 3:2 lead, and lost to Russia 3:4.
France's Clem played GG
"We allow online racing!"
(The French team was dried up).
"You have to play offline!"
As soon as this provision is issued, it means that both the Chinese team and the Russian team will miss the final four, and the French organizer O'gaming has also made a statement, announcing that it will "resurrect" from the top eight teams and replace the Chinese and Russian teams to participate in the final four.
If due to the epidemic prevention and control regulations and the cost of back and forth, the offline competition can be called a "dead hole" for the Chinese team, then the Frenchman's reversal will completely kill the Russian team. You know, although due to the "Russo-Ukrainian War", Russian brothers going to many European countries will be affected, but the Russian team can actually go to Turkey to transit, and then go to France to participate in the offline competition.
However, because the organizers allowed the online competition in advance, the two Russian players did not consider the issue of visas at all. Now that it has suddenly changed, it is too late to get a visa.
Whatever the organizers' reasons, the matter seems very clear to the outside world: the French can't afford to play.
Because the matter is very simple, after the Chinese team reaches the final four, it will inevitably meet with the Russian or French team, and the French team thinks that the victory is in hand, and it is naturally happy for the Chinese team to withstand the 150ping delay and play with itself.
But after all, it is calculated that he will overturn in front of Russia.
Of course, there are also viewers who speak for the organizer O'Gaming, believing that the reason for the mandatory offline competition is mainly to consider the "gold lord" audiences who participate in crowdfunding and will go offline to watch the final four. But for such reasons, it is clear that the circle does not return to the French's wave of rebellious operations.
Dutch players, Harshem, were the first to take a stand: they would not accept the invitation of the organizers (the so-called "resurrection"), because the integrity of the game has been destroyed, but he will not stop the other teams.
Harstem's post was also echoed below:
O'gaming put itself in a lose-lose situation. They seemed to promise the teams that they could play online, but then realized that it was too late for them to explicitly accept crowdfunding to host offline events. So either break the promise to the participating teams or break the promise of the person who gave you the money.
The Chinese and Russian teams are unfortunate, and coincidentally, the French team may benefit from this situation and certainly may not make the situation better.
O'gaming should be clear from the outset with the team that it needs to compete offline. If players from any country can't guarantee this, then they shouldn't have been allowed to compete in the first place, and perhaps be placed in an exhibition tournament or some other place where they still have the opportunity to compete.
Sloppy-Donkey：
As someone who contributes to the National Cup crowdfunding: I'd rather see Russian and Chinese teams play online than they be disqualified. This undermines the integrity of the game, renders the winner meaningless, and disqualified the players who came in by strength because of budget problems, which goes against the competitive sportsmanship of the strongest contestants.
In fact, not only could not accept such an arrangement, but even the French audience fired cannons, and the comment area pushed by the official of the National Cup was completely fallen.
Huang Ge directly said that according to the normal top four people to hold an online invitational tournament, as for the prize money is arranged to 8001 euros, which is 1 euro higher than the 8000 euros of the top four prize money of the national cup.
At this point, O'Gaming, as the organizer, has obviously fallen into a dilemma: the Chinese and Russian players who have been forcibly removed from the quota and the audience are naturally unwilling and want to hold a resurrection match? The Dutch players also showed their attitude not to eat this set, and even friendly troops in the comments section opened fire.
But don't panic, the organizers are the French, and they solve the problem in their own way: surrender.
Thank you very much for your support of the competition, and we will do our best to bring a fair esports game to all spectators.
Unfortunately, due to the situation in Russia and Ukraine and China's complex epidemic control measures, we were unable to bring Rattata and Chinese players to the stage of the Paris offline competition.
In order to avoid unfairness in the offline and online players' matches, we initially decided to disqualify the Peace Team (Russia) and the Chinese team, but in the meantime we heard objections from the player community.
After discussing the issue of online matches with the other two teams in the semi-finals, we decided to allow those who could not play offline to continue the subsequent matches in an online format.
In addition to that, we are pleased to announce that Skillous may come offline to represent The Peace Team (i.e. Russia) in the final tournament.
Esports is a modern entertainment program today, and we're excited to get players to fight for their honor and their country, no matter where they are.
See you on July 16 and witness Poland, the United States, Peace (Russia) and China fighting for the title of the strongest nation in StarCraft 2!
The whole process of "surrender" was only more than a day, and the organizers of the National Cup told us with practical actions that the milk joke that "no one can occupy Paris before france surrenders" is likely to be a fact.
Huang Xudong, who was shaking his fists, also suddenly lost his usefulness.
Of course, in terms of results, the change of the organizers means that the players of China and Russia still have a game to play, and the audience who watched the game was also quite satisfied. However, what about the offline audiences who are treated as "monkey tricks"?
Due to the organizers' failure to coordinate well before the game, and the compromise made by the pressure of public opinion, the desire of these spectators to watch the offline match is obviously disappointed, or they can only watch a less "offline" offline game (after all, neither China nor Russia will go to the scene if it enters the final).
After this loss of trust to the audience, will the crowdfunding of similar events go so smoothly? I think it should be difficult.