A sad Asian Games day

One

"What champion are you?"

As a regular viewer of League of Legends esports competitions for eleven years, I generally do not actively attack a team's performance unless their performance attacks me first.

For example, today's Asian Games LOL event semifinals.

The Chinese team, which we had high hopes for (well, not yet), lost 2-0 to their arch-rival South Korea and missed the final.

Reading as regret, writing "swept away". The loss in this game is too ugly, and its ugliness may be comparable to the explosion of Gojo Gojo in "Spell Return".

In a way, these two games managed to give me a sense of disillusionment.

That kind of vigorous all year round, gongs and drums preaching the sound of earthquakes, all kinds of hard work can be seen with the naked eye, and in the end "That's it?" "That sense of disillusionment with a hasty ending.

Yes, in order to open the way for the Asian Games training, this year's entire summer competition schedule seems very "anxious". From the regular season to the finals, the daily showdown schedule is full of busy, which is the largest in the past; The final bubble match was played early in early August, adding a month to the gap for the entire League of Legends season.

It's all for the Asian Games competition.

The big war is imminent, CCTV also gave a lot of cards, real-time game broadcast, and invited former professional players to explain together. From top to bottom, the level of importance given to this competition seems to be unprecedented.

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However, after a month of closed training, we saw ragged ban&picks, stupid online operations, and extremely passive operations. And, of course, a mess of five players.

In the first game, facing the electric knife demon Ji, the Korean team pulled out a lineup with ultra-long-distance group opening and rapid support capabilities AD (Aoun + Wei + Kasha). After losing a wave of small groups, they had the advantage throughout the process, and all kinds of grabbing orders to suppress resources finally lost regretfully.

In the second game, the Chinese team hardened the double shooter lineup against the weapon master who restrained the shooter. At one point, the head of the early stage was 4 to 0. Just when I thought everything was going to go according to plan, and then I won and entered the familiar tiebreaker, a wave of disjointed dragons broke my eyes.

Then came the familiar feeling of powerlessness.

Go out with a line, be blocked by a big move, die.

Pursuit, blocked roads, death.

The economic gap gradually widened, the shortcomings of the lineup became more and more obvious, and the morale of the Chinese team gradually depressed - in the end, a wave of face-to-face breakthroughs from Chen Zebin (bin) crocodile on the top order brought the whole game to an end, contributing to this wonderful "perfect" curtain call.

To be honest, many spectators did not have much hope for "winning the championship" because of the personnel arrangement before the game. The first is that the upper single 369 and AD position Jackeylove withdrew from the Asian Games training due to "physical reasons". The biggest controversy is that Tano and Shono are two players who have not been with the No. 4 seeds today, Jiejie and Meiko.

Once jiejie and meiko were the top in the world, but this year... (Image source network)

For me, these two games are like a battle of trapped beasts.

Being in a cage, the initiative to attack is weak, if attacked, you can only dodge in a hurry, but in the end you are tortured.

For many LOL's esports viewers, this is a real "first". From the performance event of the last Asian Games in Jakarta, many people watched the black-screened live "radio" and heard the excitement of winning the championship, to this time, the first time as an official event on their doorstep.

After the match, AD player ELK cried.

But the way he cried, he was P in the next second.

In the game, JDG.Knight (left) may be the one who works harder than the less-than-performing elk

All I know is that after these two ugly matches, many LOL players began to envy Honor of Kings next door – yes, just two days ago, the Chinese team won the first gold in esports in the Honor of Kings event.

You can talk about the proportion of global players, say that the game is not performing well in overseas markets, most of them are Chinese people playing these and so on.

But gold is gold. There it is, the golden sheen always greater than all the gossip. In a big way, this is the first gold medal in e-sports in the history of large-scale human sports events.

It doesn't matter how the final of the Asian Games wins or loses. As for the confidence in the LOL event in China, it may not be known until after the end of the S race.

Two

"Buckle 1 resurrection Kejie".

In the live broadcast rooms of the individual Go event finals of the Asian Games in the afternoon, the barrage brushed "1" one after another. I hope to save Ke Jie, who is on the verge of desperate and backward thirty years,

This is not the first time Go has appeared on the Asian Games stage. But for "some" reason, this Go final seems to have received more attention on the Internet than any previous edition.

Turn the time back to morning. Just when the League of Legends Chinese team was defeated, Ke Jie was completely suppressing the Japanese chess player Yiliao in the semifinals, and the momentum of guarding the silver and gold was unstoppable; And Xu Haowei, a provincial player from Baodao Taiwan, was even more upset one after another, first cutting Park Tinghuan and then defeating Shen Zhenzhen, and now against Ke Jie, he is even ahead of the first hand, and has the tendency to win the world's top three chess players.

On the one hand, the eight-crown champion who found himself after being defeated by AI with a broken heart; On one side is the dark horse of the chess world. At this point, everyone has a reason to win.

In recent years, people have seen too many Ke Jie embracing "abstraction" and too few competitive Ke Jie. Under the blessing of memes and traffic such as "talented but immoral", many people forget what unimaginable youthful spirit is hidden under his cynical appearance.

At the Asian Games, Ke Jie seemed to have returned after the retreat.

In the qualifiers, he qualified directly with six straight wins. Among them, facing Lai Junfu, who once defeated himself in the Rotten Ke Cup, he changed his previous chess style and chased and fought all the way regardless of the AI win rate, in order to directly pound the "big dragon", and even his eyes were a little more murderous. In the semifinals against Yiliao, he had the upper hand, and won all the way with a flat push without much suspense.

But in the final, he started to the brink of desperation.

Maybe these old players are already overwhelmed, or maybe the state of the new generation of "Xu Xian" exceeds everyone's expectations. Ke Jie's "invincible hand within a hundred moves" white chess also fell behind greatly at the beginning, directly opening a gap of nearly thirty goals.

Most people who watch Go live may not understand the black, black and white on this criss-cross, nor can they understand the changing situation. What they can understand may just be the display number of the AI predicting the winning rate on the right side of the live broadcast room in a light or slow drop.

And when I entered the live broadcast room, the number that represented Ke's win rate was "2.6%"

In the live broadcast room of Ke Jie's virtual anchor "Ice Cream", the sounds of "sending" and "finished" were endless, and then the ice cream played "Zood" and "I got somke" with a thick Ding Zhen voice, and everyone buckled "1" one after another.

The miracle seems to have really happened, and the tag of "Ke Jie reversal" has begun to climb the hot search on Weibo.

From nearly thirty to three behind, Shiroko's win rate went all the way up, from 2.8% to 35% to 60%, and then directly climbed 90%. "Ke Jie's situation is not good→ Ke Jie fainted frequently→ Ke Jie fell into a bitter battle→ Ke Jie was dying→ Ke Jie completely collapsed→ Ke Jie's defeat has been decided→ Ke Jie gives a winning speech" The script walked up again.

Time is in Kejie, advantage is in Kejie. But Xu Xian is also biting the gap and constantly chasing back. When the two sides run out of seconds, Ke Jie still has an advantage close to 1 purpose.

Can he hold it?

On the one hundred and eighty hand, Ke Jie lost his advantage. The AI's prediction of the winning rate was instantly reversed, and the winning rate returned to June Fourth in the audience's puzzled eyes.

Ke Jie is four.

This is the end of the day. Several of Ke Jie's mistakes were infinitely magnified, and Xu Xian's end was as stable as Mount Tai.

One step, two steps. One eye, two eyes, three eyes... 85%，60%，45%，20%，50%。 It returned to 20% after a short period of light return. And Baizi's disadvantage has widened all the way, 10%, 2%, 0.1% ...

Until the end, there is no more child to fall.

In the song with a thick Ding Zhen voice in the live broadcast room, Ke Jie lost the game.

The ups and downs of this game are too big, there are too many twists, contradictory words appear on the hot search, and the little friends around can't stop discussing. And I just stared at the screen, not knowing where to write.

The myth of Ke Jie's "Terran Emperor" "living out the second life" seems to have been temporarily interrupted again.

epilogue

It was getting dark.

I didn't know how to describe the ups and downs of my mood on this day. Not only because of the peak turn of the day, but also because of the complicated mood of going home after the holiday and three trains to go home.

From LOL's high blood pressure to watching Shin Zhen have fun in the Go Final Four; From despair that trailed nearly 30 in the final to Jedi overturning, and then to being turned over at the end. My ECG was like Ke Jie's winning percentage in the last game, rising and falling up and down and falling behind, and finally temporarily returning to the bottom with an exclamation.

At the time of writing, China had won 84 gold medals, more than four times more than second-placed South Korea (20). I know that in sports such as League of Legends and Go, even if we lose the gold medal, our huge advantage in the medal table will still not be shaken. These regrettable silver and bronze medals are still in the medal table and will still be part of this honor for this country.

But in retrospect, its impact on the entire circle seems more difficult to quantify.

It's hard to visualize how excited or frustrated the thousands of people on the screen are witnessing, or how many people are happy and how many are sad. Will the favorite players collapse, will the confidence of investment in the circle be affected, and where will the entire industry go...

And leave the momentary joys and sorrows behind. After closing your eyes and sleeping, tomorrow will be a busy day, and many people will once again step into the rush on the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival National Day, go to distant places or return to their hometowns.

Years later, when we look back at the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games, we may find that this is indeed a time of infinite historical significance.