Ch72 - Summer Championship

Edited by kat

The next day, everyone directly flew back to S City. The coach and team members went back to the club, while Manager Liu Weizhe went back to school.

After that, Liu Weizhe spent less time at the club again, but he never fell out of contact with Chen Wei.

Occasionally, when someone asked, “What’s the manager been doing recently,” Chen Wei always replied, “He’s busy. Whatever you want to say, I can tell him for you ya~”

Ling Shuyi couldn’t understand no matter how much he thought about it. “Tch, Liu Jie has pale skin, a beautiful appearance, and long legs. If we’re talking about beauty, he has it, and if we’re talking about talent, he has that too. How could he be attracted to a husky like you?”

As a result, before Chen Wei could answer, Chen Xiao patted Ling Shuyi on the shoulder and said earnestly and seriously, “Huskies are more fun.”

“That’s true.” Ling Shuyi thought that he had a point.

The corners of Chen Wei’s lips rose, and he was too lazy to deal with them.

*

Perhaps it was because CLM’s performance in the spring competitions was too brilliant, but the number of applications to the CLM youth training team had almost doubled compared with previous years, and most of them were youths with potential and personality.

However, such “on-the-spot strategists” like Jiang Xinyi were still a holy grail that could only be met by luck.

At the beginning of June, Jiang Xinyi’s college entrance examinations were finally over, and according to his contract, he had to return to the club for training.

This was the first time that he had stepped through the doors of the CLM club. Looking at the modern decoration style, he couldn’t help whistling, “It’s pretty cool ma.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Ling Shuyi rushed to him and hooked an arm around his neck, greeting, “Yo, brooo~ You’re here at last. It’s been so hard waiting for you!”

Jiang Xinyi tched and said, “Didn’t you guys still take the championship without me?”

When he said this, Mo Chen happened to be passing by with a cup of water, and he replied, “It’s no issue for domestic competitions, but we can’t do without you for the international competitions.”

This sentence was undoubtedly a great affirmation to Jiang Xinyi, so he was unable to hide his happiness and grinned.

Mo Chen couldn’t help laughing, and then looked at Ling Shuyi. “Kitty, you take him up to put away his luggage. For his room, the one next to yours is fine.”

“Oh~” Ling Shuyi made an OK gesture.

After Jing Xinyi put away all his luggage, everyone went to have lunch at a restaurant near the club, and then took a little rest before starting intense training.

A new person had joined, so everyone had to make some adjustments to their training plans.

Mo Chen said, “Xiao Xin, you should practice stabilizing the gun first. In the future, you should practice this for at least 2 hours every morning. First use the fixed targets, and then move on to moving targets. Chen Wei, starting tomorrow, you only need to practice solo matches in the afternoon, and Xiao Xin will be with us for the squad matches. You’ll be commanding, do you have a problem with that?”

He looked at Jiang Xinyi when he said this last sentence, and was obviously talking to him.

Jiang Xinyi almost immediately replied with, “No problem”—He had gotten exactly what he had wished for ma!

Chen Wei was stunned for a moment and asked tentatively, “Eh? That is to say, I will only play solo matches during formal competitions in the future?”

“It depends,” Mo Chen replied, “E-sports has always allowed whoever is more skilled to play in competitions. Between you and Xiao Xin, whoever can make the greatest contribution to the squad match will be the one to participate. Do you have a problem with that?”

“No, no, I was just making sure,” Chen Wei said with a smile.

As long as CLM won the championship, he didn’t really care if he played during the competition or not.

Mo Chen was silent for a while before suddenly adding, “If you and Xiao Xin are both strong in solo, then it’d be fine to take Kitty off that too.”

Ling Shuyi: ???

Wen Xi heard this and let out a “pfft” of laughter from the side.

He thought that Ling Shuyi’s constitution was probably poisonous because no matter what the people around him were discussing, they would always end up neatly stabbing him in the end.

In this way, the competition between two people turned into a competition between three. Whether it was Chen Wei, Jiang Xinyi, or Ling Shuyi who had just been innocently dragged in, they all played with 100% of their spirits during the next few days of training.

After the spring games, the most important games were the summer games.

SGH’s summer games started in July and ended in August, almost half of a student’s summer vacation.

Before the summer games began, SGH also held many fragmented competitions, but CLM would not participate as long as neither YEY or MQ did.

One night, a week before the start of the summer competition, Mo Chen came out of the bathroom after taking a bath. When he went downstairs to drink some water, he found that the light in the meeting room was on, and when he went over to have a look, he saw Chen Xiao sitting inside looking up something on his laptop.

Mo Chen was curious so he went over to have a look, and found that he was looking up information on a somewhat well-known foreign team.

Mo Chen couldn’t help laughing and said, “The domestic trials haven’t even begun and you’re already searching for information on the international competition?”

Chen Xiao hissed and looked up, meeting his gaze. “Did you hear about the recent news?”

“What?” Mo Chen asked, while privately thinking, You didn’t say what the news was, so how am I supposed to know whether I know about it or not?

At the same time, his eyes fell on Chen Xiao’s computer screen. He had a webpage open that was titled, “The U.S. teams jointly submitted a petition for a change to the SGH competition system; is SGH’s competition system about to be reformed?”

Mo Chen was stunned for a moment. After realizing what was going on, he directly sat down and squeezed Chen Wei out of the way, taking over his laptop in a domineering fashion. “I didn’t know. When did it happen? Is this information accurate? How did they respond?”

Chen Xiao, who had been squeezed out of the way, had to switch to another chair. Originally, the expression on his face had been quite grim, but seeing Mo Chen so nervous, he couldn’t help laughing and said, “Don’t worry. I’ll help explain it to you.”

“Alright.” Mo Chen resolutely gave up the struggle and released the mouse. He then turned to Chen Xiao, his gaze expressing he should talk fast.

“Here’s the thing,” Chen Xiao said unhurriedly, “During last year’s global games, first place and the runner-up were both from South Korea. After the two American teams returned home, they were flamed badly, so they tossed the blame to the SGH competition system, feeling that the reason they lost was due to the SGH competition system having some problems—I think they were just shifting the blame ah, but maybe they were serious from the very beginning. Anyway, whether they really felt that way or were just acting, it blew up into a big public discussion, and all the famous teams over there had to stand up and say something about it. Finally, around March of this year, they wrote that ‘Petition for a Change to the SGH Competition System’ and jointly submitted it to the SGH officials.”

“And then?” Mo Chen frowned slightly. What he wanted to hear the most was actually what change they had proposed, after thinking about it, he didn’t interrupt Chen Xiao’s narrative.

Chen Xiao continued, “At present, there is no official response, but traces of what was in the petition can be found online. There were two main points: one was separating the competition system. That is, to completely separate the solo matches, duo matches, and squad matches, and calculate their points separately instead of calculating the overall points based on each category. The other was a shift in the focus for how to accumulate points. The U.S. teams are trying to weaken the impact of the ranking points on the total score, emphasizing kill points instead.”

The second requirement was obviously more favorable to the United States.

There were several famous teams in the United States. They were all very aggressive and were keen on taking kills, but they seldom made it to the finals.

Chen Xiao said, “If this petition is really approved…”

Mo Chen replied, “It’s bad for a player like Chen Wei.”

Chen Xiao replied, “Yes.”

Chen Xiao had chimed in, and after a moment’s silence, he added, “But it’s very good for you.”

Once the competition system was separated, it meant that if a player was strong enough, they could win the championship even if they weren’t attached to a strong team.

It was more about fighting for yourself than fighting for the team.

This was undoubtedly good news for players like Mo Chen.

Mo Chen and Chen Xiao were both silent for a while, and then Mo Chen asked, “How likely do you think it is that it will pass?”

Chen Xiao replied, “At present, six countries have explicitly expressed their support for the petition, and the only country that opposes it is South Korea.”

Mo Chen pursed his lower lip and asked, “Will it affect the domestic trials?”

Chen Xiao replied, “I don’t know. It depends on when the game officials respond.”

“Alright, I understand,” Mo Chen said, then got up to leave, giving the right to use the computer back to Chen Xiao. “At the very least, the competition system will not change for the summer games, right?”

Chen Xiao let out an “en.”

Mo Chen continued, “Then what we need to do now is just play well in the summer games, and not consider anything else.”

Chen Xiao laughed and said, “Yes. You guys can just play well during the competition. As for these messy matters, leave it to me and A-Zhe to follow up on them ba!”

*

Soon, a week had passed, and the summer games arrived as scheduled.

Their long training had finally come to an end, and the next step was to test out the results of their training.

In fact, before the summer games, the major teams had privately organized several training matches. However, since everyone, including CLM, had hidden part of their strength, it was impossible to predict how the summer games would end.

The team that most of the teams were targeting was undoubtedly CLM that had won the championship in the spring match, but if they had to say who they feared most for the summer competition, it wasn’t Mo Chen or Wen Xi, but Jiang Xinyi.

——Both YEY and MQ could tell that Jiang Xinyi was an unpolished newbie during the Spring Championship, but even then, he had pressured the other teams a great deal.

Now, after months of training, who knew how much he had grown.

In fact, after the Spring Championship, Lighting had tried to dig up and poach Jiang Xinyi.

He spent a lot of effort getting Jiang Xinyi’s contact information with the help of an ace student he knew. However, the results of getting into contact with him were difficult for him to divulge.

Their conversation was as follows:

Lightning said, “Hello? Is this Jiang Xinyi?”

Jiang Xinyi replied, “En, you are?”

Lightning said, “I’m the team captain of YEY, Lightning! I’d like to ask if, with CLM, you’ve already…”

Before he could even say, “signed a contract,” Jiang Xinyi interrupted him and said, “How do you know my cellphone number?”

Lightning replied, “Oh, my friend told me…”

Jiang Xinyi interrupted him again and said, “Bye.”

Lightning: ???

After Jiang Xinyi said “bye,” he directly hung up the phone.

Lightning was completely confused, but didn’t give up and called him again. “Why did you hang up my call?”

Jiang Xinyi responded very seriously, “I’m sorry, we’re not from the same world so there’s no need for us to intersect.” After a pause, without waiting for Lightning to reply, he immediately asked, “Is your friend a man or a woman?”

Lightning replied, “A man.”

After he spit out those two words, Jiang Xinyi not only hung up his call, but directly blacklisted him.

Lightning looked at the screen of his cellphone for a long time, before returning to his senses with great effort—That boy had said that they weren’t from the same world. Was he hating on his low IQ?!

“Shit! What kind of people are these calamitous loathsome men?!” He could not help but complain about it.

Hearing his words, his teammates immediately laughed and said, “You already said they’re a bunch of calamitous loathsome men, so aren’t you already clear on what kind of people they are?”

Lightning: ….

You’re right. I can’t refute it at all.

On MQ’s side, who knew if they couldn’t figure out Jiang Xinyi’s cellphone number or if they knew he couldn’t be poached, but apparently no measures were taken.

It was fortunate for them. Otherwise, they would have definitely run into a wall.

After all, Jiang Xinyin had already signed a contract with CLM. Unless they were willing to help Jiang Xinyin pay the damages for breaking the contract and offer better benefits, they could never poach this person.

And as everyone knew, MQ’s benefits had never been that great.

In short, Jiang Xinyi was certain to play in the Summer Championship as part of CLM, but they didn’t know how much he could improve CLM’s combat power after joining.

This answer would be revealed immediately.

“Hello, everyone. I’m Caster A-Yi.”

“And I’m Caster Bunny Ji~”

“Welcome to the 17th SGH Summer Championship! The first game is about to start. Are you guys ready?”

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Juurensha: Kind of a filler chapter honestly, but hahaha Huskies are more fun.

kat: lolol poor Lightning, him and Ling Shuyi have bad luck with the members of CLM

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