FOG [e-sport]

Chapter 70

Puppy, generally the most passive one among them, wanted to eat while doing a game review. Old Qiao was so happy that he crouched on top of the second floor stairs and yelled towards the kitchen, asking the cleaning aunt to bring dinner up.

Old and new grudges against Sacred Sword had piled up and was now completely unresolvable. All these people were now full of interest at the prospect of facing off against Sacred Sword in the World Championships. While waiting for the cleaning aunt to deliver the food, Shi Luo even asked for a pen from Old Qiao. He pulled over a piece of paper and start to compute the probability.

“Don’t try to compute it. I’ve watched the World Championship lot draws these past few years, so I know.” Old Qiao shook his head and said superstitiously, “There’s no need to believe in probability. What you’ve got to believe in is karma. Based on my experience, this kind of lifelong enemies are usually bound to encounter each other in the group stage. Sacred Sword’s the team that has the most bad blood with us. There’s an 80% chance we’ll run into them.”

“According to what you said, we’ve also got old scores to settle with Saint and NSN so we’re also likely to encounter them.” Chen Huo still retained a bit of rationality. He looked at the formula Shi Luo had written and said, making a show of being earnest, “You still have to believe in science… …For the group stage, it’s a double round-robin and two of the four teams will make it through in each group.. If we do wind up in the same group with Sacred Sword and we want to squeeze them out at this stage, we’re gonna have to make sure we win both games of the double round robin to ensure that the Sacred Sword won’t have that high a score. Then we’ll have to hope the other two teams in our group are great and we can work together to step on the Sacred Sword so that they’ll wind up at third place in the group. Uh… that’s gonna be a bit difficult.”

Shi Luo continued to adjust the formula, “It is best to kick them out during the group stage. If we can’t stop them at group stage, we can still hope for the quarter-finals…”

Puppy nodded, “The quarterfinals are fine too. Last season’s champions, going back home as only one of the top eight is plenty humiliating too.”

Chen Huo suddenly remembered something and said, “This year’s World Championship is going to be in Berlin! If we kick them out by the group stage or the quarter-finals, they’re going to have to drop out early and be humiliated in front of their home crowd. Oh, that would be so much fun.”

“Even if we don’t meet in the group stage…” Shi Luo spread the paper in his hand, “Assuming, our two teams and Sacred Sword both qualify for the quarterfinals, based on the competition rules that teams from the same region can’t be grouped in the same half, then here’s a 50% probability that we’re going to run into Sacred Sword.  That’s quite a high probability.”

Chen Huo waved his hand, “Assume a bit more arrogantly! We and the other Chinese team are both going to make it to the semi-finals, then no matter which half, Sacred Sword will run into us! Once we meet, we’ll handle them and send them packing! ”

“So, us and the other team from the Chinese region, will have three chances to intercept Sacred Sword before the finals.” Puppy smiled, “I like this… I hope the draw will be more effective then. Hope we meet early, the group stage or the quarterfinals. It’ll be interesting to send our old club packing that early.”

Zhou Huo was helping the cleaning aunt to bring up the food and he was shocked when he heard this, “What kind of crazy talk is this? Other teams are wishing they’d never run into Sacred Sword but you guys are planning to meet them at group stage. Don’t you guys want to keep on living?”

“Seems like they don’t.” Old Qiao had been infected by their desire for revenge, and said, “It doesn’t matter if we place or not, but the Sacred Sword has to die sooner.”