FOG [e-sport]

Chapter 86

After a few days, Yu Sui had a chat with Zhou Huo, Old Qiao and Puppy in private. He gave them the heads up that he would appearing in Shi Luo’s dorm from time to time. He asked everyone to pretend not to have seen him whenever they run into him; don’t make a big fuss and just pretend that nothing was happening.

Zhou Huo had been mentally prepared for a long time. He expressed how very happy he was to hear that. Puppy was totally indifferent. After confirming that Yu Sui wouldn’t be telling Chen Huo, he was very pleased.

Old Qiao didn’t care either. He could be considered as someone who had watched Yu Sui grow up. He was very satisfied with Yu Sui getting together with a top striker like Shi Luo. He just reminded Yu Sui to pay attention to his work and rest and to not to let it affect his subsequent training.

“There’s only one game left in the regular season. Don’t drop the ball. Did you see the points? Our final match against DDF today actually has a big impact.”

Their last regular season match was a home game. After an entire regular season, even iron-willed people would feel a decrease in their fighting spirit, especially when their last opponent was going to be a weak team with DDF. Old Qiao was worried that they wouldn’t perform well because they weren’t fired up enough. He reminded them, “Saint also played their last regular season game yesterday. Their points for this season has already been set.”

Shi Luo had watched the live broadcast of Saint’s last regular season game. He said, “They have the same overall points as us. Only one loss against NSN. If nothing unexpected happens…it will come down to the individual round points.”

According to league regulations, the playoff rankings were determined according to the overall points. NSN lost a few games before and was no longer in contention for first place. The team ranked in first place in the regular season would either be Saint or Free.

If Free, as expected, wins against DDF today, their overall points will be equal to Saint’s. In that kind of situation, in order to determine the rankings, the league will have to compare the game points of the two teams; they will have to add up the results of all the best of three matches of both teams. Whichever of the two teams lost the least number of rounds will be ranked first for the regular season.

“Being ranked no. 1 in the regular season is not considered an honor, but it is very beneficial for the subsequent playoffs. The playoffs are divided into 2 groups with first, fourth, fifth and eighth in group 1 and second, third, sixth and seventh in group 2. If we rank second, there’s a high probability that we’ll be going against NSN in the semi-final knockout round.” Old Qiao exchanged a loaded look with everyone, “NSN, Shi Luo’s old club, the club that took in our team members when we still hadn’t established our club a few months ago. All of us have a good relationship with Old Gu. None of us wants to play against them in the semi-finals, do we? If we win, it would mean that their dream of entering this year’s World Championships would be broken again and it would be broken by our own hands. If we lose…pah!”

Old Qiao slapped himself in the mouth and continued, “If we get no. 1 in the regular season, we definitely won’t be placed in the same bracket with either NSN or Saint. We won’t have to bear the psychological pressure of who will be eliminated or who will secure their spot before the finals.”

Puppy nodded, “I know the schedule very well. What I want to ask though is if we want to take first place in the regular season, is there any hope in the game points?”

“Yes.” Shi Luo glanced at the record of the two teams and immediately calculated the results. “If we get a 2-0 on today’s last regular season game, first place is ours. Saint has one more 2-1 win than we do.”