Chapter 161 (1)
After the drawing had ended, everyone at ZGDX was quite satisfied with the result and prepared to go back to their rooms to go back to sleep.
Xiao Rui was planning to have a meeting with management to decide on the date for the team to fly to San Francisco– –The S6 tournament would begin on September 30th and it was already September 10th. With the invitations from Riot Games, the players had all gotten their visas already. In theory, Xiao Rui was hoping that the players could go to the US early enough so they could get over their jet lag and adjust to the food and climate over there……
The players had no objection to going to the US early. It would be nice to get used to the surroundings before the actual matches while playing some skirmishes with other international teams and even get some sightseeing in at the same time.
After the players expressed their willingness to go early, they were dismissed on the spot. Lu Sicheng followed Tong Yao back to her room. As Tong Yao was getting the bed ready, he stood right behind her. As Tong Yao climbed onto the bed while yawning, he also got in the bed.
Tong Yao had gotten used to it.
Since she had gotten up quite early in the morning, she had no energy to fuss over it. She rested her head on Lu Sicheng’s chest as he laid down on the bed. She moved around to find a more cozy position and yawned…… Lu Sicheng held onto her head: “Don’t move, or we won’t be able to get any sleep.”
“Didn’t you play ranked matches till 4 am this morning, you still have the energy to do anything else?”
Lu Sicheng’s fingers, which were caressing her face, paused: “I still have the energy to do it once. Do you want to try it?”
Tong Yao thought: who would want to try it in broad daylight.
She reached over to pat Lu Sicheng’s face then grabbed her cell phone to check on Tieba to see the discussion on the result of the drawing. She then changed the subject: “The result of the drawing is quite unexpected…… We manage to avoid all three Korean teams– –Though there’s nothing wrong about meeting them in the group match so we can check them out, I still feel quite relieved that we won’t…… People on Tieba seem to all agree that we got the best result from the drawing and CK got the worst of it. Do you think this counts as being afraid of the Koreans?”
“The China region hasn’t done well in the S series finals for so many years and has been called the second region all this time, shivering under the shadow of Korean dominance…… We won the championship at the Mid-Season Invitational during S5 and everyone thought that was the most hopeful year for the China region– –Then two of the three teams came back after the group match. The only team left got eliminated in the quarter-finals…… It’s only natural that people view us as the underdog.”
“Last year if your guys were able to go, maybe you guys could have moved past the quarter-finals.”
“We weren’t as strong last year as we are now, in terms of our ability to execute, make decisions, and champion pools. Thinking back on it now, we were indeed not as good as the Korean region then.” Lu Sicheng wasn’t too interested in analyzing the past: “Besides that’s already in the past, what’s there to think about now.”
Tong Yao on the other hand couldn’t stop herself from thinking about it. Last year ZGDX had gotten a ticket to go to S5, but had to give up because of the incident that happened to Lu Yue and Ming god. Which team was the one that went to S5 instead? …… At the time, Tong Yao wasn’t paying much attention to the professional scene and couldn’t recall which team it was.
As she was thinking about it, her eyelids became heavier and heavier. After browsing on her cell phone for a little longer, she fell asleep in Lu Sicheng’s warm arms.
……
When she woke up again, it was already the afternoon.
Lu Sicheng wasn’t in the bed when she woke up. Tong Yao washed up and went downstairs to find Lu Sicheng playing duos with Old K. When he heard the footsteps, he looked up to see Tong Yao walk down the stairs: “Are you hungry?”
“No.” Tong Yao walked over to sit down next to Lu Sicheng. She watched him finish one match, then turned on her own computer. Her own id was at the Challenger tier which could only play solo. She played a few solo queue matches, when she looked up from her computer, it was already 9 o’clock at night.
She had missed lunch as well as dinner.
Now she was starving.
Tong Yao rubbed her stomach. Before she could say anything, Little Fatty announced loudly that he was hungry– –Since the result of today’s drawing was very satisfactory to the team, everyone agreed that they should go celebrate with a hotpot feast.
Like always, Cheng Ge would buy dinner for everyone since he was the rich one.
They went to the place and sat down. Then they discovered the people sitting at the next table looked familiar. The two groups sat across on opposite ends of the walk way. Little Fatty hit his forehead and greeted the people across: “Yo, what a coincidence? !”
The people at the next table were the members of the team Qing Dynasty, the players, substitutes, and their coach, eight of them altogether. They had almost finished their dinner and had drank quite a lot of alcohol as well– —
Learning the lesson from last year, Xiao Rui wished he could put a collar around every player’s neck. The club had ordered the players not to drink any alcohol before they finished their competition in the US. ZGDX players were all drinking watermelon juice now, a sharp contrast to the liquor bottles strewn on the next table.
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