Wa: It’s broken, I’ve become a cutting monster!

"Uh... wow..."

The host was obviously shocked by Shan Anyang's speech. He might also be completely suppressed by Shan Anyang's momentum at the moment. Or maybe there were some other reasons...

In short, as a professional host, she has caused a "cold scene" that lasted about 10 seconds!

It's not quite right to say that the audience was silent. The cheers from the audience never stopped after Shan Anyang took the stage...

"Welcome to Shanghai! Congratulations again to FPX on their first victory in the World Championship... Then, may I ask Shan Anyang, as the two-time MVP winner of this game, do you have anything to say to the fans who support FPX and the fans who support you?" The host took a deep breath and handed the microphone to the smiling Shan Anyang again.

Shan Anyang took the microphone, glanced at his teammates beside him, and then looked in a certain direction below the stage.

I looked at the delicate lady with tears on her face and trembling shoulders, but her tall figure still stood there proudly...

"Whether it's me or FPX..."

"We have been questioned, disapproved and looked down upon by countless people, who think we are just the 'runner-up' who is strong on the outside but weak on the inside..."

Having said that, Shan Anyang took a deep breath, and his tone changed from low to high!

"But so what! We did something that no one had ever done before! We won all the games that we should have won in the first stage of the regular season!"

"We also won our first victory in the World Championship!"

"We will win more victories, I think..."

"FPX is no longer the team that craves for a win!"

Shan Anyang roared almost like a shout, as if to exchange back all the grievances and doubts he had received during this period...

The scene was boiling again. Those spectators who were not FPX fans originally changed their views on this new team, FPX, because of Shan Anyang's roar.

The host thanked Shan Anyang for his speech, and then interviewed Life Berlin and others, but Shan Anyang may have said everything they wanted to say, and all the microphones soon turned to Xia An...

"I would like to ask Coach Xia An, we all know that FPX is a team that focuses on scientific research. As the head coach of FPX, what is your goal for this Shanghai Masters?"

Xia An did not take the microphone handed over by Autumn. Instead, Autumn held the microphone and Xia An leaned forward slightly and whispered:

"Be the last team standing here."

As Xia An spoke, he stretched out his right index finger, turned his wrist and pointed his index finger downwards.

After that, Autumn skillfully handed the microphone back to the host, not giving her the opportunity to continue questioning Xia An.

Xia An was a silent person. Although he was young, he always gave people a sense of decadence, which was completely different from his various strange tactics. People who didn't know him could hardly imagine how such a conservative person could develop such an unconventional tactic...

"Wow! Such a confident statement! We all believe that FPX will achieve a good result in the end! The post-match interview ends here. Let us congratulate FPX again for winning this game!"

Thunderous cheers broke out again at the scene...

-

It would be fine if the Shanghai Masters does not start. Once it starts, it will not stop until it ends.

Including today, the Swiss round will last for a total of five days. There is no rest time in between. Fortunately, there is no FPX game tomorrow, but they will also go to watch it live. It is already this time, and it is not realistic to study tactics.

After returning to the hotel, Shan Anyang and his team simply reviewed today's game, and then continued to run maps and practice individually to keep their feel for it.

Shan Anyang feels that playing in the competition is not as tiring as his daily training.

Time passed quickly during such boring training, and in a blink of an eye, the next day's competition was about to begin!

There are also two games today, and the four teams will play a BO4 match today.

They are GENG vs. LEV, TH vs. DRG. Both GENG and TH are strong potential opponents for FPX this time, and Xia An values the GENG team more.

"Wow, Brother Xia is so awesome, the view from here is much clearer than from the audience seats..." A Yang was sitting in the FPX lounge backstage at this time, looking at the big screen in the middle of the room, mocking Xia An in a gloomy tone.

Yesterday, Xia An said that he would bring them to watch the game live, and everyone thought that there would be some VIP seats at the game site! Shan Anyang and others even bought "DRG" support fan sticks at the ticket office at the entrance. Shan Anyang, who is rich and powerful, is of course the one who pays for the meal...

When buying it, Dan Anyang also asked Xia An if he wanted it, but the old man looked at him like a child and said indifferently:

"I don't like these."

You don't like it! If they had known that coming to watch the game in person meant watching the live broadcast in the lounge, they would not have come. Wouldn't it be nice to watch it lying in the hotel?

Shan Anyang glanced at the green fluorescent stick in his hand and fell into deep thought...

I should be able to return it, right? I spent 5 bucks on these 250 items!

Xia An sat on the gaming chair, crossed his legs and said calmly: "This is also considered a live show. When you watch it live, you're watching it on a big screen. It's no different from here."

“Haha…watching the live broadcast in the hotel is just watching the screen, there’s no difference!”

"The latency here is low..."

Shan Anyang was speechless. He turned his head away from Xia An, the stubborn "middle-aged handsome guy", and looked at the screen.

At this time, the players for the first match had already entered the venue. Shan Anyang was not very familiar with the five GENG players, but he looked familiar with the fat man in the middle with acne scars on his face...

"t3xture, you should have met him in the Asian server, right?" Xia An seemed to see Shan Anyang's doubts, but the latter turned around and found that Xia An was not looking at him...

"Xia-ge...can you read minds?"

"This is not difficult to guess. He is T3 in the duel position in GENG, a decisive player that I am extremely optimistic about." Xia An still gave T3 a high evaluation.

The word "extremely" is not often used by Xia An. When he invited and coaxed Shan Anyang to join FPX, Xia An did not say that he was "extremely" optimistic about Shan Anyang...

"Well... from studying the Pacific Division games before, I can indeed see that this fat guy played well, but it's far from exaggerated, right?" Berlin touched his chin and asked with a little confusion.

As a team that had been preparing for the Masters very early, FPX had studied almost all teams, and GEN was studied especially under Xia An's arrangement. T3xture's POV was analyzed frame by frame, but at that time, including Shan Anyang, no one thought this person was special...

On the contrary, I feel that it is a bit... How to put it, different from the dueling position of Dan Anyang or TH's minBOO, this duel from the Korean country seems too "ordinary".

t3xture gives people the feeling of a genius with very solid basic skills.

"His playing style and thinking are the clearest I've ever seen in a duel. Words like steady and calm are rarely used in a one-shot player." Xia An said calmly, "Different teams require different duels..."

The dueling position is the spear of the entire team and also the position with the greatest sacrifice in the entire team.

FPX, which is fighting for its life, needs a genius like Shan Anyang who dares to operate. The more serious the disease, the more ruthless the medicine. FPX, which was once on the verge of disbanding, is already a horse that is about to die of illness, so Xia An chose Shan Anyang. Compared with "stability", FPX needs Shan Anyang's "madness" more!

GENG, who has a traditional Korean operation style, needs a duel like t3xture who rarely makes mistakes. But if you think of operation as a "Confucian" style of play, then you will definitely lose to GENG!

Their style of play can be summarized in Xia An's words, that is "slow push and fast attack". In the early stage, they will get more information, all kinds of information, and then make a tactic that is most beneficial to them. Once they determine that tactic, the five players of GEN will show strong cooperation and execute this tactic at the fastest speed...

Stable preview and superb body control are characteristics that many professional players have, but t3xture has taken them to the extreme!

Compared with t3, Dan Anyang's pre-aim is much worse. He is not even ranked in the top three in the FPX team, which is also related to the fact that he has just started his career.

But Xia An did not deliberately ask Shan Anyang to practice these things. Everyone has a different style. Shan Anyang relied on his superhuman reaction and extremely fast positioning ability to defeat the enemy.

Xia An has always adhered to the principle of playing to one's strengths and avoiding one's weaknesses. Since Dan Anyang's reaction positioning is far superior to that of normal people, then the amount of reaction positioning training should be increased. As for the control of the preview and body position, it is enough to keep it near the "average" line.

This may be different from the thinking of ordinary people. Many people's thinking is stuck in the "barrel effect" and they always think that a person's overall competitive level is related to their shortcomings.

But in FPS professional competitions, this is not the case. A "comprehensive" professional player will eventually become "mediocre", while a "partial" professional player can often become famous in a team that suits him!

For example, peak demon1 has a terrifying positioning ability that is unmatched in the entire alliance, but the opposite is his unsatisfactory "first combat" ability. Some people may be curious, demon1 is obviously a duel, but his first combat ability is not good? Isn't this funny!

But the reality is that demon1's performance in the EG period can be called the "number one". Although he played a one-man breakthrough in the old EG, the tactical positioning did not rely entirely on his single-player breakthrough. The ones who had the most first encounters in EG were jawgemo (114 times), demon1 (110 times), and boostio (101 times)!

He is more like the current life position in FPX in EG - the last shooter! It is also known as the "secondary attack" position, even though demon1 plays a first-attack hero. This is why demon1 is the most suitable decision position for EG. EG needs a stable second-attack to make up for the team's shortcomings, and demon1 is a person who has achieved the ultimate positioning. His responsibilities in the team also relatively weaken his lack of "first battle" ability.

Demon1, who left EG, quickly "disappeared in the crowd". Putting aside external factors, Demon1's "first battle" number in NRG has reached 145 times, almost the same as the second and third combined. It seems that NRG really bought Demon1 as a breakthrough...

"T3xture is really suitable for GENG now. It seems like it was tailor-made for GENG by God..."

The first map of the game has ended, in Senhan Winter Port, GENG lost... But Xia An's eyes were still fixed on Jiefeng controlled by t3. Whenever he saw the scene from t3's perspective, Xia An would lean forward and watch carefully.

即使t3的战绩是8/17/3，赛后评分更是只有少得可怜的——73分！

Their opponent, "aspas", who was once the world's number one duel player in LEV, scored 21 kills in this duel, an absolute "Jetwind gap".

As contestants, Shan Anyang and others naturally couldn't understand why Xia An was so fond of t3xture. With different perspectives, the pictures they saw were naturally different.

"Brother Xia...look at the feel of the hand, why do I feel like GENG is in danger!" Ayang scratched his head and once again showed his "problem boy" nature.

"What do you think of these two teams? Who do you think will win?"

Xia An did not answer, but asked everyone while writing something in his notebook.

"Um... I think LEV has a better chance of winning, right? After all, judging from the first game, Lev's playing feel and condition are far superior to GEN." Shan Anyang touched his bearded chin and said seriously.

Shan Anyang has not paid much attention to his personal appearance in the hotel these days. When he was at home before, Lizhi always reminded Shan Anyang to shave, probably because the beard would prick Lizhi's thigh at night...

Everyone agreed with Shan Anyang's opinion. Xia An didn't say much, but just asked them to watch it carefully and review it when they go back in the evening.

When the game came to the second match in Lotus Ancient City, both sides actually chose the same lineup.

Ryze, Qile, Shadow, Viper, Dark Dream.

"I'm the one taking the blame! Who's the worst? Who's so embarrassed!"

Life stood up and exclaimed when he saw this scene. If the lineup was exactly the same in one region, it would be possible, but these were teams from two completely different regions, and they unexpectedly chose the same lineup...

"This lineup is the final answer to the Lotus Ancient City version. There's no need to be shocked." Xia An still had that indifferent look on his face.

But what he said was indeed correct. Apart from Rez, who was the first choice in Lotus Ancient City, the rest of the positions were basically templates used by various teams.

It's hard to say who copied whom, everyone plays this way, and the strength is indeed online. If you don't practice, it's your loss. Maybe some changes will be made according to the hero pool of their own players, such as replacing Dark Dream with Hunter, or using Wallet instead of Qile.

But no matter how it changes, the system is still a system of Ryze and double smoke. This is also one of the drawbacks of the current Valorant competition, the number of heroes is relatively small, and the lineup overlap is too high.

That’s why the appearance of FPX caught everyone’s attention. No other team has dared to use the three-smoke system of Lotus Ancient City in the World Championship so far!

"Not all teams are called FPX..." Xia An made a rare little joke, and then added silently in his heart.

"Not every team has a Xia An!"