<h4>Chapter 264 – China VS Australia (Mysterious Map)</h4>
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The schedule of the World Competition stated that the matches for Groups A and B would be held in the morning while Groups C and D would be yed in the afternoon. Due to the 12 hours time difference between New York and Beijing, this arrangement was just right for the Chinese audience. Everyone could watch the live broadcast from 8 p.m. to 12 a.m.!
Yu Bing and Kou Hongyi had already arrived at the live broadcast hall. On the third floor of the stadium, there was a small live broadcast room for the media. The soundproof window of the room allowed them to see the game.
It was currently 8 o’clock in New York and the venue could amodate hundreds of thousands of people. Miracle fans from all over the world brought posters to support the yers of their country and Chinese fans also had many gs. The fluorescent cheering cards made it look very lively.
The host was holding a lottery interactive event before the start of thepetition.
Backstage, yers on both sides were preparing for the match.
In thepetition, the soundproof rooms were divided into the yers’ seats and the rest area. There were sevenputers in the yers’ area. One of theputers was used for themander to connect to the referee’smand channel. The remaining sixputers were used for the arena, the economic battle and the death racing mode.
There would be 10 minutes of rest between different modes. If they wanted to change their keyboard and mouse, they could use this time to debug the equipment.
This time, the national team was equipped with a mechanical mouse and keyboard provided by sponsors. The national team’s logo was printed on the upper left corner of the keyboard and the Miracle logo was on the mouse.
Li Cangyu and Ling Xuefeng set up the keyboards and mouse of the yers and quickly tapped the keys to check the sensitivity of the buttons.. The sight of the two men testing the keyboards caused the domestic audience’s blood to boil. Their fingers were strong and slender, the action of tapping on the keyboard dazzling. They could only think of one word when the camera zoomed in—handsome!
The two people finished testing the keyboards and Li Cangyu told the yers in a simple manner, “Don’t be too nervous. There is no pressure in the first game. We just need to stabilize our state and y to our own standards! Come on—Chinese team, refuel!”
Everyone ced their hands together and shouted this sentence.
They couldn’t help feeling heated up as they did this. They were representing their country on the world stage. It was an unforgettable experience that everyone would remember for the rest of their lives. This type of rare opportunity must be done well. They couldn’t humiliate China’s Miracle League!
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A momentter, the national team sat down while LI Cangyu walked to themand post with a smile. He looked very confident, making the domestic audience members feel relieved.
Yu Bing was introducing the Australian ace yers at the fastest speed. Once Li Cangyu sat down, she changed her words and said, “Audience members, Cat God is sitting down at themand post. The match will soon begin. Now we need to exin the different map selection rules for the World Competition!”
Kou Hongyi followed for. “The World Competition states that seven maps will be randomly select for each match. The captains have an opportunity to disable two maps each and the remaining three will be used as maps for the three games. The rules manual we received has ced a special addition. If there are maps submitted by a country, only one can be disabled.”
“That’s right.” Yu Bing nodded and exined, “In other words, if there are two maps submitted by the Chinese team among the seven maps, the Australian team can’t disable both. They must release one. This is to ensure that the maps submitted by the countries can be seen on the stage of thepetition!”
The simple exnation allowed everyone to understand and theymented:
[I heard that our maps are very powerful! The league especially invited the 3D master of the Dragon Song Club, Wu Zewen to help. It will definitely be a three-dimensional map!] [I think there should be a big maze?] [I hope to see a map with Chinese elements!] [I wonder what the Australian maps are like?]
There was only half a minute left before the official start of the map and Yu Bing said, “You can see the rest area in the soundproof rooms on both sides of the big stage. It is separated by the yers’ seats with a ss wall, which cuts off sound. There are many yers in the World Competition and this design is to prevent yers watching from the god’s perspective and giving ideas to their teammates ying.”
Kou Hongyiughed. “This means that the yers in the game are separated from those not ying. The yers in the rest area can’t give any hints.”
Then the big screen in the middle of the stage finally lit up and the audience pped.
Kou Hongyi’s voice immediately rose an octave. “Good evening to the domestic audience members, the first match of Group B in the World Competition, China VS Australia is about to begin! Let us focus our eyes on the big screen!”
The director cut to the big screen. The audience could see that after the referee announced the start of the game, the captains on both sides drew lots on theputer. The influence of luck was inevitable. The World Competition used the random system mode. The Chinese and Australian gs scrolled through the screen until the referee pressed the pause button and the picture finally froze.
The Australian team was first and the Chinese team would act second.
Li Cangyu’s expression didn’t change at all.
Going first didn’t make much of a difference in the World Competition. The mode of the three games were different and the lineup of both sides were submitted at the same time, being a targeted deployment couldn’t be achieved. The only difference was the selection stage, where the first team could pick first what maps they wanted to ban.
Soon, images appeared on the big screen. Hundreds of colourful thumbnails shed through seven boxes, causing the audience to be dazzled. The captain of the Australian team pressed the pause button and the first two maps were finally settled—Sydney Opera House and Mount Huangshan nk Road!
The audience was shocked. Even those who didn’t know the history of these two countries could see from the g mark on the lower left corner of the map that these were the submitted maps of the two countries. The maps weren’t present in the online Miracle game.
Immediately afterwards, the maps in the five remaining boxes started scrolling quickly. Li Cangyu pressed the pause button and the third and fourth maps were selected—Dark Reef and Endless Sea!
The audience members were more familiar with these maps. They were the seven star high difficulty maps seen in the various leagues.
There were three maps left and the audience stared at the big screen until it was settled—The Mechanical City, Ko Garden and Frost Temple!
Apart from Frost Temple, which was a representative Miracle map that everyone was familiar with, the Chinese team logo at the lower left of the Mechanical City and the Australian g at the lower left of Ko Garden showed they were two maps submitted by both sides.
The domestic audience members were very excited. [It probably isn’t a coincidence that there are so many country map submissions, right? Isn’t it a question of system probability?] [Based on today’s selection, the probability of the maps submitted by the two countries appearing is over 50%!] [Is the Mechanical City and Mount Huangshan nk Road made by the Chinese team?] [Kos are Australia’s national treasure? They actually made a ko garden. Shall we make a cute panda garden to beat them?]
The discussion in the live broadcast room was very lively. In the soundproof room, Su Guangmo patted Tan Shitian’s shoulder and said, “There are four country submitted maps out of seven. It seems that you didn’t guess wrong. The league really adjusted the probability.”
Cheng Wei was excited. “Mount Huangshan nk Road and the Mechanical City are super difficult to fight in. They can only ban one at most. The Australia captain is probably dying from a headache, hahaha!”
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The camera switched back to the two captains. The Australian captain, William looked at the seven maps and frowned slightly.
He could ban two maps first but due to the new regtions, he could only ban one of the Mechanical City or Mount Huangshan nk Road since they were both Chinese maps. Which one was better?
Based on the name and thumbnail, Mount Huangshan nk Road seemed to be a cliff and air battle? This was too difficult and should be banned.
William clicked the mouse on Mount Huangshan nk Road and a red X symbol appeared in the corresponding square, indicating that this map was disabled.
There were three maps from the Miracle gallery—Endless Sea, Dark Reef and Frost Temple. William thought about it and banned Endless Sea. This was a sea map and the sea was full of magma that caused death when falling in. This would be harder to fight.
William finished banning the maps and next was Li Cangyu’s turn.
Li Cangyu nced at the remaining four maps and didn’t hesitate to move the mouse. He banned both Dark Reef and Frost Temple, the Miracle maps. This meant that he released the Australian maps, Sydney Opera House and Ko Garden!
The domestic audience was shocked. [Oh my god! Cat God released both of Australia’s maps!] [Isn’t Cat God too confident?] [The maps of the other side were all released? Was there a mistake?] [Our Cat God is too handsome!]
The expression on Li Cangyu’s face was very calm.
He released the other side’s maps because he was confident about the Chinese team’s yers. Not to mention… Australia’s own maps might not necessarily be more difficult than Dark Reef and Endless Sea!