ipxterran, a Korean Terran player, playing style characteristics: the feeling and control of the game is very strong, it is almost impossible to make any mistakes, but if you make mistakes, he will definitely find out... After these words that introduce the characteristics of IPXTERRAN's style of play, there is another sentence: IPXTERRAN, this guy is extremely shameless, he has retired and is still fooling around, so don't look at him is no longer an active player, but he often goes to GT to play, and he is very familiar with the tactical play style of European players. I used to be quite honest, but now that people are old, they have become fine, and they like to use psychological tactics, and after winning a game, they will ask you questions like A+.

Seeing these words, Zhang Peng couldn't help laughing, and at the same time, he was already sure that this list of powers was from Gu Cheng's master, the French man in sunglasses. From these "bitter and hateful" words, Zhang Peng can even imagine that the French man in sunglasses usually goes to GT to play, but when he has A+ points, he met IPXTERRAN, and then he was abused by IPXTERRAN, and after IPXTERRAN abused him, he also asked him, do you really have A+? This kind of saying about the other party's rookie is more unbearable than directly saying the other party's rookie. The French man in sunglasses is estimated to be extremely depressed, but he can't beat ipxterran, otherwise he wouldn't have added ipxterran to this list with bitterness, and said something like this after the introduction of ipxterran's tactical play, because the whole list is full of European and American strongmen, only ipxterran, an Asian player, or the introduction of this ipxterran was written by Gu Cheng himself, Maybe the French man in sunglasses said such things to Gu Cheng before. And judging by these words, it is not unusual for the IPXTERRAN to block itself on the GT that time, because the IPXTERRAN itself often plays on the GT.

ipxterran, Zhang Peng repeated this ID in his heart after smiling.

On the way here, Huang Qian and Corsair told Zhang Peng that the biggest threat to Zhang Peng's championship this time is probably this ipxterran.

Now seeing this ID, and imagining the depressed expression of the French man in sunglasses when he was humiliated by IPXTERRAN, the ID of IPXTERRAN is becoming clearer and clearer in Zhang Peng's mind.

"This competition, Uncle Xterran, if you miss this time, it may not be so easy to fight with you, an uncle who has retired, in the future." On this day, when looking at this list of powers, trying to send messages to Guo Xixi, Ai Jing and Mi Wei, to see if they could receive it, Zhang Peng thought so leisurely in his heart.

When Zhang Peng thought about it so leisurely, he didn't expect the meeting with ipxterran to come so quickly.

The venue of the finals of this ESC is in the Louvre, but it is said that it is in the Louvre, in fact, it is only in the pavilion of one of the museums, the Louvre is a national treasure of France, it is one of the oldest, largest and most famous museums in the world, just like the first ESC, of course, it is impossible to make the entire Louvre an ESC competition venue. According to the previous finals of ESC, basically in countries such as France where the interstellar atmosphere is not so fanatical, the number of attendees is generally only about a few thousand, including the number of media reporters, but there are hundreds.

The number of participants in this year's ESC finals was almost the same as the previous one, bringing together 128 players from 68 countries. The reason for this number is that not every country has three qualifiers like China. Only countries with a high interstellar level such as China and South Korea have three qualifiers, and generally countries with a slightly worse interstellar level have two qualifiers, and some countries with a lower level have only one qualifier.

The real start of the game was on the morning of February 9, that is, the third day after Zhang Peng and others arrived.

On February 8, Zhang Peng arrived in Paris, and the day after meeting Gu Cheng, that is, in the afternoon of the day before the competition, Zhang Peng, Huang Qian and Corsiar went to the streets of Paris.

It was not Zhang Peng's proposal to go shopping, but Huang Qian's proposal. In terms of adjusting the state of the game, a player with rich competition experience like Huang Qian is not comparable to Zhang Peng. One of the most troubling aspects of a tight international competition like this is jet lag. The time difference between France and China is still relatively large, and anyone who has traveled to Europe and the United States knows that people will be particularly tired and feel very unenergetic after changing the time difference. Huang Qian knows very well that sleep alone cannot solve this feeling of exhaustion, if he feels tired and sleeps a lot during the day, he will not be able to get jet lag, day and night will be reversed, and he will not be able to achieve a good game state. And going out for a walk will help to reverse the jet lag.

Because Huang Qian had such a proposal, Zhang Peng deliberately contacted Guo Xixi, Ai Jing and Mi Wei on QQ and asked them if they wanted to bring any gifts.

"This, Chanel, Armarni, Versace, Dior, Lv... I'll do it all. As a result, Guo Xixiao, who was the first to ask, sent a long list, Zhang Peng rolled his eyes and said that I might not be able to go back to France.

"For Mao?" Guo asked Zhang Peng carefully.

Zhang Peng replied, "It is estimated that I will have to stay in Paris for half a year to be a cowherd before I can buy all the money." ”

"That's right." Guo said in detail, forget it, I guess with your small body, no one wants it, just buy me a perfume.

Guo Xixian is such a girl, for her to be able to talk to Zhang Peng in Paris like this, it is far more energetic than really buying a LV bag, her pursuit of these things is far less fanatical than many materialistic girls. Of course, Zhang Peng also knew very well that if she really bought it for her, she would be extremely happy and twist her little waist and go out shopping on her back.

After Zhang Peng asked Ai Jing and Mi Wei again, the answer he got was casual. Both girls thought it would be silly to go to Paris and wait in a long line outside the Louisvuttion store at number 101 to buy something.

But Zhang Peng is also a very delicate man, he also knows that Ai Jing's perfume is about to bottom out, Mi Wei doesn't have much time to use perfume, but he likes oil painting things very much, so he is ready to help Ai Jing and Guo carefully buy the perfume they like, help Mi Wei go to the bookstore here or something, buy a relatively small number of oil albums in China, anyway, Paris is not known as the capital of culture and art, there should be a lot of this kind of thing.

This time, the ESC staff was also very enthusiastic, and when they heard Huang Qian say that they were going out shopping to buy something, they not only helped them call the car and write the address to come back, but also drew a road map and a very detailed description for them, which is even more detailed than the road map of the actor in the film "Unknown Death". (Unknown Death is an Indian Ah San film, the shooting is okay, the male protagonist in it has amnesia, only fifteen minutes of memory, and after fifteen minutes, he will forget all the things and people fifteen minutes ago, so there is a very detailed route map and photo descriptions when he goes out.) With such a helpful staff providing a road map, Zhang Peng, Huang Qian, and Corsair found a store to buy things almost effortlessly.

"Yellow dive?"

And just when Zhang Peng bought the perfume that Ai Jing and Guo carefully wanted and walked out of the perfume shop, Zhang Peng, Huang Qian and Corsair suddenly heard someone shouting Huang Qian in slightly stiff Chinese.

"It's you. Such a coincidence? ”

As soon as Zhang Peng looked over, he saw that it was a young uncle, wearing a neat black windbreaker, and then saw Huang Qian stunned and greeted him, Zhang Peng asked Huang Qian a little strangely and softly, "Who is this?" ”

"This is ipxterran." Huang Qian replied to Zhang Peng softly.

ipxterran？

Zhang Peng couldn't help but be stunned, and at this time, ipxterran's eyes had turned to Zhang Peng and Corsair.

And when he saw himself, ipxterran's eyes moved, Zhang Peng knew that this guy was definitely going to talk to himself, and sure enough, such a thought in Zhang Peng's mind had not disappeared, ipxterran had already smiled and asked Huang Qian: "This is Fang Shaoyun's apprentice Zhang Peng, right?" ”

While Huang Qian said "yes", Zhang Peng also nodded.

ipxterran just smiled, and then looked at the perfume bag Zhang Peng was carrying in his hand, "Come out to buy something?" ”

Zhang Peng nodded again and replied, "Yes, buy some perfume for my girlfriend." ”

"So, you're well prepared. In this case, I am sure to have a good result in this competition. ”

ipxterran said this, and after greeting Huang Qian, he parted ways with Huang Qian, Zhang Peng, and Corsair.

As soon as the ipxterran front foot left, Corsair couldn't help but say to Zhang Peng, "This guy ipxterran seems to see that you are a little wrong." There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with what he said, but how does this tone not seem to be like this? ”

"Yes." Zhang Peng looked at Corsiar and said, "I thought I had this feeling, thinking that Koreans speaking Chinese was this tune, rely on!" ”

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In fact, ipxterran is indeed a little wrong to look at Zhang Peng.

At this time, in ipxterran's heart, Zhang Peng was still a rookie in the GT game. And before the game, I was thinking about helping my girlfriend buy perfume.

Such a player, I'm afraid it's too comfortable, what good results can he make?

When ipxterran thought so, he didn't think at all that he also went out to buy things for his wife the day before the game, and he was only allowed to go out shopping to relax, and no one else was allowed to come out to relax? What's more, the most important point is that the current Zhang Peng is no longer called Wuxia Ameng in the past.

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At 9 a.m. Paris time on February 9, the opening ceremony of the annual ESC Finals officially began.

The venue of the competition is in one of the pavilions of the Louvre Museum. The interstellar atmosphere in France is indeed not as good as that of South Korea and China, and the entire venue is designed to have less than 6,000 spectator seats, and by the time the opening ceremony begins, there is still a small half of the seats left, and it is estimated that the actual number of people in attendance is only about 4,000.

The opening ceremony has always been spoken in English by two hosts, a man and a woman, although there are ESC staff who whispered to Zhang Peng and others to translate, but because ES. is a size larger, there are many tall and tall people, and that kind of very S-shaped figure is really difficult to see in China, let alone Sister Furong and other self-proclaimed S-shaped ones can be compared. And the French woman may indeed be more bold than the Chinese woman, for example, this woman's hosting dress does not seem to be wearing underwear, and there are some convex points. Does this seem normal abroad? It's enough fuss in the country.

Only when the male and female hosts talk about the end, there are some words that attract Zhang Peng's attention, for example, the male and female hosts say that after the final champion is decided, there will be a mysterious award presenter who surprises everyone to come out to present the award.

Who is this mystery award presenter?

When Zhang Peng was a little curious, Huang Qian and Corsair were a little unimpressed. Because basically this kind of mysterious award presenter is a famous person in the interstellar world, such as Lin Potian, Nalan Rongrong and others. And these people are very familiar to Huang Qian and Corsair. Huang Qianqian felt in his heart that it would be quite surprising if Fang Shaoyun suddenly appeared to present the award, because Fang Shaoyun never said that he would come to ESC, but Fang Shaoyun competed during this time, and the possibility of being this kind of guest was zero.

After the opening ceremony, it was time for the lottery to be grouped.

As in the qualifiers, each player goes up to draw lots. Then, according to the numbers drawn, 128 players from 68 countries were divided into 32 groups. Each group consists of four players. These four players play a round-robin group stage, with the top two teams in each group qualifying, so that the group stage is over to determine the round of 64. Starting with the round of 64, it was a double-elimination tournament. Unlike the qualifiers, the winner of the upper bracket will have to accept a challenge for the lower bracket champion at the end. The game is still best-of-three, but the winner of the upper bracket only needs to defeat the champion of the lower bracket once to win, and the winner of the lower bracket must defeat the champion of the upper bracket twice to win.

Zhang Peng was a little depressed when he looked at the matchup table after the draw ceremony. Because he was placed in the fourteenth group. These fourteens are still somewhat unlucky in China.

Placed in the same group as Zhang Peng were a Lithuanian player, an Irish player and a Bulgarian player.

Zhang Peng took out Gu Cheng's notebook and looked at it in a little depression, and found that there was no introduction of these players in it.

Zhang Peng's first group stage opponent was a Bulgarian player, because it was the first time to play against these foreign players offline, and even if there was no warning Zhang Peng from Huang Qian and others, regardless of whether there was a record in the notebook, many European and American players played with a very whimsical style.

And this time Zhang Peng was in the group stage, he was still in the first round, and he couldn't watch other people's games first, so he was still a little nervous when he faced the first opponent in the group stage.

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10:03 Paris time. Zhang Peng ushered in his first opponent in the ESC finals, Bulgaria's OSLO.

As soon as he saw this opponent, Zhang Peng felt that his opponent was very unusual.

Because the mouse that this OSLO brought with him was a Logitech MX310 that had been discontinued a long time ago.

For this mouse, Zhang Peng has a certain understanding. This mouse is also one of Logitech's more classic mice, but it has become less and less used because this mouse is thicker and heavier, not as light as Logitech's later G1 series and Razer mice.

However, according to Zhang Peng's understanding, people who generally use this kind of mouse are not the fastest, but they are stable and delicate at the same time. Like the previous national team player Upzealot, Zealot is the kind of top master who has reached the realm of returning to the basics and can use forks and dragoons to resist the advancement of the human race. This kind of player with strength is far more difficult to deal with than a player with high hand speed.

Before this oslo came on the court, he also waved his fist at Zhang Peng, looking very relaxed and confident.

And when the game between Zhang Peng and Oslo officially began, as soon as the game started, Zhang Peng found that the player who chose the Terran race had a very unusual start.

Because this Terran player actually uses a semi-mechanized style of play.

At the beginning, he didn't actually do heavy work in a single barracks, but first built two barracks, and only after a steady stream of spearmen did he start to do heavy work.

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