Negative

After thinking it through, Chen Mo sat up from his seat, picked up his phone, and entered Weibo.

The information just stated that for this matter, BL Game Club and the four retired professional players had all posted their own Weibo updates to make an official announcement.

He wanted to check Weibo to see what others thought.

He first visited the Weibo accounts of those four retired champion players and discovered that the comments under their posts were basically just statements from fans.

Comments about looking forward to their return and hoping they could win another championship.

Of course, there were also some skeptical remarks, and even verbal attacks.

Looking at the overall discourse, basically, most people were questioning the strength of this "old-timer" team.

This coincided exactly with his own views.

Exiting the page of the last retired professional player, he went directly to the official Weibo of BL Game Club.

At this moment, the latest Weibo post from BL Game Club was the news that the four retired champion professional players were making a comeback and would be participating in a competition at the end of the month.

And under this Weibo post, there were already tens of thousands of comments.

It seems that Yao Beiguo's method of generating hype was effective; otherwise, how could a club that had just been established for a short time have so many people watching a single Weibo post?

Chen Mo clicked on the Weibo comments with annoyance, but after seeing the content of the comments clearly, a smile returned to his face.

"Generating hype, exploiting retired champion players, really something."

"Definitely a hype-generating stunt. For the sake of traffic, they've even abandoned their face."

"They are already retired players. Even if they won championships before, their strength can't keep up now. Can they really compete with those young professional players?"

"Compete? What competition? I followed that retired champion player before. Before he retired, his skills had already declined; he was clearly not as good as those young professional players, let alone now that so much time has passed—his skills have probably declined even more."

"I think the same. In e-sports, being bad is the original sin. With a team made up of these four retired champion players, I think they'll be eliminated in the group stage."

"Interesting. Although I really want to see those champion players make a comeback, exploiting them like this seems a bit disgusting."

"Trash club. Instead of thinking about how to improve the team's strength, they only think about how to generate hype. It won't last long."

"The management is trash. Running a club ultimately requires relying on strength to speak. Without strength, it will eventually decline."

"…"

Looking at the comments in the comment section, Chen Mo felt a wave of relief.

These people in the comment section were truly his soulmates!

He "liked" a few of the most satisfying comments and then exited the Weibo interface directly.

After confirming this, he didn't care much about Yao Beiguo using retired champion players to generate hype anymore.

Generating hype did indeed increase traffic for the club, but it seemed that most of them were "haters" who didn't like the club's approach.

Not bad!

This Yao Beiguo was worthy of having run four clubs into bankruptcy; results were already beginning to show.

He had misjudged him before.

Such a talent was exactly what he needed!

Now, because the club was exploiting retired champion players, its reputation was damaged. Add to that the fact that once that "old-timer" team participated in the competition, they would eventually be eliminated.

Then the club would have no reputation to speak of.

Chen Mo smiled with relief.

…

BL Game Club, in the e-sports room, four professional players were focused intently on their computer screens, their hands operating the mice and keyboards rapidly.

Everyone was in a state of extreme focus and seriousness.

Who knows how much time had passed.

One person leaned back in his seat in relaxation and turned his head to look to the side.

At the same time, the other three professional players also put down their keyboards.

"Liu Qing, that move of yours in the mid-game was a bit impulsive. Although the result was good, it contradicted our tactics. If that move hadn't succeeded, it would very likely have become our breakthrough point in this game."

He Pengfei looked at Liu Qing and said patiently.

"I understand, Fei-ge."

Liu Qing nodded with some shame; that move just now was indeed his impulsive action, he was the one who initiated it.

Although it succeeded, as an old professional player, execution was the most important thing.

If everyone just played freely, then the entire match would have many more flaws or mistakes.

Especially for them, these old professional players, their hand speed and reaction times could no longer keep up with those young professional players.

Their only advantage was their wealth of experience, using that experience on the field to minimize mistakes.

Then, through operations or the opponent's mistakes, they could expand their advantage and finish the game.

Therefore, those impulsive actions were things they couldn't possibly do.

"It's good that you know. During this time, just focus on doing this. Don't think about doing your own thing during the match; think about how to minimize mistakes, or even achieve zero mistakes."

He Pengfei nodded. He was quite satisfied with Liu Qing, who was the one among the four of them who had retired the latest. He also understood that he still had that impulsiveness in his heart.

Through these days of gelling together, he had already seen Liu Qing's progress, so he believed that when the competition started at the end of the month, Liu Qing would definitely be able to control his impulses.

After speaking to Liu Qing, his gaze turned to Lin Guangqing and Li Chang.

"You two did very well and didn't do anything impulsive. You followed the plan throughout the entire game, but there are still areas that need improvement."

"That is the control of operations and tempo. There were two time periods in this game, 10 minutes and 15 minutes, where we could have completely shifted our formation ahead of time to seize the newly appearing resources, but you didn't grasp those opportunities."

"If we had been able to secure those two resources during those time periods in the game just now, we could have finished the game at least 3 minutes earlier."

"So, in terms of operations, you still need to strengthen yourselves a bit more."

"You can come over and take a look."

He Pengfei said, pulling up the match replay and finding the 10-minute mark.

Upon hearing this, Lin Guangqing and Li Chang both stood up and walked over.

Seeing this, Liu Qing also stood up and went over. Although this post-game analysis had nothing to do with him, He Pengfei was talking about operations, so naturally, he wanted to understand it too.

Although he was a retired professional player and had more experience than those new professional players, compared to the three old retired professional players in front of him, he was the worst in terms of experience.

Since he could learn a bit more, naturally he had to learn.

The three of them came behind He Pengfei and looked at his computer.

Seeing the three of them come over, He Pengfei started playing the video, then paused at a certain moment and pointed at the screen, saying:

"Right here. With your characters and your safe playstyle, you were maintaining your health and supplies. At this moment, you could have relied on your health advantage to forcibly take the resources in front of you."

"And the opponent, because of several impulsive trades earlier, didn't gain any advantage, to the point where their health was already quite unhealthy, and they had even used up their supplies."

"At this time, if you forcibly took the resources, they would have no way to stop you. Once you finished the resources in front of you, you could all head together toward the newly spawned resource point. The opponent would either have to go and contest it with low health, or go home to resupply."

"If they contested it with low health, they would have to take a huge risk, and we wouldn't be in a rush—we could just keep dragging it out. If they went back to resupply, we could completely take the newly spawned resource point while they were gone."