Training Plan

The coaching staff was still researching and discussing new season training plans and tactics these days, preparing solutions to respond to game settings and league rules changes.

Specific details were being released daily and fed back to the official team along with major foreign teams.

The official team was also continuously adjusting, so they were also constantly adjusting, and had not yet announced new training plans to Team One and Team Two.

However, members of Team One and Team Two had also started switching roles in their respective trainings.

They had heard Wen Man’s speech and knew that increasing training intensity and role depth was inevitable for the new season.

Thus, there were still many people in the training room adding extra rounds to their training.

It was already very late; the Team One coach had left, but the room was still packed, and Team Two also had many people.

Xue Wei walked in with his spicy hotpot, opened a window by the window, quickly finished eating, threw the containers into the trash bin and cleaned up, then properly returned to his seat.

Everyone around him was doing sandbox training.

Snipers were practicing assault, assaulters were practicing free agent.

They were in small groups of two or three.

A few people looked up and glanced at him, then, with various thoughts, averted their gaze.

Silence hadn’t left.

He saw Xue Wei bring in the spicy hotpot. Before he could speak to him, he saw the coach hadn’t said anything, so he frowned and said nothing.

Xue Wei also averted his gaze, mumbling slightly.

He was still playing sniper, and he didn’t have a training plan.

He started a ranked match himself, inviting Zhao Xiaoyi, who was online, to duo queue with him.

“What are you doing?” Silence, who had called up the global panel, suddenly asked, “Are you duo queuing with someone outside the team?”

Xue Wei said: “Mm, what’s wrong?”

The other party’s tone was unfriendly.

His reflexive tone wasn’t very good either, expressionless, his voice cold and gloomy.

Silence, however, was somewhat subdued by his tone—he looked back and saw that the coach and Wen Man had both gone to the hallway to talk business.

He said: “During internal team training matches, practicing with members of other teams requires reporting to prevent tactical leaks.”

“EGT is the national team’s practice squad. Aren’t they part of the national team?” Xue Wei asked.

Silence was stumped. He choked: “Anyway, duo queuing with anyone outside of Team Two requires… reporting.”

Xue Wei took a deep breath.

He thought about the spicy hotpot from earlier and endured it for the second time.

‘Three strikes and you’re out.’

Xue Wei said: “Then I’m applying to duo queue with EGT member Yee. Is that okay?”

“Okay. If you stream, pay attention to team rules,” Silence said.

Xue Wei stopped speaking. He put on his headphones and focused on playing the game.

The four EGT members specifically opened a chat channel.

“Hi, Brother Nao! You made it! How are you doing over there!”

Zhao Xiaoyi posted, “Are they bullying you? We heard the national team is still waiting for new strategies; we don’t know what you plan to do! The regular season is about to start. Will they make you a starter?”

Dangdang said: “We can’t wait to beat you!”

Xue Wei:

‘His words halted abruptly.’

The national team also participated in the regular season, but the national team did not occupy team slots and was not included in the overall ranking.

What truly counted in the ranking was the players’ individual combat power scores.

For example, Pandora.

Aside from the national team, he hadn’t signed with a club league.

He and the three fixed members of Team One would participate in regular season points.

Last season, Team One missed half of the playoffs because they were going to play in the intercontinental and international regular season, so their team points couldn’t be evaluated.

However, players’ individual points would be displayed through domestic regular season and playoff matches.

For example, Pandora. Last season he played twenty regular season matches and over eighty international matches.

His domestic win rate as a sniper was 87%, his overall MVP rate was 77%, and his international win rate was 54%.

More valuable for reference were God Knife and Wen Man.

Wen Man’s international sniper win rate was 75.42%, currently ranked first for sniper.

Other positions were similar.

Knife’s free agent win rate was 71.91%, also currently ranked first for free agent.

Xue Wei’s stats, for now, were all 0.

To earn individual points, it had to be based on him playing as a starter.

National Team Two was different from National Team One.

Team One had a fixed lineup of four, which was also the starting lineup.

Team Two had seven people.

Among these seven, three were substitutes for Team One, not often playing as starters.

The remaining four could basically only appear in domestic regular season and playoff matches.

In international competitions, because they had to compete with Team One, and Team One had Wen Man/Pandora, they basically couldn’t win.

Xue Wei thought for a moment, then typed a reply: [If I can’t be a starter, I’ll come back and play for world number one with you guys. I’ve already written my resignation letter and can submit it anytime.]

He didn’t know how the national team planned to arrange him.

He was the eighth person on Team Two.

Now, only Pandora didn’t have a substitute (Pandora himself was Wen Man’s substitute, but it looked like he was about to be promoted to a permanent role).

He couldn’t possibly go be Pandora’s substitute.

Xue Wei thought of this, took a deep breath, and tightened his grip on the mouse.

EGT three members: [Brother Nao, think twice!!!! Wait for the new season announcement!!!! The national team used to select players based on tactics for matches!]

Wanshi also said: “Right, right. Everyone basically has an equal chance. They have four tactics, and everyone can…”

“All useless tactics,” Xue Wei patiently typed these words.

EGT three members:

‘His words halted abruptly.’

‘One day apart, still the familiar taste, familiar Brother Nao.’

Meeting Room.

“We will submit this proposal for discussion as soon as possible, Captain Wen, but it first needs their unanimous vote.”

Alan paced back and forth anxiously.

The ashtray on the table was filled with one used cigarette after another.

The coaches looked serious, only Wen Man still casually crossed his legs.

Ever since esports gradually developed into a formal competition, various factors and channels had started intervening in this industry, and there was an urgent need to create a more perfect and healthy industry system.

It was just that every time there was such a change, someone always got ‘stabbed’ first.

“The current problem is…”

“The current problem is that they want to replace me because my authority as captain is too high. At least to kick me out of the training group,” Wen Man said casually, “Isn’t this a good thing? I’ll return to being a player, which will help standardize the CHNC team system.”

This logic was sound, but it felt a bit stifling.

“Captain Wen, please don’t cause more trouble. The new season’s rules and weapons have already been changed into a mess. If you step down again, how chaotic will it become?”

“If I leave, why would it be chaotic?” Wen Man countered.

He looked at Alan: “Don’t you think you have the ability? You are the coaching staff who led the intercontinental matches.”

That was also true.

Actually, everyone knew that CHNC’s current problem was still the backwardness of tactics and talent.

On one hand, they started late and had few systems.

On the other hand, the threshold of the esports industry was there; the input of core talent was insufficient.

They had to guide the children slowly, and at the same time, consider their individual growth.

“My thought is, after I step down as captain, you can give me some special privileges… I’m not asking for much.”

Wen Man lowered his eyes, twirling his pen between his fingers, his voice steady and elegant, “Just consider it a testing ground I’ve never been able to realize. I want to personally train one person and play the World Championship with them. So, within the team, I also want to apply for him to have some special privileges.”

“When I was captain, I couldn’t and shouldn’t emphasize individual ability. When I’m a team member, I think I have the right to propose this plan.”

“Holy crap, the coaching staff released new rules!!! Says they’ll specifically introduce them in a meeting tomorrow, giving us a heads-up now!”

That evening, Xue Wei lay back in his quilt and checked the national team group chat messages.

Wen Man hadn’t come back to sleep; he seemed to be on another business trip.

The freshly packed suitcase had already been taken.

[Collective Notification Regarding New Season National Team Elimination System (Trial)]

[Comprehensive individual ability assessment within six months, elimination system. Assessment direction: balanced assessment, i.e., individual ability scores in various positions, ranked by individual points, added to the overall youth trainee ranking, implementing bottom-tier elimination.]

[Personnel Change: Wen Man has resigned from the position of national team captain. The new captain is temporarily undecided. No other changes for now.]

[Note: Certain individual team members will undergo closed group training. Training content will not be publicly announced for now.]

The group chat was silent.

No one had spoken yet; everyone was digesting and contemplating the news.

Pandora sent a message.

–May I ask which individual team members will undergo closed training? Can it be announced in advance, so we can prepare?

Closed training was not new to them.

Many times, to prevent tactical leaks, sometimes even team members themselves didn’t know.

For example, the double M82A1 tactic that he and Wen Man showcased in the World Round-Robin Tournament, which almost leveled the entire arena.

This cooperation was secretly trained for a period and only revealed in the semifinals.

–And Captain Wen, if he’s a player, which team will he join, and how will he train?

Wen Man was no longer at the club, but he probably saw the group message while on his business trip.

He replied: [Specific projects for closed training are undecided. Personnel are undecided. Two people have been confirmed.]

[One, myself.]

[Second, National Team Two member Now.]

[No other plans for now.]