Chapter 103 I won’t leave you. (2/2)
Half a year ago, Doctor Chen had told him that there was a new physiotherapy technology in North America that was specifically aimed at chronic injuries caused by external forces.
At the time, FTW had just won the domestic competition and entered the global competition. Lu Feng had said that it was impossible to treat anything at the time.
Later on, FTW had done a round trip at the globals, but Lu Feng still had to stick around waiting for the singles competition finals. The end of the year arrived in a flash.
The off-season only lasted for a little over a month. Could Lu Feng get treatment then?
The answer was still no.
In recent years, FTW had always been in turmoil. How could Lu Feng leave for two months?
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Not to mention, he would have to answer to the fans for going away for such a long time.
What could he say?
Tell them that he was going in for treatment?
In that case, the whole FTW would be broken up.
FTW couldn’t bear such a withdrawal of capital and definitely couldn’t bear it if the partners dissolved their contracts.
Lu Feng could only hold on. He held on until Ning Zhehan joined the team, until Wei Xiao came back.
The winter training had undoubtedly made FTW famous within China, and Wei Xiao’s outstanding performance had attracted countless people’s attention.
The most important thing for e-sports clubs were their achievements, followed by their star players.
There was no doubt that Wei Xiao had infinite potential in both aspects.
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He had good results, he was very popular, and he was just like a dark horse storming into the China competition zone.
Could Lu Feng let go now? Could he go and heal his shoulder, get rid of this old injury, and face the global competitions in his best state?
Before now, Lu Feng had thought that he couldn’t.
But…
Wei Xiao’s words had woken him up.
––Could it be that you only want to play for this one year?
––I’ve just come back to the team, are you going to leave me behind?
No.
Lu Feng didn’t care about missing the opportunity to fight against the Team of Gods, and he didn’t care about who won the doubles championship.
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But, he couldn’t not care about Wei Xiao.
He’d brought Wei Xiao back, and he didn’t want to play with him for only one year.
Wei Xiao was only 19 years old. His competitive career had only just begun, and he was unwilling to withdraw from the competition arena.
Lu Feng didn’t want to watch Wei Xiao’s brilliance from beneath the stage. He wanted to stand on the stage with him!
Lu Feng didn’t know what would happen if he continued to let his shoulder injury drag on.
He’d already put it off for a long time. Even if he kept exercising, even if he was self-disciplined, even if he had regular physiotherapy, it was still deteriorating.
It was just like Wei Xiao had said.
After playing this year, what would he do if his shoulder worsened to the point where it couldn’t be cured?
Was he willing to retire? Was he willing to let Wei Xiao go?
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He wasn’t willing.
Lu Feng dialed Xiang Liu’s phone number, “Contact the coaching team, I have something to tell them.”
In order to go get treatment, he would first have to have a showdown.
FTW was bound to usher in a huge shockwave.
Yet, Lu Feng wasn’t worried. Wei Xiao’s bright eyes flashed in his head, his gaze as bright as the sun, and his heart warmed up.
After walking alone for so long, he was finally no longer on his own.
There was silence in the conference room.
Lu Feng’s understated explanation of the facts shocked everyone present.
Chen Feng’s face was snow white, with no trace of color, “Wh-when did it start?”
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He’d been with Lu Feng for three years, from the start of the new FTW. He’d always been here, but he’d actually never known about Lu Feng’s injury.
He was in a trance, and for a moment, he couldn’t hear anything around him.
Tang Chen was a little calmer. He asked Lu Feng, “Do you have confidence in the treatment?”
Lu Feng: “70%.”
The entire room sucked in a breath.
Xiang Liu had been worried for so many years, and he now finally had a chance to speak up, “70% is already very optimistic. Even if you can’t recover completely, it’ll still be in a much better state than it is now!”
Chen Feng slowly came back to his senses, “If it’s like this… the regular season…”
Lu Feng looked at Tang Chen, “Brother Tang, can you still play?”
Although Tang Chen has retired, he hasn’t yet gone through the formal processes.
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At present, FTW was still short of a substitute. Chen Feng intended to have Tang Chen wait another season.
A team had to have a substitute, but it had already been a pleasant surprise for FTW to be able to recruit Ning Zhehan and Wei Xiao this year, and there was no way for them to come up with a good enough substitute.
The players in the second team would still need another year to step up to the task.
At present, Tang Chen was the best candidate. So, Chen Feng had been putting it off and hadn’t let him finish the retirement process.
Tang Chen replied, “Yes.”
Lu Feng nodded.
Normally, Tang Chen was the most careless player in the whole team, but after playing for so many years, he was now undoubtedly the most experienced and seasoned player.
While Lu Feng wasn’t here, FTW would be a little more stable with Tang Chen holding down the fort.
Chen Feng took a deep breath and analyzed calmly, “This year’s regular season is different from previous years. It’s very important.”
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This was also the reason why Lu Feng had been so worried before.
During the regular season in previous years, as long as they made it to the top four of their group, they would be able to enter the playoffs.
The playoffs were based on an elimination system, going from eight into four, and four into two, and then the final two teams determined the champion and runner up positions.
However, this year, the competition committee had made changes in order to enhance the intensity of the regular season, and make it more fun to watch.
The concept of a winner group and a loser group came into being.
The top two teams in the regular season groups were in the winners group.
The third and fourth placed teams were in the losers group.
After the winner group teams entered the playoffs and competed, any team that lost would fall into the loser group.
The losers would compete. If they lost again, they would be eliminated, and their season would end there.
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So, those in the winners group would have two chances to enter the playoffs.
Unfortunately, falling into the losers group would be very miserable for any team. Not only would they have to play more games, each fight would also be a game between life and death.
The addition of this new competition system made the regular season very heated.
Those who’d originally wanted to use the regular season for training no longer dared to take it lightly because every point was crucial, and every change in the rankings affected their final chances at victory.
There was a difference between first and second place, and there was also a difference between third and fourth place.
A team’s performance in the regular season was no longer something that could be taken lightly. Instead, it was now a benefit that was linked to the team’s fault tolerance rate in the playoffs!
To put it bluntly.
If FTW won the first place in their group during the regular season, then the playoffs would be easy mode for them.
If FTW came fourth in their group during the regular season, then the playoffs would be hell mode.
Not to mention…
It wasn’t that easy to enter the top four.
If they fell to the fifth, sixth, or seventh places, would they even need to talk about the global competition?
They wouldn’t even be able to play in the divisional championships.
The author has something to say:
I’m afraid that you guys won’t understand… Well, they didn’t ‘do’ it all the way, but why is Little Xiao so tired? [old driver warning]
xiin – WX will wake up and revert back to energizer bunny mode~