Gold Medal Coach

Chapter 06

Chapter 06: National Team Members

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ACE was a grassroots team founded by Jiang Shaoyu. There were only seven members in the team. There was the leader sister, Yu Mingxiang, the captain and coach Jiang Shaoyu, the charger Old Lin, the assaulter Xiao Zhou, the scout Ye Zi, the medic Xiao Chen and the only youth trainee, Jiang Shaoyu’s little apprentice Pei Feng.

His teammates were all passersby that Jiang Shaoyu found in the game. Therefore, ACE was called the ‘Passersby King Team’ by fans.

Once Jiang Shaoyu left, ACE was completely disbanded and the players transferred collectively. Three of them performed well in their new teams and were successfully selected for the national team.

However,  there was no medic Xiao Chen or his apprentice Pei Feng in the data of the national team. This made him think about what Sister Yu had previously said on the phone. Old Lin was about to retire, Ye Zi was suspended, Xiao Chen sat on the bench for a season and Pei Feng didn’t even become a professional player… Jiang Shaoyu couldn’t help frowning.

What was going on? It seemed he would have to wait until he returned to China to find out.

The Gun King’s World Series was like the E-sports World Cup and it was held once a year. Each participating country selected a national team to represent the country.

The national team had 11 players, including the main players and substitute players. There was no upper limit on the number of other staff members such as the team leader, coach, assistant coach, team doctor, logistics etc,. All of them could join the team and participate in the competition. Many national teams even brought their own chefs when going to play.

The game mode of Gun King was a 5V5 duel.

The charger position was responsible for clearing the road ahead, the assaulter was for melee combat, the scout roamed nimbly, the medic saved and healed the wounded and the sniper suppressed from a long range—each of the five positions performed their respective duties and cooperated in various ways.

Players might face problems such as acclimatization, illness and a poor condition during overseas competitions so most national teams had two players in each position. One was the main player and the other was the substitute. They were rotated when necessary. This made up 10 people and the remaining 11th person could be a flexible arrangement.

For example, in last year’s World Series, the US team brought three snipers with long-range firepower while the South Korean team brought three scouts. Sometimes they would have a double scout lineup and their play style was more flexible and wretched. Some countries tended to be aggressive in style and would bring more assaulters and chargers. They were good at melee suppression.

The coaches of each national team had different ideas and their strategies when leading people would also be different.

Last year, the lineup that the Chinese national team brought was 3 chargers + 2 assaulters + 2 scouts + 2 snipers + 2 medics.

Jiang Shaoyu was a sniper so he focused on the data of the two snipers in the national team.

Mo Hantian was the winner of the Best Newcomer Award in the domestic league last season. He had just passed his 18th birthday not long ago and was in his best condition. The other was Liu Shaozhou from the BM team. He was the current captain of BM and the successor of Captain Qi. His marksmanship was very stable.

Jiang Shaoyu had been paying attention to international events and also watched the live stream of the last World series. The Chinese team was very unlucky and faced the United States in the group stage. The snipers of the American team were very powerful while the sniper that the Chinese team sent at that time was Mo Hantian, a newcomer.