You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 162 (2)

Since the three Chinese teams had arrived at San Francisco early, they were too early to check into the hotel provided by the organizer. The bosses of the three clubs had met earlier to discuss the living arrangements for the teams before the official arranged rooms were available. They had decided to reserve a whole floor at the same hotel the organizer had designated which was close to the group match location. It was for the convenience of the players and staff so they wouldnt need to move afterwards.

-- --The Chinese teams had learned their lesson from many years of playing in world tournaments. They were afraid that if they werent careful enough, there could be headlines like The players lost sleep after switching hotels that affected their performance Not being acclimatized influenced the performance of the players Unable to adjust from their jetlag, the players performance suffers......

Unlike the hotel room, the training rooms reserved for the players were open for use early on. After their arrival, Tong Yao and her teammates rested for a day. Then they went to check on the training rooms-- --When they got there, they had discovered that in addition to the China region, teams from the other regions had also arrived early. Only the wild card teams from Russia and Turkey hadnt arrived yet

When the teams spoke about their current living arrangements, the players from the other regions were all quite envious of the Chinese players. The captain of the team from Taiwan, FZ, was also overweight. He had gotten to know the players from ZGDX quite well since they had often played skirmishes with ZGDX He complained to Tong Yao and her teammates that they had arrived two days early and were currently living in a place that was one and a half hour drive from the training rooms.

Its so hard. We have to get up so early in the morning then ride in the car for an hour and a half doing nothing. FZs top and captain, game id Pikachu, bitterly complained: Thats not the worst part. The worst part is that we thought if we came here early we would have a better chance to arrange skirmishes with the stronger teams, but theyre ignoring us and only playing practice matches with teams from their own region Were a team in the first seeded pool, that really hurts our feelings!

As he was talking, his eyes were looking at the three training rooms reserved for the teams from the Korean region-- --There were other people from other regions in the hallway, talking and drinking coffee. There were others who had come out to see what the only female player in the world tournament looked like when they heard that the China region had arrived Overall, it was quite relaxed and friendly among all the players. Only the teams from Korean region were very quiet, all of their players were sitting in the training rooms, playing training matches with their headphones on. Their coaches pacing back and forth behind them.

Tong Yao stood up on her tippy toes to take a look at the solemnity over at the Korean area: The Koreans wont play skirmishes with other regions?

Pickachu: Its possible that they think we arent qualified. You can ask Xiao Rui for a try. Maybe youll have a different result, youre ZGDX after all Anyone who has seen you guys play knows that youre super good!

At the time, Tong Yao didnt think too much about Pickachus words. She thought the Korean teams didnt agree to play with FZ because they probably didnt want to expose their strategy or something

Pichachu told Tong Yao and her teammates that his team had tried hard for a whole day before they were able to schedule about 7 or 8 skirmishes with 6 teams. Then they pestered Xiao Rui to arrange one with ZGDX as well-- --Before the end of the first round of the group match, those were all the skirmishes Team FZ would be able to play.

Xiao Rui was quite sympathetic to them.

The two Taiwaness teams left after chatting with the ZGDX players. Tong Yao was then encircled by players from other regions-- --They came over one after another to greet her. In the end, Tong Yao had exchanged greetings with almost half of her future opponents

[You are Smiling!]

-- --Yes, I am. How are you.

[Come see, another world class Smiling! Its unbelievable, such a young girl!]

-- --Haha, Im very happy that I can bring Smiling back to the world stage. Ive come to make up for Gao Xuechengs regrets from that year.

[Oh oh oh, my little sister looks exactly like you, shes 14 this year.]

-- --Ill be 20 this year, very shortly. Thanks.

[Smiling, are you sure youve reached adulthood? Really? My goodness, your captain, Chessman, hes your boyfriend? Hes absolutely committing a crime.]

-- --Ive reached adulthood, but nonetheless, hes still committing a crime alright.

[Hi, Smiling, Ive watched videos of your competitions, youre really good. There is a powerful, tough, and mighty soul inside that slender body! Look forward to meeting you face to face in the match!]

-- --Thanks, Im also looking forward to going up against you in the match.