However, even though he made it to the offline tournament, looking at the other competitors around him with varied hair colors and nationalities, Chen Hao knew the score.
He couldn’t possibly win the championship.
There’s always someone stronger, and there are too many people better than him. Just take the National Service, he couldn’t beat the online tournament’s champion and runner-up.
A single elimination isn’t too bad, losing doesn’t cost anything, and winning is a major gain.
Too bad for Desolate Rainbow, sponsoring him instead of someone else—does he have a champion’s face perhaps?
"AMD, Yes!"
"NVIDIA, NVIDIA..."
"Daren Shuo, never give up!"
A lot of spectators came to the venue today, not sure if Ba found them or if the graphics card sponsors did, but their cheers were exceptionally loud.
Chen Hao shook his head, trying not to let external factors disturb him, and started a quick training match to warm up.
The match was about to start!
competitors would be shuffled and divided into four groups for Bo3 matches, with the group winners advancing to the semi-finals in Bo5 format, followed by the finals.
Unluckily for Chen Hao, he landed in a hellish group and was regretfully eliminated in the first round.
However, two other players from the National Service claimed first in Group A and Group C, securing two of the semi-final spots.
The other two semi-final spots went to competitors from the US Server and the EU Server.
Daren Shuo VS Shrinking Star, Material Pile Tai VS Sapphire!
All four semi-finalists were in grudge matches. Unfortunately, NVIDIA cards held three spots, with Sapphire being the sole AMD card still standing.
In the end, the True Immortal sponsored by Daren Shuo easily won.
On the other side, the battle between Material Pile Tai and Sapphire dragged on for a long time, with Sapphire RX7900 Platinum making a comeback to win 3:2.
The ultimate showdown of this year’s "Path to Immortality" featured Daren Shuo 4090 Raptor VS Sapphire RX7900 Platinum.
The destined duel between NVIDIA and AMD!
The crowd at the venue nearly went wild, chanting AMDYES loudly, indicating their eagerness to see AMD triumph over many NVIDIA cards for the championship.
But Chen Ba saw it clearly.
The player sponsored by Daren Shuo, also mixing among Immortal Emperors, was too powerful.
Their skills were on another level; the Sapphire player had already pushed to their limits reaching the finals, how could they possibly compete with this "unstoppable True Immortal"?
The result was as expected.
Daren Shuo 4090 Raptor effortlessly swept the finals 3:0 to win the championship, making the match less exciting than the semi-finals and leaving AMD with a sad loss.
"Daren Shuo is cheating..."
After awarding the player, Chen Ba returned to his seat and complained, "I asked around, guess how the champion player got here?"
"How?"
Lu and Yang Dong were very curious, as the True Immortal was extremely mysterious.
"He’s a well-known ranked player, but his usual graphics card hasn’t made it past Path to Immortality, normally just playing ranked."
"One day, he suddenly received a delivery containing a 4090 Raptor, and that was basically it..."
No wonder their skills were so good!
Daren Shuo’s move could already be considered cheating by hiring a substitute.
While everyone was chanting slogans, someone got the eye on the best operator and sent him a 4090, allowing him to become a True Immortal in just a few days.
In other words.
The True Immortal is genuinely skilled, but this True Immortal only became one because the graphics card upgrade period was too short to reach Immortal Emperor.
Daren Shuo lacked sportsmanship, sneakily recruiting one of the strongest ranked players to rationally win this year’s "Path to Immortality" championship.
After all, with ultimate skills paired with ultimate graphics cards, who else could take the championship?