Chapter 140: I Didn’t Receive Any Notice!
But on the third day of the match, EDG versus TSM……
The starter position featured not the Li Fan everyone was expecting, but still Scout. At that moment, everyone in the live stream room exploded.
【？？？？？？】
【Am I seeing things? Where’s Unreal?】
【Has EDG management gone crazy? The starter list says Unreal, but the person is still that noob Scout guy?】
【1-3 and still no substitution? Do they want to throw it away?】
【Damn, heaven-defying, EDG is absolutely number one among clubs right now, that feint was really something.】
【Did Scout save management’s lives? They still won’t substitute like this?】
【It’s over, EDG is completely rotten, rotten from the roots!!!】
Not just the audience, even the on-site commentators felt incredulous and found it hard to understand this decision.
Didn’t they make a substitution? Why is it like this?
And at that moment, in EDG’s backstage lounge, the atmosphere had dropped to freezing point.
No one had the mind to watch the current match.
Abu was anxious like an ant on a hot pan, continuously calling Li Fan’s phone, but it always gave the powered-off prompt.
His forehead was covered in cold sweat, his face pale.
How come they can’t get in touch?
Last night after returning to the hotel from the venue, he was still there, then he said a reporter wanted to interview him, so he went for the interview, and hasn’t come back until now.
“No……no……no one in the hotel room, checked all the places he often goes, even called the police, police said they’d keep an eye out……but this is Brazil!”
“No need to worry too much, he’s with the reporter, just contact the media company later.”
Just as EDG’s backstage was in chaos.
Brazil, somewhere in Sao Paulo, inside a professional esports club’s training base, gunshots, footsteps, and callouts rose and fell.
This was the training base of Brazil powerhouse BD club’s Crossfire division.
After yesterday’s match, upon returning to the base, Diego came for another interview, and Li Fan agreed.
During the interview, Li Fan casually mentioned he used to play CF and was pretty good at it, even joking about the current version’s firearm balance.
The speaker had no particular intent, but the listener took it to heart.
Diego himself was a hardcore esports enthusiast, had long heard of Li Fan’s “game genius” reputation, and his Street Fighter championship win shocked him to the core.
He immediately realized this could be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so he enthusiastically invited Li Fan to visit their CF base for some guidance.
He also wanted to see what level Li Fan was at in Crossfire.
Li Fan was originally a bit idle after being benched as substitute, and now they wanted him back for the match……
To be honest, he was still a bit emotional about it, after all, even participating in the Street Fighter match had Abu’s approval.
You approved it, but then due to external pressure, you bench him anyway. Honestly, that’s hard to accept.
Going against opposition to participate is one thing, he’d accept the punishment, but clearly after approval, and still doing this is unacceptable.
He has so many fans and is so strong in various games, Abu seems to not know who’s boss anymore, and doesn’t realize people have tempers too.
That day his expression was calm, but his inner emotions fluctuated greatly.
So he actually didn’t want to play tomorrow’s match, and this was a good chance to go with the reporter.
But this visit, who would have thought it was actually BD team.
This team has quite a background, very strong strength.
In the November 2017 CFSI Vietnam invitational, they defeated China’s SV team to take the championship.
SV had the grand slam player Ma Zhe……
Li Fan first watched BD team’s players train, occasionally exchanging a few words with simple English and gestures.
Under vianna1’s enthusiastic invitation, the two had a Shipment duel.
At first, BD team’s members watched with relaxed smiles, surrounding the two from behind, whispering in Portuguese, clearly thinking it was just a fun exchange.
vianna1 also had a confident smile on his face, not believing a League of Legends professional player could pose much threat in CF.
However, after the first sniper rifle gunshot, the atmosphere in the training room became subtle.
Li Fan’s operation didn’t look flashy, but that near-instinctive reaction speed and precise timing grasp made the watching professional players gradually lose their smiles.
“Bang!”
“Bang!”
“Bang!”
Sniper rifle shots echoed continuously on the classic Shipment map.
Every peek and jump by vianna1 seemed to be within Li Fan’s expectations.
Often, as soon as vianna1 showed half his body, the screen instantly went black and white.
Li Fan’s sniper bullets seemed to be waiting there already, aim down sight, aiming, shooting, with almost no pause, smooth to the point of suffocating.
While vianna1’s snipes often missed, most times he had to trade two or even three lives to barely take down Li Fan once.
“My god!” one team member couldn’t help exclaiming lowly.
“This is impossible!” another team member widened his eyes.
“His reaction……is beyond imagination.”
Exclamations rose and fell, full of disbelief.
The confidence on vianna1’s face had long vanished, replaced by focused seriousness, even fine sweat beading on his forehead.
He felt like he wasn’t entertaining a visitor, but facing a top-tier sniper!
That omnipresent suppression……
Diego stood behind Li Fan, eyes wide like bells, his camera continuously snapping photos and recording short videos.
He kept muttering to himself: “Is this the talent of a genius? Unbelievable.”
Street Fighter in just one week, successfully qualifying for the world championship, and now CF is also professional level……
BD is a powerhouse team in Brazil, with very strong strength.
He originally just wanted to satisfy his curiosity, to see what level this League of Legends genius was at in other games.
But who would have thought he’d witness such a terrifying scene!
This is vianna1, Brazil’s top CF professional player, getting beaten so miserably by a guest League of Legends player?
“Is this the level of China CF?” The thought involuntarily arose in all the Brazilian players’ minds, even bringing a hint of fear.
Even a League of Legends professional player is this exaggerated, then how strong must China’s real CF professionals be?
The duel ended, score frozen at a lopsided number.
The training room fell into a brief silence.
All the Brazilian players’ gazes toward Li Fan were filled with awe and disbelief.
Diego reacted first, excitedly rushing forward, forcefully patting Li Fan’s shoulder, incoherently expressing his shock in English: “Unreal! You truly live up to your reputation! Your reaction speed isn’t something this world should have!”
Li Fan just smiled, replying in simple English: “Actually just muscle memory, I haven’t played in a long time.”
This casual remark made the surrounding professional players draw in sharp breaths.
Hasn’t played in a long time and still at this level? This can’t be described as genius anymore, it’s a monster!
“Going to be a League of Legends player is really wasting your FPS talent.”
While Li Fan was exchanging with BD team’s players on “how to train reaction speed” and “how to find shooting feel,” enjoying pure gaming fun.
On the MSI arena, EDG was suffering a complete rout.
Without Li Fan holding mid lane, EDG seemed to have lost its soul.
In the match against TSM, Scout completely lost under Bjergsen’s suppression, falling into huge disadvantage in lane phase.
Clearlove tried to help but kept getting counter-ganked, rhythm directly collapsed.
Top and bot lanes also seemed to lose their former synergy, operations deformed, decision making hesitant.
The whole match, EDG was like scattered sand, methodically eaten away by TSM step by step, ultimately having base pushed at nearly 40 minutes.
1-4!
The scarlet numbers on the record panel stung every EDG fan’s eyes.
EDG’s five players, any one pulled out could be number two in any LPL team with ease.
But to be Big Brother and absolute core to carry, that’s impossible.
So falling into disadvantage and wanting to win the match, the difficulty ceiling is extremely high.
This led to four consecutive losses……
In the backstage lounge, deathly silence.
Abu’s face was ashen, hands covering his face.
Kuaisu Xing finally understood just how stupid Abu really is.
Back then still pulling strings to kick him out, truly brainless.
At the end of the day, it’s just wanting to control the young guy.
As a senior, that’s the bad habit, but whether you can control the young guy depends on the person.
Scout is controllable, no strength and doesn’t dare act big, so he gets scolded and beaten by him.
But Li Fan absolutely cannot be messed with without losing matches, look at what you’ve done.
Pressing the team savior onto the bench and still expecting him to come back?
Total dumbass, exploded with stupidity.
But he wasn’t too worried in his heart.
He knew Li Fan would naturally return by evening, he definitely didn’t want to play today’s match.
Online, public opinion had completely exploded, from questioning management!
At this time, the boss’s call came……
“Abu! Is your fucking head filled with shit?!!”
Ai De Zhu’s voice completely lost its usual composure.
“I gave you autonomy to manage the team well, not for you to fucking make decisions pushing the team into the fire pit, who gave you the guts to bench Li Fan before such a key MSI match?! Huh?!”
Abu’s face turned deathly pale as he explained: “Boss, public opinion pressure was too great, fans and sponsors……”
“Bullshit!” Ai De Zhu crudely interrupted, “Public opinion? Fans? What do they know! Can they help you win matches?”
“Can they pay your salary?! I want results! Champions! Traffic! Commercial value! Look at Li Fan, the positive traffic and sponsor favor he brings alone equals ten thousand haters!”
……
In BD club’s cafeteria, the atmosphere was lively, in stark contrast to EDG’s side.
Delicious Brazilian barbecue, ice-cold drinks.
Li Fan and BD’s members chatted happily using simple English, exaggerated gestures, and game terms, Diego enthusiastically kept serving him food, introducing local cuisine culture.
As the pleasant dinner neared its end, Diego habitually pulled out his mobile phone to check the time, but accidentally swiped to the latest MSI match report push.
“EDG swallows another defeat, 1-5 deep in elimination quagmire!”
Diego surprisedly opened the details, quickly skimmed it, then looked at the leisurely drinking Li Fan with a complex expression.
“Li, your team……situation seems even worse.”
Diego turned the phone screen to Li Fan, showing EDG’s latest match loss news, record now a miserable 1-5.
“Why would a player like you be sitting on the bench?”
“Mm, club’s arrangement.”
“Arrangement?” Diego frowned, face full of confusion and a hint of indignation, “Letting a genius like you sit sidelined, watching the team lose consecutively? My God……they’re really a bunch of idiots!”
Diego’s blunt words drew the nearby BD members to curiously crowd over, and upon learning the situation, they all showed incredulous expressions.
“Why don’t you just stay and play CF with our club.”
Li Fan didn’t respond, just pulled out his mobile phone from his pocket and pressed the power button.
Shortly after powering on, the call came through.
Abu’s near-breakdown roar pierced through: “Li Fan!!! My ancestor!!! Where the hell are you?”
“Ah? Abu manager? What’s so urgent?”
“Starter? I didn’t know……my phone was dead, then at BD club exchanging and sparring CF with friends, just finished dinner, just powered on and saw the match loss news, was gonna contact you, and you called right then.”
“Okay okay I’m coming back right away, I didn’t know I was starter……”
Li Fan hung up Abu’s call, gave Diego and BD’s members a helpless smile: “Looks like I gotta head back quick.”
“Li, good luck! Remember, BD club’s doors are always open to you, if League of Legends side gets unhappy, come to Brazil anytime, we need geniuses like you!”
Li Fan smiled and thanked them, then under Diego’s arrangement, got into the car back to the hotel.
And shortly after Li Fan left, Diego immediately sorted today’s footage and quickly wrote a report.
《League of Legends genius Unreal crushes BD core vianna1! China CF level unfathomable!》
The report detailed Li Fan’s terrifying strength in CF, describing it as absolute talent transcending game boundaries, and attached the duel video that made vianna1 sweat profusely.
At the end of the report, Diego added a “fun fact”.
“Even more shocking is, in exchanges with Unreal, we learned he hadn’t received any notification from his club EDG about starting in the key MSI match, missing it while on friendly visit to our club.
Only contacting after powering on was he urgently called back.
This can’t help but make one wonder, what issues does EDG club’s internal communication and management have? Leaving such a key player completely in the dark about match arrangements?”
This report was immediately reposted back home.
【Watched the video, vianna1 had no way to fight back, too exaggerated! Even invited Li Fan to join BD club.】
【Is that the point? The point is EDG management are idiots! Didn’t even notify Fan Ge he’s starting?】
【”Did not receive starter notification”, hahahahaha, I can laugh at EDG management’s joke for a year!】
【Where are those haters who said Fan Shen was neglecting his duties? Look! He’s dominating other game fields too!】
【Management get out now! Without changing management, EDG will never rise!】
【Now everyone gets it? It’s not EDG carrying Unreal, it’s Unreal carrying EDG forward……】
