Chapter 91: Just A Streamer, Doinb Shows A Determined Gaze!
Li Fan really didn’t take the earlier episode too seriously, just feeling that the scene of this group of haters confronting his fans offline was too absurd and hilarious.
He never expected it to happen to him.
To be honest, he wasn’t some absurd player!
There was no reason for so many haters to target him…
“Looks like last time the little fanboy got right in his face with that ultimate skill taunt too harshly, stirring up these guys’ rebellious psychology.” Li Fan thought to himself, “That’s fine too, it creates buzz, draws attention, not a bad thing for the league, just wondering how lively the internet will be after today’s match, but as long as they win the match, these little episodes are just minor excitement.”
After all, for professional players, as long as they can win matches, these are just minor hardships, and naturally there will be great scholars to defend them.
But it was foreseeable that after today’s incident, in the next match, those enraged fans would probably go all out to snatch tickets, determined to get their revenge.
Damn it, in the end, the official side makes a killing again.
He wouldn’t end up as the ticket-selling kid, would he?
Meanwhile, outside the venue, Yu Luo, queuing to enter, looked at that group of guys wearing “Hater Come” T-shirts strutting around arrogantly, fuming with anger.
Angrily pulling out his mobile phone, he opened the fan group named Unreal “Pure White and Flawless” support group.
Pure White and Flawless was mainly because of that Weibo post Abu made online.
It was such a contrast to Li Fan in the game…
Everyone found it very amusing, so they voted and agreed on this name for the fan group’s group name.
Actually, without haters, the white fans are the biggest haters.
“Damn, no wonder tickets were so hard to get this time! These haters actually showed up offline, this time we have fewer people and got bullied.”
This message was like a stone thrown into a calm lake, instantly stirring up waves.
The fans in the group immediately exploded:
“What? Haters actually grouped up and went? They trash-talk online, fine, but they actually went offline!”
“Holy crap! No wonder tickets sold out in seconds!”
“Too ridiculous, how are these haters willing to spend money?”
“Can we tolerate this? Next match, prepare in advance! Snatch tickets! We must build up the momentum!”
“Right! Next time we must have more people than them! Give Unreal face!”
“Sign up, next time group up and go, can’t let Unreal be suppressed by haters’ aura!”
“Unreal can only be hated by us, who the hell are these people.”
The group was fired up, all expressing that for the next match they must plan ahead, organize more people to snatch tickets, vowing to get revenge for this time’s suppression.
He never expected the haters to dare fight back!
On the other side, in the temporary group for Hater Come, it was a scene of jubilation.
“Total victory! Brothers, today’s face is maxed out!”
“Hahaha, not in vain that I set an alarm early in the morning to snatch tickets, we outnumbered them and completely drowned out their voices!”
“The boos on site were perfect, now just see how Unreal performs today.”
“If he performs poorly, just wait to be booed to pieces!”
“Today’s organization was a success! Next time continue!”
“I feel Unreal will face huge pressure seeing us right off the bus, his performance today definitely won’t be good.”
“What Unreal? Should be called Unreal÷!”
“We have to completely kick out this fake player who’s riding on League of Legends traffic, his real profession is streamer, not professional player.”
“Exactly!”
They were thrilled for successfully organizing this offline event and completely suppressing the white fans in momentum.
Last time it was that powerless feeling of not being able to reach through the screen.
Seeing their extremely arrogant looks… couldn’t hold it, really couldn’t hold it.
How frustrated last time, that’s how satisfying this time.
In the backstage lounge, EDG’s players had entered their preparation state.
Because time was approaching five o’clock…
Although generally, the official schedules start at five but may not officially begin at five, staff would come in advance to have everyone wait in the player tunnel.
This minimizes time waste.
After doing simple makeup, the staff came to notify the players they could prepare to go on stage.
Stepping onto the stage again, the site lights and cheers mixed with some boos hit them in the face.
EDG’s on-site fans were now in spectator mode, not participating.
After all, their attitude toward Li Fan was complicated.
They still needed to see today’s match performance first.
If he performed well, it would naturally help Li Fan get revenge.
If he played poorly, they would become allies of these haters.
Li Fan adjusted his headphones, sat in his position, glanced at the audience, and sure enough saw that eye-catching Hater Come bloc.
Kuaisu Xing saw Li Fan’s gaze, thinking he was still bothered by the anti-fans shouting at him earlier.
After all, at Li Fan’s age, he was still very concerned about fans’ views of him.
A seventeen-year-old kid just wants everyone’s recognition, right?
The simplest way to destroy a young professional player is through constant suppression.
Once confidence is shaken after suppression, he naturally falls apart.
In the professional circle, this is very common.
“Li Fan, you don’t need to take these to heart, on the arena just show your strength, after winning the match they will naturally shut up.”
Li Fan nodded.
In fact, his heart was undisturbed… instead he wanted to see what expressions these anti-fans would have after he won the match.
On the QG contest side, Doinb couldn’t help but curl his lips into a schadenfreude smile.
Actually, when entering the venue earlier, he also saw the scene of Li Fan being crazily taunted by haters, his mentality must have been affected upon entering, today luck was on his side…
“You don’t train properly, streaming and doing antics every day, now people despise you, huh?” Doinb felt secretly pleased, “You got the popularity, but can you handle it? Young man.”
He could already envision the post-match scene: himself leading QG to cleanly defeat EDG, while this so-called genius rookie Unreal exposed his true form in the lane against him, with operations falling apart.
At that time, the boos from that group of haters in the audience would turn into full arena mockery, and online public opinion would tsunami-like drown Li Fan.
Doinb knew the rules of this circle too well.
When in the spotlight, everyone chases you, but once defeated, especially by a heavily studied opponent, all previous strengths get reinterpreted as weaknesses.
The high attention from streaming was now like a double-edged sword: winning brings more gains, losing bites back harder.
This guy just can’t lose matches, if he loses, the outcome will definitely be miserable.
Serves him right! Why does the club ignore you streaming when we’re all professional players? And let you have such huge popularity.
Actually, it was jealousy toward Li Fan being able to stream and having high popularity.
Because he also wanted to eat from the streaming bowl.
Who would choose bitter training if they could stream?
Unreal this guy is already eating it, so he doesn’t train every day.
“Hope you don’t cry after today’s match ends.” Doinb composed himself, showing a determined gaze.
The noisy clamor on site gradually quieted, everyone’s attention focused on the stage.
At the same time, at the commentator desk, Guan Zeyuan, Ji De, and Su Xiao Yan, the three commentators, were ready and began preheating for the first match about to start.
Su Xiao Yan spoke first: “Welcome viewers to the live broadcast site of the 2017 LPL Spring Split! I’m commentator Su Xiao Yan.”
“Hello everyone, I’m Ji De.”
“Hello everyone, I’m Guan Zeyuan.”
After simple opening remarks, Su Xiao Yan immediately steered the topic to today’s focal match: “Today we’ll bring you the EDG vs QG BO3 battle! This is also a very crucial match in the second half of our Spring Split regular season.”
“This match concerns the playoffs first, second, and third place standings.”
“Yes, Group B’s first, second, and third place results are very close, the landscape really could change because of one match.”
“If EDG loses today’s match, they’ll completely lose contention for first place, and second place might drop to third.”
“If they hold their win, second place is locked in, and subsequent first place depends on WE’s matches.”
Ji De took over: “Exactly, but after choosing rookie mid laner Unreal player, EDG has achieved a winning streak recently, in very hot state.
Unreal player’s joining has brought many new changes and possibilities to EDG’s tactical system.”
Su Xiao Yan said in her usual tone: “Yes, the most impressive is Unreal player’s bottomless champion pool.”
“In the last match against WE, he consecutively pulled out Taliyah and Ryze, both with dominating performances.”
“Whether Taliyah’s roam support or Ryze’s late game carry ability, he showcased them perfectly, truly giving EDG huge BP advantage, making it very hard for opponents to target.”
But as she said this, a small area on site let out booing sounds.
Clearly, hearing Su Xiao Yan hyping Li Fan made them feel very displeased.
But Su Xiao Yan didn’t care about these at all.
After all, sitting so steadily in the commentator position, to put it bluntly, she was the top sister.
Even commentating with Wa Wa and Miller, she sat in the center C position.
If not for planning to stop commentating after this year, the official side wouldn’t be rushing to train successor female commentators.
Like this year adding two more female commentators, Rita and Zhou Shuyi.
But everyone’s impression of their commentating wasn’t good, not even qualifying as vases.
Just saying, with comparison, the gap is exaggerated.
Guan Zeyuan nodded in agreement: “Exactly! You’re so right, Xiao Yan jie, this rookie is too exaggerated, dare to take the signature pick and I dare to pick it, and picking it means carrying!”
“Can you believe this? A rookie who’s only been in LPL not long? This confidence and strength reminds me of some top mid laners when they first debuted.”
Just hyping one side’s mid laner wouldn’t do.
Ji De astutely started hyping Doinb.
“But Zeyuan, today Unreal faces no ordinary person, it’s QG’s core Doinb. Doinb’s recent state is also hot, and for second place contention, believe he’ll bring peak performance today.”
“Most importantly, in the last match against Xi Ye he had such exaggerated performance, surely he’ll have fully researched Unreal.”
With the commentators’ buildup, the on-site and screen viewers’ emotions were fully stirred.
On the big screen, both coaches stood behind their players, game theory officially began.
Blue Side QG, Red Side EDG.
“Uh… QG first ban picks Taliyah, clearly prepared, feeling Taliyah’s roam in the last match was a big threat to them.”
“Indeed, Taliyah has decent laning ability… and can support teammates, banning her is fine.”
Taliyah has high priority this patch, more comfortable than Card in lane, ultimate skill support speed not much slower, especially since the ultimate skill can alter terrain, with a bit of creativity, one ultimate skill splitting the battlefield can change the match situation.
QG then banned Ashe, Lucian.
EDG banned Camille, Kennen, Rengar.
“Then for this BP… Jarvan IV is free, and Lee Sin.”
“EDG has Syndra… LeBlanc, see their choice, probably taking mid lane first, Clearlove’s side Lee Sin priority not high.” After Guan Zeyuan said this, he knew he misspoke.
Wasn’t this right in the face with a big ultimate skill taunt saying 4396?
Equivalent to bringing rhythm.
Hurriedly shut his mouth…
But QG first pick directly snatched LeBlanc.
LeBlanc could only be played in this period.
Riot’s next update announcement was to continue nerfing Q skill.
This nerf completely removed sustain, even item build couldn’t save it, LeBlanc hadn’t appeared since Spring Split started.
“LeBlanc locked! Very confident!”
EDG faster!
First and second floor take Syndra and Lee Sin…
Guan Zeyuan felt his face swollen from the slap, just said EDG doesn’t prioritize Lee Sin highly, and EDG directly took Lee Sin.
But to be fair, Syndra does pair better with Lee Sin.
Mid-jungle rhythm intensity a whole tier higher.
Also cuts off opponent’s LeBlanc Lee Sin combo desire.
Ban with pick, this choice is fine.
QG without Lee Sin still took Jarvan IV, third pick helped top lane take Nautilus, bot lane duo choose later.
“EDG still chooses bot lane first, helping zet take the handy Varus…”
“Next up is both sides’ second round BP.”
EDG bans target opponent’s ADC, Sivir, Jinx, QG bans top lane Maokai and Gragas.
This limits both sides’ hero choices.
EDG takes Shen, leaving Kennen’s spot for support.
QG locks Kai’Sa and Tahm Kench.
EDG’s last pick surprisingly takes Malzahar…
Support Malzahar!
Doinb’s smile gradually faded.
Clearly this pick aims to pin him down, in teamfights if he dares enter, Malzahar ultimate skill presses, he won’t escape easily.
Both sides’ lineups thus finalized.
Blue Side QG: Top Nautilus, Jungler Jarvan IV, Mid LeBlanc, Bot duo Kai’Sa with Tahm Kench.
Red Side EDG: Top Shen, Jungler Lee Sin, Mid Syndra, Bot duo Varus with Malzahar.
