LOL: Can’t I play other games professionally?

Chapter 566 I Have My Own Rhythm
Is Lin Ruo also coming to participate in the Samsung Cup?

The matter escalated in less than half a day.

Korean online forums related to Go, and even League of Legends forums, all published this news that might keep everyone up at night.

After witnessing Lin Ruo's performance in the League of Legends World Championship and finally acknowledging him as an extremely well-rounded genius, I learned that he might participate in the Samsung Cup.

No South Korean can remain calm; they'd probably collapse overnight, even climbing thousands of floors.

[Xiba, hasn't he retired from the world of Go yet? Why is he back?]

[Didn't you just finish the League of Legends World Championship? Instead of giving yourself a break, you're playing Go? Is that right? Can't you consider your physical limits? Playing every day is exhausting. You may not care, but I certainly do. Lin Ruo, please rest. Don't come here for real.]

I had completely forgotten about that time with the lilies, but now I've remembered it again. How annoying!

[What a madman! Is this all the preparation time you have? Can't you be realistic? Other contestants prepare for six months, and you only prepare for one month? If you're not suited for this, don't come.]

[If he really only has a month to prepare, then, damn it, let him come! Let him come happy this time and leave crying.]

...

Among the pessimistic South Korean netizens, there are also radicals who believe that Samsung can redeem itself in this Samsung Cup.

But when I think back to the scene half a year ago when I was defeated by three Korean players in a row, and then I think about this year's League of Legends World Championship, well, it seems a bit inappropriate.

The summary is.

This Lin Ruo seems to be invincible.

So when the seed list came out two days later, most South Korean netizens expressed overwhelming disappointment.

Be serious!
This Samsung Cup is a gathering of strong competitors.

Park Jung-hwan, Shin Jin-seo, Kim Ji-seok, and Byun Sang-il from South Korea are all on the list.

Among them are those who were recommended by the Korea Baduk Association for their good performance in the past two years, and those who automatically entered the round of 32 because they were one of the top four in the previous Samsung Cup.

China is not to be outdone.

The team includes last year's champion Ke Jie, as well as strong players such as Yang Dingxin and Chen Yaoye, and Lin Ruo, who just won the world championship.

The list was released.

Many Chinese netizens have already gone to Bilibili to revisit the Mengbaihe Cup final from six months ago.

[Comment section check-in! Your Lin Shen is back! Looking forward to seeing Lin Shen veil the Korean player in the Samsung Cup final.]

[That's not necessarily true. Have you all forgotten who the Samsung Cup god is? Do you think Jaguar can't beat the Koreans in the Samsung Cup?]

[Yeah, I almost forgot about Jaguar. It wouldn't be unreasonable for Dream to hand them an all-Chinese final.]

[Not too much, not too little. I still want an internal battle between the Dream Team's top four.]

【That's really going too far. All four semifinalists are Chinese players. How are the Koreans supposed to compete? Do you even want the Samsung Cup to continue?】

...

Chinese netizens were just reminiscing and discussing it, but who knew that after learning that Lin Ruo would participate in the Samsung Cup, a lot of people seemed to reminisce, with hundreds of thousands of people online.

Clearly, the Mengbaihe Cup final between Lin Ruobo and Park Jung-hwan is considered a classic game in the history of Chinese Go.

After all, he is China's first world champion born in the 2000s, so the value of his achievement is self-evident.

Chinese Go players were naturally excited about this, while South Korean Go players were devastated.

South Korean players, however, disagreed.

For example, Park Jung-hwan displayed a strong desire for revenge upon learning this news.

"Is this kid coming too? I've been looking for someone to get my revenge on."

After defeating his biggest rival Ke Jie in the Mengbaihe Cup, Park Jung-hwan was full of confidence, believing he would win the final championship. But who knew that Lin Ruo would come out halfway and cut him down?

And it made him lose in a very humiliating way.

Although it seems that all of Lin Ruo's opponents are equally humiliating, Park Jung-hwan, who is still the number one player in South Korea, cannot accept it at all.

South Korean netizens also couldn't accept it, so even though Lin Ruo was incredibly talented, she still faced a lot of criticism after Park Jung-hwan returned.

So he wanted revenge.

Challenging stronger opponents is a fundamental quality of a chess player.

Six months have passed, and Park Jung-hwan has completely forgotten how he was humiliated by Lin Ruo. He only knows that he has become stronger and has maintained his top form in dozens of matches in the top-tier Go tournaments in South Korea over the past six months.

No one has been able to defeat him yet, whether it's veteran domestic players or rising stars who have the potential to become the world's number one.

Then Lin Ruo arrived.

Park Jung-hwan was naturally excited and had an urge to take back everything he had lost.

However, that's a matter for later. Before that, there's a preliminary round like the qualifiers, which are irrelevant to these seeded players.

...

On the other hand, Lin Ruo, who had agreed, returned to the club and spent the last few days doing nothing but live streaming, except for buying a plane ticket to South Korea next month.

Previously, the live stream chat was full of questions about what games I was playing, but this time the chat was much more concise.

[I heard you're going to participate in the Samsung Cup, is that true? Does that mean I can't stream it? But if you really beat up the Koreans, then not streaming it won't really matter.]

[Going to fight the Koreans again? Lin Gou must have a grudge against the Koreans. He just finished playing League of Legends and now he's going to play Go. How could you be so mean? I love it!]

[I'm a girl, and I know that Lin Gou has a crush on someone, and I know that she hates Koreans, so Lin Gou goes around chasing after Koreans to kill them.]

[Stop talking nonsense. You're going to the competition soon, shouldn't you play a few games of Go to get back into form?]

Yes.

Lin Ruo thought he should play a few games of Go to get back into form, so he calmly played some Gomoku on the online Go board for an hour to warm up.

Then I opened WildFox, which I hadn't used in a long time.

It's fine, and it hasn't gathered dust yet. It's just that if I don't log in soon, my account will probably be considered dead and deleted.

There were countless game invitations on the screen, but Lin Ruo didn't accept any of them. After all, she hadn't logged into FoxGo since winning the Mengbaihe Cup, so it would be a miracle if she saw these messages.

Of course, even if he saw Lin Ruo, he wouldn't agree. "Did you pay me? Let me accompany you."

Do you even know what "playing with someone" means?

While exchanging chess skills can improve one's technique, is it necessary for me to improve my technique through this? It doesn't seem necessary.

Therefore, Lin Ruo only glanced at it briefly and had no intention of playing chess on Wild Fox at all.

Sigh, if you want to play chess, just find some online friends to play with.

Yeah, would netizens dare to come?
They actually dared to come.

"Are you going to participate in the Samsung Cup?" Abu, who hadn't supervised Lin Ruo for a long time, came to the training room once again, drawn by the smell.

He didn't disagree with Lin Ruo participating in the Samsung Cup, but that would mean many things would be impossible to do.

For example, in the All-Star event in December, as the most popular player in the LPL, the probability of Lin Ruo not being selected is almost zero. As the best jungler, becoming a member of the All-Star team is almost a certainty. If he has to participate in something like the Samsung Cup, the All-Star selection will have to be put aside.

Abu didn't care.

But would Riot Games be willing to accept this? The player who isn't coming is currently the most popular player in Europe and America. They're just waiting to use you as a gimmick to attract viewers, and you're not coming.

Therefore, communication is definitely necessary in these kinds of matters.

If a player doesn't want to go or can't go, Riot Games has no reason to stop them, but they certainly can't afford to strain relations, so some maneuvering is inevitable.

As for the LPL, Abu can decline the advertising deals, but the year-end awards ceremony and the like will most likely see EDG, the champions, sweep most of the awards.

Even if Lin Ruo doesn't go, communication is still necessary.

So Abu had to handle these matters, and Lin Ruo naturally understood: "President Bu, bring glory to the country, President Bu."

Abu didn't even bother to say anything. Indeed, with this reason, how could Tengjing dare to blame him? He just wouldn't participate in the All-Star Game or the awards ceremony.

I'm going to fight for my country during the off-season, so who dares to say a word against me?

If Tengjing has no objections, how dare the fist have any?

It seems like just reporting the facts is enough; there's no need for explanations or cover-ups. This kind of thing is definitely more important than entertainment games and pork-sharing prizes.

After learning about it, Abu left.

Lin Ruo, on the other hand, opened League of Legends after a long time.

[Is Lin Gou going to play in the league? Is it true? Is the sun never going to rise in the west?]

[That's impossible. He doesn't even play during the regular season, and now that it's the offseason, you expect him to play in the league?]

But he actually opened it! What's wrong, Lin Gou is getting nostalgic, huh? He actually thought of giving it a try.

[Okay, this is the taste of youth; Lin Gengxin wants to reminisce about his lost youth.]

[I dared not open my eyes, afraid it was a hallucination. It's been ages since Lin Gou last streamed League of Legends. This year at Worlds, he didn't even play a single game on the Korean server.]

So why would they dare to come back and play in the league? Netizens simply couldn't believe it.

Then, in the next second, it turned out to be a hallucination.

Less than ten seconds after opening it, Lin Ruo quickly closed League of Legends: "Sorry, I was distracted while drinking water and clicked the wrong thing."

Ok.

Actually, he wanted to click on the CF button next to him.

Lin Ruo's journey to becoming the world's top shooter was delayed because of the Asian Games, so he decided to use this month to fight his way up. That's not unreasonable, is it?

The Samsung Cup qualifiers will last until at least early December, so he still has plenty of time.

Well, it's simply that I used the time that should have been used to prepare for the competition to play CF.

is that OK.

Lin Ruo herself has no problem, so netizens have even less problem.

At least we can understand what you're playing when you're playing CrossFire, but if you're playing Go and it takes us forever to figure it out, we're going to go to sleep.

He still cares about his fans.

However, a man in front of a computer felt somewhat unfriendly upon seeing this scene.

As usual, Tian Bin, who was off work late at night, would click into Lin Ruo's live stream to see how far the world champion was from her preparations.

After all, it had been a long time since they had played Go. A few days ago, after Lin Ruo agreed to participate in the Samsung Cup, Tian Bin earnestly advised her to train hard and not go to the battlefield naked.

Lin Ruo understood, and kept telling him to train hard for the next month or so to get back into shape.

So Tian Bin came to inspect today.

"Playing CF? Well, it's normal to relax a bit after playing Go all day."

Tian Bin thought there was no problem, and then he checked the live stream records and found that Lin Ruo had been live streaming for almost a whole day.

Great opportunity! They're broadcasting this much? Are training sessions also being streamed live?

Feeling a sudden tightness in his chest, Tian Bin immediately checked the live stream updates for the day, intending to see what the Zhanqi streamer had broadcast.

I played CrossFire in the morning, took a two-and-a-half-hour break during lunch, and then played CrossFire again in the afternoon and evening.

In summary, I spend all day playing CrossFire.

When Tian Bin finished reading, he felt like the sky had fallen. What was this all about? What was this all about? What happened to preparing for the battle? Is this how you prepare for the battle?

What, is there Go in CF?

He's played CF for so many years and still doesn't know what kind of Go you can play.

It's confirmed, Lin Ruo is indeed on vacation.

Although Lin Ruo is a genius, you can't be so arrogant. You haven't played Go for half a year. Don't go to a competition in South Korea without even understanding the rules and get eliminated by them just by raising your hand.

So Tian Bin, being very responsible, sent a WeChat message to question him: "Didn't you say you were going to prepare for the competition? Why aren't you preparing? You can't slack off. Success requires perseverance and hard work."

"Team leader, you're right. I'll work hard to prepare, but I need to get to the top of the CF national server first."

Lin Ruo replied very quickly.

Ah, so you want to reach the top of the Chinese CF server first, right?

Knowing this, Tian Bin asked a few more questions: "So how long will it take to reach the top of the national server? A week or ten days? If that's the case, the preparation time is a bit tight, so you'll have to act quickly."

To reiterate, although Lin Ruo is a genius, he felt that less than half a month of preparation time was still too little room for improvement.

However, subsequent events proved that Tian Bin didn't need to worry about this at all.

Lin Ruo's reply has already rejected the so-called two-week preparation time.

"No, Team Leader Tian Bin, it's not possible to reach the top of the national server in ten days; it will take a month."

Oh, you mean you're going to spend a month playing CF?
Tian Bin was stunned, as if he had been hit hard. Good grief, it's going to take a month to prepare. He had to do some calculations. How much preparation time was there? If he wasn't mistaken, it seemed to be about a month as well.

Then the problem is coming.

He's spent the entire month playing CrossFire; where did his time go to prepare for the Samsung Cup? Shouldn't he ask Wang Zhengliang about it...?

Tian Bin had a lot more to say, but Lin Ruo had nothing to say, leaving only the most confident sentence for the distinguished team leader.

"Don't worry, team leader, this is just part of the plan. I have my own pace."

As for the real rhythm, Lin Ruo herself didn't know; perhaps it was to lull her opponent into a false sense of security.

Of course, it's also possible that, "Look, I play CF every day and came to participate in the Samsung Cup without any preparation. Wow, you guys can't even beat me. You're so bad."

If that's the case, then the mockery effect is indeed maximized.

(End of this chapter)