LPL History

Chapter 321 Oscar Night: Two Heroes Take the Stage, Live Broadcast Oversees the Battle – A Battle of Righteousness Against Family Ties

The LPL Spring Split is still in full swing.

Today's match is the last match of the Spring Split, with LGD facing off against IG.

However, Zhou Li wasn't watching the match; he was watching the live chat.

Acorn's return to the starting lineup, replacing Zhou Li, undoubtedly became the focus of discussion among netizens. Even though Acorn has played in several matches, every time LGD plays, netizens still discuss it extensively.

After all, although Zhou Li's previous matches had not caused much discussion, he had been constantly embroiled in controversies off the field, and his reputation was extremely negative. Anyone who watched the matches knew Zhou Li's name.

Now that Acorn has recovered, Zhou Li has been carried off the stage, much to the amusement of netizens.

[I had terrible luck this week, my top laner had a 100% win rate! And now he's been demoted by LGD.]

[Hilarious! What does LGD's 100% win rate have to do with that slacker Zhou Chu?]

Indeed, Zhou Chu has nothing remarkable to offer besides his foul mouth.

[It seems like Acorn isn't as good as Zhou Chu; he actually lost the first game.]

Zhou Li watched the comments for a while and found that netizens missed him very much.

So they simply turned on the live stream and started broadcasting and commentating on the match.

Zhou Li had some doubts about today's match.

Because Chris suddenly seemed to have a breakthrough today, and actually took the initiative to ask him to stay at the club and not need to go to the game with the team.

It's worth noting that even when Zhou Li requested it, Chris would always ask him to come to the competition venue with the team, just in case.

However, since it wouldn't do him any harm anyway, Zhou Li agreed.

Why not take the opportunity to fish?

He could do so much more with that time.

Just now, he had finished chatting with Xiaoyou and Xu Ke.

According to Xu Ke, she has already had Lingyao transfer a lot of money to her under the guise of establishing a foundation.

Zhou Li simply told her to keep up the good work.

Zhou Li naturally did not get involved in this matter, lest he get himself into trouble.

However, he was too lazy to stop him.

He wasn't familiar with Lingyao, and Lingyao was love-struck. Zhou Li wasn't some saint, so it's fair to say Gui Nan deserved to be deceived.

Let go of the need to help others and respect the fate of others.

Zhou Li simply wanted to speed things up, since his historical records were still waiting to be unlocked.

Keep a screenshot; you can use it to send that gold digger to jail for two years later.

Everything was proceeding smoothly, so Zhou Li was in a very good mood.

As soon as he opened the live stream, netizens began to greet him.

[Lao Zhou, I miss you!]

[Zhou Chu is having a really tough time; his teammates are playing a match, but he's streaming.]

[Has even the opportunity to travel with the team been taken away?]

Oh no, now I can't even watch the water dispenser anymore, I'm a club security guard now.

Zhou Li completely ignored the netizens' mockery. After thanking a few fans with extremely abstract IDs for the gifts, he started watching the game.

However, Zhou Li frowned when he saw the players in the second game.

He sensed that things weren't quite as simple as they seemed.

Because Rookie, who performed exceptionally well in the previous game and won the MVP award, was surprisingly eliminated by IG in the second game.

At this moment, Zhou Li finally realized why Chris had suddenly been so kind as to let him not have to travel with the team.

Since Zhou Li hadn't played any matches before, he hadn't bothered to follow them and forgot that today's match was the last match of the Spring Split.

The outcome of this match will determine the two teams' group assignments in the knockout stage!
The winner will face the red-hot EDG in the semifinals.

The loser will advance to the other half of the bracket and will ultimately face EDG in the finals.

EDG has performed very strongly in this year's Spring Split. They only lost one game in the entire regular season, which was the game against LGD at the beginning of the season.

Logically speaking, LGD has defeated EDG before, so they shouldn't be so afraid.

However, most people believe that the match was only a best-of-two series, and Zhou Li was a newcomer who came up with some unconventional strategies. EDG lost the match because they were caught off guard due to a lack of research.

Even Chris thought so.

Therefore, in order for the team to go further, the best way is to lose today's match against IG, thereby giving LGD a greater chance of making it in the playoffs.

Chris simply told Zhou Li not to come with the team because he was afraid that Zhou Li's personality might cause some trouble.

Chris was absolutely right; if Zhou Li were here, Acorn would probably be in the hospital again.

"No wonder everyone looked so bad in the first game. Turns out they weren't in bad form, they were deliberately throwing the game."

Zhou Li finally remembered the match.

The Night of Osaka, a legendary event in LPL history!
At this point, both sides had entered the business process (BP) phase.

No one expected that IG would teach LGD a lesson so early in the draft phase.

Because IG did not report when making substitutions, according to the league's rules, they were directly penalized with three fewer bans.

Seeing this, Chris couldn't help but sigh repeatedly, "As expected of Zhu Kai, he's really good at this."

However, Chris was no fool. Looking at his three rebounds, Chris immediately came up with a solution.

Although I have a lever position, if I randomly flick the lever, it's as if I don't have a lever position at all.

Thus, the hero, Spirit Walker, a hero so obscure it was practically a bottom-tier pick, made its first appearance in the 2015 ban phase.

As the selection process progressed, the coaches from both sides began a battle of wits and courage.

LGD's draft strategy focused on having fun, directly picking a physical damage-heavy lineup of Hecarim, Jarvan IV, Talon, Tristana, and Blitzcrank.

IG reacted extremely quickly after seeing LGD's champion picks.

Since you guys have a lot of dive assassins, I'll just pull out Karthus as a counter, and end up with a Karthus top lane, Evelynn jungle, LeBlanc mid lane, and Lucian and Bard bot lane.

Neither team wanted to win, but they were afraid of being punished by the league for throwing the game, so as soon as the game started, LGD began to show their aggressiveness.

The robot led a large force and charged into IG's jungle right under Widow's nose.

Whether or not people are arrested is irrelevant, but the appearance must be maintained.

At this point, the audience was far from realizing the seriousness of the problem.

Both sides started laning normally, but only three minutes later, LGD made another move.

Hirano Aya suddenly channeled Mata's spirit, ignoring the experience gained from her level two Blitzcrank and heading straight to the mid lane for a gank. Hirano Aya originally intended to feign a gank and waste some of her own experience, since how could she possibly gank a level two Blitzcrank against LeBlanc?
Unexpectedly, the opposing mid laner Save, who replaced Rookie, clearly received explicit instructions from Zhu Kai offstage. He first stood still and took a full combo from Talon, and then, after using W and Flash, which was too powerful, he could have run away to the jungle, but instead chose to turn back and walk right into Blitzcrank's face.

Now, Hirano Aya and Wei Shen had no choice but to step in.

Wei Shen's Talon got the first kill, but it felt like he'd eaten a mouthful of shit.

Seeing that the other side was so good at acting, Taobao Quan was equally unwilling to be outdone.

At this moment, Zita's Karthus came to the mid lane to farm, while Blitzcrank, with Jarvan IV, also came to the mid lane.

After seeing Karthus use Flash to dodge Blitzcrank's hook, Taobaoquan still chose to use EQ to dive into the tower, and was then hit three times by the tower before escaping with low health.

At this moment, Zishi was completely dumbfounded.

Given this situation, if he doesn't pursue it, he'll probably be thoroughly investigated after the match to see if he bought the ticket.

So Zita could only control Karthus to chase, but deliberately misplaced his Q skill.

After all, Karthus's Q skill is not easy to hit.

Karthus then pursued the prince relentlessly, perfectly dodging each of his Q abilities.

However, Zita wanted to spare Taobao Quan's life, but Taobao Quan was only thinking about how to kill Death Song.

Even though you can't aim accurately, I can catch it perfectly!

Even Zitai didn't expect that Taobao Quan's strength was so superb. He was able to predict his Q skill and then walk up to it!
Seeing Taobao Quan killed in the mid lane, Zhou Li's expression turned strange, and he spoke directly:

"How can these two sides be so outrageous? Are they fixing the match?!"

[Haha, not letting you play is tantamount to throwing the game.]

[This is hilarious, they're so sour about Zhou.]

You can eat anything, but you can't say anything carelessly, bro.

[To accuse your team of fixing matches, you're truly an incredible genius.]

But Zhou Li was now clearly excited.

He knew that the opportunity to leave LGD had arrived.

At this point, both LGD and IG had already tested each other's sincerity.

Five minutes into the game, Taobaoquan's Prince took the lead, initiating the first small-scale team fight in the bottom lane with LGD's players.

"Taobao Quan!" Zhou Li shouted excitedly, "His face is already swollen from being slapped, but he's still holding onto his Flash! You think you can leave without killing me?! Wow, Taobao Quan's Flash is so tightly held, it's useless even when he's dead!"

"What does this widow mean? Why isn't she leaving? Is she trying to give her head to Wei Shen? If so, LGD will actually benefit from this fight! It can only be said that Wei Shen is too honest. Every time LGD gets another kill, Taobao Quan and Hirano Aya will probably feel more and more uncomfortable."

At this point, netizens finally realized that something was wrong with the match.

After all, whether it's a prince or a widow, they all have a flash of light on them when they die.

Five minutes later, Zhou Li finally understood what Taobao Quan's flash function was for.

The prince overextended his EQ combo in front of the Enchantress, and upon seeing this, the Enchantress immediately stepped forward to harass him, instantly reducing the prince's health by half.

Taobao Quan didn't even think twice; how could he miss such a golden opportunity? He used his ultimate move in a flash.

Seeing the enemy team close behind, Taobao Quan wasn't nervous. He figured the enemy jungler should be arriving by now.

Sure enough, the widow immediately attacked from the side.

The widow took the prince's head, but the enchantress was unhappy because he had survived with only a few lives.

"Save survived this wave, and the player's face turned ashen in the camera! He's probably going to get his salary docked if he doesn't die! But then GodV arrived, and look at Save's smile, it's like he's seen his own father!"

Up to this point, the robot had not been killed even once.

As the "Grim Reaper" of the LPL, Hirano Aya obviously cannot accept that the Prince will dominate the scene.

So he crouched in the bottom lane tri-bush and hooked Lucian who was in the top lane.

He originally wanted to solo Lucian, but to his surprise, Imp, the honest guy, saw the robot hook someone and jumped right in.

The top laner immediately unleashed Karthus' ultimate, but IG's support reacted just as quickly, throwing Bard's ultimate at Tristana and Blitzcrank to protect them from taking damage.

In a state of extreme joy, the kid, with low health, stared at the bomb that the cannon had left on his head and used a death flash.

This stunt made Aya Hirano in the shot laugh out loud, revealing two rows of bright white teeth.

At this point in the match, both sides began to find their rhythm.

The two sides traded blows back and forth, and within thirteen minutes, the total number of kills on both sides had reached fourteen.

Hirano Aya seized the opportunity and charged into the enemy jungle alone, giving up first blood.

Taobao Quan took his acting skills to the extreme. When he saw Lucian with healing, flash, and even E, he immediately used EQ followed by his ultimate to close the distance. Then, with his skills all used up, he chased after Lucian relentlessly and was eventually killed by him.

Twenty-five minutes into the game, forty-five kills had been racked up between the two sides!

However, despite such an intense match, neither side managed to take down a single dragon.

At this moment, in the live broadcast room, Zhou Li was already filled with righteous indignation and slammed his fist on the table.

"What is this if not match-fixing?! Tell me! You were supposed to be in position and not face EDG in the semifinals, so you just openly threw the game like this? How can you face the audience, how can you face the fans who like you?! This is outrageous! Openly throwing the game, openly feeding! You have no shame!"

At this point, netizens naturally realized how explosive the match was, and they stopped mocking Zhou Li. Instead, they sang "Wishing You Peace" to Zhou Li.

You are a true warrior.

[If we weren't brothers, would you dare insult your own team like that?]

You said it well, but I'm worried I won't see you tomorrow.

[Zhou Chu still has a genuine personality; I've gone from hating him to loving him, sob sob.]

At this moment in the game, Wei Shen's Bard directly jumped under the second tower, but Bard unleashed his ultimate, and Karthus also unleashed his ultimate. Talon, who was escaping with low health, was about to die, but at the critical moment, Maw of Malmortius refreshed.

In the live stream, Wei Shen, seeing that he was still alive, even slammed his fist on the table in anger, full of regret.

Compared to LGD's superb acting skills, IG's acting skills were clearly much worse.

Especially Taobao Quan and Hirano Aya, these two hidden talents.

One is 2-14, and the other is 1-13.

Hirano Aya's robot even pulled out a Demonic Sect technique.

The final score was 50 to 36, and IG won the game with tears in their eyes.

After watching the match, Zhou Li took a deep breath.

Then, in front of everyone in the live stream, he directly reported LGD.

Such a selfless act of sacrificing family ties left the netizens present completely stunned.

(End of this chapter)