Nirvana Top Laner, Reborn Tokyo Girl

Chapter 110, Section 107: Documentary Released (Part 2 of 3)

Just as Shimamura Yuna had thought.

Even though the competition hasn't started yet, many people in the comments section are already trying to save face and make amends for her.

People are starting to say things like, "It's okay if we can't beat Top Esports, it's okay if we can't beat 369," and so on.
It can only be said that, in terms of the public opinion environment, compared to the ease with which family members are confiscated, or the ease with which human identity is revoked and reduced to that of livestock, the situation is far more complex.
She really won too many times.

Everyone has already lowered their expectations to the minimum.

But it's normal.

After all, no matter how bad LPL is, no matter how much they can't beat LCK or the Koreans.
Even so, LPL is the region with the most achievements besides LCK.

Even so, LPL still boasts the strongest group of Koreans in the world, outside of LCK.

The competitiveness of this region is simply incomparable to that of LCP teams.

That evening, all of the CFOs actually watched the game together in the lobby.

When watching, everyone naturally adopts the perspective of an ordinary viewer, offering their opinions and commentary, discussing how well this game was played and how well that game was played.

There are even outrageous comments like, "If these old guys from TES can still make it to the World Championship, is the LPL really doomed?"

But after watching the match and seeing that TES would be going to face FS, everyone started to feel emotional again.

Rest said, "Sigh, from a purely spectator's perspective, it's okay to laugh at LPL for being inferior to LCK. But from the players' perspective, LCP is actually doing even worse than LPL."

"Since winning the championship in S2, it has been more than ten years, and we haven't had any decent results. Recently, we've been getting worse and worse."

"I really hope I can perform better at Worlds this time. Let's not even talk about beating teams like TES and HLE; just beating both of the European and American teams would be a great achievement. I can't keep disappointing the audience and myself."

Rest's speaking style is very negative.

After all, he is a veteran who has fought his way up from the LMS, and he has witnessed the decline of the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions.

Since the initial S2 World Championship where teams from Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan won the World Championship, Riot Games created the LMS League specifically for Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Later, LMS was dissolved and merged with some regions to form PCS.

Even now, PCS is still considered too large, so it has been further merged into LCP.

The history of League of Legends esports in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan is a history of starting at its peak and then declining all the way down.

Now, only two teams from Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan remain in the entire LCP region. League of Legends has become an outdated game in Taiwan, played and followed only by veteran players.

Rest's sudden melancholy can be attributed to being moved by the scenery.

If he were a TLN player, he would definitely empathize with Karsa, Fofo, and Betty, who were rejected from the LPL, when they chatted together.

After all, this group of people witnessed the decline of LMS together. At the same time, they all returned to LCP after their skills declined, and they only regarded LCP as a backup league after they were no longer competitive.

but.
At this moment, however, the CFO is not a team dominated by veterans.

Driver, Junjia, Shimamura Yuna, HongQ, and Doggo are all relatively new players.

Especially Shimamura Yuna and HongQ, both of whom are supernovas who are only 17 years old.

The decline of LMS, the idea that LCP can never beat LPL
They might have some sense of this.

But
But they wouldn't accept it.

"Alright, alright, let's fight first, okay!" HongQ snapped at Rest, a hint of impatience in his voice. "Stop saying things like that. Let's fight first, and then we'll talk about winning or losing. Anyway, I don't think there's any such thing as a guaranteed loss."

"Besides, if you win, you make a fortune, and if you lose, you don't lose anything. Why bother talking about this?"

Junjia then joined the conversation: "Indeed, we are inherently subordinates. The advantage of being subordinate is that we can feel pleasure and joy in every step of the climb."

"Moreover, I really think we are not weak this year. I have a feeling that we might be able to make history for LCP and for CFO."

"What do you think?"

As he spoke, he turned his gaze to Shimamura Yuna.

The meaning is very clear.

'Shimamura Yuna is the key factor that can change our team.'

Gradually, everyone else also turned their attention to Shimamura Yuna.

Noticing everyone's gaze, Shimamura Yuna immediately sat up straight, somewhat flustered.

Then, with an awkward laugh, he said, "I...I'll try my best."

"I will do my best."

Seeing her somewhat adorable reaction, everyone couldn't help but laugh.

The atmosphere in the training room suddenly became much more lively and less dull.

Seeing this, Junjia spoke up again, saying, "Then, the purpose of this competition is very clear."

"That is, if we win, we make a fortune; if we lose, we don't lose anything. We just need to do our best."

"We need to adopt the attitude of 'underdogs,' strive to challenge all teams, and deliver a brilliant performance, okay?"

"After all, our goal this year was simply not to become the fifth-ranked region, and we've already succeeded, haven't we?"

At this moment, the morale of the entire CFO team was briefly boosted to a peak.

"Okay! Let's cheer each other on!"

At this moment, everyone has a shared desire to sprint forward together.

That's right, winning isn't always necessary.

It's not that I can't accept defeat.

Instead, even when there's nothing left to lose, they still rush towards that ideal result, giving it their all.

This cohesive spirit may have subtly influenced the outcome of the competition.

With the LPL playoffs concluded, the list of all participating teams for the Global Vanguard Tournament has finally been finalized.

First, let me give a brief explanation of the competition format.

This Global Vanguard Tournament, being a newly added event, is clearly smaller in scale than MSI and Worlds, serving as a "small appetizer" of the year.

Only one team can participate in each region.

Many people might think after reading this, "Isn't this alright? It's pretty much the same as MSI before the restructuring."

No, actually they are quite different.

Before the MSI format change, each region also had only one team.

However, at that time, Riot Games had a lot of messy regional plans, such as Vietnam, Japan, the Pacific, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.
In short, having one team from each of these regions makes the competition look somewhat substantial.

However, this LCP was held after all the regions had been merged into 5 regions.

It has to be said that it does look a bit awkward.

A total of 5 teams competed in the World Championship. The group stage lasted for half a day, and the result was that only one team was eliminated in the 5-to-4 round.

Judging from the schedule and format, it's definitely become a bit chaotic.

This is why, before the start of the competition, many viewers complained that the competition was strange, and many people were simply unwilling to watch it.

Aside from the absence of high-profile teams like T1, the sheer scale of the competition itself was also discouraging.

Winning doesn't feel very prestigious.

However, even this low-level competition was a first for Shimamura Yuna.

So let's not get bogged down in those irrelevant issues for now.

Let me first tell you about the list of participants.

The teams representing the five competition zones are:
TES is the representative team of the LPL in mainland China.

HLE represents the Korean LCK region. KC represents the European LEC region.

TL is the representative team of LTA in the Americas region.

Based solely on their paper strength and past stereotypes, these teams could be roughly divided into two tiers before the competition.

LPL and LCK are on the same level, after all, these two regions have won all the S-series championships since S3 and the vast majority of international championships.

As for the remaining three divisions, judging from past records, they can be described as a battle of weaklings.

Every year, Europe and North America have at least one team making it to the quarterfinals of the World Championship, while teams from Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan have never made it to the quarterfinals.

Therefore, if we break it down further, the CFO team should be considered the weakest and least favored among the three.

With this kind of division, the pre-match expectations of each team and their fans are roughly planned and constant.

For example, LPL and LCK fans definitely feel that not winning the championship is a failure, and even the runner-up is unforgivable.

LEC and LTA fans think they should beat the other two rookie teams first, and if they can beat LPL and LCK, then they'll be celebrating with champagne.

LCP fans have the lowest expectations; they try not to think about LPL or LCK.

Let's focus on winning in the Americas and Europe first.

But that's it.
The highlights of this competition are clearly not just the win-loss relationship and the expectations for the champion and the results.

It's fair to say that compared to Shimamura Yuna, the world's strongest female player and the first female player to enter the World Championship, the competition itself seems less important.

It can be said that this FS shone brightly because of Shimamura Yuna's presence.

The fist clearly understands this principle well.

So, after all the participating teams had confirmed their names, the competition was about to begin a few days later.

They finally released that interview about Yuna Shimamura.
No, to be more precise, it's a documentary.

They released the documentary globally on March 5th, simultaneously, on their various official accounts.

The documentary is titled "The Birth of the World's Strongest Female Athlete: Shimamura's Career Starting from the Bottom".

When many people saw this documentary on their homepage, they probably already guessed that it was another of Riot Games' annual tactics of creating hype by making videos before matches.

Even the style of the film is something that everyone has a basic expectation in mind.

People are tired of and sick of the hype surrounding the fist.

It's nothing more than taking a camera and asking people's parents and family members how their grades were when they were young, when they started playing League of Legends, and whether they supported them playing professionally back then.
Can you come up with something new?

Can you please stop doing this?

However, since the main character this time is Shimamura Yuna, people's attitudes have changed somewhat, and some are more willing to click in and take a look.

After all, Shimamura is different from everyone else.

However.
As soon as everyone clicked on the video, they immediately realized it.

wrong
Something seems to be wrong.

The video begins with the cameraman following Shiori Shimamura to the school that the Shimamura sisters once attended.

In the picture, the older sister has a smile that is both happy and bittersweet, as if she is reminiscing about something.

She smiled as she introduced herself to the host.

“Yuna and I both went to this school. Although we are quite different in age, it is our alma mater for both of us.”

At the beginning, what he said left everyone a little confused.

There is no cause and effect.

There is no specific explanation.

No one even knows what the relationship is between the woman in the picture and Shimamura Yuna, or why she is here.

All information is unknown.

But everyone was still subconsciously drawn to the film.

The reason is simple.
The lens quality alone is extremely high-end and difficult to describe in words.

I felt the photographer was very professional, and the post-production filters were also adjusted very well.

It's clear that both the pre-production filming and the post-production editing were done with care and dedication.

This gave everyone a psychological suggestion: "The content of today's film is probably something extraordinary."

So everyone was drawn in and kept watching.

For the next few minutes of this video, no one knew what it was about.

It's about following Shiori Shimamura's perspective, wandering around those old shopping streets and places that evoke memories.

As she recounted happy memories of the two sisters' past, a smile filled with reminiscence graced her face.

At this stage, people have begun to find the film's extremely slow pace somewhat strange.

You could even say that the editing is a bit off-topic.

Is this how I'm going to introduce Yuna Shimamura's hometown?
Let's make a pilgrimage to the holy site?

What else do we need to do?
It's fair to say that, judging from the content alone, it's quite confusing.

But it was precisely this sense of confusion that drew everyone in to keep watching.

And so, those moments filled with happy memories continued.

until
“My sister used to be a very cheerful and popular person, you know? Everyone on the street liked her and thought she was very cute.”

The host asked, "So what exactly happened that turned her into that person?"

"What changed her, and changed the lives of you sisters?"

The rhythm of the entire film abruptly changed with this sudden question from the host.

It was as if the air itself had frozen into ice.

It was as if all the light sources in the world had been cut off in an instant.

The video went black.

Then, after a while, a very stream-of-consciousness game clip began.

The edited content consists of game clips from Shimamura Yuna's live streams.

After playing for about ten seconds, the screen went black again.

Then the camera panned to the host's serious and earnest face.

"Huh? Really? But she seems completely different now. She seems very quiet now."

"Did something happen in between?"

The older sister in the picture remained silent.

After a moment of silence, she smiled bitterly and said, "Everything changed after our parents were in a car accident that year."

With these words spoken, all the beautiful and ordinary memories that had been laid out beforehand seemed to have a reason.

Only now, at this moment, do the audience finally realize a problem.

"No, this story doesn't seem to be that simple at all."

The comments section finally erupted at this moment.

(End of this chapter)