Nirvana Top Laner, Reborn Tokyo Girl

Chapter 131, Section 128: Post-Match Scoring! TES vs. CFO (Third Update)
On the surface, this is just a group stage match in a world championship, insignificant and not worth paying attention to.

But upon closer examination, one can discover just how complex the significance behind this match truly is.

First of all, the LCP, which CFO represents, or rather the PCS and LMS regions in the past, has been in a slump for far too long.

Today's match was not particularly significant in terms of results.

But to defeat the LPL's number one seed, and to win in such a decisive and impressive manner, is something that hasn't happened in many years.

LPL has only gone three years without a championship, and the atmosphere is already so oppressive that it feels like the entire region is dying.

From LMS to LCP, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan haven't won a championship in more than ten years, and have rarely even made it to the quarterfinals of the World Championship. So, they put on such a wonderful and beautiful performance against TES.

The Taiwanese commentator even broke down in tears on the commentary stage, unable to continue commentating due to emotional breakdown.

All I can say is that for LCP's audience in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, winning against LPL is indeed a tremendous achievement, worthy of celebration and emotion from the entire region.

However, the LCP region is still too niche overall, so their voices are not mainstream online.

The two main groups that truly dominate are the following two types of people.

The first type is those who are happy for Shimamura Yuna.

Yuna Shimamura's popularity is incredibly high right now.

The basic concept of a Japanese girl with beautiful features is that the character illustrations are already top-notch.

Furthermore, in addition to having a good character illustration, Shimamura Yuna's backstory is also amazing.

Orphaned and seeking renewed passion through League of Legends.

These characters are like those in a gacha game; not only are their illustrations beautiful, but their accompanying main storylines are also appealing.

How could Shimamura Yuna not be popular?

It's fair to say that Yuna Shimamura is now a celebrity watched by people all over the world.

Zeus and JKL are nothing compared to Yuna Shimamura's popularity; they're just nobody on the street.

Now, she's like the protagonist the whole world is watching; everyone is putting themselves in her shoes and hoping she can achieve good results.

If she can achieve results and defeat LPL, then she deserves everyone's expectations.

Based on this, for some reasons, LPL has always been the designated villain on the international stage.

Regardless of anything else, people just don't like you, they hate LPL, whether you play well or not, they just don't like you.

Even when they play well, they don't get much popularity; when they play poorly, there's even less to say.

Although Shimamura Yuna herself is biased towards LPL, that has nothing to do with foreign viewers.

When everyone saw Shimamura Yuna defeat LPL, it was like seeing a hero defeat a demon king; it made them feel excited and high.

The match had just ended when the English commentator gave a very enthusiastic commentary.

"Now, this legendary female player, whose life is full of stories, is marching towards the knockout stage in top form!"

"As the first female player to appear in the World Championship, her performance was truly moving."

"At this moment, she and her team have defeated LPL, achieving a truly remarkable feat!!!"

In the video, Shimamura Yuna appears to have burned out after the match, slumped in a chair, unable to move.

After a while, he was helped up by his teammates and went to shake hands with the person on the other side.

The English channel's comments were unsurprisingly uniform: "yuna goat" and "yuna best," all very formulaic.

But even with such a formulaic chat room message, it can still be flooded with messages page after page.

The word "Goat" is so hard to read, it's almost blinding.

However, this also shows how popular Shimamura Yuna is right now.

With such a popular player crushing the LPL, a region almost universally considered the villain, it's easy to imagine how excited the foreigners were.

The second point is that Shimamura Yuna is also very popular in the LPL.

They originally followed the path of Japanese Vtubers streaming on Bilibili, and their initial popularity was in China.

Moreover, this happens to coincide with the time when everyone's expectations for TES are at their lowest and their hatred is at its deepest.

Right now, even LPL viewers are unanimously hoping to see TES die, hoping to see TES eliminated in fifth place.

It was obvious to the naked eye that after this match, there was not a trace of sadness on any of the major online forums, which was completely different from the feeling of disappointment and frustration when BLG was defeated by T1 last year.

It's just about having fun online.

After the match, the Anti-Pressure Bar immediately posted a rating thread.

[2025 Pioneer Tournament: CFO 2:0 TES, Post-Match Scores (Other Scores Deleted)]

The post became incredibly popular as soon as it was published.

The person responsible for posting the rating thread is very knowledgeable.

The CFO's side is clearly the winner, but they deliberately don't post the CFO's rating thread first.

Instead, they first posted ratings for the five TES players.

Furthermore, they disregarded the order from top laner to support and immediately started by giving JackeyLove's score.

The comments that followed were predictable.

[Great food, so satisfying to watch! Great food, so satisfying to watch!]

I love watching Yuna kick you like you're a dead dog, Yuna is awesome!

So, with so many roster changes at TES, where exactly is the problem? It's so hard to guess.

Guo Hao: I feel like I'm the mole.

HLE is about to unleash their full potential in the next round, so hurry up and get fifth place and go home!

[A smelly area]

As a player who is both popular and has many haters, JKL's disastrous performance in this World Championship has undoubtedly put him in the spotlight.

Although it's not just him who played badly, but everyone in TES played badly.

But who can blame him when he has the most haters?

His technique wasn't without flaws, so of course everyone loves to target eggs with cracks.

Apart from JKL, the other TES players also didn't receive much praise.

Especially 369, who was directly countered by Yuna Shimamura.

[Can't beat the Japanese, trash, trash, trash]

[Getting humiliated by a Japanese girl in a head-to-head matchup, even with her Tamamo-no-Mae syndrome, she's still better than you, what's the point of you anyway?]

[I knew you were finished the moment you stayed with Top Esports this year]

You have to bear the consequences of your own choices.

The amount of cyberbullying that TES players endured is probably unprecedented in the entire history of the LPL.

If we had to make a comparison, perhaps only RNG from S8 could rival them.

After the barrage of insults against TES subsided, the discussion quickly moved on to the CFO's side. And then, unsurprisingly...

Apart from Shimamura Yuna, nobody paid any attention to her.

There were only a couple hundred comments from other people, scattered around.

But when we got to the first floor of Shimamura Yuna's house, it was all praise.

[Shimamura is awesome! She crushed TES in all five areas!]

[This is amazing! This is the best performance ever seen from a female player. She's on par with some of the top male players. Although her hero pool is a bit unusual, as long as she gets results, that's what matters.]

To be honest, many commentators have said that your champion pool is a bit of a liability to the team, and that CFO's poor performance is largely due to your inability to pick the right champions. I think these commentators are absolutely right, since you clearly showed this when playing against HLE. But since the opponent was TES's five teams, I can only say that you were just playing casually.

[Shimamura-san, are we really going to win the championship? ???]

Winning the championship is probably impossible; I can't even imagine the CFO beating HLE. But getting second place would be amazing.

[Shimamura's performance in her first World Championship was truly amazing. To be honest, if she comes to the LPL next season, her market value should easily reach 1000 million.]

It's obvious that no one cares about the CFO; all they care about is Shimamura Yuna.

Just as Shimamura Yuna had thought.

In this world championship, the final ranking and whether or not we win the championship may not be that important.

If they could actually win the championship, that would certainly be a sensation.

Even without winning the championship, beating TES would still garner more attention and recognition.

TES is like that wild monster that drops more experience; it's the straight line in the game that you have to collect because it contains a lot of experience.

Not just online forums and live streams.

The moment she won, Bilibili, as a contracted streamer with Bilibili, immediately began promoting Shimamura Yuna.

#GhostKingYuna defeats TES in World Championship
#GhostKingYuna advances to the Pioneer Tournament with a 3-1 record.

#YunaShimamura defeats Top Esports
Similar trending topics flooded Bilibili almost instantly.

At the same time, Weibo, Douyin, and almost all other domestic platforms have been reporting on and spreading the news about the competition extensively.

A post-match interview with Yuna Shimamura reached 600,000 views in less than an hour after being uploaded to Bilibili.

During the interview, the reporter asked her, "As the world's first female player, your performance so far has been no less than that of any male player. You have proven that female players can also play very well. What are your thoughts on this?"

This reporter, a Western journalist, came to ask these questions in an attempt to get Shimamura Yuna to say things they wanted to hear.

However, Shimamura Yuna did not deliver the inspirational message from a female perspective that the reporter had hoped for, such as "Girls can go very far too, and it has not been easy for girls to get to where they are today."

These statements are not inherently problematic, but they are very formulaic.

Yuna Shimamura's remarks were more self-centered.

“I’m glad I’m a girl, because that’s why I get so much attention and I can show my skills on the world stage. If I weren’t a girl, it would take me much longer to become a professional player, so I’m very grateful for who I am.”

Shimamura Yuna said this from the bottom of her heart.

Because she had actually played professionally as a male player, she knew how long it would take for a player without exposure to finally make it in a youth training camp or a second team.

The fact that she was able to obtain a spot in the Pioneer Tournament so easily and participate in the competition is definitely due to the advantage of being a woman.

More accurately, it benefited from the lack of female professional players in the League of Legends field, especially the lack of attractive female professional players.

This is a benefit that most women can't access; only she can.

So, to be precise, she is quite honest.

She didn't lie.

But this was certainly not the answer the female reporter wanted to hear.

They just want to hear you say, "It's so tough being a girl. I encourage other girls to work hard like me, and I hope esports will give girls more opportunities."

To be honest, it's true that it's more inconvenient and difficult for girls to play esports for various reasons.

Issues such as the relationship between male and female team members, the decline in performance of women during their "safe period," and most directly, women's physical strength are all troublesome problems.

Those are all very troublesome.

The problem is, Shimamura Yuna is not a purebred girl at all.

She did encounter some problems, such as feeling uncomfortable during her safe period.

For example, after becoming CFO, she couldn't live with the other team members and had to rent her own place.

These problems are quite troublesome.

However, compared to the attention she received as a female contestant, it was nothing.

She essentially gained the ability to play games as a male, and then sought attention as a female.

She benefited from both the male and female advantages.

Now that she can compete in the world championships, Yuna Shimamura is secretly delighted and doesn't care about any of the minor disadvantages of being a woman.

Isn't that like getting a good deal and then complaining?
But this was clearly not what the reporter wanted to hear.

If you're not my girlfriend, can't you just say what I think?
Seeing that Shimamura Yuna wasn't keeping up with her pace, the reporter assumed she hadn't understood, so she added, "As a woman, don't you encounter any difficulties in your career? What are your solutions to these difficulties, and is there anything you'd like to share with others?"

Yuna Shimamura genuinely didn't understand the reporter's implication and didn't think much of it.

But the reporter insisted that she talk about what difficulties she was facing, so she tried hard to recall and then continued, "I don't feel anything? Well, maybe I feel uncomfortable sometimes during my period?"

But that wasn't the answer the reporter wanted to hear.

The reporter wanted to hear her, as a representative of women, denounce the stereotypes and unfriendly attitudes towards women in the professional sports arena.

You can't just say you're having menstrual cramps!
The reporter was getting impatient and wanted to continue to hint at Shimamura Yuna.

However, Shimamura Yuna simply refused to respond to his advances.

Moreover, from the audience's perspective, it really wasn't an intentional avoidance; it just felt like Shimamura Yuna's reaction was simply that she didn't think in that direction, which was quite cute.

That's right.

In fact, whether it's the current Shimamura Yuna or the Shimamura Yuna of the past, they are the kind of people who are more focused on their own world and don't care too much about these sensitive topics in the social atmosphere.

Even after they have merged into one, they remain the same.

Therefore, in the eyes of the audience, this interview was like a video of a scheming female liberal trying to lure innocent girls into participating in sensitive social topics and drag them into the mess, only to be thwarted in the end.

This further boosted Shimamura Yuna's popularity.

Many people who saw the video said they really liked Shimamura Yuna's reaction.

[It has to be said that it's indeed difficult for women to play professionally, but it's all about skill. If someone is truly as skilled as Shimamura, someone with that level of ability, naturally someone will want them. I don't know what this reporter is trying to create for publicity.]

[This reporter is really malicious. If Shimamura doesn't answer a question well, there will be another wave of accusations against her for boxing. It's just a good thing Shimamura is a genuinely good girl.]

[Shimamura-nee's reaction is so cute, I wish I had a girlfriend like Shimamura-nee!]

Stop fantasizing. Based on the current clues, it's highly likely that Shimamura doesn't like men. She had a close relationship with someone who appeared to be an older woman during a previous livestream, which caused quite a stir at the time. It's only because Shimamura doesn't rely on male fans that the controversy has subsided.

(End of this chapter)