Nirvana Top Laner, Reborn Tokyo Girl

Chapter 134, Section 131: Advancing to the Finals!

After that, everyone tacitly stopped mentioning it to Shimamura Yuna.

These kinds of jokes are fine to make occasionally; it's pointless to keep making them.

Although it was clear that Shimamura Yuna wasn't particularly serious about it, she just seemed a little shy.

But going too far can also make one seem to lack boundaries.

After that, everyone's mind was more on the upcoming match.

But that's it.
The team members are no longer using this meme.

But that doesn't mean the audience doesn't use this meme.

Today's match between KC and CFO was not a very suspenseful one.

Judging from the previous group stage matches, when playing against teams that don't have the necessary strength, the CFO is basically the strictest father.

As a team from the Pacific, there is one very important thing about them.

That is, although their talent pool and league popularity are not as good as those of China and South Korea, as the saying goes, "one is influenced by one's company," they can easily keep up with the top teams like LCK in terms of tactics and gameplay. This is the same principle as LPL.

Environmental advantages are one aspect, but the efforts of the CFO himself are also very important.

They are a team that trains itself entirely from a disadvantaged perspective, constantly improving its discipline and operational capabilities.

This makes it very difficult for them to lose when they encounter teams that are not as strong as themselves.

This was also evident in today's match.

Even though today is the semifinals, the excitement or tension among the audience is not as high as it was during yesterday's match against TES.

It's really... a bit too easy.

After the group stage, everyone had a basic expectation of what the competition would entail.

Knowing the game content, it's nothing more than Shimamura Yuna choosing a core hero, and then KC's three lanes not being able to put enough pressure on the CFO, allowing the CFO to easily get by through various lane switching operations.

I was hoping that KC could come up with some new insights to counter CFO's tactics in the semifinals.

There was absolutely nothing to show for it.

All I can say is that they're clearly struggling, and the heroes they're banning are different from before.

But it's not enough.

There is a real gap in hard skills between them and the CFO.

Even if the difference in raw strength is only 10%, the current composition of the CFO team makes even that 10% difference an insurmountable barrier.

Shimamura Yuna's performance seemed to lack the extreme aggression she displayed against 369 yesterday, reverting to her usual conservative and steady style.

Normally, she never feels like she's walking a tightrope when she's operating; she only does the lowest-risk and most reasonable operations.

This kind of rationality inevitably leads to a lack of entertainment value, and it means that when she's not in a flow state, her gameplay is incomparable to that of popular players like TheShy in terms of excitement.

The state of flow is not something that can be achieved at every moment.

Given the boring gameplay, the course of the match was almost entirely predictable.

Just like in the group stage, the early game was low-blooded, and the outcome was already decided after a team fight in the mid-game, but they died at 20 minutes and were buried at 30 minutes.

The reason people found the group stage matches watchable was because they were looking forward to them.

I've said it many times: League of Legends is a game that is very poorly entertaining in most versions.

The motivation for watching these gaming events largely stems from a simple sense of anticipation.

It means "hoping to win".

"Hoping to win."

Something like this.

After the first match, many viewers were already getting bored with the predictable and tedious format of the game and just wanted to see it end quickly so they could get the final, definitive result.
With Shimamura Yuna making it to the finals, let's give it a try.

The competition was so formulaic and boring that the audience was yawning.

At times like these, the "scandal" that broke out in the media last night becomes a major point of interest today.

If Shimamura Yuna makes even the slightest mistake or a major glaring error, the chat will be flooded with comments like "Looks like she's really starting a game" or "Shimamura-nee is really starting one."

If Shimamura Yuna pulls off a particularly impressive move, people will say things like, "Looks like it wasn't turned on last night, we wronged you."

In short, it's a tug-of-war between two groups of people.

These comments were actually not malicious.

As I said before, people are all hypocritical.

If a male professional player is suspected of duo-queuing and cheating before a match, it's a stain that's impossible to clear up.

But since she's a female professional player, and she was duo-queuing with another girl, who seems to be quite pretty, then it's not a black mark.

That is, while it's somewhat controversial, it's also somewhat welcome.

Although yesterday's candid photos didn't capture Akari Kujo's appearance very clearly, we could still get a pretty good idea of ​​what she looked like.

People couldn't see clearly what she looked like, but they knew she was very beautiful.

Then there's nothing more to say.

As the saying goes, if it's going to rain, it'll rain; if a mother wants to remarry, she'll remarry. Let her be.

At least we know that Shimamura Yuna's aesthetic sense is not bad.

So far, most of these unfounded speculations have turned out to be rumors.

However, other girls don't have these kinds of rumors when they go out to eat alone with other girls.

But why does this kind of rumor exist when it comes to Shimamura Yuna?
It really was all caused by Shimamura Yuna's male fans.

Initially, Shimamura Yuna and Kujo Akari went offline together, but due to unforeseen circumstances, they didn't go on air for several days in a row.

After that, her male fans started steer the narrative towards "Shimamura Yuna accompanying an old man".

Now, it's widely known that Shimamura Yuna has a particular hobby, and although it's unverified, everyone considers it to be true.

Clearly, no one can prove that this is true.

But everyone thought it was true.

However, no one seems to care or think it's a bad thing.

Then when something similar happens again, everyone will immediately think in that direction.

Take this incident, for example.
Add to that the mysterious expressions on the faces of the CFO team members when they were caught by fans offline.

That made everyone feel that it was solid evidence.

In short, everyone just treats it as a funny meme and uses it to make fun of things.

During his live stream, Longshen was almost losing his temper when he saw the chat comments constantly discussing whether the app was on or off.

He yelled at the viewers in the chat: "Seriously, are you guys idiots? Why are you all talking about whether Shimamura-san has it or not? What's it to you?" "Isn't Shimamura-san amazing? As long as she's amazing, who cares whether she's amazing or not?"

"Anyway, Shimamura-nee is not going to open a business with you guys, so what the hell are you guys talking about?"

"Sigh. Shimamura-nee was right not to let you BUs stream; you BUs are living too repressed lives."

As he said this, the game screen showed a team fight between CFO and KC.

The hero Shimamura used in this game was not one of her usual core heroes.

Although the team is still allocating resources to her in terms of gameplay.

But the hero she plays is the Wolf Mother.

Among the heroes she plays well, this is probably the one that leans most towards traditional warriors.

Choosing this for her at this time is probably to prepare her for HLE treatment later.

After all, it's pretty much confirmed now that the CFO's strategy of protecting the top lane is unlikely to win against HLE. In this situation, it's necessary to explore some new tactics.

But this creates a very delicate situation.

The heroes that Shimamura Yuna played before basically didn't involve initiating team fights.

Characters like vampires and Gwent are basically second-in-command, allowing teammates to initiate the fight.

But as it turned out, she actually got to play a role that initiated a team fight today.

Even though Shimamura Yuna used her ultimate skill to enter the fray, Ryushin couldn't help but shout, "Shimamura-nee has activated! Shimamura-nee is going to take down KC! Shimamura-nee is going to speed things up!"

Then the viewers' attention completely shifted away from the match; they were all asking, "What are you doing?"

After Longshen and the other commentators finished explaining the team fight and returned, they saw the chat asking "What should we do?" and they couldn't hold back anymore.

"No way, you guys are really idiots. What the hell are you still doing? Of course, you're starting a group."

"Are you suggesting we start another game?"

everyone
And so, the entire match's live chat continued in this relaxed and pleasant atmosphere.

Ultimately, there really wasn't much pressure.

The CFO played without much pressure, and Shimamura Yuna played without much pressure either, or practiced new heroes without much pressure.

The audience watching from below the stage felt no pressure.

After everyone assumed the CFO would win, the entire three games proceeded in this atmosphere of stale memes and overused jokes in the chat.

But this atmosphere did not last.

It wasn't until the third game, when CFO finally destroyed KC's base, that Longshen exclaimed, "Holy crap, Shimamura seems to have really made it! Second place already? How did we get second place? Is it that easy?"

At this moment, all the viewers who were immersed in the overused jokes seemed to wake up from their dream.

That's just how I feel.
It's as if I suddenly realized something truly remarkable.

[Wait, CFO, it seems they got second place in the world championship.]

[Shimamura's first World Championship saw her sweep the top seed from the European region 3-0.]

[Was Shimamura's first World Championship a little too smooth?]

It's worth noting that not long ago, Shimamura Yuna was a talented female streamer who had just debuted on Bilibili.

Not long ago, there were doubts about whether she could start in the professional league.

However, nowadays, she has not only become the absolute starter for the CFO team, but with the strength she has shown so far, there is no problem for her to join a stronger team, including the top teams of LCK and LPL.

Although some off-field factors and low pre-match expectations for KC led everyone to believe that the game was a foregone conclusion, the outcome was still uncertain.

However, even so, runner-up is runner-up, and second place is guaranteed to be second place.

Before the next world championship begins, they will be the representative team of at least the second-best region in the world.

All of this, however, came from a female contestant.

This is an unprecedented achievement for a female athlete.

And in such a crushing, so easy, so simple way.

At the moment all of this was accomplished, everyone felt a little unreal.

In fact, it's possible that even Yuna Shimamura herself didn't find it very real.

In a post-match interview, a reporter asked her, "Did you expect to get this far before the competition? Now that you're aiming for the title and securing second place, did you have any thoughts about that beforehand?"

In the footage, Shimamura Yuna appears somewhat dazed.

She was dressed in her usual CFO uniform, and her petite figure made her look out of place.

However, this seemingly incongruous figure has gradually become a familiar sight to everyone.

People gradually began to feel that it was only natural for such a figure to appear on the stage and in people's sight.

It was as if she was born to belong here.

This stage, these lights, were created for her.

At that moment, Shimamura Yuna also felt that winning seemed to have come a little too easily.

I feel like the opponents in this Pioneer Tournament are all a bit too weak.

I feel that this so-called "runner-up" title is somewhat undeserved.

After a long pause, she replied, "It feels like it's only natural. I just feel that with our abilities, of course we can get this far."

"But when I actually arrived here, everything seemed too unreal."

"I don't know how to describe how I feel. But..."

"I feel that everything has come a little too fast, so it feels unreal, like I don't actually have it."

"Before arriving here, I probably wouldn't have dared to have too many positive expectations for the outcome, so being able to get this far is a pleasant surprise for me. I am honored and very happy."

Following this routine question about the formula, the reporter asked a slightly pointed one.

"So, after your match, the TES vs HLE match will start soon, and their winner will become your next opponent. So, which team do you favor, or rather, which team do you hope will win?"

After careful consideration, Shimamura Yuna replied, "To me, it should all be the same. No matter who comes up, we will greet them as challengers."

"However, if possible, I still hope that TES can win. After all, most of my fans are Bilibili fans, and I also hope that the team supported by Bilibili fans can make it to the finals with us."

"That's... roughly, that's it."

Shimamura Yuna actually said those words because she thought she had high emotional intelligence.

However, given that they had just thrashed TES in the group stage, this statement sounds less like "I hope the team my fans support can also make it to the finals" and more like "I can't beat HLE, I hope TES comes up and beats me with a spinning top."

This made the audience lose their composure.

[Shimamura-san, if you want to dominate and win the championship, just say so, okay?]

(End of this chapter)