Rebirth is fine, but I get eight hundred dollars right from the start?

The moment Su Xiaoyan finished speaking.

YY Live, another live streaming room under 90001 that connects to the external network.

The screen was filled with question marks and the barrage of comments exploded into chaos.

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Oh my god!

Oh my god!

[God, what did I just see? Rank 3116! Are you sure?]

Here's the thing.

HWG's overwhelming popularity during the qualifying rounds, coupled with the series of instructional videos that Lin Shu subsequently uploaded online;

Searches for keywords related to the LPL Spring Split on foreign websites, such as "100 episodes of tips for ranking up" and "Emperor teaches how to break 2,000 points," are skyrocketing at an unreasonable pace.

Gu Feng saw this opportunity and contacted his friend at Tencent who was in charge of the LPL tournament overnight. The two of them gritted their teeth and made a bold decision.

Yes, that means creating a separate external broadcast channel for this opening match.

After all, even if HWG isn't generating enough buzz, there's still WE, the newly crowned world champion, to back them up, right? IPL5 just ended less than a month ago, and who in Europe and America doesn't know the name WE? No matter what, foreign viewers will at least give us a second glance.

But to his utter surprise, no, to the entire operations team, the opening match hadn't even officially started yet, and during the player introduction segment alone, the two teams on the field dropped a nuclear-level traffic bomb because of their ridiculously exaggerated Rank score difference.

At this moment, viewers on foreign websites were completely dumbfounded.

Open any chat room, and the screen is filled with "Wait what?"

"Are you kidding me?"

They stared at the two rows of numbers on the screen, their minds buzzing.

What the heck? Say it again?

Which of these two teams sitting on the stage right now is WE?

Which team is the invincible team that crushed them 3-0 at IPL5?

What?

You mean the side with the lower score?

What a joke!

[The mid laner from WE and the mid laner from HWG are 800 MMR apart in ranked games; I can hardly believe my eyes.]

[You mean... the LPL region just randomly sent out a team like WE, which had a lower ranking, and they still swept us at IPL5??]

[Oh no—damn Chinese people! You play billiards like this, and now you want to do it the same way in esports??]

Wait, wait, calm down. It's not that exaggerated. Currently, only HWG has a higher overall rank than WE in the LPL. Besides, Emperor is already the number one ranked player in the LPL, and he's never played professionally before… HWG's players just seem to have higher MMRs. Matches aren't just about rank.

"Dude, are you kidding me? I'm a newbie with 1200 points, and I get completely crushed by players with 2000 points. You're trying to convince me that there's not much difference between 2200 and 3100 points? Are you serious?"

Or are you trying to say that the WE players aren't incapable of climbing the ranks, they just don't like the higher score?

[Insane... Absolutely insane... I originally thought WE was the final boss on our region's path to the championship, but who knew there was a hidden level behind that boss?!]

I now seriously suspect that the Chinese deliberately didn't go all out at IPL5... were they afraid of scaring us?

[Stop talking, I'm starting to get scared. This Emperor has 3100 MMR... who is he laning against in ranked games? An alien??]

The number of comments on the screen was still skyrocketing, and the mentality of the international audience was visibly crumbling.

People are frantically taking screenshots and uploading them to Reddit, with increasingly outrageous captions—

"A hidden boss has emerged in the LPL; is WE just an appetizer?"

Some people rushed to check Emperor's Rank history, hoping to find some clues in the match history.

Some more extreme fans of European and American teams simply screamed at the top of their lungs in the live stream, with "NOOOO" and "I CAN'T" flooding the screen like rain.

Frankly speaking, the frenzy of foreign viewers at this moment is completely understandable.

You need to put yourself in their shoes and think about it—

IPL5 lost to WE, that was only a few months ago.

That 3-0 victory left them thoroughly convinced of their superiority, but it also kept them up at night.

On the night of their defeat, esports forums in Europe and America erupted in chaos, with countless analytical posts appearing simultaneously, breaking down every team fight and every rhythm of the WE finals frame by frame.

Some people have even conducted research on the laning habits of key players like WeiXiao.

In the following period, European and American teams increased their training, and South Korean teams arranged practice matches.

On the whiteboards of the coaching staff of various clubs, WE's tactical system was written in dense detail.

Everyone had only one thought in their minds—how could they defeat this super team in the later matches?

How can I peel that red team logo off the championship trophy?

They were truly treating WE as the final boss.

And now you tell him—

WE isn't actually that strong.

There's another team hidden in the LPL region. A team that completely dominates WE in ranked games. A team with a mid laner of 3100 points and the lowest-ranked player on the team above 2500 points.

So what exactly have they been researching for the past month?

That feeling is like you've been grinding away for three days and three nights, finally defeating the final boss, throwing away the controller, and just about to sit back and enjoy the ending cinematic.

The screen went black, the background music suddenly changed, and another health bar slowly lit up, with a line of large characters clearly displayed on it—

"The BOSS has entered a new phase!"

One word: Absolutely brilliant.

"No rush, it's just ranked points. Professional matches are different from casual games. WE will definitely be stronger."

Among the comments, some viewers still held onto a sliver of hope.

But it was immediately erased by someone else.

"Well, the problem is that IG, who played a full game against WE at IPL5, lost to HWG. If the individual players on this team are that strong, their teamwork shouldn't be too bad."

"Fuck, can't I watch the game myself? I don't need you to remind me!"

"We'll know the result after today's match."

……

Amidst this frenzied atmosphere, the two teams on the field have already entered the draft phase.

In the first BO1 match, WE is on the blue side and HWG is on the purple side!

on the stage.

HWG remained relatively quiet.

All four team members, including Tang Bin, who was dressed in a suit and acting as the head coach, were waiting for Lin Shu to give them orders.

Lin Shu, however, said with a relaxed expression, "Don't feel pressured. Just bring out our best skills and go all out against WE."

"Uh... are they going to pull out all the stops right from the start?" White Crescent thought he was being aggressive enough, but he didn't expect the team leader to be so ruthless.

"Of course we'll pull out all the stops. After all, to outsiders, we're the challengers." Zhang Hai chuckled, then looked at Lin Shu and asked, "Master, am I, Jess, any good?"

"Okay, just remember to move the desert spiders yourself later."

A few minutes later, the lineups for both teams were finalized.

Blue side WE: Top lane Shyvana, Jungle Jarvan IV, Mid lane Twisted Fate, Bot lane Varus and Sona!

HWG (purple side): Top lane Jayce, Jungle Lee Sin, Mid lane Orianna, Bot lane Ezreal and Zyra!