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Chapter 522 A New Landscape in LPL Fandom! "Heroes" G2!

Zhou Dian's S8 season has ended, but the LPL Summer Split playoffs are still in full swing.

LGD's elimination does not diminish the current popularity of the LPL market.

Of the remaining teams, RNG and IG are still the favorites to win the championship.

RNG, needless to say, has already won the Spring Split championship, the MSI championship, and the Rift Rivals championship this year.

Many RNG fans are already excited that RNG will win the Summer Split championship and the ultimate S8 World Championship in the next two months.

They are determined to achieve a single-year grand slam like LGD did last year, and then crush LGD.

Some netizens have even included the recent Asian Games champions in their comments.

Adding the two championships they won this year, that would be what they call a "super grand slam," already surpassing LGD's grand slam last year.

Esports was included in the Asian Games for the first time at the Jakarta Asian Games this summer.

Although it's not an official competition event yet, but just an exhibition event, medals will still be awarded and the national flag will be raised eventually.

Regardless of the level of the competition, this is representing the country, which makes a completely different difference.

Of the starting five players representing my country at this Asian Games, three—the jungler, support, and bottom laner—are from RNG, making up the vast majority.

Therefore, some royal fans went quite far, even attributing the Asian Games championship to RNG.

Is there such an algorithm?
The national team is an all-Chinese team, and RNG is also an all-Chinese team, so RNG is equivalent to the national team, right?
However, HZ's preferred style of play, which is based on nationality, is perfectly suited to the nature of the Asian Games.

This resulted in the other two players, Zhou Dian and Xi Ye, not receiving much recognition from their clubs in the public eye for their Asian Games victory.

RNG, on the contrary, felt proud and acted as if they could represent the national team.

All we can say is that it's thanks to Zhou Dian being a member of the Asian Games gold medal-winning team.

Otherwise, given the animosity between GSL, HZ, and Zhou Dian, if Zhou Dian hadn't been a member of the Asian Games champions, GSL and HZ could have easily attacked him in the media based solely on his Asian Games championship, regardless of his previous FMVP Grand Slam achievements!
Aside from RNG, another strong contender for the Summer Split championship is IG.

In the Summer Split regular season, IG once again achieved a record of 18 wins and 1 loss, ranking first in the league.

However, they had an 18-game winning streak in the Spring Split, but this time they lost one game in the middle.

And surely TheShy won't miss the playoffs again this time!
Therefore, IG fans are all eagerly awaiting their revenge against RNG in the Summer Split playoffs.

However, RNG fans are not intimidated by IG at all.

So what if you were first in the league in the regular season?

Even when they had an 18-game winning streak in the Spring Split regular season, they still lost to us in the playoffs.

Don't mention that TheShy was there this time.

In the Summer Split regular season, IG's only loss was against RNG.

Of course, the two teams faced off twice in the summer split regular season, with a record of 1-1 and each winning one game, so RNG did not gain any advantage.

Apart from these two teams, no one other than their own fans believes they can pose any threat to IG and RNG.

This includes JDG, the dark horse that emerged in the Summer Split.

Viewers might think JDG has some strength, but compared to RNG and IG, they are still far behind.

But then, JDG showed its true dark horse potential.

JDG first defeated EDG, the second-ranked team in the Western Conference during the regular season, with a score of 3-1 in the second round of the playoffs.

Then in the semifinals, facing IG, who had a gap in the regular season and were the top team in the league, JDG fought hard for five games but ultimately lost to IG, stopping in the top four of the summer playoffs.

This best-of-five series truly gave all IG fans a real scare.

When JDG won the fourth game, tying the BO5 series 2-2, all IG fans remembered the moment when they were eliminated in the semifinals of the Spring Split.

Is it going to be another "last place after eighteen victories"?
Then IG really became a joke!

Fortunately, IG won the decisive game and advanced to the finals of this year's LPL Summer Split.

This match also allowed all viewers to truly get to know the new JDG team after Doinb's departure.

This dark horse is truly capable; it doesn't seem to be just a fleeting phenomenon.

In the other semifinal, RNG easily defeated RW and will face IG in the Summer Split finals.

In that case, RNG and IG have secured two of the three spots for the LPL region to qualify for the S8 World Championship this year.

As for who is the number one seed and who is the number two seed, we'll have to wait and see the results of the Summer Split finals.

The third and final spot for LPL to go to the S8 World Championship.

Many viewers believe that JDG is the one who will secure the spot.

With JDG easily sweeping RW 3-0 in the third-place match to secure third place in this year's LPL Summer Split, more and more viewers are optimistic that JDG can go to the S8 World Championship.

Moreover, JDG's sweeping victory over RW in this third-place match sparked another round of online mockery of Doinb.

After all, at the beginning of this season, when Doinb left JDG for RW, many of his fans, who always liked to praise his own unique style, didn't hold back in criticizing JDG.

Without Doinb, JDG will definitely achieve nothing!
Especially when JDG failed to make the playoffs in the Spring Split, while RW won third place, Doinb's fans vehemently criticized JDG.

I knew it! Without my pigeon, JDG just can't do it!
However, now that Doinb is gone, JDG, with a team full of rookies, crushed Doinb's RW team in the playoffs.

All I can say is that karma is a cycle, and no one escapes the wrath of Heaven.

What goes around comes around!

LPL is such a bizarre region where people get blown away every year, but these fan groups never seem to learn their lesson!

On September 14, 2018, the final match of the Summer Tournament kicked off.

In the end, after a five-game battle, RNG narrowly defeated IG 3-2 to lift the 2018 LPL Summer Split championship trophy.

This means that RNG's path to a single-year Grand Slam gold medal has not been interrupted and is still continuing!
With only the S8 World Championship title remaining, RNG can once again achieve the great feat of a single-year grand slam, just like LGD did last year.

RNG fans and Uzi fans went completely crazy online.

The S8 World Championship, which will begin in two weeks, has already been decided by them.

This is a far more flamboyant display than LGD fans were at the same time last year.

At the time, few LGD fans dared to do something like "borrowing a championship." More often, they maintained a respectful yet wary attitude towards the three-time world champions SKT and the LCK region, which had long dominated League of Legends.

Nowadays, on the Chinese internet, hz and gsl have become completely insane.

All they do is patrol everywhere and "monitor" netizens' comments on various platforms.

Let alone saying anything bad about RNG, even rationally expressing that you don't think RNG is the most likely to win the S8 World Championship, you'll still get bombarded with private messages and your family will be bombarded with insults.

For a time, fans of other teams on the internet and public platforms noticed that they were all extremely cautious, afraid of being ganged up on by hz and gsl.

Everyone is thinking, RNG hasn't even won the final S-series championship trophy yet and they're already like this.

If RNG were to win the S8 World Championship this year, complete the Golden Road, and achieve a Grand Slam, that would be incredible!
At that time, I'm afraid even the dogs passing by on the roadside will be subject to the crackdown by hz and gsl!

At the S8 World Championship two weeks later, fans of all other teams will need a "hero".

They need this hero to help them escape the unprecedented online backlash following the S8 World Championship.

The summer season finals are followed immediately by the gauntlet match the next day.

JDG, EDG, and RW competed in a regional qualifier for the last LPL spot to go to South Korea.

The S8 World Championship was held in South Korea.

Surprisingly, JDG, the dark horse favored by the vast majority of people, fell in the first round of the gauntlet.

In this BO5 between JDG and EDG, Haro, EDG's new jungler who had completely relegated Clearlove to the bench by the end of the season, performed exceptionally well. Despite the team's overall strength being inferior to JDG's, he helped EDG tie the first four games at 2-2, forcing the match into a decisive game.

In the decisive fifth game, which went into the late stages of the game, the venue suddenly experienced a network outage.

The network couldn't be restored for a long time, and I've been trying to fix it for over an hour without success.

The match was originally scheduled to start in the evening, and it went the full five games.

This delay dragged on until almost midnight.

For safety reasons, the LPL organizers evacuated the audience before the match ended.

This is truly unique in the long history of LPL's event organization.

Finally, the match resumed almost two hours after the internet was cut off.

The prolonged interruption of the match, coupled with the empty stadium, created a sudden and discontinuous change in the match environment, which directly dragged down JDG.

The JDG team, comprised of a group of inexperienced players with severely limited experience in major competitions, suffered a complete mental breakdown after these unexpected events.

EDG, on the other hand, has extensive experience in major tournaments and is in a much better mental state.

After the match resumed, JDG immediately fell behind, and EDG quickly ended the game.

The next day, in the gauntlet finals between EDG and RW, EDG's jungler Haro once again delivered a phenomenal performance.

After losing the first game, Haro carried EDG for three consecutive games, leading the team to a reverse sweep of 3-1.

Especially in the fourth game, Haro's Lee Sin completely dominated Doinb's fed Cassiopeia in the early game, leaving Doinb so badly that he sat down on a chair and cried after the match!

It also helped EDG qualify for the S8 World Championship.

Of course, apart from the fans of these two teams, other viewers don't particularly care about who will get the third spot for LPL to go to South Korea.

On some public platforms online, the boundless arrogance of RNG fans is still rampant, and all comments that are not optimistic about RNG winning the S8 championship have been silenced!

The power of the imperial chariot is terrifying!
It can only be said that the "magic" of an "all-Chinese team" is truly extraordinary.

With an all-Chinese lineup and Uzbekistan joining forces, they would be "invincible"!
On days without matches, Zhou Dian went on a trip to relax.

Of course, I haven't missed any daily ranked games, and I've also been following League of Legends competitions.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, the group stage of the S8 World Championship has already been completed.

The eight teams that have advanced to the quarterfinals have been determined.

All three LPL teams participating in this World Championship – RNG, IG, and EDG – have made it to the quarterfinals.

LCK faltered, with only KT and AFS making it to the quarterfinals, while Samsung surprisingly finished last in their group and were eliminated.

The remaining teams advancing are C9 from North America, FNC from Europe, and G2.
The quarterfinal matchups in the upper bracket are RNG vs. G2 and IG vs. KT.

The other four teams are in the lower half of the draw.

The top three favorites to win this S-series championship, RNG, KT, and IG, were placed in the same half of the bracket in the quarterfinals.

This makes the upper half of the bracket a true "group of death."

However, even in the same "group of death," the luck of each team is vastly different.

IG is going to have a do-or-die battle against LCK's number one seed, KT.

RNG's opponent in the quarterfinals was G2, who was considered the weakest team in the quarterfinals.

They could simply sit back and watch the fight unfold, reaping the benefits without lifting a finger.

When the draw for the quarterfinals revealed that RNG's opponent was G2, the entire RNG training room in the hotel, including the RNG players, coaches, and staff, burst into laughter.

Little Tiger has contributed an eternal classic – the two-part laugh!

After the quarterfinal matchups and the group stage results were announced, RNG fans felt that their chances of winning the S8 championship were even stronger.

So much so that another timeless classic was created on Tieba: RNG's championship victory owes one-third to IG!

The comments section below this post is filled with royal fans celebrating and prematurely opening champagne.

Other fans could only submit to the tyranny of the royal fan club and dared not speak out.

They were filled with anxiety, waiting for the final reckoning and divine wrath to descend.

People are hoping that the winner of the quarterfinals between IG and KT will step up in the semifinals and become the "hero" to prevent this unprecedented purge from happening.

Looking at the entire quarterfinals, it seems that only IG and KT have a chance to be the "hero".

But to everyone's surprise, the hero appeared ahead of schedule!

(End of this chapter)