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Chapter 561 The Pattern of LPL Players' Nicknames! Is the Official Targeting FPX?

"Okay, thanks to the players from FPX and TES, who are participating in the Summer Finals, for bringing us the trash talk segment!"

Long Hair's voice reappeared on the live stream screen from the commentary panel.

"Actually, before Zhou Shen said that last sentence, this pre-match trash talk session felt like the most friendly one ever. I wonder if it's because both teams have already qualified for the World Championship!" Changmao continued.

"But the moment Zhou Shen said that, the competitive feeling from the pre-match trash talk session came right back!" Ai Luoli chimed in with a smile.

Back when EDG dominated the LPL, Ai Luoli, as Clearlove's substitute, also participated in the pre-match trash talk during the finals.

He still prefers the feeling of openly mocking his opponents, just like before.

"Only Zhou Shen would dare to say something like that!" Rita commented with a smile.

At this point, although the voices of the commentators could still be heard, the live broadcast camera was no longer focused on the commentators, but instead was scanning back and forth between the players' seats of both teams.

The starting ten players from both teams are already seated in their seats, making their final preparations.

It seems the first game of the best-of-five finals is not far off.

On camera, all ten players from both teams looked relaxed, with some even chuckling.

It's normal for the players to be calm before the competition even starts.

Even the most mentally challenged player wouldn't have their mentality collapse before the match even starts.

I wonder if the losing team will remain so calm after falling behind by a large margin.

“Everyone seems pretty optimistic!” Rita added.

"Yes!" Longhair nodded. "Because this match won't affect their chances of qualifying for the World Championship, the players will have less psychological pressure and less burden on their shoulders!"

"But that doesn't diminish the fact that both sides are extremely eager to win this summer championship!"

"This championship trophy is of great significance to both teams. Regardless of which team wins, it will be their first LPL championship trophy, or even their first championship in the League of Legends competition!"

“That’s right, and apart from Zhou Shen, none of the other nine players on the field have ever won an LPL championship!” Ai Luoli added. “So what’s wrong with Zhou Shen talking a lot of trash talk before the match? Only Zhou Shen has the right to do that!”

Immediately, many viewers in the official live stream chat complained that Ai Luoli had low emotional intelligence and didn't know how to speak properly.

Are you speaking up for Zhou Shen, or are you trying to incite hatred against him?
Fortunately, the audience will soon no longer have to listen to him.

At the end, following the director's footage, a comparison was made of the statistics of Zhou Dian and Doinb, the two teams' most outstanding players in the playoffs.

Long Hair said, "Well then, today's Summer Finals BO5 is about to begin."

"Let's welcome our three commentators!"

As expected, the LPL officials' habits are quite easy to figure out.

After a full half-hour pre-match segment, the live broadcast finally focused on the commentary booth for the final match, marking the start of the main event.

"Okay, thank you to the three commentators!"

"Hello everyone, I'm Zeyuan!"

"Hello everyone, I remember!"

"Hi everyone, I'm Cat!"

Actually, Cat, who is commonly known as Cat Emperor by the audience, only retired this year to become a commentator.

At this time last year, Cat was a support player for the TES team.

In the early days of the LPL, the nicknames given to LPL professional players online followed a certain pattern.

That means the more imposing the nickname, the worse the player is.

If a player's nickname contains words like "Emperor," "King," or "King," any knowledgeable viewer can immediately tell that the player isn't very good at the game.

Take Ning, last year's S-series FMVP, for example.

The nickname "Ning Wang" originated from his very abstract and uninspired performance when he first appeared on IG, which led viewers to give him the nickname because he played poorly.

Of course, Ning later improved and even won the S8 World Championship last year, earning the FMVP award.

However, the audience has gotten used to calling him Prince Ning.

However, there is an exception to this rule, namely the word "god".

In the LPL, if a player is nicknamed "God," it means that the audience genuinely thinks the player is very skilled, which is why they would give them that nickname.

Except for PYL's nickname "Grim Reaper"!
The general principle among LPL viewers regarding nicknames is that the more unpretentious or even somewhat pathetic the nickname, the more it indicates the player's skill.

The more imposing and domineering a nickname is, the worse the player is.

From a certain perspective, the nickname "XX God" is actually quite down-to-earth.

After all, every industry has its own way of giving nicknames to capable people, like calling them "XX God".

However, these are all methods of creating nicknames that originated from online forums in the early days of the LPL, when it was still relatively "niche".

After LPL won consecutive championships, it attracted more and more fans from both the fandom and non-fandom communities.

These people are not likely to call the players by their nicknames from the forum.

Gradually, this practice of giving nicknames to professional League of Legends players was adopted.

However, Cat had the nickname "Cat Emperor" when he first played in the LPL Summer Split in 17, before the LPL had won the S-series championship.

So, from the moment Cat first joined the LPL until his retirement.

For the past year or two, the nickname "Cat Emperor" has always been used to insult his poor skills, and its meaning has never changed.

Moreover, Cat Emperor is not only bad at cooking, but also stubborn.

It's incredibly hard!
White Crescent Moon has lost her guard countless times.

So when he announced his retirement, TES's longtime fans were overjoyed.

But now that he's retired, Cat Emperor still has some skills as a commentator, so TES fans no longer keep bringing up the story of how badly he played and dragged TES down back then.

After all, TES's poor performance in the bot lane wasn't solely Cat's fault.

As the ADC, Qiuqiu is even more of a heavyweight.

This year, Cat Emperor, as a new commentator, was able to take the stage at the live commentary booth for the Summer Split finals.

Besides cultivating interpersonal relationships.

His status as a TES legend also provided him with some assistance. Back in the commentary booth.

After the three commentators introduced themselves, Guan Zeyuan said, "Actually, we'd like to tell you about today's match. The first side to choose is determined by flipping a coin!"

"FPX deliberately chose the red side in the first game!"

During this period, the BO5 side selection rules still stipulated that the side with the priority to select sides would have the right to select sides for the first, third, and fifth games of the BO5 series.

The other side gets the right to choose sides in the second and fourth games.

Guan Zeyuan said that FPX took the initiative to choose the red side in the first game, which naturally meant that FPX was the winner of the coin toss before the game.

FPX has the right to choose sides for the first, third, and fifth games of this Summer Split finals BO5.

FPX fans are very unhappy about the decision to decide the first side in the finals by flipping a coin.

Throughout the playoffs, up until the finals, including the semifinals, the team with the higher regular season ranking had the right to choose sides first.

This rule is reasonable.

Otherwise, what's the point of them having a higher regular season ranking than you?
However, in the finals, FPX faced TES. FPX did not automatically have the priority to choose sides due to their higher ranking in the Summer Split regular season, so they did have to play a coin toss against TES.

This greatly displeased FPX fans.

What's the point of me working so hard to get first place in the regular season?

Is it all just for the right to choose sides in a single semi-final match?

That first place in the regular season is worthless!

Some FPX fans even started spreading conspiracy theories.

It's said that the LPL officials wanted TES to win the Summer Split finals, which is why they pulled this stunt.

As for why we hope TES wins the championship, it's naturally because Zhou Dian has more fans!

Isn't it just an attempt to please Zhou Dian's fans?
If Zhou Dian were to stage a triumphant return and lead his team to victory once again, it would naturally generate more buzz for the LPL officials than if FPX won the Summer Split championship.

More traffic means more money.

To put it bluntly, they just want to make more money.

On the other hand, the LPL officials may indeed prefer TES to win this summer split championship.

TES winning the championship would indeed be more beneficial for LPL to make money.

However, this conspiracy theory about the right to choose sides is really a ridiculous smear!
The LPL finals disregarded the regular season rankings of both teams, instead using a coin toss to determine who would have the first choice of sides.

It does seem a little unreasonable to favor the team with the higher regular season ranking.

But that's how the LPL finals have always been done!
This is not targeting FPX.

However, some FPX fans said: I don't care, LPL officials are targeting FPX.

Saying these things is naturally an attempt to gain some advantage in public opinion before the competition.

Fortunately, FPX won the coin toss in the end.

FPX has the first choice of sides in the finals.

This finally silenced those FPX fans, or rather, Doinb's fandom.

"FPX chose the red side in the first game, and after TES played three consecutive games on the red side in the semifinals, they finally went to the blue side!" Guan Zeyuan continued.

"FPX's decision to choose the red side is quite obvious!" Remember added.

"You mean by actively choosing the red side to limit Zhou Shen?" Guan Zeyuan immediately said, "After all, everyone knows that Zhou Shen is very powerful when he takes the counter position on the red side, and more than one team actively chooses the red side when facing Zhou Shen!"

“However,” Guan Zeyuan changed the subject, “I don’t think it’s necessarily true for FPX. They’ve actively chosen the red side many times during the regular season!”

Guan Zeyuan's statement is not wrong.

This year, in all major global competitions, the overall win rates for the blue and red sides are roughly the same.

This has led to more and more teams actively choosing the red side when selecting sides.

Of course, the reason for this situation is that there are currently no particularly powerful heroes that the blue side must pick first.

In this situation, as long as the counter-position is used well, enough counter-effects can be achieved.

The fifth floor of the red building is more valuable than the first floor of the blue building.

However, Riot Games' track record is unpredictable.

Who knows, when the World Championship version comes out, he might just create a few more monsters for you.

At that point, the blue team's priority will naturally become infinitely high again.

Moreover, there are clues to this kind of thing.

Riot Games likes to make big changes in the World Championship patch, but their balance is poor, and they lack the time for players to test and adjust, which naturally makes it easy to create monsters.

Then it became a distorted version.

It's fair to say that Riot Games' designers are becoming increasingly incompetent.

It's really not feasible to have designers who spend real money teach these top-tier players how to play the game!

Moreover, it's often not these professional players who get injured.

After all, professional gamers have high gaming talent and strong learning ability.

The victims of designers' blunders are often the vast majority of ordinary gamers.

It's not easy for the average player to master a hero.

Sometimes, a hero you've painstakingly mastered through thousands of matches can be ruined by a single, casual nerf from the designers.

What's even more infuriating is that sometimes casual players finally figure out an interesting gameplay strategy or game mechanic.

Before we could even warm up to it, the designers said that my approach was affecting the game balance and that it wasn't good.

Then they immediately released a hot patch.

Okay, the tricks won't work anymore!
Riot Games' designers now not only have to teach professional players how to play the game, but also all casual players.

It's a bit too self-conscious!
(End of this chapter)