LOL: What does it mean to torture players?

Chapter 180 Brother Mozi doesn't need haters to lead the way, he can lead the way himself! (2 and 1)

EDG is in Group A, and SKT is also in Group A.

This result surprised everyone a little.

Zet said timidly, "If I understand correctly, we are in the same group as SKT? Is that what you mean?"

Abu confirmed: "Yes, that's right. We are the number one seed and they are the number two seed. We can be in the same group. No matter how you look at it, there is no problem with the draw result."

Just as Abu said, on the screen, the host did not correct or change the result, and the factory manager continued to draw lots.

However, the director gave a close-up of the factory manager's expression, and we can see that the factory manager's face did not look good, and he was obviously not very satisfied with the result.

Although EDG defeated SKT in MSI before, no one wants to meet SKT in the S game.

Because SKT in the S game is so terrifying!

This is just like in S5, EDG beat SKT at MSI, but in the S game, the state shown by SKT was completely different.

For some teams and some players, the bigger the stage, the more terrifying the strength they display.

SKT coach Kkoma has certified Faker in this regard, and Faker is such a player.

A Guang suddenly said: "We...should be able to win, right? Even if we can't beat SKT, can we qualify as the second in the group?"

Meiko forced a smile and said, "It's okay. There won't be any LCK or LPL teams in our group. The rest will either be European or American losers or wildcards. Anyway, as long as we can qualify, there's no rush for other things."

Everyone forced themselves to calm down and wait and see.

After the factory manager finished drawing, he left. Subsequently, Group A drew AHQ and a place in the qualifying round.

We will know who will be assigned to Group A after the qualifying round is over.

Of course, there are avoidance rules within the same division, so WE will not be the team that gets the spot in the play-in round. Among the remaining possibilities, none of them can pose a huge threat to EDG.

After the draw results came out, Abu said, "Now the results are out. We are now confirmed to be in the same group with SKT and AHQ. Judging from the current situation, this result is not bad. SKT is our defeated opponent."

"As for AHQ, FW is the only team in their region that is strong enough. They have always been dominated by FW. The teams behind them are not very strong, including AHQ, so there is no need to worry too much."

Everyone looked at each other, feeling that things were not that simple.

Meiko commented: "I feel like LZ in Group B had it easy. They were either wildcards or European and American losers."

Zet said: "If you think about it this way, this is also a good thing for LPL. No one should want to be in the same group with LZ."

Meiko nodded. "That's true."

Everyone started chatting, and after a while, the factory manager came back.

As soon as the factory manager entered the room, everyone looked over and A Guang began to complain: "Brother Mingkai, I really don't know what to say about your luck. Can't you draw a wild card and a third seed from North America?"

Meiko said: "If you have to draw a team from LCK, it should be SSG. How can you draw SKT?"

Zet nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, that's the truth."

The factory manager said: "SKT? They are just a defeated team in MSI, why are you panicking?"

"Oh my god!" Everyone was shocked. Did the factory director stand up completely?

As a result, the factory manager immediately said: "The worst that can happen is that the second place in the group will not be able to beat SKT, nor AHQ?"

"Damn!" Everyone in EDG was shocked. They thought that the factory manager could really beat SKT, but it turned out that he was just pretending.

He really learned bad things from Su Mo.

Abu began to make arrangements: "Now that the group results have come out, we will start targeted training. We have done a very in-depth study of SKT, which is actually a good thing, right? We have been studying SKT from S5 to now, and it will always come in handy."

"Our current primary goal is to advance. Nothing else matters. Come on, everyone. Starting tonight, study all of SKT's summer games in your free time."

Everyone returned to their respective positions and began to study SKT's game.

Su Mo knows SKT quite well. Compared to watching SKT's games, he wants to see the current pace online.

Because when it comes to analyzing SKT, Abu is much more professional than him.

In other words, the other players of EDG are more professional than him...

So, Su Mo chose to go into the forum - the Anti-Pressure Forum to take a look.

As soon as he entered the forum, he saw a bunch of related posts.

#Do SKT and EDG have any grudges against each other? They are always ranked together.

#It didn't exist before, but it exists now.

#SKT's revenge! Wait for it, you pigs, hahaha!

#Ziyizhang and the salty pig hand are really unlucky. They were drawn to Group A, played first, and also drew SKT, which makes them simply invincible.

The next day, EDG engaged in hard training. Of course, it was mainly the team that was training.

Su Mo is now responsible for his own training, under the pretext of studying routines.

Because of the outstanding performance in the summer games, Abu and his teammates don't care about Su Mo's lack of training. Abu even wants to know several times how Su Mo conducts his routine research.

Su Mo naturally couldn't tell him the real reason, so Abu just assumed that Su Mo was keeping it a secret.

In short, Su Mo can now fully control when he trains and achieve true "work freedom".

"Xiao Mo, the official promotional video is out. You can go to the video website to take a look." Abu suddenly appeared behind Su Mo.

"Okay." Su Mo nodded.

A Guang, who was sitting next to Su Mo, became interested: "Brother Mozi, let's watch it together. Did you say a lot of pretentious words?"

A Guang suddenly started to perform. He sat up straight, his head held high, with a serious expression on his face. "I am EDG's starting top laner, Mo. Fans usually call me Mo God, which means I can do anything."

Su Mo couldn't hold it in any longer: "No, I think they should really call you over and make a promotional video for you. It would be more useful than me."

Ah Guang ignored Su Mo's teasing and continued to imitate Su Mo's tone and said: "You asked me if I have any contestants I admire? I have, myself. I'm not targeting anyone. Everyone here is garbage!"

Su Mo shook his head: "Alright, alright, if you really say that, the female host will probably hit you. After all, she is probably a fan of Faker."

"Ah? They actually sent a Faker fan to interview you, what does that mean? The official is deliberately making trouble!" A Guang's expression was exaggerated.

Su Mo: "Is it possible that Faker has too many fans, and they are everywhere?"

Ah Guang muttered, "That seems to be true. Brother Mozi, you should cultivate more fans of your own and win more S championships. Then you can have fans everywhere."

Su Mo raised his eyebrows: "It's easy for you to say it."

After saying that, he took out his mobile phone, opened the website and searched for Riot's official promotional video.

Soon, Su Mo found the latest promotional video, The Legend Will Never Die!
This is a big theme, and it is divided according to the players.

Su Mo saw Faker at first sight. As long as he came to participate in the S game, he would definitely have a share.

The next one is Su Mo himself.

This video has very low views because it was just uploaded.

Su Mo clicked on it and took a look, then discovered something very terrifying. In the lower left corner, he could see the number of people watching the video, and there were 50,000 of them, and the number was still rising!

It's even more lively than when Faker appeared.

"Here I come! Let me see what's going on."

"Brother Mozi is so handsome!"

"Brother Mozi's haters are gathering!"

"Although Brother Mozi often messes with people's mentality, this time we should be able to see him being serious and cool."

Seeing these comments, Su Mo smiled.

"Hey, Brother Mozi, what's wrong with you? You can't help but laugh when you think about your fans being impressed by your handsome interview, right?" Abu said with a smile on his face.

Su Mo shook his head: "You will know after you finish reading it."

The video starts with a very relaxed introduction, the interviewer comes in and the two shake hands.

"Please take a seat."

Then introduce yourself.

Ah Guang has already started to get excited: "Oh, so handsome, if I have the opportunity to be interviewed like this, I will definitely go get some styling done in advance."

However, soon when the female host asked the question about talent, A Guang slowly felt something was wrong.

"No, Brother Mozi, aren't you being a bit pretentious during this interview? I'm afraid you'll be criticized by Faker's fans." A Guang said.

Su Mo said indifferently: "I am just telling the truth, you know it."

"Well...that's true. In my opinion, you are indeed more talented than Faker." A Guang was speechless.

At the same time, the barrage of this video is also changing:

"Here he comes! Brother Mozi's true nature has been revealed, and he has started to torture us!"

"Brother Mozi is a bit arrogant. He said he only trains for four hours a day. Even a dog wouldn't believe it."

"Brother Mozi is like this, he's just making things up, don't you know him?"

"Mozi said that he is more talented than Faker. I think it makes sense. When Faker debuted, he was not as talented as Mozi."

"Haha, Faker has three championships, what championship does Mo have?"

"I think there's nothing wrong with Brother Mozi, he just should stick to his own opinion."

"..."

Seeing the quarrels in the barrage, Su Mo also felt a bit of a headache.

This shows that Faker's fans are really exaggerated...

But there is one good thing, that is...

[Get +10 torture points from the audience]

[Get +10 torture points from the audience]

That's pretty good!

As long as this video remains online and people continue to watch it, it will continue to reap torture points.

After watching the video, Su Mo watched other people’s videos again.

In addition to Faker, LCK also interviewed Ambition, also known as Master An.

But the comments under Ambition's video are interesting:

"I've been a supporting role all my life, and have been trampled under the feet of Brother Li since S3."

"Being forced from the mid lane position to the jungle position by Li Ge is really pitiful."

“Some people exist only as a stepping stone to the success of others.”

"That EDG's Mo actually said that SSG is stronger than SKT. It's hilarious. It seems that stepping stones will sympathize with each other."

There are almost no Ambition fans in the comments below, they are all Faker fans showing off their superiority.

E-sports is like this. If you don’t win the championship, the more famous you become, the more miserable you will be, and you will become the main target of ridicule by the champion’s fans.

Su Mo watched all the videos. Except for his one which caused a lot of controversy, the other videos were quite normal.

Su Mo was watching this when suddenly, the door of the training room was pushed open and the factory director walked in quickly to find Su Mo:
"Xiao Mo, have you watched the video?"

Su Mo asked: "What video?"

The factory manager reminded: "It's the official interview video with you. Now it's posted online. I feel something is wrong. Maybe they didn't edit it well and posted your pretentious words. It's very unprofessional."

"I saw it." Su Mo explained, "You can't blame them. After all, that's what I said. They can cut it however they want. I'm not afraid of being criticized anyway."

"Um...there's nothing wrong with it." The factory manager was a little dazed.

Even though I knew Su Mo's habits, it was still hard to understand how someone could be so fearless of being criticized.

I don't need anyone else to lead the rhythm, I can lead it myself...

"Forget it, just have fun by yourself. I don't care." After saying this, the factory manager left in a flash.

Su Mo lay on the gaming chair, opened the forum, and entered the anti-stress forum, wanting to see the feedback from gaming fans on this video.

Just then, he saw something interesting.

There is a post summarizing the reactions of various clubs when they saw the draw results.

When the major clubs watch the draw live together, there are people recording it, and these recordings will be posted by the major clubs on their respective video accounts.

Of course, if there are certain words or images that are not suitable for children, they will be edited to a certain extent.

The first person to post this was RNG. When RNG saw the result of the draw, they immediately started celebrating:
"Nice! Nice, brothers!"

"It's SSG! SSG! The worst one!"

Although there is no sound in the animated picture, we can tell something from their lip movements.

Comment below:
"What a good draw! We were assigned to SSG. I think RNG has a good chance of getting first place in the group."

"Didn't Brother Mozi say that SSG is very strong? Even stronger than Dragon Ball."

"Brother Mozi is your father? Whatever he says is true?"

"He is just a beast who messes with people's mentality."

"He is my father! Do you understand the value of a victorious war god?"

"..."

Su Mo continued to move forward, and it was EDG's turn. This dynamic picture had been processed by someone.

First, the screen showed everyone in EDG. Everything looked normal, including when the factory manager went up to draw lots.

However, when the factory manager pulled SKT out, his face changed.

Comment below:
"Hahahaha, EDG is scared."

"It's over! It's over, it's SKT! We are finished!"

"SKT is back as the king. It feels like they are going to repeat the story of S5."

"I was wondering why this year's events were so familiar, it turned out to be the plot of S5."

As expected, most people still don’t believe EDG’s performance in the S game.

All I can say is that EDG's performance in the past two years has been too poor, and it is impossible to reverse this stereotype without winning an S championship.

Su Mo continued to look down, the next one was SKT!

It feels like EDG and SKT were put together on purpose.

When SKT saw it was EDG, they all celebrated!
Huni jumped up and clenched his fists, cheering as if he had already won against EDG.

Comment below:
"SKT's revenge time!"

"Your name is EDG, right? Just wait for me!"

"We lost the championship to EDG in MSI. Do you have any idea who you are?"

"SKT's three consecutive championships will start with EDG!"

Keep reading, there are more exciting things to come.

When a wildcard team like GAM is placed in Group C, in the same group as Longzhu.

Everyone in the training room was silent.

They stared at each other, and an atmosphere of despair filled the room.

Although it's just a dynamic picture and not a very clear one, I can still feel the despair through the screen.

Read the comments below:

"This is so hopeless, how could someone be so unlucky?"

"The pressure from the No. 1 seed in LCK is suffocating!" "If I were them, I would probably be scared to death. That's Dragon Ball!"

"In this group, I think winning a game is a success. Against Longzhu, getting a kill is a success."

There are a lot of people praising Dragon Ball all over the Internet now. There is no need to say anything else. Just the title of the LCK's No. 1 seed team is enough to scare most people.

In addition, there is Khan, the top laner who broke the LCK historical record of solo kills, CUZZ, the talented jungler who ranked first in the Korean server at the age of 16, BDD, Faker's successor, and the two strongest bottom lane players in LCK.

Once these things are taken out, most people really can't stand it and will definitely be scared.

At the same time, whenever SSG and LZ are discussed online, there will inevitably be people who bring up Su Mo and "whip his corpse".

Just because Su Mo said that SSG is the strongest in LCK, Longzhu fans, SKT fans, RNG fans...

Everyone will use this matter to mock Su Mo.

Su Mo continued watching and saw another interesting thing, the top 20 contestants!

The top 20 players will be announced every time the S game is held. This post starts from the 20th place, and you can see some players from Europe and the United States.

The further you look ahead, the more LPL players there are.

Soon, Su Mo saw his own!
Eleventh place, EDG, Mo.

Number eleven is a very embarrassing existence.

Insufficient than above, more than below.

Eleventh place is actually the same as twentieth place, because neither made it into the top ten.

Moving on to the next level, Pilsen is in tenth place.

The players in the front are basically from LPL and LCK.

Meiko is ninth, BDD is sixth, and Xiaohu is fifth.

Su Mo was a little surprised when he saw Xiaohu ranked fifth.

The ranking is quite high.

Khan is fourth, Gorilla is third, and Pray is second!

Among the top six, half are from Dragon Ball!
At the same time, the five starting players of Longzhu are all among the top 20 players.

It seems that the official is also extremely optimistic about Longzhu. If we only look at this ranking, Longzhu crushes other teams.

Finally, first place, Faker!

No surprises.

Su Mo glanced at the comments below:

"I just said that people like Mo who only know how to play dirty tricks are looked down upon by everyone."

"If he dares to play a shooter game in front of UZI and beats UZI, I will respect him."

"I fuck the farmers!"

"They do some weird things all day long, disgusting!"

"If Mozi can't be ranked first, he should be ranked second. In my mind, he is on par with Faker."

"There is no comparison between this brother and Faker. He is a three-time champion!"

"..."

These comments made Su Mo smile slightly.

This ranking made Su Mo quite suspicious whether some of the judges had been influenced by him.

But it doesn’t matter, because this list of top 20 contestants is also called the face-slapping list.

What this means is that every year, the people who rank high on this list don’t get good grades in the end.

In addition to the top twenty lists, Su Mo saw another thing, the team combat power ranking list.

The first place is naturally Dragon Ball, with an overall score of 1765 points.

The second place is SKT with an overall score of 1436 points.

The third place is EDG, with an overall score of 1326 points.

……

Just by looking at the gap between the first and second place, Su Mo knew how much the person who made this rating admired Dragon Ball.

I feel that the Dragon Ball team has gone beyond the Three Realms and is no longer within the Five Elements.

Any team that comes into contact with them will be crushed to pieces.

The other teams are here to compete for the second place, the championship has already been reserved by Longzhu.

A week passed quickly and the qualifying round ended.

WE also entered the main competition without any trouble and was assigned to Group D, which is the group where FW is located.

EDG's Group A was assigned to C9.
This is not important to EDG because WE cannot split it, so the remaining teams are actually about the same.

Su Mo was watching the rhythm online, and his teammates finished a training match:

"Oh my god, is this GAM really that strong? We almost lost."

"The wildcard regions are all pretty strong right now, including the MSF team mentioned above."

"It's hard to bear. It's really hard to bear."

At this moment, Abu's voice came: "I have good news for you. The schedule is out."

After hearing this, no one reacted much. In any case, the group stage required them to play against other teams in the same group twice. It was just a difference in order and there was no way to avoid it.

Abu continued: "The opening game is us playing against SKT."

"Puff..." A Guang, who was drinking water, spat onto the screen.

Meiko also looked horrified: "Is this a deliberate arrangement? We're playing the opening game against SKT?"

Abu explained: "It was deliberately arranged. The official also told me that they believed in our EDG's ability. We beat SKT in MSI."

"On the one hand, we and SKT are the most popular teams in our respective regions, so it is suitable for us to play the opening game."

"On the other hand, as the No. 1 seed in the LPL region, if we can defeat SKT, the three-time champion, it will greatly boost the morale of our region."

So Zet asked a soul-searching question: "What if I lose?"

Abu said: "Only success, no failure!"

There are still three days until the opening game.

The EDG players were training day and night.

Just to win the opening game.

Of course, this is only for the so-called morale of the region and for EDG itself.

If they can beat SKT once, their chances of advancing will be very high, because it is unlikely that the remaining two teams will beat SKT.

Three days passed quickly.

2017 League of Legends World Championship Group Stage, Day 1.

At noon, the EDG team had something to eat in the hotel to fill their stomachs. Everyone checked their peripherals, put them in their bags, put on their bags, and gathered in the corridor to make sure everyone was there.

Then Abu waved his hand and said, "Let's go!"

Everyone walked quickly to the elevator entrance and pressed the button.

The elevator came down, the door opened, and it was full of people.

Su Mo saw an acquaintance at a glance.

Faker!

Other than that, the entire SKT team is here.

"Coach Kkoma, you guys go first." Abu greeted politely.

"Okay, goodbye." The elevator door closed again and went down.

"Fuck." Zet suddenly came up with a traditional Chinese idiom.

The elevator next to them came up, and the EDG members got on and went directly to the first floor.

At this time, the lobby on the first floor of the hotel is very lively. Today is the first day of the group stage and there is a simple opening ceremony.

All sixteen teams participating in the group stage will make an appearance on site.

There are at least seven or eight teams waiting to set off in the hall.

"Coach Abu." A familiar voice came, and Hongmi came with the entire WE team.

"Coach Hongmi." Abu greeted.

957 came over to find Su Mo and said, "Brother Mozi, you will play against SKT in the opening match. We will cheer for you in the bottom lane. Show the style of our LPL region!"

Su Mo smiled and said, "What if I lose?"

957 responded: "If we lose... it's because the enemy is too strong. We tried our best!"

Everyone laughed.

Hongmi suggested: "Let's go together, Manager Abu."

"it is good."

So the two teams walked out together. Abu greeted the driver of EDG's car and asked him to go straight over. The EDG team got in WE's car.

Abu and Hongmi are discussing how to deal with the three LCK teams.

The team members were also chatting with each other.

957 said: "I feel that Huni is the worst among the three top laners in LCK. I think many top laners who have not come to LCK are better than him."

Su Mo nodded: "Yeah, I feel the same way."

957 continued, "Brother Mozi, I saw the official promotional video online, and it seems like the host deliberately led you to act cool and create topics. Public opinion is not in your favor!"

Kangdi came over and said, "I've watched that promo too, and I've never seen anything like it. Other promos have more views than yours, like the one with Faker, but the number of comments is much less than yours."

957 praised: "Brother Mozi is a heat harvester. High playback volume can only mean high popularity. The number of barrages and comments can determine the quality. No wonder your live broadcast is so popular. There is a reason for it."

Su Mo shrugged: "It's okay, the results will speak for themselves."

Seeing that Su Mo didn't care, Kangdi changed the subject: "Brother Mozi, do you know how to play jungle in this version? Can you give me some tips?"

Su Mo shook his head: "I don't know much about the version right now, I'll just take it one step at a time."

Kangdi and 957 exchanged glances. Although they didn't say anything, Su Mo could tell that these two people definitely thought he was deliberately not saying it.

957 started to say nice things: "Brother Mozi, we are comrades now. What did Mr. Zhao say before we set off? We want to leave the trophy in LPL. We have to work hard together."

Su Mo sighed helplessly: "What I said is true. I haven't studied it. Coach Abu knows these issues better than me. You can talk to him."

"..."

A moment later, the bus arrived at the parking lot of the competition venue, and the EDG and WE teams got off the bus and went straight to their respective lounges.

After entering the lounge, the EDG players put down their belongings and now just waited for the game to begin.

Su Mo took out his mobile phone and entered the official live broadcast room of the S game to take a look.

Advertisements have already begun to run, and the popularity of the live broadcast room is rapidly increasing, already exceeding 100 million!

Opening Weibo again, Su Mo saw various analysis posts of the opening game, all of which were analyzing the outcome of this game.

Su Mo found one with more comments and took a look.

As before, analyze each position from top to bottom.

Su Mo had seen something similar during MSI.

Su Mo's situation is rather special, as he can play in all positions, so he will be compared four times, except for the auxiliary position.

What was different from before was that this time the evaluation of Su Mo was much lower.

Basically, they are not as good as the other side, or no one is worse than them...

The reason is simple: "He is a show-off, has bad character, only knows how to play tricks, and doesn't understand the game well."

The previous negative comments were because of that documentary, in which Su Mo said that his talent was higher than Faker's.

The reason why he couldn't understand the game later was because Su Mo thought SSG was stronger than SKT and Longzhu.

So they lowered their ratings for Su Mo, basically to 40:60 or 30:70, and he couldn't beat anyone.

When facing Faker, it immediately became a 9-1 situation, even though Su Mo had beaten Faker in the MSI...

Su Mo was not surprised because Faker's fans, SKT's fans are huge, especially around the world.

If we only look at LPL, EDG can now compete with SKT, but on a global scale, they are not on the same level at all, and the popularity difference is at least an order of magnitude.

So it is completely understandable that the support for SKT has become one-sided.

Su Mo was looking at his phone when suddenly the door to the lounge was pushed open and Rita appeared at the door. She knocked on the door: "Knock, knock, knock... Excuse me, can I come in?"

Abu nodded: "Rita, please come in."

Rita was wearing an off-shoulder dress, which was a more mature and sexy look today. It was obvious that she was going to the commentary booth.

As soon as she appeared, everyone in EDG looked in the same direction.

Rita walked in quickly and told Abu why she was here: "Coach Abu, before the game starts, can I do an exclusive interview with you live?"

Abu replied, "Okay."

Then he stood up and clapped his hands: "Everyone, cooperate with Rita's work."

So everyone tidied up their appearance and waited to be interviewed.

Rita took out her phone and said, "This is the task assigned to me by the platform. Wait a minute and I'll start the broadcast."

After the show started, Rita started by warming up the show. After most of the audience had come in, she said mysteriously:
“Ding ding ding…Guess where I am and who this is.”

As she spoke, Rita flipped the camera and pointed it at Su Mo.

The number of bullet comments in the live broadcast room is growing rapidly:
"Fuck, Brother Mozi!!"

"Brother Mozi, can he win? Rita, ask him if he can beat SKT."

"Where are you going to fight today, Brother Mozi?"

"Can you kill Faker alone?"

Rita walked up to Su Mo and greeted him, "Brother Mozi, everyone is looking forward to seeing you."

Su Mo put down his phone: "Thank you for your support, you can ask any questions you have."

Rita, who was the audience member, said: "Brother Mozi, a viewer asked you, have you decided what position you will play today?"

Su Mo shook his head: "I haven't decided yet."

Rita was stunned: "Ah, the game is about to start, and it hasn't been decided yet!"

The factory manager then reminded: "The starting top laner, he is the starting top laner."

"Oh, yes, I almost forgot. If nothing unexpected happens, Brother Mozi should be the top laner." Rita said with a smile.

"Not necessarily..." Su Mo shook his head. He was not sure whether the system would suddenly give him a task to fight other ways.

Of course, if the system didn't play tricks, he would just be playing top lane.

(End of this chapter)