League of Legends: Reborn in Season 3, Tuning the Entire League

Chapter 14: The Battle of the Strongest King

Half an hour later, the fourth game arrived as scheduled.

I still didn't meet any familiar faces. The fourth game was easier than the previous three games. I was lucky enough to draw an opponent who already had three bars and zero records. It can be said that I completely lost my spirit.

Several high-ranking players who were originally full of confidence wanted to fight for their dreams and form a team to compete in professional competitions.

Who would have thought that at the gate of LPL, before they even saw what was inside, they were beaten up one after another. With bruises on their faces, their professional dreams had been thrown into some corner. Now the only motivation that supports them is probably that they don’t want to end their journey to hegemony with a shaved head.

After all, they are all top players in their respective servers - have some shame!
Unfortunately, they had the misfortune to meet Jiang Ming's NXG in the fourth game.

In the 17th minute, NXG once again crushed the opponent and won their fourth victory, securing their qualification for the LPL preseason in January next year.

Just at this moment, Jiang Ming looked at a message on his mobile phone that was privately sent to him by the person in charge of his own live broadcast platform.

“Riot will be updating the ladder system tonight and introducing a new ranking system for the new season.”

Ranking system!

Jiang Ming's eyes lit up. The battle for the top spot among the major platforms, and also the opportunity for him to discuss cooperation with the YY platform, had finally arrived.

……

With the S3 season, the first change that was closely related to the players was the replacement of the ladder points (ELO) system with rank grading, which is the bronze and silver rank division system that later players are most familiar with.

The existing rank points are transformed into what players call hidden points.

There are six ranks in total: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, and King. Except for King, each rank is divided into five small levels. Reaching 3 victory points in each level will trigger the promotion match. The promotion match is divided into BO5 small-level promotion and BO large-level promotion.

As for the King rank, it is a title given to the top fifty players in victory points on each server after reaching Diamond 1.

In Jiang Ming's opinion, Riot's reform of the ladder point system is a very smart decision.

In the past, fluctuations in ELO scores often brought frustration to players playing ranked games, which was not conducive to low-ranking players staying active.

After the change to ranks, high-ranking players have their own pursuit of the strongest king, and low-ranking players also have their own goals of obtaining the gold-ranking season skins.

It can greatly enhance the game activity of players.

As soon as the ranking system was introduced in the previous life, there was a terrifying wave of players working all night to strive for high ranks, and even female players rushed to the top.

Of course, the ranking system is not perfect. The promotion match mechanism has been considered to increase randomness for a long time. Some players have complained about the "stuck rank" phenomenon, as well as the subsequent problems of proxy training and actors.

Not to mention the future, nowadays many video UP hosts’ online stores are openly promoting power leveling shops.

In other words, Jiang Ming's ambition is not to make quick money by relying on the current wave of "Western Expansion" of League of Legends. Otherwise, if he puts a link to a power-leveling shop under the name of the top ladder player in the national server, how can others be qualified to compete with him.

Jiang Ming knew very well that proxy training was something that should not be touched. Even though there was no explicit prohibition in the current rules, as long as you were involved, in the future when you reached a certain position in the e-sports field, it would explode like a bomb.

"But YY, do they send this to me? Does that mean they're ready to join the competition?"

Jiang Ming had a few guesses in mind. It seemed the wind stirred by his little butterfly's wings had brought about some changes. In the original world, YY wasn't reorganized into Mouya Live until 2014, a year behind the neighboring Mousha TV. Meanwhile, Mousha had capitalized on the popularity of League of Legends in 13, signing numerous League of Legends streamers and offering hefty bonuses for the top-ranked player in the national server. This captured a significant portion of the market, leading to a long period of time before Mousha's self-destruction. Mouya, having missed out on this surge in player growth, remained a perpetual runner-up.

Just as I was thinking about it, a call came from the person in charge of YY on my phone.

"Hi JM, did I disturb you?" A middle-aged man's hearty laughter came from the other end of the phone.

Jiang Ming walked slowly to his computer and sat down, smiling, "No need to bother you, but I'm curious, is there something urgent that's keeping you working overtime so late at night?"

Urgent?

Of course it's urgent.

Xu Tao on the other end curled his lips and said, "If I don't call you tonight, I'm afraid that after the LOL rank is updated in the early morning, your JM ID will have the prefix of other live broadcast platforms."

Ordinary players may have just learned about the announcement of the rank update, but Xu Tao knows that top players like JM must have known about it a long time ago. The other party has not reacted much during this period, and is completely waiting to see whether their YY will take any corresponding action.

"Highly educated anchors are hard to please..."

Xu Tao was a little depressed, but he still explained the next plan of the YY platform to Jiang Ming on the phone.

"Brother Xu is saying that the YY platform is planning to increase its investment in promotional resources for League of Legends live streaming, and they're planning to use the League of Legends rank update as a starting point to launch a bonus event for reaching the top of the Supreme King rank, right?"

"Yes, that's right. As long as you add the ID prefix of our YY live broadcast in the game, you can apply to participate in the event."

"What do you need me to do?" Jiang Ming went straight to the point.

What do you need to do?
Brother, you ask even though you already know the answer.

Xu Tao was helpless. Do you think that a top player who has a full understanding of the game and excellent personal skills is more likely to get the first King and the title of the No. 1 King before other platforms, or do you think it is more promising to rely on the ordinary anchors who are being recruited now?

Currently, in the entire YY platform, no one has a higher ladder score than JM.

Although he complained, Xu Tao knew that the other party wanted their platform to provide corresponding conditions.

"JM!" Xu Tao said after considering his tone. "It's been a pleasure working with you on the platform for a while now, and we hope we can continue. I can tell you something in advance: the platform will be undergoing restructuring and upgrades in the second half of the year. At that time, the platform will provide tremendous resources and support to top anchors like you..."

"Ah."

Go on, I'm listening. Let's put the pancakes and other things aside and bake them for now.

"So before the reorganization, the platform needs to seize the traffic brought by the League of Legends ranking reform. We hope that you can add the platform prefix before your ID and get the title of the strongest king in the national server!"

"As for the conditions, becoming the first King Platform in the entire server will be rewarded with 30,000 yuan, and reaching the top of a zone will be rewarded with another 50,000 yuan!"

"In addition, after completing the summit mission, we'll change the livestream gift split to 40:60, and guarantee you'll be featured on the homepage at least four times during the summit."

Xu Tao stated the conditions given by the YY platform in one breath.

(End of this chapter)