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

Chapter 260 The Unknown: The Championship!

Pure Love God of War is just an ordinary League of Legends Diamond player.

Unlike the top players on various servers who harbor ambitions to climb the ranks and pursue their professional dreams, or the Bronze and Silver players who are stuck in the quagmire of Rank points, he always has a clear understanding of his own skill level.

He loves the League, but after reaching his talent ceiling, he no longer obsessively pushes his rank every day. He only plays ranked games occasionally to maintain his position, and most of the time he prefers to immerse himself in casual matches, finding simple joy in the carefree fun where winning or losing doesn't matter.

After all, the anxiety of playing solo or the caution of playing duo can never compare to the unbridled joy of playing with a group of friends in matchmaking.

Aside from his regular gaming, he is also a loyal fan of esports events.

He was a loyal fan of WE Club, following the team from its inception in Season 2 all the way to the LPL league.

However, just like his mediocre gaming talent, the team he loved so much seemed to be under a strange curse:
With the new season's version update, the team members struggled to adapt, and the core players' performance declined. They not only missed out on their first LPL championship but also nearly fell out of the top four in the league.

Go up, but you can't go up;
I can't let go of it, yet I can't put it down.
—Yeah, they can't let go of their pride as champions.

These days, WE can easily defeat unknown teams, but struggle to win against strong teams.

He didn't care at first, but other fans were clearly very dissatisfied.

The turning point began with the LPL Spring Split playoffs.

The moment WE fell before the finals, the previously lively and joyful atmosphere of the fan group seemed to change completely overnight:
After each match, fans began to search for the "traitor" by going through the video frame by frame to find the players' mistakes, all in order to find the culprit who "sabotaged XXX".

Then, with the addition of some extremely eccentric individuals, the post-match blame-assignment session, a regular feature, gradually devolved into a chaotic mess.

Obsessive comments kept emerging: "Winning or losing doesn't matter, I just want all five of them to play together," "Riot messes up the patch, if it were an ADC patch, WE would have won long ago," "WE chose LPL, not LPL chose WE"...

To avoid affecting his intelligence, the God of Pure Love chose to leave the group at lightning speed to save his life.

He doesn't understand!

When did competitions stop being important in terms of winning or losing?

If winning or losing doesn't matter, then why should I watch the League of Legends professional league?

If winning or losing doesn't matter, then why do we even have ranking points?

It can only be said that this adage about human diversity is particularly poignant at this moment.

After leaving the fan group, he didn't follow LPL for a long time.

Until the end of the summer season regular season, WE failed to even get a playoff spot. Strawberry posted a Weibo that was almost "moral blackmail," which made him unable to resist opening the Tieba forum. He thought he would see reflections on the club's operation and rational discussions about the departure of the jungler and support, but he only saw a group of people indulging in the fantasy of "brotherhood" and condemning "players who run away when the results are not good as traitors."

Esports teams are not focused on improving their performance, but instead get entangled in personal relationships and disputes?
The God of Pure Love is increasingly confused: it is only natural for a captain whose performance has declined to step down to the second line, and it is also understandable for contestants to pursue a higher stage. Why is there such a mess over the transfer news?
Why not look at NXG next door?
Ok?
Wait, did I say something inappropriate?

Ah!
Come to think of it, he finds himself quite funny.

There was a time when he was one of those WE fans who relentlessly criticized NXG, believing that JM and his team were nothing more than "clowns" who relied on marketing to attract attention and treated traffic as their lifeblood.

However, time has proven that they were the clowns.

The LPL Spring Split was undefeated, the Shanghai All-Star Dream Team was undefeated, and in the Summer Split they only lost three games, sweeping the LPL to secure the number one seed for the World Championship.

In the World Championship, they swept through the competition with a perfect 9-0 record, lifting the S-series championship trophy.

Brotherhood?
NXG has them, but they never flaunt them.

The contestants' looks?
NXG is even better; from the club owner to the five players on the first team, none of them have a bad image.

Even the fact that LPL teams now require players to undergo certain image management before matches was pioneered by others.

At this moment, Pure Love God of War suddenly realized that after entering Season 3, it was true, as the internet said, that players who didn't like the NXG team were the odd ones out.

Think about it carefully. Others do marketing and pursue traffic in various ways, but their focus has always been on the competition.

If it were any other club, like WE, and they achieved the same success as NXG, their fans would be jumping for joy.

In contrast, the most extravagant celebrations they had were during a live stream on the YY platform, where the team members interacted with their fans!
What truly made Pure Love Warrior a fan of this club was the documentary they released before the finals.

The Nameless!
Who would have thought that the NXG players who swept through the entire LPL and utterly crushed teams from various regions were just a group of "ordinary people" with a rank rating hovering around 2200 a year ago?

Yes, the comments from the God of Pure Love about them being ordinary people were not meant to be derogatory at all.

Because he scored 2200 points last season.

"Diamond player...a member of the top professional teams in the LPL and the world...a champion of the S3 World Championship."

Putting these terms together makes it all the more confusing.

But the facts are right in front of us. The documentary shows what kind of hellish training those five people went through to achieve their current strength and results. We can get a glimpse of the truth through clips in the video and the "devil's schedule" that has been circulating all over the internet.

Looking back, it seems that WE was the original marketing team.

"To talk about despair without even trying is the most weak and ignorant thing to do." "Failure is not terrible; what is terrible is not trying because you are afraid of failure."

"Life doesn't need too much advice. Everyone has their own path to walk. Even if the starting point and conditions are the same, there will be many different outcomes in the end."

Not only the documentaries released during NXG's World Championship, but also many post-match interviews with NXG players, especially JM, after they won the games.

He never imagined that these philosophical words would come from the mouths of a group of e-sports players known as internet addicts.

Only when one's perspective changes will one realize how biased one's previous views on certain issues were.

Because I dislike NXG, I feel that everything they do is a performance, a show, just to gain people's attention.

Looking back now, regardless of the purpose behind those words, at least JM truly put them into practice.

He led a group of unknowns and created a story that became famous throughout the world.

One thing must be admitted is that after watching the documentary released by NXG, Pure Love God of War found himself changed.

It's not about appearance, it's about mindset!
The mindset of just getting by and slacking off has changed.

Without even mentioning the level of involution he achieved, simply forcing himself to do one thing to the best of his ability has already brought about a dramatic change in him!

……

"Ding!"

"There's been a new development regarding NXG eSports Club, which you've been following!"

Well, there's finally news about those who went missing after winning the championship.

The God of Pure Love excitedly opened his phone and quickly browsed the messages and updates sent by the other party.

After becoming a fan of NXG, he realized that JM wasn't over-marketing at all; she was frighteningly low-key.

When S3 won the championship, the outside world was celebrating wildly, and various hot topics were on the top of the charts. In reality, players were fighting for the Battle Night, and discussions about NXG's next move could be seen everywhere on the forums. However, these weirdos did nothing but celebrate the Orianna's victory. They simply disappeared in Los Angeles for two or three days.

"If you guys don't keep popping up, your fans might call the embassy to ask if you're still alive."

"Pure Love God of War" laughed and complained, his hands moving swiftly as he found the club's official Weibo account, clicked on the latest news, and left a comment in the comment section below, looking every bit the die-hard fan.

[Front row sofa!]

Wow, what's with the speed of your fingers, buddy upstairs?

[Wow, I was only two seconds behind, and two freaks had already taken my spot.]

[Hooray! Fresh NXG news, and videos too!]

After grabbing the first comment in the comment section, the God of Pure Love finally started reading the main content of the post.

NXG Esports Club @Riot Games (Thanks to Riot Games for the invitation) [Retweet]:
To celebrate the third anniversary of League of Legends and its significant achievements in global promotion, and to give back to our League of Legends Summoners who have always supported us;

To celebrate NXG esports club's victory in the S3 World Championship, Riot Games has invited the founder of NXG esports club and all members of the NXG team to a live stream event tomorrow night at 19 PM.

We will be discussing the future direction of the League, details of changes for the next season, and selecting the champion skin combination for the S3 champion team through interactive voting. There will also be amazing gift packs waiting for you…

However, the enthusiasm filling the NXG comments section wasn't directed at Riot's livestream event.

The discussion about the championship skin has been going on since the day after the victory, and players have probably built up thousands or even tens of thousands of threads about it.

As for the changes next season, that's for professional players and pro game bloggers to handle; ordinary players just need to blindly copy their strategies.

What truly excited the fans was the video link that NXG Club attached to the post below.

The Unknown: The Championship

"Wuhu!"

The God of Pure Love cheered, knowing that there was still half of the documentary that had made him an NXG fan.

Who would release such a significant documentary before the finals, and only at the stage of heading to the finals? There must be half more to come—he guessed right.

"Wait, turn on the computer, turn on the computer."

Although his iPhone 5 was powerful enough to allow him to watch videos on the web, it still wasn't as enjoyable as using a computer.

Soon, the God of Pure Love sat down in front of his computer in his study. On the 20-inch monitor, the logo of JM Animation Studio had already appeared at the beginning of the video.

After the darkness, a line of small text appeared in the upper left corner.

[Day 1 of the expedition!]

(End of this chapter)