Rebirth is fine, but I get eight hundred dollars right from the start?

Meanwhile, in the YY live streaming room.

【? ? ? 】

What happened at the scene? Why is there suddenly no sound?

[I give this a bad review; the performance was cut short before the contestants' exit segment was even over.]

[Hilarious! Don't tell me WE fans can't take a joke and started fighting on stage!]

[Well, it's not that serious. People usually just joke around while playing games; it's unlikely to happen offline.]

Honestly, criticizing WE's fanatical fans is one thing, but seeing WE get completely crushed by HWG in the new season is another. It's all so unreal.

Is this for real? I bet after today, all the League of Legends teams in the world won't be able to sleep.

[I knew Emperor NiuBoYi was amazing, but I didn't expect him to be this incredible. He led a few newcomers and swept through the world championship.]

[A 19-2 kill ratio, a 10,000+ gold advantage, and a flawless run from start to finish.]

What's wrong with WE? They've already slumped since the season started?

[Hehehe, I think the most shocked people right now aren't the domestic audience, but rather the foreign guys.]

[Foreigners: What? They just beat our WE 3-0 in IPL5, and now they're getting crushed in the new season?]

Seeing that the comments in the live stream were not going astray, the staff member in charge of controlling the comments breathed a heavy sigh of relief.

Ok!

Fortunately, Emperor intervened in time.

Fortunately, the HWG players calmed down.

Even more fortunately, the YY channel's director didn't mess things up either.

Almost at the same instant Zhang Hai uttered that phrase from the national anthem—to be precise, at the fraction of a second that the guy in the control room watching the monitor saw Lin Shu catch the water bottle and Zhang Hai lunge forward—his right hand was already on the emergency button on the switcher.

Live broadcast signal cut off!

Because the camera was focused on the audience during the bowing and interaction segment, the scene of fans throwing water bottles was not captured, so viewers in the live broadcast room did not know what exactly happened.

After only a faint male voice, which sounded like he was cursing, was heard, the signal was cut off.

Given that the match has already ended, most people naturally assume that the live broadcast has come to an end, and the discussion will naturally extend to the more exciting angle of HWG crushing the world champion.

In the end, only a small number of people who were there in person shared the shocking news about today's LPL opening match on Baidu Tieba and forums.

……

"Damn it, what kind of amazing people are these?!"

Regarding the "Aquarius incident"!

Actually, WE is even more frustrated.

Losing a match is frustrating enough, but getting completely thrashed in a BO1 series makes it impossible to even know where to begin when reviewing the game.

As a result, his own fans threw a "super nuclear bomb that doesn't distinguish between friend and foe" after the match - that bottle wasn't hitting HWG, it was hitting WE, and Pei Le's livelihood.

This is Pei Le's true emotional journey as she watched the entire event from backstage and nearly suffered a stroke.

He wasn't angry.

He was still scared.

In that instant, the thought that flashed through his mind was exactly the same as that of Wang Zhuo, the person in charge.

What if Lin Shu hadn't caught it?

What if the bottle hits someone?

What if someone from HWG couldn't hold back and jumped off the stage?

What if the live stream signal is a beat too slow and the footage is broadcast?

If any of these "ifs" come true, what awaits him tonight will not be the words "actively cooperate"—but rather a call from the sponsor, a fine from the event organizer, even an inquiry from the sports bureau, and tomorrow's top trending topic: #LPL player assaults someone#.

Ultimately, this matter cannot be simply dismissed as "the individual behavior of fans."

Pei Le has been in the industry for so many years, and he understands one thing better than anyone else;

When you're a WE fan, wearing a WE jersey, holding a WE support sign, and sitting in the WE fan zone—all the good and bad things you do will be blamed on WE.

Wanting to cultivate fan culture and attract traffic to make money is fine, but if you don't manage it well, then there's a problem.

When that water bottle was smashed, it didn't just hit HWG's face.

It's a disgrace to the entire LPL league.

What's being destroyed is all the hard work that all esports professionals have put into getting closer to the concept of "formal sports events" over the years.

It destroyed the industry reputation that Pei Le had built up over the years.

He doesn't have that much power to handle this kind of thing.

If this really blows up, the esports world will be in trouble, and the first team to be beheaded will be WE.

So Pei Le barely hesitated and turned to the team leader beside him, instructing, "Go, contact the LPL league operations office and tell them that WE is fully cooperating. Also, prepare an apology statement in advance. If the public opinion on the forum gets too heated, release it immediately to calm things down and prevent further trouble. Also, notify Xiao Wu to strictly control the comments in the fan group... Forget it, let's just ban them for now."

"After you get the entry records for that area, tell me... I need to know who that bastard is, before tonight."

"Also, after this is over, could you please arrange a meeting with Mr. Lin from HWG..."

Pei Le rubbed his temples, trying to console himself.

If WE can establish a connection with the formidable HWG, it might not be all bad news for them.

"..."

"That guy's crazy!"

A few minutes later.

After arranging everything, Pei Le finally couldn't help but curse out loud.

What kind of situation is this?

After being thoroughly thrashed in the opening match, a near-violent brawl broke out due to the outrageous behavior of their own obsessive fans. Thankfully, the HWG owner handled the situation calmly, otherwise…

That's pretty much what it means to lose both face and morale.

……

Lin Shu chose to believe the assurances given by the LPL league.

It's not that he's naive—it's that in a tournament of this caliber, if a serious incident like "spectators throwing water bottles at players" occurs, and the organizers dare to shirk responsibility, then all the teams could unite and overturn their decision the very next day.

Everyone in the professional industry understands this principle.

After realizing the seriousness of the problem, checking the surveillance footage became surprisingly smooth.

The approval process, which normally requires a formal procedure, was completed within three minutes.

The venue's security manager personally led the HWG team to the monitoring room to retrieve the playback of the incident area.

On the screen, a slender young man wearing a WE support scarf was quickly spotted.

With the suspect identified, the rest is up to the officials and WE club to handle.

This "Aquarius Man" was quickly taken to the police station by the local "Hat Uncle" and received five hours of social re-education. From a legal point of view, this duration is just right in the gray area between "criticism and education" and "administrative detention." It is neither so lenient as to make people feel that it is perfunctory, giving those obsessed fans a real warning, nor so severe as to make people feel that it is making a mountain out of a molehill.

The official team and WE were responsible for cleaning up the mess caused by the off-field public opinion. The two companies joined forces to suppress the hype, control the topics, and limit the scope of dissemination, nipping this unexpected incident in the bud within a small circle as much as possible, preventing it from escalating into trending topics such as "WE can't accept defeat" or "professional esports events are in chaos".

After all, if this matter blows up, it will have a negative impact on WE, LPL, and HWG—no party wants to gain attention from this incident, except for those who enjoy watching the drama unfold.