She chose the strategy with the most bullet comments.

Back in the day, one of the stops of the National College League was held at the Chengdu BRS venue, which brings back fond memories. I even had some interactions with some of the players there…

“We’re playing on our home turf,” Liu Keke said. “LPL teams are just small fry. The real professional league is a life-or-death battle. BRS has a much stronger foundation than us, so don’t underestimate them.”

Deng Jiayu raised her hand, "Sister Keke, Sister Keke, it seems BRS changed their support player a few days ago, and now they're an all-female team, right?"

"Yes, just like us."

Su Mu and Bai Wei didn't pay attention to the so-called all-female team. When BRS was mentioned, their eyes inevitably became a little strange.

I recognize three of the starting players for the BRS team.

Leaving Ueno aside for now, the situation in the mid lane can no longer be simply summarized as just knowing each other; it could also be said that there's some history between them.

Noticing the strange expressions on Su Mu and Bai Wei's faces, Yan Hua knew what they were thinking and couldn't help but chuckle.

"Brother Mu, the rivals from the college league are about to face off again. I wonder what you and Sister Wei think about this?"

“They were all our defeated opponents before, but that may not be the case now. In esports, you can’t underestimate any opponent,” Su Mu said with a smile.

BRS's Ue, Naka, and Ye are members from three teams in the original National College League.

San San, Tian Xuan, and... Ye Ziyue.

When Su Mu first learned that these three people had become teammates and had worked together so well to win their respective groups in the qualifying rounds, he was quite surprised.

Where is Sister Wei?

Bai Wei smiled faintly, "Mu Mu's answer is my answer."

"Wow, Sister Wei, you seem to be following your husband's lead. It's a pity that Brother Mu isn't a real brother, otherwise I would definitely have brought you two together!" Deng Jiayu put her arms on the shoulders of the two of them and smiled brightly.

"Why would we need matchmaking?" Yi Lian took off her thick glasses and rubbed her eyes. "If Brother Mu were a man, she and Sister Wei would probably already be married."

"That's true..."

"Girls can get together too!" Deng Jiayu snapped her fingers, her eyes lighting up as she imagined a certain scene.

It's not surprising that girls' conversations often veer off-topic; they might end up talking about something else entirely.

"That's enough." Yan Hua was speechless and almost swallowed the gum in his mouth. "Can you stop thinking like that? Mu-ge and Wei-jie are perfectly normal. At most, they hold hands and touch cheeks, but they've never kissed. Unlike you."

What's wrong with me?

"You have the nerve to ask that question? Whose face hasn't been smeared with lipstick by you?"

“That’s how I like everyone’s way of expressing themselves. It’s normal. What’s wrong with a girl kissing someone on the cheek?” Deng Jiayu retorted.

"Go away, what's normal about that? I really suspect you're a female ketone, stay away from us."

"Waaaah... As such a cute twin-tailed beauty, anyone I kiss should feel happy!" Deng Jiayu pouted, looking aggrieved. "Brother Mu, do you think it's abnormal for girls to kiss each other?"

"Not unusual... right?" Su Mu stroked his chin.

"Please provide proof~~"

Su Mu smiled helplessly upon hearing this, shifted his position closer to Bai Wei, hugged her, and kissed her. "Do you believe me now?"

Eh?

Bai Wei's heart raced instantly, seemingly surprised that she would engage in such intimate behavior in front of so many people.

Little did Su Mu know, her heart was also racing.

On the contrary, the others who witnessed this scene did not feel anything was wrong. Yan Hua was already criticizing Deng Jiayu, but he did not expect Su Mu to actually go and prove it.

Look how much she spoils Deng Jiayu; Mu-ge is still too gentle.

However, isn't that why everyone likes her? She's skilled at the game, has a good understanding of the game, a strong sense of the big picture, and is easy to get along with.

Where can you find such a great team spirit?

"Coco, how exactly did you two talk back then? I'm dying of curiosity!" Deng Jiayu's eyes darted between the three of them.

Every time I ask this question, they brush me off with the excuse of reaching a consensus, without ever going into details.

“Haven’t we talked about this several times before? We have the same goal.” Liu Keke rolled her eyes.

Kids just love to get to the bottom of things, it's really...

"You idiot, do you even need to ask? Brother Mu and his two friends have practically thrown the answer in your face with three inspirational songs. You still haven't listened enough. I suggest you listen to the three songs on repeat until dawn tonight." Yi Lian pouted.

"How do you know I've listened to the 'Ling Ba Wu Lin Jiu Shui Liu Jiu Qun' inspirational trilogy thousands of times?"

"No one knows a daughter better than her mother."

"I'll strangle you..."

Seeing his teammates playfully bickering, Su Mu couldn't help but smile.

The team atmosphere is great.

170. Summer Season First BO Match

The quarterly tournament format has been announced, and a version update will follow shortly after.

There aren't many new features this time; most changes are made to address issues from the previous version, such as nerfing the Statikk Shiv's stats that were filled with damage from the backline.

Designers have always liked to do things like this, which gives people the illusion that they are very unprofessional. Well... maybe it's not an illusion.

The regular season schedule for the Summer Split is a single round-robin BO3 format, meaning each team plays a total of 16 matches. The top eight teams with the most wins out of the 17 teams advance to the playoffs for a BO5 format.

The first day's three best-of-three matches have concluded. Given the presence of traditional powerhouse teams, a considerable number of people watched the matches, with the most popular live streaming platform reaching a peak viewership of 3 million.

There's definitely some hype involved; popularity doesn't equal the actual number of viewers, but it's still undeniably a huge hit.

After three matches, many people had the same question in mind: the draft picks and bans were seriously homogenized.

One match went the full three games, with both sides never changing their bot lane duo. The viewing experience was really mediocre; it was the same old combination over and over again.

If it weren't for the changes in the lineup between the top, middle, and jungle players, I might have fallen asleep while watching the game.

Choosing team compositions solely based on the optimal solutions from the previous version is truly boring. Fortunately, the official version uses dynamic, real-time updates, so let's see if any teams can come up with some new and innovative strategies in future matches.

So the audience checked the schedule and, oh wow, there's a WLD match tomorrow, so they had to look forward to it.

……

The following day, at the WLD event venue in Wuhan.

"Welcome to Day 2 of the League of Legends LPL Summer Professional League. I am your host, Ziye. Today's match is between Wuhan WLD and Chengdu BRS."

"First, let's welcome challenger Burning Soul!"

"Top Laner: Sansan, Jungler: Tianxuan, Mid Laner: Ziyue, Bot Laner: Pomi, Support: Cheese, Head Coach: Zhu Jun, Welcome back to Team BRS!"

"Next up, please welcome WLD to the stage."

"Top laner: Yanhua, Jungler: Xiaowei, Mid laner: Sumu, Bot laner: Lian, Support: Ayu, Head coach: Keke."

"Don't go away, an exciting match is about to begin."

【Huh? No, when did elementary school students become allowed to compete? Is Ziyue really 16 years old?】

[The person upstairs is obviously from Mars. How about a legal loli?]

Although it's counterintuitive, Ziyue is indeed an adult and a music student like Su Mu. Surprised?

"To say that a university's music department can produce three professional musicians is an incredibly low probability," said Lin.

[Who did you guys bet on today? I went all in on WLD with my last ten coins, and I really regret clicking the wrong button. I was going to go all in on BRS...]

[Mu Ge's strength is undeniable, yet he still wants to go all in on BRS? ⊙]

[The main reason is that there was a fortune teller present today who is very optimistic about WLD...]

Oh right, I forgot about that one, oh my god, WLD, danger!

In the live stream chat, people were speaking freely. On stage, Ye Ziyue glanced at the person next to her, looked at Bai Wei, and then turned to Su Mu, unable to help but grit her teeth.

She had been preparing for this day for a long time; she was determined to defeat that despicable nobody!

Perhaps sensing an inexplicable gaze, Su Mu turned his gaze towards Ye Ziyue, his eyes meeting hers. (South)

She was taken aback at first, then a warm smile appeared on her face.

However, when Ye Ziyue met that seemingly sunny and cheerful smile, the hairs on the back of her neck stood on end, and an ominous premonition shot straight up to the top of her head.

That little fish sister's sinister smile is definitely up to no good!

Be vigilant, be very vigilant!

"Speaking of Ziyue, what grudge do you have against Su Mu? Can't you just tell me?" Tianxuan had been curious about this for a long time.

"We have no grudge."

"..."

Well, nobody believes it anyway.

After both sides completed their pre-match adjustments, they entered the draft phase, with BRS on the blue side and WLD on the red side.

Liu Keke looked at the notebook in her hand, standing behind Su Mu and glancing at the screen from time to time. She couldn't help but narrow her eyes when she saw the people Su Mu had banned.

BRS's first ban was Volibear, that shouldn't be...

Even with the emergency nerf to its AP coefficient and minor adjustments to some growth attributes and skill bonus coefficients, the bear is still considered a top-tier numerical monster in this version.

The blue side has the first pick, so there's no reason for them to ban it themselves. If they ban it, wouldn't that be telling everyone that no one in their team knows how to play Volibear?

What do you think?

"I don't quite understand. Even our Yan Hua can build tanky Volibear. I don't know what tricks the enemy top laner and jungler are trying to pull off," Deng Jiayu, who is always lively, answered quickly.

"Maybe they want to play a system where they can't bring Volibear. Let's just stick to what we have and see what happens," Su Mu suggested with a smile and a nonchalant tone.

After the first round of bans, BRS first-picked Monkey King, revealing his jungler role.

Picking one of the strongest junglers in the current patch is no problem, and WLD, seeing this, didn't hold back and picked Xayah and Rakan in quick succession.

On the commentary panel.

Jian Yun tapped the tabletop lightly with her index finger, seemingly lost in thought.

"If we pick the monkey, what about the fox? Should we pick it first? If we pick the bot lane duo first, the fox will most likely be banned in the second round. Of course, it's also possible that WLD will pick it themselves."

"BRS picked Aphelios, so the support should be Lulu. If you're confident, you can also pick Janna. Thresh is unlikely, as Lulu is better in the current version. Hmm, as expected, Lulu is locked in."

"Let's see if WLD wants to pick Vi first. Vi is still out there. Actually, WLD can definitely pick her first. In the second round, they can force BRS to ban Ahri, since they have the right to pick her in the second round."

"No problem, Vi is confirmed as the jungler, both sides enter the second round of draft picks."

As the commentators suggested, BRS seemed wary of the Ahri and Vi mid-jungle synergy, and nipped Ahri in the bud from the start.

The four bans for the second round have been revealed, and WLD instantly locked in a Joker on the fourth pick.

This clown move completely stumped BRS.

The predicted Annie wasn't picked; instead, the first pick was... uh... top lane?

Zhu Jun frowned; he couldn't understand where the clown could go besides walking on the road.

The Joker is positioned as a jungler, but in ranked games, some people use him as a top laner. He's one of the very few skilled players who can pull him off, but his win rate isn't particularly high.

"Does Yanhua know how to play a hero like the Clown that requires strategic thinking?"

“The clown will most likely be jungler, while Vi seems more like the mid laner. I know Su Mu; she likes to use other people’s preconceived notions to pull off unexpected plays,” Ye Ziyue said.

"..."

Zhu Jun thought about it over and over, and felt that something was not quite right, but he couldn't figure out what was wrong with it.

Since Su Mu can even use support heroes in the mid lane, it's not surprising that he would use jungle heroes.

"Let's proceed according to the original plan."

"Ok."

171. Playing with a very new kind of umbrella-peeling game.

"Oh my? A vampire, most likely... Sett? Instant lock-on!" Luan Ming exclaimed in surprise.

"Now it's hard to say who will go first and who will go second. Both heroes are flexible, so we can wait for WLD to pick the last one before making a decision."

Liu Keke pondered for a moment, then closed her notebook with one hand. "Barrel, please."

"Okay~"

As the barrel was locked, the audience who were already guessing the location were suddenly speechless.