Chapter 370: The Busybody

"Hotpot, hurry up!"

"Big Cat is down..."

On the screen, the last hero of GNR was killed by the enemy, and the bullet comments were flooded with "GG."

With the League of Legends S7 World Championship held in China, all Chinese teams finally reached the end of their journey today.

The GNR team, in whom we had placed high hopes, ultimately lost two match points after leading 2:1, failing to defeat the reigning S-champion, "Korea Telecom."

"They can even lose this!" Miss Luo Quan slammed the table, her tone full of annoyance.

The world is different now, so why does the same script have to play out for her again?!

"Have all the Chinese teams been eliminated?" The other three girls had heard of the famous League of Legends, but they had never played it, and because Chinese LOL teams were bullied by foreign teams year after year, its popularity in the country had been declining.

Coupled with the recent emergence of a hit game called PUBG, it had snatched away a large portion of the player market.

Originally, this year was the best opportunity for a Chinese LOL team to win the championship; the version was a perfect fit, but unfortunately, they still couldn't defeat that Great Demon King from Korea, and were directly carried away by five games of Galio.

In fact, before the first game even started, Miss Luo Quan had already posted on her three major accounts on Bilibili, Zhihu, and Weibo, telling the coach to ban Galio.

She rarely posted on multiple platforms simultaneously, but this time, for S7, she made an exception. She posted five times across the five games, and combined, Weibo, Zhihu, and Bilibili accounted for eight trending topics!

With the competition held domestically, one could see these posts whenever they refreshed these three apps during the breaks.

Yet the coach was just too stubborn, and the Great Demon King was allowed to pick it for five games straight.

If the school hadn't been so far from the Shanghai Central Sports Center where the competition was held, Miss Luo Quan would have really wanted to drive over and help the coach with the bans and picks!

"Yesterday the 60E were defeated, and today GNR is also done for. This time, we can only watch as the Koreans win the championship at the Bird's Nest in China." Miss Luo Quan answered while scrolling through Weibo.

"GNR defeated by Korea Telecom" had already surged into the top ten trending topics, and in less than ten minutes, the number of comments exceeded 50,000; the popularity was simply explosive.

The GNR team had high popularity and many fans, but naturally, they also had many haters. Moreover, as the last remaining domestic team, after the original strongest domestic team was eliminated in the round of sixteen, they were treated as China's only hope for the championship.

As a result, in a situation where the form was excellent, they were too stubborn to ban Galio, leading to the loss of the match.

The result was that both fans and haters started cursing directly:

"A national disgrace! Letting Koreans toast at the Bird's Nest, we've lost all face!"

"What's the point of winning for a year? Losing the most critical match, trash."

"My youth is over. Playing LOL for 6 years since S2, and we really can't win a single championship."

"DNF promises to take in heartbroken LOL players..."

"Miss Luo Quan posted fifteen times across three platforms to ban Galio, and Weibo alone had four trending topics, but they were just too stubborn and pretended not to see it."

"The coaching staff are Crouching Dragon and Phoenix Chick; I could do better at these bans and picks."

"Don't take a plane; everyone on the team should swim back along the Huangpu River... Big Cat and Hotpot can take the subway."

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Although its popularity is declining, LOL is still the most popular PC game in the country, occupying the two major game markets alongside Honor of Kings, and both are backed by Tencent, possessing some of the most powerful media publicity in the country.

Because this time it was a home game, Tencent had started promoting it as early as July, and GQT had even liked and reposted related news; it was the first time esports had received such huge public attention.

As a result, they lost tonight, and a year of anticipation and effort all turned to nothing, leaving only that one sentence hanging at the top of the trending list: Why not BAN Galio!

Clicking into the trending topic, the first things at the top were the posts Miss Luo Quan had made, all with the same content.

Although LOL players have never liked celebrities, feeling that their mentions of LOL are just for clout and hype, they were quite accepting of Miss Luo Quan.

On one hand, it's because she is good-looking; after all, most LOL players are boys, and beauty is justice.

On the other hand, during the summer vacation, Miss Luo Quan's livestream went from zero to diamond in the first tier in two months, and then reached Master tier at the end of the version.

This can be considered the highest rank among known celebrities, and some of Miss Luo Quan's brilliant operations even made it into "Streamer Exploded: Super God Edition," a compilation that only top-tier players can enter, showing her high level of skill.

Therefore, when she speaks, LOL players don't mock her.

Especially tonight, Miss Luo Quan seemed to have known beforehand that Galio would become a huge hidden danger, and she even tagged the coach's Weibo account multiple times.

To be honest, the last time Miss Luo Quan tagged someone was over three months ago, when she was promoting the fifth season of "I Am a Singer."

But even though she tried so hard, she still couldn't change this regrettable result.

However, Miss Luo Quan hadn't completely lost confidence; if the timeline is consistent, this time next year will be when League of Legends comes back from the dead!

Of course, this is just one possibility and not something that will absolutely happen; after all, these are two different timelines, and if even the slightest accident occurs, the result could be completely different.

Therefore, after the match ended, Miss Luo Quan didn't join the other angry LOL players in cursing the coach and the players, but instead posted to encourage them:

"Losing 2:3 is indeed a pity, everyone tried their best, and the opponent is a three-time champion after all, so it's not shameful to lose. Let's regroup next year, the S8 championship will definitely be ours!"

Amidst the tide of cursing across the internet, Miss Luo Quan's words were a rare rational voice.

Unfortunately, although there were many likes, it had no impact on the overall situation, and those who wanted to curse still cursed.

However, this move of hers gained her quite a few fans; overnight, her Weibo followers increased by over a million, and the number of comments more than tripled!

This also made other celebrities discover the "wealth code," suddenly realizing that the traffic in esports is so huge; they had never realized before that this area could possess such great popularity.

Many celebrities also started spontaneously learning about League of Legends and Honor of Kings, and those capitalists also began to consider turning esports into variety shows.

It looks like LOL has met its Waterloo in the country and is about to decline, but no one knows that its spring is quietly approaching.

Of course, these have nothing to do with Miss Luo Quan; she never thought about making a living from esports.

Although the traffic of LOL is indeed terrifying, it is the hottest game both domestically and abroad.

But the quality of the players is truly worrying; she currently has a good image and many followers, so if something goes wrong one day, it will be troublesome.

The combat power of "fan circle girls" is already considered high, but compared to "esports boys," it is completely dwarfed.

They can make up all kinds of jokes and doggerel, cursing you in roundabout ways, and can make the public laugh while watching your jokes.

Miss Luo Quan dared to confront fan circle girls before, but that doesn't mean she dares to confront these people; the two are simply not on the same level.

Therefore, although she currently has good popularity in the esports circle, except for this period of S7, she has almost never posted anything related to LOL, at most just congratulating someone on Weibo when they won a championship.

S7 ended, and I don't know how many people's youth ended; this winter is simply cold enough to chill one to the bone.

And the winter belonging to Miss Luo Quan has just begun.

The next day, November 15th, the movie trailer for Universal's "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" was released.

As the movie with the largest investment by Universal Pictures since the new century, the publicity given can only be described as terrifying.

The mainstream media of the five permanent members—China, the US, Russia, France, and the UK—all cleared space today to report on this movie.

Twitter, YouTube, and Weibo, the biggest propaganda fronts for these two largest ticket markets, were also taken by Universal; related tweets on Twitter reached 100,000, and the views of the movie trailer on YouTube exceeded ten million in a short time.

And on Weibo, the poster for The Lord of the Rings appeared directly on the starting advertisement page, and three related topics were hung on the top ten trending list.

"'The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring' hits theaters with a bang on December 25th!"

"Gandalf!"

"Miss Luo Quan as the Elf Princess. (Surprised face)"

These trending topics basically came from the trailer, and the two-minute trailer showed the main characters.

Although Director Ford is not a beauty-obsessed director like Director Kanason, he respects the original work very much, and there are many elves in the first part, and elves are the race with the highest beauty in the book.

Therefore, in the trailer, handsome men and beautiful women can be described as one after another, and when the Elf Princess played by Miss Luo Quan appeared, under the moonlight filter specially created by Director Ford, she was simply as beautiful as the Elf Princess herself.

And an epic fantasy masterpiece naturally cannot lack battle scenes that make one's blood boil.

The special effects technology of 2017 had long reached the point of being indistinguishable from reality, making people feel immersed, and since Universal had invested a fortune in the movie this time, Director Ford was also unrestrained in the use of special effects.

Although most of the outdoor scenes had already been filmed in the beautiful scenery of New Zealand, Director Ford still added a large number of special effects to these shots, increasing many landscape backgrounds full of fantasy elements.

The trailer only revealed a mere corner of this grand masterpiece, which made countless audiences who had been ravaged by "fifty-cent special effects" for too long feel dazzled.

And the most burning part of the entire trailer must be the last scene, where Gandalf faces the Balrog alone.

The Balrog, radiating flames, roared in the trembling cave, and the slender Gandalf, although covered in wounds, still shouted at it without fear: "You cannot pass!"

Undoubtedly, this must be a visual feast, an epic fantasy masterpiece, and the most anticipated movie in recent years.

As a famous director renowned in Hollywood, Director Ford's strength no longer needs to be proven.

The script uses the famous work of the originator of Western fantasy, and almost all Chinese fantasy web novels are derived from this book, and the movie script also greatly follows the original work, so there is no need to worry too much about this aspect.

Not to mention the investment; to this day, Universal has not announced the final cost because they advertised an uncapped investment, spending as much as possible, determined to build "The Lord of the Rings" into an epic work like "Ben-Hur" or "War and Peace."

When the former was filmed, many European nobles were invited to participate, and the latter was filmed by the former Soviet Union using millions of soldiers and civilians, and the costs were staggering.

As for the actors, there is Miss Luo Quan for beauty, movie stars for acting, and other supporting roles are also a group of powerful actors from the UK and the US gathered by the director.

Combining various factors, there is no reason for this movie to become a bad film.

However, in the past few decades, the phenomenon of "big hype leads to death" has played out countless times.

Before "The Lord of the Rings," there were not a few famous works that cost hundreds of millions, invited famous directors and actors, and were hyped as epic movies before release.

But most of them eventually became epic bad films, the investors lost everything, and the directors and actors also entered a career winter because of the movie.

As the saying goes, high returns are accompanied by high risks.

The more hyped a work is, the more any slight flaw will be magnified infinitely, and if one is not careful, they will encounter a double collapse of reputation and box office.

Therefore, while "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" gained huge attention and anticipation, it also received huge questioning.

First is the adapted work itself, whether it really restored the original work as the director said, and whether the original work conforms to people's current aesthetics and "cool points."

This is a big problem; many famous works are often ruined after adaptation for various reasons, adding unnecessary details or cutting randomly, and finally, literary works that could win the Nobel Prize are filmed into trash full of loopholes.

Secondly, it is the actors.

There are only two female characters with many scenes in this movie, and they were all played by Miss Luo Quan alone.

The two heroines of such an important movie being handed over to a newcomer who has only filmed one movie is also a point that makes the public quite worried.

Although Miss Luo Quan's previous movie grossed nearly ten billion at the global box office, she was completely a vase character in it; changing to another beautiful actress, even if the effect was slightly worse, it wouldn't have any particularly big impact on the movie.

Instead, because the heroine was too beautiful, it often made the originally heroic Wu Jin look mediocre, stealing quite a bit of the spotlight.

And in "The Lord of the Rings," Miss Luo Quan is expected to continue playing a vase character this time, but according to the character setting, she is not only the Elf Princess but also the Elf Queen.

The temperament and aura of the Queen are the keys to whether this character can stand firm.

Miss Luo Quan is professional in singing and creation, and she is second to none in the world.

But when it comes to acting, she, who is not from a professional background, can only grope based on her own feelings; although her beauty fits the character settings of the two female roles, whether her temperament can meet the standard is still an unknown.

The currently released trailer can only see very short shots of Miss Luo Quan, with only two or three lines of dialogue, and her acting skills cannot be seen at all.

I don't know if it's because her acting skills were poor, so her parts were specifically weakened when editing the trailer.

In fact, it's no wonder people would question it; mainly because Miss Luo Quan currently doesn't have any works, and she really doesn't have any amazing points in acting.

But don't worry, time will prove everything. ===== CHAPTER 371 =====