Chapter 168: Who Loses Is Embarrassed

In the LPL livestream room, the commentators' frightened shouts echoed:

"Wow! This Mang Seng!!"

"Indeed, the operation is very delicate!"

"No, I'm serious, INTZ this team doesn't look like a wild card at all, so orderly!"

"Yes, on the contrary, EDG is a bit messy."

"And why does Changzhang's male gun have no sound at all this game?!"

Although PawN's vampire later arrived and killed the low-health INTZ three players in the jungle, but on the top lane something happened, Mouse wanted to solo kill Na, but was caught by INTZ's roaming mid Syndra and gave up a kill.

Around 9 minutes, although the kill count was even, INTZ already had a considerable lead in economy.

Then Revolta Mang Seng launched another offensive on the top lane, taking down two towers with Na, while Changzhang's male gun was killing the dragon downstream……

Gradually, EDG's situation became increasingly off.

And Changzhang's male gun also became increasingly strange, even the piglets had to admit that Changzhang played terribly in this match.

The opposing Ba Xi god monk was just showing off wildly.

If it weren't for INTZ also having the wild card's typical flaw, after gaining an advantage they wouldn't know how to end the game; it's estimated this match would end around 30 minutes.

In the end, they fought for over 40 minutes, and EDG lost.

At the end of the match, no matter which region's livestream room, the barrage had already become just two sentences:

【Jungle Gap】

and,

【I'm your fan】

The show effect has come, hasn't it?

Before the match they said they were your fan, but upon arrival they gave you a fierce beating.

Do you have fans like this?!

EDG fans were furious, no longer mentioning anything about advancing together to the quarterfinals.

RNG fans were happy, however, started spamming 'I'm your fan' under EDG's Weibo, and they didn't just spam on EDG's Weibo but also on other platforms, so quickly this phrase went viral, and marketing accounts sensing the traffic also jumped in……

The pace became uncontrollable.

Many people didn't even watch the later matches, flocking to Tieba and other platforms to post, comment, and share videos, for a moment it seemed like a nationwide celebration.

The fifth match was D group's SSG vs SPY, the latter was utterly crushed without suspense; moreover, this match marked the debut of the new champion Kled, selected by SPY's top laner Wunder, but its performance and record were…… terrible.

The sixth match was TSM vs RNG.

The match had only just started two minutes when it entered a lengthy pause; half an hour later, the organizers announced that the Dragon King had a bug, and a rematch was ordered.

Riot was blamed again.

Afterwards, the two teams re‑did their bans and picks, entering Summoner's Rift once more.

TSM vs RNG first BP

TSM vs RNG second BP

As everyone knows, Doublelift meeting Uzi is like a mouse seeing a cat, so the whole match basically showed the AD gap; although TSM's bottom lane got a stronger combo, in lane and teamfights Doublelift was completely crushed by Uzi.

However, both sides were cautious, there weren't many fights, and the match only ended at 37 minutes; the winner was of course RNG.

Although TSM is considered an 'OEMI scraper', it is still North America's first seed; RNG's first win is still quite valuable, compared to the first seed EDG losing to a wild card, which is definitely much better to watch.

Without comparison there is no harm; EDG's momentum was completely suppressed, pushed by countless netizens to the forefront of public opinion, like adding fuel to the fire.

Thus, the group stage schedule of the World Championship's first day has all ended, the results are as follows:

Group A: G2 1:0 CLG

Group A: ROX 1:0 ANX

Group C: H2K 0:1 AHQ

Group C: INTZ 1:0 EDG

Group D: SSG 1:0 SPY

Group D: TSM 0:1 RNG

Apart from EDG's upset, all other match results matched everyone's pre‑match predictions, because the prevailing opinion is as follows:

LCK > LPL > LMS > NA > EU ≥ wild card

This is not the bias of any single region's fans, but a strength ranking derived from consolidating global netizens' evaluations.

This result not only matches the regional strength prediction, but also aligns with the belief in blue side advantage: out of six matches, blue won four, including INTZ's match, while red won only two, including RNG's win over TSM.

After all, the LPL circle again heard the voice of EDG civil war phantom god versus RNG external war god; EDG fans were being face‑slapped by RNG fans and couldn't retort, feeling stifled.

Nothing more to say overnight.

The next morning, Riot detailed the cause of the Dragon King bug, promised to fix it soon, and released a photo.

That was a workstation of a Riot employee, the desk full of Red Bull cans, apparently dozens…… Riot's posting of this photo clearly meant our programmers were already staying up to fix the bug, so please stop blaming, sobbing.

But netizens don't care about that; a bug means you did your job poorly, staying up is your own fault, so they kept blaming.

Then at noon, Riot announced the bug was fixed, and the Dragon King would return to the stage on October 3.

As for why not that day or the next, of course because after fixing the bug there still needed more testing, and they had to wait for that day's matches to end before patching the live machines, then after patching they needed to run real‑machine tests; the whole process takes a lot of time.

The netizens stopped blaming; Riot's action was indeed fast.

The training room machines had the fix applied that day; at that time G2 was practicing against H2K, both sides had picked the Dragon King twice, and indeed no bug appeared again.

Actually, the probability of this bug occurring is very low; G2 had never encountered it in their practice matches before.

Time came to the afternoon.

Today A group had no match, other teams went to the venue, and the G2 members without practice partners stayed in the hotel training room, casually playing ranked games and watching streams.

Liang Yan timed a ranked match, finished it, and when he opened the livestream page, the first match of group B had just ended, with SKT taking one point from C9.

The second match: Flash Wolves versus Snake.

Liang Yan watched the entire match broadcast.

For the G2 members who knew Snake's strength, this match was a normal performance for Snake, and thus they naturally defeated the Flash Wolves.

But for those who did not know Snake's strength, this match result was an upset.

After all, the Flash Wolves were the first seed of the LMS region; the mainstream pre-match prediction was a 7-3 split, and the predictions given by the three on-site commentators were also a Flash Wolves win.

As a result, nobody expected Snake to defeat the Flash Wolves in just over thirty minutes.

Now EDG is even more embarrassed.