Chapter 376: Always winning, always exhilarating!

EDG fans are very anxious.

In the season's first match they already crashed, they haven't even beaten VG— is this season's EDG really that weak?

The pent-up emotions needed an outlet, and EDG fans quickly agreed on a target—the two stealth Zets!

But Zet doesn't have a Weibo—what should we do?

Since you can't find a monk, you can't find a temple either—so EDG fans flooded the EDG official Weibo, shouting for refunds in the comment section.

Not only do they want to refund Zet, they also want to get rid of coach Nofe.

Why?

The roster selection is terrible!

The ban/pick is terrible!

On Zhihu someone gave a reasoned analysis: although EDG's second game red side was at a BP disadvantage, it shouldn't be so bad as to ban three T0 heroes, right?

Then VG didn't even need to ban any strong heroes, they used all their bans to target EDG's hero pool—how are we supposed to play?

They cut off their own arm and then shoved their face forward to be hit!

Is this a BP that a person could come up with?

【Refund!】

In the EDG Weibo comment section, it's full of this word.

Less than half an hour after the match ended, #Refund# and #Not even worth a warm-up# surged together to the top five of Weibo's hot search list.

Public opinion was in an uproar, even EDG's sponsor Aidezhu came out to respond:

【Do you think signing players is like buying cabbage at a vegetable market, you can just say refund and get it?】

This attracted countless jokesters to play memes in the comment section.

Meanwhile, on VG's side, Lu Wenjun on the spot gave everyone (including the bench player Gangzi and the training staff) a big red packet of 8888, then treated them to a meal.

"The first match of the spring, everyone played very beautifully!"

"Thanks for everyone's efforts for the team, I'll toast you all—hey hey hey, Xiao Duan Xiao Duan, put down the wine, I didn't let you drink, just use beverages instead!"

"Come, everyone raise your cups!"

"Bottoms up!"

Lu Wenjun put down his wine cup, but didn't sit down, his face flushed as he looked over everyone,

"I'm very happy today."

"Everyone got a red packet, so you should be happy too."

"I hope we can be this happy every day!"

Department manager Gao Jun immediately clapped enthusiastically, giving the boss a boost:

"Always winning, always exhilarating!"

"The red packets keep coming!"

VG truly isn't short of money—it's the club with the most LPL sponsors.

Historically, even if VG dropped to the LSPL, they still kept the LPL core roster—Marquis, Long Ge, and even the dog-fei Xiao Duan that Uzi personally wanted—none were sold, they stubbornly endured a season and fought back into the LPL, burning money left and right.

You ask what gives VG such thick health?

One is connections; whether a team can attract sponsors, performance is obviously important, but having connections is also a key factor—VG has nothing else but seniority and a wide network.

Another is because VG's Dota division has historically performed well.

So, if VG's league division can add another spark, it's easy to imagine this club truly taking off—even if its sponsor isn't as extravagant as EDG's or other big capital teams, VG will become the deserving number one esports club in China.

Oh, capital hasn't come in yet; it will only officially enter starting from the second half of this year.

After the group celebration, people chatted in small groups of three or two.

"By the way, today seems to be the 23rd, right?"

"Huh? You've got it wrong, today is the 20th."

"I'm talking about the lunar calendar, you're the one who's mistaken, you forgetful thing."

"... How would I know what lunar calendar you're talking about—who even observes the lunar calendar anymore, geez."

"Fu Lan Duo still has a bit of culture, huh?"

"Go away, go away, you smelly-footed one."

"middle finger"

"middle finger"

Liang Yan and Fu Lan Duo—when they split the two continents last year, they got along extremely well, chatting almost every day on WeChat, even more lovey-dovey than long-distance couples; but once they actually got together, they started bickering nonstop, mutually disliking each other—it was unbearable.

Sitting opposite, Lu Wenjun quietly said to Gao Jun, hearing the noise over here, after listening to a few sentences he pointed to a plate of dumplings on the table and smiled:

"Today really is Little New Year—look, we even have dumplings."

"But isn't the southern Little New Year tomorrow? Shanghai should still count as southern, right?"

"Eh, in a big city nobody cares about that—people from all over the country are here, so there aren't that many formalities; you can celebrate today or tomorrow, it's fine."

"How do the locals celebrate then?"

"Locals celebrate the southern Little New Year……"

"Oh, then anyone celebrating Little New Year today will definitely be looked down on by the locals."

Lu Wenjun smiled but didn't speak—looks like Gangzi was right.

Actually this is just like the sweet vs. salty tofu pudding debate—southerners think salty tofu pudding is weird, northerners think sweet tofu pudding is heretical… uh, there's even spicy tofu pudding.

This shows how awesome China is—such a vast place integrates so many strange, different customs, yet it doesn't prevent 1.3 billion people from being one family; compared to other regions worldwide, it's truly miraculous.

Lively and bustling, eating and drinking.

Around eleven o'clock, the bus carried the VG crew back to the base.

The day's clamor gradually subsided, but online public opinion continued to ferment, and its influence spread not only across Chinese-language internet but also to other regions.

Since VG announced Firrrrrre's joining during the transfer window, global attention has focused on this team; today is their debut match, and they are up against last year's LPL summer champions right away—needless to say, the scrutiny this game has received is enormous.

The result was a VG victory.

For those following overseas, this outcome was as expected.

Although Firrrrrre didn't get MVP in either game, to claim that VG, which was still a bottom-tier team last year, swept aside the region's top team this year right off the bat has nothing to do with Firrrrrre—except that some extreme team fans might echo it; normal viewers wouldn't believe that.

Moreover, professionals don't place much weight on MVP; they focus on finer details.

A day later, VG's second spring-season match got underway, with NB—led by Ten Thousand Volts—as their opponent, which is none other than the QG that pulled off a one-minute Bo5 in last spring's playoffs.

After the one-minute Bo5 incident caused by jungle-mid lane conflict, QG's entire team fell apart; ultimately Doinb bore the consequences, being demoted to the second team NBY in the summer split, while Ten Thousand Volts remained on the first team. At the same time, QG was officially renamed NB, and its management underwent a major overhaul.

QG's original management then acquired NB's second team and continued competing in the LSPL.

The new QG struggled through a season in the lower league, then returned to the LPL this spring, with online rumors claiming that QG's true leader, Doinb, would come back for revenge.