Chapter 413: Is VG Really Invincible?

【Ten thousand people signed a blood petition, redraw the lots!】

【Group strengths are completely imbalanced, it's extremely unfair to the B Group teams, strongly demanding a redraw of the lots for the twelve LPL teams!】

【LPL, you wouldn't want the teams that advance to the postseason A Group to be repeatedly crushed by the B Group, would you?】

【No joke, with A Group's level, if they really make it to the postseason, aside from RNG everyone else is just experience fodder for B Group.】

Under the LPL event's official Weibo, all are voices from B Group demanding a redraw.

Redrawing the groups is impossible to redraw, after all the group draw isn't child's play, and the entire spring regular season schedule has already been announced; the complete event operations plan has been printed and distributed to each work team. Although inter-group confrontation has just begun, there is still a round of intra-group round-robin, but in fact, on the LPL organizer's work sheet, all work related to the regular season has entered the final stage, and the focus has shifted to the postseason.

Now saying we should redraw the groups is obviously impossible.

But the netizens' voices cannot be ignored, after all this is a project that lives off popularity, and netizens' opinions are very important.

Moreover, this wave of topic heat is truly intense.

The LPL officials couldn't play dead, redrawing the groups was impossible, so they could only cautiously issue a statement and ask the Fist Official Weibo to forward it, to increase persuasiveness.

In this statement, the LPL officials explained the original group draw rules, clarified that there was absolutely no behind-the-scenes manipulation in the draw, and then, with somewhat sincere wording, admitted the mistake in making the group draw rules, saying they would formulate fairer draw rules in the future… and so on; in short, the purpose of this statement is just one: to shift netizens' anger by passing the buck.

How to put it? The effect was okay, after all not everyone cares that much about whether group strength is fair; rather, for netizens supporting the A Group teams, if we really redraw the groups, it would definitely be disadvantageous for the A Group teams; but for the B Group team fans who initiated this petition as the main tower-pushing force, this result cannot convince them.

Although the topic heat has somewhat decreased, the entire public opinion environment remains in a boiling state, until later someone gave the LPL officials a clever idea.

Then some shady little tactics began to be operated behind the scenes.

VG was also asked to cooperate.

First, a screenshot of training match results appeared in the LCK circle, and quickly spread across various Korean esports forums, with most titles like this:

【Shocking! The mysterious team's training match crushed all the LCK powerhouses!】

Soon after, another rumor spread, saying this mysterious team is actually the VG team where Firrrrrre is. Then, on the day the rumor fully spread, after SKT's match ended, Faker was asked for his opinion on the related question on the interview stage.

Faker gave a very vague answer:

"Yes, we had training matches with VG not long ago, and I heard that VG indeed has arranged training matches with many of our teams over here."

"When playing against us, their win rate is indeed somewhat higher, but not as exaggerated as online claims. Moreover, in training matches, winning or losing isn't that important; being able to spot tactical flaws in training matches is what we care about most, so sometimes to get useful information we will deliberately play less strictly."

"Of course, VG is a very strong team; in the LPL it should be hard to find an opponent that can match them."

Then a question appeared at the top of the Zhihu hot list:

【How to view the remarks made by famous League of Legends professional player Faker in the interview, and how to evaluate his saying that VG has no opponent in the LPL? Is VG really invincible?】

Then the top-voted answer is as follows:

【Recently the topic of LPL group strength imbalance has been boiling over here, but honestly I find it a bit funny. I estimate Faker also finds it quite funny.

【Why is that?

【Because obsessing over the groups is meaningless. True strong ones never complain about the environment; rather, the harsher the environment, the more they can demonstrate the value of strength.

【From team to fans, has VG complained about the group being unfair?

【No.

【I've laid my cards bare, I'm also a VG fan, I think this whole farce is pure comedy.

【Of course, for teams that might not even make it to the postseason, the group result may indeed cause them to miss out on tickets, but still that saying: it's meaningless.

【In esports, no one remembers even second place——unless it's like ROX, the eternal runner-up——who would care whether you're eighth or ninth?

【Back to this question.

【Is VG really invincible in the LPL?

【I just want to say, I trust the professionals' opinion, and in the League of Legends field, Faker is undoubtedly one of the most professionals.】

The top three liked answers under this question are all similar in tone, each with over ten thousand likes. As for how many of those likers are official water armies, you guess?

Similar topics also appeared on other platforms.

The focus of netizens' discussion gradually shifted to whether VG could sweep through the entire LPL regular season; the person who started this topic achieved their true goal, and those discussing the group topic dwindled until no one paid attention.

As VG reaped one thrilling victory after another, like a great mountain pressing on the heads of all teams, firmly occupying the top of the regular season standings, the LPL's public opinion shifted again, and VG team's public image began to change from a rising dark horse to the demon king in various heroic adventure stories……

Aside from the B Group teams already crushed by VG, the entire A Group began to unite, even under the leadership of the RNG boss forming an A Group chat, with all A Group team coaches pulled into the group, starting to secretly plot how to overthrow the demon king.

【No matter who, if they can end VG's winning streak, I hereby promise a reward of fifty thousand for winning a small game, and one hundred thousand for winning a big match; everyone can save screenshots as proof!】

These remarks come from the RNG boss Bai Xing.

The news reached VG boss Lu Wenjun's ears; Lu Wenjun couldn't help but laugh, and his heart was also filled with pride.

Winning a Bo3 only gets a reward of one hundred thousand?

So petty.

My winning streak isn't that cheap!

Lu Wenjun immediately picked up his phone and sent a message in the team WeChat group:

【Sweep the inter-group confrontation, and the entire first team receives a reward of one hundred thousand.】

【？！！！】

【Holy shit!!】

【Boss Lu is so generous!!!】

【Boss is awesome!!!】