Chapter 435: LPL waters run deep, you can't handle it!

The spectacular Oscar Night finally came to a close.

But the battle for Best Actor remains undecided.

LPL officials aren't blind; they saw the online uproar over the 'Second Oscar Night'.

Everyone knows full well that, to avoid meeting VG in the playoffs and fight for fourth place, WE, QG, and EDG are all acting tonight.

But officials found no evidence. The tournament committee stayed up all night checking the microphones of three matches, listening carefully line by line, yet they still couldn't find any problem!

These bastards are all fucking Best Actors!

If anything could be considered solid proof, it's probably that after QG won the second game against EDG, Doinb angrily cursed 'grass.' But such things, frankly, can't serve as evidence; Doinb could easily quibble, saying he wasn't angry, he was excited.

Well, after all, anger and excitement are indeed hard to tell apart.

Officials could only admit defeat, issuing a notice in the early hours announcing that they would hold a tiebreaker match tomorrow to determine the final rankings of Group B.

But it's likely to be a painful mess to watch, as they've arranged a single game to decide the winner.

QG's manager is a tough guy; after receiving the news, he stayed up all night dragging the already-asleep players out of bed—what for? To pull an all-nighter!

They pulled an all-nighter.

The next noon, QG's official Weibo posted a microblog showing screenshots of QG players' results from grinding ranked matches in Korean attire all night.

Countless netizens came to watch, exclaiming, 'An eye-opener!'

【No way, bro?】

【Apart from 'awesome,' I can't say anything else.】

【This move is really brutal.】

Even the WE side couldn't hold back, leaving a comment in QG's Weibo section: '【?】'

Sky, who was at home, helplessly called the WE manager:

"They've gone this far; forget it, everyone just do their best."

That afternoon, Sky drove to the WE base and personally led the team into battle.

But nobody expected that this tiebreaker match wouldn't even get played.

With just one hour left before kickoff, LPL officials suddenly issued a notice:

【Emergency Notice】

【Due to QG's mid laner Doinb suddenly feeling unwell and needing immediate medical attention, and QG having no other substitute mid laner available, the QG team, after careful consideration, submitted an application to forfeit and request the tiebreaker with WE to the LPL tournament committee.

【After the tournament committee held a meeting and discussed, they approved QG's request. Therefore, the originally scheduled regular season Group B tiebreaker match between QG and WE this afternoon is officially canceled.

【Furthermore, the tournament committee has already confirmed with the Shanghai xx Hospital where Doinb received treatment that his condition is genuine and he indeed needs prompt medical care; otherwise, it would cause more serious harm to his health.

【This is hereby declared.

The WE personnel sitting in the car on their way to Zhengda Guangchang were struck dumb by this official notice—it's like two people preparing for a duel, but here we haven't even drawn our guns while the other side just slid in and surrendered!

How are we supposed to do our best then?!

When the notice came out, netizens boiled over again.

Global netizens also rushed to watch.

Ou Mei netizens:

【I've seen this move before at last year's World Championships!】

【The root of all evil—G2!】

【We should say Firrrrrre is the origin of all this sin, hahaha】

【Another victim has appeared……】

【@G2 Ka Luo Si, make QG pay the patent fee—they stole G2's technology!】

【@Firrrrrre, baby hurry back home—EU is your home, LPL waters run deep, you can't handle it!】

LCK netizens:

【Too fake—are their event organizers all blind?】

【Fun fact: WE's boss is the secretary-general of ACE (China Esports Clubs Alliance); they're basically in cahoots, so no amount of reporting will help.】

【Hehe, this is just LPL.】

【Is VG really that strong? Their core Easyhoon is merely a substitute from our Xiang He—don't psych yourself out.】

LMS netizens:

【Stop acting already! Even my grandma thinks it's too fake!】

……

The heat of online discussion continues; in just two days, LPL has spawned plenty of memes worthy of lasting fame, which have been entered into the Moyo Girl Encyclopedia.

The hottest among them are:

【Second Oscar Night】 refers to the series of events that occurred on April 16, 2017, the final day of the tenth week of the LPL spring regular season, when the three Group B teams (WE, QG, NB) went crazy acting (throwing matches/smearing) to avoid VG's playoff bracket and fight for fourth place in the group, with WE and QG as direct stakeholders and EDG fighting for WE (but ultimately failing due to Doinb's disease‑avoidance ultimate). The course of events bears a striking resemblance to that of the 'First LPL Oscar Night.'

【This move is really brutal】 refers to the incident after the 2017 LPL spring regular season's Second Oscar Night, when all QG members stayed up all night grinding ranked matches in preparation for the tiebreaker (to fabricate a sickness excuse for Doinb's hospitalization the next day).

【Grass!】 In the second game of the 2017 LPL spring regular season's Second Oscar Night, QG versus EDG, QG tied the score at 1:1 (due to inferior acting compared to EDG). Given QG's standing in Group B at the time, this meant QG would have to play a tiebreaker against WE to determine final placement, causing Doinb to lose emotional control and curse on the spot. This event gave the word 'grass' a whole new definition—'grass, you're also a Best Actor?'—but this meaning only applies within the LOL community.

Besides these three hottest items, there are also some widely spread derivative memes, for example:

【The Root of All Evil·Jiao Shen】

【He Mei Finger——I say, are those people over there all Best Actors?】

In short, LPL once again drew the world's gaze, bringing countless joys to global netizens.

Regarding this incident, Riot's reaction was total silence, while LOL, through this massive traffic wave, attracted another big batch of new players—quietly making a fortune, that's the way it is.

With QG's forfeit, the LPL regular season finally came to a complete close, the final rankings of both groups having been settled, as follows:

Group A:

First place: RNG

Second place: IG

Third place: IM

Fourth place: OMG

Fifth place: Snake

Sixth place: LGD

Group B:

First place: VG

Second place: EDG

Third place: WE

Fourth place: QG

Fifth place: NB

Sixth place: GT

Upon seeing this points ranking, the fans instantly had some happy and some sad.