Chapter 58: The Head Coach's Rank is Higher Than the Players', Is That Reasonable?

"Jungle RampageBoard player ranked points: Diamond 2 - 72 points!"

"Mid lane:..."

At this moment, the BLQG team was in the state Jiang Ming had worried about most before; only the AD with the highest rank among the five had broken into Master, while the other four teammates were uniformly Diamond.

Facing the LPL broadcast cameras, with no standout personal image, no achievements, and rank introductions that were all Diamond, they were easily labeled by players as a weak team.

Of course, this didn't mean Diamond-level players in the S3 era were weak; a single server had only fifty Master slots in total. Excluding pure players who didn't play professionally, how many remained to be split among the various pro teams?

It's just that audiences are ultimately visual creatures; they don't care that pro players' ranks mostly reference the first server's ranked points, nor do they care that squeezing into Diamond 1 can get you to Master. The audience only knows that your team isn't even five Masters.

Especially in contrast to BLQG was Jiang Ming and his NXG team.

Joker flipped open the NXG players' personal profiles on his hand, his pupils shrinking slightly, and introduced with a tone of slight surprise: "Next is the personal introduction of the NXG team members."

"Top laner norsha, ranked points: Master 437 points!"

"Jungle stone, ranked points: Master 777 points!"

"Mid laner yihan, ranked points: Master 446 points!"

"AD sorry, ranked points: Master 552 points!"

"Support door, ranked points: Master 589 points!"

Under the super-high daily training intensity of NXG, which was a physical cheat, the strength of the original five NXG members, whose talent wasn't particularly outstanding, made a qualitative leap.

Not only did they break through their own rank limits, but within the Master rank, they had basically pushed into the upper-middle tier.

The ranking points of the five team members also fit Jiang Ming's impression of the difficulty of climbing ranks for different positions.

The jungle player Stone had the highest rank points, followed by the support Pang Ran who played with his brain; the lowest was naturally the top laner Song Yuan, who enjoyed an orphan life in daily solo queue.

The director's camera lingered one by one in front of the five NXG team members. As Joker read out the players' current rank points, the live audience in the venue erupted in a roar, while the bullet comments in the slightly delayed livestream room went crazy with spam.

【Waaaaah!】

【All Masters, this good news is a hammer.】

【BLQG's highest-ranked AD is just a Master gatekeeper, nearly two hundred points behind NXG's lowest-ranked top laner.】

【One Master carrying four Diamonds, playing against five Masters; can only say the matchmaking system is insane.】

【Friendly reminder: five Masters aren't necessarily useful either. Didn't you see what shape the five-Master PE team was beaten into during the qualifiers?】

【Reported, NXG all cheating!】

【Boohoo, this team doesn't even need to consider starting items; they are already in the items.】

【It's not just the gap in rank strength; compared to NXG on the right, haven't you noticed the gap in image too?】

【Heartbroken. Can't beat them in strength, and now even the art style is inferior?】

【If this were in Death Note, NXG's five would be the art style of top-tier powerhouses; BLQG... uh, probably cannon fodder who die in their first episode.】

How can they compare?

On one side were disheveled stragglers, wearing cheap T-shirts, with messy hair that no one knew if they had washed this morning.

On the other side was a regular army with excellent images, facing the cameras with grace, and clean faces!

Just as the bullet comments were discussing, whether Joker forgot or did it on purpose, after a pause of over ten seconds, Wa Wa finally supplemented the introduction of Jiang Ming at the commentator's desk.

"NXG, all Masters, I wonder if the audience has been shocked. Anyway, when I first got the data, I almost thought the director made a Print error."

"However, NXG is not just this. The last one the camera is giving to now is our NXG team's head coach - JM!"

"Current rank points - Master 899 points, also our National Server Number One!"

【???】

【Suit??】

【Wait, where did this send me?】

【Suit! Tactics board! Am I sure I'm watching an esports match?】

【Good, good, good, JM you kid, pretending to be a big shot for the audience lords here.】

【Ask if you don't understand: is it reasonable for a pro team's head coach to be stronger than the players?】

【Reasonable, how is it unreasonable? What if the players can't win, then the head coach can take off his jacket and personally enter the match. (Dog head)】

【Don't say it, you really shouldn't say it. JM personally entering the match is the complete form of this NXG right now.】

【NXG: Fighting you roadside trash, I don't even deign to enter the match.】

【Have to say, JM is really good at this. This suit paired with the tactics board, the professional coach style is held firmly.】

【I've only seen this scene before in football or basketball arenas.】

【Where are the people who doubted JM before? Stand up!】

【WE fans are the funniest. Because of one ranked match face-slap, they belittled JM, saying he only bullied around in ranked matches and would get beaten up in pro matches. And the result? JM running a pro team is way more professional than the domestic esports circle.】

【As it stands, no one in the LOL circle dares to say anyone understands pro play better than JM.】

【Nonsense. That player training schedule of NXG, could any normal person arrange it?】

In the backstage, besides the audience in the venue and the livestream room, a group of people were also paying attention to the official premiere of the LPL preseason.

Of course, seeing the venue full of audience, the livestream room numbers exceeding the target, and the bullet comments like snowflakes, the LPL league officials finally heaved a heavy sigh of relief.

After all, for the LOL league, Penguin invested massive promotional resources in the early stage, from the City Conquest Tournament to various large and small prize tournaments for warm-up. If it turned out to be a dud, it would be hard to explain to the higher-ups.

Fortunately, fortunately, as long as the opening is done, everything else is negotiable.

Judging by the current trend, it can even be said to far exceed their expectations.

"Arranging NXG to play the opening match in Group A was indeed the right arrangement. This person JM really has a set of ideas." A middle-aged man in the room sighed.

"Yes, from the team jersey design to the professional coach, the suit and tactics board, and the players' image management, it can be said that the whole set of traditional competitive sports has been moved to our game competition."

"And that player training schedule of NXG, less than eight hours of rest time per day. JM really dares to do it."

"I think this arrangement is quite good." The person in charge who had previously gone to the NXG base for research spoke up: "Since we have launched the name of the League of Legends Pro League, what is a pro league? It must be moving towards a standardized and professional path."

"JM's NXG has actually walked ahead of us officials."

"I previously visited their team base; even well-established domestic clubs like WE and IG cannot compare."