Lin Yan took off his headphones and welcomed the waves of cheers from the fans in the audience.
The voices of the three commentators entered his ears without any hindrance.
"YM made a 1v2 chase and successfully turned the tables in this focal battle to win!"
After three rounds, he remembered that his voice was a little hoarse. "In this round, they used IG's early and fierce offense to win the game head-on!"
"Even though they changed their starting ADC, it didn't seem to have much impact on YM. Their mid-game rhythm is still very deadly," Mille commented.
Lin Weixiang took a deep breath and glanced at the damage output panel. As expected, his Policewoman had the highest damage output in the game.
But he didn't expect to be the MVP in this round. Just the fact that F6 was blocked in the bushes, if it was Ouze and Jack, the eSports forums would be flooded tonight.
The audience would definitely take a magnifying glass and play it frame by frame to see how many mistakes he made to achieve such an outrageous level.
Blocking his own two normal attacks and then getting killed. Do you know how to play?
I'm really good at it!
Big Eyebrows also felt that his performance in this round was a bit outrageous. After shaking hands with the IG players, he bowed to the audience and returned to his seat. He silently packed up his keyboard and mouse peripherals and prepared to go backstage.
"Lin Weixiang?"
Before he could take a step, a staff member ran over. "You'll have an interview on the main stage later."
"Huh?" Lin Weixiang trembled.
"With Brother Ran, remember to fix your hair!" The staff member hurriedly said and ran to get the microphone.
Lin Weixiang ran to the exit of the player tunnel backstage and fixed his hair that was sticking up because of the headphones in front of the full-length mirror.
He hadn't received many interviews on the main stage. Plus, he had just made a fatal mistake, so he was still a little nervous.
Taking two deep breaths, Big Eyebrows tilted his head and looked at his big brother standing next to him.
Lin Yan was taking off his glasses and putting them in a box. He handed it to the staff member along with the peripherals and put his hands together with a relaxed smile on his face. He asked him to put it on the seat in YM's lounge.
"How calm …" Big Eyebrows thought to himself.
When will he be able to do this?
"Take a look at these two questions and make some preparations, okay?" The female host, Xiao Yu, handed the cards she used to record interview questions to the two contestants.
"No problem, no problem …" Lin Weixiang was so nervous that he stuttered a little. He didn't even look at the contents of the card in his hand before he agreed.
Little Yu also looked nervous. She nodded and put the card away.
She was considered a newbie in the eSports hosting world. Last year, she was still doing interviews in the secondary league, but this year, under the gorgeous lights of the LPL stage, the players she interviewed had changed from invisible newbies to celebrity players.
However, the promotion gave her a lot of exposure, but at the same time, it also gave her a lot of pressure. After watching the first round of the competition, Little Yu thought that she would be able to interview the Broiler today.
After all, Song Yijin was an old acquaintance of hers. She could relax a little during the interview, but she didn't expect YM to still have the last laugh.
This was Xiao Yu's first time interviewing Lin Yan, the most famous celebrity player in the LPL. She looked at her makeup in the full-length mirror and practiced her smile.
In the end, when she went on stage for the interview, her first question stunned Da Mei.
"In the third round of the competition that just ended, the two sides started a team battle at the Beaked Birds' camp at 22 minutes …" Little Yu smiled and looked at Lin Weixiang. "My teammate still chose to team up with the opposing team in a 4v5 situation. Why did he dare to fight at that time?"
Lin Weixiang blinked. His brain, which wasn't very smart to begin with, stopped working at a crucial moment.
He used his elbow to lightly nudge his big brother mid laner and looked at him for help.
Lin Yan turned his head and looked at Da Mei. Perhaps because his eyebrows were too thick, he couldn't understand the meaning behind Lin Weixiang's gaze.
He even thought that there was something wrong with this person, so he elbowed him back as if they were flirting.
Lin Weixiang had no choice but to do it himself.
He pondered for two seconds. Then, he held the microphone and said in a confused tone, "I … I don't know. I was dead at that time."
The three intense and exciting rounds of the competition had just ended. The audience wanted to watch the post-match interview to relax and listen to what the players had to say. They didn't expect such a silly answer. They immediately roared with laughter.
"Ah?" Little Yu was stunned.
Didn't I ask you to look at the questions in advance?
This is the answer you prepared?
Little Yu, who was already nervous, became even more flustered.
This was a live broadcast. If there was an accident during the live broadcast, it would be over.
Lin Yan finally reacted after hearing Da Mei's answer. He quickly took over the topic.
"It was like this at the time. Lin Weixiang was dead, but the two of us were about to be teleported. If we canceled the teleportation, Liu Qingsong, who was in the middle of the encirclement, would also have to answer for it."
Lin Weixiang looked at his big brother with admiration. He couldn't learn such a simple way of organizing words.
"Once the duo team was dead, IG would definitely take Dragon. We thought about it and decided to take this team battle."
Da Mei picked up the microphone and nodded his head, which was a full size smaller than YM's starting ADC. "Brother Ran is right."
Xiao Yu heaved a sigh of relief and looked at Lin Ran with gratitude in his eyes.
Fortunately, Lin Yan was there to smooth things over. Otherwise, she wouldn't have known how to continue the conversation.
"Then the next question." She looked at the card in her hand. "In the third round today, it was the same team battle. Contestant Lin Weixiang and Old Thief had a duel in the Sharp-Beaked Bird bush. The final result was unexpected. What were your thoughts at the time?"
Since it had already happened, it wasn't realistic to avoid it. Tonight, the esports forums would definitely criticize Lin Weixiang's actions. It was better to explain it after the match.
"Just …" Lin Weixiang thought of an idea, but he began to stutter, not knowing what to say.
Lin Yan, who wanted to get off work early, raised the microphone again. "Actually, the reason is very simple. There was a problem with the Eye of Truth. He thought that the Eye of Truth was in the bush. When he saw the other IG players rushing towards him, he wanted to go out of the bush to pull them back. That way, after killing the opposing ADC, he could continue to attack for a while."
"I didn't think that he would drop his normal attack card …" Lin Yan continued. "This is very normal. There's no need to criticize him."
Although Lin Weixiang's actions were ridiculous, Lin Yan felt that it was a small problem.
After all, this was a regular season match. It wouldn't affect anything.
If Da Mei had done something like this in the Spring Season Finals, he would have to learn from Jin Gong and give him a neck slap as a warning.
However, after thinking about it carefully, it would be difficult for Lin Weixiang to fight for a starting position after this incident.
When Da Mei, who was standing next to him, heard Lin Yan's words, he was instantly moved. The corners of his mouth curled up slightly. He picked up the microphone and said without thinking, "Brother Ran is right."
'Big brother is actually speaking up for me. He really … why is he so … he's so gentle … I'm going to cry.'
Lin Yan didn't know what Lin Weixiang was thinking. He explained to Da Mei, "I hope everyone can understand. Players aren't robots. I often make mistakes too."
Lin Weixiang stopped laughing when he heard that. The lightspeed face-changing was comparable to the classic expression pack of the Old Ancestor Sai Wen.
The first few sentences were still reasonable. Why did you have to say that last sentence?
The authenticity of the sentence was instantly reduced!
['I often make mistakes too.' Well said. When can I see a compilation of Lin Yan's mistakes on Bilibili?
One Button Triple Combo is ready. Brothers League GKD]
[Hahaha. You should be able to find it with a magnifying glass, right?]
[If the missing knife is counted, then it's easy to find. It's not easy to make a compilation if it's just a mistake.]
After dealing with the interview, Lin Weixiang's back was visibly hunched. He handed the microphone back to the staff and quickly ran backstage to the team's lounge.
"Well played, Da Mei!" As soon as he pushed the door open, he heard Jack's enthusiastic greeting.
Shiba Inu's face was full of pride. He crooked his mouth and revealed his signature savage smile. "You dare to play Ace?
I didn't expect to get two normal attacks. "
"F * ck you!"
Lin Weixiang didn't spoil him. Da Mei was different from Shi Senming who only knew how to laugh. He was about the same height as Lin Yan. Beating Jack was like playing with a toy for him.
Everyone laughed and walked out of the stadium. Jack's mood was up and down today. He thought he was going to die. He didn't expect his good brother Da Mei to give him a chance.
In his excitement, he had already started to think about what to eat for supper.
"Let's start with scrambled eggs with tomatoes …" Jack ordered the takeout. He glanced at Liu Qingsong, who was carrying a backpack and looking arrogant. He cleared his throat and said loudly, "I'll make a note to ask him to add some sugar!"
After tearing open his wound, he turned around and glanced at him. "Lin Weixiang, give him two more punches. Let him remember today."
"Brother Jin Gong, save me!" The situation was not right. Jack quickly retreated. He shrunk behind Jin Gong to find a sense of security.
Everyone started to fight. Lin Yan listened to Guo Hao's words. He looked like he had nothing to live for.
Only then did he know that he had a solo commercial shoot when he returned to the base later.
"Bear with it … It can't be helped." Guo Hao also knew that Lin Yan was a little tired. He patted his mid laner's shoulder and comforted him. "Who told you to be famous?"
Lin Yan sighed. Now he realized the trouble of being famous. These interviews and shoots took up a lot of his time outside of training. He had almost no time to rest.
However, Lin Yan thought about the increasing balance in his bank account and felt better.
A commercial shoot was a one-square-meter wedding house in Five Corners Square. Lin Yan felt full of motivation again.
When everything was done, the clock was close to 11. He took a shower, exhausted. He went downstairs to the lobby to get the takeout. He ran to the club's restaurant and started a video call.
"What are you doing?"
Lin Yan could only see the back of Su Cheng's delicate head through the camera lens. He was confused. He opened the takeout box and the smell of skewers hit him.
"Um … I'm not bald, am I?" Su Cheng was a little worried. She reached out to stroke her hair, wanting her boyfriend to take a closer look.
Lin Yan looked up and down. Her long hair was black and soft. "You can't see anything?"
Hearing this, Su Cheng immediately pointed the phone camera at her face. Her cheeks relaxed. "That's good, that's good."
"You haven't eaten yet?" She turned her gaze and saw the takeout box in front of Lin Yan.
"I have to shoot a magazine and record a video …" Lin Yan finished his sentence and ate a skewer. The texture and aroma of the mutton instantly filled his mouth and went down his esophagus to his stomach. He finally felt like he had returned to the warm human world.
"I'm so busy." He sighed. "I'm much more tired than last year."
Before the international competition last year, Lin Yan and YM's business activities were the busiest, but they were used to that kind of intensity.
After the Alliance was formed, all kinds of business activities were endless. Although Teng Jing was constantly doing bad business, the business profits after winning the championship were really good. After working hard for a few years, LPL and the club could finally see real money.
Although it wasn't enough to break even, they could still answer to the investors behind them.
However, the frequent business activities made it difficult for the players who usually trained hard. Lin Yan now felt that his calves were a little numb.
"Pay attention to your meal times," Su Cheng reminded. "Don't get stomach problems like Jack."
Lin Yan nodded in agreement and changed the topic. "By the way, what do you mean by baldness?"
Su Cheng rested her chin on her hand. There were textbooks and notes on the table. Between the index and middle fingers of her right hand was a black pen that kept spinning.
"I have a friend …" She thought for a moment and added, "A girl."
"Ah, that." Lin Yan laughed. "You don't have to emphasize it."
"Aiya, listen to me." Su Cheng waved her hand. "She also went to Su Zhong in high school, but you don't know her. She's now studying physics at Peking University. I met her when I went to Beijing with my parents after the New Year."
"And then?" Lin Yan took a skewer of barbecued chicken wings and asked with interest, "She's bald?"
Su Cheng nodded vigorously. "There are some signs of baldness. I heard that when she washes her hair every day, her hair falls out in handfuls."
Lin Yan heard this and his smile faded. He reached out his left hand and touched the top of his head.
He recalled the situation when he was showering and felt that something was wrong.
Su Cheng continued through the camera lens, "Tonight, she video-called me after dinner. She looked terrible …"
"Peking University physics?
It's a mental hospital. It's quite normal. "
Although Lin Yan did not take the college entrance examination, he knew that the famous four mental hospitals of Peking University had students who were the king of internal exams.
"She still wants to live for a few more years. She plans to change her major at the end of this semester and find a more relaxed department. But after hearing what she said, I feel that I'm under a lot of pressure in the mathematics department … Do you think I look good recently?"
Su Cheng said and moved her face closer to the camera lens.
Lin Yan swallowed the soft and smooth chicken wing in his mouth and carefully looked at his girlfriend. Su Cheng had just finished showering and her cheeks were red from the steam. Her eyebrows were a bit light without makeup, but everything else was normal.
"I'm fine." He said honestly.
"Really?" Su Cheng was relieved and began to observe her boyfriend. "Why do I feel like you have dark circles under your eyes?"
Lin Yan was not surprised. Since the Chinese New Year, his dark circles had not disappeared. They were usually very light and almost invisible. "It's nothing. I've probably been staying up too late recently."
"Let's go for a check-up when we get back?" Su Cheng suggested.
"That's fine." Lin Yan agreed. "Let's wait until the regular season is over. We should have a short break then."
The two did not dwell on this topic for too long. Su Cheng had not finished her homework and was approaching the middle of the semester. She had been under a lot of pressure recently.
One was reading a textbook while the other was eating skewers. Occasionally, they would look at each other. Time flew by.
…
On the second day of the showdown between YM and IG, there was a video review on the website. The number of views easily exceeded 300,000 in a day.
[Hard-core analysis review!
Analyzing the important details of YM's one to two chase.]
Lin Yan sat at the dining table with a dispirited face. He had a meat bun in his mouth and a tablet in front of him. It was playing the introduction of the video.
"Do you think this is right?" Guo Hao rubbed his hands. "Our operations colleague saw it when he logged into the Bilibili account."
"Wait for me to calm down …" Lin Yan slowly took a bite of the bun. He was still in a daze.
After the IG match, the base was on holiday as usual.
After all, this was a strong opponent on their way to first place in the regular season. Although YM and IG were not in the same group, if EDG and WE both lost to IG in the same group, according to the theory of canyon relativity, wouldn't that be equivalent to YM guaranteeing their own group ranking?
Lin Yan did not go out to look for Su Cheng today. His girlfriend was now in the library whenever she had free time. Although both of them were in Shanghai, it would take more than an hour to meet. Including the travel time, there was only half a day left in the short one-day holiday.
It was better to save it for the end of the regular season. Lin Yan, who had no one to accompany him, slept soundly.
He slept groggily for the whole day. It was not until dusk that he got up and washed up. He had only sat at the dining table for less than two minutes.
Lin Yan opened a bottle of orange juice and took a sip, letting the sweet and sour taste spread in his mouth. The taste stimulated his brain and finally woke him up.
He skipped the beginning and went straight to the main video.
The ID of this video review blogger sounded familiar — Sponge Sponge Bao Bao Shan Ni 'er, who never leaves early.
Lin Yan thought for a few seconds before he remembered. He seemed to have seen this person's video review in the mid-season S7 Brazil.
He always felt that this person's voice had changed. If it was longer and sharper, it would really be comparable to SKT's meritorious member, Shan Ni.
The video review was a detailed analysis of Lin Yan's use of the accessory eye to repeatedly deceive IG's jungler in the second round.
"The most crucial point is that IG didn't know that Ran had already used his accessory eye at the start of the game!"
"At the two-minute mark, Ran deliberately paused at the wall of F6 — this is a habit of many people when inserting their eyes. Coupled with a Timo's thumbs up emoji that calculated Ning Wang's farming time, he successfully deceived IG's jungler, making his opponent think that he knew Ning Wang Zach's movements."
"IG mistakenly thought that this was Ran's first accessory eye. Ning Wang planned to wait for Ran's accessory eye to disappear before making his move … but at this time, Ran's accessory eye had already rotated!"
Lin Yan listened to the analysis. "This video is okay, isn't it? Isn't this how all replays are?"
He did not think it was a big deal. A group of people were already spamming the bullet screen, and many viewers were praising Lin Yan's clear thinking when dealing with gank.
It could only be said that there was a difference in the audience. After all, Lin Yan had personally experienced the game on the field. He knew his specific operational thinking, and it was different from the viewers who watched from God's perspective.
He had done it once in a professional game, and the qualified coaching team would naturally review it after the game.
Lin Yan's eye-position deception took up nearly three minutes of the review video, but if it was a proper professional review, it would probably be done in two sentences.
After all, the professional players themselves understood that Ning Wang probably knew about Lin Yan's trick at the end of the second game.
The rest of the review video was Lin Yan and Broiler's two tower jumps in the second and third game.
The analysis was quite correct, but Lin Yan still felt that Gou Ba and Red Rice's review was more suitable for him. It was concise and clear, and the information provided was easy for him to understand and accept.
Seeing Lin Yan pick up another bun from the plate, Guo Hao fiddled with the tablet and found another video of SpongeBob SquarePants.
"What about this?"
[Hardcore Analysis of the New Changes in Version 8.3 and 8.4: Who Will Dominate the LPL Playoffs?]
Lin Yan had nothing to do, so he treated it as a pastime.
"The professional game will welcome two major updates. The content is quite complicated, and it will definitely have a big impact on the ecology of the Summoner's Canyon. It will also affect the state of the teams."
The video blogger was still analyzing. "First of all, there will be a major update for the Mage's equipment. The Ghost Book will no longer provide cooldown reduction and mana. Instead, it will become an equipment that provides heavy damage and penetration attributes …"
Lin Yan was a little interested when he heard this. In fact, the LPL would be installing Version 8.4 today, but because they were still playing Version 8.2 yesterday and today was a holiday, the team did not have a meeting to update the version.
Even the Chinese server, which had been criticized for its speed of updating, had caught up with the progress. Lin Yan, like the other professional players, had already adapted to the Korean server for a while.
During the match yesterday, Lin Yan almost bought the new equipment plan for Version 8.4. Fortunately, he reacted quickly and clicked the recall button before he ran out of the fountain.
Now, the penetration attribute of Landry's Mask of Pain and Torture had been removed. It had become a buff that increased damage by entering combat mode.
The new equipment [Binding Orb] and [Twin Shadows] were added to the canyon. The former provided an explosive increase in movement speed and magic power through the accumulation of spellcasting charges. The latter was a tracking item that was linked to the rune [Glacier Amplification] to a certain extent.
Previously, the damage from the Ice Staff had been reduced by 10 points. Although the Ice Staff's magic buff had been increased, it would be difficult for it to return to the usual equipment list of professional players.
It was worth noting that [Terminator's Death Hat] not only had the total equipment price decreased by 200 gold coins, but it also increased magic buff by 5%. It was definitely a big improvement.
"YM's five-stopwatch tower system has also been targeted." SpongeBob SquarePants was still talking. "Now the usage time of [Perfect Timing] has been extended from 6 minutes to 10 minutes. Teams that haven't practiced how to use stopwatches to achieve a perfect tower defense can take a break. As expected, this attack will fall sooner or later."
Guo Hao was still muttering when he heard this. "Fist is a * * hole. Every day, every day, he'll weaken whatever we use. If you don't know how to update, then don't update!"
The trick that Red Rice came up with after the New Year was indeed disgusting. Using a little talent that could be used for 5 seconds, she could complete two rounds of tower crossing without any minions.
One round of tower defense, the number of troops added would at least increase their economy by 1K. There were also key resources such as minions. No matter how you looked at it, it was a huge profit.
The weakening of stopwatch was within the expectations of the YM players, but the problem was that Fist was too fast.
Two days after YM used this move to punish EDG, the test server directly went online with the stopwatch nerf patch.
The designer of Fist seemed to be watching YM's game closely. Once he saw them use any novel tricks, he would immediately weaken them without thinking.
"They're definitely going to stop us from winning three consecutive championships." Lin Yan got up and carried the tray to the kitchen sink. "We still have to be mentally prepared. Otherwise, we'll be at a disadvantage sooner or later."
In a competitive game that was updated regularly, if a team were to win the most valuable world championship for three years in a row, it would be a blatant humiliation to the team that updated the version.
Version 8.4 was Chun Li's last attack before she resigned. He wanted to continue to increase the difficulty of YM.
After SpongeBob SquarePants finished describing the update, he filtered out the updates that might affect the professional scene and then interpreted them one by one.
"Vampire, this hero, will definitely shine in the new version. The new Binding Orb will provide him with two of the most needed attributes — burst magic power and movement speed. Coupled with the enhancement of the hat, Vampire's strength has almost reached the level of a bug …"
To Lin Yan's surprise, his analysis of the version was reasonable and indeed convincing.
He saved the video and planned to show it to Gou Ba when he came back.
…
"Pay attention to the changes in vision." Red Rice tapped on the summoner's whiteboard with a marker to remind his team members. "Now that the green jungler and the Eye Stone have been removed, the jungler will no longer have the unsolvable vision control ability of the previous two seasons. The auxiliary Eye Stone has been classified as a support equipment to increase the cost-effectiveness of the support equipment."
"The impact of this change on the competition environment is more far-reaching than the changes to the mage equipment," Jiang Chenglu translated word by word. "Now, most of the hard and protective supports choose the [Shield of the Holy Relic]. The problem is that the stacking economy of this equipment is very slow. After all, there is only one cannon in the third wave of soldiers, and the amount of gold coins provided by melee soldiers is not much."
Fist was finally tired of the green jungler in the professional scene. The designer felt that the current competition was not entertaining enough.
They had to be cut to make the fog of war in the Summoner's Canyon more unpredictable. Every time they looked into the bushes, they would have to pay a high price.
After all, in the era of the green jungler, the probability of someone looking into the bushes like Yuan Shao was too low. The green jungler, the auxiliary Eye Stone, and the two of them had a True Eye. That meant that there were eight Eyes in the canyon at the same time.
In addition to the other three positions, it would be easy for a team to place 15 Eyes on the map at the same time.
However, now that the jungler had lost three Eyes, and their original accessory had been replaced with a Scan, the jungler's vision could only rely on the True Eye.
"This means that the vision of the map is very limited in the early stages. Everyone only has five yellow accessory eyes, and once they are used up, they will be gone. We can plan strategies based on this …"
Time passed quickly. After YM defeated SN and BLG, they faced another strong opponent — RNG!