Starting with Zaozi Ge, a dream lineup

Chapter 47 Desperate Situation
The abrupt pause not only left the audience bewildered, but also left the RNG members looking at each other in confusion.

Li Luo picked up the cool boiled water in front of him and took a sip. This was something he had specifically requested, as energy drinks contain too much glycogen, and he wanted to protect his body, which is associated with diabetes.

Recently, he has not only avoided all oily and greasy foods, but he has also stopped participating in his usual late-night snack time.

Combined with an hour of aerobic exercise every morning, my body is also recovering.

During the timeout, players cannot speak; everyone must wear headphones and silently wait for the referee's instructions.

"Referee, what's going on? This was clearly a mistake by Samsung, why is the timeout being called?"

As the head coach, Feng Ge was required to come, along with assistant coach Hart.

Hart was previously a support player for Samsung Blue. In S5, he was the support player for UP, the Thresh player who was outplayed by UZI in a 1v5 situation.

Later, he chose to become the coach of LGD in S6. In fact, LGD had a very strong roster at that time. They not only brought in Marin, but also replaced the so-called weak link in the team, Escape.

I thought LGD would rise to prominence, but then Hart promoted the top mage and jungler, and the whole team was like a carbon copy of UP, and in the end they could only fight to avoid relegation.

In S7, Hart chose to join RNG as an assistant coach to assist Feng in coaching. At that time, RNG performed very well when Feng was in charge.

However, when they faced WE in the Spring Split finals, Feng was sick, so Hart went up to draft and ban, and they ended up losing 0-3, handing the championship to WE.

At the time, RNG's lineup was very rigid, giving strong heroes to WE and allowing WE to use their most proficient system, resulting in a shutout of the originally stronger RNG. This can be considered a genius draft.

At this moment, Hart angrily questioned the referee, saying that backstage, this team fight was clearly a mistake made by SSG's support player, KouJJ. Wasn't pausing the game now just adding to RNG's troubles?
"Hart, calm down, the referee is still making his decision, don't get agitated."

Feng patted Hart's shoulder and gestured with his lips to indicate the direction of the referee.

For the 2017 League of Legends World Championship, the referee team consisted of four people: one Chinese referee, one Riot Games supervisor referee, one South Korean referee, and one European/American referee.

At this moment, the South Korean referee was communicating with Dujj via headset about the reason for the timeout.

"Referee, my Thresh clearly placed the lantern outside the wall, but the lantern encountered an unknown bug and got stuck, causing us to lose this team fight."

"Put it outside the wall?"

The South Korean referee frowned and began speaking rapidly to the Chinese and English translator beside him.

"How could it possibly be outside the wall? You just didn't throw it over there, so what excuse are you making? (referring to a type of plant)"

Hart was a professional support player before, and he has a special fondness for the champion Thresh.

Upon hearing the referee's ridiculous ruling, Hart looked incredulous, wondering what was going on, blaming his own mistake on a bug?

"Coach Huang, could you please restrain this assistant? Our referee team can guarantee fairness and impartiality. Please wait patiently."

Seeing Hart's taunting manner, the Chinese referee said helplessly to Feng Ge.

As such an important event as the World Championships, since a player has raised a question, the referee team can only cooperate with the player.

After all, this is China's home turf. As the host country, any unfair practices would severely damage its reputation.

"Okay, Referee Zhong, I believe the referee team will give us a reasonable explanation."

Feng nodded, indicating that he understood, and led Hart to sit down on a chair, waiting for the referee team's decision.

However, the viewers in the live stream were not buying it, a situation that seemed all too familiar.

Once upon a time, during Season 2, in the second game of the Dragon and Tiger Cup finals.

WE established a significant advantage early on, leading by 6000 gold in the first 24 minutes, which should have been a foregone conclusion.

However, at 24 minutes and 38 seconds into the match, WE's entire team disconnected. The match wasn't paused, and KTA players seized the opportunity to kill both WeiXiao and Clearlove. The live stream was also cut off. Actually, WE requested a rematch after disconnecting five minutes into the game. While the organizers agreed to WE's request, they stipulated that WE could only ban two players during the draft phase.

Back then, each team could only ban three players, which was already excessive. The competition was not conducted in a fair environment from the very beginning.

In the end, when the Koreans realized that KTA's disadvantages were too great, they resorted to the underhanded tactic of pulling the network cable to advance.

The situation is strikingly similar to what happened back then; it's another instance of the insidious tactics employed by the South Koreans.

Korean fans, die! Is that all? Is that all? You can't beat them, so this is your method? It's really laughable.

The Prince team is disgusting: they flash into walls, and they can't even throw their lanterns over. Now, is there something wrong with their mouse?

The top liberal arts student from Zaun: S7 champion SSG, there's no need to compete anymore, there's no point in using this kind of tactic in the finals, right?

Time passed by, and less than an hour had passed from the first draft to the start of the second game, but the ruling lasted for an hour.

The audience at the scene didn't buy it either.

Countless indignant spectators stood up from their chairs. At first, it was just one or two people, and the security guards would try to stop them.

Later, ten, a hundred, almost all the Chinese audience members stood up.

Everyone was chanting: "Corruption! Corruption! Conspiracy! Conspiracy! We can't accept defeat! We can't accept defeat!"

This voice quickly reached the referee's room, where the referees sitting in front of their computers were sweating profusely. The pressure from public opinion had already reached them, but the decision was still controversial!

In the past hour, hundreds of lantern-throwing scenarios have been simulated in the referee's room, but the results are strange. Sometimes the lantern is thrown successfully, and sometimes it gets stuck against the wall like a penis being pulled.

"I think we should use time rewind to go back to the moment before the lantern was thrown away."

This is the opinion of the Korean referees. In the judgment, apart from the official referees from Riot Games, the two referees from China and Europe unanimously agreed that there was no problem. However, if even one of the four referees disagrees, the judgment cannot be passed!

"I request that a joint referee voting system be adopted."

Seeing the uncontrollable shouts from outside the arena and hearing the anxious voices from the director, the referee from Riot Games spoke up.

The Grand Joint Referee Voting System refers to a system where all individuals with official League of Legends referee status, even if they do not participate in the game, vote on each other.

If more than 7% of the respondents agree with a particular judge's opinion, then that judge's opinion shall be adopted.

"Agreed!" "Agreed!" "Agreed!"

The three referees unanimously agreed that this was the best way to resolve the issue. Since the matter was controversial, all the referees should share the blame.

In the players' room, the situation was a bit better for SSG. Ruler and Kuwei were both lying on chairs, looking like they were about to fall asleep.

On the other hand, Li Luo and Xiao Hu from RNG both looked deathly pale.

Xiao Ming was idly stretching his neck when he suddenly saw Li Luo next to him and was startled.

Large beads of sweat dripped continuously from Li Luo's forehead, and his printed short-sleeved shirt with the Rng logo was now soaked as if it had been washed.

Beyond Li Luo, sitting in the middle, Xiao Hu was also pale, with several tiny cuts on his chapped lips, from which a lot of blood seeped out.

"Supervisor, supervisor, there's a problem with our team!"

The contestants couldn't speak, but seeing the two of them in this state, Xiaoming panicked and raised his hand to call for the supervisor standing nearby.

(End of this chapter)