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Chapter 140 Wow! You want to speedrun RNG?
The game between LGD and Snake had just ended.

The Snake team members, who were packing up their peripherals on stage, still looked distressed.

After all, although his strength was inferior to his opponent's, it was still a bit embarrassing to be speedrunned twice by them.

That's pretty discouraging.

However, after leaving the stage and walking through a short player tunnel back to the lounge, Zz1tai and Crystal were already chatting and laughing.

Crystal said something that made Zita laugh out loud.

The laughter was a little loud.

Zuo Wu immediately frowned.

Damn it, he just got humiliated by someone and he can still laugh!

Don't you have any ambition?

Don't you have any professional ethics?!
Of course, despite his displeasure, Zuo Wu wouldn't directly reprimand his teammates.

These days, LPL players are like fathers.

Especially well-known players.

If you upset them, these bastards will really start a fight.

When the time comes, once the players start performing well and their results decline, the boss will only hold the manager accountable.

Regardless of the reason.

Anyway, if your grades are bad, the boss will talk to your manager.

Since the manager couldn't cause trouble for the players, he had no choice but to make the coach take the blame and fire him.

The players have fans to protect them, but the coaches don't.

On the contrary, he gets criticized by fans every day.

In the eyes of those fan groups, no matter how badly the players play, the problem lies first and foremost with the draft and the coach.

In the LPL, being a coach is actually a high-risk profession.

They get "killed" at the drop of a hat.

Seeing Crystal and Zitai getting more and more into their conversation, Zuo Wu walked over and coughed loudly.

"Stop laughing and joking around, hurry up and pack your things, go back and prepare for the promotion/relegation matches!"

Upon hearing this, Zitai immediately waved his hand and said, "Don't panic, playing in the promotion/relegation tournament is a piece of cake, right? Those teams in LSPL are all terrible!"

Then, Zita changed the subject, "By the way, Brother Zuo, do you remember what you said before? Now that Zhou Shen is about to become the best top laner in the LPL, I feel like I can have your manager position!"

Judging from Zita's attitude, Zuo Wu really felt that he was about to get angry.

As a result, the following words from the posture left him completely bewildered.

"What did I say before?" Zuo Wu really couldn't remember.

"Damn! You don't remember?" Zita's eyes widened. "Didn't you say that if the top laner could make it in the professional scene, you'd let me be your manager?!"

"Ahem!" Zuo Wu suddenly remembered.

"When did I say that? And who is this 'Top Lane Ancestor'?"

Zuo Wu waved his hand, pretending to be serious, and said, "Alright, alright, stop talking about this nonsense and hurry back to prepare for the promotion and relegation matches!"

Then, Zuo Wu looked around the rest area and said, "If Snake gets relegated in this spring season, I'll make sure you don't get your salaries!"

Although these words were spoken in anger, everyone else in Snake's break room could tell that the manager was genuinely angry.

So even the usually witty and humorous Zita and Crystal quickly shut up and stopped talking.

Two days passed quickly.

The date is March 15th, Saturday.

LPL match venue.

It was approaching 7 p.m., and after the first two BO3 matches on Saturday had finished, the third match was about to begin.

"Alright, good evening everyone, welcome back to today's LPL regular season matches!"

"Next up is the BO3 match between LGD and RNG. I'm Guan Zeyuan, your commentator for this game."

"I am Su Xiaoyan!"

During this period, the live commentary for LPL regular season matches would typically consist of two consecutive best-of-three (BO3) games.

For days like Thursday and Friday, with only two matches, one commentator per day is sufficient.

There are usually three games a day on Saturdays and Sundays.

Therefore, two groups should be arranged for the commentary.

After the first two matches are completed, the third BO3 match will be played with a different commentary team.

Guan Zeyuan and Su Xiaoyan were the ones who had just been replaced.

As soon as the two appeared on camera, the live stream chat was immediately flooded with comments like "[Yan Jia Guan Jiao]".

Wherever Su Xiaoyan is, there will inevitably be idioms and references in the comments.

Various idioms containing the character "yan" will be replaced with the character "妍" and will appear in the comments.

However, once Su Xiaoyan and Guan Zeyuan appear on screen together, all sorts of idioms immediately become the same: "Yan Jia Guan Jiao".

"As you can see, the players from both LGD and RNG have already taken to the stage, so the match will probably start very soon!"

Guan Zeyuan continued, "This match is not only the last regular season game in Group A, but it can also be said to be the most important and significant regular season game in Group A!"

"Yes!" Su Xiaoyan nodded. "This match between LGD and RNG will determine the final winner of Group A!"

"RNG currently leads LGD by one game in wins and is temporarily ranked first in Group A. Winning this game will naturally secure their first place in Group A."

"If LGD wins this direct confrontation with RNG, their total number of wins will be equal to RNG's. Then, LGD will surpass RNG to rank first in Group A based on their net wins in individual games!"

"Zeyuan, which team do you think has the better chance in this match?" Su Xiaoyan turned and asked.

"Uh, I actually favor LGD a bit more!"

Guan Zeyuan continued, "The main reason is that LGD has recently achieved an eight-game winning streak, and their momentum is simply too strong!"

"Therefore, I am more optimistic that LGD can beat RNG today and finish the regular season with a nine-game winning streak!"

As soon as Guan Zeyuan expressed his optimism about LGD, many LGD fans immediately started commenting "Guan Zeyuan, shut up" in the live chat.

Being favored by Guan Zeyuan is not necessarily a good thing.

LGD fans are genuinely worried that Guan Zeyuan has ruined LGD's chances today.

Although Guan Zeyuan's few words certainly wouldn't have any substantial impact on the outcome of the competition.

But Guan Zeyuan's sharp tongue can sometimes be a bit toxic.

After the two commentators chatted for a few more minutes, the BP interface appeared on the big screen.

The first game of the second round of the regular season BO3 between LGD and RNG has begun. RNG has the right to choose sides for the first game, and head coach Feng chose the blue side.

LGD is on the red side.

At this moment, on the RNG players' bench.

Feng Ge stood behind Letme, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Yan Junze, don't feel any pressure this game. Just pick your best hero and go for it!"

"Zhou is impressive, but he's not that scary!"

As he spoke, Feng turned to look at Mlxg, "Xiangguo, you need to gank the top lane more this game, don't let Zhou Shen get ahead!"

“Greeting top lane is no problem!” Mlxg changed the subject, “But Yan Junze, you really shouldn’t play tank this game. If you play tank in front of Zhou Shen, no matter how many times I gank, you’ll still have to feed your carry in top lane!”

Mlxg is a bit blunt; he says whatever he thinks and doesn't really consider other people's feelings.

Letme frowned as Mlxg unwittingly stepped on his foot.

But it's not easy to say anything.

He recalled the last match against LGD.

Although almost two months have passed, that incident really left Letme with a lingering trauma.

Seeing the ID [Zhou] now makes my hands tremble a little.

He really can't beat him!
Mlxg's statement seems to be true.

In the match against LGD, if you play a tank in the top lane, you'll most likely end up feeding your carry.

Listening to the conversation between the top laner, jungler, and head coach, Uzi bit his nails and swallowed back what he wanted to say.

In the match against LGD, Uzi actually wanted his teammates to play around him.

He felt that if the bottom lane didn't carry, RNG simply couldn't beat LGD!
But then I thought, it really wouldn't be right not to help them on their way.

The top laner on the opposing team, LGD, is truly formidable; his carry potential is exceptionally strong.

If you end up raising a father on the road, it won't be easy to handle.

Let's play this game like this!
"If we can't win by helping the top lane, we have to focus on the bottom lane in the next game!" Uzi thought to himself.

Then, Uzi thought of LGD's top laner.

"If I had a top laner like that, I could easily win the LPL championship. How come we haven't even won an LPL championship yet!"

Uzi has clearly forgotten that before Letme, his top laner was Looper, the S-series champion top laner.

At the same time, on the LGD players' bench.

Dgc said to Zhou Dian, "Should we pick two heroes who can switch between mid and top or top and jungle to confuse the opponent?"

“There’s no need for that!” Zhou Dian shook his head. “It’s just Letme. He’s not worth me specifically targeting him. Just leave the counter pick for me!”

“I thought you were going to say you were just going to play against Letme, I can go top lane first!” PYL chuckled.

"It's possible to go first, but..."

After a pause, Zhou Dian continued, "I just wanted to finish this job as soon as possible!"

"Wow! From what you're saying, you want to speedrun RNG?" PYL raised an eyebrow.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Dian shrugged. "It's not impossible!"

At this point, the drafting and banning (BP) phase of the first game had already begun.

After the first three bans.

RNG locked in the Crocodile on the first floor of the blue team.

The champion Renekton is a lane bully in the early game and synergizes very well with the jungler.

There's no problem with picking Renekton top lane directly on the first floor.

However, the crocodile's lane dominance is limited to melee champions.

Of course, the crocodile has healing abilities and can also fight long-range mage heroes.

The only exception is when facing a marksman; the crocodile is completely helpless.

No matter which ADC you play, Renekton has a tough time in a one-on-one situation.

However, Renekton is very good at ganking with the jungler, which is something that all-around lane bullies like Jayce can't match.

If you pick some overpowered champion to counter Renekton, I'll just switch to jungle and that's it.

Both sides selected their representatives in turn.

Soon, only the fifth floor position on the red team remained without a hero.

"LGD's last pick depends on which champion Zhou Shen will choose to lane against Renekton!"

"Fiora and Camille are both banned! Jayce is still out there, but Jayce is easy to catch!" Guan Zeyuan said.

"RNG's top and jungle picks are Renekton and Gragas, LGD's top laner will get ganked no matter what he picks!" Su Xiaoyan added.

At this moment, in the LGD players' seat.

PYL turned to Zhou Dian and asked, "What champion should we pick for top lane? RNG's top and jungle with Renekton and Gragas is a bit difficult to handle. How about we give you a tank to carry the game? We'll carry the bot lane this time!"

LGD even specifically banned Spider.

Otherwise, RNG would definitely have used the top and jungle combination of Renekton and Elise in this game.

"No problem!" Zhou Dian said. "Didn't we say we were going to speedrun RNG? Which team do you think I should choose to push through the fastest?"

"Jace?"

"Don't pick Jayce, he's too easy to gank. Let's pick a champion with mobility instead!"

"Jayce is indeed not good!" Zhou Dian nodded. "Aside from Jayce, the ADC is definitely the fastest at pushing!"

On the large screen at the scene.

With only two seconds left in the champion selection countdown, LGD revealed Lucian on the fifth floor of the red side.

Then it was locked.

The audience below the stage immediately erupted in a commotion.

Cheers erupted immediately.

"They locked down the Holy Gunner!"

"It's been a while since we've seen Zhou Shen's Lucian top lane!"

Guan Zeyuan said excitedly, "I never expected to win this in such a crucial battle for the top spot in Group A!"

From the audience's perspective, they would definitely love watching a champion like Lucian play top lane.

They even wished for more.

Who wants to watch two lumps of meat fighting each other in the top lane?

(End of this chapter)