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Chapter 477 Post-match interview, do you even know what top-notch mentality is?!

Just over an hour ago, Samsung was leading LGD 2-1 in the BO5 series, taking the lead in the semifinals.

Master An felt he was one step closer to his dream.

They will soon be able to reach the finals of the S-series again and exact revenge on SKT.

But now, more than an hour later, everything is different.

He lost, losing his chance to compete for the highest honor in League of Legends once again.

Competitive sports are always brutal; there can only be one champion.

Even those who didn't win the championship had their own wonderful moments.

But nobody cared.

The moment the Samsung base crystal exploded, Ambition thought of retiring.

But another voice immediately reminded him: the dream has not yet been realized, how can he give up so easily.

At this moment, Sect Leader An's thoughts were in complete disarray.

The LGD players, who won the semi-final, quickly calmed down.

This time, Zhou Dian walked in front, and the LGD team headed towards the Samsung players' bench.

The two players shook hands to greet each other after the match.

When Zhou Dian shook hands with Master An, Master An was still sitting in his seat, seemingly lost in thought or perhaps absent-minded.

Zhou Dian didn't urge him at all, he just waited quietly.

Every athlete who truly pursues their dreams deserves respect.

Of course, Zhou Dian only waited for less than two seconds before Cuvee, who was standing at the back, reached out and patted Master An on the shoulder.

Master An suddenly woke up, jumped up from his seat, and then smiled sheepishly at Zhou Dian.

He then extended his right hand to shake hands and congratulated Zhou Dian in heavily accented English.

Zhou Dian also politely replied with a thank you.

The match is over, and the two sides are no longer opponents.

After the post-match handshake session, Zhou Dian and his teammates came to the center of the stage and bowed deeply to the audience who came to support the LGD team, expressing their gratitude.

Then everyone turned and walked into the players' tunnel.

The applause and cheers from the audience rose again and continued for a long time.

The live stream camera switched again, from the audience seats back to the commentary section.

Changmao immediately said, "Okay, congratulations again to LGD for defeating Samsung and advancing to the final battle of the S7 World Championship!"

“Yes, congratulations LGD!” Rita immediately echoed.

After a rather unproductive analysis, the results of the fifth game appeared on the big screen.

LGD's damage output histogram resembles a vertical middle finger, with Lucian and Caitlyn's damage output standing out significantly.

"Okay, let's take a look at the MVP of the fifth game. It's Wei Shen's Lucian. Whether it's the score or the output, he's the best on LGD's side. There's no problem giving the MVP to Lucian!" Changmao said.

"However, in this game, LGD has another hidden MVP, which I think is Zhou Shen's Karma."

Rita continued, "Although Karma's performance was a bit poor and her damage output wasn't high, I think viewers who watched this match should understand that Zhou's Karma played a crucial role in this game!"

“Yes!” Longhair nodded.

"If we were to choose an MVP for today's entire semi-final match, I think the person would undoubtedly be LGD's top laner, Zhou, our God Zhou!"

"However, LGD's victory today is inseparable from the outstanding performance of every player. In my heart, every player on LGD today was amazing!"

"Okay, that concludes the live broadcast of today's semi-final match. Thank you to everyone who came to the venue and watched the match online!"

"Now let's turn the camera to the interview area!"

Shanghai, the venue for the S7 World Championship semi-finals.

The areas designated on the right side of the main stage are where post-match interviews are conducted in each competition zone.

Wei Shen is being interviewed by Yu Shuang after the match.

As for Zhou Dian, he was invited to the post-match interview in the LCK region.

The LCK host is quite good-looking, but when he starts speaking, he speaks a lot of broken Korean, and Zhou Dian can't understand a word!

Zhou Dian's entire knowledge of Korean is limited to just one sentence: "Shiba".

Since you don't understand anything at all, you need to be extra careful when answering interview questions.

After all, no matter what the words are, their meaning will inevitably fluctuate after being translated back and forth.

In any case, giving interviews in other regions represents the image of the LPL region.

We still need to maintain the image of our own region.

Therefore, when faced with questions from LCK hosts, Zhou Dian always gave standard, simple, and clear answers that were difficult to misinterpret no matter how they were translated.

What he fears most is that some self-media outlets will take things out of context and stir up trouble for the sake of traffic.

This kind of thing is common in every region.

Let's not even talk about independent media; there are also instances of official competition organizers stirring up trouble.

Making money is nothing to be ashamed of!
Finally, the LCK host asked a question:
"Zhou, in the finals a week from now, you will be facing the three-time S-series champions and this year's S-series defending champions, SKT. What do you think your chances of winning are?"

After listening to the translator's account, Zhou Dian smiled slightly, a smile that was somewhat enigmatic.

Then, Zhou Dian quoted Lu Benwei's classic line from back then.

I think it's a 50/50 chance!

"After all, we beat them in this year's MSI finals!"

Backstage, LGD's rest area.

After the post-match interview, Zhou Dian and his teammates returned to the locker room.

As soon as they entered, head coach Dgc greeted them and gave each player a bear hug.

The other people in the lounge were all grinning foolishly, their faces flushed, clearly extremely excited.

After hugging his teammates, Dgc wanted to say something more.

However, before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by the team leader.

The team leader waved his phone in front of him and said, "Alright, alright, we can talk about it later. Everyone must be hungry!"

"Hurry up and pack up to leave. I've already booked a table. Let's have a good celebratory meal."

Oh open!

Upon hearing that the meal would be paid for by the company, everyone cheered and began packing up their personal belongings.

Led by their team leader, the LGD members walked towards the back of the venue.

Upon arriving at the underground parking lot of the competition venue, the LGD team's usual shuttle bus was already waiting there.

After all, the competition is being held in Shanghai, and LGD's base is in the same city, so it's practically like being on their own turf, making it easy to arrange everything from food and lodging to transportation.

Everyone got into the car, and soon they arrived at their destination for today's post-match dinner.

After leaving some items that were inconvenient to carry with them in the car, everyone got out and headed towards the restaurant.

The club's driver then drove the car, carrying everyone's belongings, back to the hotel.

After all, the hotel arranged by Riot Games isn't very close to the venue for today's match. If they go back to the hotel to drop off their things first and then come out to find something to eat, they'll probably be starving.

Everyone else was fine, but the five players on the field, after battling it out for five rounds, were expending a tremendous amount of physical and mental energy.

There's a surge of excitement during the competition, and when you win, you're so thrilled you don't even realize it.

But once that initial burst of energy wears off, the effects of adrenaline disappear.

For example, when Zhou Dian was interviewed by the LCK region after the match, his legs were so weak from hunger.

In today's match, Zhou Dian was definitely the player who expended the most energy in the entire LGD team.

During the competition, Zhou Dian had to handle pressure, carry the team, give instructions, and do all the dirty work.

Going back a bit further, Zhou Dian also did a lot of coaching work.

Perhaps this is what they mean by "the capable are often given more work"!
While waiting for the food to be served, Zhou Dian took out his phone and scrolled through it.

The topic of "LGD advances to the S7 finals" has already climbed into the top three of Weibo's trending topics list, and it continues to rise.

After browsing Weibo for a while and finding nothing new to see, Zhou Dian opened Tieba (Baidu's online forum).

I went into the stress-relief forum, and wow, the very first post at the top didn't disappoint Zhou Dian.

[They only won the semi-final, what a mess the Optimistic Family is making!]

Goodness, no wonder it's called Kangba, this smell is too strong!

Basically, every LPL team with a large following has a fan base with nicknames online.

"Optimistic Family" is the nickname of LGD team's fan group.

This nickname comes from Wei Shen's Baidu Tieba ID—Optimistic Pat on the Head.

Naturally, the comments section below the post was filled with insults and a huge argument.

Many people immediately retorted, "If the Optimistic Family can't speak loudly, does that mean the Royalist Family can?"
If you win the semi-final and advance to the final, why not praise you for losing the semi-final?

After all, LGD just won the game today, and LPL has entered the World Championship finals again after three years. Many people who are still trying to create momentum and deal damage when the team is behind are obviously just being sarcastic.

To put it simply, the person who posted this might not necessarily be an RNG fan.

Those who are taking advantage of the situation and using LGD's name to criticize RNG are not necessarily LGD fans.

Since they're all just cross-dressing, who can tell the difference?

In the end, it basically just turned into a bunch of random cursing. Everyone got to vent their emotions, and then they gradually dispersed, moving on to the next post and the next group of people.

Online interaction is just for fun; if you take it too seriously, you'll lose!

Zhou Dian wouldn't even click on these posts just by looking at the title; they have no content, just lots of arguments.

As he scrolled down, he came across a post that copied post-match comments from foreign websites.

This has basically become a staple of the anti-fan forum during the World Championship.

Especially after the knockout stage, after each BO5 match, people would go and share the post-match discussions from foreign forums.

Of course, the original poster should translate it roughly before posting it.

Directly mentioning flesh will definitely get you criticized; do you really think netizens have a high average level of education?

The post Zhou Dian is seeing right now is not the kind of content that is usually copied from English forums and posted on Tieba.

This post is a compilation of post-match comments from a Korean forum.

LGD just beat Samsung, and LPL viewers are eager to see the reactions of the Korean audience so they can have a good laugh!

The poster who made this post is quite savvy, as they've copied comments from Samsung fans who are upset, as well as comments praising LGD's performance today.

All I can say is that he understands what LPL fans like to watch!

However, as Zhou Dian looked around, he noticed something amiss.

It was the question Zhou Dian answered at the end of his post-match interview with the LCK region.

Zhou Dian's answer at the time was: "It's a 50/50 chance! After all, we beat them in this year's MSI finals!"

On the Korean forums, it became, "If we can beat SKT in the MSI finals, then we can beat SKT in the World Championship finals too!"

Goodness, these Koreans are not only good at stealing, but they're also experts at spreading rumors and stirring up trouble.

Underneath the original post on the Korean forum, LCK fans naturally unleashed a torrent of criticism against Zhou Dian.

They say he's getting incredibly arrogant just because he only won against a mere three-star opponent today.

In the finals a week from now, the three-time S-series champions SKT will teach LGD a lesson.

These replies, when translated and posted on Tieba (a Chinese online forum), naturally drew a barrage of insults from LPL supporters directed at the Korean viewers.

Both sides are outputting from the void.

Because the cause of the incident was not what it seemed at all.

But none of that matters anymore, just keep cursing.

Once this trend started, no one on the internet, whether in South Korea or China, cared about the truth anymore.

Or rather, very few people will bother to find out the truth for themselves.

But these very few people can't stir up any public opinion.

Most LPL viewers don't watch Zhou Dian's post-match interviews with LCK teams, and most LCK viewers don't understand Chinese either.

Zhou Dian originally wanted to ask someone who understands Korean, but his post-match interview had a translation problem that caused ambiguity.

Or is it simply that the Koreans are stirring up trouble?

But then I thought, forget it, it's pointless.

In the face of overwhelming public opinion, does the truth really matter?

People only believe what they want to believe!
What Zhou Dian said before the S7 World Championship final between LGD and SKT a week later is completely irrelevant.

Everything depends on the final result of the match!

If LGD wins the finals, no matter how much he mocks SKT before the match, there will naturally be a lot of fans from other teams, and a lot of LGD "old fans" who will defend him for a month.

Any dissenting opinions will be ruthlessly crushed by this wave.

But if SKT wins the finals, no matter how humble he is before the match, he will only end up being ridiculed in various ways afterward.

At that time, not only LCK fans, but also fans of other LPL teams will not miss the opportunity to take a jab at LGD.

That's all!
Zhou Dian sneered, put down his phone, picked up his chopsticks, and just then the dishes were served.

He just needs to focus on playing his own game; these public opinions never affect him.

Do you even know what a top-tier mindset is?

We had a simple celebration to make it to the finals; neither the coach nor the players drank alcohol.

Even Imp, who loves alcohol the most, had no objection to this.

After all, there are only six days left until the finals, plus some miscellaneous preparations, leaving LGD with less than six days to train.

We can't let drinking interfere with this precious training time.

If we win the final, we can drink however we want after the match.

After filling their stomachs, the LGD group left the restaurant. They hadn't walked far when the club's car arrived, and everyone got in and returned to the hotel.

(End of this chapter)