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Chapter 57: LPL Resumes After the New Year

Sima Laozei helped OMG avoid relegation twice in a year, which also saved head coach Dgc's face and Dgc's hope of continuing to make a living in the LPL.

Although OMG immediately announced that it would not renew its contract with Dgc after the contract expired last year, it was still a relatively amicable parting.

If Dgc had actually caused OMG to be relegated last year, he would probably have been kicked out of the team on the spot.

And no LPL team will hire him as a coach anymore.

And now, LGD is even willing to hire him as their head coach.

Actually, in the past, LGD would not have even looked down on a head coach with Dgc's resume.

However, with their former coach Heart leaving in such a hurry, LGD is finding it difficult to find a new coach in the short term.

Left with no other option, the LGD manager turned to his predecessor, White Crescent.

However, White Crescent is currently leading the DAN team in the LSPL, preparing to lead the team to promotion to the LPL, and he doesn't want to go back to LGD and get involved in this mess at this time.

So they introduced Dgc to LGD.

And so, Dgc became LGD's new head coach.

In today's LPL, most team coaches are basically just ordering takeout and don't really play a significant role.

LGD's thinking was roughly the same: although this person's skill level wasn't great, they'd make do with him.

Something is better than nothing, right?

The official announcement posted by LGD Club's official Weibo account also included a final message.

In the first week of LPL matches after the Lunar New Year, Dgc, who recently joined LGD, needs to apply for registration with the LPL league organizers, so Dgc will not be able to participate in the draft phase.

Dgc will not be able to take the stage for the draft phase until the second week after the Lunar New Year, which is the third week of the LPL Spring Split regular season.

By February 9th, Zhou Dian had been at the top of the Korean server for four days.

For the next four days, he continued to climb the ranks on the Korean server.

Although the speed of ranking up has slowed down considerably compared to before, after four days, [TopKing] has already reached the highest rank of Challenger with over 1,400 points.

He's nearly 200 points ahead of Cuzz, who's second on the Korean server.

Cuzz has been hovering around 1200 points in the King of Glory rankings lately, and is a bit stuck.

In the past few days, several teams have contacted Zhou Dian, and the salaries they have offered are generally higher than before.

But it still didn't meet the expectations for the week's peak.

In addition to the esports team, various live streaming platforms have also contacted Zhou Dian.

However, Zhou Dian basically rejected these live streaming platforms without even discussing them.

Because live streaming platforms value "fame" more than professional esports teams.

Professional teams might offer a decent salary to sign a new player, provided he demonstrates talent.

However, live streaming platforms simply cannot afford to spend a lot of money to sign a newcomer in the field of live streaming.

It is because the self-media account 【上单老祖】 has gained some fame that various live streaming platforms are willing to talk to Zhou Dian.

However, the guaranteed minimum offered by live streaming platforms is far less than the salaries offered by professional esports teams.

To make money, you have to rely entirely on commission from gifts.

That's why Zhou Dian refused without even discussing it.

He doesn't want to become a full-time streamer; his current focus is still on playing professionally.

Furthermore, once they gain fame through professional gaming, they can naturally secure high-paying guaranteed live streaming contracts.

This is not a conflict.

So, let's keep climbing the ranks in the Korean server!
Zhou Dian had a premonition that if he reached 1,500 points, he would be close to achieving his goal.

While Zhou Dian was engrossed in climbing the ranks on the Korean server, the second week of the 2017 LPL Spring Split regular season had already begun on the afternoon of the 9th.

The first LPL match after the Lunar New Year was between IM and Snake. In the first game, AJ surprisingly picked Darius for top lane again.

It seems that AJ gained confidence after dominating Camille with Darius in the match against LGD before the Lunar New Year.

Today, facing Flandre, I also picked Darius.

Facing Darius, Flandre showed no weakness and immediately drew his sword, pulling out Fiora.

Then, Flandre's Fiora completely destroyed AJ's Darius.

During the match, Flandre even pulled off an extremely smooth A-Flash-Four-Break combo, which drew gasps from the audience and commentators!
After being completely crushed by Flandre in the first game, AJ immediately backed down.

In the second game, Shen was chosen to play passively, while Flandre chose Maokai to play passively against him.

In the end, Snake swept IM 2-0.

In the post-match interview, when the host praised Flandre's Fiora play and expressed amazement, Flandre frankly stated:

"As many viewers probably know, I actually learned that Fiora play from [Top Laner] on D-site."

"To be honest, my Fiora is still far inferior to the top laner, the old master!"

In the live stream chat, those who knew the top laner Lao Zu started spamming "Top laner Lao Zu is awesome!"

People who didn't know the "Top Lane Ancestor" started asking, "Who is the Top Lane Ancestor?"

Following the match between Snake and IM, the second match of the day is LGD vs. OMG.

As LGD's new head coach, Dgc was unable to participate in the draft phase for this match due to reporting issues, but he led all the pre-match arrangements.

After arriving at the LPL competition venue in Zhengda Plaza, Dgc appeared very nervous.

For no other reason than that our opponent is OMG.

As the saying goes, after a breakup, the worst thing is for your ex to be doing better than you!

Although Dgc couldn't participate in the draft phase, strictly speaking, he had little to do with the match.

But he really didn't want to lose to OMG!
Similarly, OMG is also eager to defeat LGD to prove that their decision to kick Dgc was correct.

In this match, LGD fielded Jinoo in the top lane, a player who has only played one official match in his entire professional career so far.

This decision was made by head coach Dgc.
After LGD's star top laner, the "first loss in the world with Camille," faced immense public pressure, Dgc couldn't possibly let him return to the starting lineup so quickly; they would have to suspend him for at least one or two games.

He was afraid that if he let the Frenchman play today, he would end up like LGD's former head coach Heart, being sent away by the Frenchman.

Jinoo's top lane style is actually quite similar to that of the "King of the Hill" (a famous Chinese mage).

Neither of them played tank heroes very well; it was a strange combination. They preferred playing damage-dealing top laners.

The difference is that Jinoo's damage-dealing top laner is, at least in terms of mechanics, much stronger than the "King of Mages"!
But it was all for naught.

LGD was swept 2-0 by OMG.

Jinoo played Fiora in one game and Jayce in the other, and his mechanics were flawless. He was also able to suppress OMG's top laner, Xiyang, who chose a tank champion during the laning phase.

However, Jinoo could only achieve a slight advantage. Once OMG's jungler ganked him, he lost all his advantage and was completely shut down by Xiyang.

In team fights, Jinoo's impact is nowhere near that of Xiyang.

In their first match after the Lunar New Year, LGD suffered another crushing defeat.

This immediately caused an uproar among LGD fans, who once again turned their anger towards the top laner.

Actually, Jinoo isn't the one who should be blamed the most for losing the game.

But what can you do when he's a "newcomer"?

Although Jinoo has been with LGD for a long time, he had only played one game before, so in a sense, he was a "newcomer".

What's the biggest role of a newcomer? Isn't it to take the blame?
The old master is about to go pro!

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