LPL didn't want me? I joined SKT instead!

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Fifteen minutes.

The head-to-head ratio has reached a glaring 1-9.

SKT's only kill came from Peanut's desperate trade with the enemy support in the jungle. Meanwhile, Huni's Lucian has achieved a respectable 0-5-0 score.

I'm 60 hits behind in last hits and two levels behind in rank.

"Huni got caught again! C9's mid laner Syndra teleported behind them and, together with the bot lane duo, tower-dived! Huni used a death flash, but he still died!" Wawa's voice was hoarse, filled with despair and disbelief.

Miller rubbed his temples in pain, not even wanting to look at the screen anymore: "This is unplayable. Less than twenty minutes in, we're six thousand gold behind. C9's core carry is fully formed now, Xayah has two items, while Huni's Lucian... he hasn't even gotten Blade of the Ruined King yet, he only has a small scimitar and two longswords."

PDD sneered repeatedly, his tone filled with sarcasm and anger: "Keep acting. SKT's acting is so clumsy. Why don't you just pick a standard lineup and 'accidentally' lose in a team fight? Why pull this stunt? Huni's positioning is better than any of my dogs playing AD! He's openly telling you, 'I don't want to win, I'm going to feed!'"

Meanwhile, the Chinese internet was in complete uproar.

Anti-Pressure Bar, Blame Bar, NGA Forum, Weibo Hot Search... all communities related to League of Legends seemed to be bombarded with countless heavy bombs at this moment, creating a huge wave!

Countless "Royal Fans" who were originally full of expectations and waiting for SKT to win the game now had bloodshot eyes as they looked at the appalling results on the screen, and their rationality completely snapped.

[Where are Riot Games officials? Are they dead?! Aren't they going to do anything about such blatant match-fixing?!]

[Huni, you beast! Do you even know how to play AD carry?! If you don't, why did you pick Lucian?!]

[And that Xiao Yan! Wasn't he really putting on a show last game? Why did he cower like that this time? Picking Maokai and playing like a turtle in the top lane? Why the hell aren't you carrying?! Aren't you Chinese? You just watched RNG get eliminated?!]

[Traitor! This Xiao Yan is absolutely a traitor! He deliberately cooperated with the Koreans to stage a scene involving our all-Chinese cast!]

[Refund! Refund in Geneva! I bet everything on SKT to win!]

[Where is the spirit of esports? SKT, a team lacking sportsmanship, should be permanently banned!]

The clatter of keyboards echoed wildly in internet cafes, dormitories, and rented rooms across the country. Anger, resentment, and humiliation intertwined, transforming into the most vicious curses and insults on the internet.

They don't consider why RNG would hand over their fate of advancing to someone else; they don't consider that competitive sports are inherently cruel, and no one has an obligation to fight desperately for someone else's advancement; all they know is that SKT is now "committing a crime," crushing their dream of an all-Chinese team winning the championship.

The flames of anger even reached SKT's official Twitter and Weibo accounts, where the comment sections were flooded with hundreds of thousands of Chinese insults within just ten minutes.

However, the online outrage had no effect on the competition.

Twenty minutes later, the Baron Nashor spawned.

C9 didn't hesitate at all and immediately started attacking Baron. They knew that SKT simply couldn't fight back in team fights right now.

"C9 is taking down Baron! Should SKT check it out? Peanut is heading towards the Baron pit, but the vision is completely dark!" Miller stared nervously at the screen.

Just then, Huni's Lucian made another move that left the entire audience speechless.

Instead of advancing with the main force from the front, he went alone, circling around from the lower jungle to the explosive cone above the Baron pit.

Then, he detonated the fruit, and like a comical cannonball, he was launched into the dragon pit.

"Bang!"

Inside the dragon pit were five burly men from C9, as fierce as wolves and tigers.

"Huni went down! He went in! What is he trying to do?! Is he trying to steal the dragon?!" the doll roared.

The moment Huni landed, before he could even unleash a single skill, C9's support Braum's ultimate knocked him into the air, followed by Syndra's QE combo and Xayah's hook.

Less than half a second.

"An enemy has been slain!"

Huni's screen turned back into a black and white television.

0-6.

"What is he doing?!" PDD completely lost his temper, slamming his hand on the table, making his water glass jump. "Is this the kind of play a professional player would make?! This is feeding! This is blatant feeding! Where's the referee? Can't we call a timeout and check his computer?!"

On the playing field.

Huni looked at the grayed-out screen, covered his mouth, and chuckled. He didn't even bother to pretend anymore, and said in a relaxed tone over the voice chat, "Oops, I made a mistake, I thought I could get it. The enemy's damage was too high, it scared me to death."

Wolf rolled his eyes, controlling Lulu to shield Peanut while grumbling, "With acting skills like this, you wouldn't even get a lunchbox in Hollywood. Enough already, let's finish this and go home, I'm starving."

After clearing a wave of minions in the mid lane, Faker glanced at the time in the upper right corner and said calmly, as if he were playing an unimportant scrim: "We've given up Baron, let's defend the high ground."

At 24 minutes, C9, with the Baron buff, pressed forward and pushed directly onto SKT's mid-lane high ground.

"C9 is pushing forward with the Baron buff! How is SKT going to defend this wave? The gold difference has reached 10,000! A 10,000 gold difference at 24 minutes is a world of difference!" Miller's voice was filled with deep helplessness.

"Teamfight! Impact's Cho'Gath flashes and Qs, knocking up Faker's Orianna! C9 charges in!"

The team fight started without any suspense and ended without any suspense either.

Huni's Lucian tried to sneak in some damage on the flank, but was precisely frozen by C9's jungler Sejuani's ultimate "Frost Prison". Xayah followed up with a few auto-attacks and melted him.

0-7, Super Ghost achieved.

Peanut's Lee Sin tried to kick C9's ADC back, but was blocked in mid-air by Braum's security door, and was then killed by Syndra's combo.

Although Faker's Orianna managed to unleash a decent ultimate, the damage was negligible due to the overwhelming equipment advantage, and he was quickly focused down.

Only Xiao Yan's big tree remained.

The twisted tree spirit, its body covered in bark, activated its ultimate skill, "Grip of Nature." Giant thorny vines rolled across the ground, slowing down the C9 team.

He stood like a proud, solitary mountain peak, towering over his own ivory tower.

The Sunfire Cape is burning, the passive is regenerating health like crazy, and the Q skill keeps knocking back enemies.

Five C9 players surrounded him, raining down skills on him.

Blood volume is decreasing: 50%, 30%, 10%...

"Big Tree is still carrying! Xiao Yan is still carrying! He's so tanky! But it's no use! All his teammates are dead, what can he change by himself?!" The doll looked at the lonely green figure.

There was a little something in my eye socket .

Although he knew SKT was throwing the match, he could tell at a glance whether Xiao Yan was throwing or not.

"boom!"

Finally, after enduring tons of damage, the massive tree collapsed with a crash, turning into a pile of dead wood.

"Ace!"

The system's cold female voice resounded throughout the venue.

"No more miracles. Let's congratulate C9 on winning this match." Miller closed his eyes and sighed deeply.

"Bang!"

As SKT's base crystal shattered into countless blue fragments, the entire stadium erupted in deafening cheers from C9 fans.

The C9 players excitedly took off their headphones and hugged each other.

On the other hand, let's look at SKT's squad.

There was no frustration, no annoyance, not even a trace of gloom from losing the game.

Huni chuckled as she took off her headphones, stretched, turned to Wolf and said something. The two even exchanged a smile.

Faker maintained his poker face, calmly tidying up his peripherals. Peanut, on the other hand, picked up his water glass, took a sip, and looked relaxed.

Xiao Yan unplugged the keyboard, wound up the cable, and did so calmly and unhurriedly.

This scene was clearly broadcast to audiences worldwide through the director's camera.

In the domestic live stream rooms, the barrage of comments exploded at this moment!

They're still laughing! Huni, that alpaca, is still laughing!

[It was intentional! They just wanted to see the LPL make a fool of itself!]

[SKT is my lifelong enemy! We will never forgive them!]

[RNG is in such a terrible state, they've been wrecked by these bastards! Their dream of an all-Chinese team is shattered!]

Countless fans of the royal family wept bitterly in front of their computers, smashing keyboards, throwing mice, and posting frantically on various forums to vent their despair and anger.

Their faith was ruthlessly trampled on by SKT at this moment, and treated as a complete joke.

The handshake after the match.

The C9 members walked over, their faces beaming with barely suppressed joy. When Impact reached Huni, he even patted him on the shoulder and said something in Korean, to which Huni nonchalantly returned a thumbs-up.

……

The post-match press conference.

The atmosphere was extremely oppressive.

The audience was filled with media from all over the world, with a Chinese reporter in the front row looking grim.

For SKT, only coach KkOma attended the press conference.

Before the host could even announce the start of the Q&A session, a reporter from a Chinese esports media outlet abruptly stood up, without even grabbing the microphone, and loudly questioned in Korean, his voice trembling with anger:

"Coach Koma! In the match against C9 just now, what was your team's reasoning in choosing such an extremely unreasonable, even absurd, lineup: Maokai for top lane and Lucian for ADC? Huni made several inexplicable feeding plays during the match. Was this a premeditated match-fixing stunt by SKT to deliberately eliminate RNG from their group?!"

The question caused an uproar in the room.

Although everyone knew perfectly well what was going on, the reporter's audacity in directly exposing the "match-fixing" and "deliberate elimination of RNG" at the official press conference of such an international event was astonishing.

All the cameras instantly focused on KkOma on stage.

Faced with such sharp, even aggressive, questions, KkOma's handsome face showed no sign of panic or guilt.

He didn't even touch his nose or adjust his posture.

He calmly took the microphone, looked directly at the angry Chinese reporter, and answered in an extremely steady, extremely official tone:

"First of all, I want to correct a serious misuse of your word. We at SKT always put the spirit of competition first, and we will never accept any unfounded accusations of 'match-fixing'."

KkOma paused, his voice echoing in the empty press conference hall:

Regarding the lineup and performance in the previous match, I can only say that it was entirely due to the team's internal tactical arrangements.

"Tactical arrangement?!" The Chinese reporter laughed angrily. "You call sending a top laner to play AD and having them go 0-7 a tactical arrangement?!"

"Yes." KkOma replied without changing his expression or even blinking. "SKT has already secured a spot in the knockout stage, so this match is a great opportunity for us to practice. We need to test the resilience of different players in positions they are not good at, and we also need to experiment with the margin for error of some extreme lineups."

"Huni's attempt at the AD position was a decision made jointly by our coaching staff before the tournament. Although the result was not ideal, this is precisely the point of testing. Exposing problems is essential for us to go further in the knockout stage."

"As for what you said about eliminating a specific team..." KkOma smiled slightly, a hint of mockery in his smile, "SKT only cares about the championship. We won't change our own tactics for the sake of any other team's fate. If a team fails to qualify because of our training, it only shows that they've handed their fate over to others, which is a sign of weakness."

boom!

KkOma's words were like pouring a bucket of cold water into boiling oil, instantly triggering a violent explosion!

That's insane!

Too embarrassing!

That's shameless!

They took the blame for the "passive play" themselves and the coaching staff, and even turned the tables on RNG, implying that they were weak and deserved to be eliminated!

"You...you're using sophistry! This is a desecration of the spirit of esports!" The reporter was so angry that he was trembling, and his finger was shaking as he pointed at KkOma.

"Next question." KkOma ignored his anger and coldly turned his gaze to the other reporters.

At this moment, KkOma demonstrated the absolute responsibility and ruthlessness of a head coach of a top-tier esports team.

He knew this match would bring him immense criticism, but he stepped forward without hesitation, using a set of high-sounding "tactical arrangements" as an unbreakable shield to protect all his teammates.

This was a decision he made when he had previously let them play around.

Upon hearing Koma's tactical arrangement, the entire LPL fan community, especially the Royal Never Give Up (RNG) supporters, experienced a truly unprecedented and overwhelming breakdown!

[Tactical arrangements?! What the hell are these tactical arrangements?! Making feeding kills sound so sophisticated, Kkoma, you're shameless!]

[Testing lineups? You're going to test top laner vs. AD carry in the World Championship group stage, and AD carry vs. top lane? Do you think the whole world's audience is stupid?!]

[Weaklings? He calls us RNG weaklings?! SKT, you just wait! I'll never forgive you!]

This is outrageous! It's like they're shitting on the LPL's neck!

Despair, humiliation, anger, helplessness... all sorts of negative emotions intertwined, turning into a cyber storm that swept across the entire internet.