Chapter 291: 50-50 Finals Support Rate
After the interview, Lin Cheng walked slowly to the restaurant to have dinner.
He had only eaten a few cookies in the afternoon, and now he was starving.
The restaurant on the first floor was already full of KT's idiots, all wolfing down their food.
Bono joked: "Lin Cheng, you didn't say anything about KDA in this interview, did you?"
"Hehe! I'm planning to find a chance to trick you next time, you can go watch the interview yourself."
Lin Cheng joked while casually picking up some dishes from a plate and sitting next to Kuro.
The first thing he did after sitting down was not to eat, but to take out his phone and check it.
Coincidentally, there were two unread messages on his phone.
The first one was from Han Shuyan.
Ah Cheng, come on! We will watch the finals too.
Looking at the expression of the unlucky bear on the screen with his fists clenched, Lin Cheng couldn't help but smile.
Obviously, Han Shuyan also watched today's game.
Hmm~~~ I just don't know if Sister Shuyan watched the post-match interview?
If I had known, I would have been more humble.
"Smiling so silly, girlfriend?"
Kuro next to him glanced at Lin Cheng.
"What do you care?"
Lin Cheng is full of thorns.
Kuro curled her lips and continued to eat slowly.
The second message came from Xiao Tong. It was obvious that she watched today's game with Xiao Tong.
Lin Cheng felt warm from the bottom of his heart for their concern.
But why did Xiao Tong always ask me indirectly if I forgot something?
Is there really something I forgot?
For a moment, he couldn't think of an answer, and he buried his head in his meal.
Each evening of the game day is a rest time for players to arrange freely. Seeing that it was still early, Lin Cheng also slipped into the training room with his teammates after dinner.
The teammates played games, watched TV series, and Lin Cheng was bored and browsed the forum.
Today's Dcinside e-sports section is very lively, and the discussion about the semi-finals that just ended is still going on.
"CvMax's BP didn't disappoint. How dare he give Doran Quinn in a life-or-death game? Why did he think Doran could beat Cheng?"
"KT's top laner is really strong. There is no doubt that he is the strongest top laner in LCK this year."
"I can't tell whether Cheng is strong or not. Doran is really bad anyway."
"Doran was clearly giving away his skills today. People who don't understand LOL should be silent after seeing this."
"As long as KT keeps up, it seems that KT will definitely have a place in the World Championship this year."
"As for KT, if we go to the World Championship, I'm afraid we won't even get the title of the second division."
"Anyway, we are already the third division. How can we be worse than North America?"
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I have to say that the LCK's sour people are really interesting. When DRX was swept, their first reaction was not that KT played well, but that DRX played badly.
In addition to KT fans praising their own players' performance, many people, led by T1 fans, were mocking Maike's BP and Doran's performance.
Lin Cheng happily flipped through the comments.
You guys can be jealous, but I wonder if these people will have a more correct mentality after defeating T1?
After leaving the game discussion room, there is a post on the forum homepage that is surprisingly popular.
"The 28th News Agency War is coming! Can KT really overthrow T1? "
This is an article published by the official cooperative media of LCK, which introduces the past and present of the News Agency War in detail, and evokes the memories of many old players.
"LCK is T1's backyard, and the ninth championship is within reach."
"Wake up! KT is stronger this year, and the championship is ours."
"BO3 and BO5 are two games, and T1 is the king of BO5."
"Our KT is invincible."
"I knew it was stable when I saw the final against KT. We T1 have never lost in the final."
"Compared to T1, I hope to see KT win the championship. It's boring to keep not changing players."
Countless fans of T1 and KT clearly expressed their positions in it.
What is rare is that this time T1's support rate did not have a clear advantage.
In addition to the support of KT's own fans, many neutral LCK fans also temporarily turned to KT.
From a historical perspective, KT is really too unlucky, and people have to sympathize with it.
Or, compared to the immortality of the dynasty, the onlookers hope to see the collapse of the dynasty.
Feng Shui turns around, and it may not be the time when my family will not come.
Various reasons have created a nearly 50-50 support rate for this news agency war.
You know, the support rate for the news agency war before Lin Cheng's first appearance was 91-9.
Of course, the 91-9 support rate that Lin Cheng saw at that time was not a true comparison of the number of fans on both sides.
The reason for this exaggerated support rate at that time was mainly because KT's record during that period was so ugly that many KT fans were even too lazy to click the mouse to support their own team.
Just like the period when EDG was sinking, the pig starch was watching the game silently, where was the mood to go to the forum to suffer?
Later, KT's record got better and better, and the enthusiasm of the fans finally rose.
Fans can only jump if the team performs well, it is that real.
Although T1 itself has the largest LCK fan base in Korea, if we put aside overseas audiences, KT actually has a large number of fans in Korea, second only to T1's fan base.
Before the emergence of LOL, in the era when e-sports gradually emerged in Korea, KT was one of the two giants that existed on par with SKT. After entering the LOL field, countless stories happened.
In 2013, the second teams of the two clubs met for the first time on the OGN stage, kicking off the prelude to the News Agency War.
Due to the competition system, the two club divisions at this time had two teams competing in OGN.
In the OGN finals of that year, SKT T1K's comeback against KTB from 2-3 opened up KT's tragic career as a background board for thousands of years, and the classic scene of Faker and Ryu's two Zeds in the blind pick game was repeatedly circulated.
Even if there is no more News Agency War in the future, as long as the League of Legends is not dead, this shot should be passed down forever.
It can be said that this classic scene has become a good story in the history of LOL.
Of course, Yue Lun certainly doesn't think so.
In the subsequent S3 qualifiers, Yue Lun left another classic.
After KTB won the first game, Yue Lun's Fizz went to the fountain and abused it. Then he was sanctioned for three consecutive games. Faker beat him every time. SKT T1K won three games in a row to complete the comeback.
After this battle, SKT rose all the way to win the world championship, while KTB was unable to recover and its personnel scattered.
The following year, SKT and KTB gradually sank.
The protagonists of the news agency war changed to KTA and SKT T1S. This year, KTA became the dark horse of the league under the leadership of Kakao, and won the last championship of the last OGN.
After that, LCK reform ushered in the era of SKT's dominance.
In the next five years, KT only won one championship in S8 when SKT was the weakest. At other times, it was almost rubbed to the ground by SKT.
If the OGN era is included, the two sides have played against each other nearly 50 times in total, and SKT undoubtedly has an overwhelming winning rate advantage.
Therefore, T1 fans always have a strange sense of superiority when facing the fans of their mortal enemy.
And KT fans did not look down on their opponents because of the double kill in the regular season.
Although KT did double kill the mortal enemy of the news agency in the regular season this year, the BO5 game is still different from the BO3 after all.
Previously, the two sides played a total of 7 games in the BO5 format. KT only won 1 game, was swept 3:0 3 times, was defeated 2-0 twice, and was defeated 3-0 once.
How can one word describe it?