Chapter 173 Chang Xian's Tournament Preview, Fan Hua's B+ Rating
Let’s put aside other competitions that are still in the preparation stage. After a long period of hard work on and off the field, it is already April.

In the e-sports circle, this month's focus is one and only one:
LPL, playoffs.

That’s right, after three months of public beta testing, three months of qualifying matches, and three months of regular seasons, LPL is finally going to compete for its first league championship.

Because of the relatively long regular season, the league, which had been gradually cooling down, was suddenly given another shot of adrenaline.

The playoffs are a true battlefield of life and death!
As the attention gradually recovers, the community discussion gradually increases, and Tencent Esports is interested in warming up the competition,
League of Legends game bloggers are about to get busy.

As the season came to an end, Xuanqi easily defeated Zhu Xian in the second match and secured fifth place. The playoff rankings were officially determined, and a battle for traffic officially began.

The first one to take action was Wei Chen.

As a former professional player + the first captain of Blue Rain + the guide of Yu Wenzhou and Huang Shaotian + the top anchor of Xianyu Live + the leader of the four dogs of Xianyu + a professional anchor,

On the night when the rankings were determined, Wei Chen worked overtime to produce a Wei Chen version of the event preview.

Logically speaking, with Wei Chen's status, the videos he releases must be high-level, trend-setting and absolutely popular.

But unfortunately, this guy's butt is really a little crooked.

He has never concealed his identity as a die-hard Blue Rain fan since his time as a commentator for Glory, and is one of the few anchors who clearly shows his preference during commentary.

In the opening match between Blue Rain and Happy, when Su Mucheng's Corki scored a quad kill in a mid-game teamfight to secure victory, Wei Chen was so speechless that he could not utter a word for three full minutes.

If it weren’t for Wang Duoduo’s strong professional qualities and the fact that he managed to hold out the awkward conversation until Wei Chen recovered his breath, there would have been some sort of accident during the live broadcast.

Although Wei Chen has restrained himself a lot since then, at least he has not caused any broadcasting accidents in the official live broadcast room.
But his preference for Blue Rain could not be hidden.

This biased commentary style also caused some controversy in the early days.

It’s just that Wei Chen is a person with high emotional intelligence. Even if his commentary is biased, it will not hurt the fans of other teams.

In addition, the official commentators who can partner with him in commentary are generally of a very high level and are able to maintain balance and suppression during the commentary process.

This prevented Wei Chen’s reputation from really collapsing.

But even so, Wei Chen's identity as a die-hard Blue Rain fan meant that his videos were destined to be for Blue Rain fans from the very beginning.

Other fans would be more inclined to watch videos of bloggers who are not so obsessed with fandom.

For example, Chang Xian.

Chang Xian majored in journalism. He was originally a young reporter for E-Sports Home, the first e-sports print media in the glory era, stationed in Suzhou and Hangzhou, and just graduated last year.

Not long after he took office, Excellent Era encountered a major disaster and Ye Xiu left.

At that time, Chang Xian seized the opportunity and became one of the first reporters to report on Jia Shi's apology conference, and naturally took off the hat of intern.

I thought my career would be like the rising sun, but it turned out to be my investment in Kaisheng in 49.

The article that saved Chang Xian's job didn't actually cause much of a stir in the public opinion circle.

Because by the time the additional issue of E-Sports Home was urgently released, the entire process of the incident and various inside stories had already been exposed on the online platform.

The vulnerability of traditional paper media in the face of new Internet media is evident.

After that, with Tencent's support for the Honor League, the public opinion center of the Honor League gradually shifted to the online platform.

Until Pei Yunteng revealed his true intentions and started his own business, traditional paper media was kicked directly into the trash can.

If the editor-in-chief Yi Lan had not shamelessly approached his old acquaintance Feng Xianjun to ask for some exclusive interview opportunities, I'm afraid the magazine would have been closed down soon.

Chang Xian had just graduated. He was young, had a strong ability to accept new things, and was also familiar with the ways of self-media.

After witnessing the rapid decline of traditional print media, he decisively chose to start anew and plunge into the self-media industry to find a way out.

With a good understanding of League of Legends and the professional qualities of a journalist,

With the dividends of the times, his Xianyu account quickly became popular and is now one of the self-media with considerable influence in the e-sports circle.

In fact, like Wei Chen, Chang Xian also has his own main team.

After joining Suhang, his first interview was with Excellent Era. He has a special feeling towards Excellent Era and now Happy.

However, he is better than Wei Chen in that, except for deliberately creating show effects, he does not add too many personal emotions in his videos.

Therefore, his columns such as match previews and player analysis are much more popular with the audience than Wei Chen.

Shortly after Wei Chen posted the video, Chang Xian’s event preview was delivered as scheduled.

"Hello, dear audience, I am Chang Xian. It's been a long time since we last met. Welcome to the playoffs preview!"

A familiar and fitting opening line.

"On March 2, in a crucial battle for position, Yi Zhan defeated Xuan Qi 1: to retain the fourth place in the league. The top six of the LPL Spring Split were officially confirmed."

"Happy, Blue Rain, Fanhua, Yizhan, Xuanqi and Zhuxian teams will compete for the first championship trophy of the LPL League in the coming April!"

"For such an exciting event, how can I not use my many years of experience in watching games to take advantage of the excitement... no, do some analysis?"

"Of course, before we formally analyze the playoff situation, let's first look at the basic process of this event."

After a brief overview, Chang first introduced the playoff schedule to the audience step by step.

Since there were fewer teams in the first round, Pei Yunteng finally decided to adopt a double elimination system after careful consideration. In simple terms, among the twelve teams, the top six will enter the playoffs, and the first and second teams will not have to play in the first round.

For the remaining four teams, the third team will play against the sixth team, and the fourth team will play against the fifth team.

The winner will advance to the second round to face the first and second place teams in the regular season.

The two winning teams will play a win-win match, and the two losing teams will play a lose-lose match.

The winner of the defeat and the loser of the victory will decide the winner again, and a team will be selected to compete with the winner of the victory for the final championship.

Compared to the simple three-round elimination tournament of Honor of Kings, it is much more complicated, but it tests the abilities and qualities of the players and teams more.

In addition, since the playoffs are adopting the bo5 format for the first time, in order to add excitement and fun to the game, Pei Yunteng will also follow the example of the previous LCK and use a blind pick system in the deciding game.

As for whether such a competition system will produce a classic like the battle between the two disasters in the previous life, no one knows.

"After a brief introduction to the competition system, it's time for the team rating session that everyone loves to see!"

"It's still the same old rules. The highest is A and the lowest is C. I will give all the teams participating in the playoffs a playoff strength rating from low to high, based on their paper strength, regular season performance, and many other factors!"

"First and foremost, the Zhu Xian team."

"As a veteran club that entered the league twice during the Glory era, the strength of the Zhu Xian team is unquestionable."

"Their training team is very complete and has a strong ability to adapt to the new version. The players also have solid basic skills and strong execution, and can implement the team's tactical intentions well."

"But in the playoffs, I don't think they can go very far."

Zhu Xian Team is known as the goalkeeper of a strong team in LPL.

They have all the discipline, training and competition abilities, and basic skills that a strong team needs, and they are also very stable when playing against weak teams.

But they just can't beat any really strong team.

Aside from the fact that the players' strength on paper is indeed inferior, another very important reason is their coaching team.

Coach and boss Xiao Jie is an overly idealistic person. He always wishes that the game will go according to his vision.

During the game, the Zhu Xian team often had to meticulously implement his extremely detailed tactical arrangements before the game, otherwise they would be scolded.

But in the ever-changing arena, how much space do you have to fully implement your tactics?
The opponent is not a fool.

Therefore, in the conversations with the top five teams, the Zhu Xian team didn't even win a few small games.

In the first round of the playoffs, they will face Fanhua, which was ranked third in the regular season and one of the Big Three.

"To sum up, the evaluation I can give to the Zhu Xian team can only be B-." Chang Xian concluded with a little regret and sigh.

If Zhu Xian can be liberated tactically, they may be able to compete for ranking with the strong teams ahead of them.

Pity.

After Zhu Xian, which ranked sixth, Chang Xian gave a B-level rating to the Xuanqi and Yizhan teams, which ranked fourth and fifth.

In Chang Xian's opinion, these two teams are what real playoff powerhouses should look like.

The players all have good individual abilities, are brave and can fight hard, and are able to put up a good fight against the Big Three.

It is possible that Yizhan’s competition and training capabilities may not be as good as those of the regular club Xuanqi at the beginning, but with the big bosses such as Lou Guanning spending money at all costs, this shortcoming was quickly made up.

As for who will win or lose between the two teams that will face each other in the first round of the playoffs, Chang Xian was very cunning and did not give a direct evaluation.

It just depends on the status of both sides on the field.

After all, in terms of paper strength, the gap between the two teams is indeed very small, especially after Lou Guanning has grown up through a whole season of regular season training.

Only by not speaking in a final way can you avoid offending others.

"The rating I'm going to give next may be very controversial."

"After all, for the three powerful teams known as the Imperial Three, they have won and lost against each other, so it is best not to rank them into different levels."

"However, due to some recent changes, after careful consideration, I still boldly made such a rating."

"Ranked third in the regular season, Team Fanhua, rating: B+, down one notch from the A- rating after the first round of the regular season."

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(End of this chapter)