This AD is too stable

"This year's MSI, Riot is working hard to promote it... The data of the first round of BO1 in the group stage is pretty good. Maybe they are planning to increase their efforts and create some gimmicks... After all, revenge is universal across the entire planet."

The speaker was Chen Dong.

Everyone nodded, not impressed.

To be honest, if it weren't for the rising prize money and the increase in the number of people on the scene, the players would not have a strong sense of the popularity of "e-sports".

For them, playing the "game" well is the kingly way, and everything else is secondary.

Lu Ziang was still playing in the LDL secondary league last year. There were almost no people on the scene, and most of them were staff.

Even the number of online viewers was small.

In just over a year, he went from a small stage to such a world-class stage without realizing it.

Just like the current MSI Mid-Season Invitational, even if it is only the group stage, it is conservatively estimated that there may be hundreds of millions of viewers around the world.

It is hard to imagine how much terrifying benefits the game company behind this can gain through such huge exposure.

Inside Tencent, the parent company of Riot, the priority of League of Legends mobile games has reached the same level as King of Glory.

King of Glory is the most profitable game in the world. At its peak, the number of daily active users exceeded 100 million.

This is "more than 100 million people online at the same time", just take the phenomenal PC game Chicken Dinner that exploded worldwide in 2017 as an example.

At the peak of the number of online users, the number of online users of this game did not exceed 4 million at the same time.

Then it was cold at the speed of light.

Looking at lol, it has been almost ten years since the release of this game, and its current annual income can still squeeze into the top 10 of the global game revenue list.

The popularity of e-sports can also feed back to the game and sell more hero skins.

In comparison, King of Glory also has its own e-sports events, but its popularity is far different from lol, and it is not on the same dimension at all.

In this way, time passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, it was already evening, and the sixth game was EDG vs DFM.

This battle has been long awaited by countless LJL teams since DFM lost to EDG and was abused at the fountain.

The audience has been waiting for this day to come. Although they curse the DFM team, they are looking forward to the DFM team washing away the shame in their hearts.

After all, DFM is also one of them, while EDG is a complete outsider.

Just before the game was about to start, a lot of discussions had already been set off on the Internet in Sakura Country.

"EDG swept the entire group stage in the first round of BO1. In the second round, our DFM team will be the first team to face EDG. I believe that they will be able to be the stumbling block and hold EDG here."

"It is true that EDG does look like there is no way to win, but... it is just the bottom lane combination."

"Except for the bottom lane combination, the other three lines are EDG's shortcomings and weaknesses."

"I hope the DFM team can open up their minds! Don't be restrained by Lu Ziang, this guy is just showing off in the bottom lane."

"Play out the situation for me, and I will defeat EDG tonight no matter what."

"If others don't offend me, I won't offend others. If others offend me, I will return it a hundredfold!"

...

The Sakura netizens are just thinking about DFM's revenge, and now they are so anxious.

Looking at the domestic netizens, they are relatively calm, and more are waiting to see the joke. Some big hands even screenshot the comments of the Sakura netizens and translate them, and put them online for everyone to watch.

"Just wait to be humiliated for the second time. DFM can't even beat the big turtle, what can they use to beat EDG?"

"Facts speak louder than words. The only thing left is tough talk!"

"Fountain abuse x2."

"Fountain abuse x2."

As netizens discussed, new keywords soon appeared on the hot search list:

[Want to see DFM being abused at the fountain]

[DFM revenge]

[EDG vs DFM]

[MSI group stage second round BO1]

...

The last time EDG abused DFM at the fountain, it caused a huge discussion on the Internet, and the number of fans of all EDG team members skyrocketed.

Even the number of fans of the EDG team's official blog broke 15 million +. After a few days of fermentation and the terrifying exposure of MSI, the number of fans of the EDG club's official blog has now exceeded 17 million.

It is about to reach the "20 million" mark, even leaving IG and RNG far behind.

At the same time, the 5 starting players of the EDG team, along with the coach,They all benefited from it.

Now everyone has a minimum of 2 million followers.

Among them, Lu Ziang now has 8 million followers on Weibo.

Next is the factory manager, with 6 million+.

Then comes meiko, who has also reached 6 million.

The other four have similar fans. 369 has 3 million+ fans because he participated in more post-match interviews.

Xiaotian and Knight are relatively less popular, but they have also exceeded 2 million.

In the past, this was the ceiling of the number of fans for LPL professional players.

UZI has only 6 million fans so far.

Lu Ziang is a monster who has broken through the circle. According to the current trend of increasing fans, it won't take much time for the number of fans to exceed 10 million.

In the entire global e-sports circle, purely in terms of the number of fans, he is already the undisputed number one.

Fortunately, Lu Ziang keeps a low profile and has never had any communication with fans, which is considered a breath of fresh air.

But even so, he is now enjoying the pain of becoming famous. The gate of the EDG club is often surrounded by self-media or fans.

…

Incheon Sports Center.

It is already 10 o'clock in the evening.

The third match day, the last match has started.

The players from both sides are walking towards the stage.

When the DFM team appeared, the photographers on the scene were immediately shocked.

"Huh?!"

Even Lu Ziang's eyes widened when he saw the six people of the DFM team, and then the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and he almost couldn't help laughing.

369, Naite, meiko, Xiaotian, Qijiang and others are not much better, everyone has a constipated expression.

"Serious! Hold on tight, this is a game. There are cameras everywhere!"

Qijiang had a tense face, signaled everyone with his eyes, and at the same time quickened his pace, leading the team to the battle seat, put on the noise-canceling headphones, and then slowly breathed a sigh of relief.

When the DFM team appeared in the OB perspective, there was an uproar at the scene, and the entire live broadcast room was directly laughing.

6 bald heads, shiny and oily, like 5 peeled eggs.

The three people responsible for commentating this game were Haokai, Jide, and Colonel Guan.

Jide couldn't hold it anymore: "Why did the DFM team shave all their hair?"

Haokai was also bald, rolled his eyes and explained: "This is no longer shaving, but a thorough shaving, just like shaving a beard."

Haokai touched his head, bald, and not prickly.

Colonel Guan was also speechless, this was the first time he had seen such a situation.

Everyone shaved their heads?

What kind of crazy operation is this? Is it possible that even if you shave your hair, you will get a buff?