15. Chapter 15
I don't know what they're cheering for, what's there to be happy about? The domestic competition is over, and these people are about to start another humiliation war.
Yesterday's qualifying rounds ended, and today's battle for the top spot in Group S is over. Only the A&D promotion match remains. After that, the domestic schedule will be complete. What kind of monsters have been selected to compete in the international round-robin tournament? Enough! Who will feel sorry for me who's been fed all this time?
Who said this season is the most promising? Chinese esports is ruining me.
We don’t have much time left… We haven’t had any standout performances this season, and it feels like we’re going to be eliminated again.
Who says it isn't? I really want to travel back to the beginning of the league. I can't even imagine how happy I would have been as a little girl chasing competitions back then.
[I feel really melancholy and hopeless. The battle for the top spot in Group S is over in the blink of an eye. Xiangjiu's strength can actually crush all the teams. China is really finished. The first place in Group S is going to be given away. With such strength, they were directly beaten abroad.]
[Despair +1, earning tens of millions in salary but doing nothing. After a full season of Spring Split plus the time spent competing in domestic tournaments at the beginning of Summer Split, they haven't managed to produce a single impressive play. With this level of skill, they're destined for another first-round exit in the first half of this year.]
[Sending it out is like slaughtering a pig. Don’t make foreign netizens hungry.]
"Come home, all of you. Come home, don't embarrass yourself out there. Get out of here with the men's soccer team, okay? You two are the biggest worry when it comes to all these international events. Who would have thought we were such a dominant team in the past?"
[Stop talking. It hurts like hell just thinking about it. Is this the pain of once being glorious and now falling to the bottom, unable to climb back up? Now I understand the pain of a high-ranking flower falling from grace. It's truly too painful!]
[I read and send messages every year, I really don’t have time to play with you guys]
[The old fans who have been following this whole time with such genuine emotion are truly moved to tears. Try to fight for yourselves! We're not asking for too much this time. Just don't lose as badly as last year.]
[Wuwu ...
[When I talk about Chi Shen, it hurts even more. I really can't let it go. Brother, please come back. If you don't come back, the domestic professional league will be ruined.]
[Why call me brother? Call me dad. Dad Chi, come back. My eternal faith, please come back soon. I just want to travel back a few years ago and slap myself a few times. Why was I so rude back then? I even scolded him. Now I'm honest.]
[Who is it? I used to curse the big devil, and it's now on my cyber criminal record. I really deserve to die. I could have cursed anyone else, but now that he's retired, I realize how useless everyone else is!]
[Only when the tide recedes can you tell who is swimming naked. Only after the pool god retired did we realize that the bad guy was actually someone else.]
[Who understands? Chi Shen is simply the fig leaf of the Wanjie Huaguo Division. Without him, everything is useless.]
I totally get it. I don't know what the league is doing these days. Every day they're either attending ceremonies or appearing on various variety shows. They don't have the time to train their star players, but to improve their own skills!
[That's right, give up, Alliance. There's only one Pool God in this world. No matter how much you hype yourself up, you'll only be a ten-time champion. No one can surpass the Big Devil and become the top player. We don't want to see a top player either.]
The online discussion about celebrating Xiangjiu's victory in the first place in Group S was quickly overshadowed by the anxious and pointed remarks of the competing fans. It's no wonder that their online comments were so aggressive. It's just that they have been feeling so depressed in the past few years.
Fans treat all players equally, whether they like them or dislike them, in terms of their performance in international competitions.
In a blink of an eye, this year's domestic summer season schedule is about to enter the final round, and we will soon go to play a round-robin match abroad. Who wouldn't be anxious?
We haven't seen any eye-catching operations throughout the whole year, but there have been a lot of operations that are counterproductive. For this reason, the official even launched a special show for counterproductive activities, which not only made the players and the audience become complete clowns, but also made everyone lose hope of winning the world championship.
This type of abstract and self-deprecating video has always had a good flow of traffic, and part of the popularity of this season is due to this kind of funny editing.
Although this approach stabilized traffic in a short period of time and attracted many viewers who were not in the circle, the increasingly entertaining situation led to the players' operations becoming worse and worse. Fans of the competition repeatedly asked not to edit abstract highlights anymore, but the league turned a blind eye to their protests and tried its best. The even hysterical behavior of wanting to cultivate a new generation of star players completely annoyed them.
What the domestic league lacks now is a top star? No, what it lacks is a world champion!!!
People who chase competitions never care about these messy things. They are not chasing idols. What variety shows they appear on, what awards they go to, are they important? Strength is king!
The league didn't realize it at all, or they did realize it, but because they couldn't do it in a short period of time, they pretended not to see it, always thinking about quick success and instant benefits, using the simplest and crudest method of spending money to promote people to bring up the traffic of the Wanjie domestic division again.
But the more they do this, the more counterproductive it becomes.
The fact that there is no more phenomenal top star like Chi Mo in China is not the primary problem at all. The most important issue now is that there has not been a world champion in China for a long time.
Ever since Chi Mo retired, the world championship trophy that seemed to be within reach for China suddenly became extremely difficult to obtain.
When the team was eliminated in the quarterfinals at the beginning, no one took it seriously, thinking it was just an accident. Most people treated the team with doting attitude and gave that World Cup a lot of care and love. The comments section was mostly filled with encouragement and consolation.
But until they achieved worse and worse results on the World Cup stage again and again, and even their best result was only the semi-finals.
They then realized that it wasn't the Chinese professional players or the domestic competition areas that were strong, but only Chi Mo, just him.
Because of his existence, Chinese audiences feel that becoming the world champion is actually very easy to get, and that all the people abroad are losers who can't beat them at all.
As a result, after Chi Mo retired, in the first year, they couldn't even reach the quarterfinals of the Winter World Championship Cup, and they couldn't even step onto that stage.
It was at that moment that all the audience exploded, and at the same time they suddenly realized that they had been living in the warm flower room built for them by Chi Mo, and were carefully kept in captivity, so that they had no idea of the dangers of the outside world.
Are all foreigners noobs? They are the ones who are really noobs!
What does it mean that we can’t even reach the quarterfinals?
At this time last year, in the same winter competition and the same World Championship Cup, they won the championship directly, defeating the US team and becoming world champions!
And after just one year, they couldn't even make it to the quarterfinals? How many people could handle such a setback?
The whole network was filled with curses.
The public opinion reached its peak with the release of a post titled "The worst result in the World Cup during Chi Shen's playing time was the semi-finals."
This post listed all of Chi Mo's achievements during his active service, with the word "champion" specially marked in eye-catching red.
Just click in and you will see everything clearly.
Only then did they realize that all the world championship trophies won by China that year were won by Chi Mo. China had as many trophies as Chi Mo won world championships.
At the beginning, everyone joked that Chi Mo was a World Championship killer. He would explode every time he arrived at the World Championship. He was in great shape and was not afraid of foreign enemies at all. As long as he won the championship, he would definitely be the FMVP.
But if you look back at the live recordings, after so many finals, you rarely see Chi Mo making mistakes or missing points. He himself has no loopholes at all. The reason he lost was simply that his teammates could not keep up with his operations and were out of touch.
Chi Mo is a rare player with a big heart. He rarely loses foreign games. Even if he loses, his loss is tragic and understandable.
Back then, the domestic competition area of Wanjie was flourishing, but what about now? The current domestic competition area is simply not worth looking at.
No one could have imagined that the winter dance that year would become a swan song, and no new king would ascend the throne since then.
Since Chi Mo retired, the audience has never received news of the Chinese team reaching the finals, and has no chance to see the Chinese people shine on the finals stage.
Not even making it to the quarterfinals of the World Cup was China's worst result in history at the time. Not only was it considered unbelievable in China, but it also shocked people abroad.
What a shame! Even if you couldn't reach Chi Shen's worst score, you should at least make it to the quarterfinals! In the end, you couldn't even make it to the quarterfinals. It's really ugly.
It is a country with the most champions in the world, but it has fallen to such a situation. It is really sad.
While this result was met with boos in the country, it also sparked heated discussions on the foreign Internet.
They all thought of the same person - Momo Chi Mo.
This person, who has retired and disappeared from the court for a year, quickly became a hot topic in various countries due to the sudden outbreak of a lot of discussion.
In the eyes of foreigners, the Chinese team has always been a strong team. After all, there are 10 real world champions here, which almost cover all the best results before S16. It can be said that they are invincible and kill them all, making them doubt their lives and almost quit the game.
As a result, foreign players have a strong filter when looking at the Chinese team.
Who would have thought that such an upset elimination would occur.
Foreign netizens were no less surprised than domestic netizens. They never expected that after Momo retired, Chinese professional players would be so vulnerable.
Foreign professional players didn't expect this either, but it was a real fact that they clearly didn't feel any pressure during the game, and they saw it clearly.
——It turns out China is so easy to beat! They were so strong before, not because they were all strong, but because of that one person!
What seemed like an upset to the outside world had long been an unspoken answer in the eyes of this group of professionals.
It was from this moment on that the foreign players finally saw the light of day – no wonder they lost back then; it turned out they had underestimated Chi Mo's abilities! He had dragged his region's players into the World Championship finals repeatedly, and through his own dominance, he had built his country into a formidable, gap-defying powerhouse. This man was simply incredible!
Foreign players who already showed respect and admiration for Momo were once again dazzled by the idol's brilliance because of this incident. They publicly expressed their love on Instagram and social short video platforms, saying that they really like Momo, regard him as an idol, want to be his friend, and look forward to seeing him again on the court, blah blah.
This kind of grand occasion had never been seen before. After this group of professional players personally took part in the event, the entry, which was already a hot topic, became completely heated. It was directly ranked at the top of the software search column rankings around the world for a full half month before it died down.
A certain celebrity who has already announced his retirement from the internet knew nothing about this. He did not show up at all because of this. This carnival only belonged to this group of "little fans" and "little fans".
After that, although they can sometimes break through to the semi-finals, they will still fall on the way to the championship or runner-up.
The domestic teams can't even touch the trophy. Repeated failures make people lose hope. After a long period of disappointment, the afterglow of the past is about to fade away under the erosion of time.
This is very painful.
Many fans who have been into the game in recent years don’t even know that China is actually a strong team with a strong foundation and was once feared by everyone. It was not until archaeological excavations that they discovered how strong China was in the past.
The more I dig into the archaeology, the sadder I feel. The present desolation and the past glory form a strong sense of separation, as well as a strong sense of fate.
This makes people want to keep digging along the timeline.
In the process of continuous archaeology, these new fans are gradually attracted by the great devil who is most deeply portrayed and recorded in the glorious history.
Any circle with some competitive elements has always been full of people who admire the strong.
The value of ten world championships made this group of strong-worshiping men kiss her without hesitation, and they couldn't stop from then on.
It is really a simple thing for Zhui Wanjie to fall in love with Chi Mo.
He is so dazzling, strong and good-looking that he is popular with both men and women. It is hard not to be attracted to him.
Once you focus your attention on Chi Mo, you can't take your eyes off him.
This is also why Chi Mo is still so popular even though he has disappeared without a trace three years after retiring. Not only has his number of fans on social media not decreased, but they have increased a lot.
Chi Mo does not have any black material. He is very ambitious and focused in his work. This professional attitude makes fans like him more and more the more they dig into the matter.
Good personality, good temper, good looks, strong strength, championship title, the best in the world.
So many high qualities are actually in one person.
After such a comparison, the young people currently in service suddenly don’t seem so attractive!
Many people rebelled because of this.
What’s worse is that this statement cannot even be refuted, because the new generation of professional players are also fans of Chi Mo.
Everyone was hoping for him to come back, but this cruel man who never returned seemed to have no sympathy at all. Year after year, they waited until their hearts grew cold.
Their performance fluctuated unsteadily, and the foreign players who originally regarded them as strong rivals no longer took them seriously.
Especially after three years and six World Cups, the Chinese team no longer even has the title marketing related to "strong team".
The loss of local champions was very serious. In three years, the best result was only the semi-finals.
However, three years ago under Momo's leadership, their worst result was the semi-finals.
Under such a comparison, it is really normal to feel embarrassed, and many people are broken by this.
The game has been online for many years, but its traffic is not as high as before. The Chinese team has yet to win the championship, and the domestic audience is no longer as enthusiastic as before.
This kind of change from a cool plot where the championship was within reach to a cruel plot where the best result is only in the top four is a drop in the ocean for anyone who has been following the competition from the beginning, and it is hard to accept.
People are increasingly losing confidence in China's professional players. The old audiences who are still here are all big-hearted people. They don't even have any expectations anymore, and they still choose to follow the competition offline. It's all because of their original intention and because they can't bear to give up.
And this persistence will eventually disappear with one loss after another.
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