Lin Yanqiu had a glorious birthday, winning two MVPs, and judging by his interviews, he still looked like a high-spirited young man.
That night, the forum was full of netizens discussing POG's post-match group interview, as well as some photos of them celebrating their birthday.
It is said that POG had a meal together, and many professional players came later. The players who had no competitions recently went to the secret room with them. The players who had competitions went back early after dinner.
Everyone thought that was the end of it, but POG went to an amusement park and played for the whole day the next day.
Many people were upset and said that this was the dream male lead script.
Then I found out that POG's starting lineup was replaced by substitute AD Yang Lin.
[Is this because he went too far and ended up in the hospital again? ]
The official Weibo account quickly responded: "Don't worry, Captain Lin is fine. We just agreed that he shouldn't be in the spotlight too much, so we've decided to put him in a small dark room for a while. Please also look forward to our new player, Yang Lin~!"
The official Weibo account also thoughtfully released a clip of the aftermath of the amusement park fireworks display:
After Lin Yanqiu made a wish in front of the fireworks, he said to his teammates, "Now that you've had enough fun, let's go back and rest early."
Gu Yueshuang nodded in agreement. "Yes, Team Xiaolin seems a little tired. Should we sub in our backup AD?"
Lin Yanqiu: “?”
Yang Lin's eyes lit up: "Is there such a good thing?"
Gu Yueshuang clapped her hands: "Okay, it's a happy decision."
The video footage ends here, and no one knows what happened next, but the audience had a lot of fun playing with the memes.
I thought the Final Four Protecting One was the beginning of Kobayashi's glory, but it turned out to be just a flash in the pan (dog head)
[I found the reason! It's because Xiaolin stole two MVPs from Shuang Ge on his birthday!]
[I was wondering why the cold war between these two suddenly ended. I see.]
[Brother Shuang: Pay me back what I owe you, and anyone who tries to steal my MVP award, step down!]
In short, Lin Yanqiu was so carelessly pushed to the bench to be the water dispenser guard.
Zhou Yao was delighted. "How was it? How did it feel to know you were going to be sitting next to the water dispenser? Was it a relief, but also a bit unpleasant?"
Lin Yanqiu sighed and said nothing.
Xu Qing gloated over this misfortune and continued to push the issue: "Should we give up our spot in the training match to Yang Lin as well?"
Gu Yueshuang quickly hugged the snack stand between them: "No, my snacks can't move--"
Lin Yanqiu: “…”
Lu Minghao misheard: "Oh my goodness, the captain changed his name to Lin Shi?"
Gu Yang also felt that there was no need to switch positions. He said, "In the training matches, we'll take turns playing. Yang Lin has been playing more recently, so we'll try to make it evenly distributed. In the official matches, if Yang Lin loses a match, he'll be substituted. Is that okay?"
Yang Lin nodded: "Okay."
Lu Minghao said, "I thought you guys wanted to create a perfect record."
Gu Yueshuang: "Records are useless, the championship is the most real."
Lin Yanqiu asked: "Besides the championship?"
Gu Yueshuang said without hesitation: "Money."
Real people, real words.
Everyone: “…”
Lu Minghao complained: "But you don't want the money others give you..."
Gu Yueshuang argued confidently: "Of course I will be happy only if I earn money with my own ability!"
Xu Qing immediately interrupted: "I see you're having a lot of fun tricking Lu Cheng and the others."
"Isn't this also the money I earned through my own ability?"
Xu Qing: “…”
What you said makes so much sense that I can't even argue with it.
Soon it was Yang Lin's first official game as a starter. He was extremely nervous that day and was visibly stiff.
In the lounge, everyone tried their best to help him calm down.
Yang Lin looked in the mirror, feeling a little unsure, and asked, "Brother, can you put on some makeup for me? The makeup I did for the captain last time was pretty natural—just some eyebrows."
Lin Yanqiu's inner alarm bells suddenly rang. If Gu Yueshuang helped her put on makeup, her hands would touch her face.
"Of course." Gu Yueshuang immediately stood up and went to her bag to find her eyebrow pencil.
"I think you're fine like this." Lin Yanqiu coughed lightly, feeling a little guilty. "How about letting me try? I also want to know what it feels like to draw eyebrows for others."
Gu Yueshuang didn't think much about it. After asking Yang Lin for his opinion, she gave him the eyebrow pencil.
Yang Lin was a little panicked: "Brother, please draw well. This is my first time playing in a competition..."
Gu Yueshuang thought this scene was quite amusing, and quietly pulled Fang Butao to frantically gesture, using body language to say: "Hurry up and take a picture——"
Fang Butao nodded: "Yours was also photographed."
Gu Yueshuang: “???”
She was stunned for two seconds, then became aggressive: "Delete it!"
Lin Yanqiu and Yang Lin heard the noise and looked back at them in confusion.
Yang Lin clearly felt that there was a line drawn on his forehead where it wasn't his eyebrow, and asked, "Brother, did you draw it crookedly?"
Xu Qing watched and said bluntly: "It's better not to paint this."
Gu Yueshuang looked at the eyebrows, one high, one low, one thick, and one thin, and took the eyebrow pencil with a twitch of her mouth: "You'd better stop harming the child, let me do it."
Lin Yanqiu: "I think I can still be saved."
Yang Lin glanced at himself in the mirror, remained silent for a while, wiped his eyebrows, and said, "Forget it, I won't bother with this anymore. Should I go out for a run?"
Xu Qing pushed him down: "Don't be nervous, learn from Brother Shuang and scold the mid laner after you make a mistake."
Gu Yueshuang quickly clarified to herself: "I never scold the mid laner——"
Zhou Yao couldn't help but frown: "That's nonsense, you were so busy scolding your teammates that the game was over before you had a chance to scold yourself."
Gu Yueshuang ignored them and asked Yang Lin, "Didn't you perform well in the training match? Why are you so nervous?"
Before Yang Lin could speak, Gu Yueshuang said, "Relax, since you lose a round, Team Xiaolin will take over."
Yang Lin: “…”
Killing someone and destroying their heart.
Although Gu Yueshuang acted as she pleased backstage, once she sat in the contestant seat, she began to blow his rainbow farts crazily to encourage him.
"Don't be afraid, just play well. After today's game, I'll put Team Xiaolin on the bench."
"Give Xiaolin and the water dispenser a semi-permanent set, okay? As long as you sit here firmly, he will be the strongest guardian of the water dispenser!"
"Just play casually. If you die, just say the jungler didn't come, or the top laner is a jerk."
I heard Lin Yanqiu in the backstage having a myocardial infarction.
Lin Yanqiu: "I think I don't need to be a substitute anymore. I can still play for a whole year——"
Zhou Yao sat with him: "Let's see who can sit longer?"
Lu Minghao trembled: "Brother, I'm a newcomer too."
Gu Yueshuang was annoyed: "I'm still a newcomer."
Xu Qing argued: "To be honest, Yan Che can also compete for the title of the strongest guardian of water dispensers."
As soon as these words were spoken, the teammates started coughing wildly, one after another.
Gu Yueshuang reminded him, "The GGB army will arrive in five seconds. The day the hero Mike is released will be the day you die."
Xu Qing realized that he had said something wrong and quickly covered his mouth.
Gu Yueshuang patted Yang Lin and smiled, "Don't be afraid. No matter how well you perform this time, everyone will focus on Xu Qing. He's the strongest support in this wave. He's using his body to start the fight and absorb all the damage for his teammates."
Xu Qing: "...Is it too late for me to apologize now?"
"Come, let's shake hands." Gu Yueshuang reached out and touched Yang Lin's hand. "Although the game hasn't started yet, the blame can be put on Xu Qing. We are all free of pressure, so just play as you please. If you die, it will be Xu Qing's fault."
Xu Qing tried to suppress his teammates with a loud voice, shouting threats: "I have an extremely fragile heart! If you say anything more, my mentality will collapse!"
The remaining teammates, led by Gu Yueshuang, screamed and fought against Xu Qing's sonic attack.
For a moment, Gu Yang wanted to take off his headphones because the noise was giving him a headache, but then he thought that this was a competition and taking off the headphones would be against the rules, so he gave up.
He tapped each of them with a pen and said, "You're disturbing the referee, be quiet."
The referee rarely refuted and just wanted to say that it was true.
Wearing noise-canceling headphones gives you a 360-degree surround sound experience.
Yang Lin asked cautiously, "Will I be warned or fined?"
Gu Yueshuang: "No, the referee is very kind. If you feel any discomfort in your shoulder or hand, tell the referee and he will come and help you massage it."
referee:"……"
Don't talk nonsense, I can't do that.
You're just bullying the referee because he's a tool and can't chat, right?
Xu Qing: "Don't listen to his nonsense, or you'll get hit by the referee."
Gu Yueshuang swore: "Impossible, our referees are kind and kind-hearted and would never hit anyone."
As she was speaking, a pen knocked down on her head.
Gu Yang's face darkened: "I will fight, everyone, be serious."
Gu Yueshuang: “…Oh.”
In the last ten seconds of the draft, Xu Qing asked in an exaggerated tone, "Will the bottom lane team still enjoy the same treatment as last game? This is Yang Lin's debut!"
Gu Yueshuang: "Why didn't I get this kind of treatment for my debut?"
Lu Minghao raised his hand: "I didn't even have a debut."
Gu Yang thought these naughty kids were at it again and said, "Let's just have a normal draft today, okay? Let's put the mid laner last to trick him into getting banned. If that doesn't work, the mid laner will carry."
The BP plan has been decided long ago. Although it will be adjusted based on the players' condition on that day, it is impossible to change the BP idea just because of a few words from them.
Gu Yang suddenly felt that being a coach was so tiring. Studying the opponents was a small matter. He actually had to spend time and energy to compete with these kids in wits and courage, and to figure out which of their words were true and which were just jokes.
Xu Qing asked, "What if the mid laner can't carry?"
Gu Yang: "Then bring Xiao Lin in from the court. We'll play a double AD lineup."
Gu Yueshuang: “???”
Gu Yueshuang rolled up her sleeves and said, "I've decided to start with denying today."
"De-killing" is not a setting in LOL, but in DOTA, which allows you to kill your own troops.
The setting of LOL is to be immune to attacks from your own team, but occasionally you will be blocked by your own soldiers and unable to move.
Gu Yueshuang thought of this and reminded Yang Lin: "When you chase someone, you must pay attention to the positions of the soldiers on both sides. I saw a player who was stuck against the wall by the soldiers and couldn't move, and was eventually killed."
Yang Lin: "Okay."
Qin Ye also reminded him: "Don't save your flash. You can chase people or escape, but don't save it."
The BP draft began, and Gu Yang could only take advantage of their chat to interrupt: "Ban Luo first."
Lu Minghao obediently banned Luo and echoed Qin Ye, saying, "Use it early and the CD will be over soon."
Xu Qing: "Cherish it, we junglers rarely talk so much."
Gu Yueshuang seized every opportunity to criticize the jungler: "Indeed, during the game, it seemed as if there was no jungler. There was no one in the mid lane, and no one could be heard from the jungler."
Qin Ye: "...Your blue buff is gone."
"BAN Ornn." Gu Yang continued to command, emphasizing again and again, "It's just a joke, but don't take it seriously once you're on the court. You must give resources to your teammates and play every game seriously."
"Okay, okay."
Gu Yang criticized the mid-lane player by name: "Especially you, don't lead the kids astray."
Gu Yueshuang clapped her hands, sat up straight and said, "Okay, get serious."
Yang Lin could clearly feel that after the BP ended, Gu Yueshuang's aura became noticeably stronger, and she began to seriously tell them the precautions for this game.
After saying that, he jokingly said, "Don't be too nervous, just pretend they don't exist. After all, there are only five of us who can communicate with each other right now. How does the saying go? A general is not subject to the orders of the king when he is away. If Lao Gu says something about us later, we can use this to fight back."
Xu Qing: "The coach will come over and blow your head off."
Gu Yueshuang didn't respond, but instead gave the command seriously, "They might want to fight a level one group, Xu Qing, go find their location."
"good."
Almost from the moment the mid laner became serious, everyone became serious.
Yang Lin also seemed to be less nervous and integrated into the team very naturally.
Playing in a live match is actually a completely different feeling from playing a training match in the base, but he seems to accept it well.
Gu Yueshuang commanded in an orderly manner: "The bottom lane needs to push the line forward, and the jungler needs to come and take the river crab."
Yang Lin: "Okay."
Gu Yueshuang: "Don't retreat too obviously on the road. We need to deceive them and not let them guess our intentions."
Lu Minghao: "Okay, I'll fight harder."
Backstage, Lin Yanqiu leaned back in his chair, feeling both emotional and relieved: "The children have grown up and don't need us anymore."
Zhou Yao had experienced this feeling before, and from a perspective of someone who had experienced it, he said, "Are you scared? Are you suddenly facing a jobless crisis?"
Lin Yanqiu: "My life has just begun, but I'm already thinking about the midlife crisis..."
Gu Yueshuang is excellent in both calming teammates and commanding.
This made him, who was watching the game backstage, feel a sense of crisis, as if he was an unnecessary existence.
Any AD who is slightly capable can replace him.
Zhou Yao patted his shoulder and comforted him: "It's okay, this kid still has a lot of training to do. You should calm down. He's too nervous. I don't think he can handle the pressure well. I don't know if he can play in the crucial game."
Lin Yanqiu smiled and said, "You will eventually grow up."
Fang Butao jokingly said: "Isn't it like a father sending his children to school? Watching the children go to school, and then realizing that they have grown up."
Gu Yang: "That's how it felt when we first watched from the backstage."
It was very lively when everyone was there, but these two new kids didn't exist at that time, so when the competition started, there were only the two "lonely old people" left backstage.
It’s great that they still have two substitute players to chat with them.
In the first ten minutes, POG's development was very stable. No matter what movement the opponent had, the mid and jungle could detect or even anticipate it in advance.
They felt extremely relieved when listening to the voice in the background.
As long as it is not a major operational error, they can save it.
Lin Yanqiu jokingly said, "Should we both find new jobs?"
Zhou Yao was open-minded: "I'm the water dispenser attendant, and you're the shop owner. Let's just open a shop in the backstage. When you come back later, you have to pay for food and drinks."
Fang Butao: "A new way to get rich."
POG played very steadily in the first game, a rare level of stability, setting a record for POG's longest match in this summer season, playing for a full thirty-nine minutes!
During the intermission, discussions started online.
[POG really has some hidden talents this season? This AD seems pretty good.]
[But this game really took a long time. I don’t know if it’s because I’ve watched too many POG matches, but it felt like they were already preparing for the final teamfight 20 minutes in…]
[It's actually not that bad. Not every round is that fast... Never mind. Maybe it's because the new players haven't gotten used to each other yet. Anyway, this round was really long. It's the longest POG round I've ever seen.]
This new team member is really good! He's not rushed at all, and he's steady in finding his position and delivering damage without being reckless.
[But I always feel that Forest is more stable. Is it because I am more familiar with Xiaolin? ]
[Didn't Kobayashi get sick during the Spring Split? POG found a temporary replacement. It's good to practice now. If something goes wrong during the Worlds, it'll be a disaster.]
[They're already borrowing money for the World Championship before the regular season is even over? Are all POG fans that inflated?]
No matter what the conversation is about, there will always be a quarrel in the end. This is basically the norm in the e-sports circle.
The POG players returned to the backstage. Lin Yanqiu was the first to stand up, patted Yang Lin on the shoulder, and said, "You played very well. Keep it up. You have a promising future."
Gu Yueshuang laughed and teased: "It's over, the captain's sense of crisis has emerged."
Yang Lin smiled shyly: "Thank you."
Lin Yanqiu added, "You can actually be braver. It's okay. There are people behind you to back you up."
Xu Qing immediately tried to sow discord: "Don't listen to his nonsense, he is just waiting for you to make a mistake so that he can play."
Gu Yueshuang defended her captain: "Don't listen to their alarmist words. The captain is not that kind of person."
Yang Lin: "I will continue to work hard!"
The MVP of this game went to Qin Ye, and POG made a good start in trying out the lineup.
Starting from this game, POG changed players in almost every game of the summer regular season. When everyone got used to the frequency of player changes, POG began to change the lineup and playing style.
The military training is written all over his face.
In fact, many people think that they are inflated, but when they see the POG team logo, which is first in the regular season standings, they can't refute it.
No one expected that POG's regular season first place would last from their first game until the end of the summer season.
It’s not a winning streak, but it is definitely a stable first place.
The regular season ended and the playoffs began. The mentality of the POG players began to change from BO3 to BO5.
Among them, Shuke felt it most clearly——
In the past, someone would come to walk him every three hours, but now it has become once every five hours?
Gu Yang shrugged, "I regret it. I should have lost a few more games. Our players don't have much experience in BO5 matches... If we accidentally get first place, we can only play two BO5 matches."
Fang Butao: "... Shut up, you're just being sarcastic."
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