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Chapter 1169 - 630 Principal Ding Goes Live to the World (Please Subscribe)

Chapter 1169: Chapter 630 Principal Ding Goes Live to the World (Please Subscribe)

On the sports arena stage.

A well-known star from Korea performed this year’s S World Championship theme song, followed by an opening show that brought the finals atmosphere up to par.

Immediately after, both teams made their entrances.

The Big Tiger team from Korea was the first to enter, which was within Ding Yue’s expectations, as it was their home final stage after all.

Then the FY team made their entrance.

Looking towards the stage, Ding Yue saw his FY team’s Xiong Jiahao, Feng Jin, Qian Yu, Yao Jing, and Wang Shilin; all five players exuded confidence and were full of energy.

It seemed that the incident regarding the training base’s food last night did not affect them, which likely meant that Director Jian Zihao had managed to handle the matter.

Since the "shameless scheme" of the Big Tiger team from Korea had not succeeded, it would all come down to which of the players from the two teams could perform better today.

"FY team, victory is ours!"

At the venue, Ding Yue could also hear many voices from the Xia Country audience cheering for the FY team, but due to being the away team, their cheers were inevitably not as loud as those from Korea.

However, having so many Xia Country audience members in attendance to support the FY team was already quite impressive.

Ding Yue thought to himself that his FY team must perform well today and not let down the passionate audience who had traveled abroad to support them.

If they were to lose, it would be a real embarrassment.

After all, during the last Mid-Season Championship, they had already lost to the Korean Big Tiger team once; this time, at a world-class competition and especially in the top-tier tournament of League of Legends, a loss would mean the FY team would probably struggle to raise their heads high for an entire year.

"FY team, victory is ours!"

It wasn’t just the audience from Xia Country; Wen Ruohan also screamed her support.

"Let’s focus on the game."

After saying this, Ding Yue picked up a bag of potato chips, ready to watch the first showdown between his FY team and the Korean Big Tiger team.

At this moment, domestic platforms had already commenced the live broadcast of the S World Championship, with over ten million viewers tuning in.

This is the charm of e-sports.

For this year’s commentators and hosts, apart from several veterans, there were some new faces.

These new faces weren’t exactly fresh, having been seen in the LPL’s Spring season, Summer season, and playoffs.

Most crucially, these new commentators and hosts were all from Mist City Arts and Sciences University E-sports Game College.

That’s right.

In addition to producing professional players such as Xiong Jiahao, Feng Jin, Yao Jing, Qian Yu, and Wang Shilin, Mist City Arts and Science University E-sports Game College also produced some excellent students specializing in commentary and e-sports hosting.

Through their efforts, they interviewed for official LPL positions and received offers, becoming the promising new commentators and hosts of the LPL region.

Most importantly, these commentators and hosts were very skilled—usually, only the veteran commentators would "hook up an oxygen tank" for key moments.

But for the few commentators from Mist City Arts and Science University, the "oxygen tank" commentary was pretty much a basic move.

This showed LPL fans the rise of a new generation of commentators and hosts, which was naturally a good thing for e-sports.

After all, the veteran commentators and hosts would gradually retire, as it’s hard for them to keep up with the intense pace of commentary and hosting upon aging.

At that point, it’s essential for a new generation of young people to take the baton.

Previously, the LPL officials had tried to nurture young commentators and hosts, but the results weren’t very satisfactory. The gap between these young commentators and the veterans was too apparent, and even after one and a half years, they did not improve as much as expected.

The young commentators from Mist City Arts and Science University, however, were different.

Even when teaming up with Vale, Miwa, or Guan Daxiao for commentary, they were assertive and even showed a tendency of the new surpassing the old, a case of the blue outshining the indigo from which it came.

At the competition venue.

The players from the Korean Big Tiger team and the FY team entered their respective booths.

After confirmation from the tournament committee, both sides quickly began the ban-pick phase of the game.

The first game’s ban-pick phase was quite standard for both sides; FY team didn’t bring out any exotic lineup, sticking to a system they were well-practiced in.

The Big Tiger team from Korea did the same. Despite having several strong top laners, ADCs, and jungle champions targeted, they still managed to assemble a solid hero lineup due to their deep champion pool.

As the LPL commentators at the scene described, it was up to which team could play their lineup better.

This was especially true in the laning phase.

Of course, if the game dragged into the late game, both teams’ lineups were capable of a fight, as neither team had just one late-game carry position.

After the ban-pick phase concluded, the game promptly moved to Summoners Rift.

Originally, neither team had planned to engage in a level one team fight, but due to some coincidental rotations and ward placements, they unexpectedly clashed.

The key was, this encounter took place in the upper jungle area, where FY team had only their top and mid laners present, with their bottom lane duo and jungler a bit too far away.