[Thanks to Dàxiào for sparing him, AK really is your true brother. I acknowledge your bond!]
[As much as I wanted to see such an amazing match go to all five games, with my own team playing, they should just decisively take it. My heart really can't take much more.]
[Damn it, is Ma Network's backend run by idiots? Why is the stream getting laggier and laggier?]
On the other side of the ocean, it was already ten in the morning after the finals had played two consecutive matches starting from eight. Most students were up by this hour, and workers had begun their day of slacking off at work. Naturally, more and more viewers started flooding into the League of Legends login screen.
The Ma Network backend maintenance staff had gone completely mad.
"Servers! Servers! Even if you have to borrow them from Honor of Kings next door, stabilize things today no matter what!"
"Yes! We're speeding up the calls to borrow them. We'll get a response soon."
"That's good." Hearing that, the chief architect in charge of maintenance let out a heavy sigh of relief.
They had already added so many servers. No matter how much more traffic came back, it should have peaked by now, right?
Just as he thought that.
Another panicked cry rang out from behind him.
"What is it? Didn't we already solve the problem?"
"No, M-Minister."
"Speak."
"We seem to have underestimated the Grand Finals' audience volume. Its Combat Power is still increasing—it's still rising!!!"
"Nani!?"
Before the third game began, as the players from both sides entered the stage once more, nearly every broadcast director trained their cameras on V5's player booth. In their eyes, after the pre-tournament favorites had lost the second game head-on like that, they should at least show