EDG had already pushed MSI's popularity to a peak with just the very first match of the LPL Region's opening round.
Even many viewers who only watched the finals and semifinals happened to come across those outrageously boastful words, clicked on the replay out of curiosity, and were completely hooked the moment they started watching.
"You really caused a huge stir. But now that you've made such a big splash, the other teams are definitely going to target you hard from here on out." Looking at the increasingly heated online discourse, Zhu Kai knew that there probably would not be any more teams as naïve as C9 later on.
"There shouldn't have been any to begin with. I have no idea what C9 was thinking. Maybe things have just been going too smoothly for them in their own region." Luo Zhen did not seem particularly bothered.
With such a packed schedule and such frequent matches, MSI had never had any absolute secrets to begin with.
By the later stages, it would definitely come down to each team's coordination and their lineup's margin for error. He could pretend to be weak for a while, but not forever. He could not seriously give up bot lane control just for show effect when it was there for the taking, could he?
"That's true." Zhu Kai nodded, then raised an even deadlier question. "The match is over, and watching JDG's game is more important now. But has anyone seen the cola I brought? The bottle had the word 'sheng' on it, so it was easy to recognize. It was Binzhou raw cola. I literally just took it out. How did it disappear while I went to the bathroom?"
Luo Zhen: "No idea. I didn't see it. Burp."
Meiko: "Xiao Zhen and I have been