For Chinese viewers, a match starting after three in the morning wasn't a big deal. They were already used to it.
A BO3 was still manageable. You could go to bed, wake up in the middle of the night, and catch the match before heading to class or work.
The old MR15 BO5 format was the real killer. It wasn't unusual to watch from midnight until breakfast.
While the trolls were roaming across platforms with nowhere to call home, a notification suddenly popped up on their phones: Wan Jiqi was going live. They all rushed back into the arms of home.
[Going live at this hour? And we haven't even missed the pistol round? Is this a maid filling in for him?]
[Wan Jiqi, did you get it wrong? Falcon only has your uncle Magic Man. Your Du Die and Tang Die haven't arrived yet.]
[Poor people play cars, rich people play watches, and Wan Jiqi plays.]
[Just go to bed. What's there to watch? Nip is definitely losing. Look how badly they played against G2 yesterday. Arrow's been figured out for ages.]
[Exactly. They padded their stats against two second- or third-tier teams the other day, but the moment they faced a strong team, their true colors came out.]
[...]
Some viewers didn't actually dislike Su Zhe. They just couldn't stand how many people online kept hyping him up, even though he was Huaxian.
Looking at the chaotic comments, Wan Jiqi didn't bother responding. He was used to this atmosphere by now, after all. He'd raised these trolls himself.
He cleared his throat and began, "I watched yesterday's match too. Honestly, it had little to do with whether they'd studied Arrow. The main problem was that m0NESY shut down headtr1ck's AWP too hard, while the others couldn't handle Niko