Chapter 109 (1)
The next day was the first day of the Demacia Cup. Since the B team was attending the competition in place of the A team, everyone, including the commentators, had begun calling the B team ZGDX Blue since it was a mix of B team players led by an A team substitute, Lu Yue.
— –The nickname was a play on an old meme.
Samsung used to own two League of Legends esports teams, Samsung White and Samsung Blue. The ten players from these two teams ruled over the Korean region with their remarkable skills and easily took the championship in that year’s world tournament.
People still enjoyed talking about the splendor of both of Samsung’s teams. They were nicknamed “Samsung Dynasty” at the time– –The Riot Games even changed the rules the next year because of the “Samsung” phenomenon: Each club could not own two equal ranking teams at the same time in professional competitions.
— — “A powerful team” is a rather vague phrase. But when the game company would change the rules like fixing a bug because of a specific team, the teams’ fame and influence were obvious.
The B team was rather excited at being called ZGDX Blue. On the way to the arena, Alkaid yelled out while looking down at his cell phone: “Shit, they’re calling us ZGDX Blue, hahahahahahaha?”
“Hahahaha” “hehehe” could be heard inside the bus– —
Little Fatty: “Alright, that’s quite fancy.”
Old K: “Are they implying that A team’s going to be the champion this year?”
Alkaid: “Wasn’t Samsung White that won the world championship that year, but Samsung Blue had beaten White in Korea– –Isn’t that right, Cheng Ge? I remember that White had won Blue one time back in the Korean region?”
“Yeah.” Lu Sicheng lazily replied from the last row and glanced at an excited Alkaid: “So, kid, you also want to shove A team into the ground? Rather ambitious……”
Though his choice of words were rather unfriendly, one could tell the faint smile in his voice.
Little Fatty grabbed Alkaid over and jokingly punched him while mumbling: “I’m not over the hill yet and you’re already thinking of plotting to usurp us.” Tong Yao turned her head from her seat to look back at Lu Sicheng while giggling. Lu Sicheng looked up at her: “What are you laughing about?”
“I never knew that you could be a caring person.”
“……” Lu Sicheng: “Oh. I always am.”
Tong Yao rolled her eyes and sat back into her seat. After thinking about it for a while, she reached out to pull off one of the earbuds from the young man sitting next to her. Then she nudged him with her shoulder: “Hey, Little Dubhe, did you hear what they just said?”
Dubhe was leaning against the window listening to music with his eyes closed. He wasn’t irritated from being woken up by Tong Yao. He straightened up from a daze and opened his eyes to ask: “What did they say?”
“People are calling the B team ZGDX Blue. Everyone seems to be looking forward to the day when you guys are like Samsung Blue and smashing the old folks on the A team.”
“……” Dubhe’s eyes brightened but dimed just as quickly: “Too bad Samsung Blue didn’t get the championship in the end. In everyone’s eyes, Blue will always be the one that gets defeated.”
“……”
“The ad from Blue was beaten so badly by White’s ad that he even burst into tears on the stage.”
“……”
Dubhe rolled his eyes and said “save it” before putting his earbuds back on and leaned back into the window……Tong Yao awkwardly stared at him for a while until she felt her cell phone vibrating.
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