You're Beautiful When You Smile - Chapter 164 Part 1

Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com.

You’re Beautiful When You Smile

Chapter 164 Part 1

CK and ZGDX had matches on the first day of the competition and went to the break room backstage immediately after the opening ceremony. YQCB also stayed and followed the other teams backstage.

YQCB was there simply to watch the opening match and to show their support for their fellow countrymen. ZGDX would be playing against Bear, the wild card team from Russia, in its first match-- --As for CK, the team had the bad luck of playing the opening match and against the Korean team OP.

OP and CK had been nemesis for years.

Last year during S5, OP defeated CK, 3 : 1 and stopped CK from moving forward from the quarterfinals. This year, during the mid-season invitational, both CK and a team from the Taiwan region defeated OP in the first round of the group match. OP almost got eliminated from the group match and had lost its place in the first seeded pool in this year’s S6 competition. (*There were 6 teams in the Mid-Season Invitational. The first 4 winning teams could win a spot in the first seeded pool of that year’s S world competition for each of their own regions.)

It was said that all the Korean forums exploded over OP’s loss at the time. Even the Chinese haters online were in awe of the intensity of the reaction from the Korean fans.

It was only natural for OP to take this match against CK seriously. At the same time, CK was also bound to make an all-out effort in the upcoming match as OP was the most formidable opponent in their group……

It looked like the organizer really knew how to arrange the match schedules-- --

The match between OP and CK was definitely a much anticipated opening match.

……

Tong Yao and her teammates sat down in the break room.

There was a big screen TV in the break room for them to watch the current match between CK and OP. It was already in the ban & pick phase…… Tong Yao grabbed Lu Sicheng and pinched his arm: “I’m nervous, even more than when I’m playing myself-- --Aiyo, why did they ban Syndra? Is there anything wrong? Why did they ban a mid champion when playing against OP?”

“Sit tight.” Lu Sicheng slapped her hand off him and pushed her head away which was already hovering under his chin.

-- --OP’s mid, Jin Yuguang, was the one who played Cassiopeia so well that made Lu Sicheng complain about Tong Yao’s champion pool-- --He was the key figure of team OP and the best mid in the whole Korean region…...It seemed that there was no champion that Jin Yuguang didn’t know how to play. There were some champions which weren’t originally designed for mid lane, but became popular among mid players because Jin Yuguang had developed routines for playing them.

To Jin Yuguang, there weren't any so called “meta champions” in the game of League of Legends. To look at it from another angle, whatever Jin Yuguang did was the meta.[1]

-- --To this kind of player, wasn’t it a waste to ban a champion trying to restrict his champion pool?

Tong Yao couldn’t sit tight anymore. If it wasn’t for the fact that Lu Sicheng had pinned her down, she probably would have already rushed over to ask CK’s coach what he was thinking while choking his neck……

Tong Yao: “What is this ban & pick!”

Lu Sicheng: “Xiao Hua doesn’t want to play Syndra. Syndra is too powerful, so they banned it.”

Tong Yao: “But Jin Yuguang can play ten thousand powerful champions!”

Lu Sicheng: “That’s right. Isn’t he something?”

The YQCB players behind them started to giggle. For all they knew, if someone kept asking those questions next to Lu Sicheng’s ears, he would have already told the person to shut up with a stone face-- --Yet, for Tong Yao, he was at least patiently giving her perfunctory responses, though his eyes hadn’t left the screen at all.

Tong Yao: “What’s so great about him! Why do you boast about the other team? Is it fair to your own countrymen who are fighting on stage now? Ahhh, what’s going on with CK’s ban and pick-- --”

Tong Yao wasn’t able to finish what she wanted to say. Lu Sicheng had covered her mouth and picked her up to put her on his lap-- --with one hand holding tight on her waist and the other covering her mouth……

Tong Yao raised her eyebrows and made “wuwu” sounds. Then she heard Lu Sicheng used a low and calm voice to say next to her ear: “Watch your manners while watching.”

Tong Yao: “......”

Amidst the laughter behind them, Lu Sicheng didn’t release his hand over her mouth until the game had officially started…… By then, Tong Yao had also calmed down and found sitting on Lu Sicheng’s lap to be quite comfortable. She stayed on his lap and she only needed to slightly lower her head to discuss the game in a small voice in proper “manner.”-- --

[1]: For those who don’t play games, “metagaming” or “meta” is when players use information outside of the game (such as champion win rates or popularized strategies from the professional leagues). The term “meta” is usually the current optimal strategy in the game. For league of legends, certain champions are just more powerful or more effective than others. And LoL patches will add tweaks to the game that can change the power levels of champions and usefulness of items causing “the meta” to shift.

Translated by Team DHH at http://dhh-workshop.blogspot.com.