Lin Jiaxin’s individual assault was like the final straw that broke the professional team’s back.
After switching sides, the professional team managed to win one round.
After that, they didn’t win a single round and spiraled downward.
The score reached a shocking 1:0!
Lin Jiaxin’s team had taken the first game!
“Is this what professionals look like?”
Everyone watching was laughing.
Playing against a makeshift internet café team looked like they were playing the World Championship finals.
But most people still held out hope for the professional team.
Maybe they were just letting the first game go on purpose?
After all, this was just an exhibition match. No matter how bad a professional team was, they couldn’t really lose to random players, right?
Then… the professional team fell behind 0:2.
This time it wasn’t a speedrun. The two sides went back and forth.
But the professional team was clearly lacking in momentum.
As a team that had won a world championship, going back and forth with random players was already a failure, let alone losing in the end….
“You guys are amazing!”
Wang Haozhe got off the stage and finally couldn’t hold back his laughter. “Looks like we’re really going 3:0!”
“We’re really going to make new history!”
Yu Wubo was also incredibly excited. So professional teams weren’t invincible after all.
Meanwhile, Lin Jiaxin wasn’t saying a word.
She was just sitting on the stool, frantically scrolling through her phone.
Seeing this, the others couldn’t help but feel puzzled.
Shouldn’t Lin Jiaxin, who loved showing off more than anyone, be the most excited right now?
Why was she so quiet all of a sudden?
Wang Haozhe leaned over to sneak a peek at her phone screen and saw that Lin Jiaxin was browsing through the comment sections on Tieba and Douhai.
Whenever she saw someone praising her, she couldn’t help but let out a light hum.
But when she saw someone criticizing her, her face would darken and she’d start arguing with them.
“What’s Jiaxin eating today: Pure bystander here. Gotta say, I feel like ‘Jelly Heart’ really performed well this game. Her utility was placed perfectly and right on time!”
“What’s Jiaxin eating today: Look at that Ice Wall she set up in the second game. She completely blocked off those professional players!”
“What’s Jiaxin eating today: And… if I may speak some Xin’s fair words, I heard she’s also the team’s IGL. I feel like being able to go 2:0 against a professional team means she deserves at least ninety percent of the credit! Feels like it’s about to be 3:0 soon. No cap, no flame. I’m a pure bystander, but this person is really strong!”
Wang Haozhe: …
Yu Wubo: …
Everyone else: …
See, that’s what we figured. How could someone with Lin Jiaxin’s personality possibly stay quiet?
So she was showing off to the netizens…
But to be fair.
Lin Jiaxin really did perform quite well these two games.
She could even win 1v1 duels against professional players.
Her stats were also 9/32.
Against professional players, she managed to get nine kills while only dying thirty-two times?
Even a Diamond Rank player probably couldn’t do that!
No one expected Lin Jiaxin to grow so fast under high-pressure situations…
All I can say is, if you’re a low-rank player who gets beaten up enough at high ranks, going back to your own rank probably feels like smurfing.
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Meanwhile, in the professional team’s lounge on the other side.
Steel-Tooth Chubby zmjj Kangkang sat with a grim expression, looking at the timid teammates sitting around him.
“Damn it!”
He slammed the table hard, furious. “What the hell are you guys playing? We can play like this against a team of random players? Did you motherfuckers bet on the match or something?”
“…”
The others didn’t dare make a sound.
They really had been too arrogant…
After winning the championship, they stopped treating any player or any team with respect.
By the time they realized what was happening in the second game, it was too late. In the end, the pressure prevented them from closing it out.
“After today’s matches are over, I’m reporting this to the club for an investigation immediately. If I find out any of you were match-fixing…”
“I’m warning you now, don’t blame me for kicking your ass.”
Steel-Tooth Chubby’s face was flushed red with anger as he viciously spat out those words.
Then he plopped down on the stool, grabbed a piece of premium… gum from the side, popped it into his mouth, and started chewing.
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BO5 Game 3 began.
Quite a few professional team fans in the audience left.
But the online stream viewership skyrocketed several times over.
Everyone wanted to see who could live up to their pre-match declarations.
Would the random player team crush the championship professional team and complete a shocking 3:0?
Or was the championship team just playing dumb to toy with them?
The match… begins!
As soon as they entered the game, the professional team suffered a crushing defeat in the first pistol round and the eco round.
Just as expected, all bark and no bite.
They called themselves champions, but they were just lucky bastards who talked big!
Lin Jiaxin and the others couldn’t help but snicker.
Seeing victory within reach, they lost their initial discipline.
Their playstyle even started unconsciously becoming sloppy. They just charged forward headfirst without watching anyone’s back.
As a result, the professional team caught them on that exact weakness.
zmjj Kangkang, with his teammates’ help, circled around the sightlines, took a backstab, and secured a 1v5 pentakill!
At first, Lin Jiaxin and the others didn’t think much of it.
It was just luck.
Then the score quickly became 2:5, 2:8…
Finally settling at 2:13.
The championship professional team won one back, making the score 2:1!
As for Lin Jiaxin’s side, after winning the first two rounds at the start, they hadn’t won a single one since.
In their eyes, the professional team seemed like completely different people.
Not only was their coordination absolutely perfect, but their aim wasn’t sloppy either.
Even in the last round, they flashed them point-blank.
Then two of them simultaneously activated their skills and jumped into the site.
A 2v5 with full HP, they killed all five of them!
The entire venue erupted in cheers and excitement!
This was the coordination and spectacle a professional team should have!
“WTF, what’s going on?”
Lin Jiaxin’s expression was starting to turn sour.
This game was a complete one-sided massacre!
Even when they all tried to hide and avoid the enemy, they were still found and beaten to a pulp…
Wait, did they get replaced or something?
Were these the same people from the previous games?
“That last push was a shame. I didn’t have my ultimate, otherwise I would’ve gotten the kill, haha.”
But Wang Haozhe, Yu Wubo, and the others didn’t seem too concerned. They were still chatting and laughing about the previous game.
They just lost one because their form was off. No big deal.
If the enemy was actually good, they wouldn’t be down 0:2 in the first place.
And then…
After winning the pistol round and eco round in Game 4, Lin Jiaxin and her team lost every round after again, 2:13.
The overall score became 2:2…
Lin Jiaxin got off the stage and sat in her chair in silence.
She didn’t even feel like looking at her phone. She just sat there, head down, pouting.
How did things end up like this?
Weren’t they at an advantage? How did it all fall apart so quickly?
Could it be that someone on their side saw the high odds and bet against themselves?
Lin Jiaxin’s face was slightly flushed, radiating heat.
Warning ⚠️ Warning ⚠️ Warning ⚠️…
“It’s fine, it’s fine. They just got lucky and scraped by another win. Everyone take a break, drink some water and recharge. We’ll take the next one back.”
Seeing that everyone on the team besides himself was starting to hang their heads and heat up, Wang Haozhe quickly spoke up to comfort them.
Losing wasn’t scary. What was scary was a toxic atmosphere forming in the team. That would truly be the end.
But no one responded to him this time…
Even Yu Wubo, the most optimistic one who said they’d ‘make new history’, was starting to lose his composure.
Just thinking about facing those professional players who could kill you before you even saw them next game…
And his teammates were all dead silent, giving him no feedback.
Even his hand holding the water cup started trembling uncontrollably.
On one side was the championship team, surging with momentum after winning two straight.
On the other side was Lin Jiaxin and her team, shrouded in gloom, barely able to hold their mouses.
The outcome of the match was already obvious…
Lin Jiaxin and her team got completely shut out.
0:13.
And the scariest part was, Lin Jiaxin wasn’t even the worst player on her team!
She went 2/12, ranking third on her team.
Yu Wubo went 0/13, ranking dead last on the team!
They really did make new history.
Whether it was the World Championship, the league, or exhibition tournaments like the City Championship.
A 0/13 record had never happened before.
And in the history of the City Championship, this was also the first time a reverse sweep had ever occurred.
This was indeed new history!
But don’t ask what position they occupied in that history…
“I feel like the professional team was deliberately letting the other side win. After all, it’s an entertainment exhibition match. They were just setting a trap to mess with you all! Does anyone here get what I’m saying?”
“I think so too. Those last three games were all complete stomps… It’s hard not to think they were just playing dumb in the first two.”
“Temujin match!”
“Oh yeah, I’ve seen Kangkang before.”
The audience was buzzing with discussion.
See, we said it. There’s no way a championship team could be this bad.
Their boss must have given them orders behind the scenes to drum up some hype!