It was Principal Ding’s voice.
But you could tell, Principal Ding was speaking to everyone through a voice message.
Xiong Jiahao and the others became excited upon hearing Principal Ding’s voice.
They had been officially competing in major tournaments for about half a year now, from the LPL to the Mid-Season Championship, and had even won the LPL Spring Championship.
But Principal Ding had been really busy with school matters and hadn’t paid much attention to them.
Unexpectedly, Principal Ding was present at this time.
Principal Ding must have been watching the live stream, they had lost the last game, and naturally, Principal Ding had seen it.
Thinking of this, the five players felt even more ashamed.
After all, losing the game while Principal Ding was watching the live stream was a feeling they couldn’t quite put into words.
"I watched the last game, forget about that one, and listen to Director Jian for the next, let’s play well, I believe in you!"
Ding Yue encouraged the five players.
At this time, encouragement was all that could be given, after all, they had already lost one match, and the goal now was to win back that loss in the next game and bring the match to a best of 3 (bo3) situation.
Xiong Jiahao, Yao Jing, Feng Jin, Ming Qiang, Zhou Genshuo, all nodded and responded in unison.
"Good, now let Director Jian tell you how to play the next game."
Ding Yue didn’t want to say too much.
A little encouragement was enough.
If he said too much, it might inadvertently put even more pressure on Xiong Jiahao and the others.
Then, Jian Zihao began explaining the strategy for the second game to the five players.
After the first game ended.
The domestic internet exploded, especially in the live stream rooms, where the netizens began to go wild.
It was somewhat better in the Bilibili live stream room.
Most of the audience were encouraging the players after feeling that the first game was a pity.
The audience at other live streaming platforms seemed to be a bit lower in quality, as they had started to bash the five players of the FY team.
Indeed, it was a case of shouting "666" when winning, and bashing straight away when losing!
The topic "FY team loses the first game of the semi-finals to Baxi Country’s MBQ team" started to trend rapidly as well.
The Twitter netizens began bashing the FY team.
"What the hell was that first game about!"
"Is the coach brain-dead? It’s the semi-finals, and they’re letting the substitutes play?"
"Exactly, just put Qian Yu and Wang Shilin in the game already!"
"The coach of the FY team is Jian Zihao, we all know what he is like."
"Oh, oh, it’s the bath dog."
"If they lose, they best be prepared to be bashed when they get back home."
"Might as well let QD team play instead."
"QD team should not seek attention here at this time."
"What’s going on with the FY team, why aren’t Qian Yu and Wang Shilin playing? Is there some internal issue?"
"I guess there must be some conflict between Qian Yu, Wang Shilin, and the team, right?"
"After the Mid-Season Championship, I have a premonition that there will be some big news!"
As more and more netizens joined the discussion, the topic’s heat rose even higher.
Once again, FY team’s coach, Jian Zihao, successfully drew the netizens’ fire.
The vast majority of netizens believed that FY team’s loss in the first game was due to Coach Jian Zihao’s problematic arrangement of troops.
The starting lineup had issues.
Even though they won the last match in the quarterfinals with substitute players Ming Qiang and Zhou Genshuo after Qian Yu and Wang Shilin had a dip in form, this was the semifinals!
Why weren’t Qian Yu and Wang Shilin playing?
In fact, Jian Zihao had not explained the condition of Qian Yu and Wang Shilin in advance, also to avoid demoralizing the team.
At the same time, Jian Zihao believed that Ming Qiang and Zhou Genshuo would perform well.
Indeed, the two substitute players did not perform poorly, but Baxi Country’s MBQ team was a bit unexpectedly strong.
"Principal Ding, the internet has blown up, and many netizens are bashing our FY team," Secretary Wen Ruohan said after finishing a phase of her work and checking Twitter.
If she hadn’t looked, it would have been fine.
But with one look, she noticed a massive amount of netizens bashing the FY team, and even some crazy fans of QD team were jumping around.
They were saying that FY team’s performance was so poor, it would have been better to let QD team play.
"Don’t pay attention to those critics on the internet," Ding Yue had long been too lazy to look at those foolish and retarded comments online.
Facts speak louder than words, as long as his FY team won the semifinals, it would be the best response.
If there was an upset and they did not get through the semifinals, then the situation could be quite bad.
At that time, the FY team, from top to bottom, might get drowned in the fury of netizens’ criticism.
Principal Ding didn’t even want to imagine what the domestic online environment would be like for the FY team then.
In his heart, Ding Yue silently prayed, hoping that Jian Zihao, Ming Qiang, Zhou Genshuo, and Xiong Jiahao would not disappoint him.
The rest time after the first game had also ended.
The second game was about to start.
The two famous commentators from the LPL region began to explain the ban-pick process, which was pretty much the same as in the first game during this process, neither FY nor MBQ teams had any major flaws.