Chapter 25: The Birth of a Team: First Scrims and Early Trials.

Humans have created organizations and collaborated to fill the efficiency in areas where they cannot do or are not specialized.

Within that long time, the structure of organizations that have faced various tasks has not been fixed as one.

The most ideal structure and composition varies depending on the tasks that must be done and the characteristics of each of the organization’s human resources.

A really long time has passed since the first collaboration took place, and even now that the platform tournament called LoL-TCup is being held, this sentence was true.

Broadcasters who participate in the tournament have various tiers.

They each have different main positions to play, and they have different tendencies to make choices in the game.

The amount of information they give and receive to their teammates is also different.

Five such people gather to form a team.

Depending on how each of the five different people gathered, the team’s fundamental strength and the most appropriate way to operate the game are determined.

But there is no way to find this out by any means other than intuition.

Just as the strength of a team cannot be evaluated by the name value of the five players gathered in a professional team, the teams of LoL-TCup, although less complex, are also impossible to accurately evaluate.

Just looking at the names of the players on the team that Yu Sieun has joined now, it seems pretty good, but there was a lot that had to be matched from now on in order to achieve good results.

What is needed for that is practice.

Since all teams know this simple fact, each team conducts practice games and scrims with each other.

The opposing team in the scrim that Yu Sieun said was scheduled for midnight was a team of another LoL broadcaster that had a few posts written on the community that the team was being formed very quickly earlier.

From the time the team was revealed and all the team members gathered in the Discord channel, there were about two and a half hours left until midnight.

The role of team leader was taken by Crinex, who gathered the members.

After confirming that all the members had gathered, he had a time for them to greet each other briefly, and then moved on to the stage of introducing each of the team members to the viewers.

“Okay, then shall we start with introductions one by one? First of all, I’m Crinex, and I’m a Bronze 4 support.”

Following that, the greetings continued in the order of the profiles floating on the Discord channel.

“Hello. I’m Top Younggiron. I’m currently in Challenger tier.”

“I’m Silver Mid Hayan…! I’ll work hard!”

“Hello, I’m EunSiyu. I’m a Master AD Carry.”

“I’m Hyungeuk, who is in charge of the jungle. The tier is Challenger. Nice to meet you.”

After completing the self-introduction, the gathered team members played a few free rank games that five people could gather to play before the scrim with the other team.

Two Challengers and one Master who have no history of playing free rank.

It was not a composition at the level that would lose in free rank, so the stage of matching the combination for the first time was conducted harmoniously with an overwhelming victory.

The results of the 5-player free rank that was conducted during the time remaining until the practice match were all victories.

The time for the first scrim came like that.

Looking at the fact that he dragged on the time until evening, it seems that Crinex, who gathered the people, put quite a lot of effort into ending the team composition at once, but in fact, this was a keynote that would not appear well in the future LoL-TCup.

It seemed that the culture of temporarily forming a team and then changing it and matching the combination was not yet developed since LoL-TCup was the second event and the first one conducted on such a large scale.

A team formed in this format would have no problems if the team members fit together like one body, but it becomes a slightly big problem if it stumbles from the practice match.

I started praying that this team, which felt good when I looked at it, would hopefully exert its power in the scrim as well.

“First of all, there’s no need to cut the Top Jungle… Do you want to cut off something that’s going to be uncomfortable in the Mid? Or EunSiyu, is there anything you don’t like? There’s nothing to ban.”

Since there was no preparation, complex strategies in the ban phase did not appear.

To the extent that the top laner Younggiron, who was in the 1-pick, banned a few of the main picks of a person who is known to mainly handle certain champions on his own.

In the meantime, the jungler and AD Carry were exchanging simple stories with the two people who would become each of their limbs.

“Hayan-nim. What champions do you mainly play?”

“Hmm… I mainly play Galnio, Misandra, Bes, and Arin. I also do Eni sometimes.”

“Wow. Thank you.”

“Yes?”

Challenger jungler Hyungeuk, who heard streamer Hayan’s champ pool, conveyed a sincere thank you.

Champions that cannot exert power on their own, but can sufficiently do their part with just the crowd control that goes in according to the call in skirmishes or late teamfights.

It was certain that if the low-tier Mid in the team said such a champ pool in this kind of tournament, it would be touching.

A congenitally harmonious Mid and Jungle.

“Crinex-nim. Do you remember about a month ago…?”

“Are you talking about the internal scrim? Haha. I remember. That’s why I scouted EunSiyu-nim.”

“Then that, you know?”

“Yes. I will do Rotilus, Leona, or Meokai.”

The bottom side was in a state where both of them had not forgotten the memory of building harmony before.

The scrim, which started harmoniously, proceeded fiercely after entering the game.

Unlike the usual game where they check the chat window and talk with viewers, in practice matches, where the rule is to turn off the chat window and play, there were no conversations other than the contents of the game.

Unlike EunSiyu’s team, which used a lot of points on the top side, the opposing team was a team that distributed a lot of points to the jungle and AD Carry lanes.

Game 1.

The opposing team’s Challenger jungler naturally chose an early route that poured attention to the bottom side, which was the team’s carry line, rather than the Bronze Top, where a tank was set up.

It was a very correct judgment, but the result was not very good.

Whether the input of the judgment was not properly inputted, the Bronze Malphite, who was being denied hell from the 1st level by Jayce as it was, naturally suffered the highest level of disaster that could happen at the Top, a 3-level vs 1-level dive with the lane full of invested jungle resources.

On the other hand, EunSiyu’s bottom maintained a stable position while enduring a little loss.

17 minutes had passed since the simple explosion occurred, and Jayce, a former professional gamer who is still maintaining the Challenger tier, was holding 3 cores – three weapons – in his hand.

The shells that Jayce, who had been putting the full lane into the opponent’s turret from level 1, shot, fully entered the opposing team, who had not been able to create a big difference until the mid-game.

25-minute surrender.

That was the result of the simply summarized Game 1.

‘…The team is really strong.’

In the case of Younggiron, the top of EunSiyu’s team, he was famous for his excellent lane management in a few structures even during his professional days when the team didn’t achieve good results.

I can’t even imagine winning if I was in that Malphite’s position, but in the case of the Bronze Malphite, who started with two lanes being pushed from the beginning, it was natural that he would be crushed until the rock became sand unless there was team support.

It was inevitable in a case like Game 1 where a lot of EunSiyu’s team’s resources were put on the top side.

I thought that if we stick to this strategy against this team, we could continue to win.

It was a structure where Yu Sieun was bearing the burden and the difference was widening with the opponent’s AD Carry, but the return that the top brought was much stronger.

However, Hyungeuk, the jungler of EunSiyu’s team, seemed to be thinking of presenting another direction after the victory in Game 1.

“I think the bottom was a little uncomfortable because we used it on the Top last time, so shall we go a little differently this time? It’s a practice match.”

If they were planning to proceed with the team as it is, it was a good judgment to try many ways of the game from the beginning and then accumulate data, so I wrote in the chat window of EunSiyu with the smurf account that I thought it would be good.

It may not be the effect of some of the chats that came up together, but that opinion was accepted by all of EunSiyu’s team members.

Game 2, which fought in a direction that limited the power of the team that employs a hyper carry AD Carry and a Top Tank, was naturally a little more difficult than the previous game.

They won while sweating, but in the end, it was just a game that ended with a super play in one late teamfight that fought 5 to 5, so it was hard to see the process as smooth.

The early process of gaining profit from the bottom was good, but the opponent’s Challenger AD Carry did not miss the opportunities that EunSiyu gave in the lane and mid-game stages and reversed the growth difference that occurred in the early stages.

The scary thing about top-tier players is not just the ability to have flamboyant skirmishes, but also the fact that their solid fundamentals and judgment to seize opportunities are very fast.

There was nothing to say that there was a very big problem in EunSiyu’s play, but there was a tendency to excessively take risks for small gains in some situations where there were no calls.

Bronze Silver and Master are different.

Unlike having too many things to fix and having to say them all, Master only needs to continuously correct a few misjudgments.

The need and effect of feedback are great.

As such, there were a few parts that Yu Sieun would have been pointed out by the two Challengers in the team who had watched the replay if feedback had been given, but team leader Crinex disbanded the team without a review process, citing the late time and the first scrim.

EunSiyu’s broadcast also turned off soon.

Watching the blackened broadcast screen, I naturally thought.

That Yu Sieun would call me in about 10 minutes.

My hunch was exactly right.