Chapter 39: The Grand Victory and an Unexpected Invitation.

Team formation and practice matches.

The preliminary round, and the finals tournament that started with 8 teams.

If the winner of the tournament has been decided after such a long narrative, it is natural to hear their impressions.

Directly hearing the joy that the players are feeling was also the best feeling to give to the people who had been watching the tournament until now.

For that reason, now that the winner of the finals has been determined, the commentators of the official broadcast were preparing the last process of the LoL-TCup tournament, the victory interview.

[Okay, then now that the players have calmed down the excitement from the game a little, let’s talk with the players of Team Crinex, who have achieved the final victory! First of all, team leader Crinex-nim! Congratulations on the victory!]

The first batter of the interview was team leader Crinex, who had gathered the members of Team Crinex.

[Thank you!!!]

Crinex shouted loudly to the point where he thought he should have turned down the volume of the speaker when it was his turn to speak.

[You brought the victory after a close match. Please say one word about your impressions of the finals games!]

[Ah, it’s really that I felt that there were so many things that I messed up at important moments, so it was hard, but I think I was able to win thanks to the team members who cheered up and pulled it through until the last set. I really love our team members!!!]

[You showed a really amazing scene in the last teamfight of Set 5. If you remember, can you tell us what the situation was like from the players’ point of view?]

The commentators were asking Crinex about the beautiful engagement that had ended the last set of the finals.

That the last moment of the tournament is a masterpiece plays a big role in leaving the name of the LoL-TCup tournament in people’s memories.

As much as that, the commentators seemed to be trying to share the story about that scene with Crinex, who was one of the people involved, even in the interview.

If you look at it without deeply don’t argue the ins and outs, it was a scene where the Top and Support miraculously saved the AD Carry who had been hit by the grab, and the AD Carry, who had saved his life, ended the teamfight ripping.

[Oh, I obviously remember it since it was just now! But I think it would be better to hear it from EunSiyu-nim than me. I don’t know the situation well because I just reacted as soon as I heard the sound of “open the engagement” due to the effect of repeated training.]

The commentators, who had laughed briefly at Crinex’s sly words, changed the target of the question.

[Okay, then EunSiyu-nim! Can you tell us what kind of moment that scene was? Please also give us one word about your impressions of bringing the victory!]

[I think you’re talking about the last teamfight in front of the Elder. It was when I used Stormrazor forward and was dragged, and to be honest, it wasn’t completely conceived, but the call to go forward had been made… Haaheue.]

In Yu Sieun’s case, she was still continuing the story while gathering her breath in the middle, as if the elation from the last set had not faded yet.

[I felt like I could open the entry angle, so I played while shouting to come in, but thinking about it now, I almost became the worst AD Carry. The concentration of the team members who responded to me right away was really amazing, and I’m really happy that I could bring this kind of victory as a result..!]

[It was an intentional entry…! It was a really wonderful play! You showed a really strong ranged dealer’s appearance in all the games besides that too! Then next Hyungeuk-nim! How was today’s game!]

The commentators proceeded with the interviews with the players one by one after that too.

The two Challengers of the team, Hyungeuk and Younggiron, revealed impressions in a way that gave credit to the team members rather than taking a haughty posture.

Perhaps because they were people who had gone out to tournaments a lot, it was a textbook-like and neat interview.

The last turn went to the youngest of the team.

[Hayan-nim! I think we should now call you a Mid laner above Platinum rather than a Silver Mid laner! You have become a big topic with the effort and growth you have shown, and you showed really good skills even in the finals. What are your impressions!]

[Ah… First of all, I think I have to give my thanks to the team members. Since everyone is a top-tier player, what I was doing must have looked really frustrating, but they cheered me on, and also encouraged me a lot so that I could have confidence, so I was able to prepare passionately.

And I’m really thankful to my master, who spared a long time and taught me…! I will definitely repay you as a disciple!]

[Yes! I heard your impressions well. Then, we will end the finals relay while hearing one word of greeting from the players last!]

At the commentator’s words, the members of Team Crinex began to convey their words of gratitude to the viewers, the fans, and the people who had helped them while coming down in order from the Top.

This time, even Yu Sieun, following the Hayan from before, put the story that she was too thankful to our precious editor Eunsol, who had helped her improve her skills, in her words of gratitude.

The team that had just spread out a close match that went up to Set 5 and had brought victory with an engagement that anyone could see as beautiful at the last moment.

All five of the players who were giving the interview were very happy.

It was about an hour after the broadcast had turned off that I came to greet Yu Sieun and Hayan in the Discord channel.

“Congratulations on the victory. You both did really, really well…. I was really too surprised at the end that I almost cried. I was scared that you were going to be being stuffed with a sudden death by the forward Stormrazor, Sieun unnie, and I really, really… At that moment, the thought that I shouldn’t even upload the finals video just flashed through my head.”

“Eunsol, didn’t you trust me?”

“Honestly, you didn’t have the grab in your calculations either, right unnie? You were opening the entry angle, but that was also interlocked with the moment when the opposing team’s support was trying to open the initiation.”

“That’s true. We had talked to each other before the teamfight that if anyone says it, let’s put everything in at once, but in fact, the reason I stormed forward was also that I was shouting it too momentarily. It’s certain that if the team members hadn’t reacted right away, I almost would have been taxidermy like what you said, Eunsol.”

“You really did well. The last teamfight was like a pro team, should I say. If you pick the best scene in this LoL-TCup, that will be in it.”

Around the time when the story about the Flying Xayah in the last teamfight was about to end, Park Hayan, who had been listening to the story quietly, opened her mouth.

“Master…. There is another disciple, even though I’m third-rate.”

Hayan, who had relatively little stake in the last teamfight, seemed to be playfully expressing her dissatisfaction at being alienated from the story.

“Hayan-nim is doing so well calmly…… Honestly, the most dumbfounded person on the opposing team was probably the Mid, right? It’s a team that is using Diamond in the Mid, so they have to widen the gap, but the person they brought with a Silver score is enduring so well. You really did the best you could.”

“Hehe. Thank you. Like I told you before, I will appoint Sol-nim as a meritorious subject of our broadcast……!”

“Ahem. Hayan-ah, and we have to talk about that too.”

“Ah. That’s right.”

Yu Sieun sent a signal to Park Hayan and then began to continue her words.

“Eunsol. You know that I’ve always been very thankful for the feedback you’ve been giving me from before, right? Thanks to you, I updated my top rating too. And won the tournament too”

Yu Sieun began to tell the story of the things I had done for her during the LoL-TCup period.

The coaching that I had done while watching the replay.

The solo rank real-time viewing feedback.

“Sol-nim’s thanks is really big in that I was able to increase my skills too. You even told me all the laning phase concepts while doing 1-on-1 directly… You grabbed all the teamfight judgments too. It was really the best that you intuitively told me the right direction.”

Park Hayan was also adding the words about the memories of the help that she had received from me in between Yu Sieun’s words.

Looking at the fact that they were building up the flow of the story while exchanging words with each other, it seemed that those two broadcasters probably had a common goal.

But I couldn’t know what that was.

I couldn’t get a good grasp of it.

‘Ah.’

However, I was soon able to move towards the answer by recalling one memory.

Both Yu Sieun and Park Hayan had said that they would repay me if the result in the tournament turned out well.

In Park Hayan’s case, she hadn’t said it in detail, but Yu Sieun had said that she would buy me delicious things.

Are they going to buy me a meal together with the three of us or something?

If that was the case, I would have happily said that it was good if they just said that they would make a promise right away, but I couldn’t know the reason why they were holding back while telling this kind of story.

However, I could know that my expectations were wrong when I heard what Yu Sieun suggested to me soon after that.

The purpose that Yu Sieun and Park Hayan had built up to was a few steps further than what I had expected.

I asked the two streamers, who were suggesting that I go to the team dining together with them, with a question that contained a sincerity-filled question.

“Why would I go there…?”