ACK professional gaming has garnered significant attention during the spring and summer seasons as the “tagapdae” event takes place midway through the break.
Particularly with the Moonoa series having been embroiled in a match-fixing controversy, some viewers disillusioned by it have instead focused their interest on games hosted by streamers.
Even though it’s not an official match, around 100,000 people have already accessed the Letterbox official channel for the live roster reveal, each venting their emotions in the chat box.
And these viewers generally didn’t know how to wait quietly.
[Tagapdae roster reveal 10 minutes before lol][42]
We pretty much know who’s coming, but still excited as heck, haha!
[Comments]
– Is this the legendary tagapdae?
└ Please, let’s avoid any more controversies.
└ Last season was relatively uneventful.
– There are reports of an invasive species sneaking in?
└ Oh no…! 14…!
└ LOL.
└ The tactics trying to capitalize on foreign viewers’ interest are so obvious and just funny now, haha.
└ Wow, this system really sucks the life out of the streamers.
– Most are being revealed gradually during the broadcast, but one person remains a mystery until the end. Who could it be?
└ Twish’s 1 million means Conan’s loss…
└ Since NoName is participating, it could be another new face?
└ How could NoName be that? They hit 30,000 viewers.
└ Rookie (Twish has been streaming for 8 months) vs. Veteran (Highest viewership of 34,000).
└ None of this adds up, haha!
└ 34,000 is real? What were you watching in individual Moonoa broadcasts?
└ Honestly, it just exploded suddenly after a few streams, so I get it.
Every season, this event generates countless controversies.
While last season’s controversy wasn’t on a small scale, people’s views generally agreed that it was a manageable incident.
[This tagapdae change seems quite significant][89]
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Seems like they took the feedback into account? Especially in Moonoa, there were a lot of changes.
[Comments]
– Applying the combat power of 50,000 instead of 100,000 like the pros was really a smart move.
└ That’s an awesome patch! Honestly, when the newbies used their strongest characters, they couldn’t handle their own power.
└ For real, where are all those who argued against logical adjustments? It’s just common sense to reduce the numbers proportionally.
– At 50,000, the healers are gonna struggle, huh?
└ Isn’t this practically a sniper patch against NoName?
└ Is the healer at a disadvantage?
└ It’s only OP at Master tier where most are at 80,000 combat power; at 50,000, they’re just rubbish.
└ If the healer’s potential for late-game carry is capped at 50,000…
– So at 50,000, wouldn’t a no-healer meta benefit?
└ No, you need at least one tank or healer.
└ What?
– This will be totally boring; at least there used to be a thrill from late-game blow-ups.
└ If mindlessly spamming skills is entertaining, just go play Autumn Story instead.
└ 50,000 is just right! Honestly, it was getting annoying watching kids ignore walls and fly around.
└ For real, haha. We should be fighting at narrow paths, but they just zipped through walls.
Just imagining makes my chest feel tight.
Since this is an amateur competition, the pros weren’t given any specially enhanced accounts, but to ensure fairness, a tool was provided to normalize the combat power of characters held by each streamer.
While everyone had been battling with 100,000 power, there were criticisms that the tournament might become a bit loose, but they decided to apply a uniform power of 50,000, which was announced in advance.
And I jumped onto my upgraded queen-size bed, pushing Adella aside.
“Ugh!”
“Stop messing around and come manage the chat.”
“This is animal abuse! According to Article 8, Section 2 of the Animal Protection Law, you—”
Bang—
I lightly hit the head of the uncooperative cat and handed her the manager privileges.
While I couldn’t log into the game, I was allowed to use the Twish guest account, so this was possible.
– Why is Adella so annoying, haha!
– Seriously, she doesn’t listen at all.
-(Adella): You’re a dumb idiot! You’re too small, I can’t see anything!
-?
– LOL.
– LOL.
-?
– Just kick her out of the house, NoName!
– Don’t mess with the landlord, kiddo.
-(Adella): If you keep being mean to me, I’ll ban you all!
“Stop with the threats and just manage!”
Bang—
Ignoring the collapsed Adella holding her head, I didn’t know much about what was happening since it was my first time participating in such a tournament.
I had just received a message saying that there would be a broadcast today, so I turned it on unexpectedly.
– Let’s go!
– Wow, 10 seconds!
– 10
– 10
– 9
– 9
– Let’s go!
– 9
With bouncing electronic music, everyone counts down together.
In time with the beat, Adella’s tail swayed left and right as she lay on the bed.
“I want to participate in something like this too!”
She looked at me with sparkling eyes, perhaps more interested than I expected.
“Do you really want to play?”
“Yeah. To be honest, watching games isn’t very fun; actually playing seems way more exciting.”
“I’ll ask the game company later if I can make a separate account for you.”
In that process, I knew there would be countless complicated discussions, but whether the answer was positive or negative, I needed to at least ask since it could lead somewhere.
Would it not be the first time in history if artificial intelligence participated in a gaming tournament as a streamer?
[2051 SEASON 2 Tagapdae Competition / The Fallen Battle]
[Let’s Start!]
[Legacy of Legends – Tagapdae]
The order of roster reveals was League of Legends, Moonoa, and Resonance participating in Tagapdae. Then, the line-up for the Fallen Battle included League of Legends, Moonoa, and Resonance.
Each streamer’s highlights played for three seconds, and the introduction video alone was roughly 10 minutes long.
It seems they will show all the games combined up to the roster reveal, and afterward, the showcases will continue separately on the three gaming channels.
[31st: Kariri – Assassin]
– Kariri?
– Haha, is this real?
– Never imagined this identity, haha.
– Kariri is in Tagapdae!
– Really is a concept character, haha. They’re in this with that garbage character, are they crazy?
– Assassin = The job isn’t even refined, just lumping it as an assassin.
└ For real, haha.
– Getting paired with Kariri would be hell, haha.
– Amazing that Kariri managed to keep this under wraps until the end.
– A bridge transcending darkness and light, the GOAT of tricksters.
– Not the GOA?
– Did they really send that as a highlight? Haha.
“Your turn is coming up next!”
The first highlight was from the Moonoa side. Thanks to being assigned the last spot out of 36, I was able to receive a 5-second highlight instead of just the usual 3 seconds.
[NoName – Priest]
The video I provided to Letterbox was from my tenth duel with Kim Young-kwang.
In the tense battle scene, I made a perilous choice to step into the path of a heavy attack, and just before a massive sword could cleave me in two, I struck his wrist, deciding the victory.
“How could you even think to step forward like that? I don’t understand.”
Adella poked the screen curiously.
“He was sure I would back away from there. I could go forward at any time or just stay put. Such baseless exclusion plays need to be punished.”
“So how do you not flinch at that kind of move?”
“Yeah.”
“Really? Is that possible? Look at me. If I do it like this!”
Swoosh—
Adella’s two fingers cut through the air and stopped right in front of my eyes.
Her expression scrunched up instantly.
“Wow, you really are severe. You wouldn’t close your eyes for that?”
“Want to find out?”
“Ack, sorry! Just the tail! Don’t grab the tail!”
– What are these two doing, haha!
– They’re both too cute.
– They’re barely focused on the video, haha.
– Once NoName’s part is over, they’ve seen it all.
– It’ll come up again later.
– Haha, punish them, Adella!
Another three minutes passed, and this time the streamers participating in the “Fallen Battle” were revealed.
The top-tier streamer competition, Fallen Battle, had all teams pre-arranged, so team names could be seen as well.
[Call Me Cheap Boot]
[Pordo / Imyr / Miroking / NoName / HyeBam]
On top, Myunjoon was, in the jungle, Imyr, and in the bottom, I was paired with Yushia, completing the Fallen Battle entry as Mirocell artisan “Miroking” joined us.
– Isn’t Miroking’s name recognition dropping? Isn’t he at the edge of challenger now?
– His champion tier has dropped, plus he’s not playing top but mid.
– He’s ranked first among Mirocell artisans, but team play is different.
Just as there’s a saying that a tiger appears when spoken about, Miroking suddenly called.
[Incoming – Miroking]
[Ah, hello, NoName?]
“Yes, I can hear you.”
[Are you on air? Anyway, thank you so much for including someone like me, really.]
“Get to the point.”
[I’m saying this sincerely! Everyone wants to team up with you. I think leaving top and practicing mid was the best decision I’ve made recently, for sure!]
– Running away from top and still rambling!
– Let’s drop Miroking now and put Adella in instead.
– 4 challengers and 1 grandmaster, wow. This is truly an epic Fallen Battle team.
– From the roster, it seems all pros who took a break resurfaced; it won’t be easy.
└ Honestly, I think they should be excluded if they participated in pro matches within the last year.
└ But then we wouldn’t have enough talents for the Fallen Battle.
[Recently, I was quite surprised to learn that NoName is only fourteen years old. Do you remember the Astreria match?]
“I do. You told me I was rude and needed etiquette training.”
[Wow, you remember that? We should have made sure to train properly back then! Just kidding, looking forward to working with you, our little captain.]
“… Just do your part. I’ll carry you from the bottom.”
– Wow.
– As expected from the original Astreria artisan, NoName!
– Wow.
– They’re all fake Astreria players these days.
└ If you saw NoName’s video back then, you wouldn’t be satisfied with today’s players, haha.
– Pya pya pya!
– NoName and HyeBam in the bottom, that’s terrifying!
– Fallen Battle with a World Championship level of power…?
└ Is this real? Haha!
└ Bring a duo like Faisos-Sauron if you want to win lane, haha!
– We definitely need to play top against them.
└ But Pordo is also currently ranked 150 in Challenger; his form’s really improved.
– When did HyeBam hit a Challenger score of 1000?
[This is so embarrassing. And the viewers are probably saying I’m just Grandmaster, huh? It’s obvious. I’ll definitely rank up to Challenger before the scrim. After all, Mirocell is in Tier 4, so nobody’s going to ban it now.]
“Wouldn’t it be better to practice a different champion than Mirocell then?”
[I can only do this, haha. Or should I try practicing mid Nunu? It’s back to being Tier 1 these days!]
– Nunu? Hahaha.
– Team games’ weakest character, haha!
– So many good champions for mid!
– For real, Nocturne, Grev, Lillia, Kled—how easy!
– Karma, Morgana are also available.
[It’s an honor to be here with you. NoName, you’re really cute! Well then!]
After saying what he wanted to and abruptly hanging up, I couldn’t help but suspect whether he had received some kind of mission.
Meanwhile, watching the chat and seeing what was so funny, I lightly hit Adella’s thigh as she wiggled her butt.
Slap—
“Hey, why are you hitting me? I didn’t do anything!”
“Just because you’re cute.”
“Hmph, you’re even cuter!”
“Uh…?”
I hadn’t anticipated saying that much.
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