176 Killing the Doppelgänger

The opening match of WoA featured The Blory team.

The six-team round-robin league, played as single games, was being broadcast through Letterbox’s official channel.

Viewers who regularly watched the scrims would have had a decent grasp of each team’s strength, but that was not the case for most people.

A full 200,000 concurrent viewers had gathered for the opening match alone, and when Yggdrasil appeared on the map, the fervor of those cheering for their respective teams rose another notch.

And the ones who made that fervor burn even hotter were, as always, the commentators with an intense professional spirit.

“The Mankai Castle team must be regretting this bitterly right now. No, what did we do so wrong...?! What did we do so wrong?!”

“Yeees! But surely they must have done something to end up in this situation!”

“Exactly. To earn a single coin to take on NoName, they borrowed even from their early-game setup and scraped together every last resource. They went all-in and failed to get it? They’re paying the price now.”

“Aaaaaah! Why is the price of one coin so high?!”

The first match, which had been expected to be a close one, continued to unfold completely one-sidedly...