Chapter 191 : SSR Cup - Event Match
Chapter 191: SSR Cup: Event Match
“Haha! Where’s the inaugural champion of the SSR Cup ‘Struggle-Annihilation’ division? It’s Team All-In right here!”
“And they won with a perfect record. What an incredible result.”
“They went all-in like their team name says, so they took everything!”
“That’s right!” “…Hehe…”
-The inaugural champions and the only undefeated champions ㄷㄷ
-The title does sound pretty cool ㅇㅇ;
-They went all-in so they took it all ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-The gambling mindset radiating from the team name ㅅㅂㅋㅋ
Team All-In—Redok, Kang Soyul, Yoojeu-Yoojeu, Dodo, and Lee Sihu—didn’t hide the joy they felt.
Everyone hugged each other or slapped palms together forcefully like in some basketball manga, celebrating. Even Yoojeu-Yoojeu, the most introverted member of the team.
Well, after working hard for victory over the past few days and finally achieving an undefeated championship, their current joy was naturally a reward they deserved.
Clap clap clap.
“……”
Baek Woohyun stepped back and applauded Team All-In as they celebrated.
Coach Enre Kim Jijun and Jeong Nayeon joined him.
“What are you doing over there! You should all come over here!”
Of course, Redok and Team All-In weren’t the type to just leave Baek Woohyun standing back with his hands clasped behind him.
He was essentially the person who created Team All-In’s undefeated championship, and he was the Demon King that the Demon King’s army called Team All-In served.
The team’s name itself was All-In because they had bet everything on him, so it made no sense for him to stay back during the championship celebration.
“Come on, over here!”
Redok led Baek Woohyun, saying the team’s core should come too, and while he was at it, he dragged along Kim Jijun who had been secretly applauding and Jeong Nayeon who had tried to slip away.
Jeong Nayeon crying out “M-me too?!” was now accepted almost like an annual event. Like a regular WWE routine.
Only she denied it, but since she had participated in all the practice sessions following Baek Woohyun and helped with various odd jobs, she was already considered an honorary Team All-In member.
“Thank you for your hard work!”
“You worked very hard!”
“…Yes. Thank you for your hard work.”
-Are these two a Plat duo now?
-ㅇㅇ Correct. They reached Plat after the tournament grinding solo queue
-Lucky to have a good coach and blow up ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Undefeated championship in the tournament, escaped Bronze and reached Plat in solo queue? They literally hit the jackpot ㄹㅇ
The first ones from Team All-In to approach Baek Woohyun were, as expected, the duo now called the Plat Duo instead of Bronze—Dodo and Lee Sihu.
As one viewer’s chat mentioned, they were currently evaluated as having received the greatest benefits from Coach Baek Woohyun.
The Bronze duo, who had been avoided so much they failed to sell at the team member auction before meeting Coach Baek Woohyun, were now referred to as members of the Demon King’s army.
“We absolutely couldn’t have done this without Coach! Thank you!”
“Getting rid of ‘Bronze’ from the nickname ‘Bronze-style All Master’! It’s thanks to Coach! Thank you!”
“No. It’s because you both did your best that we achieved this result. I simply helped a little.”
-Heartwarming
-Honestly, they’re right to be grateful
-ㄹㅇㅋㅋ He’s their lifelong benefactor
-I was really impressed seeing Dodo become human
‘???’ donated ‘1000 won’!
[There are two drawbacks, one of which is that you’re only at Platinum—]
“Hey!”
Jeong Nayeon moved quickly to cut off the donation.
It was inappropriate to bring up the ‘insufficient skill improvement (Bronze→Platinum)’ that Baek Woohyun had cited as a drawback here and now.
That would mean Baek Woohyun would have raised them to Platinum anyway, even if Dodo and Lee Sihu hadn’t done their best.
“What I called a drawback at the time was because I thought Platinum tier was too low as a reward for your efforts. You did your best, but due to the limits of my coaching, you couldn’t go higher.”
-ㄹㅇ Really?
-Quick recovery
-Wow, he dodged it like that
-Emperor Hack
“If you two hadn’t followed the coaching well back then, if you hadn’t worked hard, it would have been lower. Reaching Plat without stopping at Gold was because you both did your best.”
“”Coach…!””
Baek Woohyun smiled at the moved Dodo and Lee Sihu.
Next, his gaze landed on Kang Soyul, who stood beside them.
“Soyul, you were also excellent.”
“I learned from you, Woohyun. I even got your Master tier talent certification. So shouldn’t doing at least this much be natural?”
-Kya
-The confidence that this much is natural for me ㄷㄷ
-Ah ㅋㅋ Got Hackphysical’s talent certification ㅋㅋ
-But ㄹㅇ I didn’t think she’d hit Master during the SSR Cup period;
On the day of the team member auction, that is, on ‘Hackgeum’s Team Member Gacha (Feat. Kang Soyul)’ day.
Baek Woohyun had given Kang Soyul the evaluation of ‘at minimum Master tier if you learn well.’ He also said she could go further depending on who she learned from.
In reality, after being coached in the same way he trained newcomers ‘over there,’ she had proudly entered Master tier.
Considering she started ‘Reverse Planet’ at the same time as Baek Woohyun, she could truly be called a talent monster itself.
“Haha! That’s right. I look forward to working with you next time too.”
“Yes! Looking forward to it!”
Baek Woohyun had already offered Kang Soyul a spot in the [Lord of Storms] raid party, and she had accepted.
The somewhat out-of-context conversation between them about ‘next time’ meant exactly that. Just like in Team All-In, they looked forward to working together in the raid party too.
‘Now then—’
Finishing his conversation with Kang Soyul, Baek Woohyun turned his gaze to the last team member, Yoojeu-Yoojeu.
He didn’t need to look far. From the moment he was led by Redok to reach the team members, she had already been standing quietly behind him.
It was a very natural action, as if asserting that was naturally her place.
“……”
“…Hehe…”
Yoojeu-Yoojeu, making eye contact with Baek Woohyun, giggled. It was a smile that somehow brought to mind an excited puppy meeting its owner.
The reason no particular gossip spread despite her following him around constantly whenever they gathered during the SSR Cup practice period was precisely because of this expression.
No matter how you looked at it, there was absolutely no feeling of romantic interest, so whatever anyone said only sounded like jokes.
There were some who stubbornly insisted the two looked good together, but they were shot down by the retort to get past his female friend Jeong Nayeon and looks-obsessed Kang Soyul first.
With two people who, the moment they met, sparked nonsense jokes about love triangles or ex-girlfriend and current girlfriend, where could they go! That sort of feeling.
For those watching without much thought, it was an amusing dynamic in many ways.
“Thank you for your hard work, Yoojeu-Yoojeu. We’ll meet again soon.”
“…Yes…!”
-Looks like Yoojeu-Yoojeu is confirmed for the raid party too
-Kang Soyul and Yoojeu-Yoojeu, huh
-The minimum requirement for the raid party is Master tier in PVP ㄷㄷ
-You have no choice if you want to survive Hackphysical difficulty ㅋㅋ
Baek Woohyun didn’t stretch out a long conversation with Yoojeu-Yoojeu. As the viewers guessed, she would meet him again later in the raid party.
Sensing his trust in her from the conversation at a light greeting level, Yoojeu-Yoojeu smiled brightly like a blooming flower.
“Now, please give us the final closing remarks!”
“…Me?”
“Yes! If not Woohyun, then who!”
-Team All-In’s alpha and omega is Hackphysical
-Since the Demon King’s army won, it’s right for the Demon King to praise them
-ㄹㅇ Really
-???: This? Me? Why?
When the conversations between Baek Woohyun and the team members all ended, Redok, who had been joking around with Kim Jijun, smoothly approached and spoke.
Normally, closing remarks were made by the team captain, but as mentioned earlier, the foundation of Team All-In was ultimately with Baek Woohyun, so the logic was that it was right for him to do it.
The other team members all seemed to think the same, looking at him with sparkling eyes. With faces showing absolutely no sign of objecting to the coach stepping forward.
“Well, in that case… Congratulations on the SSR Cup undefeated championship! You all worked very hard!”
“”Thank you for your hard work!””
-Thank you for your hard work!
-ㄹㅇ It was great ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Saw everything from laughingstock candidates to championship candidates ㅋㅋ
-I believed in the championship, damn it~
‘GoAllInWinAll’ donated ‘100,000 won’!
[You all worked hard! It was fun!]
—And so Team All-In’s SSR Cup came to an end with the achievement of an undefeated championship in the ‘Struggle-Annihilation’ division.
At first, they were mocked as laughingstock candidates for betting all their auction points on a single person, and a coach at that, but at the end they stood tall as absolute powerhouses, proving ‘we were not wrong.’
As Cha Seongcheol declared when they defeated their opponents in the finals to win, unless the Demon King assembled his forces again, Team All-In would be recorded as one of the strongest teams in event tournament history.
[Greetings, Baek Woohyun.
First, we sincerely congratulate Team All-In on their undefeated championship in the Struggle-Annihilation division! Your capabilities as a coach were perfectly demonstrated…
(omitted)
…and so we contact you to invite you once again as a special commentator for the SSR Cup. If your schedule permits, could you participate?]
“Hmm.”
However, Team All-In’s SSR Cup ending didn’t mean the end of all SSR Cups. The third lineup and the event match still remained.
This was especially true for Baek Woohyun. The SSR Cup organizers, having tasted the power of his buzz, wanted to call him by any means necessary.
He appeared as a special commentator just once, yet increased viewership by a whopping one hundred thousand. Now that Team All-In had achieved an undefeated championship, the effect would be even greater.
The SSR Cup organizers’ proposal meshed perfectly with Baek Woohyun’s situation of currently assembling the [Lord of Storms] raid party.
It was clear from the fact that he appeared again as a special commentator for three days starting from Day 7 of the SSR Cup, right the day after Team All-In’s schedule ended.
The viewers were of course delighted by the combination of Kim Gwangjin-Cha Seongcheol-Baek Woohyun’s future prediction analysis that they thought would never happen again.
“Oho…”
“They really felt your effect, Woohyun. Seeing how they want to call you even to the event match by any means.”
Jeong Nayeon shrugged as she looked at the SSR Cup organizers’ third email starting with [Greetings, Baek Woohyun].
The Baek Woohyun premium effect was so tremendous that the email contained a question asking if he could participate in the separately prepared event match.
The SSR Cup organizers made this proposal while fully knowing that with his skill, the event match championship would be his regardless of what conditions they set.
Perhaps they thought balance didn’t need to be considered even for an event match.
Unlike the regular divisions where they provided practice periods for preparation, the event match was still being conducted on the fly, enough to swap people in and out.
Therefore, they likely made the judgment that even if Baek Woohyun went all out and put on a civilian massacre show, there would be no viewers seriously nitpicking.
“What will you do?”
“There’s no reason to back out now.”
He had already done coaching and even special commentary.
Adding one more participating player wouldn’t change anything.
Baek Woohyun nodded lightly, and Jeong Nayeon immediately sent an email to the SSR Cup organizers saying he would participate in the event match.
Thus, news that the leader of the Demon King’s army that conquered the ‘Struggle-Annihilation’ division, the Demon King himself, would descend upon the event match spread in an instant.