Gold Medal Coach

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There was a legendary player known as Wing who appeared in the pro league for Gun King in the Chinese division.

He landed his shots with deadly precision and absolute confidence. Under his leadership, a third-rate team in the minor league clawed their way to the major league, ultimately winning the annual championship and becoming the strongest dark horse in history.

However, Wing suddenly announced his retirement after winning the championship. Many netizens had speculated on the reasons for his retirement. No one knew that he was an Omega suffering from a “pheromone disorder”.

Five years later, the Chinese national team was eliminated in the first round of the Gun King World Championship. The national team’s coach resigned on the spot under pressure.

In a time of crisis, Jiang Shaoyu, who was once known as Wing, returned to China and was entrusted with the position of the national team’s coach. The national team was a mix of both good and bad players who couldn’t get along with each other at all. This was especially true for certain Alphas who would quarrel the moment they met.

The assistant was full of worries, “These gods can’t be controlled at all!”

Jiang Shaoyu: “It’s fine. Leave their training to me.”

And so, Coach Jiang started his daily sharp tongue mode——

“This is the standard of a player on the national team?”

“Are scripts even needed when playing against you? I can win even when playing casually.”

“Are all of you inters? Giving free kills away one after another?”

“If you can’t defeat the others, just delete the game then.”

The glib-tongued Coach Jiang, who had a tendency to never swear when training others, once scolded the entire team until their mental states had collapsed. That was until one day, they saw the scene of Coach Jiang secretly injecting Omega inhibitors into himself.

Everyone was collectively dazed, “This fierce and savage coach was actually an Omega?”

“Even if he’s an Omega, he’s the boss kind that cannot be defeated even in a team fight!”

A gaming god: “Seeking help. How do I write a 1000-word self-reflection essay?”

A popular streamer: “I’m not streaming today. I’ll face the wall and repent.”

An amateur king: “Who am I? Where am I? Why am I even playing games? I really doubt my life.”

An Alpha youth: “What was the experience of being scolded to tears by an Omega like? As we cried more, we got used to it.”

The netizens: “???”

Why does something feel wrong with this year’s national team?

Associated Names
One entry per line
GMC
OCGC
Our Omega Coach is Gold-Class
金牌教练(电竞)
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Latest Release

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05/29/23 White Moonlight Novels c130
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13 Reviews


fishfish
fishfish
Jun 14, 2022
Status: c119
[Beware: This review is me trying to convince you in 600+ words to read this ongoing novel]

Jiang Shaoyu (our strict coach MC!)

He's a Gun King God who disappeared the year he debuted. Even after 5 years out of the professional scene, he's still super powerful! He's super overpowered in terms of game sense, aim, tactics... all the skills it takes to be an exceptional FPS player.

... more>> His skills lets him recognize the hidden talent within the nation's pro league so he can cultivate them to be even stronger.

Because of this, his methods of polishing these hidden gems are "a bit" harsh. His highest form of praise is "You did OK" while his lowest form of criticism is like shooting at the same bullet wound over and over... and over again.

His style of scolding is so distinct that old ACE teammates were able to recognize JSY from how he scolds them.

However in many cases, you will see how much he cares for the players and how he truly believes in their abilities, hence the reason he's putting them through the wringer.

ACE team (Jiang Shaoyu's old team)

Spoiler

From the summary, I assumed that Jiang Shaoyu just made a team with his high school friends and carried them all the way to the championship, however I am very wrong.

Jiang Shaoyu wasn't just the ACE's founder and captain, he was also the coach. He hand picked each and every team member for their potential and then whipped them into god-level eSports material.

I'm sorry I doubted you God Wing.

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Pro League

Let me sum it up

  • China's previous National Gun King Teams were tr*sh (got eliminated in the first round)
  • Why? Major clubs were recommending players to increase their own reputation, not for the player's skills
  • Result? The favored players are praised for nothing and loose the spirit of eSports while the actually good players go unnoticed, overshadowed, or neglected in clubs.
  • Now? Not only does the National Team suck, but most of the Major Clubs in the A-League (Top division) also suck
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    To put into perspective: There are only 3 strong and stable veteran teams in China's Gun King A-League... out of 8 teams!! The others are either corrupt, mediocre, or just straight up bad. Compare this to any other eSports novel where each top team has their own strengths. It's really poor.

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Enter: Jiang Shaoyu.

We get to see all the nitty gritty operations of the many different eSport clubs. His role as the Head Coach not only makes him responsible for the National Team representing China, but also allows him to meddle with the clubs of the nation's professional league in general.

He adopts the role of "a strict school dean that comes to evaluate the student's performance" and rakes through the professional scene with a fine tooth comb to spot the hidden/misplaced talents among the tr*sh. And boy does he find some gems!

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He basically sneaks into every major club unexpected to watch how each one operates. Everything is evaluated: from the player's training mentality, to the coach's player data. His evaluation squad even brings a signal blocker so that they can get an authentic peek at the day in a life of an eSports player.

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Pace and Plot

It took me a couple of chapters to figure out why the tone is so familiar. It's because it's written by Die Zhiling!! Author of the (iconic) God Level Summoner series and many other wonderful novels!

This novel's pace is very similar to God Level Summoner, so expect a long story! I would best describe the pace to be like waves.

[Either lots of action out of game + little action in game or little action out of game + lots of action in game.]

In terms of plot, this story follows Jiang Shaoyu scrapping the previous National Team and building a new one from the ground up.

Expect game-centric plots, player rankings, technical skill and strategies, training arcs, the "strong gets stronger", character development, and of course the competitions!

As someone who loves eSports novels with many strong players from different teams, this novel is so exciting for me to read! Although it's bound to be a long novel, the plot was so interesting, it made me want to keep reading and reading... until I caught up with the RAWs TT

I have high hopes for this novel, and the translators are doing an amazing job, so definitely give this a read!

I'll come back and update as the story progresses ^^

Happy reading ☆ <<less
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pawsofacat
pawsofacat
May 31, 2022
Status: c89
Regret reading this when it's still ongoing since I have a tendency to binge read novels and I can't wait.

Have read the translations by White Moonlight Novels till chapter 7, which are not bad. Thereafter, I couldn't wait for translations and thus, I read till the latest chapter (89) in Chinese (which is my 2nd language). Review below is accurate as of chapter 89.

Story: The story mainly surrounds around MC, the ex-captain/coach who once led his grassroot team to win the national championship amongst professional e-sports teams, who is invited... more>> to help coach and lead the national team who have terrible and worsening results in the international competition. He develops the team by selecting and finding suitable team members and staff etc and as he goes about it, he also helps to improve the worsening national e-sports atmosphere (due to money-focused investors and celebrity star players who is overly confident and not hardworking due to their big fan base and their fans' rainbow farts, leading teams to not focus on results and professionalism as an e-sports player but on money and fame instead, ie. Investor and teams spending money to sponsor and send their famed (but not that great) players into the national team) by changing things up. As in the story's jjwxc summary, story focuses on how MC, as a coach, develops the national team, and is counted as a light feel-good read (爽文).

MC:

Spoiler

He is an omega who have a pheromone disorder that causes his pheromones to act/smell aggressively like an alpha's and its so aggressive that it actually scares alphas away. He is a calm, cold and indifferent person with a poisonous tongue. He's resolute, stubborn and proud, in that he doesn't show his weakness to people (ie his disorder). As a coach, he's strict and commands respect (and maybe some fear from some haha) .


But as you read on, you'll discover he's also a very gentle, considerate and respectful person (gentle especially to those younger or more introverted). As example, in chapter 19,

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he doesn't want to let his disciple know about him coaching the team because he doesn't want to moral kidnap or put pressure on his disciple to come back to e-sports since his disciple is doing great in his high-paying, more relaxed livesteaming job, even though his disciple would be a great addition to the team. I was attracted to him even more due to this.

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And, I also like that he's fair and not narrow minded. During inspection of the professional teams, a team and their members f* up

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for acting out their practice/training matches to leave a good impression to try to get their famed member into the national team. He gets a bad impression from this incident but he recognises that the main person at fault is the coach and the members are not the main culprit (especially since they may not have a say in things and are young to be influenced) and thus are willing to give a second chance to see how competent the player actually is during actual matches in chapter 88.

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His poisonous tongue is also hilarious. Some excerpts:

MC playing with a noob player:

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Noobish player in-game: Maybe I'm too vegetable (菜 cai in chinese) (meaning not good at the game)

MC: Be more confident, remove the 'maybe".

Noobish player : ???

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MC scolding a member who overslept and was late to training:

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MC: Lazing around doing nothing everyday, sleeping during training hours, next time during competition, how about you move a bed to the stage and lying down in it to compete instead?

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ML:
Spoiler

He's MC's disciple and fan who is an alpha and my first impression of him is that he's like a big golden retriever. He's also a gentle and considerate person, and he shows it in his actions and thinking. His gentleness and considerate character is different from MC in that he expresses it openly and that feels like his main personality trait.

He's a very loyal person where in chapter 18-19, it is shown that

Spoiler

he rather not be an e-sports player than to go to other teams even with a extremely high pay to compete against ACE and his past teammates due to his promise to MC to lead ACE as the next captain

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Their relationship:
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ML's setting feel more like the typical MC in e-sports novel (the one that's so talented that he's able to play the different positions well + is a famous livestreamer) whereas MC feels like the typical ML who has a cold and indifferent personality, is also great at the game and are of a higher position (as ML's master (shifu) and main coach of the team and ex-captain). For example, in chapter 36,

Spoiler

ML got blackened and spammed by black fans and internet water army in his livestream and MC is the one that smashes money on gifts to divert attention away from the black fans.

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Age-wise, MC was 18 when he was captain and is 23 at the current point of time while ML was 15 and is now 20, it's a 3-years age difference.

ML is clingy to MC and in the beginning I thought the novel will go down the "ML: its been 5 years since you left me, now you're back I'm going to pursue you I love you so much" trope but nope, they have a very pure master-disciple relationship with no romantic thoughts. ML have absolute trust and respect for MC and he thought of MC as his idol, his god and thus never once thought that MC is one to be affected or "defiled" by mortal romantic relationship. Hence, his reaction was pretty hilarious in chapter 32 when

Spoiler

he almost found out his shifu is an omega where he saw his shifu injecting the omega inhibitor and by instinct denied the thought that MC is an omega and instead thought its an injection for MC's stomach problems leading MC to be speechless and thinking "this is an inhibitor you dumbass"

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IMO, ML is not overshadowed by MC despite their master-disciple and coach-member relationship and instead he balances MC out and aids him in things that MC is not familiar with ie public relations (ML is more familiar with netizens and PR due to him being a famous livestreamer who climbed to the top from zero).

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The previous team (ACE) :

After MC left, they split up due to investors trying to profit off them. In chapter 12/13 he met most of his past teammates.
Spoiler

All his teammates do not blame MC for the split up and are not in a bad relationship with MC, even though they do not know of the reason why MC left the team (the reason is implied to be due to his disorder).

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As of now, I love love love all the characters, especially MC and ML, and their relationship. I look forward to how MC develops the national team and improve the e-sports atmosphere/community as a whole and how their relationship develops (and pray that it won't go down the possessive ML trope). This novel is penned by the same author who wrote Accidental Mark, All-Round Mid Laner and God Level Summoner series, so I have hopes for a equal and healthy romantic relationship. <<less
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Shadowdrop
Shadowdrop
Jun 01, 2022
Status: c113
I can't really judge the plot because I'm not an e-sports person, but for a layman, it's quite interesting. The MC, ML and their teammates are all 👍

BUT

The soft and shy medic baby Chenchen is a treasure that must be protected at all costs. He alone is enough reason to give this novel 10 stars out of 5. I swear, if the author abuses him one more time, hands will fly.

I know it's not an informative review, I binge-read this novel till 3AM and my brain doesn't brain anymore.... more>> But I really recommend you to read this novel. And join the soft medic boy protection club, while you're at it.

Edit at chapter 73: The novel is still amazing, but why does the author like to abuse soft medics? And they both are so sweet, polite and hard-working!

Edit at chapter 103: the plot is still interesting. I rarely follow ongoing novels, but for this novel, I just can't help refreshing the page every morning. The author has a godly pace of 2 chapters per day, so every day the plot progresses quite a bit. <<less
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RaiLi
RaiLi
May 28, 2022
Status: c19
Altho Ive only read few of the chapters, and this seems to have potential. I’m excited since this is the same author as “All-round Mid Laner” and “Accidental Mark.”

The MC is cold and aloof omega with a very sharp tongue, already retired and is now a coach. Short spoiler of ML: ... more>>
Spoiler

for all people out there who’s curious who the ML is. Its Mc’s only direct apprentice, Pei Feng.

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For now, its pretty fun and entertaining. The pacing’s all right. I’m really curious on how the players development and they’ve been already scolded by the MC already lol. The translation is actually pretty good! I’m now waiting for the chapters to increase!!! ╰ (*´︶`*) ╯ <<less
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AriaSoul16
AriaSoul16
Aug 29, 2022
Status: Completed
I am a huge fan of eSports BL stories even though I don't follow eSports so I can't criticize the strategies, techniques and skills, etc. I don't think the setting/premise is unique but it was well-written. I love the characters and the ending.

Spoiler

They have twins. A boy and girl. I was thinking that it will be good to have twins and the author did write it. 😆

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I also hoped that some characters have a relationship like
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Hua Ran and Shu Chen, Mo Hantian and Shi Xiaobin

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pjanmax
pjanmax
Aug 07, 2022
Status: --
This was actually really good. I loved every bits of it, I really liked how the MC was being fair and actually gave a chance to those who was worthy of it.

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The thing I was a bit dissatisfied with was that we didn't really see the MC's and ML's romantic life more, it was a bit of a bummer nevertheless, it was good.

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syla
syla
Jan 25, 2023
Status: Completed
I found this through All Around Mid-Laners and just love both! Even to the point frying my brain by reading the MTLs.

The story more focused on how our MC set the foundation of the national team, and the team's growth. The romance is not that much, but every moments are precious!

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Spoiler

No one expect the ML have the guts to mark the MC, except MC's big bro. They thought the shipping is very baseless and could not happen. Their reaction was very funny when the couple clarify the rumor 🤣

And the ML was bullied by the rest of the national team lol

The extra also have ML play the game through World All Star. And all viewers/players are shocked at how MC become the big boss. For ML, of course he continue to give countless praises for MC 🤭

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asampe_tae
asampe_tae
Oct 11, 2022
Status: Completed
This would have easily been 4.5 stars if not for the romance because the esports aspect is well-written and exciting. But I am rating it 3stars because of the romance.

I'm surprised this doesn't get recommended a lot because I have never heard of it in esports recommendation sites/forums. It was a very enjoyable read. I liked the systematic rebuilding of the esports industry. This has to be the esports novel with the worst teams because others tend to have healthy competition and are generally really strong. I didn't exactly understand... more>> the gameplay but I enjoyed reading about it. I also liked reading about how strong Pei Feng is. Another broad statement but most other novels (that I've read) with the two leads involved in esports has one weaker than the other. They may be strong but not quite at the level of the other. But Pei Feng was really strong and I just adored that.

The only downside to me was the romance. I didn't feel it in the slightest. It felt too forced and Die Zhiling did the whole boring ass and forced romance moving trope of Jiang Shaoyu going into estrus and Pei Feng being the only one that can help him. I don't understand why authors still do all that mess. Is it so hard to build the romance slowly and actually put in effort to make the romance work instead of taking the easy way out? I got so angry when I got to that part of the book and my eyes nearly fell out from how hard I rolled it. I also didn't feel attached to any of the characters. I didn't care much what happened to them as long as the plot was moving. Their family story was also not explained properly.

Do I still recommend? YES but don't go in expecting good romance. <<less
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Onyo.onyo
Onyo.onyo
Sep 14, 2022
Status: undefined
I really liked this novel. The story of the struggle to win the championship made my blood boil and I was excited! The author's way of telling the match was very exciting, it made me imagine the scene dramatically. The love story isn't sickening either, it's actually more like the author puts it at the end after all the competitions and championships are over, and this is really my favorite type of story. Jiang Shaoyu makes me want to watch the e-sport match live
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rorowingaway
rorowingaway
Mar 16, 2023
Status: Completed
    • rating: 7/10 overall
    • MC = shou, O. ML = seme, A.
    • ML is MC apprentice
    • so like he chased MC to coach him to be the star e sports player he is today
    • MC hd to retire for a while cos of his pheromones
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      cos its like rare then aggressive also then had to send abroad to find sum vaccine like thing to allow him to control it

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    • so he only returns aft the orgn calls him and ask him to represent as national coach
    • MC = resilient, cold, sweet, adorable (he probs wont like to hear tht though loll), decisive, cunning, scheming, tactical
    • he has lots of tricks up his sleeve a very good coach that can allow players to reach their maximum and his eyes are very keen and he himself is very flexible all rounder player and very very verryyyy talented
    • ML = coached by MC so skills frm himx, talented, puppy like, commander like feeling? Same like MC
    • so yeah anyways he realise tht he likes MC then yes he confesses then
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      MC also realises then they get together its very sweet

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    • ML & MC = dog food bein thrown everywhere like literally
    • negatives: ok I have a few sometimes at parts the author is just repetitive to the core and like do they know how to play dat game even cos like seem very unexperienced cos the operations they wrote sum are jus smh also in the extras
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      they changed the MC chtr a lot like he is a very straightforward kind of person then they suddenly make him chnge chtr into relyin on ML fully kind which is breakin chtr brothaaaaa

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    • das all bye bye~
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uaaaeeuai
uaaaeeuai
Dec 02, 2022
Status: Completed
I really like this story a lot. I especially like how the plod doesn't necessarily revolved around romance and fluff, it was mostly about e-sports and the game itself.

Reading how each character grew maturely really made me happy, especially with how they were all given just the right amount of appearance and importance, none of them were "set aside" or forgotten just for the sake of plot.
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AnZhe798
AnZhe798
Oct 17, 2022
Status: Completed
im only on ch 54 and im really loving it and im silently and impatiently waiting for more chapters lmao

MC is our cold by face sweet by heart omega jiang shaoyu.

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Spoiler

he was previously a pro-player of gun king but the team disbanded after winning the championship.... he had to disband because of his pheromones disorder and 5 years later he comes back to china and becomes national team head coach, he has a student i.e ML pei feng which he trained by himself

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the previous team was called ACE.... SUPER COOL NAME

he is very strict calm and rational person....i really like his personality and the way he punishes the players (by writing self criticism) lolol

ML is sunshine alpha pei feng

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he was previously a youth trainee with ACE, after disbanding he became a streamer, he was very famous, and waited for his master i.e MC to come back, he later joined national team

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ML is all rounder cuz he was killed many times when he was in ACE by all the members lol, so later he became legendary all rounder player, he is super OP

and side players are also decribed very well

and as I said im waiting very impatiently for the chapters hehe

edit: ive finished the novel now, its really simple and sweet will a lot of dog food in the end

ML is very mature and sweet alpha and MC is cold but hot for ML hehe.

there is no angst I would say... there were sad moments for MC but it was for a very very short time.

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they both had twins too. the daughter omega witha personality like MC and younger son alpha like ml

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in the end I just wanna say, they are perfect, perfect and perfect for each other !!

for other characters:

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i really like mo hantian haha he always cries and shi xiaobin always hands him tissues lol. hua ran always clinges to shu chen which I think is very sweet. other players in national teams are awesome too.

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after reading this, I suddenly got motivated to work hard lol. because of their devil like training schedules and punishment haha. <<less
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mkj123
mkj123
Sep 03, 2022
Status: Completed
I love this so much!!!!!!!!!!!!

the story focuses more on e-sports and how the MC tries to resolve the problem that arise within the e-sports industry and the national team after he retired.

The romance between the MC and the ML is slow burn. REALLY SLOW BURN. I think, the romance between them only began to became the main focus during the last 4 chapters of the main story and in the extras.

I like how the author took the time to develop the team and characters during the first 100 chapters. I... more>> read some e-sports novel where the side characters where often brushed off to the side and forgotten. Here every character was given a chance to become the main spotlight.

The story was very well written and has a good flow and pacing. One of best parts in this novel was the battle scenes. It was so so good.
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The fight between the Chinese team and SK team during the finals of the Asian championship was my favorite. It was nerve wracking. My heart was beating so fast while reading that part of the story. My second favorite was the battle between the Chinese team and US team in the world championship. I nearly cried when it was announced that they won

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My only problem with this one is sometimes the descriptions about the team or players becomes a little exaggerated. <<less
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