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POV: It's right before the World Glory Competition, you are a Zhang Jiale fan, and these are some snippets from your Twitter timeline.

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荣耀世界邀请赛,我们来了!

 

We are travelling to the World Championship!

 

[A group photo of the Chinese Glory team wearing their uniforms at the airport.]

   

 

Worlds Pro Tracker stream starts tonight 6PM CEST. No one is allowed to sleep until we find Swoksaar.

   

 

Confirmed Chinese Glory team IDs:

Windy Rain - Storming Home

Dancing Rain - raindance

Dazzling Hundred Blossoms - CHAOS

   

Life Extinguisher - No Small Thing

Troubling Rain - pk_me

   

Swoksaar - motherofgautrek

   

 

Confirmed Dazzling Hundred Blossoms EU7 account is CHAOS

 

[A screenshot showing a Glory user profile for an account called CHAOS.]

   

 

Please someone save Dazzling Hundred Blossoms, the poor man is being bullied in EU7

   

 

@danubeglory watching Dazzling Hundred Blossoms on stream

 

[A 30 second video clipped from Rhys’ stream. He is watching a vod of a Spitfire named CHAOS running a dungeon with a random party. The group approaches the main boss and a Cleric throws his weapon, starting the encounter before the rest of the party is ready. Rhys yells at the screen in second hand rage as incoherent speech bubbles appear over CHAOS’s avatar.]

   

 

I interviewed Dazzling Hundred Blossoms after his arrival in Switzerland. We talked about playing on EU7, the current meta and who he’s most looking forward to meeting on the world stage.

 

[A minute-long preview of the interview. Both interviewer and interviewee are speaking Chinese. Subtitles are provided.

Translation:

Kylie: How are you enjoying the European Glory servers?

Zhang Jiale: It’s been an experience.

Kylie: How does it compare to playing in China?

Zhang Jiale: The style of play is very different, I don't usually spend too much time outside Heavenly Domain so this is quite different.

Kylie: I’ve seen that you’re struggling a bit with partying up with other people.

Zhang Jiale: There’s many very good players but they have very specific skills so it can be hard to play in a party.

Kylie: A very diplomatic answer.

Zhang Jiale: Ok, fine, you’re right, it’s been terrible. But generally the players are quite nice, even if I don’t understand their play.]

   

Full interview on YouTube

https://youtu.be/GfSOf3ekk18

   

 

Dazzling Hundred Blossoms Archive @dhbarchive Retweeted

🤣🤣🤣

 

[A 40 second video clipped from Rhys’ stream. He is watching another vod featuring CHAOS. CHAOS is part of a party clearing a dungeon and, once again, his team seems determined to lose, running into enemies without a care in the world.

Transcript: Why isn’t anyone from his team playing with him? Immovable Rock is running dungeons with Life Extinguisher, Boundless Sea, Cloud Piercer and Crying Devil. They’re probably all sitting in a room together, laughing and sharing food and making heart eyes at each other while Dazzling Hundred Blossoms is slowly losing his mind playing with these incompetent idiots, finding parties by himself.]

   

 

@TeamChinaGlory I still have my berserker account, let me party with Dazzling Hundred Blossoms

   

Replying to @danubeglory

#SaveDHB

   

Replying to @danubeglory

#SaveDHB

   

Replying to @danubeglory

#SaveDHB

   

Replying to @danubeglory

Let’s make it happen @danubeglory

   

My favourite caster and my favourite player? Hell yes.

   

 

dazzling hundred blossoms are you ok

 

[Screenshot of a Glory player profile for CHAOS. The PK win record shows 82 wins and 34 losses.]

   

Replying to @brianwashere

That’s a 70% win rate over 116 matches in the last 7 days and he’s doing dungeons as well. Is he even sleeping?

   

 

It’s happening.

 

[A photo from the Glory Professional Alliance of China official account with Zhang Jiale sitting at a computer. Rhys is photoshopped poorly peering over Zhang Jiale’s shoulder, a clipart microphone between them.]

   

Replying to @danubeglory

Can’t wait.

   

 

Dazzling Hundred Blossoms interview premiering tonight, 9PM CEST. twitch.tv/danubeglory

   

Interview now on YouTube https://youtu.be/ar3oTETtAdE

   

Replying to @danubeglory

wtf dazzling hundred blossoms is so cute wtf wtf

   

 

I was lucky enough to sit down with the head coach of the Chinese Glory team, Ye Xiu. We talked about his incredible final season in the GPA, what the unspecialized class means to him and how his transition to coaching has gone.

 

[A 30 second preview of the interview. Both interviewer and interviewee are speaking Chinese. Subtitles are provided.

Translation:

Kylie: How are you finding coaching players that you’ve played against in the past?

Ye Xiu: I’ve known many of the players on and off the stage for many years, so it has been quite a smooth transition. I’ve really enjoyed being able to work with the master tacticians rather than against them.]

   

Full interview on YouTube

https://youtu.be/OJhTgJKMtZc

   

It has been a dream of mine for many years to be able to interview Ye Xiu. He’s truly been an incredibly important player for the development of the Glory esports scene in China and one of the greatest players to ever touch the game.

   

 

Dazzling Hundred Blossoms Archive @dhbarchive Retweeted

DHB looking fly ~

 

[Screenshot from a promotional video for the Glory World Championship. Zhang Jiale is leaning against a doorway in the team uniform, while Wang Jiexi is watching him from some distance away, head tilted.]

   

 

Cathedral of Cronos, more like Disciples of DHB

   

 

苏沐橙和黄少天找到了什么有趣的地方?

 

What interesting place did Mucheng and Shaotian find?

 

📺: https://youtu.be/sX-spVMS5uE

   

 

@danubeglory reacts to Chinese Glory team vlog twitch.tv/videos/1169762944

   

Replying to @dhbarchive

Do you have the timestamp?

   

Replying to @dhbarchive and @camcamcam

About 3h 17min in

   

 

Team China Glory @TeamChinaGlory Retweeted

Jersey swap with @TeamChinaGlory. Good luck in the tournament!

 

[Two members of the Danish National Glory team holding the Chinese Glory team jerseys while two members of the Chinese team are doing the same with Danish jerseys.]

   

 

carrying with dazzling hundred blossoms lmao

 

[Screenshot of a Glory dungeon run stats summary screen. CHAOS and brianwashere have dealt about the same damage, but the other teammates did almost nothing.]

   

 

Dazzling Hundred Blossoms has reached top 2000 in the PK leaderboard

 

[A screenshot showing a Glory user profile for an account called CHAOS. It shows the PK leaderboard rank of 1946.]

   

if he plays like this during the tournament then it's an easy #ChinaWIN

   

 

 

[The two hands in solidarity meme. The hands are labelled "Germany" and "USA". The bottom text reads "Facing legends in round one."]

   

 

今晚是我们第一场比赛,谢谢大家的支持!

 

Our first match is tonight. Please cheer for us!

 

[Graphic with the logos for the Chinese Glory team and the Swedish Glory team. Underneath the logos is the date and time of the match.]

   

 

Notes:

Post-reveal notes!

 

I couldn't post notes before reveals because I have so many notes and I write really long ones....

 

This fic is based on the real, extended fanboy moment that European streamer, ex-pro and current caster Caedrel had before and during the 2021 League of Legends World Championship over Teddy, a Korean pro player (the (currently substitute) ADC on T1). It was an absolute joy to see it play out on Twitter and catch some of it on stream. I have a full, extremely long writeup of the full inspirations for this fic (with tweet references and reasons I thought I would get guessed) on blogspot.

 

During the live readings of this fic, I was RNG assigned to read this one. A recording of my read is is available as an MP3 (14m40s, with live sound effects).

 

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