Chapter 4: “So, who is Jeon Jeon Seol?”

The largest community dedicated to Teamfight Arena in Korea is the Teamfight Arena Gallery.

It guarantees anonymity, requiring neither login nor membership, and is populated primarily by young men.

Many of these users are highly game-friendly individuals who only show bravado online, creating a unique synergy that results in an aggressive, almost predatory, character unparalleled in other communities.

The current hot topic igniting the gallery is a mysterious whisper message received during Victory’s livestream.

To say Teamfight Arena Gallery is obsessed with Victory would not be an exaggeration.

Typical posts in such gaming galleries are predictable: complaints about how the team’s performance is terrible, lamenting bad luck with teammates, begging for buffs for their chosen champions, or demanding nerfs for champions the opponents use.

Among the thousands of daily diary-like posts, the ones that truly capture attention are those discussing the professional scene.

Heroic admiration is the core of it all.

Pro gamers are the idols of young men, players who have crushed millions of competitors to reach the top and gained both wealth and fame.

This naturally leads to aspirations of becoming a pro.

Of course, the reality is that only a minute fraction of individuals, filtered through rigorous selection, can even hope to become professional players. Among them, even fewer manage to thrive.

Victory, a former champion.

He has won every tournament he participated in, effectively the reigning world champion, and is regarded as the embodiment of Teamfight Arena itself.

Any post about him enjoys unparalleled popularity and attention.

The joke that “you wouldn’t know how to post without Victory” feels less like a joke and more like a reality.

[Author: ᄋᄋ][Title: Who is Jeon Jeon Seol whispering to Victory?]

[According to the match record site, they’re on a 30-win streak—is this real? Pro players typically start from a super account at 30, so who is this person?]

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“Is it that impressive to crush noobs with a 30-win streak? lol.”

“It actually is, though.”

“It’s only impressive to someone stuck at the bottom tier. Decent players can do it.”

“Who are these ‘decent players’ then? Give us examples.”

“Why is there no response? Examples, please.”

“A 30-win streak in lower tiers isn’t even worth bragging about lol.”

“Could you do it then?”

“With a bit of luck, maybe.”

“At that rank, there are a lot of inexperienced players who are worse than AI, yet here you are talking without trying. Opponents aren’t even opponents; the real enemy is your own team.”

“Your team is the enemy? That just sounds like Teamfight Arena as usual.”

“The delusion that you’d do better. The fantasy that you’re special.”

“So who’s actually achieved this 30-win streak?”

“Why is no one answering? Examples, please!!!”

“Was it done in a 5-stack?”

“All the teammates’ nicknames are different each game. A few overlap, but only two people for two or three matches—seems like a coincidence.”

“Wow, then they must be a real pro!”

“A pro? Stop hyping up a smurf.”

“Is leveling up an alternate account really smurfing?”

“Based on what they’re saying, it doesn’t seem like it’s an alternate account.”

“Someone not on an alternate account achieving a 30-win streak? Give me a break lol.”

“If you’ve got common sense and aren’t running on empty, think about it—would it be a newbie or an alternate account?”

“The answer is right there in the post: a skilled non-professional.”

“So who is this non-professional?”

“How would I know?”

“Ugh, this is annoying.”

“Why are people latching onto this nonsense? Don’t you have anything better to do?”

“It’s probably just one of Victory’s friends. At this point, they should rename the gallery from Teamfight Arena Gallery to Victory Fan Gallery.”

“Again with this nonsense?”

[Is it you again?]

“How do these people even manage to post without Victory?”

“Welcome to the Korean Victory Gallery.”

[Author: ᄋᄋ] [Title: Victory’s Expression When He Got the Whisper]

(Attached is a GIF of Victory smiling after receiving the whisper message.)

“Isn’t this ᄅᄋ’s girlfriend?”

“Can a guy even smile like that just from getting a whisper?”

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“What’s with that sweet smile lololol?”

“This must definitely be his girlfriend.”

“How could a girl achieve a 30-win streak?”

“Why are you dismissing girls?”

“Isn’t it fair to dismiss them? Are there any girls in Challenger? Any female pros?”

“Do girls even play this game in the first place?”

“They do, but they’re all stuck in the lower ranks lol.”

“Anyone who’s seen how they chat while trolling can’t deny it.”

“If you’re in a tier where you queue with girls, that’s your fault lol.”

“Anyway, Victory’s friend is definitely a guy. Anyone can see that.”

“Excuse me… what?”

“So you’re saying Victory smiled like that after getting a whisper from a guy?”

“Gay vibes…”

“Victory is just too cute, what should I dooo? 🥺🥺🥺”

“Take that gender out of the gallery!”

“Why are you angry? It doesn’t have to be a girl—it could be that Victory’s gay.”

“ᄅᄋ lol.”

There was a brief suspicion that it might be a girlfriend, but no one seriously believed it.

Women can’t play Teamfight Arena—that’s common knowledge within Teamfight Arena Gallery.

Even beyond that, no one could imagine that someone who achieved the incredible record of a 30-win streak could be a woman.

Some even suggested, “Judging by the chat, isn’t it a newbie?”—but such opinions were drowned out by the consensus that “It can’t be done unless it’s an alternate account.”

[Author: ᄋᄋ] [Title: Breaking News—Jeon Jeon Seol Achieves 31 Wins in a Row]

“Now I’m curious how far this will go.”

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[Comments: 35]

“Why is everyone making such a fuss about farming noobs in the low ranks? Whether it’s 31 wins or 100, no one cares, so stop broadcasting updates.”

“Why is the gay guy so angry…?”

“Typical trait of always-angry people: their life sucks.”

“LOL.”

“Another trait: they’re unemployed.”

“It’s off-season for tournaments, so there’s no drama—makes sense.”

“That’s exactly it.”

“That person does seem like their life is a mess and they’re unemployed, though.”

“Oh no… oh dear…”

The first month of the new year, January.

Not only have all tournament schedules ended, but major player signings and re-signings are also complete, leaving fans to wait for the next season.

While this is a time of anticipation, wondering how well newly structured teams will perform, not everyone enjoys speculating about teams that haven’t played a single match yet.

This is why random topics from outside the pro scene gain attention.

In short, the gallery users were bored.

So bored that they fixated on and tore apart the smallest, most trivial subjects.

“Is it because I massacred too many newbies?”

[Friend Requests (99+)]

Seola glanced at the over 99 friend requests that had piled up. She hadn’t formed any bonds with others during the game, yet friend requests kept flooding in?

“Are they just waiting to swear at me?”

She assumed these people wanted to vent their in-game frustrations through chats.

With that thought, Seola ignored all the requests.

In Teamfight Arena, you can’t send whispers unless you’ve added someone as a friend.

It would take her some time to realize that she had become the center of attention for so many.

But that wasn’t the only misunderstanding Seola had.

“How long do I have to keep playing with these newbies?”

According to her understanding, players below level 30 should be matched with other sub-level-30 players. And that was true, but only if one maintained a normal win rate of about 50%.

The infamous matchmaking system of Teamfight Arena was designed to equalize all players’ win rates to 50%.

• The more you lose, the more your team gets matched with players who have higher win rates, and the enemy team gets matched with those who have lower win rates.
• Conversely, the more you win, the more your team is filled with players who have abysmal win rates, while the enemy team is packed with players boasting incredible win rates.

This system that enforces a 50% win rate often feels deeply unfair to those on a winning streak.

“How am I supposed to win with this team? Against that team?” Frustration abounds.

While many on the gallery insisted that a 30-win streak in the low levels was easy, they couldn’t give a single example when asked. The reason?

It’s actually incredibly hard.

They didn’t know who had accomplished it.

They just didn’t like seeing someone else getting praised, so they argued for the sake of it.

Regardless, it’s undeniable that this system contributed to the game’s popularity.

Would anyone enjoy playing a game where they lose all the time?

The reason newbies don’t quit after losing 30 matches in a row is largely thanks to this matchmaking system.

The more games they play, the closer their win rate converges to 50%—whether they’re climbing or falling.

Returning to Seola’s case:

When you go on a relentless winning streak like hers, the enemy’s skill level rises to the point where there are no other sub-level-30 players to match against.

There are simply no users at her level with a similar or higher win rate.

As a result, she began matching with players over level 30 who also participated in ranked games.

Her latest victims? The opposing team she just obliterated—all level 30+, with three Diamond players and one Platinum.

Yet, to Seola, they didn’t feel much different from the newbies she had been facing before.

“Ugh, when am I going to hit max level already? This game is trash!”

Still unaware that she was no longer in the “newbie zone,” Seola continued under her illusion.

***

[Title: Looking for Master or Higher Players to Break Jeon Jeon Seol’s Win Streak]

[Author: BananaEaterHalf]

“Only accepting players with a 60%+ win rate in normal games. Must verify before joining.”

Meanwhile, over at the Teamfight Arena gallery, someone had started gathering a team to specifically target her.

“What’s so impressive about massacring newbies in the lower ranks?”

This was someone who couldn’t stand that Jeon Jeon Seol was getting attention he, a top 0.1% player, had never received.

“If I stream the match where we break Jeon Jeon Seol’s streak, my viewer count will explode!”

This was a small-time streamer desperate for an audience.

“How dare you be close to Victory? Victory probably doesn’t even know I exist!”

This was a fanboy furious over losing his idol, Victory, to someone else.

***

For their own reasons, five Master-tier players banded together.

These were ultra-high-level players from the top 0.1% of the game.

Their goal? To crush Jeon Jeon Seol’s streak.