The Emperor’s New Clothes

Blue Rain's Big Defeat! This was the front-page headline of the latest edition of Esports Weekly.

Demeter won the battle, but the reports all focused on Blue Rain, as their loss on their home stage was a more interesting topic.

In any battle there was always a victor and a loser; who won and who lost was never something too surprising. When Blue Rain played their away game against Demeter, they still won in the team round, and only lost by one point overall. Yet in their home game, they lost so drastically that the points didn't even need to be counted.

Group arena, lost. Team competition, lost again.

The team loss was particularly surprising – it was on a map with which Blue Rain was very familiar, yet they still hadn't been able to take the initiative.