Really sad that the playoffs were only 3 games, and the author mostly skipped over the losses. Would've appreciated seeing how the team handled the L's.

That being said the ending was super well done, would also recommend checking the side stories that were released afterwards they won.

MC is from a politically influential family which is implied in the last chapter. He ran away from home to become a gamer then met the orphaned SU bro sis duo. They (Su bro and YX) played and earned money from game then ultimately creating a pro team for the very first season of Glory Pro Alliance. Su Mucheng the baby sis and also one of the lead character was still young then and was sent to school. Before getting to the first pro scene, Su bro died in car accident. Leaving MC to play in pro scene without his partner in crime. Thing is both characters are genuises in this game but even more so the dead su bro. He created many of the self-made equipment of their characters and he’s very innovative. He was also known as the Gunner God in first server as per Wei Chen’s recount. As in God of every gun wielding character in the Glory.

given those info, we can assume that MC is heavily impacted by his death. Which bolstered his drive even more. He wanted to win because he enjoyed it but also because he wanted the creations made by his closest friend to be alongside him. This is evidenced by him omitting to play the first round of the season’s 1v1 which made his winning streak 1 less than the total games played during season (which is 38 games so his streak is 37). There was chapter of him thinking that ‘i left 1 game so you can break my streak’. It’s implied that ‘you’ here is su bro. He has a strong heart tbh. Whenever I think about that kind of circumstances I just feel incredibly sad. Parting in that way is very traumatic. I wish the author didn’t make such a heart breaking back ground.

Even when Excellent Era was losing and got relegated in season 8, he felt nothing but disappointment towards them since he was going to step down from his position as captain for the sake of the team even before he got kicked out. That's how much he love and respect he had for Excellent Era.

What really bedded in the sesnse of loss was learning about Su Muqiu (sp?) and realising that we never got to meet this genius who died so young.

To start with, Glory is basically... World of Warcraft, game-type wise, played in first person perspective and with a skill system that is very dependent on mouse-movement.

Yeah, you read that first part right. First-person.

There are numerous mentions of possibility of getting dizzy or nauseous when your character is being juggled in the air, as well as about dead-angles and how stereo-headspeakers are actually important to guess directions.

The second part makes the game abit more harsh, for instance, since a sword attack skill actually can change direction depending on how the player moves his/her mouse, and spellcasters actually have to click on their target to cast, which is somehow independent from their character point of view...

So, it is kind of a VR-Skyrim, without the option to go third person.

And then, we go to the e-sports section, which typically about fights between pro-players. Almost like DotA or LoL championships, but with less minions and defense towers, and more about players bashing each others, whether in 1vs1, tag-team, or team deathmatch, practically more like Counter-Strike competition instead.

The pro-realm is where the APM or hand reflexes come into play, to make use of the right skills, at the right moment, at the right spot.

Mostly.

Talent, intuition, nerves, adrenaline, training, all of them affects their hand techniques, but familiarity with skills, of their own class or of their opponent, familiarity with terrain, strategic AND tactical thinking, these also help in using the right skills in the right way, or even when NOT to use some skills. This differentiates newcomers like the talented Tang Rou with later introduced pro-players like Yu Wenzhou, who is stated to have a crippled APM, but is called one of the Four Master Tactician.

This then becomes the major attraction of the story. You have a whole set of characters, making the list very bloated, from casual to expert players, from rookie pros to retired pros, from ambitious captains to lowly subtitute players... And most feels distinct from each other.