My Sniper Rifle Carries Every Match [Esports]

[Coming next: Mid Laner Supreme and Takeoff, 1980. Please add them to your reading list.]

Blurb:

Tang Jinshi used to be an ordinary professional esports player. He competed in MOBAs and FPS games, was reliable in the league but never had results at world championships, and eventually retired after a hand injury made him worse at the game.

Unexpectedly, while he was out grabbing a bite to eat, a truck sent him to another world.

Some contraption calling itself a Get Rich System showed up and told him that if he played games well, he could get rich.

First, though, he had to pay back the debt for the energy the System had spent saving him.

When Tang Jinshi heard the amount, he nearly blacked out.

Ten billion. You might as well have left me dead.

Viewers who follow the professional league in the City of Glitz all hold Tang Jinshi, known by his ID peace, in high regard.

Among the gunmen who say things that can’t be broadcast, peace lives up to his name. He’s a paragon of good manners, a model of civility.

Not only can he keep from cursing out teammates who play badly, feed, throw, argue, give random orders, or call out useless information in ranked games, he has also turned around many awful teammates with his clutch plays against multiple opponents, guiding them onto the right path. In matches, he’s the team’s one and only designated daddy: he carries, and he also soothes his teammates when they’re tilted. He truly has a mountain of fatherly love to give.

Off the field, peace has never been involved in any scandals and has always trained hard, even during the off-season.

Even the Tieba crowd, who call professional players animals as a matter of course, can only dismiss him by saying, “This guy is so fake.”

Tang Jinshi says they’re overpraising him. He’s really not that great. He just wants to pay off his debt to the System as quickly as possible.

Mid Laner Supreme

After the Spring Festival break, ACE gives its fans a brand-new “gift.”

After a stunning record of 0-7 in match wins and 0-14 in map wins in the first half of the spring split, they decide to let their most decent player, team spirit Stack, go and bring in a new starter.

And the new starter is a woman.

A forum hot take: “ACE caught swine fever? The four idiots can’t even cling to their daddy’s coattails properly, and now they’re supposed to carry a girl? Is ACE planning to dive straight to 0-32 and make league history?”

The spring split ends with ACE scraping into the playoffs at 8-8. They lose 1-3 to their opponents in the second round and finish in the top eight.

A highlighted forum post: “The ACE fan forum is full of crybabies. In the off-season, they only kick out the real daddies! If you don’t want Loya, sell her straight to my team.”

Luo Ya, the scapegoat being ruthlessly raked over the coals by her teammates’ fans, remains calm.

As it happens, she’s planning to settle scores too.

The Top-Ranking Rich Lady Takes on Three

Qu Yan has a small hobby: she likes playing games and watching competitions.

Unexpectedly, she gets caught up in a romantic scandal just because she’s been too busy to log in for two weeks.

The player she supports is exposed for dating the second-, third-, and fourth-ranked fans in his livestream. As the number-one supporter, she’s become the poor sap everyone expects to have a meltdown and quit the internet.

Huh? What do you mean, anyone would lose it after spending so much money without getting a date?

Is it possible she genuinely likes watching competitions? Besides, that player isn’t the only one she’s the number-one supporter of.

And anyway, who wants to date an esports player?!

No, she has to buy a team and show these people what she can do. She’s serious about esports.

Even after the team is formed, nobody believes Qu Yan is serious about managing it.

Betting threads keep popping up on all the major forums.

“Rich lady’s just playing around, and she’s even playing herself. If this team gets results, I’ll eat my hat.”

That is, until Qu Yan leads her team to lift the world championship trophy...

“Esports funded by rich people only ruins the ecosystem. So what if they won the championship? I’ll never acknowledge them.”

Never mind. They’re already like this, so we might as well humor them.

Reader’s guide: This is an original FPS game with a short time to kill and two game modes: four teams or two teams. Changes to maps and modes affect which characters and guns players choose. The protagonist will choose according to the circumstances of each match, rather than picking a sniper rifle every time. This story does not misrepresent itself with its title.

The game and competition formats are the same as in The Top-Ranking Rich Lady Takes on Three, but the two stories take place in parallel worlds.

The protagonist of From Scratch: Building an Esports Team was friends with the protagonist before transmigrating.

There are no real-life counterparts. The story depicts common phenomena across esports and traditional sports, including but not limited to mental states, injuries, cheats, match-throwers, match-fixing, communication, playing without effort, and moral character.

The story includes live chat comments, forum posts, tournament commentary, matches, and post-match analysis from multiple perspectives. Please don’t read if these aren’t your thing.

Content warning added December 6, 2023: This story involves protagonists from System novels on Dianjia, System novels on Qie, and new-media esports novels. This story’s protagonist has no relationship with any of them, and feels neutral to hostile toward them.

The protagonists of this story, Mid Laner Supreme, and The Top-Ranking Rich Lady Takes on Three all have varying degrees of dislike for people and things. However, they all obey the law and even do some charity work. Their attitude toward life is to mind their own business and stay out of other people’s affairs. Please allow the protagonists not to go out of their way to save others. They only offer advice out of a sense of decency; if people don’t listen, so be it. The protagonist has never harmed small animals. Please allow the protagonist to feel indifferent toward them.

Theme: Face adversity with optimism and determination