Wednesday morning, March 7th.

On the rabbit tail live broadcast, the first exhibition match of the ICL league will start at 5 o'clock this evening, and the two teams are the two domestic teams that won the domestic quota and entered the IOI World Finals but were eliminated in the final group stage.

Although they were eliminated in the group stage, it looks like there is no card, but after all, the short man pulls out the general, and these two teams are currently the two strongest teams in China except for FV and SUG.

What's more, after they came back from the World Finals, they also played some training matches with the FV team, and their technical and tactical level and comprehensive strength have improved significantly.

Zhao Xuming believes that these two teams will appear in front of all the audience again, and they will definitely show a new look!

And tomorrow, Thursday, there will be an exhibition match between FV and SUG, and the attention will definitely be higher.

The reason why the match between FV and SUG was not scheduled today was mainly for fear of something unexpected on the first day.

All kinds of lighting, equipment, director, rabbit tail live broadcast related arrangements, etc., all need to be debugged. If the exhibition match between FV and SUG is scheduled today, it would be a disappointment if the computer repair was suspended all the time, and it would be a disservice to the popularity of the league.

Therefore, it is the best choice to arrange two teams with not so high traffic today, but with a certain strength and popularity.

Of course, this will also bring a problem, that is, what to do with the heat of the game.

At present, it is not an exaggeration to say that ninety percent of the popularity of the domestic ioi field is concentrated on the FV team, and the FV team is not on it, and there are not many viewers watching the ICL exhibition match on the first day, isn't it embarrassing?

However, Zhao Xuming thinks that this is not a big problem, after all, the data is true and false, and everyone understands it.

The live broadcast platform can give a few million fake heat, put more repeated barrages, and arrange a group of water armies to speak wildly...... It can also support the heat of the live broadcast room, at least with a fake effect.

Although there is no detailed agreement on these contents in the contract between the two parties, aren't the live broadcast platforms all such routines?

This kind of thing doesn't need to be deliberately explained at all, it's all the unspoken rules of the industry, and the staff on the Rabbittail Live broadcast will naturally arrange it.

Now, Eric and Zhao Xuming are inspecting the ICL league match site to check the preparation of various tasks.

The venue of the ICL League is also an indoor venue, which is in a large studio in the magic capital.

In fact, Eric initially considered large stadiums, but quickly gave up. Because although these large stadiums look more magnificent, there will be many corresponding problems.

For example, large open-air venues are severely affected by the weather, whether it is heavy rain or sunshine, the audience will suffer.

The bigger the venue, the more money you have to spend to decorate it. It's not that I'm afraid of spending money, but I'm mainly afraid that the audience will be dissatisfied, which will be embarrassing.

What's more, the transportation of large venues may not be very convenient, and if there are concerts, ball games and the like, the audience of ICL will leave the stadium with fans or fans, and the scene will be quite chaotic and difficult.

So after all things considered, I still rented an indoor studio like the GPL, so that at least the transportation is more convenient and the overall effect can be guaranteed.

Eric went to the backstage of the studio, asked the staff in detail about the commissioning of various equipment, and then went around the stage and the auditorium to see what were still deficiencies from the perspective of an audience.

Zhao Xuming followed Eric throughout the whole process, occasionally explaining some details.

Eric has deliberately studied the GPL venues before, and has a lot of experience to learn from, and Eric has also made a lot of instructions for the preparation of the ICL this time.

After all the turns, Eric sat in the audience and was silent for a moment, saying, "Isn't it going to be a little too GPL-like?" ”

He didn't realize this until now.

Because when preparing for the ICL League, Eric subconsciously adopted all the things that the GPL did well, such as the flags of each team used to decorate the stadium, the arrangement of the big screen on the stage and the position of the players, etc.

There is really nothing wrong with these details taken out individually, but when they are all put together, there is an inexplicable sense of familiarity......

Obviously, when the staff completed these details, they also subconsciously benchmarked the GPL's approach in their minds, so they did it a bit like that.

Zhao Xuming opened his mouth, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.

Since Eric asked this question, it was obvious that he already had a positive answer in his heart.

If he said "no", it would definitely make Eric feel that he had no vision.

But Zhao Xuming can't nod and say "yes", because in that case, Eric will definitely ask, in that case, why didn't you remind me earlier?

What Eric needed most now was a reliable solution.

But tonight is the game, so can there be a hammer solution in just a few hours?

Why don't you just tear it down and replace it all in a matter of hours? Isn't that?

Zhao Xuming had an idea and thought of his rhetoric.

"It's a bit of a GPL-like déjà vu, but I don't think it's okay."

"Although this will bring us a little negative public opinion, it also means that after the GPL audience moves to our ICL league, there is not much threshold to watch the game."

"It can only be said that there are pros and cons, but the pros outweigh the disadvantages."

"In the future, we can slowly adjust the decoration of the stadium and remove the GPL elements as much as possible."

Eric seemed to be quite satisfied with this answer, and nodded: "Well, that's all there is to it." ”

The two of them sat in the audience for a while, and Eric asked again: "I heard that Tengda Group is also preparing for overseas leagues, what is the current situation?" Any news? ”

Zhao Xuming hurriedly replied: "There is some news coming out. ”

"At present, Tengda Group's overseas league should also be in the preparatory stage, I heard that it is to cooperate with overseas companies to promote, and each agency company decides the specific matters of the overseas league, Tengda Group only plays a role in guiding and gatekeeping."

"As for which companies to cooperate with, what are the specific competition systems, schedules, and participating teams of each overseas league...... None of this has been heard at all. ”

Eric nodded and smiled slightly: "Overseas leagues, after all, we are better, IOI's global regional leagues started earlier than GOG, and it is directly coordinated by the finger company to establish branches in various places, which is obviously an overall advantage in this regard." ”

Zhao Xuming asked: "I was also surprised when I first heard the news, this doesn't look like Mr. Pei's style of doing things." Wouldn't it be embarrassing to cooperate with other companies and let these companies lead the preparation of overseas leagues, in case the cooperation is not good? ”

Eric smiled slightly: "Do you think Mr. Pei doesn't realize this?" He realized, but he couldn't help it. ”

"After all, Tengda Group does not have much experience in going to sea, and it is likely to be difficult to forcibly take care of everything."

"Dayak Group is a multinational group with good influence in many parts of the world, and the finger company is a Mi country company."

In other words, in terms of domestic leagues, Tengda has a natural advantage; But when it comes to overseas leagues, it's the exact other way around. ”

"As far as I know, the league at the headquarters of the finger company in the North Rice region has been almost prepared, and the tentative price of the league seat is ......"

"Seven million dollars."

Zhao Xuming was stunned for a moment: "It's so expensive!" ”

That's the price of a single seat.

It was said before that Mr. Pei gave a sky-high price for the GPL quota, but the average price of the seats was basically around 20 million, which was only 3 million dollars.

And the offer for seats in the ioi North Mi Regional League directly doubled the quota offer for GPL!

Eric smiled, "It's a little expensive at the moment, but it won't necessarily be in the future." Moreover, for the price of seven million dollars, there will also be many clubs to buy. ”

"The club over there has much more money, and it will hurt them to buy a seat for seven million, but they will definitely not give up this seat."

The development level of the e-sports industry is different between different regions, and the e-sports industry in Europe, the United States and South Korea is relatively fast-developing, but when it comes to financial resources, it is definitely the most wealthy club in North Mi.

Of course, there are also many large consortia in the domestic e-sports industry, and the financial resources of various clubs are also growing rapidly, but compared with clubs in the United States, the financial resources are still much worse.

The pricing of the finger company in the North Mi region is not a slap on the head, but a combination of factors such as the financial resources of each club, the influence and popularity of IOI in the North Mi region, and the asking price of other e-sports industries.

Eric doesn't ask for a high price from domestic esports clubs, and the ICL league places are basically half bought and half given, not because he is a philanthropist, but simply because he knows that domestic clubs can't squeeze out so much oil and water.

No one can afford to set a sky-high price, so what's the point?

But the situation on the Beimi side is different, this side is the base camp of the finger company, the league, live broadcast and the club's related derivative industries, this is a huge pool of gold absorption, the finger company does not want to sell all the places cheaply, it must make a good profit.

The landlord's family has no surplus grain, and the finger company is crazy about throwing coins in order to promote the domestic market, where does this money come from? Don't you still have to make money from other markets?

Eric said very confidently: "It's hard to say about other regions, but in the North Rice region, the finger company has an absolute advantage, and it will definitely not be so easy for Tengda to run GOG's North Rice League and compete with ioi!" ”

Zhao Xuming nodded slightly in agreement.

Indeed, Tengda's achievements so far are mainly domestic, and Tengda, as a domestic company, does have an advantage in this regard.

But when it comes to Beimi, it is the home of the finger company, and Tengda Group cannot directly intervene, so it can only let other game companies act as agents, and the difficulty will definitely increase a lot.

Eric's self-confidence with the finger company is obviously very reasonable.

Just then, Eric's cell phone rang.

He glanced at it, his brows couldn't help frowning, and his face changed suddenly after picking up the phone.

"What? I'll take a look at it right away. ”

These two sentences were in English, and it was clear that the call was coming from the headquarters of Finger in Los Angeles.

Zhao Xuming asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Eric's face was a little ugly: "I don't know why the forum over there in Beimi is so hyped that we treat the two divisions differently!" ”