FV Esports Club.

Wu Yue, who had just received the news, was very speechless and was a little angry.

"Is this official? The quota for our FV club was officially given, and the No. 1 seed was brought by skill, and as a result, there were three teams in total, and the other two were arranged to go to Los Angeles for training, but there was no news from our side at all? ”

"You really don't think of us as your own team?"

"Just because I have a little holiday with Mr. Pei, I have a mentality like this?"

These e-sports clubs are very well-informed, and the FV e-sports club soon got the news: Longyu Group officially organized two other teams to go to Los Angeles for training in advance, and urgent visas have been processed.

As a result, all these news were learned from other sources, and Longyu Group did not plan to notify the FV club at all, and did not even explain it in a fake way!

This can only explain one problem: Longyu Group deliberately did not take the FV club to Los Angeles.

Manager Lu hurriedly persuaded: "Mr. Wu, you dissipate your anger, this matter is indeed too much, but we don't have a good way." ”

"This time I went to Los Angeles to play a training match in advance, which should be a self-organized behavior of Longyu Group, and it is not in the process of the World Championship hosted by Finger Company."

"So Longyu Group can also say that it is love to bring us, and it is duty not to bring us, and they will bring whoever they want at their own expense. Many teams from other regions don't enjoy this kind of treatment. ”

Wu Yue said: "This is discrimination! It's a difference! We should appeal, or simply post on Weibo to the public, so that everyone can take a good look at the faces of this group of people in Longyu Group! ”

Manager Lu hurriedly shook his head: "Mr. Wu, this is not appropriate!" ”

"Longyu Group did not hype up this matter in an official capacity, if we broke out, Longyu Group could immediately change its words and say that this was a spontaneous act of the club, and Longyu Group was only responsible for matchmaking and played a small role. Because the truth of this matter is easy to cover up, let's start a group rashly, as long as Longyu Group plays Tai Chi with us, it is easy to cover up the past, but it seems that we are calculating and spending the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain. ”

"As for appealing, it's even more useless, isn't that equivalent to 'who in the court sues this official'?"

"What's more, esports is all about results in the end. Let's go online now to make a big deal about it, bring a wave of rhythm, what if the World Championship doesn't play well? At that time, public opinion will definitely backlash, and at that time, even if we are reasonable, we will not be reasonable. ”

"Think about it, you know what netizens will say when the world championship loses: Is such a team embarrassed to ask the official for money to go to Los Angeles to play a training match? I should have given up my place to SUG in the first place! ”

"Anyway, as long as we lose, the rhythm will definitely fly all over the sky, and we can't afford not to think about the consequences now."

Wu Yue nodded with a dark face: "Well, it seems that Zhao Xuming has taken this point seriously, and thinks that even if we poke it out, we won't be able to reap the benefits, so it is so blatant, just to kill chickens and monkeys, and beat us to give Tengda a good look by the way." ”

"That'...... Are we just going to have to suffer a dumb loss? Longyu Group has done such a disgusting thing, we can't even say it? ”

Manager Lu thought for a while: "I can definitely say it, but I can't say it now." ”

"Jumping out and starting a group before the results of the game come out is a fool's job. On the one hand, it has increased the huge pressure of public opinion on his players, affecting their performance; On the other hand, if the game is lost, the other party will take the opportunity to fall into the ground, and the people who eat melons will not be on our side, so it will really go straight into the ground. ”

"The best way is actually to settle accounts after the autumn, and if we win the game, we can take advantage of the victory to pick out all these things, and the tailwind output is the best choice."

"So for us, the best choice now is to endure the humiliation, try not to let this incident affect the mentality of our players, and actively prepare for the competition. When we get good results in the World Championships, we can use the pressure of public opinion to fight back against Longyu Group. ”

"As long as we have better results than the other two clubs, then it doesn't matter if we win the championship or the runner-up, even if it's just a semi-final, a quarter-final, there will be arguments."

"At that time, we can say that the official differential treatment has led to bad results in the whole region, and if we are given the same treatment, maybe our results can be better, and so on."

"In short, everything still depends on the results, and nothing is in vain without results."

Wu Yue was silent for a moment and sighed softly: "It's difficult! ”

"Although the strength of our current squad on paper is good, judging from the previous qualifying rounds, the strength is only between the other two teams, and it is also a little bit of a fixture. Maybe if you play a non-bladder game again, you won't necessarily win them. ”

"The benefits of going to Los Angeles for training are obvious, we can play European and American servers with low latency, better adapt to the version, and play training matches with the current stronger European and American teams, and the strength will definitely improve faster than us."

"We can't just rely on fantasy if we want to win against them."

Manager Lu nodded, and also felt that the situation was indeed very serious.

E-sports does not mean that you can win with determination and perseverance, but also requires scientific training methods and good supporting facilities.

Many players are extremely talented, but in some clubs they can't do well, often because the club is poorly managed, the training methods are not right, and the supporting facilities can't keep up.

Wu Yue said: "Why don't we go to Los Angeles too?" ”

Manager Lu was silent for a moment: "Longyu Group organized them to go to Los Angeles because they could connect with the finger company, and when they got there, they could get a high-end bureau account for European and American services, and they could come forward to make an appointment with the old European and American teams for training matches in an official capacity." Looking at Longyu Group's attitude towards us, even if we pay out of our own pockets, we definitely don't have these things! ”

"We can't go all the way to Los Angeles, and as a result, the players go and play rank in the low segments of the European and American servers all day long, right? Isn't that more practiced? ”

"What's more, we are a big group of people, and the expenses are also very large, so we went to take care of our own food and lodging in advance, and we want to give the team members something good, plus the entourage...... If you count it as 8 people, you can get 200,000 yuan. If you take into account the training situation and bring our second team over, it will have to be doubled. ”

"Of course, our club can afford this money, but the problem is that spending money may not necessarily guarantee the training effect, and the cost performance is too poor."

Wu Yue thought about it, it was indeed the case.

Longyu Group organized two other teams to go to Los Angeles for training because they had high-end bureau accounts and could make appointments for training matches with European and American teams. If you don't have any, it's really unnecessary to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars just to adapt to the environment in advance.

After thinking about it again, Wu Yue said: "This kind of trivial matter doesn't seem to be easy to bother Mr. Pei, so let's call Mr. Zhang of Tengda's E-sports Division and ask him to help with the staff officer." ”

"If it's really not necessary, we won't go, stay in China to play training matches with domestic teams, and wait for other training matches to be rescheduled during the World Championships."

……

……

Saturday, December 17th.

Today there is a regular meeting of the management of the loss of life.

This year's Spring Festival is relatively early, January 23, so the exam week is also a little earlier, and the students are also spending a lot of time reviewing after work.

After all, most of the products are still in the final stage of research and development, including automatic intelligent bar lifting machines and other products have not yet shown signs of backstabbing, so naturally there is not much useful information here.

Pei Qian knows that it will be a tough battle from next month.

As a result, the settlement cycle coincided with the exam week, and I have to say that this feeling is very sour.

Whether you can beat Lao Ma in this exam depends on the trembling before the exam.

The managers and indemnity students still reported the situation of their respective departments as usual, and soon it was the turn of the indemnity managers of the e-sports division.

This Guan Yuansheng has been following Zhang Yuan, who was originally in charge of the DGE club, and later after the establishment of the e-sports division and the GPL league, he naturally entered the interior, and at present, whether it is DGE or other clubs, or even the entire e-sports club, the affairs cannot escape his eyes.

"The GPL preseason is about to enter the second half, and everything is going well in the current game, and some in-game bugs and equipment problems have been properly solved, which should be able to accumulate a lot of experience for the spring game."

"At present, the main lineups of GPL clubs have basically been fixed, and those teams that did not participate in the GPL preseason are also playing training matches and actively preparing for the spring game."

"The new batch of players of the DGE club has been swept away, although the strength is worse than the first batch of players, but after all, this group of people is talented, and they have also undergone special training by the old players, so they still play the main position in the new teams......

Pei Qian's hand holding the teacup couldn't help but tremble.

Although I had been mentally prepared for this for a long time, I still felt my heart tremble when I really heard the news.

Ten more team members, how much does this have to sell!

This batch of players is the second batch of players after Huang Wang and Jiang Huan were collectively bought, and they are still selling very well.

There's a reason why DGE's players sell well.

First of all, the reputation of the DGE club is outside, potential newcomers tend to come to the DGE club to raise their value, and other clubs also feel that the players who buy the DGE club will definitely not lose, so they buy more simply.

Potential newcomers who are really capable are willing to come to the DGE club, because once they play the results, they can immediately jump to other clubs to get a big contract. For other clubs, the DGE club does not directly participate in the competition, does not pose a threat to their own results, and also helps to develop players, so they are also happy to buy people from DGE.

Over time, "all the players who come out of DGE can be independent" has become the inherent impression of the entire league audience and clubs, which has made the operation of DGE enter a virtuous circle.

As a result, DGE's new players are like leeks that can be sold every once in a while to earn a lot of transfer fees.

In this regard, Pei Qian was also powerless.

He pretended to be calm and took a sip of tea and asked, "So, how much is the total transfer fee?" ”

Guan Yusheng said: "Ten players, these people's performance is different, some of them are strong or have command ability C position is worth relatively high, the highest transfer fee is more than 1.5 million, if it is a very average performance, it may only be seven or eight hundred thousand, about one million." Together, these players sold a total of about 13 million for transfer fees. ”

Pei Qian: "......"

A word almost blurted out.

This number seriously exceeded his psychological expectations!

The transfer fees of Huang Wang, Jiang Huan and others were all about 2 million before, so Pei Qian thought that the transfer fee of 1 million for these young players would be the top.

But apparently not so!

In the early days, the transfer fees of star players like Huang Wang and Jiang Huan were also a little inflated, after all, the major clubs were rushing for the results of the GOG World Invitational, for high bonuses and exposure.

However, with the gradual increase of GOG's market share in the world and the success of GOG Invitational Tournaments, the popularity of the GPL league has increased......

After this series of operations, the value of star players like Huang Wang and Jiang Huan is also expanding rapidly as more and more capital enters the market!

Now their transfer fee is not a matter of two million.

The value of the top players has risen, and the value of the second batch of potential newcomers of the DGE club will naturally rise.

Ten people don't seem like much, but when the transfer fees are added together, they are rushing for 13 million.

What made Pei Qian feel a little vomiting blood was not this number, but time!

After all, Mr. Pei is also a person who has seen the world, and hundreds of millions of funds have been in and out several times, not to mention 10 million in this area.

Anyway, it can't reach my own hands, it's just a number.

The key is how much time it took to earn this more than 10 million!

The introduction of this group of players was in September, and now it is December, and it has only been cultivated for three months, and it is 13 million when it is sold!

In this way, the DGE club earns an average of more than 4 million per month, which is easy.

Not to mention the commercial sponsorship and live streaming contracts of the DGE Club!

The daily expenses of the DGE club are really not much, the training base is rented by Mr. Li, and Manager Cui of Mingyun Villa is eager to provide Mr. Pei as his father, and the daily expenses such as rent and utilities are not much to spend.

The only place to spend money may be daily expenses such as eating and exercising.

But there are fish takeaway and managed gyms, even if these players eat and practice openly, how much can they spend?

Pei Qian felt very tired.

People open clubs to burn money, and the original intention of opening a club by themselves is also to burn money, but playing and playing becomes making money!

A club that specializes in buying and selling players to make money, a club that can't play the game but is bigger than the championship team, it's outrageous to think about.

It is said that if the DGE club is well trained, it should earn more than 10 million transfer fees, but the problem is that these players are good seedlings!

Because potential newcomers are squeezing their heads to drill into the DGE club and regard this as their first choice, as long as they try out a few of them, they are potential newcomers.

Just like many super middle schools, if you admit all the high-quality students around you, can you get bad grades in the end?

Pei Qian silently took a sip of tea and adjusted his mentality: "Go on." ”

Guan continued: "There are a number of clubs that have already received sponsorships, although the number varies, and it is not possible to rely on some sponsorships to keep the club afloat for the time being, but this is a good start. ”

"Before the start of the spring season, some teams should have the sponsor's logo on their uniforms. Although it is not good to have too many sponsors, it is not good to have no sponsors at all, and it will make the audience feel that the league is not hot enough. ”

Pei Qian nodded slightly, the sponsor can stuff money into the club casually, it has nothing to do with me.

"In addition, there are many sponsors who have shown strong interest in the exclusive title of the GPL, including computer manufacturers, peripheral manufacturers, as well as sportswear, digital products, automobiles, and so on. ”

"However, the specific price has not yet been finalized, and it is still being negotiated."

"At present, the exclusive cooperation price of a single type of business is about 5 million a year, and the price of exclusive title is about 20 million a year. Because it involves some details in the sponsorship, it is still being discussed. ”

"As for the live broadcast platform, the broadcast rights of the GPL Spring and Summer Games will be considered for licensing to three live broadcast platforms, with a reserve price of 10 million, and at present, the bidding price should be more than 12 million......"

"These are still being discussed, and Mr. Zhang is also summarizing news from all sides, and it should be reported soon."

Listening to these numbers, Pei Qian felt that his hands and feet were a little cold, and his brain was blank.

I thought that the DGE club's crazy selling was already bad news, but now I found out that the real bad news is still to come!

Recently, Pei Qian's attention has been attracted by the ioi qualifiers and the cold-faced girl, and he hasn't paid too much attention to the GPL side, but he didn't expect the situation to be so serious!

In fact, I should have thought that so many sponsors have gone to the team to cooperate, and there will definitely be more people who will come to the official cooperation!

At present, the sponsorship price of the GPL league is also tiered.

A single type of exclusive cooperation refers to the monopoly of a certain category of goods after a certain brand sponsors. For example, if a sportswear has signed an exclusive cooperation with the GPL, then the GPL will not negotiate cooperation with other sportswear in the future.

Of course, this does not affect the official to find cooperation with manufacturers of computers, automobiles, digital products, etc.

As for the exclusive title, it can also be regarded as the chief sponsor, that is, it will get the best official recommendation resources, and the offer is naturally the highest.

As for the competition on the live broadcast platform, it is even more intense, after all, the major live broadcast platforms are currently in the stage of crazy money burning and diversion, and if they can't get the GPL broadcast rights, they will give users a feeling of "this platform is not very good", so the bidding price is speculated very high.

Having said that, this amount cannot be compared with the sponsorship fee of hundreds of millions or hundreds of millions in Pei Qian's memory.

But the question is, where is that?

GOG has been born for less than a year, and there is no recognition of e-sports in China, and now it is very outrageous to be able to ask for such a high sponsorship fee!

But if you think about it, there is some justification for this.

Because of the popularity of the GOG World Finals, everyone sees the huge potential of esports, and the GPL is so good that there are almost no competitors at the moment.

What's more, news such as Shenhua and other giant companies have entered the market, GPL's sky-high quotas, etc., are constantly stirring the nerves of the audience, and sponsors have seen the advertising effect brought by the huge popularity, and compared with the offer of traditional sports, they feel that it is very cost-effective, so they naturally enter one after another.

Pei Qian silently calculated that the GPL is very likely to earn hundreds of millions of funds through various sponsorships and broadcast rights for the spring and summer games.

The good news is that the hundreds of millions of dollars are earned throughout the year, and it will be slightly easier to accept when spread over each month.

The bad news is that sponsorship fees are likely to be higher by next year.

Pei Qian thought about it for a while, and he was afraid that this money would not be pushed away.

In this case, I have to tell Zhang Yuan to let these sponsors pay in installments and spread the money evenly every month, don't call all at once, especially not just in time for this critical node before the settlement.

Otherwise, Mr. Pei will ascend to heaven on the spot.

"Anything else?" Pei Qian felt a little tired.

Guan Yusheng thought for a while: "Oh, there's one more little thing, about the FV club. It is said that the Longyu Group wanted to arrange for the domestic team to train in Los Angeles, but only the FV team was left behind......"

Wu Yue called Zhang Yuan to discuss this matter, because there was no need to keep it secret, so Guan Yuansheng also knew.

After Pei Qian listened, his eyes couldn't help but light up.

How can this be called a trifle?

Spending money is no small matter!

This Wu Yue, this Zhang Yuan, both of them should be criticized fiercely! If you don't report this kind of thing to me in the first place, what do you think?

Longyu Group went to Los Angeles with two teams, leaving only the FV club?

What a good thing!

This is a very valuable opportunity for me to spend money!

According to the cost of Los Angeles, if you bring more people, the maximum standard of accommodation allowed by the system will be set...... It can cost a lot of money!

After hearing so much bad news, there is finally good news.

After the regular meeting of Guan Yuansheng, Pei Qian immediately called Wu Yue.

……

FV Club, Wu Yue was struggling with the team's training, and when he saw that it was Mr. Pei's phone, he hurriedly picked it up.

"Hello? Mr. Pei, is there anything wrong? Wu Yue asked.

Mr. Pei on the other end of the phone seemed to be a little unhappy: "Why don't you tell me about other clubs going to Los Angeles?" ”

Wu Yue was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly explained: "Oh, Mr. Pei, you don't have to worry about this kind of trivial matter, I can handle it." ”

Pei Qian: "What can you handle?" Can you arrange first-class airfare and five-star hotels for all the players, or can you find opponents for the team to train with? ”

Wu Yue: "I ......"

He thought about it, and he really couldn't. Although the money on the books of the FV club is enough, it is really difficult for him to make this decision by spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to get to Los Angeles in advance.

Pei Qian said: "There's no need to dwell on this matter, go and apply for urgent visas for everyone immediately!" How many people are there in FV Club? ”

Wu Yue thought for a while: "The members of the first team are 5 people, and the members of the second team are also 5 people, plus me, Manager Lu, other staff members of the team, etc., ......"

"Ah, but you don't need so many people, just let a team of players and Manager Lu go, six people are enough for exactly three standard rooms."

Pei Qian was very unhappy after hearing this: "How can six people do it?" ”

"As the saying goes, before the soldiers and horses move, the grain and grass go first. If you want to march and fight, and the logistics and supplies can't keep up, then you still have a hammer? ”

"If you are not familiar with the people in Los Angeles, you have to find a translator, and then find a local tour guide who is familiar with the situation, and you have to have someone to arrange food and accommodation."

"Eating, absolutely not sloppy. Go over there to check if there is any good Chinese food to ensure that the daily diet of the team members does not have problems and does not affect their physical state. ”

"Hire four more bodyguards, I heard that the security in the United States is not very good, and we have to ensure the personal safety of the team members."

"Bring another team of sparring partners...... I think SUG is good, so I'll pay to bring all the players from SUG with me, and go with you. ”

"In this way, there are a total of 30 people, and it will be arranged according to the standard of 3,000 yuan a day of food and accommodation per capita, and I will live until the end of the competition, which is about five weeks in total, right?"

"The standard of accommodation alone is 3.15 million. Well, when you get to Los Angeles, you may have to buy shopping, buy some souvenirs, and carry some cheap digital products back, plus the cost of finding a tour guide and bodyguard, and then take into account some possible emergencies......"

"In this way, put it together, 4 million."

Wu Yue was dumbfounded.

A trip to Los Angeles and spending 4 million?

The whole FV club plus one piece is not worth so much money!

Wu Yue hurriedly said: "Mr. Pei, there's no need for this!" The Finger Company will cover room and board after the start of the race, so the real amount of money we need to spend is just a round-trip ticket. ”

"Even if we go a week in advance, we have to take care of our own food and accommodation this week, and we don't need the standard of 3,000 yuan per capita at all, and the standard room for two people in a good hotel near the venue can be won within 1,000 yuan."

"The accommodation arranged by the finger company is better, but the standard room for two people is only 200 dollars per night, which is about 1,400 yuan......"

Pei Qian didn't like to listen to it at that time.

What do you mean, you don't want me to spend money?

According to your minimum standard, six people go to live in a standard room for 1,000 yuan a night, and only pay out of pocket for the first week?

I'm afraid it's enough to spend hundreds of thousands!

Pei Qian immediately interrupted Wu Yue: "The finger company has arranged accommodation for us, do we have to go?" What if the accommodation conditions arranged by the company do not meet our requirements? ”

"The players have traveled thousands of miles to play in foreign countries, what is really wrong, can you afford this responsibility? As the saying goes, if you plan ahead, you can spend some money to eliminate these hidden dangers, which is quite cost-effective! ”

"Just do as I say, and the money will come soon."

Pei Qian hung up the phone after speaking.

Wu Yue looked at the mobile phone screen that had been hung up and fell into a daze.

30 places?

The first and second teams of the FV club plus the five main players of SUG are only 15 people.

Where can I find 30 people?

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