"Asian Games?" When Su Chen heard pdd's words, he was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly remembered everything.
In the original time and space, League of Legends was included as an exhibition event in the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games.
This is also the first time that e-sports has been included in an international traditional sports event.
The final result was that the Chinese team led by Uzi defeated the Hanguo team led by Faker.
The official media also fully affirmed the results of this exhibition match, which can be regarded as an extensive positive publicity for e-sports at the social level.
From all aspects, the significance is far-reaching.
From the Spring Split to MSI, Su Chen had been fully immersed in the game. In addition, the media did not discuss much about this matter, so he forgot about this matter for a while.
Until today pdd suddenly came up.
"You mean...do I have a chance to participate in this Asian Games?" Su Chen felt a little uneasy in a rare mood.
Even though he has won consecutive league championships and MSI championships in the past six months.
However, the Asian Games is a completely different matter.
Even if it is an exhibition event.
It is also a serious matter of wearing the national flag, representing China and striving for honor in the field of e-sports.
It's not like the "national team" that many black people ridiculed in the past.
Moreover, for traditional sports athletes, there may be more than one opportunity to participate in the Asian Games.
However, for e-sports players whose career life span is shorter, it may really be their only opportunity in this life.
If he can really stand on the Asian Games field and play games wearing the national flag.
Su Chen believes that his parents will be proud of him.
And at Jiangzhou University of Science and Technology, those teachers and classmates who had questioned his choice would put aside their prejudices and recognize the choice he made.
"I can only say that the chances are great, but before I formally apply with lpl, I have to talk to you first and confirm your thoughts." pdd simply revealed something.
For the League of Legends exhibition event of this Asian Games, the criteria for selecting players are based on two points.
One is the competitive state of the players.
Second, the players’ professional qualifications.
This time the Asian Games lineup selection method is jointly recommended and voted by LPL officials and coaches from 18 clubs across the league.
In fact, just look at the first point.
There is no doubt that Su Chen should be selected unanimously.
In the MSI championship match, Su Chen's performance was already the undisputed number one player in the LPL.
In terms of competitive status, among the current 18 or 200 players in the LPL's 18 clubs, no one has the confidence to say that they can compare to Su Chen.
However, the key point is that Su Chen's career, even including the month of lspl, was only six months.
This may involve some thresholds for this lineup selection.
"If I have the chance, I would like to participate in this Asian Games," Su Chen nodded heavily, "but am I the only one in the ym team who has a chance to be selected?"
"This... is probably the case," pdd looked embarrassed, "Logically speaking, the kids in the team are indeed too young. The LPL official also has to consider various issues such as the popularity of the players..."
"If possible, add another spot," Su Chen said. "We are all players who have won the MSI championship. When the time comes, I will be the only one to participate. I think it is not fair."
"Well, okay, I'll try my best to get it." Seeing that Su Chen agreed, pdd quickly expressed his position that he would try to get an additional spot from the lpl official.
As for whether this spot will be given to Xiaotian or left hand, or whether Zhang Xiaowen or bovy will be given, it depends on how the specific lineup will be matched when it comes out.
After talking about the Asian Games.
The two of them also returned to the living room.
Zzzc, Milk, Xiao Ma and others have already sat down at the dining table, waiting for the meal to begin.
"How are you, Xiao Su? Are you satisfied with the food on the table today? I heard that you guys didn't eat well in France in the past two weeks. I worked hard today and spent four or five hours on it." pdd's girlfriend Shen Quickly and proudly showing off the luxurious meal he had cooked all night long.
Su Chen glanced at the dining table. In addition to various luxurious seafood set meals, Shen Lingmin also specially prepared a few Jiangzhou home-cooked dishes, which was indeed very attentive.
"Thank you sister-in-law." Su Chen smiled and picked up a hairy crab. After breaking open the crab legs, he put some dipping sauce on it and took a bite. He immediately squinted his eyes.
The texture and taste are truly top-notch.
"Okay, Lao Su has finished testing the poison, and I'm ready to enter." pdd rubbed his hands, then grabbed it from the plate.
"Hey, you can just eat the vegetable salad. Didn't you agree that you should avoid eating for two months after you are discharged from the hospital?" Shen Lingmin quickly slapped his hand.
"It doesn't matter. I eat lobster mixed with salad. It's high in protein and vitamins, and the weight loss effect is better." pdd said nonsense seriously.
"Do you want to go to the hospital again?!" Shen Lingmin was a little anxious.
Seeing that Shen Lingmin couldn't resist, pdd quickly turned his attention to Su Chen for help.
"It's okay, sister-in-law, he still owes me 80 squats. Just let him pay it back after eating." Su Chen put down the crab legs and persuaded.
"That's right, it's rare for Xiaosu to come over today, so I can't neglect her." pdd doesn't care whether the 80 squats can be fulfilled, he will fool him first.
"Forget it, just for today." Shen Lingmin sighed.
Seeing that the plan worked, pdd chuckled evilly, immediately stretched out his claws to fill his plate, opened his big mouth and started to chew.
"Come on, let's have a drink first to celebrate our ym winning the MSI championship. Halfway through that day in Paris, the time flashback made me so angry. If I had been there, I would have directly gone up to the referee." pdd raised his glass.
"Even if we all get a red card," Su Chen smiled and touched him.
"That matter has been settled. The news received from the MSI organizing committee this morning is that all three referees responsible for the third game have been dismissed. The official will also issue an announcement to explain this matter, although it can't make up for anything. , but we are the champions after all, and we can only do this one step." Xiao Ma took two bites of rice and said vaguely.
"Are you really fired?" Su Chen took half a sip of beer, frowned, and put it down again.
"This is all fine. If it weren't for us winning the championship, I would have risked my life to find an explanation from the officials. Who the hell were I bullying?" pdd said angrily.
"What are you talking about?" Shen Ling said curiously.
Su Chen also wanted to say a few words of comfort.
Unexpectedly, after pdd drank two glasses of wine, his eyes turned red. He took off his eyes and wiped his face several times, and his voice was filled with tears.
"Lao Su, it's really not easy for us, it's so damn hard... I worked my butt off to get into LPL, but in the end, anyone can come up and step on me. I finally won the MSI championship, and I thought I was feeling proud, but in the end, it turned out that others There, you are not even a...really aggrieved, you idiot!"
When Xiao Ma on the side saw pdd's appearance, he turned his head to prevent others from seeing his tears. The atmosphere became a little sad for a moment.
"What happened?" Su Chen asked quickly.
"There are some things that your team members cannot touch... Forget it, it's better not to tell Su Chen. If you say it, it will make you feel troubled. This is not something he should care about in the first place," pdd wiped away his tears. He poured himself another glass of wine and said, "Forget it."
"Is there anything we can't say? Xiao Su is not only a team member, but also one of our own. You don't have to handle this kind of thing alone." Shen Lingmin patted pdd on the back and said with great distress.
"Tell me about it." Su Chen put down his wine glass with a very calm tone.
pdd sighed and told Su Chen all the bad things he had encountered during this time.
The first thing to bear the brunt is the MSI time-travel incident.
At that time, pdd contacted the event officials immediately after this penalty occurred, but the response they received was very cold.
Later, he searched many people in the circle, but only a few were willing to help him coordinate this matter.
This made pdd feel isolated in the lpl circle.
Second, on the night when YM won the MSI championship, PDD was very happy to send a wave of red envelopes to the club owners of LPL, saying that YM was very excited and honored to represent LPL in this MSI. This honor is for everyone. Struggle together.
However, few people congratulated him.
Even the next day, pdd heard someone laughing and ridiculing him from behind.
"You only have two pieces of steel in your pocket. Do you really think you can create a wealthy club? It would be great if you sell your shares and cash out as soon as possible. If you want to be on an equal footing with people like us, you don't have the qualifications yet."
The meaning of this statement is also very obvious. Although the ym team is doing well now.
However, if you want to have a certain status in lpl, the financial strength of the founder is very important.
Compared with many rich second-generation bosses in LPL, people like pdd who are born anchors are not at the same level in terms of financial resources.
Even if your team wins the MSI championship, people don't think you are qualified to compare with them.
The last thing is that after the summer transfer period started, there was a problem with the contract between Zuo Zuo and Xiaotian.
"Actually, you know," pdd twirled his cup with a serious look on his face, "during the LSPL Winter Championship last year, I originally planned to send my left hand to a certain LPL club with Xiaotian. At that time You haven’t come here yet, and I didn’t expect ym to be admitted to lpl.”
"On the one hand, I felt that sending these two children to LPL would be a fulfillment of his dream. On the other hand, it was also a business consideration. I signed a contract of intent at the time, and I was not sure whether it would be legally binding, but later because of YM entered LPL, so this contract is invalidated. I saw that the other party didn't mention it, so I thought this matter was dropped."
"I didn't expect that after winning the MSI, the other party came directly to me with the contract and wanted to take Zuo Zuo and Xiaotian back." pdd said with a wry smile.
"Then what?" Su Chen frowned.
"How could I let him go? I had to bite the bullet and beg my grandpa and grandma to find a relationship for a few days. I finally paid a sum of money and it was settled." pdd looked a little lonely.
"Don't worry, we just won the MSI championship, how can we make any changes to the lineup." Xiao Ma also quickly explained.
Su Chen nodded, knowing why pdd was so negative.
Losing money is a trivial matter, but the key point is that it can be seen from this incident that, as the boss of ym, pdd is indeed not very popular among the senior circles of the lpl club.
In fact, there are loopholes in many aspects of the lpl in 2018, especially in player contracts. Due to the lack of relevant legal basis, a lot of shady things are involved.
Some contracts that pdd doesn't even know about may be pitfalls dug secretly by other clubs, waiting for the right time to close the net.
On the one hand, this situation is indeed because pdd's class is different from that of other bosses. He is often the eldest son of a certain group, while pdd is considered a nouveau riche at most, and it is difficult to integrate with others.
Anyone who comes to play e-sports has to wave a checkbook and spend a lot of money to build a club.
Why can you, a nouveau riche who needs money but no money, and no resources, be able to do things that others have not been able to do for several years by relying on luck?
On the other hand, Su Chen also knew very well that this matter was probably related to his official announcement of the "Four Major Clubs" last year.
Before Jiang Keda entered the professional circle, it did attract too much attention, and the way Su Chen handled it afterwards was more or less unacceptable to some club owners.
As a player, he has somewhat shone through.
And these dissatisfactions will naturally be borne by ym’s boss pdd.
"Can't Mr. Pei solve the problem of funds?" Su Chen asked.
"Lao Pei is actually a very conscientious partner. He has always told me that he doesn't care whether the club makes money or not, so he lets me go and do it." When mentioning Mr. Pei, pdd's expression softened, "But, he invested There are too many projects, and the capital flow is actually limited. Although he also injected 20 million in capital after the MSI, he also said that I might need to pay attention to financial issues in the past six months."
"Indeed, Mr. Pei has done enough for us." Su Chen expressed his understanding.
"Money is no problem for the time being, although before the summer season, we have to spend a lot of money to upgrade all aspects of the club. One is the training department. Mengma's contract has to be re-signed, the coaching staff, analysts, There are also some supporting positions that must be arranged, and they must be in line with the standards of the LPL first-line team."
"Although ym moved its base before, there are still many things we haven't done internally. We are still doing things the same way as lspl, which is definitely not going to work. On the other side is the youth training." pdd paused after speaking.
"Actually, you can also see that the current players in the team, including Bovy at the AD position, are not up to par, right?"
"He actually works hard and wants to win, but the upper limit is indeed there." Su Chen also said it very directly.
"About this problem... we may not be able to solve it immediately," pdd sighed, "during the start of the transfer period, Xiao Ma and I actually talked about many clubs, but the current good AD players, others If you don’t sell it, there’s actually no point in buying it back if it’s even worse.”
"My idea is to start with youth training. After all, I have been doing it for four or five years. This area is relatively mature. If you give me some time, I believe..."
pdd spoke faster and faster, obviously a little anxious.
Su Chen listened silently to pdd's words and did not choose to interrupt him.
In fact, Su Chen may not fully understand what pdd said about club construction.
However, Su Chen also understood very well that pdd was very worried that he would leave.
He knew that the current ym lineup was not perfect, and that his ability to reach the MSI championship was all due to Su Chen's unexpected change of destiny.
However, a player like Su Chen cannot always tolerate shortcomings in the team.
If the club cannot meet his championship goal and provide him with good enough teammates, then why should he stay in this club?
This is also where pdd is worried.
Even if ym loses his pdd, he can't leave Su Chen.
He is the true cornerstone of the ym team.
Once Su Chen leaves this club, ym will collapse in an instant and return to what it was like during last winter split.
"Okay, teacher whoring, stop it." Su Chen stretched out his hand to interrupt pdd.
"I still have half a year of my contract. No matter whether the team's lineup is perfect or not, I will devote myself to this club and play through the second half of the year."
"That's not what I meant..." pdd's tone was a little weaker.
"Teacher, I know that because of my relationship, you have been ostracized in the lpl circle. I would like to toast you with this glass of wine." Su Chen refilled his glass with wine and toasted to pdd.
"You are the person Xiaoma and I should be grateful to the most." pdd said with emotion.
Su Chen shook his head and continued.
"It has always been my dream to play professionally. You were the one who helped me embark on this path. In the words of my father, a drop of grace is repaid by a spring. I will always remember this love."
Upon hearing these words, pdd choked up.
"Secondly, although you think the current lineup is not perfect, haven't we been winning?" Su Chen looked at his wine glass, "Although winning the championship is my goal, I don't want this process to be just a game. A cold deal.”
"More than what championship I win, what I care more about is who I win this championship with. At least for now, I am very happy staying in ym." After saying this, Su Chen showed a gentle smile.
"Is that so...I thought." pdd finally understood what Su Chen meant and was suddenly moved.
"I don't understand business matters, but I know one thing. As long as you keep winning on the court, you will one day gain the respect of everyone." After Su Chen finished speaking, he raised his glass towards pdd.
