Chapter 303: Battle of the top eight, bayonets are bloody
October 21st.
The third game of the quarterfinals, the battle between EDG and Samsung.
The time was four o'clock in the afternoon, and the location was the Guangzhou Stadium.
The weather in Guangzhou in October is still very hot. While the Northeastern brothers have already put on their coats, the Guangzhou friends are too hot to wear short sleeves.
Spectators who came to watch today's game could be seen everywhere on the road. Tickets could not be checked in until 14:30, so the players stayed outside the venue to play.
It won’t be boring to be outside, because the League of Legends official has arranged various entertainment activities early, and there are countless beautiful and sexy cosplay girls taking photos with the summoners.
Who would be bored if you can watch the hot white legs and long breasts in Guangzhou?
Well, those legs are really long, no, the white ones are really white too.
Maybe you will meet a man who likes to have fun on the road, and the EDG team, regardless of whether they are male or female fans, will gather together and form a small circle.
Looking at the grand occasion outside the window, Qin Yu, a newcomer who had never participated in the finals, was very excited.
The quarter-finals are just like this, I don’t know what kind of grand occasion the finals will be.
In the past, Chinese players watched the sad scene of the decisive battle between the two Korean teams in the Bird's Nest. When they had the ability to change it, the experience was indescribable.
Seeing the actions of a certain boss, the girl standing next to him rolled his eyes.
New?
Do you call the people who kill randomly on this competition field Mengxin?
Lee Sang Hyuk and the other top laners have something MMP wants to say.
On the other hand, Abu and Mingkai looked like loving fathers watching the children in the team grow up, and sighed in their hearts;
Only at this time can we see the new side of Humility. In the past, he was extremely mature. Ming Kai once thought that Qin Yu was an old monster reborn in a young body.
He immediately gave up his speculation. How could there be such a fantasy thing in the world? It should be that Xiao Qin is relatively precocious.
"Do we need to go down and meet the fans or something?"
"It's better not to say goodbye. There's a competition coming soon. It wouldn't be good to cause any extra trouble."
Considering that the game time was approaching, Abramovich rejected the team members' proposal.
The players just shouted a few times outside the venue, and then watched EDG's competition vehicles enter the venue.
Thousands of spectators lined up to wait for admission. The scene was so huge that many players who had traveled thousands of miles from Europe and the United States lamented that the e-sports atmosphere in China is equally strong.
Since the Guangzhou Stadium is the venue for the quarterfinals, it is naturally much larger in scale.
Including the staff, 10,000 people are more than enough.
At the ticket check-in area of the competition venue, a large small support stand for EDG was set up.
Although Abramovich rejected the team members' proposal to contact fans, the distribution of some support items was still prepared in advance. The support items provided by the EDG club for free are there for fans to obtain if they need them.
It can be regarded as a benefit provided by the club to the fans.
The only item that charges a fee is the player's customized signed team uniform, among which humility's sales ratio is the most exaggerated.
Some college students didn't have time to grab tickets, so they eagerly accompanied their girlfriends outside, carefully comforting them and looking at the big screen.
Those who don’t have tickets can watch it on a big screen outside, but it’s too hot.
At this time, there will always be a man or woman wrapped in a mask walking forward, carefully checking the surroundings, and then quietly leaning into your ear. When you think the other person is going to ask you about some indescribable exciting scene, say "Brother"
Do you want a ticket? It will immediately bring you back to reality.
Amid the scoldings from college students, these scalpers were wary of official crackdowns while looking for big patrons who they thought might buy tickets.
When the 10,000 people at the venue were basically full, it could only be described as a sea of people.
There are nearly a thousand seats in the VIP seats at the front desk alone. When Qin Yu passed by the backstage, he stretched his head and took a look. According to the official statement, there seemed to be specially provided private rooms above.
It's just that the price is extremely expensive.
"Brother Gou, you said that our club pays so much salary every year and has various expenses. Can the club make back the money by just selling some team uniforms and advertising fees?"
Although zet was born in South Korea, where e-sports is well-established, he didn’t know much about it and asked out of curiosity.
"Of course it's impossible to just rely on the fans' money from selling team uniforms. Regular clubs may even be paying back." Qin Yu smiled. After hearing this, several other people became curious and came over! There was a pause.
Seeing that Abramovich did not stop him, he continued: "For example, LPL officials will share a part of the e-sports broadcast rights revenue to the teams every year. To put it simply, the more people watch your game, the better your performance will be, the more money you will get."
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"Otherwise, why do you think the factory games and Zaozi brother games were all put in prime time in the past?"
"Hey, I know this. After all, pigs and dogs are fighting." Meikou learned to answer quickly.
Ming Kai, on the other hand, looked a little embarrassed. To be honest, he had never thought about these issues before.
"What else? What else?"
"The second part is naturally the endorsement." Qin Yu said, pointing to the advertising space that was almost full of space on his body: "For a brand sponsor, the purpose of e-sports club sponsorship is nothing more than to increase the brand's exposure. In e-sports,
In the field, the audience will be younger and there will be more consumption potential. Therefore, brand sponsorship is a huge income for the entire e-sports club."
Abramovich was noncommittal. For EDG, there is a lot of money from brand sponsorships, and big brands such as Logitech and Mercedes-Benz are cooperating.
Smaller companies really can't leave a mark on their team uniforms. This year, due to the performance and popularity, series such as AJ on the team uniforms want to come in and share a wave of traffic.
However, for a wealthy team, brand sponsorship is still not the main thing.
The prize money for other events is the smallest among the small. EDG shareholders have unanimously reached an agreement that if they can win the championship in 2017, 50% of the prize money belonging to the club will be used, 30% of which will be given to the FMVP with the best performance throughout the year.
It is exclusive, and the rest is shared by the whole team according to the contribution ratio.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Abu is very curious about how much Qin Yu, a top student, knows.
When they came to the lounge, the team members sat down on the sofa one by one, and the team staff went to contact the officials and report player rosters and equipment.
Qin Yu was not in a hurry, took a glass of warm water, drank it, and panted loudly regardless of the anxiety of others.
"Actually, the whole league and other clubs dare not say it, but the only one who really makes money in the LPL is our EDG. Am I right, manager?"
Abu didn't say anything, so Qin Yu acquiesced.
After knocking his head, Qin Yu said in a strange tone: "Don't you all pay attention to the name of our EDG?"
"No~"
Everyone shook their heads.
"Many of the companies founded by the boss carry the EDG name, and this is the biggest profit point."
“E-sports doesn’t make money, you make money by investing in the traffic returns that e-sports brings.”
After talking for a while and meeting several people, they still couldn't understand, so Qin Yu ended the topic.
Professional players generally have low academic qualifications, and it is difficult for except for a few people to understand how capital is invested and how to make money. As far as he knows, the boss Ed Zhu later founded Hezhong New Energy, a joint venture with Guangqi, and got EDG
traffic benefits.
EDG's online searches reached an astonishing 10 billion times in 2016.
The word 4396 alone has contributed tens of millions of traffic. Is this comparable to other advertisements?
Ahem, you shouldn’t connotate our factory.
Let's just talk about it briefly. People don't really care about the club's making money. It's enough to pay wages in time, and then don't default on wages and force yourself to be sold.
After finishing the chat, nofe started his own work. Today, Qin Yu and Yu Mingkai are still on the bench, and Ai Luoli is on the bench. This year, with the factory director in excellent condition, he has been able to get a lot of opportunities to play. Ai Luoli is
Contented, unlike poor mouse who is still an emergency substitute.
Facing such a tough enemy as Samsung, they couldn't help but be careless.
Similarly, in the Samsung lounge, An Bixin and the coaching staff also had sad faces. They were not like this even when playing against Dragon Ball. They felt really unsure about playing against EDG.
Let's see how it plays out.
Today’s guest is Changmao and Su Xiaoyan.
The game commentators are Wawa and Miller.
The game hasn't even started yet, Changmao takes Su Xiaoyan to analyze it.
Their explanations were not very interesting, but their professionalism was quite good.
Unlike some players who are brainless about EDG, both Su Xiaoyan and Changmao believe that among the current Korean teams, Samsung is difficult to beat in the knockout rounds.
SKT has obvious shortcomings this year. Longzhu lacks running-in, which can't be seen in bo1. There are too many things that need to test the team in bo5.
Everything from tactics to the level of satiety will affect the status of the team members.
When it comes to the quarter-finals, there is no such thing as hiding tactics. Unless there is a huge gap in strength between the two teams, it will be a matter of time and again.
The garbage time before the game is over.
The audience at the scene was fine, and the audience in the live broadcast room were eagerly waiting for the start of the game.
As the countdown ended, the live broadcast finally showed the contestants' seats.
Samsung's players came on stage first, followed closely by EDG as the host.
Different from the series of small tricks that Bangzi Asan and others do to hold competitions, the LPL can be said to be carefully selected in every venue hosting the global finals, and the service is even more perfect.
Wait until the debugging of the equipment is completed.
Meikou noticed that her top order dad took out his treasured custom keyboard today.
Humility is now EDG's most popular brand. As a peripheral peripheral sponsor, how could he let go of Qin Yu, a cash cow? He immediately asked professionals to design a sky blue mechanical keyboard and mouse.
The size of the keyboard buttons and the mouse fit Qin Yu's hands one to one. The fantasy effect of breathing and having a soul cannot be achieved. Compared with the two flying swallows, it must be the difference between a giant dragon and an ant.
Sponsors also make a lot of money, even though Humility doesn’t use this keyboard very much.
It has only been used in major competitions at MSI and Intercontinental Championships, but it cannot stop players from buying the same model crazily on the official website.
I've made a lot of money, you can do whatever you want.
If the seats and computers were not provided during official competitions, even the peripheral sponsors would have wanted to cover everything.
After a while.
I saw the players finally raising their hands to signal.