Zhao Xuming took his assistant to the SUG Club headquarters in Shanghai.
The Gog branch of Sug Club is in Jingzhou, but the headquarters has other projects, so it is still in Shanghai.
As for why he chose the SUG club as his first target, it was obviously the result of careful consideration after careful investigation.
Zhao Xuming learned that SUG Club had a personal grudge against Mr. Pei of Tengda!
SUG Club was originally one of the first established clubs to establish a GoG branch and cooperate with Tenda, and its bid was the most generous.
Moreover, sug successfully won the third place in the Global Invitational Tournament some time ago. There is no credit but hard work.
As a result, such a club was kicked out of the GPL league without mercy by Mr. Pei, and could only play in the secondary league!
GPL is now in full preparation, and the scene is in full swing. If Ding Gan, the owner of SUG Club, has no complaints, Zhao Xuming will never believe it.
Moreover, SUG Club also has an ioi branch. It received some subsidies from Eric before, and it also has a contract with the live broadcast platform, so it can still be maintained.
This time, Zhao Xuming wanted to start with the sug club, which is the easiest, and try to get sug to help take the lead and drive each club to hold training matches.
Playing against other foreign teams in the World Finals is no joke.
If you don't play training matches and just compete with foreign teams, you will definitely be tortured to the point where you can't find anything to do, and it will not achieve the purpose of driving the popularity of the ioi national server. Although time is tight, it is always good to sharpen your skills before the battle.
At the entrance of Sug Club, Ding Gan was already waiting.
Seeing Zhao Xuming get out of the car, Ding Gan immediately greeted him: "Mr. Zhao, welcome!"
Zhao Xuming was overjoyed to see Ding Gan being so enthusiastic towards him, thinking that it would probably be possible to do this today, but after a closer look, he seemed to feel that Ding Gan's eyes were a little evasive.
What's going on?
Zhao Xuming was too embarrassed to ask any more questions, so he could only assume it was his own illusion.
"Mr. Ding! Hello, hello. This is..." Zhao Xuming looked at a lady standing next to Ding Gan who looked to be in her thirties and was wearing formal clothes.
Ding Gan said: "Oh, this is the manager of our club, Manager Yang."
Manager Yang smiled and said: "Hello, Mr. Zhao, please take care of me."
Zhao Xuming felt a little confused: "Hey, I remember that the manager of your club is not named Li? Did I remember it wrong?"
Ding Gan smiled awkwardly: "Oh, you probably found the information online, right? We have just made some personnel changes recently..."
Zhao Xuming suddenly realized: "Oh, I'm sorry! My news may be lagging behind."
Ding Gan said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, let's not stand here anymore, let's go in and talk? The three of you, please!"
Zhao Xuming and Ding Gan walked into the club chatting and laughing, while Manager Yang led the assistant and driver brought by Zhao Xuming behind and greeted them attentively.
After arriving at the conference room, both parties took their seats.
Zhao Xuming took a sip of tea and exchanged a few words, feeling that he could almost get to the point.
There is no need to hold back on such a sure thing, and SUG Club has no reason to refuse.
Zhao Xuming's time is limited and he has to focus on convincing other clubs.
Thinking of this, Zhao Xuming said: "Mr. Ding, to be honest, I have good news when I come here this time!"
"Currently, Zhitou Company is preparing for the ioi World Finals, and attaches great importance to the domestic market, so this time it will give some quotas to domestic teams. SUG already has an ioi branch, and this time I overcame all objections and convinced Zhitou Company.
The senior management has reserved a quota for the SUG club."
At this point, Zhao Xuming lowered his voice: "Internal information must not be spread to outsiders."
Ding Gan nodded quickly: "That's for sure."
Zhao Xuming continued: "I think so. The current ioi division of SUG Club is relatively complete, and the team members are relatively senior. We are considering that SUG Club will take the lead and organize a training match to practice our skills."
"We will also talk to other clubs one by one, but the teams of these clubs may need to be strengthened and adjusted, so the matter of organizing training matches may still require Mr. Ding and Manager Yang to worry more."
"What do you think?"
Zhao Xuming originally thought that Ding Gan would agree to it without hesitation, but he didn't expect that Ding Gan looked at Manager Yang with a bit of embarrassment on his face.
Zhao Xuming's heart sank and he felt something was not good.
But he felt very confused, could there be any surprise in this matter?
Sug took the lead in organizing a training match and got the opportunity to go to the Ioi World Finals. Ding Gan wouldn't refuse such a good thing, right?
Ding Gan looked a little embarrassed: "Mr. Zhao, of course we are very grateful that you helped us win such a precious opportunity. But organizing the training match... I'm afraid it's a little difficult. Because our ioi branch is... temporarily
…There are only three team members left.”
"It would have been better if you had come two days earlier."
Zhao Xuming's mouth opened slightly, and he was stunned for a moment: "Ah?"
How is it possible that there are only two members left in the ioi division?
Most of these people have had the idea of transitioning to play GoG before, but the reason why they have never made the transition is because the professional players on Gog are basically saturated. If they go to play games, they will neither get results nor get good results.
bonus.
On the ioi side, there are at least some meager subsidies to ensure the basic living of these players.
So what are these players doing? Are they no longer playing professionally?
It doesn't make sense. The branch is still there. What about liquidated damages if they leave?
Ding Gan quickly explained: "Mr. Zhao, the situation is like this."
"Originally, the members of our ioi division usually played live broadcasts and occasionally made appointments for training matches. As a result, it has become increasingly difficult to make appointments for training matches recently, because there are very few other clubs retaining the ioi division, and they have all switched to playing gog.
Already."
"Then a few days ago, suddenly several gog clubs came over and said they wanted to buy players from our ioi division. They were also willing to pay transfer fees and the salaries were much higher than they are now."
"The players were very tempted. Based on the principle of respecting the wishes of the players, we just... let them go."
After Zhao Xuming was stunned for two seconds, he suddenly woke up.
broken!
Gog has just established GPL some time ago, and all teams are frantically competing for players. Because the number of teams has suddenly expanded to more than a dozen, the demand for players has also skyrocketed.
Although these ioi players are better at ioi, there are always some players who have the talent of gog. In the past, there were few positions and no team wanted them, but now the quota has been expanded. Players like this who have professional experience and certain talents,
There are teams asking for it.
The reason why Zhao Xuming ignored this was, on the one hand, because he was busy discussing cooperation with Zhidou Company some time ago and had no time to take into account the affairs of these clubs; on the other hand, it was also because when the GPL club was first established, he did not show any need to do so.
The meaning of poaching ioi players.
As a result, I never expected that after just a few days of delay, the good ioi team was dismantled!
Zhao Xuming originally had a wonderful idea. If SUG still had a complete ioi team, they would not need to spend time forming a team and could take the lead in organizing training matches. After the World Championships, they should be able to win
Reached a relatively good ranking.
But now that two people have been poached, no more hope!
After all, ioi is a game for five people. The lack of people means that we have to recruit new people and re-run the game. The impact is too great.
Zhao Xuming was full of enthusiasm and confidence when he first arrived, but he was immediately poured cold water on his head.
Ding Gan was also a little embarrassed and said quickly: "It's okay, Mr. Zhao, we are going to recruit people immediately. If it doesn't work, we can just spend money to buy people from other clubs. We will definitely reorganize the team as soon as possible!"
Ding Gan didn't think much about it at first, he just felt that there was no point in maintaining the ioi branch, and there were no games to play. He could still earn a transfer fee by selling people to gog's club, so it didn't matter if he sold them.
As a result, as soon as the front foot was sold, the spot for the back foot, the ioi World Finals, was delivered to my door. How can this be justified?
Zhao Xuming was silent for a moment and nodded: "Okay."
What else can I say? You’ve already sold it, so you can’t pay the liquidated damages and buy it back again, right? That would be too much of a loss.
The main reason is that these players are now worth more and their transfer fees are much more expensive. Isn't this just a loss of blood?
Ding Gan would rather buy ioi team members from other clubs than buy back his own players.
But what Zhao Xuming is worried about is that since gog clubs have begun to buy ioi players on a large scale, it is impossible to only buy sug.
What if other clubs’ ioi teams are also torn to pieces?
Should we play a jigsaw puzzle and use the existing teams to work hard to create two or three teams that can compete in the World Championship, or should we look for new players and just rely on luck?
Zhao Xuming suddenly had an ominous premonition. He felt that his mission this time seemed simple, but in fact it was not that easy to achieve.
Tengda's black hand reaches farther than he imagined!
"Is it possible that this is also part of President Pei's plan?"