Chapter 792 Spending money is no small matter (big chapter asks for a monthly pass)
fv esports club.
Wu Yue, who had just received the news, was speechless and a little angry.
"Is this official? Our fv club's participation quota was officially given, and the number one seed spot was awarded based on ability. As a result, there were three teams in total, and the other two were scheduled to go to Los Angeles for training, but we didn't have any at all.
information?"
"You really don't regard us as your biological team?"
"Just because you have some issues with Mr. Pei, are you messing with people's mentality like this?"
These e-sports clubs are very well-informed. The fv e-sports club soon received the news: Longyu Group officially organized two other teams to go to Los Angeles for training in advance. The expedited visas are already being processed. It is said that this time they will be in Los Angeles.
The accommodation expenses are all covered by the Longyu Group, and they will also help arrange appointments for European and American teams to play training matches.
As a result, all this information was obtained from other channels. The Longyu Group had no intention of informing the fv club, and they did not even give a hypocritical explanation!
This can only explain one problem: Longyu Group deliberately did not take the FV Club to Los Angeles.
Manager Lu quickly tried to persuade him: "Mr. Wu, please calm down. This matter is indeed too much, but we don't have any good solutions."
"This early trip to Los Angeles to play a training match is probably a spontaneous act organized by the Longyu Group and is not part of the World Championship process hosted by Zhidou Company."
"So Longyu Group can also say that it is a matter of affection to bring us, and it is a duty not to bring us. They can bring whomever they want at their own expense. Many teams in other divisions do not enjoy this kind of treatment."
Wu Yue said: "This is discrimination! It's differential treatment! We should appeal, or simply make it public on Weibo, so that everyone can take a good look at the faces of the Longyu Group!"
Manager Lu quickly shook his head: "Mr. Wu, this is inappropriate!"
"Longyu Group did not publicize this matter in an official capacity. If we broke the news, Longyu Group could immediately change its story and say that this was a spontaneous act by the club. Longyu Group was only responsible for matchmaking and played a very small role. Because
The truth of this matter is easy to cover up. If we start a group rashly, as long as the Longyu Group plays Tai Chi with us, it can be easily covered up. Instead, it will appear that we are careless and use the heart of a villain to judge a gentleman."
"As for the appeal, it's even more useless. Doesn't that mean 'who in the hall is suing me?'"
"What's more, in the final analysis, e-sports is still about performance. Let's go online to make a big deal about this matter and bring a wave of rhythm. What if the World Championship does not go well? By then, public opinion will definitely backlash, and then we will forget it.
It’s reasonable and unreasonable.”
"Just think about it and you know what the netizens will say when they lose the World Championship: How dare such a bad team ask the officials for money to go to Los Angeles to play training games? They should have given up their spots to sug!"
"Anyway, as long as we lose, the rhythm will definitely fly all over the place. We have to consider the consequences now."
Wu Yue nodded with a dark face: "Well, it seems that Zhao Xuming has understood this point and feels that even if we poke him out, there will be no benefit, so he is so blatant, just to scare the monkeys and beat us to make Tengda look good."
"Then...can we just suffer the loss of being dumb? We can't even talk about the disgusting things the Longyu Group did?"
Manager Lu thought for a while: "It's definitely possible to say it, but not now."
"It is only a fool to jump out and start a team fight before the result of the game is announced. On the one hand, it adds huge public pressure to one's own players and affects their performance; on the other hand, if the game is lost, the opponent will take advantage of it. If we add insult to injury, the masses will not stand by us, so we will really go to hell."
"The best way is actually to settle the score after the fall. If we win the game, we can use the victory to clarify all these things. Going downwind is the best choice."
"So for us, the best choice now is to endure the humiliation, try not to let this matter 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 Already."
"As long as our results are better than the other two clubs, then no matter whether we win the championship or runner-up, even if we are only in the semi-finals or the top eight, we still have something to say."
"At that time we can say that the different official treatment has led to poor results in the entire division. If we were given the same treatment, maybe our results could be better, etc."
"In short, everything still depends on grades. Without grades, everything is in vain."
Wu Yue was silent for a moment and sighed softly: "It's difficult!"
"Although the paper strength of our current lineup is good, judging from the situation in the previous qualifying rounds, the strength is only between the other two teams, and it also has a little benefit from the schedule. Maybe we can compete again. In the bladder bureau, you may not be able to defeat them."
"The benefits of training in Los Angeles are obvious. You can play European and American servers with low latency, better adapt to the version, and play training games with the currently stronger European and American teams. Your strength will definitely improve faster than ours."
"If we want to defeat them, we can't just rely on fantasy."
Manager Lu nodded, feeling that the situation was indeed serious.
E-sports does not mean you can win with determination and perseverance. It also requires scientific training methods and good supporting facilities.
Many players are extremely talented, but fail to achieve results in certain clubs. This is often due to poor management of the club, incorrect training methods, and inadequate supporting facilities.
Wu Yue said: "How about we also go to Los Angeles?"
Manager Lu was silent for a moment: "The Longyu Group organized them to go to Los Angeles because they can get online with the Finger Company. Once there, they can get high-end game accounts in European and American servers, and they can make appointments with established European and American teams for training matches in an official capacity. Then. Looking at Longyu Group’s attitude towards us, even if we pay out of our own pockets, we definitely won’t have these things!”
"We can't go all the way to Los Angeles, only for the team members to spend all day ranking in the lower tiers of European and American servers. Isn't that just getting better with practice?"
"What's more, we are a big group and our expenses are very high. We went to take care of our own food and lodging in advance. We need to feed the team members something good. Plus the accompanying people...just for 8 people, it will cost more than 200,000 yuan." .If we take into account the training situation and bring our second team there, it will have to be doubled."
"Of course, our club can afford this money. The problem is that spending money may not guarantee the training effect. The price-performance ratio is too poor."
Wu Yue thought for a while and realized that was indeed the case.
Longyu Group organized the other two teams to train in Los Angeles because they have high-end game accounts and can schedule training matches with European and American teams. If they don't have them, there is really no need to spend hundreds of thousands just to adapt to the environment in advance.
After thinking about it again, Wu Yue said: "It seems that it is not easy to disturb Mr. Pei with such a small matter. How about this? I'll call Mr. Zhang from Tenda's e-sports division and ask him to help with the advice."
"If it is really unnecessary, we will not go and stay in China to play training matches with domestic teams. We will schedule other training matches during the World Championships."
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December 17, Saturday.
There is a regular meeting of the health management department today.
This year's Spring Festival is relatively early, on January 23rd, so the exam week is also earlier, and the management students are spending a lot of time reviewing after work.
There is not much information to pay attention to in this regular meeting. After all, most products are still in the final stage of research and development, including products such as fully automatic intelligent bar lifters, which have not yet shown signs of backstabbing, so naturally here
There isn't much useful information either.
Pei Qian knows that starting next month will be a tough battle.
As a result, the settlement period coincided with the exam week, which I have to say was a very refreshing feeling.
Whether you can beat Lao Ma in this exam depends on your trembling before the exam.
The management staff reported on the situation of their respective departments as usual, and soon it was the turn of the management staff from the e-sports division.
This management officer has been following Zhang Yuan. He was originally in charge of the dge club. Later, after establishing the e-sports division and the gpl league, he naturally broke into the internal affairs. At present, whether it is dge or other clubs, or even the entire e-sports club
Nothing can escape his eyes.
"The gpl preseason is about to enter the second half. The current competition is going well. I occasionally encountered some in-game bugs and equipment problems have been properly resolved. It should be able to accumulate a lot of experience for the spring split."
"At present, the main lineups of each GPL club have basically been fixed. Those teams that have not participated in the GPL pre-season are also playing training matches and actively preparing for the spring split."
"The new batch of players in the dge club have been wiped out again. Although their strength is worse than the first batch of players, this batch of people are talented after all and have also undergone special training by the old players, so in each new team
Still occupying the main position in the team..."
Pei Qian's hand holding the tea cup couldn't help but tremble.
Although I had already been mentally prepared for this, I still felt my heart tremble when I actually heard the news.
There are ten more team members, how much will they cost?
This group of players is the second group of players after Huang Wang, Jiang Huan and others were collectively bought out. They are still selling well. The transfer fee is enough for Mr. Pei to drink every time.
There is a reason why dge's players sell well.
First of all, the dge club has a good reputation. Potential newcomers tend to come to the dge club to raise their value. Other clubs also feel that they will never lose money by buying players from the dge club, so they buy them more easily.
Really capable newcomers with potential are willing to come to dge club, because once they perform well, they can immediately jump to other clubs to get big contracts. dge will never engage in stuck contracts or hide them, so newcomers feel more secure; while for other clubs
As for the club, the dge club does not directly participate in the competition and does not pose a threat to its own performance. It also helps train players, so it is also willing to buy people from dge.
Those old players who came out of dge would come back from time to time to give guidance to the newcomers in dge. Over time, "all the players who came out of dge can stand alone" became the impression of the entire league audience and the club, which made the operation of dge enter a new era.
A virtuous cycle.
As a result, dge's new players are like leeks that crop up one after another. They can all be sold every once in a while and earn a lot of transfer fees.
Pei Qian was also helpless about this.
He pretended to be calm and took a sip of tea and asked: "So, how much is the total transfer fee?"
Guan Shuisheng said: "There are ten players, and their performance is different. Some C-positions with strong operations or commanding abilities are worth more, with a transfer fee of more than 1.5 million. If they are the ones with average performance,
Maybe only 700,000 to 800,000, or about 1 million. Add these players together, and the total transfer fee is about 13 million."
Pei Qian: "..."
The word "fuck" almost came out of my mouth.
This number seriously exceeded his psychological expectations!
Previously, the transfer fees for Huang Wang, Jiang Huan and others were around 2 million, so Pei Qian thought that 1 million would be the maximum transfer fee for these young players.
But that’s obviously not the case!
In the early days, the transfer fees for star players like Huang Wang and Jiang Huan were slightly exaggerated. After all, major clubs were trying to achieve results in the GoG Global Invitational Tournament for high bonuses and exposure.
However, with the gradual increase of gog's global market share, the success of gog global invitational tournament, and the popularity of gpl league...
After this series of operations, the values of star players like Huang Wang and Jiang Huan are also rapidly expanding as more and more capital enters the market!
Now their transfer fee is no longer two million.
The value of the top players has increased, and the value of the second batch of potential newcomers in the dge club will naturally increase as well.
Ten people may not seem like a lot, but the transfer fees add up to 13 million.
What made Pei Qian feel a little vomiting blood was not the number, but the time!
After all, Mr. Pei is a person who has seen the big world. He has had hundreds of millions of funds come in and out several times, let alone a mere 10 million.
It's not in your hands anyway, it's just a number.
The key is how long it took to earn more than 10 million!
The introduction of this group of players was in September, and now it is December. It only took three months to train them, and they were sold for 13 million!
If you calculate it 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 broadcast contract 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 wants to support Mr. Pei as if he were his own father. Daily expenses such as rent, water and electricity bills do not cost much.
The only place to spend money may be on daily expenses such as eating and fitness.
But with Moyu takeout and managed gyms, how much can these players spend even if they eat and practice freely?
Pei Qian felt very tired.
Others open clubs to burn money, and my original intention of opening a club was also to burn money, but in the end, just having fun turned into making money!
It’s outrageous to think about a club that specializes in making money by buying and selling players, a club that can’t compete in competitions but is bigger than the championship team.
It is said that if the dge club trains well, it should earn more than 10 million in transfer fees, but the problem is that these players are already good prospects!
Because the potential newcomers are all trying to get into the dge club and regard it as their first choice, so as long as a few trial sessions are given, they will all be potential newcomers.
Just like many super high schools, if you admit all the high-quality students around you, can the final results be bad?
Pei Qian silently took a sip of tea and adjusted his mentality: "Continue."
Guan Shuisheng continued: "Currently, many clubs have received sponsorships. Although the amounts vary, and it is temporarily impossible to maintain club operations with such sponsorships, this can be considered a good start."
"Before the start of the spring split, some teams should have sponsor logos on their uniforms. Although it is not good to have too many sponsors, it is not good to have no sponsors at all. It will make the audience feel that the league is not popular enough."
Pei Qian nodded slightly. Sponsors can give whatever money they want to the club. It has nothing to do with me.
Guan Shuisheng changed the subject and said: "In addition, there are many sponsors who have shown strong interest in GPL's exclusive title, including computer manufacturers, peripheral manufacturers, as well as sportswear, digital products, automobiles and other manufacturers."
"However, the specific price has not yet been finalized and is still under negotiation."
"Currently, the quotation for exclusive cooperation with a single type of merchant is about 5 million a year, while the quotation for exclusive sponsorship is about 20 million a year. Because it involves some details of sponsorship, we are still talking about it.
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"As for the live broadcast platforms, the broadcast rights of the GPL spring and summer games will be considered to be authorized to three live broadcast platforms. The base price is 10 million. At present, the bidding price should be more than 12 million..."
"These are still being discussed, and Mr. Zhang is also summarizing information from all aspects, which should be reported soon."
Listening to these numbers, Pei Qian felt that his hands and feet were a little cold, and his mind went blank.
I thought it was bad news that the dge club was selling people like crazy, but now I realize that the real bad news is yet to come!
Recently, Pei Qian's attention has been attracted by the ioi qualifying competition and the cold-faced girl, and he hasn't paid much attention to the GPL side. He didn't expect that the situation has become so serious!
In fact, we should have thought of it a long time ago. With so many sponsors looking for cooperation with the team, there will definitely be more people looking for official cooperation!
The current GPL league sponsorship prices are also tiered.
A single type of exclusive cooperation means that a certain brand monopolizes a certain category of products after sponsoring it. For example, if a certain sportswear has signed an exclusive cooperation with gpl, then gpl will not discuss cooperation with other sportswear in the future.
Of course, this does not affect the official cooperation with computer, automobile, digital product and other manufacturers.
As for the exclusive title, it can also be regarded as the chief sponsorship, which means that you will get the best official recommendation resources, and the price will naturally be the highest.
As for the live broadcast platform, the competition is even more intense. After all, the major live broadcast platforms are currently in the stage of burning money and diverting traffic. If they cannot get the GPL broadcast rights, they will give users a feeling that "this platform is not good".
, so the bidding price was very high.
Having said that, this amount is incomparable to the sponsorship fees that Pei Qian remembers, which can easily reach hundreds of millions or hundreds of millions.
But the question is, where does this go?
The game gog was born less than a year ago, and there is not much recognition of e-sports in China. It is already outrageous in Pei Qian's opinion that he can get such a high sponsorship fee!
But if you think about it carefully, this also makes sense.
Because of the popularity of the GoG World Finals, everyone has seen the huge potential of e-sports events, and GPL has done so well that there are currently almost no competitors.
What's more, Shenhua and other giant companies have entered the market one after another, and news such as the sky-high price of GPL quotas are constantly stirring up the nerves of the audience. Sponsors see the advertising effect brought by the huge popularity, and compare it with the quotations of traditional sports, and feel that it is a good deal.
, naturally they came in one after another.
Pei Qian silently calculated in his mind that GPL is very likely to earn hundreds of millions through various sponsorships and broadcast rights for the spring and summer games.
The good news is that these hundreds of millions of dollars are earned throughout the year, and it will be a little more acceptable to spread it out every month.
The bad news is that sponsorship fees may be even higher next year.
Pei Qian thought about it and realized that he might not be able to push away the money.
In this case, you must tell Zhang Yuan to ask these sponsors to pay in installments and spread the money evenly every month. Don't call them all at once, especially not just in time for such a critical node before settlement.
Otherwise, Mr. Pei will ascend to heaven where he is.
"Is there anything else?" Pei Qian felt a little tired.
Guan Shuisheng thought for a while: "Oh, there is one more little thing, about the fv club. It is said that the Longyu Group is arranging domestic teams to train in Los Angeles, but only the fv team is left behind..."
Wu Yue called Zhang Yuan to discuss the matter. Since there was no need to keep it secret, Guan Huisheng also knew about it.
After hearing this, Pei Qian couldn't help but his eyes lit up.
How can this be called a trivial matter?
Spending money is no small matter!
This Wu Yue and this Zhang Yuan should be severely criticized! They didn't report this kind of thing to me immediately. What were you thinking?
Longyu Group took two teams to Los Angeles, but only fv club stayed?
What a good thing!
This gives me a very valuable opportunity to spend money!
According to the expenses in Los Angeles, if we bring more people, we set the highest standard of food and accommodation allowed by the system... this may cost a lot of money!
After hearing so much bad news, there is finally some good news.
After Guan Qiansheng's regular meeting, Pei Qian immediately called Wu Yue.
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In fv club, Wu Yue was struggling with team training matters. When he saw the call from Mr. Pei, he quickly picked it up.
"Hello? Mr. Pei, what's the matter?" Wu Yue asked.
Mr. Pei on the other end of the phone seemed a little unhappy: "Why didn'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 need to worry about such a small matter, I can handle it."
Pei Qian: "What can you handle? Can you make the decision to arrange first-class air tickets 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, but he really couldn't. Although the money on the fv club's books was enough, it was really difficult for him to make the decision to spend hundreds of thousands to arrive in Los Angeles in advance.
Pei Qian said: "There is no need to worry about this matter. Immediately apply for expedited visas for everyone! How many people are there in the fv club currently?"
Wu Yue thought for a while: "The first team has five members, the second team has five members, plus me, Manager Lu, other team members, etc..."
"Ah, but we don't need so many people. Just let a team of team members and Manager Lu go. Three standard rooms are enough for six people."
Pei Qian was very unhappy after hearing this: "How can six people do it?"
"As the saying goes, before the soldiers and horses move, food and grass go first. If you want to march and fight, but the logistics and supplies can't keep up, why should you give up?"
"If you are unfamiliar with the place in Los Angeles, you have to find a translator and then find a local tour guide who is familiar with the situation. You have to have someone make arrangements for food and accommodation."
"You must not be careless about eating. Go over there and check to see if there is any better-tasting Chinese food. Make sure that there are no problems with the team members' daily diet and that it does not affect their physical condition."
"Recruit four more bodyguards. I heard that the security over there in the United States is not very good, so we have to ensure the personal safety of the team members."
"Bring a sparring team... I think sug would be good. In this case, I will pay to bring all the team members from sug with you."
"Let's see, there are a total of 30 people, and they will be arranged according to the standard of food and accommodation of 3,000 yuan per person per day. They will stay until the end of the competition. It will be about five weeks in total, right?"
"The standard of food and accommodation alone is 3.15 million. Well, when you arrive in Los Angeles, you may have to go shopping, buy some souvenirs, carry some cheap digital products back home, plus find a tour guide and bodyguards as mentioned before
The cost, and taking into account some possible emergencies..."
"In this way, if we put it all together, we can get 4 million."
Wu Yue was stunned when he heard this.
A trip to Los Angeles costs 4 million?
The entire fv club is not worth so much money just for one dollar!
Wu Yue hurriedly said: "Mr. Pei, there is no need for this! Zhidou Company will provide food and accommodation after the main game starts, so the only money we really need to spend is the round-trip air ticket."
"Even if we go a week in advance and have to take care of our own food and accommodation for this week, we don't need the standard of 3,000 yuan per person. A two-person room in a decent hotel near the venue can be purchased for less than 1,000 yuan."
"The accommodation arranged by Zhidou Company is better, but the standard room for two people only costs 200 dollars per night, which is about 1,400 yuan in total..."
Pei Qian didn't like hearing it at that time.
What do you mean, you don’t want me to spend money?
According to your minimum standard, if six people go and stay in a standard room worth 1,000 yuan a night, they can only pay out of pocket for the first week?
I'm afraid it would be too much to spend hundreds of thousands!
Pei Qian immediately interrupted Wu Yue: "Zhitou Company has arranged food and accommodation for us, do we have to go? What if the food and accommodation conditions arranged by Zhitou Company cannot meet our requirements?"
"The team members travel thousands of miles to play games in foreign countries. Can you bear the responsibility of something going wrong? As the saying goes, be prepared for a rainy day. If you can spend some money to eliminate these hidden dangers, it is quite cost-effective!"
"Just do as I say and the money will be sent to you soon."
After Pei Qian finished speaking, he hung up the phone.
Wu Yue looked at the screen of his cell phone, which had been hung up, and fell into confusion.
30 places?
The first team, second team of fv club plus the five main players of sug, there are only 15 people.