Chapter 928 The sky-high quota in the North Rice Division!
March 7, Wednesday morning.
On Tuwei Live, the first test exhibition match of the ICL League will start at 5 o'clock tonight. The two teams are the two domestic teams that previously obtained domestic quotas and entered the ioi global finals but were eliminated in the final group stage.
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Although they were eliminated in both groups in the group stage, which seems to be relatively unfavorable, after all, the two teams are the strongest in the country except FV and SUG.
What's more, after they returned from the World Finals, they also played some training games with the FV team, and their technical and tactical levels and overall strength have been significantly improved.
Zhao Xuming believes that when these two teams appear in front of all audiences again, they will definitely show a completely new look!
And tomorrow, that is, Thursday, there will be an exhibition match between the FV team and the SUG team, and the attention will definitely be higher.
The main reason why the match between FV and SUG was not scheduled for today was because I was afraid of something unexpected happening on the first day.
The various lighting, equipment, directing, and arrangements for the Tuwei live broadcast at the competition site all need to be debugged. If the exhibition match between FV and SUG is scheduled for today, it will be too much if the entire process is suspended for computer repairs.
It's disappointing, and it will actually hurt the popularity of the league.
Therefore, it is the best choice to arrange two teams today that are not that high in traffic but have certain strength and popularity.
Of course, this will also bring about a problem, which is what to do with the heat of the game.
The current popularity in the domestic ioi field, it is no exaggeration to say that 90% of it is concentrated on the FV team. If the FV team is not included, there will be not many viewers watching the ICL exhibition match on the first day. Isn’t it embarrassing?
However, Zhao Xuming feels that this is not a big problem. After all, data is all true and false, and anyone can understand it.
The live broadcast platform can give millions of fake hits, post more repeated barrages, and arrange a group of trolls to make crazy speeches... It can also boost the popularity of the live broadcast room, at least it can be fake and real.
Effect.
Although there is no detailed agreement on these contents in the contract between the two parties, isn't this the same routine for live broadcast platforms?
There is no need to explain this kind of thing deliberately, it is an unspoken rule of the industry, and the staff at Tuwei Live will naturally arrange it.
Now, Eric and Zhao Xuming are inspecting the ICL League match site to check the preparation status of various tasks.
The venue of the ICL League is also an indoor venue, located in a large studio in Shanghai.
In fact, Eric considered large stadiums at first, but quickly gave up. Because although these large stadiums look more impressive, they also have many corresponding problems.
For example, large open-air venues are seriously affected by weather. Whether it is heavy rain or exposure to the sun, the audience will suffer.
The bigger the venue, the more money it will cost to decorate it to achieve the desired effect. It’s not that I’m afraid of spending money, it’s mainly that I’m afraid that the audience won’t be full, which would be very embarrassing.
What's more, the transportation in large venues may not be very convenient. If there are concerts, football games, etc., the ICL audience will leave the venue together with the fans or fans, and the scene will be quite chaotic, which will be difficult to handle.
So after comprehensive consideration, I decided to rent an indoor studio just like GPL. This way at least the transportation is more convenient and the overall effect can be guaranteed.
Eric went around the backstage of the studio and asked the staff in detail about the debugging of various equipment. He also walked around the stage and auditorium to see what shortcomings there were from the perspective of an audience.
Zhao Xuming followed Eric throughout the process, occasionally explaining some details.
Eric has specifically studied GPL competition venues before and has a lot of experience to draw from. Eric also gave a lot of instructions for the preparations for this ICL.
After everyone went around in a circle, Eric sat in the audience for a moment and said, "Is it too GPL-like?"
He didn't realize this until now.
Because when preparing for the ICL league, Eric subconsciously adopted all the good things about the GPL, such as the team flags decorated around the venue, the arrangement of the big screen and player positions on the stage, etc.
There is really nothing wrong with these details when taken individually, but when they are all put together, there will be an inexplicably familiar feeling of déjà vu...
Obviously, when the staff completed these details, they also subconsciously benchmarked the GPL's practices in their minds, so they did something similar.
Zhao Xuming opened his mouth, not knowing how to answer for a moment.
Since Eric asked this question, he obviously already had a definite answer in his mind.
If he said "no", Eric would definitely feel that he had no vision.
But Zhao Xuming couldn't nod and say "yes", because in that case Eric would definitely ask, why didn't you remind me earlier?
What Eric needs most now is a reliable solution.
But the game is about to start tonight. Is there still a hammer solution in just a few hours?
Can't we just tear down all the decorations now and replace them all within a few hours? Isn't that nonsense?
Zhao Xuming had an idea and thought of his words.
"It does feel a bit like GPL, but I don't think it's okay."
"Although this will bring us a little negative impact on public opinion, it also means that after GPL viewers switch to our ICL league, there will not be many barriers to watching the game."
"I can only say that there are advantages and disadvantages, but the advantages outweigh the disadvantages."
"In the future, we can slowly adjust the decoration of the venue and remove as many GPL elements as possible."
Eric seemed quite satisfied with this answer and nodded: "Well, that's the only way it can be."
The two people sat in the audience for a while, and Eric asked again: "I heard that Tenda Group is also preparing for overseas leagues. How is the current situation? Is there any news?"
Zhao Xuming quickly replied: "There is some news coming out."
"At present, Tenda Group's overseas leagues are probably still in the preparation stage. I heard that they will cooperate with overseas companies for promotion. Each agency company will decide the specific matters of the overseas leagues. Tenda Group only plays a guiding and checkpoint role."
"As for which companies we will cooperate with, the specific competition formats, schedules, and participating teams of each overseas league... there is no news at all."
Eric nodded and smiled slightly: "Overseas leagues, we are finally better. Ioi's global regional leagues started earlier than GOG, and they are directly managed by Zhidou Company to establish branches in various places. In
This is clearly a comprehensive advantage.”
Zhao Xuming asked: "I was surprised when I first heard the news. This doesn't seem like Mr. Pei's style of doing things. Cooperate with other companies and let these companies lead the preparations for overseas leagues. In case of failure to cooperate,
Wouldn’t it be embarrassing?”
Eric smiled slightly: "Do you think Mr. Pei is not aware of this? He is aware of it, but he has nothing to do."
"After all, Tengda Group does not have much experience in going overseas, so it may be difficult to forcefully take over everything."
"And Dayak Group is a multinational group with good influence in many regions around the world, and Zhidou Company is an American company."
"In other words, in terms of domestic leagues, Tengda has a natural advantage; but in terms of overseas leagues, the situation is completely reversed."
"As far as I know, the preparations for the league in North America, where Zhitou Company is headquartered, are almost complete. The tentative price for league seats is..."
"Seven million dollars."
Zhao Xuming was stunned for a moment: "So expensive!"
This is the price for a single seat.
It was said before that Mr. Pei paid a sky-high price for the GPL seats, but the average price of the seats is basically around 20 million, which is only 3 million dollars after conversion.
The quotation for seats in the ioi North American Regional League has directly doubled the quotation for GPL!
Eric smiled: "It seems a little expensive at the moment, but that may not be the case in the future. Moreover, at a price of seven million dollars, many clubs will buy it."
"The clubs in North America have much stronger financial resources. Buying a seat for seven million will make them feel heartache, but they will never give up this seat."
The development level of the e-sports industry in different regions is different. The e-sports industry in the three major regions of Europe, America and South Korea is developing relatively quickly, but when it comes to financial resources, clubs in North America are definitely the richest.
Of course, many large consortiums have entered the domestic e-sports industry, and the financial resources of various clubs are also growing rapidly. However, compared with American clubs, their financial resources are still far behind.
The pricing of the Zhitou Company in the North American region is not a random asking price, but is determined by a combination of the financial resources of each club, the influence and popularity of ioi in the North American region, the asking prices of other e-sports industries and other factors.
Eric did not ask high prices from domestic e-sports clubs. The quotas in the ICL league were basically half bought and half given away. This was not because he was a philanthropist, but simply because he knew that domestic clubs could not squeeze out so much money.
If you set a sky-high price and no one can afford it, what’s the point?
But the situation in North America is different. This is the base camp of Zhitou Company, with leagues, live broadcasts and related derivative industries of the club. This is a huge money-attracting pool. Zhitou Company does not want to sell all the places at a low price. It will definitely have to
Make a good profit.
The landlords don’t have any surplus food. The Zhidou Company is spending money like crazy in order to promote the domestic market. Where does this money come from? Doesn’t it still have to be earned from other markets?
Eric said very confidently: "It's hard to say about other regions, but in the North American region, Zhidou Company has an absolute advantage. If Tenda wants to run GOG's North American League and compete with ioi, it will definitely not be that easy!"
Zhao Xuming nodded slightly in agreement.
Indeed, Tenda’s achievements so far are mainly domestic. As a domestic company, Tenda does have advantages in this regard.
But when it comes to Beimi, it is the home field of Zhidou Company. Tenda Group cannot directly intervene and can only let other game companies act as agents. The difficulty will definitely increase a lot.
The confidence of Eric and Zhidou Company is obviously very reasonable.
Just then, Eric's cell phone rang.
He took a look and frowned, and his expression changed suddenly after he answered the phone.
"What? I'll go check it out right away."
These two sentences were said in English. Obviously, the call should come from the headquarters of Zhizou Company in Los Angeles.
Zhao Xuming asked: "What's wrong?"
Eric's face looked a little ugly: "For some reason, the forum on the North American side is abuzz, saying that we treat the two divisions differently!"