Eric stood up and hurried away, obviously going back to have a video call with the headquarters of Zhidou Company to deal with this matter.
Zhao Xuming will continue to watch the ICL games and cannot get away.
But he was also very curious, so he took out his mobile phone and looked up relevant information online.
It is evening time in Los Angeles now, which is the time when players are active on forums and live broadcast platforms.
Zhao Xuming discovered that not only some forums and websites in the United States were discussing this matter, but several popular posts were also made by good guys on domestic forums, and players from GOG and ioi were all discussing it!
"The ICL hasn't officially started yet, and Zhitou Company has made big news again? I saw that the forums in Beimi are going crazy, saying that Zhitou Company charges sky-high seat fees?"
"It is said that the league quota for ioi's North American League ICS was sold for 7 million U.S. dollars! It's too expensive, it's just a money grab!"
"It's okay. I heard that the clubs in the United States are not all very rich. You should still be able to get $7 million, right?"
"But GOG is also preparing for the league there. It is said that the way to obtain a spot is free bidding, and the starting price is only one million dollars. This comparison shows the gap!"
"It's not just a matter of price. The clubs in the ICS division are very dissatisfied with the different treatment of Zhidou Company. Because in the domestic division, that is, the ICL, the quotas are half bought and half given, which can be said to be a bargain price; however, in the ICS division
It costs 7 million dollars to buy a spot! More importantly, due to the previous public controversy, Zhidou Company has provided additional subsidies to the teams in the ICL, which is not available in the ICS division."
"When you think about it, the clubs and players over there will really get excited... They paid ten times more than the ICL competition price to buy a spot, but in the end, the treatment was not as good as it was. This is equivalent to cutting off flesh and blood from yourself to make it cheaper.
In the outer competition area..."
“When you think about it this way, it’s really understandable that you’re going to explode.”
"I don't know how Zhidou Company will solve this public opinion crisis. This wave, this wave was just about to expand its territory, but the house was on fire!"
Zhao Xuming became more and more confused as he watched.
How could such a problem occur!
The final analysis of this incident is that the two divisions of North America's ICS and the domestic ICL have different treatment. In order to better promote the ICL league and save the ioi national server, Zhitou Company gave sufficient discounts on the league quota, and because of the GPL
Things, as a last resort, provide many additional benefits to clubs in the ICL League.
But for the North American ICS League, Zhidou Company has no such idea.
There are two reasons: First, the person in charge of the ICL is Eric, but the person in charge of the ICS league is other senior executives of Zhitou Company. The two leagues are prepared at the same time and do not affect each other.
The quota fees for ICS must be earned. You can't just buy half of the quota for ICL and get half for free, right? Isn't that a big loss?
Second, there is no other way to provide various compensation conditions to ICL clubs, such as ensuring players’ nutritious meals, daily fitness, etc. Eric simply doesn’t want to spend this money and share this condition with all external competition areas, then
It's even more impossible.
How heartbreaking that is!
Therefore, there is indeed such a gap between the ICL League and the ICS League.
In fact, this is normal. Tengda has not been able to handle a bowl of water evenly!
Tenda treats the GPL like its own son, but for foreign competition areas, it just finds a local company to cooperate with and that's it.
But Tenda will not encounter such pressure from public opinion at all!
The reason is that the two companies are in different positions and adopt different strategies.
Tenda is a local company in China. It is responsible for operating the GPL and improving various benefits. This is a matter of course. Although the major clubs spent money to buy quotas, the money was returned back and everyone spent it willingly.
The quota in the outer division is based on bidding, and the highest bidder gets it. No matter whether the quota fee is high or low, the club will not complain.
As for whether the outer divisions have the benefits of GPL, even if the clubs in the outer divisions are dissatisfied, they will go to the league's agency, not directly to Tengda Group.
What's more, these clubs actually don't bother too much with these special subsidies for meals or fitness, because they don't realize the importance. They have already saved money on the quota fee, and it doesn't matter if they don't have these benefits.
But things are different here at Zhidou Company.
Precisely because they are an American company, they will be under greater pressure in the United States.
The American clubs looked at it and wondered why the quota fee for the ICL league was so cheap, and Zhidou Company also paid to provide benefits to the clubs. But when it came to our side, there were no benefits and we had to spend 7 million dollars to buy league seats?
Zhidou Company, are you still an American company?
It’s okay if you want to promote ioi, but don’t suck our blood to promote it!
After this public opinion was detonated, many players and viewers also felt aggrieved, especially when many people began to settle old scores.
Zhidou Company has a long history of crimes!
In the past, skins in different regions were priced separately, and they were sprayed with blood. Originally, this matter was over, but I didn’t expect that the Zhitou company’s dog could not change and fell ill again!
Moreover, Zhitou Company has branches in various competition areas across the country, and they are responsible for all preparations for the competition areas themselves. Therefore, if any problems arise, the club and the audience will definitely point the finger at Zhitou Company directly.
The old and new grudges were combined, and many clubs were behind it to add pressure to the company, so once this matter was exposed, it was immediately hotly discussed on the Internet!
That's why the top management of Zhidou Company immediately called Eric and asked him to resolve the matter together.
As for how to solve it?
Zhao Xuming couldn't guess, but Zhidou Company would probably continue to bleed heavily this time.
Once such a public opinion crisis breaks out, it is impossible to quell public anger without bloodshed.
Zhao Xuming couldn't help but become nervous.
Just now Eric swore that the North American region was the home ground of Zhitou Company, and the league would be run smoothly, and Tengda would not be able to interfere.
What's the result now?
A slap in the face!
Not only is there a problem over there, it’s a big problem!
"Could it be that this was also arranged by Mr. Pei? That he deliberately chose this time point to give Zhidou Company a head-on blow?"
"No, didn't Mr. Pei just negotiate with us about cooperation in the ICL league?"
"Could it be that..."
"Yes, this public opinion incident is a targeted attack on the ICS League. It has nothing to do with ICL, so naturally it will not affect the cooperation between our two countries..."
"this!"
Zhao Xuming was originally very confused, shouldn't Mr. Pei and us be allies now? Why did this kind of thing happen again?
But then I thought about it, the cooperation between Mr. Pei and Eric was only limited to the ICL league. In other competition areas around the world, the two were still bitter enemies and had a competitive relationship!
Mr. Pei didn't seem to want to attack the ICL league and have an impact on his own interests. Instead, he turned his attention to North America and directly used a move to drain the salary from the bottom of the cauldron and hit Zhitou Company's doorstep!
Zhao Xuming felt shuddering.
Mr. Pei gives the impression that he is schizophrenic. While he is jokingly cooperating with you, he seriously takes out a dagger from his arms and stabs you very simply without saying a word!
Zhao Xuming suddenly became a little suspicious, wondering whether this cooperation with Mr. Pei was right or wrong...
…
At 4 p.m., the ICL exhibition match is about to start.
The players from both clubs have arrived at the match site in advance, and the staff have also begun to make various preparations to ensure that the match can proceed smoothly.
Zhao Xuming was backstage, watching the audience enter the venue one after another.
Today's venue is definitely going to be full. After all, it's the first day. It's really ugly to see empty seats. Fortunately, the old ioi players in Shanghai Magic City, internal staff and additional tickets have taken up 77,888 of the seats at the venue, leaving only 7,788 seats left.
It would be no problem to hire some people to fill the vacant seats.
At this moment, Zhao Xuming noticed that Eric was back.
"You're back! How's the matter going?" Zhao Xuming hurriedly approached and asked.
Eric's expression looked very tired, and he was obviously very tired: "The solution has basically been determined. The ICS quota will be changed to start bidding from 3 million U.S. dollars, and the clubs in North America will also enjoy the same benefits as ICL.
The preferential treatment is mainly in terms of diet, fitness, etc.”
Obviously, the result of the meeting and discussion at Zhidou Company was that they gave in!
It is already late at night in Los Angeles, and this video call has been going on for half the night, which shows how seriously the top management of Zhidou Company takes this matter.
Early tomorrow morning, Zhitou Company will issue an announcement to appease the clubs and players in the North American region, and their attitude will be very sincere.
Because North America is their base, leagues in other places may not be run well, but the ICS league must be run well!
The different treatment of the ICS league and the ICL league will indeed satisfy people. Even if it is emphasized that the ICS league has more sponsors and seats are more valuable, it is useless. This reason is difficult to hold.
So, I can only give in.
The league quota has been reduced from the one-time price of 7 million knives to the starting bid of 3 million knives. The Zhidou Company will definitely lose a lot of money.
Although the bidding can raise the price unlimitedly, there are only a few big clubs in the North America area, so there is no need to raise the price of this spot. We definitely hope that everyone can get the best at the lowest price.
Therefore, in the end, this spot will probably be sold for four to five million dollars. For each spot, the company will lose two million dollars.
Although these dietary and fitness subsidies to clubs are not large in terms of amount, they will be a continuing expense. The key is that these clubs may not be particularly grateful!
They will feel that these are the rights they have earned, rather than preferential treatment given to them by the company.
That's why Eric felt speechless. The ICL on his side was doing well, but he was suddenly shot out of nowhere!
Although the money has nothing to do with him, it is obvious that the top management of the company has a lot of opinions on his behavior. In order to promote the ICL league, the clubs and audiences at ICS were very dissatisfied. Eric was more or less responsible for this.
Carry a little more.
If ICL doesn't work well in the future, and the top management of Zhidou Company starts liquidation, Eric may be left with nothing to eat.
Zhao Xuming was not very happy to see Eric and did not dare to dwell too much on this topic.
"Just solve it! After all, it is a matter of ICS and has little to do with us."
"All the equipment here has been debugged, and the preliminary preparations over at Tuwei Live have been completed, and we are just waiting for the game to begin!"
Eric nodded, took out his mobile phone from his pocket, and opened the Tuwei Live APP.
Although the Tuwei Live APP is quite simple and even a little shabby, it still gives enough recommendations to ICL. As soon as you enter the homepage, there is a large banner of the ICL League, which is very eye-catching.
On the other hand, Tenda’s own GPL league has not even started broadcasting on Tuwei Live.
Eric temporarily forgot about his previous unpleasantness and began to look forward to the official start of the exhibition match!