To become the richest man from the beginning of the game

Chapter 791 Spending money is no small matter (Da Zhang asks for a monthly ticket)

FV e-sports club.

Wu Yue who just received the news was very speechless, and was a little bit angry.

"Is this official? Our FV club's entry quota is given by the official, and the No. [-] seed spot is based on ability. In the end, there were three teams in total, and the other two were arranged to go to Los Angeles for training, but we didn't have any. information?"

"You really don't regard us as your own team?"

"Just because you have a little bit of trouble with Mr. Pei, you're just getting people's mentality like this?"

These e-sports clubs are well-informed, and FV e-sports club soon got the news: Longyu Group officially organized two other teams to go to Los Angeles for training in advance, and expedited visas are already being processed. The lodging expenses are fully covered by Longyu Group, and they will also match up to help arrange training matches with European and American teams.

It turned out that all these news were obtained from other sources, and Longyu Group had no intention of notifying the FV club at all, and even did not explain it hypocritically!

This can only explain one problem: Longyu Group deliberately did not bring the FV club to Los Angeles.

Manager Lu hurriedly tried to persuade him: "Mr. Wu, please calm down. This matter is indeed too much, but we don't have a good solution."

"Going to Los Angeles to play a training match in advance this time should be an act of spontaneous organization by Longyu Group, and it is not in the process of the world competition hosted by Zhitou Company."

"So Longyu Group can also say that it is their duty to bring us, and it is their duty not to bring us. They can bring whoever they want to bring with their own money. Many teams in other competition areas do not enjoy this kind of treatment."

Wu Yue said: "This is discrimination! It's differential treatment! We should appeal, or simply publish it on Weibo, so that everyone can take a good look at the faces of the Longyu Group!"

Manager Lu hurriedly shook his head: "Mr. Wu, this is not right!"

"Longyu Group did not publicize this incident in an official capacity. If we broke it out, Longyu Group could immediately change its mouth and say that it was a spontaneous act of the club. Longyu Group was only responsible for matchmaking and played a small role. Because The truth of this matter is easy to cover up, we rashly started a group, as long as Longyu Group plays Tai Chi with us, it is easy to cover up, but it seems that we care about every detail and treat a gentleman with a villain's heart."

"As for the complaint, it is even more useless. Isn't that the same as 'who in the hall sues this official'?"

"What's more, in the final analysis, e-sports is still about performance. Let's go online to make a big deal of this matter and bring a wave of rhythm. What if we don't play well in the World Championship? At that time, public opinion will definitely backfire. At that time, we will even It doesn't make sense anymore."

"If you think about it, you know what netizens will say when they lose in the World Championship: Such a good team has the nerve to ask the official for money to play training games in Los Angeles? It should have given up the spot to SUG in the first place!"

"Anyway, as long as we lose, the rhythm will definitely fly all over the sky. We can't ignore the consequences now."

Wu Yue nodded with a dark face: "Well, it seems that Zhao Xuming is sure of this point, and thinks that even if we poke it out, we will not get any benefits, so he is so blatant, just to kill chickens and monkeys, and beat us to make Tengda look good."

"Then... can we just suffer from being dumb? Longyu Group has done such a disgusting thing, we can't even say it?"

Manager Lu thought for a while: "It is definitely possible to say it, but not right now."

"Jumping out to start a team before the result of the game is out is something that idiots do. On the one hand, it adds huge public opinion pressure to your players and affects their performance; on the other hand, if the game loses, the opponent will take the opportunity To add insult to injury, the people who eat melons will not stand on our side, then we will really go straight to the ground."

"The best way is actually to settle accounts after the autumn. If we win the game, we can use the winning momentum to clarify all these things. The best choice is to output with the wind."

"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 prepare actively. When we get good results in the World Championships, we can use the pressure of public opinion to fight back against Long Yu Group gone."

"As long as we have better results than the other two clubs, no matter whether we win the championship or not, even if we are only in the semi-finals or the quarter-finals, we still have something to say."

"At that time, we can say that the official differential treatment has led to poor results in the entire competition area. If we are given the same treatment, our results may be even better, and so on."

"In short, everything still depends on grades, without grades, everything is useless."

Wu Yue was silent for a moment, then sighed softly: "It's difficult!"

"Although the paper strength of our current lineup is good, judging from the situation of the previous qualifiers, the strength is only on par with the other two teams, and it also has a little bit of schedule. Maybe we will play again In the bladder game, you may not be able to beat them."

"The benefits of going to Los Angeles for training are obvious. Being able to play European and American servers with low latency, better adapt to the version, and playing training games with relatively strong European and American teams at present, the strength improvement will definitely be faster than ours."

"If we want to beat them, we can't just rely on fantasy."

Manager Lu nodded, feeling that the situation was indeed serious.

E-sports does not mean that 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, wrong training methods, and supporting facilities that cannot keep up.

Wu Yue said, "Why don't we go to Los Angeles too?"

Manager Lu was silent for a moment: "Longyu Group organized them to go to Los Angeles because they can get online with Finger Company. When they get there, they can get a high-end game account in European and American servers, and they can come forward in an official capacity to make appointments with European and American veteran teams for training matches. Then Looking at Longyu Group's attitude towards us, even if we pay for it ourselves, we definitely don't have these things!"

"We can't go all the way to Los Angeles, but when the players go, they will spend the whole day playing rank in the low tier of the European and American server? Isn't that the more you practice, the better you are?"

"What's more, we are a large group of people, and the expenses are also very high. We have to take care of our own food and lodging in advance, and we have to feed the team members, plus the entourage... Assuming that there are 8 people, it will cost about 20 yuan. .If we take our second team over in consideration of the training situation, we will have to double it."

"Of course, our club can afford the money. The problem is that the training effect may not be guaranteed after spending money. The price/performance ratio is too bad."

Wu Yue thought about it, and it was indeed the case.

Longyu Group organized the other two teams to go to Los Angeles for training because they have high-end game accounts and can make appointments with European and American teams for training matches.If not, it is really unnecessary to spend hundreds of thousands just to adapt to the environment in advance.

After thinking again and again, Wu Yue said: "It seems that this kind of trivial matter is not easy to bother Mr. Pei, so how about it, I will call Mr. Zhang from Tengda's e-sports business department and ask him to help as a staff officer."

"If it's really not necessary, we won't go. We will stay in China and play training matches with domestic teams. We will make appointments for other training matches during the World Championship."

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Saturday, April 12.

Today there is a routine meeting of management compensation.

This year's Spring Festival is relatively early, on January 1, so the time of the exam week has also been brought forward a little bit, and the students in charge of compensation are spending a lot of time reviewing after work.

There is not much information that needs to be paid attention to in this regular meeting of management compensation. After all, most products are still in the final stage of research and development, including fully automatic smart bar lifters and other products. Not much useful information either.

Pei Qian knew that it would be a tough battle starting next month.

As a result, the billing cycle just happened to catch up with the exam week, and I have to say that this feeling is very sour.

Whether he can beat the old horse in this exam depends on the shivering before the exam.

The students in charge still reported the situation of their respective departments as usual, and soon it was the turn of the students in the e-sports department.

This Guan Xiansheng has been following Zhang Yuan. He was originally in charge of the DGE club. Later, after the establishment of the e-sports business department and the GPL league, he naturally entered the interior. At present, no matter 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 game is going well. Occasionally, some in-game bugs and equipment problems have been properly resolved. It should be able to accumulate a lot of experience for the spring game."

"Currently, the main lineup of each club in the GPL has basically been fixed. Those teams that did not participate in the GPL preseason are also playing training games and actively preparing for the spring season."

"The new batch of players from the DGE club has been swept away again. Although the strength is not as good as that of the first batch of players, this group of people is talented after all, and they have also undergone special training from the old players. The team is still in the main position..."

Pei Qian's hand holding the teacup couldn't help trembling.

Although I had already been mentally prepared for this, I still felt my heart tremble when I actually heard the news.

Another ten players, how much does it cost!

This group of players is the second batch of players after Huang Wang and Jiang Huan were bought collectively, and they are still selling well. This time, the transfer fee is enough for President Pei to drink a pot.

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 increase their value, and other clubs also feel that buying the players of the DGE club will definitely not lose money, so they buy more simply.

Newcomers with real ability and potential are willing to come to the DGE club, because once they have achieved results, they can immediately jump to other clubs to get big contracts. DGE has never engaged in card contracts or snow storage. Newcomers feel more secure; As far as the club is concerned, the DGE club does not directly participate in the competition, does not pose a threat to its own performance, and also helps train players, so it is also willing to buy people from DGE.

Those old players who left DGE would come back every now and then to give advice to the newcomers of DGE. Over time, "all the players who come out of DGE can stand alone" became the inherent impression of the entire league audience and clubs, which brought DGE's operation into a stage Virtuous circle.

Therefore, DGE's new players are like crops of leeks, which can be sold every once in a while, earning a lot of transfer fees.

In this regard, Pei Qian is powerless.

He pretended to take a sip of tea calmly and asked, "So, how much is the transfer fee?"

Guan Xiansheng said: "Ten players, the performances of these people are different, some C positions with strong operation or command ability are more expensive, and the highest transfer fee is more than 150 million. If it is the one with very average performance, Maybe only 80 million, or about 100 million. These players together, the transfer fee is sold for about 1300 million."

Pei Qian: "..."

A word Lv almost blurted out.

This number seriously exceeded his psychological expectations!

Previously, the transfer fee of Huang Wang, Jiang Huan and others was around 200 million, so Pei Qian thought that the transfer fee of these young players was only 100 million.

But apparently that's not the case!

In the earliest days, the transfer fees of star players like Huang Wang and Jiang Huan were a little inflated. After all, the major clubs wanted to compete for the results of the GOG Global Invitational Tournament for high bonuses and exposure.

However, with the gradual increase of GOG's global market share, the success of the GOG Global Invitational Tournament, and the rising popularity of the GPL league...

After this series of operations, the value of star players like Huang Wang and Jiang Huan is rapidly inflating as more and more capital enters the market!

Now their transfer fee is not 200 million.

The value of the top players has increased, and the value of the second batch of potential rookies in the DGE club will naturally increase as well.

Ten people may not seem like many, but the transfer fees add up to 1300 million.

It wasn't the number that made Pei Qian vomit blood, but the time!

After all, Boss Pei is also a person who has seen the big world. Hundreds of millions of funds have been in and out several times, let alone this mere 1000 million.

Anyway, it won't be in my hands, it's just a number.

The key is how much time it took to earn more than 1000 million!

The introduction of this group of players was done in September, and now it is December. They have only been trained for three months, and they are sold for 9 million!

If calculated in this way, the DGE club earns an average of more than 400 million per month, which is easy.

Not to mention the commercial sponsorship and live broadcast contract of the DGE club!

However, the daily expenses of the DGE club are really not much. The training base is rented by Mr. Li, and the manager Cui of Mingyun Villa can't wait to pay for Mr. Pei like his own father. The daily expenses such as rent, water and electricity bills are not much.

The only place to spend money may be daily expenses such as meals and fitness.

But with Moyu takeaway and hosted gym, how much can these players spend even if they eat and practice openly?

Pei Qian felt very tired.

Others burn money to open a club, and the original intention of starting a club is to burn money, but in the end, it turns into making money after just playing around!

A club that specializes in buying and selling players to make money, a club that can't play games but is bigger than the championship team, it's outrageous to think about it.

It is said that if the DGE club is well-trained, it should earn more than 1000 million transfer fees, but the problem is that these players are good seedlings!

Because potential rookies are desperately trying to get into the DGE club and regard it as their first choice, so as long as they try out a few casually, they are all potential rookies.

Just like many super middle schools, if you recruit all the high-quality students around you, can you not get good grades in the end?

Pei Qian took a sip of tea silently and adjusted his mentality: "Continue."

Guan Xiansheng continued: "At present, many clubs have received sponsorship. Although the number is different, and it is temporarily impossible to rely on some sponsorship to maintain the club's operation, this is also a good start."

"Before the start of the Spring Split, some teams should have sponsor logos on their uniforms. Although too many sponsors are not good, it is also not good to have no sponsors at all. It will make the audience feel that the league is not hot enough."

Pei Qian nodded slightly. Sponsors can just put money into the club, it has nothing to do with me.

Guan Peisheng 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 manufacturers of sportswear, digital products, automobiles, etc."

"However, the specific price has not yet been finalized and is still under negotiation."

"Currently, the exclusive cooperation quotation for a single type of business is about 500 million a year, while the exclusive naming price reaches about 2000 million a year. Because it involves some details in the sponsorship, it is still being discussed. "

"As for the live broadcasting platform, the broadcasting rights of the GPL Spring and Summer Games will be considered to be authorized to three live broadcasting platforms. The base price is 1000 million. At present, the bidding price should be more than 1200 million..."

"These are still being discussed, Mr. Zhang is also collecting information from various aspects, and it should be reported soon."

Listening to these numbers, Pei Qian felt his hands and feet were cold, and his mind went blank.

I thought it was bad news that the DGE club's crazy selling was already bad news, but now I found out that the real bad news is still to come!

Recently, Pei Qian's attention was all attracted by the ioi qualifying competition and the cold noodle girl, and he didn't pay much attention to the GPL side. He didn't expect the situation to be so serious!

In fact, it should have been thought of earlier, with so many sponsors looking for cooperation with the team, more people will definitely come to cooperate with the official team!

At present, the sponsorship price of the GPL league is also hierarchical.

A single type of exclusive cooperation refers to the monopoly of a certain category of goods after a certain brand sponsors.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 manufacturers of computers, automobiles, and digital products.

As for the exclusive naming, it can also be regarded as the chief sponsor, that is, it will get the best official recommendation resources, and the quotation is naturally the highest.

As for the live broadcast platform, the competition is even more intense. After all, all major live broadcast platforms are currently in the stage of crazily burning money and diverting traffic. Failure to obtain the GPL broadcast rights will give users a feeling that "this platform is not good enough". , so the bidding price was fired very high.

Having said that, this amount is incomparable to the hundreds of millions or hundreds of millions of sponsorship fees that Pei Qian remembered.

But the question is, where is this going?

The GOG game has been born for less than a year, and there is no such recognition of e-sports in China. To be able to get such a high sponsorship fee now, in Pei Qian's opinion, it is already very outrageous!

But if you think about it carefully, this also has a certain rationality.

Because of the popularity of the GOG World Finals, everyone has seen the huge potential of e-sports events, and the GPL is doing so well that there are almost no competitors at present.

What's more, Shenhua and other giant companies have entered the stadium one after another, GPL's sky-high price quota and other news are constantly stirring up the nerves of the audience. The sponsors see the advertising effect brought by the huge popularity, and compare it with the quotations of traditional sports, and feel that it is very cost-effective. , Naturally, they entered the venue one after another.

Pei Qian silently calculated in his mind that GPL is very likely to earn hundreds of millions of dollars through various sponsorships and broadcasting rights for the spring and summer games.

The good news is that this hundreds of millions of money is earned throughout the year, and it will be a little more acceptable to spread it every month.

The bad news is that the sponsorship fee may be even higher next year.

Pei Qian thought about it, and the money might not be pushed away.

That being the case, I have to tell Zhang Yuan to let these sponsors pay in installments, spread the money evenly every month, and don't call them all at once, especially not just in time for such a critical node before the settlement.

Otherwise, Mr. Pei will ascend to heaven in place.

"Is there anything else?" Pei Qian felt a little tired.

Guan Baosheng thought for a while: "Oh, there is another small matter, about the FV club. It is said that Longyu Group will arrange domestic teams to train in Los Angeles, but only leave the FV team..."

Wu Yue called Zhang Yuan to discuss this matter, because there was no need to keep it secret, so Guan Baosheng also knew about it.

After hearing this, Pei Qian's 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!This kind of thing didn't report to me immediately, what do you think?

Longyu Group took two teams to Los Angeles, but only left the FV club?

Good thing!

This gave me a very precious opportunity to spend money!

According to the expenses in Los Angeles, if you bring more people and set the highest standard of food and accommodation allowed by the system... it may cost a lot of money!

After hearing so much bad news, there is finally good news.

After the regular meeting of Guan Baosheng, Pei Qian immediately called Wu Yue.

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At the FV club, Wu Yue was struggling with team training. When he saw that it was Mr. Pei's call, he quickly picked it up.

"Hello? Mr. Pei, what's the matter?" Wu Yue asked.

President 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 quickly explained: "Oh, Mr. Pei, I don't need you to worry about such trivial matters, I can handle them well."

Pei Qian: "What can you handle? Can you decide to arrange first-class air tickets and five-star hotels for all the team members, or can you find an opponent for the team to train?"

Wu Yue: "I..."

He thought about it, but he really couldn't.Although the money on the FV club's books is enough, it is really difficult for him to make such a decision to spend hundreds of thousands to go to Los Angeles in advance.

Pei Qian said: "There's no need to worry about this matter, go and apply for an expedited visa for everyone immediately! How many people are there in the FV club?"

Wu Yue thought for a while: "The first team has 5 members, and the second team also has 5 members, plus me, Manager Lu, other staff members of the team, etc..."

"Ah, but we don't need so many people. It's enough to let the first team members and Manager Lu go. Just 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, the food and grass go first. If you want to march and fight, if the logistics supplies can't keep up, why do you need to use a hammer?"

"People in Los Angeles who are unfamiliar with the place have to find an interpreter, and then find a local tour guide who is familiar with the situation. They have to be arranged by a special person for food and lodging."

"Eat, you must not be sloppy. Go over there and check to see if there is any Chinese food with better taste, so as to ensure that the daily diet of the team members will not have any problems and will not affect their physical condition."

"Invite four more bodyguards. I heard that the law and order in the United States is not very good. We must ensure the personal safety of the team members."

"Bring another training team... I think SUG is good, so I will pay to bring all the players from SUG with you, and go with you."

"How about this? There are a total of 30 places, and the board and lodging standard is 3000 yuan per person per day. They will live until the end of the competition. It will be about five weeks in total?"

"The board and lodging standard alone costs 315 million. Well, when you arrive in Los Angeles, you may have to go shopping, buy some souvenirs, buy cheap digital products and so on, plus the aforementioned tour guides and bodyguards. costs, and taking into account some possible emergencies..."

"In this way, round it up, it's 400 million."

Wu Yue was dumbfounded.

A trip to Los Angeles, costing 400 million?

It's not worth so much money to add one piece to the whole FV club!

Wu Yue hurriedly said: "Boss Pei, there's no need for that! Finger Company will provide board and lodging after the start of the race, so the only money we need to spend is the round-trip air ticket."

"Even if we go a week in advance, we have to take care of our own board and lodging for this week, and we don't need the standard of 3000 yuan per person at all. A standard room for two people in a good hotel near the venue can be won within 1000 yuan."

"The accommodation arranged by the finger company is better, but the standard room for two people is only 200 knives per night, which is about 1400 yuan..."

Pei Qian didn't like to listen to it at the 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 of 1000 yuan a night, you only have to pay out of pocket for the first week?

I'm afraid it's not enough to spend 10,000+!

Pei Qian immediately interrupted Wu Yue: "Finger Company has arranged board and lodging for us, so do we have to go? What if the board and lodging conditions arranged by Finger Company can't meet our requirements?"

"The team members traveled thousands of miles to play games in foreign countries. Can you bear the responsibility if something goes wrong? As the saying goes, it is a good deal to spend some money to prevent these hidden dangers!"

"Just do as I say, and the money will be transferred quickly."

Pei Qian hung up the phone after speaking.

Wu Yue looked at the screen of the phone that had been hung up, and fell into a daze.

30 places?

The first and second teams of the FV club plus the five main players of SUG, there are only 15 people.

Where can I find 30 people?

(End of this chapter)