America's Road to Fame

Chapter 427
Just the day before William Chen's first son Chen Shengyi was born, that is, on December 12, the League of Legends S24 season global finals held in Atlanta Island came to an end.

In this nine-day global finals, Yang Mi's HTG team finally won the championship, which is also the first S season global finals champion.

On the day the HTG team won the championship, this news spread across Huaguo's social media. This kind of thing with a sense of national honor can easily arouse the enthusiasm of the public, although at this time, e-sports is not very mainstream. However, in any case, it was Hua Guo's team that won the world championship, which also won some attention for the industry.

However, Xiao Wang's IG team ended up in the quarterfinals. In the eight-to-four competition, he lost to a team from South Korea, which also made him feel quite depressed.

At the same time, after the HTG team won the League of Legends S1 season championship, the traces of their team members, as well as the team name, have gone through a grand ceremony, leaving a mark on the Avenue of Stars in the unfinished UFO e-sports central square. first record.

This ceremony was broadcast live to the world through Live, and the organizers of this competition are also very generous. All 24 teams participating in this global finals will provide them with food and accommodation for all 9 days in Atlanta. Therefore, even if they were eliminated in the initial group stage, they could still stay and watch the whole game.

Therefore, in this ceremony, all 24 teams participating in the League of Legends S1 season global finals watched the process, including Xiao Wang, who saw the honorable moment of the HTG team under the leadership of Yang Mi , I am still very envious, especially since this is a grand event broadcast live to all players around the world.

So classmate Xiao Wang also secretly made up his mind. After returning home, he must continue to introduce strong people, rectify the IG team, and strive to make his team win the championship in the S2 season next year.

And the results of this global finals aroused very strong repercussions.

You know, although Yang Mi didn't announce how much he spent to acquire the LOL branch of the WE club, because the e-sports clubs in Huaguo are generally very poor at this time, and the e-sports industry is not taken seriously, so This amount will not be too large. Many people in the industry estimate that it will never exceed 100 million Chinese dollars.

So far, Yang Mi's total investment in the HTG team will not exceed 300 million Chinese coins, but in this way, the HTG team won the global finals of the League of Legends S1 season, not counting the benefits brought to Heytea. The advertising effect is just the bonus of the game, and the HTG club won a championship bonus of 1000 million US dollars.

I don't know what the mood of the WE club is at this time, but it shouldn't be too good anyway.

As for this bonus, according to insiders of the HTG club, the owner Yang Mi is very generous, saying that the club will only keep 20% of the bonus, which is 200 million US dollars, as the club's daily operating expenses, and the remaining 800 million US dollars. It will be distributed as a bonus to club members.

80% of it, which is 640 million US dollars, will be distributed to the players and coaches who participated in the S1 global finals, and the remaining 20%, which is 160 million US dollars, will be distributed to other members of the club, including logistics. and other management.

As soon as this news came out, the Internet, including other Huaguo e-sports clubs, was envious for a while. You must know that in this era, most of Huaguo's e-sports industry practitioners can be said to be very poor. It is to use love to generate electricity, and just rely on the prize money for participating in the competition to maintain a living.

But now, it can be said that after this battle, the HTG club has immediately become the number one giant in the e-sports industry in Huaguo, and it is the club that all e-sports players most hope to join, not one of them.

It can be understood by saying two things.

The first one is that after Xiao Wang acquired the CCM club, he then "strongly" poached four members of the Dota branch of the giant LGD to form the iG club.

At that time, for these four players, Xiao Wang gave each of them a poaching fee of 5 Chinese currency.

In the e-sports industry at this time, this is undoubtedly a "sky-high price", which caused numerous controversies for a while.Xiao Wang was even evaluated by the media at this time as the most competitive investor in the history of e-sports.

The second one is that according to Xiaoxiao, a member of the IG team LOL branch, recalled in the live broadcast, Xiao Wang's assistant once held a sack of Chinese coins in front of their eyes and said:
"If you win the championship, you will take it away, [-] yuan per person."

2 yuan is not a small amount for professional players at this time.

Therefore, it can be seen that this time Yang Mi waved his hand and let the members of the club share the 800 million US dollars, which is equivalent to more than 5500 million Chinese coins. The members are all on the scale of several million Chinese dollars in bonuses. How much impact will this bring to the practitioners in the e-sports industry and those players at this time?

For the first time, let them know that the e-sports industry is not only supported by love, but can really make a lot of money.

This is not to mention that after the HTG club won the championship this time, the main members of the team who performed well have received many endorsements from relevant sponsors, especially equipment and hardware manufacturers. For these endorsements, the club and team members are divided into 46. This is another big income.

This time the HTG club won the championship. Another influence is that Heytea Company, which is the title sponsor of this club, has also been hyped up, and the sales of milk tea have greatly improved.

At the same time, in order to celebrate the HTG Club's championship, HEYTEA's various stores have launched milk tea packaging with the HTG club logo and team members' portraits printed on it, and announced that on Christmas Day, all HEYTEA stores across the country will launch a buy-one-get-one-free campaign. And launched the Atlanta S1 King's new milk tea with the exclusive flavor of the champion.

As the owner of the HTG club, Yang Mi's limelight overwhelmed Xiao Wang and became the most well-known figure in Huaguo's e-sports circle. Because of her beauty and contribution to the promotion of the e-sports industry, she was unanimously praised "Goddess of E-sports".

Driven by her, the popularity of the game LOL in China has also greatly increased. Many people who seldom played games before, especially many girls, also began to try to play LOL.

And because LOL is easier to operate and easier to learn than DOTA, many girls stay in this game and it becomes a hobby of their amateur entertainment.

This kind of scene has also created a virtuous circle, because the increase in female players has also attracted more boys. LOL has gradually become the most popular battle game.

This phenomenon is naturally what Riot Games and Penguin, which holds a 30% stake in Riot Games, are happy to see. Therefore, they began to actively support Riot Games and launch the mobile version of League of Legends as soon as possible.

(End of this chapter)