Chapter 238: Turning Los Angeles into a Library (Part )

"After taking so many measures, it still doesn't work?"

In a luxurious box at Staples Center, a white-haired, hook-nosed man in a suit and tie frowned slightly as he watched the live game on the big screen.

The score at this time had reached 0:2, and in the third game, Fanhua had easily stolen the big dragon and began to advance to the high ground.

Did C9's off-the-board moves work? It seems to have.

But it is hard to say whether it is a positive or negative effect.

Inside the venue, the annoyed Fanhua crowd were obviously a little angry when they attacked.

The desire to attack was not just a little bit stronger, just like when they played against the Neon Team.

This made Fanhua's formation not as tight as in the previous few games, and occasionally some individuals would get caught and killed after chasing too hard, which successfully prevented C9 from following the same fate as Neon.

But on the other hand, the beating was ten times more miserable.

During MSi, Fanhua did not show much aggressiveness. Instead, they used world-class operations to win, which was completely different from their style in the league.

The reason for this arrangement is that after Lu Liang took over as coach, Fanhua’s main training focus was on operations.

The first two rounds of MSi also had a bit of a practice-while-playing mentality.

However, focusing on operations does not mean that Fanhua’s melee and fighting abilities are weak.

That is their specialty!

As a result, C9 suffered a heavy loss.

If team battles can still rely on a momentary flash of inspiration and some keen innate sense of smell to make up for the lack of strength,
Then laning and operations are the combat power that really needs to be built up with time and sweat.

And what LCS lacks most are exactly these things.

Due to cultural differences and different attitudes towards the game, the training intensity of their professional players is really not very high.

There are only two Asians, IMPACT in the top lane and Big Brother in the bottom lane, who still maintain their qualities as the king of rolls, but they are inevitably not as good as the crazy people in China and South Korea.

As a result, they are far behind Fanhua in terms of hero pool and proficiency.

I don't know who once said that no matter how good the tactics are, it will be useless if you can't win the laning phase.

C9 is currently in such a dilemma.

When the two most stable and outstanding players among them, who were the best in laning phase and could destroy anyone in the league, were suppressed by the bloody scene of flowers, the outcome of the game was actually already decided.

After making so many preparations, their team was still beaten mercilessly, which made C9's investors feel embarrassed.

It's really embarrassing that we spent so much money on favors and invited so many big names, only to let them make a fool of themselves.

"Actually, this isn't too surprising. For now, there is still a slight gap in hard power between LCS and LPL."

Next to the investor, the head of C9 didn't seem to be too bothered by the team's failure on the field, and replied with a chuckle.

"In that case, why are you still letting us invest so much in a project that is doomed to fail?"

The investor representative glanced at him with a sharp look in his eyes.

If the manager cannot give him a reasonable explanation, then he will have to consider whether he should continue to pour money into this bottomless pit.

"Don't be anxious, sir." The manager smiled and waved his hand, still calm.

"You seem to have misunderstood something."

"C9 did lose to BMG on the field. However, this does not mean that our project is going to fall."

The investment representative glanced at him and showed a little interest: "Oh?"

The manager handed him a tablet and said, "Take a look at the discussion about this matter on the Internet."

The representative took it and flipped through it bit by bit.

At this time, whether it was Twitter, Facebook or any other social software, they were all in an uproar.

Countless angry fans are discussing today's humiliating defeat.

Some were furious, some were angry at C9 for not living up to expectations, and some were arrogant and said they could do it too...

But it seems that no one said that League of Legends is boring and that it’s okay to just let the Asians win.

"Why?" The representative was a little surprised.

In his opinion, if the White Eagle Country team cannot achieve any good results in a competition,
Then for White Eagle fans, it would be easy for them to choose to give it up.

At least give up the White Eagle local team.

For example, the only flaw in football is that if Messi had not joined Miami in his later years, the White Eagles might not have paid much attention to the local team of this world's number one sport.

This is not a characteristic of the White Eagle Country, but a common feature of fans all over the world.

However, although the current White Eagle fans are angrily criticizing C9 for being bad, not many of them have given up paying attention to the competition or even the game.

why?
"The reason is actually very simple," the manager explained with a smile, "In addition to the delicate relationship between us and China, the most important thing is that world-class e-sports is still very young."

It is now the third decade of the 21st century. The delicate relationship between China and the White Eagles has long been a consensus around the world.

In addition to the official exchanges, the people of the two countries also often compete in various fields.

Don’t think that there are no patriots in the so-called beacon country. The authentic American flag is everywhere.

Losing to China in the field of e-sports is enough to make countless rednecks angry.

But e-sports is not table tennis or mathematics, which can be divided into "something played by Asians" by the White Eagles and then become a joke with a racist touch.

They can't live without video games.

In addition to this, another very important reason is that the League of Legends professional league is indeed very young.

His appeal to the audience is still very strong, and he is far from needing to rely on the sense of honor brought by his achievements to attract the audience.

With a sufficient player base and fan base, the failure of a single game is not enough to cause North American players to quit the game on a large scale.

"Take a look outside." The manager pointed out the window. "Even though the situation has become like this, what are our fans doing?"

The investment representative nodded and said with emotion: "Indeed, this is the first time I have seen them not exit early when they are at a great disadvantage."

He also has a sense of humor: "If it were those scumbags in New York, they would probably be cheering for Fanhua now."

White Eagle doesn't have much patience, especially when it comes to watching games.

Even in the NBA league, which has been developed in the White Eagles for nearly a hundred years, when the game loses suspense, the audience will leave in large numbers.

Just like 20 years ago, before McGrady performed that miracle of 13 points in 35 seconds, I don't know how many people left the stadium early or changed the channel, thus missing this top-notch NBA god.

This is still a normal home court.

If it were New York's so-called basketball Mecca, Madison Square Garden, the situation would be even worse.

Since the home team Knicks have been dragging their team down for decades, New York audiences are the most likely to switch sides.

Today at the Staples Center, no one left nor switched sides. Even now, they are still booing Fanhua together with a common hatred for the enemy.

For the White Eagle guys, it is already a science fiction film.

"See, sir, that's what I said." The manager smiled.

"In the short term, even if we lose one or two games, we don't have to worry about losing fans."

"After all, no matter how good C9 is, they have made it to the semi-finals and can even challenge for the top three. Their competitiveness is not bad."

"As long as we can strengthen the team and achieve breakthroughs in future performance, you and your partners can just wait for the money to be filled in your sacks!"

The manager's well-reasoned arguments gradually dispelled investors' doubts.

He asked sincerely: "So, what should we do to strengthen the lineup?"

"Do we need to go to other regions to buy players? Buy Chinese people? How much does it cost?" He was ready to spend a lot of money.

However, the manager stopped him: "No, no, no, sir, trading players is not our main way to strengthen the team."

"You know, our fans are very excited right now."

“Buying too many foreign players will easily arouse fans’ suspicion.”

The investment representative was stunned, thought for a moment, and then asked:
"How about buying LCK? IMPACT has proven that South Korea also has great potential in this project."

"That Faker from SKT seems pretty good."

The manager smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Do you think the majority of our fans are capable of distinguishing between Chinese and Koreans?"

Under the guidance of happy education, except for a small number of elites, the vast majority of Americans have some knowledge of common sense.

When it comes to understanding Asia, whether it is Japan, South Korea or even Vietnam, they all call it China.

"We already have two yellow faces in our team, don't we?" The manager was also helpless.

If he wasn't worried about the fans' backlash, he would have gone to Asia with all his money to poach players.

Look at Peng Yilian and Zheng Yanyong. Compared with the old men in the team, they are more self-disciplined and hardworking!

"What should we do then?" The investment representative was a little annoyed.

He has never had much patience for problems that can't be solved by spending a lot of money.

"It's actually very simple." The manager said with a sly smile. "Our players seem to have been having a bit too much of a rest these days."

"I don't train actively, I don't practice heroes, and I don't play many ranked matches."

"It's time for them to have a taste of pain."

As a member of the same pure blue family, the manager is full of confidence in this C9 team.

As long as they can increase their training intensity and tactical reserves and catch up with the LPL in this summer season,
Then by the end of the year's S game, we will definitely be able to give the audience a satisfactory answer!

……

At the same time, backstage, there were other people who were also discussing issues related to popularity.

"Thank God, this is only the first year." Feng Xianjun breathed a sigh of relief.

He has been quite uneasy during this period, fearing that Fanhua would really lose confidence in playing against teams from other countries.

Before the game, Feng Xianjun really didn't expect that Fanhua could be so powerful in the international arena.

The lack of information in the past made it impossible for him to assess the strength of the LPL region in the world.

But in fact, there are signs that LPL is so strong.

After all, they are the only division that is personally trained by the Tenghai headquarters.

The player community that Pei Yunteng has spent a lot of effort to cultivate is producing new routines and content every day.

Even if the coaches are just starting out, they can go to the community to copy the routines and modify them for their own use, and they can also unleash impressive tactical strength.

In addition, the LPL region's plunder of its own country's Honor League is also unprecedented.

Under the poaching operation led by Pei Yunteng himself, nearly half of the top players in the original Glory League were poached by them.

You know, in countries like South Korea, Japan, Europe and North America, the number of players who choose to transform is generally no more than ten.

And apart from Baseball, the real GOAT-level players in other national leagues are still eagerly waiting for the release of new glory.

The only Park Jae-yoon is still a completely depraved fake.

Honor's large-scale poaching not only brought in a group of top players with strong hard power, but also brought a relatively mature club system.

The combination of these advantages has gradually led to a situation where LPL is the only dominant player.

This situation made Feng Xianjun start to panic.

A little-known secret is that before being ruined by Pei Yunteng in the eighth season, the Glory Professional League once encountered a crisis where it almost could not continue.

It was none other than Ye Qiu’s championship crisis in the fourth season.

Yes, this is a crisis.

The Glory League was dominated by Ye Qiu and Excellent Era for three full years, and they won all the individual and collective honors.

That is to say, there were not so many detailed data statistics at that time, otherwise Ye Qiu could have won the output star a few more times.

The authorities tolerated this dominant posture for three years.

After all, the league was just starting out, and it needed a god-like figure like Jordan to attract the audience.

So with the official tacit approval, Ye Qiu relied on his unique strength at the time, plus a little gift from Su Muqiu, and successfully condensed the godhood for himself.

According to the official and other teams’ judgment, the three consecutive championships are over, and Jia Shi’s dynasty should come to an end, which is just right.

The league now had a dominant team and a God of Glory to support it, and Jia Shi became a dominant team and made the most money.

Just like when the golden generation of 96 stepped onto the stage after Michael Jordan retired, it is time for a hundred flowers to bloom.

So, in the fourth season, as major teams released their own talented newcomers, the group of young people known as the Glory Golden Generation came into the spotlight.

For a time, the entire Glory Professional League was thriving.

As for Excellent Era, no one thought they could continue winning.

After all, Master Wu Xuefeng has retired, and most of the oldest players except Ye Qiu have also left.

Can they win the championship like this? Just forget it.

But man proposes, God disposes. The league officials never expected that Su Mucheng would appear at this time.

She and Ye Qiu have an almost perfect understanding, and with Ye Qiu's increasingly improved leadership ability, she has managed to hold up Excellent Era's business in the post-Wu Xuefeng era.

God knows how many official staff of the league were secretly dropping little pearls on the day when Excellent Era advanced to the finals.

The chairman of the alliance at that time, Feng Xianjun's predecessor, was almost so worried about this matter that his hair turned white.
The scale of e-sports at that time was not very large, and traditional sports leagues such as the NBA or the five major football leagues still had an absolute advantage.

If Excellent Era dominates for another year, the other teams' fans become disillusioned and leave, and the clubs give up investment, then the Glory League can really be closed.

The unlucky guy was so desperate that he even resorted to unconventional tactics.

I hope that when updating the version, the official Glory will make appropriate secret changes to the professions or equipment within the Jia Shi system to weaken its strength.

However, by that time Honor had already collapsed, and the remaining programmers were simply unable to make reasonable adjustments to Honor's existing numerical system, so this matter was not accomplished.

The unlucky guy can only pray every day, hoping that some god will come out to punish those bastards of Jia Shi.

Fortunately, Han Wenqing was able to perform well that year and ended Jia Shi’s dream of lasting eternity.

Otherwise, no one can predict how far the alliance can go.

Why do Han Wenqing and Tyranny have such a terrifying prestige in the league? Obviously, in terms of performance, they are far behind Tiny Herb and Blue Rain in the first eight seasons?
In addition to qualifications, the most important reason is that their championship saved Honor at a critical moment.

As everyone's savior, what's wrong with having some prestige?
At that time, Feng Xianjun was not yet the chairman, but he also worked in the Glory Alliance and personally experienced those desperate days.

He knows very well how harmful it is to have a single dominant player in a league.

This time, Fanhua gave him a cold sweat.

In other words, League of Legends is still young.

However, no matter how fortunate we are, we still need to report the problems that need to be reported.

He called Pei Yunteng.

Unlike Honor, the cost of version updates for League of Legends is far less.

It is not difficult to control the strength of the competition area through version updates.

In Feng Xianjun's opinion, even if the final championship is won by LPL first, at least it will give Europe and the United States some hope.

Since they don't have much training and their tactical reserves are insufficient, why not give them some heroes who are more good at fighting and reckless, and whose operations are not so tight-fitting, to play with!

But when he reported his idea to Pei Yunteng, Pei Yunteng smiled:
"Old Feng, I understand your worries, but they are unnecessary."

"Why? Is LPL going to dominate the market?" Feng Xianjun was puzzled.

Pei Yunteng looked at the trends of major clubs around the world that he had collected through a certain mascot and chuckled:

"The reason why one region dominates is that the LPL has a first-mover advantage, and in the past, when they didn't know each other well enough, other regions didn't pay enough attention to it."

"But this time, MSi has woken them up."

Pei Yunteng was quite satisfied with the results of MSi.

The effect of Fanhua’s performance was just right. On the one hand, it demonstrated its dominant strength and woke up some regions from their dreams.

On the other hand, MSi is just a mid-season tournament after all, and its value is just so-so. Fanhua’s strength is not enough to absolutely crush the others.

Such pressure is just enough to force other regions to start their arms race without making them lose hope.

What is currently presented in front of Pei Yunteng is a lively scene where major competition areas are competing with each other.

Especially in the European and American regions, Pei Yunteng was really amused when he saw those clubs all started to discuss the issue of increasing the intensity of training.

In his opinion, it is all nonsense that Europeans and Americans are lazy by nature and don't like to train.

The only reason why they don’t like training is that their top management doesn’t pay enough attention and doesn’t put enough pressure on them.

They are both MOBA projects, so why is Dota, which was Pei Yunteng's neighbor in his previous life, so competitive in Europe and the United States?
As long as the management pays enough attention and gives enough, European and American teams may not be worse than Asian teams.

Isn’t the G9 team that beat SKT in terms of operations in S2 the best example?
That G2 team is still gearing up to compete with Fanhua for the championship!
Pei Yunteng took a look at the live broadcast of the game in front of him.

In the live broadcast, Fanhua and his group finally launched the final attack.

With the support of the Baron buff and an economic advantage of more than 9, the C players could only retreat in a miserable manner.

The booing and cursing from the fans on the sidelines finally died down at this point. It was meaningless. C9's defeat was irreversible.

But there is a sense of dissatisfaction in the eyes of the vast majority of fans.

They don't believe that their team will always be trampled under the feet of the Chinese.

Sooner or later they will win it back!

"Old Feng, believe me, this monopoly won't last long."

"The upcoming summer season and S season will definitely be very exciting..."

　Today I will only update 5,000 words, so I'll take a day off.

　　Good night everyone.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)