Chapter 268: Excellent Era’s expedition to North America?

“Not in LPL?” Ye Xiu was stunned. “Are you planning to send the kids to rob? But their skills are almost complete. And I heard that they only need three people, right?”

"It's not about changing games," Tao Xuan shook his head, "it's about changing regions."

Changing regions? Ye Xiu wondered if there was something wrong with his ears.

When he looked at Tao Xuan again, there was a strange look in his eyes.

"Lao Tao..." He asked in a tone that was half concerned and half tentative:

"I know you've been busy this past year and under a lot of pressure, but don't push yourself too hard."

"When you feel something is wrong with your body, just take a break. It's also okay to let Boss Chen take care of it. Hasn't she learned a lot from you recently?"

“Health is the most important. You also need to keep a clear mind to lead us forward!” Ye Xiu waved his hand somewhat exaggeratedly.

By the way, I plan to ask the aunt who is in charge of cooking if the pot of mushroom soup we ate yesterday was not cooked through.

How did the boss poison me like this?

In his opinion, Tao Xuan must have been working too hard recently, which caused his mind to be a little unclear.

Tao Xuan was stunned for a moment, and then his face darkened at a speed visible to the naked eye: "I'm not crazy, nor am I unconscious."

"Are you willing to tear down Excellent Era?" Ye Xiu still felt that Tao Xuan was just being stubborn.

The reason is very simple:
Considering how much attention Tao Xuan has paid to Excellent Era recently, it is impossible for him to accept the outcome of splitting it up.

But if Jia Shi wants to go to another competition area, it will have to split up.

After all, it is the league's rule that each team can only accommodate two foreign players.

Although the five players from Jia Shi have not participated in the top league yet, they have played in the LSPL and are legitimate LPL players.

If you want to register as a player from another region at this time, it will take a long time and meet strict conditions.

If they have that much time, they might as well wait for the players from Xingxin to retire one after another.

And forcibly divide the five-member team, which currently has a very good level of coordination and bonding, into at least three teams, or overseas teams at that?

I am unfamiliar with the place, I don’t speak the language, and I don’t have any friends around me…

Unless Tao Xuan was really crazy, it would be impossible for him to let these sixteen or seventeen-year-old kids take such a big risk.

Tao Xuan was stunned for a moment, and then he realized what Ye Xiu had misunderstood. He was a little amused and said, "When did I say we wanted to split Excellent Era?"

“Not demolishing it? Then how can they go overseas?” Ye Xiu was a little confused.

Tao Xuan smiled, and his tone unconsciously showed a hint of excitement.

"I know what you're worried about. The rules of our league do not allow the same team to have more than two players from other regions."

He picked up the tablet beside him, pulled up a web page, translated it, and handed it to Ye Xiu.

"But the situation in other regions may not be the same."

Ye Xiu took it and looked at it, and found that it was the LEC region's competition rules system, which was well-organized.

However, he read through them one by one, and repeatedly studied the words in the original text for those parts that the translation software could not translate well.

From beginning to end, I really didn't find any clause restricting the number of foreign players.

"Really not!" Ye Xiu exclaimed.

This brings us to Tenghai’s league organizing mechanism.

For the White Eagle region, where local waters are more complicated, relations with China are more delicate, and there are more restrictions, Teng Hai chose a model similar to that of the South Korean region.

That is to say, only the right to host world-class competitions will be retained, and the hosting of the LCS league will be handed over to local companies.

And because it is the first session, the autonomy given is quite high.

As we all know, one of the greatest characteristics of the country of White Eagle is its so-called diversity.

To put it nicely, it is openness and inclusiveness; to put it bluntly, it is a mixed bag.

Correspondingly, they have never been very strict about the nationality of the players.

Just like the men's basketball team of the 2024 Olympics, didn't Embiid, a traitor, also get in?
Therefore, when the LCS region was formulating the rules, it did not include a clause to limit the number of foreign players in order to protect the interests of local players.

After all, they are quite confident in their e-sports industry. After all, we are the first country to popularize computers and the Internet. How can we fail in the field of electronic games?

In fact, as early as the spring season, some teams in the LCS region had exceeded this restriction.

It was none other than C9, who represented North America in the MSi match and had the support of the White Eagle military.
Top laner IMPACT, a good national, but not yet naturalized.

Midfielder Bjergsen is of Danish nationality.

The assistant is a black man from Cameroon.

Among the remaining two White Eagle nationalities, one of the senior brothers is an ABC (American-Born-Chinese)

Now that the teams with military backgrounds have taken the lead in doing this, the teams below will naturally have no scruples.

Theoretically, if there is a team that really wants to make a complete overhaul, there would be no problem in buying all five young players from Jia Shi.

After listening to Tao Xuan's explanation, Ye Xiu finally stopped thinking that he had a problem with his brain, but he was still a little hesitant about this bold and crazy idea.

"Although it is theoretically possible, this is North America after all, a place we are completely unfamiliar with!"

He looked directly into Tao Xuan's eyes, examining his attitude.

It's a bit crazy to run a team in a place where you are unfamiliar with the place.

But Tao Xuan only smiled slightly at Ye Xiu's slightly questioning attitude, and nodded in agreement: "Indeed, it's too risky."

"But what if someone has already paved the way for us?"

"Pave the road? Who would be so proactive?" Ye Xiu was really dumbfounded this time.

At this point, Tao Xuan also sighed with disbelief: "Yes, this is indeed a bit too magical, so much so that I didn't dare to believe it was true at first."

Time goes back to a few days ago.

Tao Xuan, who was busy dealing with many matters of the Xingxin team, was suddenly contacted by the staff of the Forty Thieves Company, who said that they wanted to discuss cooperation with Xingxin.

Tao Xuan was dumbfounded.

You know, they are the Forty Thieves, some of the most powerful Internet giants in the country.

Even if they want to cooperate, they should do it with a club of the same level as Tenghai headquarters. Why bother looking for a club like them?

You know, even after MSi, LPL ushered in a wave of investment, and many clubs were named after some brands.

No other club can cooperate with a sponsor of this level.

After contacting the Forty Thieves Company, Tao Xuan suddenly recalled some not-so-pleasant memories.

The last time this happened was during the Honor era, when Tenghai came to discuss cooperation.

As a result, during the discussion, Jia Shi was completely blown up.

Could it be that you, the Forty Thieves, now also want to follow suit?
Once bitten, one is afraid of ropes for ten years. Tao Xuan, who was full of questions, felt like he was facing a formidable enemy. After repeatedly screening the Happy Club from all aspects and angles,

After confirming that Happy did not have the same explosive point as Excellent Era, they received the representative from the Forty Thieves Company with the highest standard of treatment. However, after communicating with him, they found that there was a misunderstanding.

He did not come on behalf of the Forty Thieves Company, but on behalf of the chairman of the board of directors, the playful boss Cai, to discuss cooperation.

Boss Cai has always been interested in various competitive sports fields. A few years ago, he bought an NBA team and became its owner.

The field of e-sports has always been within his scope of attention, but in the past, the commercialization level of e-sports was not high and the scale was very limited.

Such petty tricks are not worthy of the attention of this wealthy man.

However, since he and the Forty Thieves Company have been rivals in the Internet field, or even victims, Tenghai.

Suddenly, part of the business weight was shifted to the e-sports field, and brilliant results were achieved.
Boss Cai couldn't help but be tempted.

As an old rival, few people can understand Pei Yunteng's vision better than Boss Cai.

Every project that he values ​​and invests heavily in has proven to be very popular.

If you follow them in, you may not be able to eat the meat, but at least you will get to drink the soup!
Given the situation that the Forty Thieves have been in over the years, it is definitely too late for them to set up a league or even an e-sports system like Tenghai did.

But as an individual, it is still fine for Cai to have fun and form a team or something!

He acted immediately. Not long after MSi ended, Boss Cai used his money to buy a team at the bottom of the LCS region.

As we all know, Boss Cai has always been extraordinary.

Soon after buying the Brooklyn Nets in the NBA next door, they assembled a seemingly luxurious Big Three lineup to compete for the championship.

But this time, he encountered some trouble in his way of spending money.

To put it bluntly, you can’t buy many of the players you like.

As one of the top four regions, LCS is far less competitive.

C9 stands out from the crowd to some extent.

At a time when all teams have made investments and cannot possibly sell their star players, it is extremely difficult to build a luxurious lineup for this bottom-ranked team from scratch.

If they can't do well in this division, then Boss Cai's team can only turn their attention to other divisions.

LPL, with its achievements and the backing of the invincible Chinese market, naturally became their first choice.

……

"So the people you received that day were Boss Cai's people?" Ye Xiu suddenly realized.

He asked why Tao Xuan looked so nervous and over-stressed that day, and mobilized almost all the staff from the players to the management to clean and tidy up the Happy Club inside and out.

When someone came that day, even Ye Xiu, who had never liked these activities, was forced to put on a small suit and run downstairs to greet the guest.

There was even a sense of panic among the entire club.

After a long time, it turned out that the people who came were from the Forty Thieves. Tao Xuan was afraid that Ye Xiu would retire 2.0.
In this case, the next thing is a matter of course. When Boss Cai's people found that the people of Happy's first team could not move, they probably put their minds on the second team.

Anyway, Team Jia Shi is killing it in the LSPL, so they definitely have the strength to play against the LPL.

Fanhua has also proved that at this stage, the overall strength of the LPL region is the best in the world.

In this way, if this Jia Shi team can go to LCS, as long as it is not affected by external factors such as acclimatization, it will at least be a mid-level team, and even the players will not have to work together.

The "all-Chinese team" label on them is an excellent selling point to attract the Chinese market in such a sensitive place as North America.

Boss Cai likes to look for opportunities in the Chinese market the most.

"If that's the case, then there shouldn't be any problem with the process." Ye Xiu checked the information of Boss Cai.

When he found that the NBA team was run quite well by him at least in the past few years, he had to admit that the other party was indeed a very reliable partner.

But when he thought that if they really wanted to cooperate, those half-grown children would have to go to North America, he couldn't help but feel a little worried:
"Will North America accept Xiao Qiu, A Bin and the others so easily?"

If it's just one or two foreign players, with the precedent of C9, I guess it won't be a big problem.

But a whole team going to North America to fight together?

Will those White Eagle guys agree to that?
Speaking of this topic, Tao Xuan's expression suddenly became a little strange:
"According to Mr. Cai's field investigation and big data statistics, the probability of children being excluded there is really not that high."

"There's even a decent chance that it's more popular."

LCS is the region that is least averse to foreign players.

After the end of MSi, since the team only made it to the semi-finals, which was far from the expectations of many fans, there were strong calls to introduce foreign aid to strengthen the team.

The most popular call is naturally to poach players from the LPL region.

After all, they have achievements!

Although in competitive games, no matter which event is being discussed, people always remind us not to engage in a debate.

But a discussion is indeed the easiest way to leave the deepest impression on non-experienced audiences.

Therefore, even though MSI Fanhua is the only one, it is essentially not qualified to make LPL the recognized first league region.

But who can blame Fanhua for such a thorough crushing victory?

In the semi-finals, they were defeated by C9 9-2, and in the finals, they were defeated by G, who had beaten C badly in the second round, -.

In the eyes of many LCS fans, LPL is the strongest region.

As for letting the Chinese come to our White Eagle to play games, will it make the rednecks unhappy?
Wake up, our free and democratic America can accept diverse races and genders, so why can't it accept a few Chinese people?
Look at C9, it is considered a legitimate old blue flag, right? Don't they have two Chinese players?
Well, in the eyes of the Americans, who generally have a low level of education, no matter if they are from Japan, South Korea or Southeast Asia, as long as they are of yellow Asian race, they are all considered Chinese.

It was precisely this attitude in public opinion that was not only not against Chinese aid, but even quite welcoming, that made Boss Cai's team make up their minds to go to Jia Shi to poach people.

At this point, most of the doubts Ye Xiu had about going to North America to play games had been resolved.

Since the entire team went to play the game together, the five young players from Jia Shi didn't even have to worry about communication problems.

But Ye Xiu was still a little worried.

At the age of sixteen or seventeen, going to a completely unfamiliar environment and traveling abroad to compete is a very risky move in any case.

Although Ye Xiu was usually very strict in managing the youth training, he loved these children from the bottom of his heart.

Qiu Fei is the successor designated by him.

"Lao Tao, it's not easy for me to persuade you now, but I still want to ask:"

“Is it really good for the kids to go overseas to compete so early?” Ye Xiu asked with a strong hesitation in his tone.

After hearing his question, Tao Xuan did not answer him immediately. Instead, a bitter look appeared on his face.

He slowly said, "I'm not sure if they can develop better in North America. After all, there are many situations that may arise."

“But staying in the LSPL would definitely not be a good choice.”

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(End of this chapter)