Chapter 332: Finding a Business Model for the Esports Industry
The 2nd CS Team Competition came to a successful conclusion.
When the 5,000 spectators walked out of the stadium unsatisfied, Zheng Pengyu, the head of Anta Zhonghai, found Xu Yiyang.
He said to Xu Yiyang: "I reported to the head office, and they are still quite interested in the naming of the team, but whether they can sign it or not depends on the follow-up influence of our competition, and it may take a few days to give you a clear answer, so I hope you understand." β
Xu Yiyang said with a smile: "Mr. Zheng, rest assured, I absolutely understand this, and our club will be slowly established and improved, and when your company has intentions, we can talk about follow-up cooperation methods at any time." β
"Good. Zheng Pengyu said with a smile: "Then let's say so first, and I'll contact you when there is news." β
"No problem. β
After Zheng Pengyu left, Xu Yiyang handed over the rest of the work on the scene to the executive company, and took Tongmei, Shen Lele, Song Xiaoman and Wang Ying, as well as a number of e-sports players who had just signed a contract, to the hotel that had been booked a long time ago and held a celebration banquet.
At the celebration banquet, everyone was very concerned about when the third CS team competition would be held.
Xu Yiyang is tentatively scheduled to be held in the second half of the year, and the specific time is to be determined.
In the third CS team competition, he wanted to expand the scope a little, and it was best to organize a national college team competition to take the scale to the next level.
However, the specific plan still needs to be considered in the long term.
It's too nerve-wracking to do the game, and Xu Yiyang is not ready to start thinking about this problem immediately for the time being.
But in order to cope with the future national competition, Xu Yiyang formulated a training plan for the team players.
In view of the fact that everyone is a college student, it is still relatively easy to achieve 80 hours a month during the non-winter and summer vacations.
As for the winter and summer vacations, they can't be the same as universities, and everyone goes back to their hometowns as soon as they have a holiday.
After all, esports is a skill that requires long-term training, not only to train individual reflexes, hand speed and awareness, but also to train teamwork.
Therefore, Xu Yiyang asked that half of the vacation time should be spent on training during the winter and summer vacations.
During the winter and summer training periods, the club will provide room and board for everyone.
No one has any opinion on this training arrangement.
For the time being, the team's training venue will be a private room on the second floor of the first store of the New Century Internet CafΓ©.
The ten machines in the private room are completely empty during the after-school hours from Monday to Friday, weekends and holidays, leaving the team to train.
At the same time, the captain of the team is still Guo Peng.
As for the position of team manager, Xu Yiyang himself will hold it for the time being, and if there is a suitable candidate in the later stage, a full-time manager can be assigned to the team.
In the early days of the team, if there was no competition schedule, it was all about training.
Captain Guo Peng will formulate a training plan and supervise the training, and those who do not actively train or are absent from training without reason must have certain disciplinary measures, and the most serious one is to terminate the contract.
As long as everyone in the team trains on time and seriously, they can get a basic salary of 1,200 yuan per month.
In the team, except for Tong Yuewei, who has no feeling for the basic salary of 1,200 yuan, everyone else is looking forward to and longing for it.
Everyone is a college student, and most of them are non-locals, and the basic salary of 1,200 yuan a month is enough for their living expenses for at least three months.
The rest of the money is enough for their tuition and fees for a year.
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On the evening after the celebration banquet, this CS match of unprecedented scale was reported by many media.
In media reports, everyone is open and encouraging to this kind of game competition, believing that this kind of competition is very suitable for contemporary college students to keep up with the development and trend of the times.
At the same time, this competition can also allow college students to develop a sense of teamwork in interesting and competitive game competitions, which has a great positive effect.
Interestingly, the public mailbox of the New Century Internet Cafe quickly received emails from many e-sports enthusiasts, including several e-sports clubs and e-sports teams.
In the email, almost all of these people expressed their gratitude to Xu Yiyang and the New Century CS team for the competition, because of his efforts, e-sports now has a certain popularity in the country, which is much stronger than the previous obscurity and no one cares.
In addition, they also expressed their yearning for the New Century E-sports Club in the email.
Many of them are e-sports enthusiasts who feel that their technical level is very good, but they can't find a reliable team and club, and they even propose that as long as they can manage food and housing, and give them two or three hundred yuan a month for living expenses, they are willing to come and run.
There are also some e-sports clubs and teams, because they have not been supported by sponsors, so they can't make ends meet, and they are almost on the verge of bankruptcy, and they hope to be merged by the New Century E-sports Club.
These emails also made Xu Yiyang see the difficult situation of domestic e-sports practitioners.
Without competition and exposure, it will be difficult for them to make commercial value, and in the end they will have to lose money to maintain their dreams.
Speaking of the early generation of gods in the Chinese e-sports circle, such as War3's Human Emperor SKY, the interstellar god Ma Tianyuan, and the King of Fighters' God's child, they are all very respectable pioneers in the Chinese e-sports circle.
Not only in the esports industry, but pioneers in every field are worthy of respect.
For example, Zhang Tiequan, the pioneer of the UFC Ultimate Fighting Championship, competed in the UFC alone in order to ideally, and in between the games, others had coaches to guide tactics and teams to relax their muscles and adjust their state, so he could only squat on the sidelines with a blue nose and swollen face, and he was full of hardness in his downfall.
Xu Yiyang also hopes to help these earliest e-sports pioneers, but he also knows very well in his heart that it is too difficult for an e-sports club to absorb so many players and teams who come to him.
What I can really do is to create more opportunities for competitions, mobilize the enthusiasm of advertisers, and let the entire esports industry find its own business model.
Only in this way can we fundamentally improve the living environment of domestic e-sports.
However, he also wants to expand the scale of the New Century E-sports Club in the next stage.
Now that you have your first CS team, you can also consider forming a Star Clan, and when Warcraft 3 comes out, you can also form a Warcraft team.
January 2nd.
The second day of the new millennium is also the first Sunday of the new millennium.
The 31st was busy with the performance and the No. 1 was busy with the competition, Xu Yiyang and his gang were tired enough, and now they finally have a chance to relax, so almost everyone stays in the bedroom and sleeps lazily.
It was Chen Meng, who sneaked out early in the morning, and slipped back like a thief at noon.
Xu Yiyang was half-lying on the bed reading a book, and when he saw his sneaky appearance, he asked, "What are you hugging?" β
"Hey. Chen Meng smiled mysteriously and said, "Brother Xu, I bought a good thing!
Xu Yiyang asked in surprise, "What?"
"What's good?" the others were also attracted to the attention and looked over.
Chen Meng revealed the hidden cardboard box from his arms and said, "Look! Mini TV! The five-inch mini screen is still in color!"
Xu Yiyang was disappointed: "That's it?"
Chen Meng asked in surprise, "Isn't this awesome enough?"
"......" Xu Yiyang lay back on the bed.
For him, a modern man who was reborn more than 20 years later, he was not even in the mood to take a second look at this kind of thing.
In terms of entertainment,If the iPad is 10000 points,The five-inch mini color TV that Chen Meng regarded as a baby,It is estimated that it will also get 1 pointγ
However, Xu Yiyang ignored the extreme lack of entertainment programs in college students' dormitories, and for people other than him, it was a fantastic scene to have TV in the dormitory.
At this time, the other four people had already rushed over like a fierce tiger pounced.
Two of them even jumped directly from the top bunk, and one by one exclaimed: "this awe!"
"It's amazing! It's so small and it's still colorful!"
"Hey, this thing is amazing, take a long plug-in board, you can hold it and see it!"
Chen Meng smiled: "How about it, awesome, right? I originally wanted to buy a small VCD, but the boss said that it is out of stock now, and I will wait for the next week, and I will buy one back and get some movie CDs, so that everyone can watch movies in the dormitory!"
Zhang Junnan hurriedly asked, "Brother Meng, can you buy that kind ......of plate?"
Chen Meng said: "I inquired, ten yuan a piece, and I will buy a few by the way when the time comes." β
The others nodded obscenely, their faces full of anticipation.
Zhao Xin watched him plug in and fiddle at this time, and couldn't help asking: "Xiao Meng, how many units can you collect?"
Chen Meng said: "It is estimated that the central station and the local station can be collected with the antenna of the fuselage, and if an antenna can be installed outside, it is estimated that more than 20 can be collected." β
Zhao Xin asked again: "What about the antenna?"
"Buy a fart antenna. Chen Meng said, "Then don't you let the dormitory manager see it?"
"Oh, you're a hammer!" Zhao Xin blurted out: "Even if you buy an antenna to use in the house, it's much stronger than the two thin sticks that come with your fuselage!"
Chen Meng scratched his head: "That makes sense, go back and buy one next." β
Immediately, while turning on the phone, he said: "I bought it mainly because I wanted to watch CCTV's "Sino-Korean Song Meeting", and I tried it on the side that sold TV, and I could receive it. β
As he spoke, he hurriedly said, "Oh, the Sino-Korean song meeting has begun!"
"Awesome!" everyone rushed to the front and said, "Hurry up and find out!"
Chen Meng waved his hand and said, "Go and plug the door in." β
"Okay. Li Yiming hurriedly went to plug the door, ran back like a fly, and then gathered in front of the TV with others.
Xu Yiyang scoffed at the performance of these five people.
It's really slinging, a mini TV, can be excited like this.
Soon, there was a sizzling sound on the TV, and Chen Meng was busy adjusting the antenna for a long time before the picture finally came out.
"it!"
There is already a picture on the TV at this time, but because the signal quality is not very good, the sound is still a bit sizzling.
So Zhao Xin hurriedly said: ", if you move the antenna again, it's so impossible, you can't see it at all." β
Chen Meng carefully adjusted the angle of the antenna little by little.
Zhao Xin was anxious to see it, and blurted out: "Oh, your range of action is a little larger, the girls are chirping." β
Chen Meng adjusted seriously, and muttered in his mouth: ", don't you dare to adjust this more, you may not even have a painting if you adjust too much." β
Half a minute later, the sound of Zi La La finally turned into a song, and the picture became much clearer.
The voices of several Korean female singers came out instantly.
Zhang Junnan saw the woman in charge clearly, and shouted excitedly: "!
Chen Meng immediately covered his mouth and said, "No!