Chapter 1 Journey to North America
A lot of things happened in the summer of this year, and after the League of Legends Spring Finals, the players of each team had a relatively comfortable vacation, even the OMG team and the WT team, which are known for their hard training, gave their players a vacation to give them time to arrange more of their own things.
First of all, a very important event is that this year's League of Legends World Finals China competition venue was finally determined, H City defeated S City, B City, K City and other strong competitors, with their warm e-sports atmosphere finally won the recognition of most of the judges, H City will be the China competition venue for this year's World Finals.
Taking advantage of the offseason, the e-sports stadium, which had been under construction in a scattered manner, ushered in a major renovation, and the main stage of the original e-sports hall was all demolished and cut into two stages, because the World Finals was at most two games at the same time, and the two halls were enough to divide the crowd, and at the same time, some unnecessary facilities were all demolished to maximize the accommodation of the audience entering the scene.
Other venues in the sports center have also been temporarily requisitioned, and a large LCD screen has been set up, so that if there are too many spectators at that time, they can be diverted to another venue for a separate game, which will be broadcast live online, although there is a delay of about two minutes with the main stage, but it will not affect the viewing.
As a local landlord, WT Club also gave some suggestions in the construction of venues, mainly referring to the scale and number of moviegoers when other countries and regions held the World Finals in previous years, but it is initially estimated that the live audience that H City will usher in this year will definitely break the record.
The three halls are open to accept audiences at the same time, which can basically accommodate tens of thousands of people, and the location of the main stage should be the most online ticket booking, and this time it is the same time that the whole world is booking tickets, and the officials of H City also need to go to North America to negotiate together, including ticket prices, some responsibilities of the organizers, etc.
The e-sports environment in H City is very good, and there is a dark horse like the WT team, which made a big splash in the spring game, and finally failed to win the championship because of the lack of personnel, but it has already exceeded everyone's expectations. In the eyes of League of Legends players in H City, WT is their idol and hero.
Undertaking the renovation project of the e-sports stadium is naturally Hengyu Real Estate Group, which is not a small list, even for Hengyu Real Estate Group, it attaches great importance to this list, which can be regarded as the income created by the WT team for the company, if it were not for the fact that the WT team has attracted countless eyeballs and has always been unswervingly rooted in H City and has an extremely wide fan base, it is difficult to evaluate H City in this assessment.
Although it is now the peak period of construction in summer, Hengyu Real Estate Group still took out enough elite team to be responsible for this piece of the project, fortunately, the construction period is set at the end of November, which gives them a lot of time to prepare and design, and also try to be as perfect as possible, this time not only to push H City to the world, Hengyu Real Estate Group also came to a large advertisement for free, after the final renovation of the e-sports stadium, it will erect a huge billboard of Hengyu Real Estate Group, and Hengyu Real Estate Group is also one of the sponsors, It is also a cooperation with the official.
Before, many people thought that Hengyu Real Estate Group vigorously sponsored the WT team just because Lan Yu was Lan Jiancheng's son, but now it seems that the most profitable business is the company, and the advertising effect alone is enough to cover ten investments in WT clubs.
Lan Yu is not very interested in these, but Yuan Xiaoye's architectural design major is very compatible with these, so after Wang Yan became Lan Yu's mother's assistant and student, Yuan Xiaoye also went over to help the staff in his free time, after all, the venue should have a strong League of Legends theme atmosphere, and some design requirements must be fully reflected, and having a person who is familiar with this game and architectural design is of great help to Hengyu Real Estate Group.
Yuan Xiaoye was even very excited to stay up all night to draw sketches, combined with the original framework of the H City E-sports Stadium to make some extensions, although it still seems a little immature, but some ideas are really good, Yuan Xiaoye has officially become one of the external "designers" of Hengyu Real Estate Group, is to get an extra salary.
Of course, it is only for this project, as for whether Yuan Xiaoye wants to engage in this industry after retiring in the future, I believe he will have his own choice when the time comes.
However, there is also a reason why Yuan Xiaoye is in such a hurry to submit his design ideas, the WT team will go to North America with the relevant responsible personnel of the E-sports Division of H City, to meet the official staff of Riot, and coordinate issues such as global simultaneous ticket sales, although various servers in other countries will also be sold, but the main source of audiences will still be concentrated in North America and China.
Especially in China, the maximum capacity of the stadium is about 18,000 people, but the number of online viewers of the domestic professional games is more than hundreds of thousands of millions, which is really limited.
Although there is still a whole summer league to play, the enthusiasm of the Chinese people has been completely ignited. Every day, there are countless people asking about booking tickets under the official accounts of major professional teams, especially WT teams, which led to H City to coordinate with the North American personnel so early.
The WT team actually received a double invitation from Riot and the North American overlord team C9, and the TSM team, which has been on good terms during the period, also sent an email asking if the WT team would come over together, and everyone could meet offline.
The WT team has won the place in the China qualifiers for the World Finals, but has not yet won the ticket to the World Finals, but with the study of the China region of the second place in various countries, it is found that this rising star team has a way of playing beyond the conventional, and this innovation is very easy to imitate and improve, unlike the Korean team, some of the styles are very unique, outsiders can learn a certain point of play, but can not eat it all.
Therefore, there are more and more discussions about the WT team, the most important thing is that as a landlord, it is naturally more concerned, there are three teams in the China region of this year's World Finals that can participate, and the WT team can finish the summer league as long as they can get the top three in the qualifiers after the end, and many people think that the WT team has the ability and qualification.
After a short vacation, all members of the WT team applied for visas and set off for the United States in the name of the delegation with the staff of the Esports Division of H City, the destination is the coast of Santa Monica Beach in Los Angeles, California, where the headquarters of Riot is located, and the C9 team and the TSM team will be received together.
From the initial training match partners to the current friends who often send emails, in addition to seeing the video of the players in the video, they have not had the opportunity to really see the real person, and the WT team basically does not play training matches with the two teams in the later stage, first, it is the problem of time difference, and it is always impossible to meet it, and secondly, the pressure and intensity of the domestic professional leagues are very high, and the C9 and TSM teams are also busy with their own LCS games.
However, these teams have never broken off contact with each other, Lan Yu often comments with Hai and Dyrus through emails to each other on the lineup used by the opposing team in a certain week, and the advantages and disadvantages will be said, so these three teams are the teams that know the most about each other's regional game trends, and they have also invisibly improved the theoretical level of the teams.
The group first took a bus to S City, and then took a plane to Los Angeles, a total of more than ten hours in the sky, which is a considerable test for Lan Yu, who has a history of airsickness, all kinds of airsickness medicine, airsickness patches and anti-motion sickness sprays are all used, and when he got on the plane, he hugged Chen Chuxiao and fell asleep, Lan Yu finally survived the initial difficult moments, and in the end, although he was still not very comfortable, he was no longer vomiting like before.
The plane landed at Los Angeles International Airport, and the official staff of Riot came to pick up the plane, and Lan Yu saw Hai, the captain of C9, and Dyrus of the TSM team at a glance.
Hai is Chinese, not particularly tall, with a neat short hair, the corners of his mouth are always smiling, with a pair of delicate black-framed glasses, very Chinese kind of literary and artistic young temperament, I used to often watch their games, and occasionally saw the video to the players of the footage, because it is Chinese, so I am more impressed.
Hai and others also recognized the members of the WT team, and there is a good habit of professional games on the national server side, that is, before each game, the members of the two teams must be introduced in turn, and enough close-ups are given, so if you want to know anyone, you can basically know the game just by watching the game.
Lan Yu took the lead in stepping forward, this time there were only three people from the WT team, Mu Huan's wound had not healed yet, and he couldn't take a plane, although Wang Yan was only bruised, but he still chose to stay with Mu Huan, and the two of them were also recuperating from their injuries to prepare for the upcoming summer league, and everything else was put in second place.
Lan Yu, Hai and Dyrus all hugged warmly, and then introduced Yuan Xiaoye and Chen Chuxiao to the two.
“WOW!” Hai stared at Chen Chuxiao with wide eyes, and then said with some apology: "I'm sorry, you are more beautiful than in the video, female players are already very scarce, I have only seen two beautiful female players like you, and the other is your partner, by the way, I heard that she was injured in a bicycle accident with you, and I am very sorry to know the news." ”
Hai They all use English, but fortunately, except for Yuan Xiaoye, Lan Yu and Chen Chuxiao's English is very good, plus the various emails during this time, communication is not a problem.
Dyrus was a little disappointed that Mu Huan couldn't come, and it was a very happy thing to be able to communicate with someone who played the same position, but he also conveyed his greetings to Mu Huan and Wang Yan on behalf of the TSM team.
The players here and the players converged, and the contact with the staff over there has also been completed, and now they have to rush to the hotel prepared for them by the Riot company to check in, Yuan Xiaoye was very depressed all the way, his English was not very good on the spot, although he could understand some intermittently, but basically it was still in the clouds, and Lan Yu turned back to translate for him from time to time.
Although Wang Zhiguo, the person in charge of the E-sports Division of H City, did not understand, H City was equipped with a professional translator to follow, and although Wang Zhiguo was speaking Chinese and English, he was chatting very happily.
The two teams in North America only sent representatives over, but in the evening, all the team members would come over alone to get together with the WT team, and also to get acquainted with each other in advance, and when they went to H City, the reception was replaced by Lan Yu and them.
Along the way, the main conversation was about the World Finals, Dyrus also laughed at himself and said that they would definitely not directly enter the quarterfinals as seeded players, I wonder if Lu Dao will have a chance to meet the WT team in the group stage, Lan Yu smiled and asked Dyrus if he was not optimistic about the WT team winning the championship of the China qualifiers.
Although they have never met, they don't feel too strange about each other in the game and the communication in the email, and the e-sports players are all young, even if they are of different nationalities and different skin colors, the passionate heart is the same.