Chapter 002: The Star Club
The next day.
Scheduled interviews.
Qin Lu changed into a slim suit, and he looked a lot more mature.
"I'll go with you." Chi Youwei came over, "I'll go and have a long experience." ”
Half an hour later.
The seniors who had communicated with Qin Lu by phone came to the door to greet them.
According to him, he is in charge of the day-to-day operations of the club.
"What do you think of SSG?"
"It's going to leave a deep mark on the history of esports in the league."
You can say that again!
Manager Pei had a good impression of the college students in front of him.
Chi Youwei was a little dumbfounded, why didn't he usually see Qin Lu licking like this.
After 5 minutes.
Manager Pei walked into the alliance branch with 2 people, and just wanted to blow their training environment, standing at the door, he heard an angry roar inside.
"What did you guys do on the field yesterday? 26 minutes, 8,000 years behind, even five pigs will not be so backward! ”
The five faces I saw on the big screen yesterday shrank into a row and were reprimanded by a middle-aged man in a suit.
"And you, Lee Sung-jin (CuVee), how long have you been taught, how long have I stressed, to give you a counterpoint advantage hero, are you worthy of the support of the coaching staff? If you sell a flaw, you will be fooled, you don't have a long memory at all......"
The little fat man bit his lip at a loss, and his shoulders shook non-stop.
"That's who decides whether you hire or not."
Manager Pei acted as if he didn't see it, and took Qin Lu and Chi Youwei to the manager's office at the other end of the corridor in advance to wait.
As Qin Lu saw.
SSG in the spring of '15 was at a low point.
Although Edgar has since said that the departure of the three sons has no impact on the club, the truth will not lie.
It's funny to say.
According to the information Qin Lu saw on the forum, after the S4 World Championship ended, Riot immediately announced that a club was not allowed to have 2 first-tier league teams and refused to fight.
Of course.
It's not a big deal to patch it, but the management refuses to ask for a salary increase as if it's crazy.
So.
As someone said: When an employee leaves, they either don't have enough money or feel wronged.
SSG Club is good.
I don't want to give more money, but my attitude is still bad, and I don't even want to talk about it.
This practice directly led to the organized run of the blue and white second team, and afterwards, SSG lost even a complete coaching staff structure, and was all poached by rich LPL bosses.
It is in this context that it is.
Edgar hurriedly replenished the staffing, and unsurprisingly had a bad record, and he won six consecutive knees in a row, and a victory was hard to find, which became a joke.
Many people laugh at the FPX champion team for not being able to enter the World Championship the following year, and there is no gold content, and for example, FPX has never touched the LCK team.
Here.
OGN (LCK, called differently, LPL audiences are used to calling it LCK) champion is not the same.
……
About half an hour passed.
The person from the SSG Alliance Branch walked in, and he talked to Deputy Manager Pei for a few words, but his eyes didn't stop on Qin Lu.
What Qin Lu didn't know was.
Just 2 weeks ago, SSG knelt four times in a row, and Edgar just laid off the team's analysts-
If you can't prove your waste, you're not qualified to serve a job in SSG.
"Anyone who has nothing to do with it, please get out."
Chi Youwei was a little angry and followed Manager Pei out of the office.
Qin Lu stood stiffly and handed over his resume.
"Chinese?"
"Yes."
Edgar's face was full of rigidity and arrogance.
"Heh, Chinese can also understand games?"
"Royal RYL is the final opponent of last year's SSW team."
"You mean being three to one by us? BP stage effortless? ”
Edgar remembers feeling at the time, "It's boring to lose or not lose that game. ”
Edgar didn't look carefully at the analysis report that Qin Lu had spent a night pondering, and he never cared about afterthought.
In his philosophy, all tactics will be cracked, but if they can't be cracked at the time, they will be considered successful.
I have watched so many finals, as long as I have the heart, even a few minutes and seconds, I can find out where I am used to inserting my eyes.
And then what?
What's the point?
The game is over, and the championship is in hand.
The opposite side flipped for a few seconds, maybe he was about to close it after just reading a title, Qin Lu felt very uncomfortable.
On the other side, the things he prepared with his heart were treated as garbage.
Although he had thought about it in advance, he would be despised, but the situation really happened, and anger replaced his will.
"Could it be that SSG won the championship with this attitude?"
"Who are you talking to?"
Edgar hates this Chinese kid.
If you don't know how to be polite, shouldn't you bow respectfully and save your decently and turn away?
What is the use of entanglement?
"Reading your report will only be a waste of my time."
"So what does it mean not to waste time?"
It's been a long time since Edgar has been talked back to like this, and since winning the championship and holding the Summoners Cup and hanging a photo on the Wall of Honor, no one has been disobedient to the club.
"Huh." He pulled out a smile, "Have you watched the last games, what can you see?" ”
"Look at whom, look at the six consecutive kneeling?"
What a sharp-tongued and rude kid.
Edgar gritted his teeth: "You said I didn't give you a chance, okay, then you come to analyze and analyze how to win?" Don't tell me, you're only an afterthought! Analyze it afterwards! ”
That's how the last one rolled.
"Due to the price reduction of the True and False Eyes and the update of the shield of the second tower, all teams now favor the late lineup. The reason is simple, compared to last year's style of play, it is more difficult to collide and it is more difficult to go to the high...... More than halfway through the Spring Season, the average game time was 39 minutes and 38 seconds......"
In simple terms.
Now in this version, players can spend less money and buy more eye spots.
250 pieces of true eyes, 475 pieces previously;
The second tower has a shield, which also makes it difficult to reproduce the scene of the single road crushing the 2 towers for 6 minutes in the past.
The reason for this is simple.
Riot didn't want to see a certain way of being able to complete a flat push, and in response to this unsolvable game, they patched it and guided them to rely on teamwork.
In the context of the low efficiency of the early stage and the guarantee of more vision, it has become the choice of the OGN competition area to pursue the advantages and avoid the disadvantages, and strengthen the later stage.
In addition, in terms of heroes, the double harvesting system of SSW's signature (male knife, poodle midfield or poodle jungler, mouse AD), the lineup mode is to choose one in the middle lane that can grab the line, and then the double harvesting unit waits for the opportunity to move, actively invades, and relies on smart bursts to fight the number difference, and quickly rolls the snowball.
The physical assassin has been cut, and there are fewer heroes who are convenient to do things, and the major coaching staff will naturally focus on those heroes with more stable curves.
"From the perspective of BP, the ones who often eat ban positions are Enchantress, Excavator, and Calista, all of which have similar characteristics, that is, it is easy to rely on the strength of the lane to establish an advantage, and in turn, the Tsar, Ice Maiden, Zelas, Bomberman, and the tank heroes who rely on the slag to strengthen the surge in the playability rate are mostly built around the turret. Everyone is after 30 minutes of pursuit. ”
The current competition ecology is easy to summarize.
It is difficult to go high, the line is cleared quickly, and the whole turns to fight the bladder.
Because the attribute of Xiaolong plus can't end the game, you have to have five to change qualitatively, you can control it, you can't control it, and Rush Dalong has a high risk, which leads to the team in the pursuit of 2 things, one, side control, two, the team in front of the consumption hand is very long, which is convenient for team battles to pull, and others make mistakes.
Let's be honest.
It's hard to watch.
When encountering a team of equal strength, a 40-minute game has no more than 10 heads, which makes people suspect that they are watching football.
"In this version, the strong are always strong, and the weak are difficult to challenge, it is too much of a test of operational level, too much emphasis on tactical literacy and discipline, so those teams that adapt to the version of heroes and have a better team tacit understanding can go further and walk very steadily."
"Don't jump to conclusions."
Edgar was unhappy to listen to, doesn't this imply that the SSG is not very tactically literate.
Other than that, he basically agrees.
In particular, the pursuit of 30 minutes and side control summarizes the current game ecology very accurately, like a scalpel, directly to the lesion, and portrays the current BP game by the way.
At least, this one has more eyes than his predecessor.
"I often write observation notes."
Qin Luzhang came to his mouth, "I brought this, it doesn't mean that I don't watch the games of other teams." ”
There was silence for a while.
Edgar reached out, "Welcome to the SSG Club." I hope to start the job right away and put together the game data as soon as possible. ”
Edgar waved his hand, "I'll give you a contract until the end of the summer." ”
"Just a contractor?"
"Want to get better treatment without grades? There is no such good thing in the world. Don't be insatiable, boy. ”
Corridor outside.
Chi Youwei looked at the scenery downstairs in a daze, and when he heard the movement, he saw Qin Lu smiling at him a few times.
"Success?"
"Hmm."
Chi Youwei was stunned.
It's not that I'm red-eyed, but that day I emphasized that the e-sports industry in the universe country is very professional, and that's the result?
……
The salary level of becoming an SSG analyst is much lower than Qin Lu envisioned.
The average monthly is 1.5 million won, almost more than 7,000 yuan.
And this.
Or is it because the SSG club compares the cards and gives the industry's middle to upper salary level.
The moment you sign the onboarding contract.
Qin Lu suddenly understood why those players who made achievements couldn't resist the temptation?
The outer competition area smashed millions of dollars, who can withstand this!
As far as he knows, the starting five of SSG, CuVee, with the highest annual salary, is only 35 million won, with an average annual salary of about 180,000 yuan......
Cosmos e-sports is industrialized.
But most of these players who enjoy the spotlight are not as secure as the behind-the-scenes personnel, at least the behind-the-scenes personnel can boil their qualifications, and their experience is their job.
It took a few days.
Qin Lu walked into the SSG club with the data report.
Passing by the training room.
Encountering the team jungler Eve, the young man was cramped for a few seconds, and suddenly bent down and bowed.
"Uh-huh, good fight, Eve."
Not familiar.
The two didn't talk much.
Qin Lu knocked on the office door along the corridor.
"Come in."
"Manager Edgar, here's my observation."
Edgar looked in the boss's chair and the first thing he did was not take the report, but took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth.
Ten minutes.
Twenty minutes passed.
Edgar hastily flipped through it and found that the organization was not bad, and it was relatively detailed.
From being good at heroes, to recent appearance win percentages, to operating habits, there are all involved.
Like what.
Qin Lu's CuVee, which he admires more, is sorted out like this.
Hero Chi Shen, excellent performance in the counterpoint, can cope with high-intensity blood exchange battles, and is aggressive, but the shortcomings exposed are that the state fluctuates greatly and the line is too greedy.
It is different from the portrait in the memory of later generations.
Qin Lu watched the SSG Spring Game and found that Cuvee's counterpoint performance was okay, but there was a reason why he was not taken seriously by the audience.
At this stage, the upper unit.
The fan audience will only talk about SKT's Marin, NJ's Duke, KT's Ssunmmday, and Rox's Semb, but nothing about CuVee.
Even if CuVee can occasionally contribute to the line kill of OGN's four top laners, it will be quickly forgotten by the audience.
A momentary splash doesn't shake anything.
Who would praise the six-in-a-row starting list?
Even if it did, CuVee would not have an advantage.
Part of this is due to the pressure, and the team lacks a core position to stand up consistently.
But sometimes CuVee is also greedy, such as pressing the opponent home in the opposite position, and the opposite TP comes out and doesn't leave, so he has to be greedy for those soldiers and then be beaten violently. Typical rank thinking.
If it was only once or twice, Qin Lu would not have written this point into the report.
In fact.
CuVee, who has just debuted, is still some way away from the four words of stable middle with c, coupled with the lack of tacit understanding and incompatible playing style of SSG Ueno, resulting in his average number of deaths per game not falling at all.
"Fury (AD position) is difficult to bear the one of the four guarantees, he is not sensitive enough to the standing space, but the ability to make up for the development is not bad, and the pressure resistance is okay, so we must guide him to judge the line guarding environment."
"Wraith (auxiliary) offline operation is very confusing, it seems that I don't know what to do except plug in, and it is recommended to reorganize the relationship between Wraith and auxiliary."
"BlisS and Eve's midfield, it's still very strange to cooperate, Eve is not outstanding in terms of rhythm and teaming, the shining point is in the invasion planning, but it often falls into invasion for the sake of invasion, and is designed by opponents. When getting a strong combination in the opposite position, there is still a little performance in the middle, but once you can't beat it, it can easily become a breakthrough. His line-up fundamentals couldn't keep up with the intensity of the game. ”
More than halfway through the spring season.
Edgar finally doesn't have to worry about data collation.
With this report, he can move on to address more specific weaknesses. Or rather, how to circumvent it.
Other than that.
What surprised Edgar the most was the creative collection of advantageous round rates, which can confirm the magnitude of the resources invested, or CuVee.
If the top laner has a lead of more than 800 pieces, he has a 7 percent chance of completing a single tower and a 5 percent chance of making a threatening kill.
This is CuVee's own performance in the arena, but no one can tell Edgar so intuitively where the value boundary of feeding CuVee is.