November 26, Saturday.
Zhao Xuming took his assistant to the SUG Club headquarters in Shanghai.
The GOG branch of SUG Club is in Jingzhou, but the headquarters has other projects, so it is still in the Magic City.
As for why he chose the SUG club as his first goal, it was obviously the result of careful investigation and careful consideration.
Zhao Xuming learned that SUG Club had a personal feud with Mr. Pei of Tengda!
SUG Club was originally one of the first established clubs to establish a GOG branch and cooperate with Tenda, and its bid was the most generous.
Moreover, SUG successfully won the third place in the Global Invitational Tournament some time ago, which is due to hard work and no credit.
As a result, such a club was kicked out of the GPL league without mercy by Mr. Pei, and could only play in the secondary league!
Preparations for GPL are now in full swing, and it is a bustling scene. If Ding Gan, the owner of SUG Club, has no complaints, Zhao Xuming will never believe it.
Furthermore, the SUG club also has an ioi branch. It received some subsidies from Eric before, and it also has a contract with the live broadcast platform, so it can still be maintained.
This time, Zhao Xuming wanted to start with the SUG club, which is the easiest, and try to get SUG to help take the lead and drive each club to hold training matches.
Playing against other foreign teams in the World Finals is no joke.
If you don't play training matches and just go up to compete with foreign teams, you will definitely be abused to the point where you can't find anything to do, and it will not achieve the purpose of driving the popularity of the ioi national server. Although time is tight, it is always good to sharpen your skills before battle.
Ding Gan was already waiting at the door of SUG Club.
Seeing Zhao Xuming get out of the car, Ding Gan immediately greeted him: "Mr. Zhao, welcome!"
Seeing Ding Gan being so enthusiastic about him, Zhao Xuming was originally filled with excitement. Hi, I feel that this thing will probably be possible today, but if I look carefully, it seems that Ding Gan's eyes are a little dodgey.
What is going on?
Zhao Xuming was too embarrassed to ask more questions, so he could only treat it as his own illusion.
"Mr. Ding! Hello, hello. This is..." Zhao Xuming looked at a woman standing next to Ding Gan who looked to be in her thirties and was wearing formal clothes.
Ding Gan said: "Oh, this is the manager of our club, Manager Yang."
Manager Yang smiled and said: "Hello, Mr. Zhao, please take care of me."
Manager Yang smiled. p>
Zhao Xuming felt a little confused: "Hey, I remember that the manager of your club is not named Li? Did I remember it wrong?"
Ding Gan smiled awkwardly: "Oh, You must have found the information online, right? We have just made some personnel changes recently..."
Zhao Xuming suddenly said: "Oh, I'm sorry! My news may be lagging behind."
Ding Gan smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, let's not stand here anymore, let's go in and talk?" Three of you, please! ”
Zhao Xuming and Ding Gan walked into the club chatting and laughing, while Manager Yang led the assistant and driver brought by Zhao Xuming behind and received them attentively.
After arriving at the conference room, both parties took their seats.
After Zhao Xuming took a sip of tea and exchanged a few words, he felt that he could almost get to the point.
This kind of thing is a sure thing. There is no need to keep trying, and the SUG club has no reason to refuse.
Zhao Xuming’s time is limited and he has to focus on convincing other clubs.
Thinking of this, Zhao Xuming said. : "Mr. Ding, to be honest, I have good news when I come here this time! ”
“Currently, Zhidou Company is preparing for the ioi World Finals, and attaches great importance to the domestic market, so this time it will give some quotas to domestic teams. SUG already has an ioi branch. This time I overcame all objections and persuaded the senior management of Zhidou Company to reserve a quota for the SUG club. "
Having said this, Zhao Xuming lowered his voice: "Internal information must not be spread outside. "
Ding Gan nodded quickly: "That's for sure. "
Zhao Xuming continued: "This is what I think. The current ioi division of SUG Club is still relatively complete, and the team members are relatively senior. We are considering letting the SUG club take the lead and organize a training match to practice our skills. ”
“We will also talk to other clubs one by one, but the teams of these clubs may need to be strengthened and adjusted, so organizing training matches may still require more efforts from Mr. Ding and Manager Yang. Worry. "
"What do you think? ”
Zhao Xuming originally thought that Ding Gan would agree to it without hesitation, but he didn’t expect that Ding Gan looked at Manager Yang with a bit of embarrassment on his face.
Zhao Xuming’s heart sank and he felt a little uncomfortable. Wonderful.
But he was confused, could there be any surprise in this matter?
SUG took the lead in organizing a training match and got the opportunity to go to the ioi World Finals. Mr. Ding Gan would not refuse such a good thing, right?
Ding Gan looked a little embarrassed: "Mr. Zhao, of course we are very grateful that you helped us secure such a precious opportunity. But organizing training matches... I'm afraid it's a little difficult. Because our ioi branch now...temporarily...has only three members left. ”
“It would have been better if you had come two days earlier. "
Zhao Xuming opened his mouth slightly, and was a little stunned for a moment: "Huh? ”
How is it possible that there are only two members left in the ioi division?
Most of these people have had the idea of transforming to play GOG before, but the reason why they have never made the transition is because of GOG The professional players over there are basically saturated. If they go to play competitions, they will neither get results nor win.Not a great bonus.
On the ioi side, there are at least some meager subsidies to ensure the basic living of these players.
Then what are these players doing? No longer a professional?
It doesn’t make sense. The branch is still there. What about liquidated damages if they leave?
Ding Gan quickly explained: "Mr. Zhao, the situation is like this."
"Originally, the members of our ioi branch usually played live broadcasts and occasionally made appointments for training matches. As a result, it has become increasingly difficult to schedule training matches recently, because there are very few other clubs retaining ioi divisions, and they have all switched to GOG."
"Then a few days ago, suddenly something happened. Several GOG clubs came over and said they wanted to buy players from our ioi division, and they were willing to pay transfer fees, and the salaries were much higher than they currently are."
"The players are very interested, and we are in line with this. The principle of respecting the wishes of the players, just... let it go."
After Zhao Xuming was stunned for two seconds, he suddenly realized.
Broken!
GOG just established the GPL some time ago, and all teams are frantically competing for players. Because the number of teams suddenly expanded to more than a dozen, the demand for players also skyrocketed.
Although these ioi players are better at ioi, there are always some players who have GOG talent. In the past, there were few positions and no teams wanted them, but now that the quota has been expanded, teams want players with professional experience and talent.
The reason why Zhao Xuming ignored this was, on the one hand, because he was busy discussing cooperation with Zhitou Company some time ago and had no time to take care of these clubs; on the other hand, it was also because the GPL club had just been formed At that time, he showed no intention of poaching ioi players at all.
Unexpectedly, it only took a few days for the good ioi team to be dismantled!
Zhao Xuming originally thought very well. If SUG still had a complete ioi team, they would not need to spend time forming a team and could take the lead in organizing training matches; wait until the World Championship. After the competition, I should be able to get a relatively good ranking.
But now that two people have been poached, don’t expect anything more!
After all, ioi is a game for five people. The lack of people means that we have to re-recruit people and re-run the game. The impact is too great.
When Zhao Xuming first came here, he was full of enthusiasm and confidence, but he was immediately poured cold water on his head.
Ding Gan was also a little embarrassed and hurriedly said: "It's okay, Mr. Zhao, we are going to recruit people immediately. If it doesn't work, we can directly spend money to buy people from other clubs, and we will definitely rebuild the team as soon as possible. Form a team!”
Ding Gan didn’t think too much at first, he just thought it was pointless to maintain an ioi branch, and there were no competitions. He could still make a fortune by selling people to the GOG club. It doesn’t matter if you sell the dues.
Results front footJust after the sale, the spot for the Ioi World Finals was delivered to my doorstep. How does this make sense?
Zhao Xuming was silent for a moment and nodded: "Okay."
What else can be said? Everyone has already sold it, so you can’t pay liquidated damages and buy it back, right? That's such a loss.
The main reason is that these players are now worth more, and the transfer fees are also much more expensive. Isn't this a pure loss of blood?
Ding Gan would rather buy ioi team members from other clubs than buy back his own players.
But what Zhao Xuming is worried about is that since GOG clubs have begun to buy ioi players on a large scale, it is impossible to only buy SUG.
What if other clubs’ ioi teams are also torn to pieces?
Should we play a jigsaw puzzle and use the existing teams to work hard to create two or three teams that can compete in the World Championship, or should we look for new players and just rely on luck?
Zhao Xuming suddenly had an ominous premonition. He felt that his task this time seemed simple, but in fact it was not that easy to achieve.
Tengda’s black hand reaches farther than he imagined!
"Is it possible that this is also within President Pei's plan?"
Zhao Xuming suddenly shuddered.