Full-time: Starting from Ye Xiu vs. Faker

Chapter 409: Win, win, win, and finally lose everything
Ugh?
Is it so simple?
Han Wenqing's decisive attitude made Li Xianghe feel a little confused.

Generally speaking, in situations like this where one is soliciting passersby, even if the other party refuses, some basic exchange of information is a necessary procedure.

The club may put forward some conditions and financial resources to show its sincerity, and the players may also raise some of their own concerns. If they receive offers from other clubs, they can use them to raise the price.

In the end, we might chat for half a day. If the chat goes well, we might arrange an offline tryout. If the chat goes averagely, we might be able to enhance our understanding or exchange other contact information.

When he was recruited by SKT to go to the training camp, he followed a similar process, except that SKT at that time cast a wide net, and he was just a rookie and impatient little unknown, so he got on SKT's ship after just a few rounds.

He had already prepared himself to completely reject Han Wenqing after a few rounds of arguments.

As a result, Han Wenqing seemed to have no intention of accompanying him through the process. After his first refusal, he simply chose to give up.

Reason told Li Xianghe that this was a good thing for him. At least the possibility of getting into trouble in the next few days was greatly reduced.

There is an old Chinese saying that goes "too much talk leads to mistakes". Although Lee Sang-hyuk is known as the China expert in LCK, his understanding of China is actually just that.

It’s a little bit easier when it comes to games, but when it comes to things like details of life, if the other party dares to ask, Li Xianghe will dare to reveal the truth.

Say less. At least his identity as a "Korean spy" will not be easily exposed, and he won't have to worry about being targeted by various domestic players like Khan.

But for some reason, when Li Xianghe saw Han Wenqing end the conversation so decisively, he felt a little weird in his heart.

Maybe... he's unhappy about being looked down upon?

But on the surface, I am just a passerby who has just started LOL rehabilitation and has some talent. I have already taken the college entrance examination and am over 18 years old. My potential is less than those who are 16 or 17 years old.

They represent China's e-sports giants and are certainly not short of good talent, so it's normal for them to be a bit reserved.

Li Xianghe explained himself like this, but no matter what he said, he still couldn't dispel the subtle feeling in his heart.

He did not rush to start the ranking game, but waited in the chat interface for another minute or two, until he saw that the other party had actually started a ranking game on his own, and then he left his seat.

Suddenly I don’t feel like playing ranked games anymore, let me find something to drink first.

When I passed Khan's position on the road, he didn't even start the ranking game. Instead, he stared at the interface with a sad face. When he saw Li Xianghe passing by, his eyes suddenly lit up and he quickly came forward to flatter him:
"Brother Xianghe, do you want to duo queue with us?" I'm a strong mid laner, you guys can't target me, right?

However, Li Xianghe just glanced at his computer screen and glared at him coldly. That death glare, which was immature but already had some power, immediately made Khan, who had been playing badly, break out in a cold sweat.

"What were you doing in the last ten minutes?"

……

Let’s put aside the situation where Lee Sang-hyeok was in a bad mood and training his top laner, and take a look at the culprit that made him in a bad mood.

"Captain Zhang, isn't it a bit inappropriate for us to leave them hanging like this?"

In Tyranny's training room, there was no game on the Eternal Tribulation side today. Bai Yanfei, who had come to the LPL division to watch the fun, looked at Han Wenqing who had already entered the rankings and asked Zhang Xinjie curiously.

He watched the whole process and knew the identity of the man on the other side, but because of this, Bai Yanfei couldn't understand why his captain and vice-captain didn't try hard to win over the other party.

"After all, the opponent is a leader in a division above the semi-final level. You don't think that the favorable conditions we offer will be enough to attract him, right?" Zhang Xinjie smiled.

"No matter how many problems the LCK region has, no matter how annoying it is, it is impossible for a player of his level to suffer any injustice in terms of treatment. Within a reasonable range, we can meet all requests."

"It is no exaggeration to say that at this stage, the probability of us being able to recruit Faker is either almost zero or zero."

Bai Yanfei was a little surprised: "Is it so exaggerated?"

"Other regions may not have it, but the LCK region definitely has it." Zhang Xinjie nodded.

He had heard about the awkward and almost distorted self-esteem and national character of the Koreans.

No matter how distorted it is, it is undeniable that their sense of national honor is still strong, but the means by which they build their sense of honor are somewhat unbearable to watch.

It just so happens that e-sports is South Korea's traditional strength. It once achieved a leading position in the world, and now it has successfully occupied half of the world in the neighboring StarCraft. It only needs to overthrow Comrade Xiao Shiqin to reproduce the glory of KESPA.

And as Zhang Xinjie just investigated, LCK's progress this summer is also very fast.

Adding all the above together, it can be said that the buffs are maxed out.

In such a situation, you want to persuade one of the current top players in South Korea's LOL e-sports to defect to the enemy just by promising him something and offering him profits?
That's a bit far-fetched.

Even if Li Xianghe is not a Korean Wolf Warrior, it would be difficult to poach him so easily unless he has a relative named Dong Xilian.

"So from the beginning, our mission was not to directly try to recruit Faker. The Korean team's recruitment was just to let him put aside his suspicion and believe that we had no tricks against him."

Zhang Xinjie told about his plan with a smile.

"Before that time, the limit of what we can do is to leave an impression of us in his mind, that's all."

"Beyond that, any extra efforts and attempts will most likely only yield counterproductive results."

Bai Yanfei nodded, and then became curious: "Which time point is that?"

Zhang Xinjie smiled and sat down in front of a computer, starting to retrieve LCK information and game videos.

"Probably... it was when his SKT team was eliminated head-on by a certain LPL team in the S League."

"What does Captain Zhang want to do?" Bai Yanfei looked at his screen.

"Collate data on the LCK, study their weaknesses, and provide some free intelligence and tactical support to the participating teams, probably."

"After all, we still have to count on them to eliminate LCK and send our mid laner to us..."

……

A talented mid laner who was obsessed with training his top laner naturally didn't know that he had been noted down in a notebook by some malicious guys.

However, there was another group of guys who were writing furiously in their own little notebooks.

This matter all started with that chaotic final.

Amidst the cheers of Blue Rain's victory, everyone was excitedly discussing how this championship would enhance Blue Rain's historical status. After all, Blue Rain was the only club that had both the Glory Championship and the LPL Championship.

In addition, discussions such as re-ranking the strength of LPL players and female players winning the championship also dominated the hot searches during those days.

But among the many hot searches, there is one that seems a little inconspicuous, drowned out by the more discussed topics.

However, this hot search is the one that involves the highest level of characters among the many discussions about LPL recently.

“Pei Yunteng personally presented the award”

(Okay, the author was so distracted from writing that he forgot about this foreshadowing. I only realized it after reading the comments today and quickly made a patch.)
That's right, although it was hasty, after making a temporary decision that day, Pei Yunteng really completed the championship and FMVP award ceremony in person after Blue Rain won the championship, under the flattered gaze of Yu Wenzhou and others.

He did what he said. In order to prevent the S-League from being the only championship that shortens the life of the league, he really wants to slightly increase the value of other championships besides the S-League.

Topics such as the reform of MSI rewards still need to be studied by high-level officials, but it is still possible to give the LPL champion a temporary award to show respect.

Since he was presenting the award personally, the significance should have been quite sufficient.

But unfortunately, the LPL award ceremony was set after the interview, and basically all the content that the audience wanted to watch had already been shown.

Judging from the performance of Blue Rain's players this year, the winner of the FMVP has basically been locked in on a certain chatterbox.

So before the award ceremony started, the scene was fine, but the audience in the live broadcast room had basically gone to major social media platforms to celebrate.

In addition, Pei Yunteng has always been friendly in the LPL, and is especially known for his love of joining in the fun. In the eyes of many Chinese fans, it is quite normal for him to present an award.

As a result, the surprise carefully prepared by our boss Pei did not make much splash on the Chinese Internet.

However, in the eyes of LPL practitioners and senior executives, as well as audiences outside of China, it is not the case at all.

Little-known fact: Pei Yunteng’s image overseas is much more impressive than his image in China.

One reason is that when Pei Yunteng was building his down-to-earth image in the early years, he basically only focused on the domestic market, but abroad, his image was much more aloof.

The second reason is that Pei Yunteng’s personal fanatical fans are much larger overseas than in China.

Due to environmental reasons in China, the most popular games are still online games. Even though stand-alone and console games have developed well due to the existence of Pei Yunteng, they are still not that popular.

The mark that the online game Honor of Kings has left on the Chinese gaming industry is far from being completely erased. Even though its position in the e-sports world has been completely lost, its influence still penetrates into every corner of the gaming industry.

Overseas, especially in Europe, America and Japan, as the birthplace of the game console industry, the environment is naturally much better.

In such an environment, it is easy to imagine how terrifying the status and reputation of Pei Yunteng, the god of game design who even TGA had to open an award in his name, is.

So, when the news that Pei Yunteng personally presented the award to the LPL champion spread overseas, I don’t know how many fans were excited.

This person is so afraid of trouble that he has not even bothered to come to the recent TGA and Golden Joystick awards in person. How could he be willing to personally present awards to a league at the division level?

I don’t know how many fans and players from other regions grew up playing Tenghai’s games, and now they are all envious and jealous.

Therefore, in contrast to what happened in China, the discussion about Pei Yunteng awarding the award to the LPL champion skyrocketed within a few days, and at one point the discussion even surpassed that of the LPL Summer Finals itself.

Many fans who don't watch e-sports but are die-hard fans of Tenghai Games also joined in, pitifully praying with various sacrificial pictures that while Pei Yunteng is paying attention to e-sports, he would not forget to create a new folder for the sequels of his favorite game series.

In addition to the fans going crazy, all major clubs, both at home and abroad, expressed their great attention to the event of Pei Yunteng personally presenting the awards.

No one is a fool, and no one would believe that Pei Yunteng had the sudden idea of ​​presenting the award in person just to consolidate his down-to-earth personality that he didn't know what the use was.

They all successfully received the signal that Pei Yunteng sent through the award ceremony: he wanted to reform the next competition system.

Soon, the general direction of the reform was presented to the clubs following another decision made by Pei Yunteng.

A message was conveyed to everyone through the officials of each region:
"President Pei has decided that in the future, in addition to attending the world-class events every year, President Pei will also personally attend the next regional finals of the region that won the previous world-class event and present the awards."

That’s right, this is the first formal reform that Pei Yunteng made after thinking about it for a long time.

After all, the regional champion is still the regional champion, and the gap between them and the world champion can never be bridged.

But what if we add two words in front of the division, first?

As the top basketball league, the NBA's championship is even more valuable than the world championship.

Just like a certain executive vice-president won two bronze medals, but it did not affect his fans' praise.

LOL does not have an absolutely dominant first division like the NBA, so it certainly cannot have such an influence.

But if that is not possible, Pei Yunteng could use some means to increase the value of the championship in the first division at a certain stage.

This is a move that kills two birds with one stone.

On the one hand, the value of the championship has increased and has been officially certified, so the S-crown-only theory may be curbed to a certain extent. At least, the LPL championship will not be as worthless as in the past.

On the other hand, there is the sense of competition.

The title of the first division is undoubtedly attractive.

It's not just a matter of honor. The division that holds the title of No. 1 division has basically obtained a license to expand its influence overseas.

With the example of LPL, which has gone international as the No. 1 league, there is no need to worry about these people not being jealous.

And later on, Pei Yunteng does plan to give some publicity support to those championship-winning regions.

Sure enough, after this news was spread, the competitive spirit between the competition areas, which was not very strong at first, suddenly began to grow exponentially.

As for those teams that got tickets to the World Championship, they started their internal competition with red eyes.

We have to win the S championship and the title of the first division, only then can it be considered healthy!
　Update update.

　　
　
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