Full-time: Starting from Ye Xiu vs. Faker

Chapter 447: Blue Rain's Journey to Expand Its Circle (Part )
In the quarter-finals, the competition positions shifted again.

This time, they came to Blue Rain’s true base, Guangzhou.

Ever since Blue Rain switched to League of Legends, the main body of the club has almost entirely moved to the branch base in Shanghai, and the base in Guangdong has suddenly become empty.

It was even a bit dusty for a long time, until recently when Blue Rain began planning to open multiple project branches, and some of the projects were no longer limited to the Magic City, and it was then reactivated.

But because it has just been formed, things like youth training and the second team have not yet been put on the agenda, resulting in the entire base still appearing empty.

Blue Rain was also generous this time. They waved their hands and said that their base was big enough. Before, Thunder could easily accommodate five teams for daily competitions and training, so Blue Rain could do the same.

Even Excellent Era, who was about to meet them in the quarterfinals, was invited in without hesitation.

Since we have the home advantage, we should make the most of it.

So after the relocation, when G2 and SKT came to the hotel to look for Fanhua for a training match, they found that she was gone.

The other teams would naturally not refuse, as the computers temporarily provided by the hotel and the dedicated e-sports base are definitely incomparable in all aspects.

Although people like Xingxin who had just been defeated by Blue Rain would definitely be unhappy to see a new LPL championship trophy appear in the big display cabinet at the entrance of Blue Rain’s base.

But it only lasted for a few seconds.

Then, after a long absence, Blue Rain's base became lively again.

So much so that the few indigenous people were a little surprised.

For example, a child.

"No wonder the base has to be built so large."

The child controlled the hitbox with one hand, using Jamie's combo and three-qi ultimate to quickly take out the ungrateful Luke on the opposite side, while glancing at the training room not far away that was becoming lively again.

Until he fell to the ground, Luke had not been able to take away even a drop of Jamie's blood for two consecutive rounds, and was hit by two perfects in a row, which was a complete loss of face.

The key point is that the opponent Luke is a master rank player, which is extremely rare among players.
But with his current strength, especially his performance which is still beyond human limits at the age of thirty, he still plays as the main player, Jamie.

That's a pity, because even with just one hand, a passing master cannot touch the porcelain.

However, compared to the master opposite who was not sure whether he was secretly dropping small pearls, Zeng Zhuojun was obviously more concerned about the training room not far away where the sound of keyboard tapping could be heard from time to time.

Yes, that’s right, Zeng Zhuojun has joined Blue Rain.

The reason is also very simple.

First, Blue Rain is a Guangzhou club, so it is natural for Guangzhou kids to join.

Second, Blue Rain gave money, and was very generous.

I have to say that the fighting game circle is really a small circle.

When Xianyu first started its live streaming platform, many experts and professional players in the gaming field reaped the benefits and received big contracts, but no one in the fighting game circle received such treatment for a long time.

This was also a major oversight of Pei Yunteng. He put too many resources on former Glory players, so that the masters of other games were more or less neglected.

It’s okay for StarCraft, they have Xiao Shiqin who has transformed to play in StarCraft, and Brother Sun and Brother Huang, two innate live broadcast masters, plus the game was released early, so the popularity is still acceptable.

But the fighting game industry...

A sharp contrast is that when the live broadcast contracts of the top players in LPL, even ignoring the premium contracts like Ye Xiu got, the annual salaries of the top players and anchors began to sprint towards tens of millions,
What is the current state of the fighting game community?

If a pure passerby can spare a thousand yuan to sponsor, you can let the child play a KOF game of five or even seven with another championship-level master in the child's live broadcast room.

No, it doesn’t need that much. Five hundred yuan is enough. The child also had to say thank you to the boss repeatedly in the live broadcast room.

Isn’t it dreamy?

On one side is a salary of tens of millions that ordinary people dare not even dream of, and on the other side is 500 yuan that an idle person can come up with if he saves a little.

If you really have to count, the latter may even be at a higher level. After all, they met in a world-class competition and probably played like this.

This is magical.

There is no way, the fighting game industry is like this. The official competition prize money is also limited, even if it is an official world-class event, where dozens of the world's top masters fight to the death, the final prize money is only a few hundred thousand.

There are also single-person prizes of one million, but most units are in Japanese yen.

So when Tencent announced that it was going to develop a fighting game, ordinary players might just be excited about the new game and new competition.
But those semi-professional players really want to kneel down to Teng Hai.

Tencent, a company with world-class influence and keen on developing e-sports, is interested in fighting games, which can only mean one thing to them:

I should be able to make more money in the future.

More matches to play means more prize money.

Considering how active Tencent is in organizing e-sports, shouldn't there be a dozen or twenty national-level competitions and seven or eight world-class competitions a year?

Even if you don't get a very high ranking, as long as you participate often enough, you can always get a prize of hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands a year, right?
With more popularity, live streaming can bring in more income.

Maybe in the future we won’t have to pay 300 yuan for online sponsored competitions anymore. It would be great if it could be increased to 500 yuan!
As a result, the fighting game circle was filled with joy like the New Year.

But it turned out to be conservative.

After Street Fighter came out, naturally a large number of clubs and capital immediately began to enter the market.

This includes Blue Rain.

Blue Rain has been concentrating on the LPL field in the past two years and has achieved a lot of results. It is now in a state of great fame and wealth.

In the LPL, Blue Rain is in very good shape and has a strong lineup, so there is not much room for reinforcement in the short term.

Well, it's time to develop other game divisions.

But, as the old saying goes, those who come first eat the meat, and those who come later drink the soup.

Games with a big enough influence, such as CS and Naraka, have basically been entered by everyone who can enter by this time.

If Blue Rain goes to CS, they will first have to enjoy the friendly education from Samsara and Zhou Zekai, and then fight to the death with tough guys like Kang Kang from EDG and Alex from WNV.

It would be even more fun if they went to Eternal Tribulation, because their old rivals Vici Gaming and Wang Jiexi were waiting there.

So after a round of wandering, Blue Rain naturally set its sights on Street Fighter, a newly opened up feng shui treasure land.

It’s a new project from Tencent, so invest boldly, you can’t miss it.

After further checking, wow, Ye Xiu from the fighting game is actually in our hometown?

World champion, one against ten, the absolute king of the KOF era...

So what are you waiting for, grab it!

Lan Yu contacted Zeng Zhuojun without hesitation.

But they are not fools and will not spend money carelessly.

No matter how strong Zeng Zhuojun was when he was young, he was thirty-four or thirty-five years old after all.

Even though he was still killing people in the fighting game circle, beating up 18 or 19-year-old young men as if it was a piece of cake, he still had to be cautious.

In addition, the threshold for entering the Street Fighter circle is not too low, so it is hard to say to what extent it can expand.

So the Blue Rain executives, who had originally planned to give the same treatment to Yu Wenzhou and others and directly throw out a contract worth tens of millions, discussed for a while and finally decided to be cautious and first offer the kid a contract that they thought was more conservative.

After we win a few championships, it wouldn't be wrong to give him more when renewing the contract.

However, this contract, which is absolutely conservative in LPL and which even the main players or talented young players cannot afford, has become a real blow to the kid.

The reason is simple. The fixed salary in this contract alone is 1.5 million per year.

It’s equivalent to the prize money a child would get if he won the world championship more than a dozen times.

You call this a base salary?
(End of this chapter)