LOL: What is a roaming mid laner?

On November 3, everyone at YM traveled a long distance and returned to Shanghai Pudong International Airport.

Having just won the S6 global championship, YM is now in the limelight.

Even though it was a working day, there were still many students studying in Shanghai who came to pick them up and celebrate, wanting to see the new world champion.

Xiaotian slept on the plane, and her long bangs were completely drooped.

He originally promised to get a haircut in the United States after the finals, but after finishing the game, he had no time to take care of it.

Bangs have covered half of his eyes, and Xiaotian feels that his image is a bit sloppy, especially when compared with his delicate double C face, the disadvantage is particularly obvious.

But Garlic Bastard didn't expect that as soon as he got off the shuttle bus, he would receive bouquets of flowers from many fans.

"Ah, thank you..." Xiaotian thanked him softly, and then poked Lin Ran next to him, "When did I have so many fans?"

Lin Ran and Jack were even more exaggerated, with their arms full of flowers.

The two C-positions are more popular in the game. Their statistics and performance are easier to attract the attention of fans. With their appearance bonus, they are among the most popular players in YM.

"I'm kidding, I'm the first LPL S-level champion. I must have so many fans. You're taking it too seriously, you bastard." Jack had to put some flowers into Brother Hao's hand.

This time, not only fans came to pick up the plane, but also the management of Tengjing Sports, some employees of Riot China, and financial representatives of YM investors.

"What are you going to do when the players' contracts are renewed in the next few days?" PDD looked at the players taking photos with the fans and quickly pulled Brother Hao aside.

"Although I know it is unrealistic, I still want to renew the contracts of all members." As the club manager, Guo Hao is also responsible for the signing of club personnel. He hesitated for two seconds after hearing PDD's words.

"Are you crazy?" PDD lowered his voice, "Do you know how much it costs to renew a full contract? I heard Principal Wang say that the contract renewal price he negotiated with Broiler last month was close to eight figures! This is just one person!"

"But if this group of people is still together next year, it is very likely that they will win two consecutive championships. This is a goal that SKT has not yet accomplished!" Brother Hao was a little excited thinking about it.

PDD was speechless. He had no way to judge whether Guo Hao's idea was right or wrong.

If Guo Hao's approach was followed, this would be a gamble worth tens of millions of yuan.

He hesitated for a while, "I shouldn't be able to invest this money next year. I still have a company to develop."

When attracting investment this summer, PDD invested most of its net worth in YM in order to prevent its shares in the club from being diluted too much.

But he couldn't bear it. Today's e-sports club is a gold-devouring behemoth, with investment amounts of tens of millions. He, a top anchor, can't help spending so much.

The fans gradually dispersed, and the remaining pick-up members left a group photo outside the airport, and then the YM club members boarded the bus to attend the celebration banquet hosted by Tengjing's senior management.

As usual, YM players and behind-the-scenes staff were praised and commended in turn. During the dinner, the CEO of Tengjing, nicknamed "Bobby", was very enthusiastic towards Lin Ran and Jack and kept chatting with them.

As the spokesperson of Tengjing Sports, Bobby was also under considerable pressure in the past two years. The LPL he was in charge of introduced foreign players at large prices starting from S4, but encountered a waterloo in S5, and once became synonymous with people who are stupid and have too much money.

This made him very embarrassed.

Bobby once thought that the LPL would have to go through several years of silence before it could rise, but the sudden emergence of YM defeated three LCK teams in a row and won the S6 championship, which made him feel very good.

The LPL division under him has got rid of the shadow of many years of being without a championship. With the blessing of this world championship, the process of alliance will be rapidly advanced, and the confidence to attract investment will be much more abundant.

The celebration banquet ended in the evening.

Lin Ran and his team members carried their suitcases and returned to their long-lost base.

The youth training team on the second floor has already assembled for training, and they don't have much time off.

For this group of children, youth is an advantage, and they must seize the time to make a name for themselves.

The big brother of the first team has set an example for them, and they also dream of standing on the highest podium to receive the cheers and applause of League of Legends players around the world.

Lin Ran's head was groggy. The long journey and the celebration party made him exhausted. When he went upstairs, he took a quick glance at the training room.

The core midlaner of the second team, Golden Left Hand, was also in the training room. There was a kid taking off his shoes and curling up on the gaming chair with his legs.

Lin Ran had met him before (friendly reminder: Chapter 62) and was deeply impressed by him because he had rarely seen people playing games like this before.

The third floor is the training room and dormitory of their home team. Although they have not lived there for nearly two months, the housekeeping aunt still keeps it clean.

Lin Ran and Xiaotian returned to the room, dumped their suitcases, took a shower, dried their hair and went to sleep.

It was already the afternoon of November 4th when I woke up again.

Lin Ran rolled around on the bed twice before getting up. Xiaotian, who was on the opposite bed, had already left. The quilt was not folded, but rolled up into a ball and placed there.

He stretched while brushing his teeth, feeling more energetic.

He opened the Tieba forum to see what the netizens were talking about. The offseason was about to enter, and Tieba people who didn't have time to watch games were starting to gain experience.

There are a lot more life posts in Kangba these days, and Lin Ran can find new fun in them every day.

Various jokes such as "sliding shovel tiger" and "chicken wings are not fresh, go away" are endless.

But today is an exception, the front row news is quite explosive.

[Breaking News: Deft and Pawn announced their departure from EDG after this year’s German Cup! 】

The contracts of EDG's two Korean players have not expired, but they have issued a long message thanking their teammates, clubs and fans for their help and support during the two years.

The two have made up their minds to leave LPL.

This is the first big earthquake in the transfer period.

Lin Ran glanced at the reply below and found that Pawn's reputation on the Internet was obviously much better than Deft's.

After all, the former is the only big daddy of EDG. His carrying ability in domestic and foreign competitions over the years has been obvious to all. Coupled with the rumor that "EDG needs me", Pawn's status has continued to rise.

Deft, as a Korean aid, did not learn Chinese, but actually asked meiko to learn Korean communication. He was not used to Chinese food. He was fierce in domestic competitions. When it came to the competition, he turned into a pilot and passed the light, acting like an actor. He was praised by netizens. Naturally not high.

The phone vibrated, and a message came from the YM WeChat group. Xiaoyao, Jin Gong and Xiaoming went out for lunch and asked the teammates who stayed at the base if they had any food that needed to be packed.

Lin Ran, Jack and Ning discussed it and ordered a meal for four.

Su Cheng had a full class today, and Lin Ran planned to go back to his girlfriend and fill his stomach first.

After his teammates returned to the base, Lin Ran, Jack, and Ning were eating when their cell phones vibrated.

The big one is here again.

[RNG assistant Mata announces return to LCK after German Cup]

It was all bombshell news, which shocked Lin Ran.

The negative impact brought by Zyra the Windspeaker is difficult to eliminate, and mata himself does not want to continue playing in the LPL, so he simply returns to his country to develop.

"Brother Hao!" Lin Ran saw Guo Hao walking out of the room carrying a pot of hot tea and immediately called him, "What do you mean by De Bei?"

The German Cup mentioned earlier, the full name of the Demacia Cup, is also hosted by Tengjing. It is similar in nature to the Korean KeSpa Cup. It is held every offseason and is participated by some teams from the top leagues and secondary leagues in the division.

This cup connects with the annual awards ceremony, which is very important and all nominated LPL star players must participate.

This is the last national competition before the winter transfer period. In previous years, the German Cup group stage should have been played in June, but this year because the country hosted MSI, it was forced to modify the competition format.

The top three teams in Group AB of the LPL Summer Split plus the LSPL Summer Champions and Runners-Up will form 8 teams. They will play a single-elimination BO5 format for a total of three days. As you can imagine, the schedule is intensive.

Lin Ran has always felt that the planning team of Tengjing Sports has cerebral palsy. If this German Cup reaches the finals, it will mean playing three BO5 games in three days, which is simply exhausting. It seems that this year's earth-shattering BO10 bubble game has not finished these. Wake up people's brains.

"Do we still want to play? Can we switch to the second team?" Jack, a lazy dog, planned to be lazy. "We have just finished playing S6 and are almost exhausted."

Brother Hao smiled and said, "Our second team is the runner-up in LSPL. We will have to compete when the time comes. No one will do it for you."

Jack let out a wail and slumped down in his chair.

This year's German Cup will be held in Wuhan on November 13, and YM still has one week left to repair.

Lin Ran rested at the base for a day and rushed to Wujiaochang on the weekend.

"Is this the FMVP trophy?" Su Cheng welcomed him into the rental house. Seeing the object in Lin Ran's hand, he curiously took it and played with it, "It looks ordinary."

"Do you still expect it to be encrusted with diamonds? With how stingy your fist is..." Lin Ran took his fist back and told her that he had to pay 25,000 knives to make a replica of the Summoner's Trophy.

Lin Ran lowered his head and saw a pair of brand new chocolate bear slippers at the entrance.

"I bought it for you before, put it on." Su Cheng put the trophy on the shoe cabinet, then stepped on the strawberry bear slippers to unpack the snacks.

"By the way, have you seen the Caltech video I sent you? The scenery is really amazing," Lin Ran put on his slippers and asked, "Did you say you wanted to study there before?"

"Well..." Su Cheng pulled him to sit on the sofa, "Didn't I tell you that I wanted to be a university teacher?"

"The current situation is that schools like Fudan don't want local Ph.D. people...that is, people who have no overseas study experience must study abroad for a few years to become teachers." She took a bottle of water from the coffee table and handed it over. .

"Caltech's mathematics is world-famous. Mr. Qian studied applied mathematics there before. I plan to study for a PhD there after my undergraduate studies and then come back."

Mr. Qian is credited with two bombs and one satellite, and his reputation is well-known at home and abroad.

"How many years are you going to study for?" Lin Ran was a little reluctant.

"Four or five years," Su Cheng saw his expression and immediately smiled, "Don't look like that. I'm not sure whether I can apply. I like them, but what should I do if they don't like me?"

Four or five years...

Probably as long as the career of an average e-sports player.

Lin Ran felt a little reluctant, but still expressed his support.

After all, Su Cheng now understands the game for him and even becomes the team's assistant analyst. There is no way he can delay Su Cheng's bright future just for his own selfish thoughts.

Lin Ran comforted himself that four or five years was not a long time in his entire life. He believed that he and Su Cheng would still have many life journeys to spend together in the future.

Su Cheng peeled an apple on the side. Her fingers were slender and nimble, and the fruit knife was easy to use. The apple peel was not broken even when it was long.

Su Cheng's cell phone on the table suddenly rang twice with a WeChat message.

"Open it for me, I can't free my hand." Su Cheng lowered his head and stared at the apple in his hand, his long black hair hanging softly on his shoulders.

"...The password is your birthday." Su Cheng lowered her voice as she spoke, and her two fair and small earlobes were exposed from her black hair.

Lin Ran noticed that his earlobes turned red visibly.

He quickly looked away and unlocked his phone.

It was a message from Guo Hao. Lin Ran was stunned holding the phone.

"What's wrong?" Su Cheng peeled the apple, threw the peel into the trash can, cut a piece and handed it to Lin Ran.

"...Han Yi and the main analyst will leave the team after playing the German Cup. Brother Hao asked you if you would like to temporarily take over the position of the main analyst of the German Cup. The right is to gain experience."

Brother Hao obviously didn't know that he and Su Cheng were together, and soon he sent Lin Ran a separate WeChat message announcing the resignation of the management.

"Let me take a look at the schedule and class schedule..." Su Cheng wiped her fingers, opened her phone and took a look, "We will compete from Friday to Sunday next week. I will only have two public classes then, so I'll ask for a leave from the instructor. That’s it.”

Lin Ran was a little stunned as he grabbed a piece of apple.

He didn't expect the huge waves during the transfer period to come so quickly.

Yesterday, he was eating a few big melons from Korean players who returned to the LCK. When he looked back, he saw that his house had collapsed?

Su Cheng obviously knew what Lin Ran was thinking, "It's not like we won't be able to see each other again, so just take it as..."

She raised her calf, "Just think that the college entrance examination is over, and everyone will go their separate ways to study in different places, but we will see each other again if we are destined, so don't take it to heart..."

Su Cheng cut the apple and took a bite.

"Forget it, I can't go on. It's really a bit sad. I haven't seen those classmates for a long time, and I don't know how they are doing." She murmured softly.

"We will definitely see each other again when everyone returns to Suzhou during the winter vacation."

Lin Ran sighed.

Before the S6 finals, when he heard Brother Hao talking about the winter transfer period, he didn't take it seriously. He thought it was a great opportunity for a salary increase, and he happily calculated how many square meters of house he could buy.

But when the huge wave of the transfer period swept over, he realized that the countdown to farewell was already over.

They held the cup happily just 5 days ago, so why are they about to break up?

…

Brother Hao has been very busy these two days. He had talked with Han Yi and the chief analyst all night, but he still couldn't keep the two of them.

Hanyi left purely because he wanted to realize his own value. He himself felt that there was no point in staying in the championship team. He had just become the S6 championship coach and was full of confidence. He wanted to go to other teams to meet new challenges.

The main analyst is forced by material conditions.

He was originally an old man in e-sports and had reached the age of starting a family. He and Brother Hao made it clear that he wanted to use his status as a champion to go to other teams to win a premium contract. He planned to earn a year's money and then return to his hometown to buy a house and get married.

He earned a total of 500,000 yuan last year, excluding S competition bonuses, which was not even enough to pay the down payment for a house in his hometown of Wuhan.

"My childhood dream was definitely not to buy an apartment." He and Guo Hao said.

Neither management could retain him, and Guo Hao was enveloped in a sense of powerlessness.

But there was not much time left for him.

Since the player's contract will expire in mid-November, the player himself cannot contact other clubs to discuss signing issues before then. All negotiations must go through the player's club.

Guo Hao is quite popular in the industry and has received many contract quotes these days.

The maximum renewal salary for the mid-level unit and AD position reaches 8 figures. The renewal price for top top and jungle players is generally 6 million W, while the support price is relatively low, around 5 million W.

Compared with last year, this is an extremely exaggerated numerical increase.

Since PDD no longer has any spare money to invest in the team, all the money now has to rely on investors.

In order to retain the players as much as possible, he broke his leg in the next three days while running and doing a lot of analysis with the base operations staff to find investors and sponsors, and earnestly persuaded them to increase investment next season.

Investors have prepared a lot of money in advance, and they also know that the upcoming S7 held in China is of great significance. If YM they sponsor wins the championship again, the hidden publicity value it will bring is self-evident.

They prepared 25 million as the club's budget for 2017, and completed the shareholding to let YM change the team name. However, Guo Hao opened his mouth and said 35 million to start.

This figure shocked the sponsor’s representative. You must know that YM currently only has two LOL teams, and the youth training team does not spend much money.

35 million W is definitely a big deal in S7, because both parties agree that this money does not include the seat deposit paid to the league, but is simply a club expense.

The difference of one million yuan was not a small amount, and the investors' money did not come from the strong wind. The two parties went back and forth to negotiate in the base office.

Seeing that the German Cup was about to start, Guo Hao was so anxious that his lips blistered a few times and he looked very haggard.

"Do you know how much work I have to do for these ten million dollars?" The sponsor's representative sat across from the sofa with a similarly sad look on his face.

"We need to do audits and return on investment analysis... There is e-sports traffic now, but the commercial realization rate is really not high. Everyone is losing money. If you want an extra ten million budget, how can I communicate with the company? Explain?"

Brother Hao lowered his head, he really tried his best.

They have to rush to Wuhan to compete the day after tomorrow. After the annual awards ceremony, there will be a winter rollover. Time waits for no one. Once the funds are not in place, the players are likely to become free agents and be signed directly by other clubs.

Just when I was at my wits end, the phone suddenly rang.

"BMW?" Guo Hao felt confused at first, thinking it was some kind of telemarketing call, and he said something rude, "I don't buy a BMW, I only drive a Mercedes-Benz and an Audi."

Five seconds later, Guo Hao jumped up.

"You want to sponsor? Really or not?" He suddenly increased his volume, "...Okay, okay, I'll take the faxes and emails."

"I'm free tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow!" Guo Hao was so excited that he couldn't express in words, "You have the final say, I'll be on call 24 hours a day!"

After hanging up the phone, he excitedly hugged the bewildered representative of the funder opposite.

…

In the evening before leaving for Wuhan, Guo Hao couldn't wait to share the news with his teammates in the YM training room.

During the day, he went to negotiate with the new sponsor BMW. Some details have not yet been finalized, but the investment intention has shown that spending money is basically a certainty.

Guo Hao saw the surprised expressions on the faces of the YM contestants. His voice was hoarse after a few days of grinding, and he suddenly felt that all the efforts were worth it.

He revealed this news to the players just to tell them that the club is not short of money now, all contracts can be negotiated, and there is no need to leave in a hurry.

"BMW China?" Lin Ran was stunned for a moment.

It seems to have triggered a certain memory point.

He turned on his phone.

[Chengzi, is Uncle Su still working at Audi? 】

Su Cheng has finished class long ago and is packing her luggage for Wuhan in her room. She replies quickly.

[No, he joined BMW's marketing department two years ago as director. 】

[Why do you ask this? 】

Lin Ran hissed.

"What's wrong?" Guo Hao, the male mother, looked over immediately, "Toothache or backache? There is a massage parlor next to the community..."

"It's okay, it's okay, I'm healthy." Lin Ran said, replying to Su Cheng three full stops, as steady as ever.

He revealed to Su Cheng that BMW China was about to invest in YM.

【? ? ? I'll call and ask. 】 Su Cheng replied.

Guo Hao told them to go to bed early and get up early, and they would have to catch a plane with the second team early tomorrow morning.

Lin Ran started a Korean server ranked game and used the Flag of Command to torture the opponent's mid laner Bingniao to the point of ecstasy.

A cannon truck took him half a minute to deal with.

The Ice Bird player is a Korean guy with unique skills. He usually only plays Ice Bird. Since the end of the S6 finals, as long as he dares to pick Ice Bird first, the opponent will have heroes like Karma and Lulu, who will disgust him with the Banner of Command.

In these five days, he dropped 400 points and became the king's goalkeeper.

The game he started before going to bed stirred up what was left of his mentality. He was typing words on the public screen like crazy. After two minutes of typing, he found that Lin Ran didn't reply before he stopped playing.

In 20 minutes, the opposite base exploded.

Lin Ran only received the message from Su Cheng at this time.

[It’s nothing. I asked, it’s the normal process. At most, I said a couple of sentences at the end. 】

[The BMW marketing department spent a long time doing data analysis and rate of return statistics. It is a very scientific investment. You are now famous and have enough traffic. It is a win-win cooperation for both parties. Their investment in e-sports is to focus on young people, and sales are ongoing. Low-end models. 】

Lin Ran felt relieved.

[It’s okay then. See you at the airport tomorrow morning. 】

Su Cheng replied with a good night bear emoticon.

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