Pioneer of the Rebirth Era

In the Haoran Game Guild Studio in Hangzhou, Li Ming frowned and kept smoking. Opposite him, Dynasty Team head coach Sun Yizhou also had a sullen face.

This year's playoffs of Qifan Games are in full swing. Not only are the prizes higher this year, but the sponsors include big-name companies like BMW Brilliance, which favored the e-sports industry before the start.

Coupled with the endorsements from other large and small companies, this year's Qifan e-sports clubs are all scrambling to come up with results, and Dynasty Team is one of them who is very active.

But e-sports, like other sports competitions, is full of uncertainties. Dynasty Team is a long-established and strong team. Even today, when major capitals are investing in e-sports, they are still a regular contender.

But this year, we were defeated in the first round of the playoffs, and no matter which competitive industry it is, it is basically winner-take-all. It’s hard for losers to even eat soup, let alone losers.

Therefore, we see that major brands have begun to find Fan e-sports teams to endorse and sponsor competitions. It is said that starting from next year, Qifan will hold world-class e-sports competitions. Seeing such a large bonus, as an authority

But he couldn't eat it in one bite, and Li Ming felt scratched in his heart.

In fact, the Dynasty team has good strength on paper, and there are several star players in the team, otherwise it would not be a regular player in the battle for first place and third place.

However, a careful analysis of this paper strength shows that there is actually a lot of water in it. In the era of Dynasty Team Rise and Grass Reckless, Li Ming started his career by opening a studio for various games of Rising Sun Technology.

When he realized that Qifan competitive gaming would be a hot topic, he used his advantages as a practitioner to gather many experts to form a team, and directly hired Sun Yizhou, a relatively professional e-sports coach in China, with a high salary.

With good players and good coaches, and in a rough era, it is difficult not to achieve results. The Dynasty team even achieved super dominance for a while.

Unfortunately, these glories are in the past. As Rising Sun Technology continues to allocate resources to the e-sports industry, Qifan E-sports is becoming more and more professional, and major capitals have settled in.

The reckless heroes are facing off against increasingly professional and professional teams, and the talented ones can still be reckless, but after all, they are only a minority.

Coupled with the eternal regret of the e-sports industry - age, the roots of Dynasty Team's first round tour have actually been planted long ago.

Moreover, Li Ming and Sun Yizhou are actually aware of the team problem. In the past, the team's good performance could cover up the disadvantage of the team's players being older, and they could even refute it by using the fact that the older players have rich experience in competitions and have a stable mentality.

But as major capital pours into e-sports, younger and younger talented players are emerging, constantly accumulating game experience and surpassing themselves.

It was only a matter of time for these star players who were gathered together by Li Ming during the reckless era to face the end of their lives. But neither Li Ming nor Sun Yizhou thought that this time would come so early.

They also thought that these players could last for two or three years, and that they could maintain good results for two or three years. But they didn't expect that they would be defeated in this year's playoffs.

“A player’s veteran experience and stable mentality are advantages, but once they fall into a disadvantage because they are too old and unable to keep up, they lack the miracle of a comeback.

After all, Qifan Esports has been held in China for several seasons since it started, and the advantages and disadvantages of players have been thoroughly studied as more and more professionals enter." Sun Yizhou said after a while.

Although this sentence was a bit cryptic, Li Ming understood it. Sun Yizhou meant that resting on one's laurels was not enough, and the team needed to introduce some younger talented players.

Li Ming agreed with Sun Yizhou's point of view. After all, they have been using one trick to win over others for several seasons. The first to gather better players to gain the upper hand has come to an end.

Now people have learned this move of yours, not to mention using it better than you, and have also developed other moves. On the one hand, being stable for older players is an advantage, but on the other hand, it is a disadvantage. For example, due to age, they have become accustomed to it now.

With a stable performance, there is no way to adapt quickly to the changes in the season. This is why the Dynasty team lost in the first round of the playoffs this year.

Therefore, if the team wants to develop, it must introduce new blood, otherwise there is no other way but to wait for death.

In fact, Li Ming also wanted to change players in his heart, but now all the newbies who are a little bit more prominent and have a little bit of talent are being fired at sky-high prices. He wants to buy them, but his pocket doesn't allow it.

As for setting up a youth training camp to train players on his own, he had never thought about this before. Now he realizes that it will take at least two years to set up a youth training camp to achieve results. Li Ming can't wait that long.

Because with the current state of the team, next year's results will probably not be any better than this year's, even if they are not bad. And poor results means that there will also be a loss of income.

However, due to the popularity of e-sports in recent years, the salaries of the star-level veteran players in the team have been increasing year by year.

The team doesn't make any money and has to spend a lot of money to retain players. Li Ming spends at least tens of millions every year.

If the opening of youth training can confirm that the dynasty team can still rise after the two-year conference, then Li Ming gritted his teeth and accepted the loss. But the key is whether you can cultivate a team after two years of loss after two years of injury.

The newcomer who can turn the tide is still unknown.

Even if you have a genius by the time you are trained, and other people have geniuses, it is still unknown whether they can achieve results. It is said that Li Ming cannot afford to gamble tens of millions. Once he loses, the dirt will be buried directly on his neck.

There is no possibility of a comeback at all.

As for cutting the salaries of internal players to save money and persuade everyone to work together to tide over the difficulties, Li Ming rejected this idea after a quick thought.

It is a disadvantage for a group of older star players to gather together, because their playing style has been studied thoroughly for a long time, but if they were to be separated and sent to other teams, many teams would still be willing to pay a high price to poach them.

Because many teams have gathered a lot of uncanny operators, they need star players with rich game experience and a stable mentality to help them grow.

You are telling people here that we can save money and tide over the difficulties together, but there are countless teams outside waving a lot of money to poach people. It is related to their own vital interests. Li Ming believes that some players are loyal, but there is no guarantee that all players will be loyal.

We share the joys and sorrows with him because of loyalty. When one or two people leave the team, the others may not be able to maintain their mental stability and the team will definitely break up.

"Damn it, you're so rich and don't want to invest in business, why do you want to get involved in the e-sports industry?" Li Ming couldn't help but cursed.

Sun Yizhou also nodded in agreement. If these rich guys hadn't disrupted the situation, the Dynasty team could have continued to be brilliant for at least two or three years. By then, he would have earned enough pension money, and there were still people in the industry with outstanding results.

Seniors, if you stay on the job for the rest of your life, you will basically have enough food and clothing.

But a group of rich people insisted on rushing in to disrupt the situation. Money is the same as not money. It is simply inappropriate to recognize that just a casual player is worth millions of dollars in annual salary.

Just when the two of them were complaining that these rich people were out of their minds, there was a knock on the office door.

"What's up?"

"Boss, a man named Principal Wang is looking for you and wants to discuss the acquisition of Team Dynasty with you."

"Tell him to get lost. When did I say I was going to sell the team?" Li Ming yelled.