Chapter 2347 Let Him Go

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, and not only will the prize money be higher this year. And the sponsors include big-name companies like BMW Brilliance, which favored the e-sports industry before the start.

Coupled with the endorsements of other large and small companies, this year's Qifan e-sports clubs are scrambling to come up with results as if they were on a chicken blood. Dynasty Team is one of them who is very active.

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

But this year they suffered a loss in the first round of the playoffs, and no matter which competitive industry they are in, it is basically winner-take-all. It's hard for losers to even drink soup, let alone meat.

Therefore, we see major brands starting to recruit e-sports teams to endorse them and sponsor competitions. It is said that Qifan will hold a world-class e-sports competition starting next year. Seeing such a large bonus as the authority but unable to take advantage of it, 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, if you analyze the paper strength carefully, you will find that there is actually a lot of water in it. During the rise of Dynasty Team and the era of recklessness, 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 reckless era, it will be difficult not to achieve results. The Dynasty team even had a strong dominance that was unparalleled for a while.

Unfortunately, these glories are in the past, as Rising Sun Technology continues to invest resources in the e-sports industry. Qifan e-sports is becoming more and more professional, and major capitals are investing in it.

The reckless heroes faced off against more and more professional and professional teams. The talented ones could still fight to the end, but after all, they were only a minority.

In addition, the e-sports industry has an eternal regret - age. The roots of Team Dynasty’s first round tour have actually been planted long ago.

Moreover, Li Ming and Sun Yizhou were actually aware of the team's problems. In the past, good team performance could cover up the disadvantage of the team's players being older, and they could even use the older players' rich experience and stable mentality to refute.

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

It is only a matter of time that these star players who were gathered together by Li Ming in the reckless era will come to an end sooner or later. It's just that neither Li Ming nor Sun Yizhou thought that this time would come so early.

They also think about how these players can last for two or three years, and they can maintain good results for two or three years. As a result, I didn't expect to be defeated in this year's playoffs.

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

After all, Qifan eSports has been held in China for several seasons since it first 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 means that resting on one's laurels like this is not enough. The team needs to introduce some younger talented players.

Li Ming agreed with Sun Yizhou's point of view. After all, they have been using this technique for several seasons. Gathering the better players first to gain the upper hand has come to an end now.

Now people have also learned this trick of yours, not to mention using it better than you, and they have also developed other tricks. The stability of veteran players is an advantage on the one hand, but it is a disadvantage on the other hand. For example, due to their age, they have become accustomed to the current stable situation and cannot adapt quickly to the changes in the season. The Dynasty team made it out of the first round of the playoffs this year. That is where we lose.

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, but now all the newbies who are a little bit more prominent and have a little talent are being fired at sky-high prices. He wants to buy them, but his pocket doesn't allow it.

As for opening a youth training camp to train players on his own, he had never thought about this before. Now he realizes that it will be at least two years before he can 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 terrible. And poor performance equals loss of income.

But because of the popularity of e-sports in recent years, the salaries of the star-level veteran players in the team have been rising 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 will grit his teeth and accept the loss. But the key is that after two years of hard work, it’s still unclear whether you can train new people to turn the tide in two years.

Even if you have a genius by the time you are trained, and others also have geniuses, it is still unknown whether they can achieve results. There is a saying 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 expenses and convincing everyone to tide over the difficulties together, 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 talking to people here to 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 out of loyalty. When one or two people leave the team, the others may not be able to stabilize their mentality and the team will definitely break up.

"Damn, you're so rich and you 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 with outstanding results in the industry. Seniors will basically have enough food and clothing for the rest of their lives as seniors.

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 random player who is the best player has an annual salary of millions.

Just when the two of them were complaining about how stupid these rich people were, 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.