NBA: Starting with $20 billion, buying the Knicks

Chapter 384 League of Legends S1 League: Where Dreams Begin (Happy New Year 2023!)
In the big balcony cafe on the top floor of Tomson Yipin, Dayao, who has settled his worries for the next two years, invites Jiang Chao to drink a cup of coffee at 1000 RMB.

"By the way, can I ask if Okur will stay in the team?"

The two stood on the highest point overlooking the city, and Yui Aragaki and Zhang Mingji secretly took pictures behind.

"You have to ask him this. I have the same attitude towards all players. If you want to play for the Knicks, I will try my best to stay. If you want to leave, I will not stay longer."

Jiang Chao took a sip, tsk tsk, it felt nothing special.

"Hey, it's a pity. This guy has fought against me for so many years and won the championship together. We both have feelings for each other." Okur is indeed Yao Ming's most affectionate player in the team besides the UAE.

"There is a time to get together and part, it's okay, just stay in the NBA, your era is not over yet."

"Thank you for respecting us old players so much."

"Brother, you are only in your early 30s, and you still have a long life to live."

"Haha, I will consult you if I don't understand anything about running the Demon City Shark in the future."

"You don't hate me? I, Su Jiangnan Steel, screwed you over."

"Haha, we have already had a championship in Shanghai, and you Sujiang had one last year, hehe."

"Okay, let's kill someone, right? Dayao, the verbal agreement can be voided!"

"Dayao is back!"

"The Great Wall will never fall!"

"I love you, Yao!"

"YAO!! Veteran basic salary, hard work!"

"grateful!"

In the super chat group, Curry and Harden posted their respective emoticons, and Dayao was very pleased to see it at home.

This is actually a recognition of his strength.

Who will welcome you to renew your contract if you are not a strong player? The NBA is a world where the weak prey on the strong. There are only 15 spots in a team. If you take the next spot, if it is not for strong support, teammates and fans will not be satisfied.

Now everyone's encouraging Xuanxuan's attitude proves that Dayao is really a hunk in their hearts, and being able to sign him is very important to the Knicks for the next season.

At this time, Jiang Chao and Yui Aragaki were at the Shanghai Pudong Airport.

Jiang Chao found that the few veterans who wanted to renew their contracts did not say much in the group, which shows that they are also struggling. Dayao's basic salary for veterans is a good start, but it also makes it difficult for other players...

Agents and Okur who have no serious injuries will not accept the basic salary of veterans, and David Lee is in his prime.

However, Yao Ming’s salary also leaves room for them. Now the Knicks have about 3 tens of millions of annual salary space, but if there are 4 players to divide it, there must be some champions who will fall behind...

Here, Jiang Chao gave Sean Marks an order to keep all of them, even if he paid the luxury tax, but the number of people could not exceed 15.

This is the philosophy of the boss. Max said that I understand that he will be the bad guy, because with this year's 2 rookies, the 15-man roster must be over.

"Boss, where are we going next?"

"Switzerland!"

Here, Jiang Chao no longer pays attention to things in the free market. Although the book giant was poached by the Nets and so on, it was a big shock in the Knicks circle, but he gave Yao Ming a reassurance by renewing his contract.

But now, it's time to help the eldest wife do a big thing!

League of Legends S1 has officially started. As the first company acquired by Chaoshen Group, it is also a game company. Jiang Chao is going to meet with the designers and managers of Riot Games for the first time.

In the eyes of Aragaki Yui and others, this seems to be a trivial matter. Is it necessary to go to Sweden for a game?
But Jiang Chao knows that this is the starting point of everything, and it is also the place where the dream of League of Legends begins.

Now it seems that League of Legends doesn't make much money, but after S1, League of Legends directly swept the entire global market!

After 1 days.

"Phreak's Basement!"

Liu Yan drove a small Beetle to pick up Jiang Chao, and excitedly introduced everything to him, and Jiang Chao also started his "game journey" with ease.

Years later, on the stage of the last League of Legends World Championship, everyone must recall the incredible summer of 2011 in a "basement" in Sweden.

The venue of the competition is set to be at the Elmia Convention and Exhibition Center in Jönköping, Sweden, from here kicked off the prelude to the League of Legends S1 Global Finals.

It was Jiang Chao himself who lit the torch. It was made in the shape of a League of Legends defense tower. Igniting him also means the official start of the League of Legends professional league!
"Welcome to League of Legends, Summoners!"

As soon as the familiar dubbing came out, Jiang Chao's scalp felt a little numb.

It's hard to believe that he has now bought Riot Games to launch the League of Legends league! !

The city of Jönköping was historically famous for its matchmaking.

This is a history of the development of the Jönköping match industry that was the epitome of the history of human manufacturing 200 years ago. Those who have witnessed the development of the League of Legends have a feeling of deja vu.

A total of 8 teams from Europe, M country, Philippine B and Singapore participated in S1, and the schedule lasted only a few days.

Why is there no Chinese team?
Because of the slow progress in the Chinese market after Tongxun withdrew its shares and was bought by Jiang Chao, the main reason is that no one is willing to invest, and Chaoshen Group can't build its own team, so it is still in the publicity stage, at least the national server is in the At the request of Jiang Chao, it was quickly built.

In this way, the LPL league will come a little faster. The more players there are, the more people want to play professionally.

Jiang Chao also let the flow take its course, because the capital will naturally swarm up when they smell the smell, and if he intervenes, it will be about 15 years, let the pig and dog team try, because the previous LPL actually won a championship during S5-S7 , especially for S5, it will be much better to take one than to take three later.

Because that was the peak era, and it belonged to the peak of players and professional players like Jiang Chao when he was still in college and watching games.

Later, winning the championship was actually just watching the game, and there were fewer and fewer people who actually played games and ranked.

But anyway, this game is sure to make money, and after Jiang Chao is on the scene, this professional game scene like an Internet cafe has become a hot-blooded scene, not only the game fans, but also the fans who came because of Jiang Chao and Liu Yan. Tickets are only 2 dollars, and there will be bursts of cheers for every kill.

In the first match in the history of the S game, aKa played against Epik. The well-known player "big brother" Doublelift played for Epik and chose Fengnv as a support.

Jiang Chao now understands why he is a living fossil of the League of Legends, this is the League of True Love, and he will start playing professionally from now on, cowhide!

In just 3 days of Jiang Chao's presence, the first-generation champion was produced, and the Fnatic team won the championship bonus of 50 US dollars.

It was 5 in the previous life, but since Jiang Chao came to do it, it was directly upgraded to 50! !

This will allow more powerful players to form teams to participate in S2, and it will also allow professional leagues in various countries to be established in full swing.

Different from the later S competitions, S1 was only used as part of the "DreamHack Summer 2011" exhibition activities, and due to the poor venue, European and American players joked that it was a finals held in the event commentary "Phreak's Basement". It was originally planned to be held at 10 p.m. The championship final ended at 2: p.m., because the competition lasted more than hours and was almost cut off by the convention center, which even provoked the staff of the convention center to get angry.

But Jiang Chao bought everything directly with money.

If you look at the venue of the entire S series, the scale of the competition, and the prize pool, S1 seems out of place, so later generations have the argument that "S1 doesn't count".

In fact, from another point of view, in fact, the contrast of S1 just confirms the incredible development history of the entire League of Legends event.

All the players, spectators, and staff who participated in S1 are undoubtedly lucky as the witnesses of this long memory, although at that time no one may realize that they are standing at the starting point of a period of history.

All of this is the only way to go. He watched the game, and the level of these players made him feel that he could go to him, so it was useless to force the standard to be raised. How many professional players started from such a small venue? So in the end, a little more bonus will do.

As for the environment of the first competition, he already felt that Liu Yan did it perfectly. The atmosphere is what he, a League of Legends player, loves.

And this S1 has set a bunch of records.

Because Jiang Chao called several League of Legends commentators he signed to explain online games.

Wang Duoduo, Xiao Cang, Jing Jing wryly smiled, and English-speaking Mao Mao, who were still in college, had explanations. Although there were no live broadcasts, many online fans became fans after being explained.

In sharp contrast to the offline arena, when the mobile Internet has not yet become popular, S1 has nearly 20 viewers watching the championship finals online at the same time, which almost paralyzed Justin.tv, the predecessor of Twitch.tv, the website that broadcast live games at that time.

This is what Jiang Chao wants to see.

"Thanks for your hard work, senior sister!" After the excitement, Liu Yan and the staff packed up the equipment and the stage together, and Jiang Chao was also carrying computers and other things beside him. It's quite novel, watching professional players play at a close distance, and at the end they even give out bonuses...

You can also use the VIP spray position to let the big brother quickly practice more aggressive style of play, and stop being obscene.

"You've worked so hard. For our League of Legends, you came directly to Sweden. Aren't you going to Xiangjiang to participate in the Golden Statue Awards?"

"Can that compare with this?"

Jiang Chao smiled.

"Then you're not leaving tonight?"

"Of course not, Sweden is so beautiful, I must spend a good night with you..."

……

The next day.

As Liu Yan and Liu Yan woke up warmly face to face, all the bad news came from their mobile phones. Since the S1 game held in Sweden was in the middle of the night, a bunch of children got up in the middle of the night to play on the computer to watch the live broadcast, and then they were caught. The parents reported it to the Internet Speech Office, and because of the large number, it reached Jiang Chao and Liu Yan directly.

"Hey~" Liu Yan tilted her head, her long flowing hair fell down, and while she was wearing her clothes, she reported to Jiang Chao what she didn't want to say to Jiang Chao.

"Sure enough, have you encountered any trouble in the Celestial Market?"

"It's the same as this time..." Liu Yan didn't bother to complain. To put it simply, for China, League of Legends and even all online games are dreams of "doing nothing".

Here, Ma Huateng also scored points. His games such as QQ Speed, Dungeon and Warriors, and Xuan Wu have indeed made young people too addicted.

The League of Legends is playing e-sports, and the main e-sports plan in the first year allowed them to apply for the national server so quickly. Otherwise, in the current era when the "Thunder King Yang Yongxin" is rampant, the League of Legends will have to go to the national server. Level after level.

What Liu Yan said awakened all the memories of Jiang Chao's previous life.

In 1, when S2011 was held, the domestic e-sports industry was still a fringe industry that wandered outside the mainstream values ​​of society. Under the public opinion at that time, professional players were more like a kind of extreme nonsense. This kind of industrial environment and social cognition It began to exist around 2000 when video games and the Internet became popular and has continued to ferment until now.

On May 2000, 5, Guangming Daily published an article "Computer Games: "Electronic DP" Aiming at Children" that left a strong mark on the entire game industry, and its social influence has not faded even 9 years later.

In June of the same year, the "game console sales ban" was introduced, and the game industry was completely marginalized from the policy level.

However, in this environment, the domestic e-sports industry is still beginning to take root. This phenomenon is essentially the 80s and 90s who grew up after the opening up. Under the background of economic globalization and the rapid development of the domestic economy, The inevitable result of the growing demand for spiritual and cultural life.

Liu Yan can see this very clearly, just like the TV set more than ten years ago, everyone will be as fascinated by playing games as watching TV in the future, this is just a substitute.

"Yes, but the parents don't listen, haha."

Liu Yan continued to report that while S1 was thriving in Sweden, domestic e-sports clubs and professional players struggled to survive under the multiple pressures of lack of funds and public opinion, but they still chose to establish or continue to build League of Legends teams. department.

Many professional players of other games also began to make a difficult transition to League of Legends. Although no one could predict whether it was right or wrong at the time, behind the choice to embark on this new journey is survival, love, dream, and adventure.

It is the difficult choices made by many people in this countless struggles and hesitation that make it possible for the development history of domestic League of Legends competitions and even the e-sports industry to become a history worthy of praise and nostalgia. Persistence in ideal feelings and adventurous spirit can open a new chapter in history at the fork in fate.

"Don't worry, soon!"

Jiang Chao is very confident in himself.

This time, it really didn’t take too long. The dawn of the industry came less than 1 days after S2 was held. Regardless of the amount of capital, they saw the future of this game, and the capital represented by Wang Sicong began to emerge one after another. approach.

Other clubs such as YY platform, Painxun e-sports, and even some Dota and Warcraft clubs have also formed League of Legends divisions.

They seem to be responding to Jiang Chao, who has contributed to China's e-sports, and said to him:
"We are here, we are here!"

spark,

Can start a prairie fire!

Unexpectedly, China's e-sports business will also be driven by Jiang Chao, the basketball boss! ! !
"Boss, the movie business needs you too!!!" While e-sports games headed by League of Legends fought back against the upsurge of parents, the organizing committee of the Golden Statue Award joked Jiang Chao on Weibo.

The Academy Awards will start soon, whether Jiang Chao can come is very important! !
(PS: Add a new chapter, I hope there will be a little more subscriptions in 2022.

There are still 20 minutes until 2023. Everyone has experienced too much this year. I wish you all a happy 2023 in advance! !Anything can be done! !All you want! ! !Let's make big money together! ! ! )
　Love you guys and happy new year! ! !
　　
　
(End of this chapter)