Occupation? I won’t even hit a dog!

From the perspective of the EDG club, they certainly do not want Ye Tian to help other LPL teams play games, but compared with Ye Tian helping other LPL teams play games, having a falling out with Ye Tian will have a greater negative impact on the EDG club.

Therefore, Abu and the factory manager both analyzed the situation from a perspective favorable to Ye Tian and put the choice entirely in Ye Tian's hands.

FPX asked A Guang to come over, hoping to play the emotional card with Ye Tian.

However, A Guang was not only very grateful for following Ye Tian to become a world champion, he also followed Ye Tian to gain a lot of popularity during the live broadcast. He also put Ye Tian's interests first and directly revealed the bottom price of FPX.

——Thirty-five million.

This price cannot be said to be less.

The benefits that a world champion can bring are limited.

In the S7 season, EDG won its first championship in the Bird's Nest. In the S8 season, EDG and IG met in Incheon and turned the Munhak Gymnasium into the home court of LPL. These two encouraging events did not bring much profit, only slightly better than the original balance of income and expenditure.

The FunPlus gaming company behind FPX is indeed large and powerful. During the transfer period last year, it hired Doinb from RW with an annual salary of tens of millions. The problem is that being large and powerful means having a strict review system. It is not that they can pay as much as they want, but it depends on whether the head office approves it.

What's more, almost half of the updates made in S8 and S9 were aimed at Ye Tian, ​​the Tongtian generation.

From reducing the top laner's split-pushing ability to making teleport irrevocable, and then to the rework of Kayle and the strengthening of Gangplank's Vampire, development-type heroes have become popular. From a theoretical perspective, Ye Tian has been restricted to the lowest point.

In addition, the strength of FPX's current team is already very outstanding. The old GimGoon is not as good as the young ones in the fighting version, but is firmly in the forefront of T1 in this development and team fighting version. In addition, FPX itself has a special tactical system with mid-jungle supporting the rhythm. Inviting Ye Tian to the team is just an extra insurance, and it may not be used.

In addition to the above.

FPX has another idea that is not suitable to be said out loud, but everyone knows it tacitly.

——In the S7 season, Faker failed to win three consecutive championships, which became a lifelong regret; if Ye Tian, ​​who was only one step away from three consecutive championships, missed this world championship, he would probably be like Faker and never have the possibility of winning three consecutive championships.

Rather than saying that FPX asked Ye Tian to help win the championship, it would be more accurate to say that FPX gave Ye Tian an opportunity to make history.

think about it.

Apart from FPX, what other teams does Ye Tian choose?
Will the top three teams in LCK hire foreign players? Or will IG, whose mid laners, junglers and supports have declined significantly, be able to challenge for the championship? Or will someone really regard the European and American rookies who have not won anything for many years and finally won the MSI as the favorites to win the championship?
"Thirty-five million..."

"FPX wants to achieve mutual benefit with Ye Tian."

Abu previously said that he "supports Ye Tian to go to Europe", which meant to encourage EDG. After hearing FPX's offer, he was really dissatisfied.

It's all very nice of you to say.

It secretly pointed out that FPX intended to control Ye Tian just like FNC did last year.

“Mutual benefit is good too.”

Ye Tian responded casually, and did not pass out the Little Phoenix like he did with FNC.

According to the original version trajectory, FPX will definitely be the strongest team in the S9 finals. Even if LPL's two consecutive championships bring about a butterfly effect, the variables will not be particularly large.

The reason is very simple.

Between restricting the LPL region and restricting Ye Tian, ​​Riot designers will choose the latter without hesitation. The more severely the offensive top laner is restricted, the better the performance of Old GimGoon in pressure resistance + development + team battles will be.

If the top laner cannot stand out in the mid-game, the role that an alternative warrior-style mid laner like Doinb can play will definitely be better than that of a traditional mage.

With Kai Langtian, LWX at his peak, and Liu Qingsong, whose personal ability is at the forefront of the support, there are at most one or two teams capable of competing with FPX.

After saying what needed to be said, everyone went back to their homes.

Not long after, Ye Tian received an offer from IG Club.

Compared with FPX, IG seemed to be much more sincere. The principal personally found Ye Tian and offered him a monthly training fee of 50 million, and would sign the contract as long as IG got a place in the World Championship.

TES offered 42 million, which is somewhere in between the two, but I don’t know how this offer with both decimals and integers was negotiated.

With such a big move, naturally countless rumors spread.

[FPX gave too little. EDG's 30 million last year was due to cooperation with Tian Ge, and many endorsements were negotiated with the help of EDG. FPX has nothing to do with Tian Ge, but only gave 35 million? ]

[The principal is willing to spend money and directly achieve half of the small goal]

[IG is not in good shape this year, Tian Ge probably can't go. They won three consecutive championships this year, and they can make tens of millions by just taking on an endorsement. They really don't lack the extra money given by the principal.]

[Don’t even mention endorsements, the share of the champion skin can reach tens of millions]

[It's not about the amount of money. Isn't the price FPX gave the same as FNC last year? They are sure that Tian Ge has no team to go to and deliberately lower the price. Isn't it intentional to disgust people? ]

[Do you understand that business is business? Do you have to give away the cost that can be saved? 】

[This is the first time I see someone say 35 million is too little. Kang Kang will never see that much money in his life]

[FPX has won for the whole year, so it doesn't matter whether they win the championship or not. For a club, internal battles are always more important than external battles. EDG has performed poorly in every previous world championship, but it is still the most popular. Without this championship, Tian Ge may not have a second chance to win three consecutive championships.]

[So what if Tian Ge doesn’t play in the World Championship this year? He is still the world’s number one player]

[IG, FPX, Tian Ge and EDG have a contract. EDG won't let him go, and FPX's 300 million is useless]

[EDG dare not let go? They can't enter the world championship, but they are still dragging their feet and not letting Tiange go to the world championship. Can they survive in the LPL in the future? ]

The discussion in the forum is in full swing.

There are obviously many internet trolls trying to lead the trend. Even if they cannot destroy the cooperation between Ye Tian and FPX, they still want to disgust Ye Tian with public opinion.

It would be even more comfortable if I could destroy the cooperation between Ye Tian and FPX.

As the only club that cannot ask Ye Tian for "substitute training", Ye Tian not going to the World Championship is the biggest benefit to RNG. Therefore, RNG and the water army company controlled by UZI have started to work hard to stir up trouble in major player gathering places.

The LPL has just been noisy for a few days, and another big news came out.

——The G2 team sent an invitation poster to Ye Tian.

The poster was released simultaneously on Twitter and Weibo. In the center of the poster was a photo of Ye Tian wearing a G2 uniform, with Chinese words "Sincerely invite Brother Tian to join the G2 Club" written below, and a paragraph "Come to G2! Really! OK!" with three consecutive exclamation marks.

"G2 invites Ye Tian?" "No, absolutely not!"

Jin Yibo, the person in charge of Tencent, looked at the information submitted by his employees and frowned: "G2 is very strong this year. The reason they beat SKT in a full BO5 was not because of opportunism, but because of their hard power. FPX's sincerity is not enough. Ye Tianzhen may go to G2 to play in the World Championship."

"Not really." The old employee next to him scratched his bald head: "G2 should be the whole thing, they have been doing this for a long time. Ye Tian is our LPL player, there is no way he would help Europe win the championship."

"If Ye Tian doesn't have this idea, why hasn't he negotiated with EDG to terminate the contract?" Jin Yibo had a backup of the contract on his desk. "As long as they haven't terminated the contract, it means Ye Tian has the idea of ​​going to other regions, and EDG is willing to be a shield... LPL gives them so many privileges, but they only think about their own interests. No, I have to contact Ye Tian."

talking.

Jin Yibo found Ye Tian's phone number and called him: "Hello Ye Tian, ​​I'm Jin Yibo."

"Hello." Ye Tian responded lazily while basking in the sun on the balcony.

"That's right." Jin Yibo got straight to the point: "G2 sent out a poster today inviting you, Ye Tian, ​​to join. To be honest, I don't recommend you to go to G2 to play in the World Championship. FPX's dominance in the summer season is no worse than G2, and you should be more capable of winning the championship than G2. Moreover, your roots are in the LPL, and you and the LPL have a relationship of prosperity and decline together."

As Ye Tian listened to Jin Yibo's words, the corners of his mouth slowly curved upwards.

The first half of the sentence is not wrong, and it is even a bit conservative - the overall strength of the LPL region is higher than that of LCS.EU. FPX treats other LPL teams as robots, which is more valuable than G2 treating other LCS.EU teams as robots.

The second half of the sentence is nonsense.

We will rise and fall together with LPL?
joke.

Which star player doesn’t have his own traffic independent of the LPL region?
Essentially, it is the LPL that needs star players, not the star players that need the LPL platform. For traffic considerations, the LPL will even try its best to push clubs to "rehire" retired star players.

Jin Yibo's unreasonable remarks were actually a warning, telling Ye Tian that if he did anything that 'harmed' the LPL region, he would lose the official publicity and even be suppressed.

There is the simplest and most straightforward first meaning, the slightly confusing second meaning, and the deeply hidden third meaning.

Not bad.

not bad.

"Mr. Jin Yibo."

Ye Tian said more seriously: "I have a question that I am curious about. Could you please answer it for me? Are you representing an individual, or Teng Jing Company?"

"Individual, only personal." Jin Yibo's voice became serious.

"That's good. I will seriously consider your 'personal' suggestion." Ye Tian emphasized the key words and hung up the phone.

Turn the chair around.

Pick up the teacup on the table.

Sitting opposite was a bearded white man in a suit and tie. He was none other than Carlos, the owner of G2 who was traveling in China.

"Mr. Carlos, try this."

Ye Tian made a gesture of invitation: "This is Longjing before the rain, one of the most famous green teas. It is absolutely indispensable when talking about Chinese tea culture."

"Good! Very good!" G2 boss Carlos held the teacup and drank it in one gulp, looking exactly like Zhu Bajie eating the ginseng fruit.

The translator next to him almost burst out laughing, but he managed to hold it back by biting his tongue.

“When drinking tea, you should hold the cup with three fingers and sip it in three sips.”

Ye Tian gave a brief introduction: "The first sip is to test the temperature of the tea, the second sip is to smell the tea fragrance, and the third sip is to taste the tea flavor. Only in this way can you fully experience the essence of tea culture. These three sips are also a process of feeling, tasting, and thinking. It is a reflection of an attitude towards life and self-cultivation."

"Oh——" Carlos tried it as Ye Tian said, showing a comfortable expression: "So that's how it is. I said that no matter how I drank it before, it felt wrong. It turns out that the characteristic products of each region must be combined with cultural heritage, just like the optimism of our G2 club."

"Mr. Carlos is very confident." Ye Tian knew what the other party meant.

"Of course I am confident." Carlos sat up straight. "Tian, ​​have you ever wondered about this question? There are so many big-name football and basketball stars who don't lack money at all, so why do they insist on getting paid so much? As long as the salary doesn't meet the standard, they won't go even if there is a better team."

"I haven't thought about it before. After hearing you say that, I'm really curious." Ye Tian waited for what to say.

"Status." Carlos said succinctly: "Salary, or more precisely, worth, is both the club's recognition of the star player and the star player's face and status. Winning a championship is important, but a pay cut means a lower status in the circle. At the same time, worth will directly affect the income from advertising endorsements. If your worth is not high enough, sponsors will naturally not pay more."

There are champions every year.

Even in a small-scale 5v5 team competition like League of Legends, there are five players who win the most prestigious S series championship every year. From the S1 season to the present, including substitutes, there have been as many as 49 players who have won championships.

How many of these 49 people’s IDs do the audience still remember?
There is a player who did not win the S series championship, but he is a household name in the entire League of Legends player community. In addition to the fact that this player has indeed made many outstanding performances, his income in the professional circle cannot be ignored.

A maximum salary that is far higher than everyone else's is bound to cause discussion. Regardless of whether the player deserves it or not, it is one of the hottest topics.

"FPX only offered 35 million."

"Too little."

G2 boss Carlos said: "EDG paid you million to play in the game, which means they value your relationship. FPX paid you million to play in the game because they think you are only worth this much money and that you will compromise for the third consecutive championship and give up the subsequent income of hundreds of millions. Unless you continue to maintain the explosive carry data, even if you can win the third championship in FPX, your value will be greatly reduced, and it is even better not to participate in this World Championship."

"In this environment where the top laner is mainly focused on development, will FPX provide you with a stage to perform?"

"I don't think so."

"FPX has been working together with the mid-jungle and support throughout the year, winning games by using four-man coverage. Your joining just makes them more confident about the top lane, and there is an extra carry point to support them when others fail to execute their tactics. It is impossible for them to hand the ball completely to you."

Before heading to the Big Sky Campus, Carlos brought together the team manager, coach, and analyst and did a ton of homework, making sure every word hit the key points.

"Thirty-five million?"

Carlos repeated it a second time in a mocking tone: "Last year, FNC also paid 35 million. Tian, ​​you followed EDG into the World Championship and slapped FNC's face three times, which was very satisfying to watch. This year, you used the same method to beat FPX, and the effect was much better than last year's beating of FNC!"

"Mr. Carlos, what you said makes sense, and I agree with it." Ye Tian said halfway, and then made a change of direction: "But I am a player from LPL after all, and I have a very close cooperation with EDG. Going to play for a European team..."

"I need to pay extra?" Carlos said in fluent Chinese. (End of this chapter)