League of Legends: Reborn in Season 3, Tuning the Entire League

Chapter 147 NXG White Team vs. Black Team!
It wasn't until Jiang Ming left that the other athletes in the room, who were engrossed in their training, finally realized what was happening.

"Brother Long, what's going on?" Xiao Duan suddenly stopped taking off his headphones, his gaze sweeping across the silent training room. Some people were at a loss, while others were gloating. In the corner, a few busybodies were peeking out of the corner of their eyes, and the manager's expression seemed somewhat angry.

Zhu Xiaolong shook his head, signaling Xiao Duan not to meddle. "Continue training. We must meet the basic skills requirements today, otherwise if we lose more points, we may not be able to stay."

Failing to meet KPIs for two consecutive days will definitely put additional pressure on everyone, affecting their personal state and emotions. Those two probably didn't manage their emotions well...

"Mhm!" Xiao Duan nodded repeatedly and sat back down in his seat.

"You two, follow me."

Mo Ziye calmed himself down and looked at the two culprits in front of him, speaking in a deep voice.

Then he turned to look at the others in the room, his tone languid: "What, have you all completed your tasks?"

Swish!Swish!Swish!
The young onlookers, who were usually eager for a good show, suddenly scattered like a set of memes, their once unanimous gazes vanishing instantly. Some went to the restroom, others pretended to drink water and gulped it down, while still others buried their heads in front of their computer monitors, afraid of being noticed by the manager.

Mo Ziye walked ahead with a sullen face, while Mala Xiangguo and Death Declaration followed behind with their heads hanging low. On the first floor of the youth training camp, a small room was reserved for receiving guests, but it could also temporarily serve as a mediation room, as was the case now.

The two boys, who had just been arguing so fiercely that their faces were red and they were almost about to fight, were clutching the hem of their clothes, looking like high school students who had been caught by the teacher in the office. Even their usually arrogant punk hairstyles were half-droopy.

Well, at sixteen or seventeen years old, he is indeed a high school student in school.

Thinking of this, Mo Ziye's tense jawline finally relaxed a bit. He didn't need to argue with two immature teenagers.

It is true that players come to NXG eSports Club to compete for positions, but their special status as youth training trainees gives them the dual attributes of professional players and reserve talents.

The youth training camp has the dual mission of training and selection, which prevents him from firing employees indiscriminately like a regular company.

While thinking this way, they still had to put on a good show.

Mo Ziye casually took out a brand-new NXG Club trial agreement from the shelf by the entrance.

"You've all signed the trial training agreement, and I gave a comprehensive explanation of its contents and requirements on the first day. Would you like me to read it to you again?"

The two remained silent, fully embodying the survival tactics they learned from being caught in the teacher's office during their student days. They stood rooted to the spot like two withered trees struck by lightning, more focused than they had ever been during training exercises.

"Tch, do you think this is a teacher's office at school?"

"Or should we consider this a safe zone where we can counter-attack under the tower?"

With his exceptional professional knowledge, Mo Ziye instantly understood what the two were thinking. He chuckled and said, "Now, I'll talk and you listen. Whether you answer or not is your business. Of course, if you don't answer, how to handle it is my business."

"Manager, I was wrong. I shouldn't have impulsively thought of fighting with my teammates."

"I was wrong too; I shouldn't have mocked my teammates during the game."

The death declaration came first, followed by the death declaration. After understanding the subtext in Mo Ziye's words, they quickly broke their silence.

"You can punish me however you want, just don't fire me."

"..."

"Stop. I didn't bring you here to hear you admit your mistakes. Besides, you don't realize your mistakes now, you're just scared."

It's good that they still know fear; fear proves that they still care about this identity.

Without scolding or lecturing, Mo Ziye did not use a single one of the educational methods that the two of them had experienced from teachers and parents during their student days.

The club naturally has contingency plans in place to deal with the emotional fluctuations of youth training players. In other words, the various pressure training sessions during trials are designed to consciously bring out this situation in advance.

Early detection and early treatment!

As a professional sports management graduate, Mo Ziye is familiar with the "prevention-intervention-improvement" three-level system that national sports teams usually use for emotional management of young athletes.

For example, even if the conflict between the two people in front of us is resolved, they still have a "criminal record," so preventive mechanisms such as subsequent psychological testing and mindfulness training should naturally be implemented on them first.

Prevention alone is not enough. In addition, it is necessary to set up a dedicated venting room, equipped with equipment such as punching bags and venting balls, and combine it with professional guidance to intervene in the abnormal emotions of athletes in a timely manner.

Esports players face numerous defeats in competitions, and the psychological pressure they experience is reflected in reality in ways that go beyond just being easily angered or irritable.

……

While Mo Ziye was busy disciplining Death Declaration and the other two, Jiang Ming was also busy on the other side.

He was discussing with his senior, who had come to the club's computer expert, about creating a mini-program that could access the official API interface to scrape ranked data, hero win rates, and players' frequently used heroes from various League of Legends servers.

While other teams are frantically imitating and learning from NXG's first-tier tactical concepts, he certainly won't stand still.

Recruiting data analysts and building a data analysis team naturally became a priority.

Player individual data reports, from basic ability analysis, hero pool and areas of expertise, mistakes and risks, to team tactical analysis reports, tactical execution efficiency, vision data, these are all indispensable in the standardized youth training path. Not to mention that the data analysis team can also study opponent information, various lane assignments, tactics, draft picks, and even player activity heatmaps.

In his view, a mature team of analysts is just as effective as an excellent coach.

After the All-Star Game ended, Jiang Ming immediately redeemed the support promised by the official organization and used it for this purpose, although the premise was that it had to be done under the supervision of Tencent and the LPL league.

“The program setup isn’t difficult.” Wang Fei listened to Jiang Ming’s instructions while taking notes on the computer.

"But even if this data is extracted, it will still need to be organized by professionals, right? People who don't understand this stuff will be confused just by looking at it."

Standing behind Jiang Ming, Lin Jingyi said, "That's why we asked you to keep an eye out for any friends in the math department who are interested in e-sports."

"Alright, alright, you guys are going to fleece the school until they're bald."

After spending several months together and getting to know each other better, Wang Fei changed from his initial reserved demeanor and would occasionally crack some harmless jokes.

Jiang Ming shrugged. "Is it possible that I'm helping my alma mater improve its employment rate?"

"Also, could you make me a little game that can train hand speed and players' mentality? I'll pay you the market price."

In addition to theoretical guidance and traditional improvement methods, we must not overlook the high-tech means available in the information age for athlete development.

“Mini-games are easy to set up. If you want to improve your hand speed, something like the bullet hell scoring system from Touhou Project will do. As for mindset-related games… Lao Jiang, just like before, write down the specific requirements for me.” “Have you played I Wanna?” Jiang Ming already had a choice, uttering the name of a game.

Wang Fei turned around and glanced at Jiang Ming sideways. "Are you questioning my years of experience surfing the internet?"

"But I Wanna's fifty levels probably aren't enough for your long-term training."

So what does it mean to be a computer emperor? This is what it means to be an emperor.

Without hesitation or doubt, Wang Fei wasn't concerned about whether the players would be driven to a mental breakdown by this frustrating game; his first thought was that there weren't enough levels.

"Okay, so please add it to around 100 levels first, and the difficulty of subsequent levels can be increased appropriately."

i Wanna is a series of original, challenging games developed and published by Jesper Erlandsen, released on November 2, 2010.

However, due to its extremely difficult difficulty and the design that is designed to torment players' mentality, the game's popularity has always been limited to a very small range. Apart from video creators who need to create some fun, or players with a slightly twisted personality, very few people can accept it. The level of inhuman difficulty of "Play a Hammer" that was popularized by streamers in the original timeline is just a little brother compared to i Wanna.

But that only applies to players experiencing the game. For Jiang Ming, who needs to strengthen the mentality of his players and train club managers, it's a wonderful opportunity.

Jiang Ming and Wang Fei talked about the details for more than an hour.

As evening approached, Jiang Ming turned to Lin Jingyi and said, "Come on, dinner's on me, at the NXG cafeteria!"

Lin Jingyi crossed her arms, her clothes creating a striking curve, and glared at the stingy Jiang with annoyance. "The number of people who want to treat me to a meal could stretch from the gate of our university to the train station, but you're just dealing with me in the cafeteria all day long."

"Are you going or not, my dear Lin, the head housekeeper?"

"go with!"

……

In the end, the auntie helped bring their meals to the office, and they chatted about business developments while eating.

“Our investment in the club is getting bigger and bigger. The income from the three online stores can barely break even. Although the daily sales of the “JM Food Time” offline store are not bad, it will take time to recoup the costs. I am worried about the financial problems if we expand to a second store so quickly.”

Lin Jingyi skillfully placed a piece of braised pork into Jiang Ming's bowl and spoke frankly.

The expansion of the youth training base, the food, clothing, accommodation and transportation of more than 20 youth trainees, and the increased salaries of the staff serving them all require money.

If it weren't for the millions of dollars in sponsorship from several businesses, they wouldn't have been able to operate their online store at its current scale with such limited funds.

On paper, NXG is a bottomless pit of money.

However, Lin Jingyi herself is also clear that everything they have now relies on e-sports traffic as their foundation, which is something they absolutely cannot give up.

"There's no way around it. These things all require massive upfront investment. If you're slow, you won't even get a taste of the benefits later."

"We still need to keep the physical stores open. We should take advantage of the All-Star traffic. If we don't have enough funds, we can recruit franchisees. The key is to get the stores open first."

Snack brands will be the goose that lays the golden eggs in the future. They won't rely on offline stores to make money. But only when "JM Food" has more and more offline stores will the brand value continue to increase and people will buy into it.

In contrast, with an esports audience as his core base, he faced far fewer difficulties in the early stages of his brand's development compared to most of his peers.

"We don't need to recruit franchisees. After our offline stores opened, quite a few people from the same school contacted me through their mentors, wanting to use our brand."

"That's a good feeling."

Jiang Ming then explained the operational philosophy of the snack brand to Lin Jingyi, "Our ultimate goal is not to be the owner of offline physical stores, but to be the brand owner of a snack chain brand, and an upstream supplier, understand?"

"However, quality control must be done well. You can put your own brand on the shelves, but the products in the store must meet our standards and be sourced from manufacturers with quality assurance."

"Understood!" Lin Jingyi carefully digested the key points.

"There's one more thing. Our sponsors, Three Squirrels and Panpan, want to renew their contracts early. How should we respond?"

After witnessing the frenzy of the e-sports audience at the All-Star Game in Shanghai, several snack manufacturers had mixed feelings.

On one hand, there's the excitement: hundreds of thousands in sponsorship fees a year, providing exposure comparable to traditional sports, and all of it perfectly aligned with the market—more effective than a hundred commercials on a TV channel. On the other hand, there's the frustration and regret: the contract with NXG was only for one year, and judging by the current trend, this golden goose is likely to transform into a phoenix next year.

At that point, it won't be a question of whether the sponsorship fee will increase or not; whether Jiang Ming and his NXG will still have advertising space available for them will be another matter entirely.

They don't want to, and can't afford, sponsoring leagues on a large scale; the only thing they can secure is esports teams.

"Early renewal is not an option. The price changes every year, and our club's sponsorship fee for next season will be much higher. Of course, we can offer a priority clause, since he is our major sponsor. Please be careful with your wording when you communicate with him."

Lin Jingyi nodded in understanding.

To reassure his partner, Jiang Ming explained, "Don't worry about the money in the club's youth training program. We'll invite any qualified players to come for trials, and we'll also recruit a few more staff members to get the training program up and running."

"The more people the better. LPL is about to launch a secondary league, and with the terrifying traffic of the All-Stars, there must be a lot of people who want to enter esports. After all, forming a team requires players, right? With so many high-quality players here, are they going to temporarily scout out players from random games, or would it be better for them to buy them from us?"

"At that time, not only the players, but also the staff in our youth training system will be a great asset."

"By the way, have the two teams we're preparing for the second-tier league registered yet?"

"It's settled. The names will be the same as the main team names: NXG.W and NXG.B!"

White Team vs. Black Team!
When it comes to the trading participants, Jiang Ming, as a conscientious seller, naturally considered how to demonstrate to buyers that his goods were of high quality and reasonably priced.

By tightening their belts in the early stages, they created two second-tier teams that swept through the secondary leagues, ensuring that any investors looking to enter the market wouldn't be misled.

He didn't even need to wait for the secondary league; his original plan was to select a few talented players to train and then compete for a spot in the LPL Summer Split.

Think about it: first, NXG's main team swept through the LPL for three rounds without a single defeat; then, the team leader trained three star players to transform them; and now even their second team has made it into the LPL.

What is this called? This is what you call a golden brand.

Anything made by NXG is guaranteed to be of high quality!

(End of this chapter)