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

Chapter 51 Welcome to NXG!

My finger hovers over the phone screen, staring at the top five trending topics in scarlet.

Jiang Ming was startled when he learned of the terrifying level of discussion surrounding NXG and the various outrageous articles that had made his eyes bulge.

After spending half an hour understanding the ins and outs of the matter, his mood was like a rollercoaster ride!
My first reaction was naturally to the fame of the NXG club. The attention that others worry about most when running an esports team is that they have become famous overnight, even before they have officially entered the professional league.

It can be said that with this influx of traffic, 70% of the development difficulties that NXG will face next have been resolved.

Sure enough, when you're riding the wave of the times, even if you're a pig, luck can make you soar to the sky.

For the first two weeks, I worked myself to the bone promoting and driving traffic in the live stream, even renaming the JM influencer store, which I had been running for a year, to the NXG esports team flagship store. But the results were incredibly slow, and I had to face ridicule from the audience from time to time.

In their view, Jiang Ming, a streamer who started out with pork floss cakes, wanting to join the professional league is tantamount to selling out his base and digging his own grave.

Were the NXG's performances really that bad back then?
Now, in another LPL preseason qualifier, Tencent's silent test broadcast was met with a brutal, human-machine showdown, coupled with netizens' "accidental" leaks of training volume.

In just one night, the team's popularity, which Jiang Ming might have needed a long time to accumulate, was pushed to a very high level.

The tides of the times are terrifying.

But precisely because of this, Jiang Ming felt a bit uneasy.

With a high starting point of attention, players' expectations for NXG will be infinitely raised. If they become lackluster after entering the LPL, or even just perform mediocrely, it will be a disaster for the team.

After all, what Chinese people are best at is elevating people or things to a pedestal, only to then drop them into the abyss.

A single sentence about a "water army" was enough to shatter all of Jiang Ming's preparations over the past year.

At that point, it will truly be an irreversible catastrophe.

However, NXG's sudden surge in popularity before the start of the LPL season is definitely more beneficial than harmful, as long as they manage the situation well and successfully capitalize on this windfall.

NXG's growth rate will then skyrocket to where it desires it.

"The impression of standardization was unexpectedly shaken off, making many things much easier from then on."

Scrolling through the forum, Jiang Ming noticed that one out of every four or five posts was related to their NXG. He knew he needed to act even faster.

……

NXG's performance was impeccable, winning the final server battle with a perfect record of six wins.

To celebrate the team's successful advancement to the LPL preseason, Jiang Ming immediately called Aunt Deng and asked her to buy some fresh mutton from the market so the team could have hot pot that evening.

Oh, don't ask why we didn't include beef, the soul of hot pot. It's just esports metaphysics; better safe than sorry.

Jiang Ming believes it is very necessary to make a good impression on his team members.

That means all NXG players are absolutely forbidden from eating beef while they are active in the league!!

"Alright, guys, let's pack our things and move."

Jiang Ming clapped his hands, drawing the attention of the team members who were still sitting in place.

In fact, the team's base was already renovated and ready for occupancy the day before yesterday.

However, considering that there was still one last match to be played and the network in the team's training room had not yet been tested for stability, they decided to move the equipment after the match was finished.

Pang Ran and the others looked at each other, and none of them stood up gracefully.

Having spent over three months in the NXG underground training room since September, despite constantly complaining about the basement environment, the young people suddenly felt a pang of reluctance when it came time to say goodbye and realize they could leave.

The pile of JM pork floss cake boxes in the corner suddenly looked somewhat comical; the packaging, printed with cartoon pandas, gleamed with a worn, oily sheen under the cold lights of the training room. It seemed to reflect the passage of time that had lingered in this room.

Jiang Ming did not urge him.

For them, this small basement is the place where the memories of these young people's e-sports dreams began.

Of course, it was also my initial starting point with NXG.

click!
Jiang Ming raised his phone and took a picture of the basement.

That summer, there was a fan, a dimly lit basement, and six computers salvaged from a closed-down internet cafe!
The young men didn't have much stuff. Each of them actually only had two or three sets of faded clothes to change into. Song Yuan, who had the most shoes, was only wearing one pair on his body, and had two more pairs in his suitcase.

"Driver, to Qixia District."

For NXG's relocation, Jiang Ming asked Lin Jingyi to find a van to help, while the club's base vehicle had already been purchased through someone.

However, the part involving the club logo is still being processed at the factory and will not be delivered until next week.

Saying goodbye to the NXG basement I've spent months in!
Ten minutes passed.

Inside the van, the few boys, whose frustration had mostly dissipated, began to get excited, their eyes filled with anticipation for their future team base.

"Hey, tell me, what's our team's base like?"

"I heard it's three stories high. Does that mean we don't have to train in the basement anymore?"

"I just hope that our team dormitory can have a separate place to shower."

"Hehe, Sister Lin said we also upgraded to a computer with higher specs. I wonder if it will be easy to use. Ideally, it would be a gaming chair with a massage function."

As the van bumped slightly as it went over speed bumps, Pang Ran joked, "It even has a massage function, huh? Just make sure the chair is soft, not as hard as a tiger bench."

"I just want my computer monitor to work properly. The one I was given before refreshed like a PowerPoint presentation."

During this time, the NXG members all knew that their team's base was under renovation, but their leader was being very secretive and wouldn't give them any specific details about what it would look like. Plus, no one had the guts to ask. Now that they were about to see its true appearance, they couldn't help but be excited.

The jungler, Stone, who had been silent all along, suddenly spoke up, "I just want to know what the hot pot Auntie is making tonight will taste like."

"Slurp... Damn, now that you mention it, I'm really looking forward to it too."

"I'm going to eat three big bowls tonight."

"Three bowls of rice are not enough. I can eat ten bowls."

"Get out of the way, watch me gulp down this hot pot broth in one go."

Listening to their increasingly outrageous discussion, Jiang Ming, sitting in the passenger seat, couldn't help but chuckle.

Outside the car window, as the shadows of the plane trees on Qixia Road began to dapple, the spring breeze seemed to carry the smell of paint from afar.

Jiang Ming turned around and said, "We've arrived!"

"Wow!"

A chorus of exclamations erupted from the back seat.

"Welcome to……"

"NXG Esports Club!"

(End of this chapter)