Ye Qiu, reborn as the King's Avatar, and his younger brother and sister-in-law Su Mucheng

Chapter 94 Wu Xuefeng, where is your captain? Is he too ugly to show his face?
July arrived quickly.

In this hot summer, the Glory League, eagerly anticipated by countless Glory players, has also begun with great enthusiasm.

On July 3rd, Honor finally made its debut in the opening match!
The first opening match was a derby between Happy and Excellent Era.

At 7 PM on July 3rd, both Team Happy and Team Excellent Era arrived at the Xiaoshan Gymnasium in Hangzhou.

Xiaoshan Gymnasium is very large and can accommodate tens of thousands of people to watch the game at the same time.

However, the development of the Glory League has only just begun. Even in a Glory representative city like Hangzhou, there has been nearly two years of experience in internet cafe challenge matches.

There weren't many spectators at the live match today.

Of the 30,000 seats, at least 80% were empty.

In other words, there were fewer than 6000 audience members present.

This is because both Team Happy and Team Excellent Era are based in Hangzhou, so today's match was a gathering of fans from both teams.

Although there were fewer than 6000 spectators, it was quite impressive for such a large audience in the early stages of Glory, especially for the first match.

At least for Happy, they are very satisfied.

Although esports competitions don't attract many viewers now, the ticket prices for Glory's regular season games can't be set too high.

But on average, a ticket costs about 100 yuan.

If each ticket costs 100 yuan, and there are 6000 tickets, that's a revenue of 60 yuan.

With 60 in ticket revenue from a single match, after deducting venue rental costs (10), league revenue sharing (20), and national taxes (10), Happy can still earn around 20 from hosting this match.

Since there were only 8 teams in the first season, each team will play four matches this season, two at home and two away.

In this way, Happy and the other seven teams will each have two home games, and they can win 14 games by the end of the regular season.

If you earn 20 in one match, then after 14 matches, you will earn 280 million.

Many people thought that an income of 280 million was a huge sum of money for Happy.

With annual ticket revenue of 280 million yuan, the monthly net profit is close to 23 yuan.

On average, each member of Team Happy can earn around 30,000 yuan.

Of course, that's not how money is calculated.

Because Team Happy needs to spend money to operate.

The rent for Xingxin Club is 500 million for 10 years, which is 50 per year.

So if we subtract 280 from the 50 million, then we are left with only 230 million.

Furthermore, Happy Club has more than just the team department; it also has security, a cafeteria, an online game department, an operations department, a training camp, and many other departments.

Team Happy is currently in its early stages and is still small in scale, with nearly 30 employees per team.

The operation and salaries of these departments all require expenses.

With 30 employees, and each employee earning an average of 3000 yuan, that's 9 yuan a month and 108 million yuan a year.

After deducting these amounts, Happy's account will only have a few hundred thousand left.

Then there are the expenses for so many people's food, accommodation, water, electricity, and property management. These expenses alone can amount to hundreds of thousands a year.

Not to mention that the team's account needs to craft equipment and purchase materials.

So despite the huge profits from ticket sales, Happy Entertainment actually loses nearly a million yuan a year.

Of course, this is just the regular season, not including the playoffs.

After all, the situation in the playoffs is still unknown, so there's no way to predict it yet.

But no matter what, Happy should not lose money.

I just don't know how much I can earn.

Ye Qiu and Chen Taohai roughly estimated that, given Glory's current situation, the club is unlikely to make money in its first year.

This is still Happy, a star team that has already made a name for itself in the Glory esports scene. If Happy can't even make money, how well can the other teams fare?

Therefore, both are difficult.

Every team faced difficulties in the early stages of Glory.

This is the fundamental reason why only eight teams registered for the first season.

That means the boss is unwilling to invest. After all, if you invest millions, you might end up losing money instead of making any profit at the end of the year.

Which boss would be willing to do such a losing business?

Without further ado, when the players from Team Happy and Team Excellent Era walked into the venue through the player entrance, the audience erupted in enthusiastic applause.

Although the scene looked empty, Su Muqiu and the others still felt very honored.

Wow! We're so popular now, so many people are welcoming us!

"Hehe, there are thousands of people here! We're big stars who can hold concerts for thousands of people now! I'm so excited!"

"Is that a welcome to you? No, it's a welcome to me! The greatest Ghost Swordsman player in Glory!"

Hearing Duan Fei and the others shouting excitedly, Ye Qiu looked down on them: "Look at you guys, so pathetic. If the venue is packed with tens of thousands of people watching the competition, you'll all faint."

Duan Lingxi chuckled: "Hehe, it's my first time playing for so many spectators, so it's understandable that I'm excited!"

At this moment, the members of Excellent Era also came to the center of the stage, and the two teams of players faced each other directly.

From Team Excellent Era's side, a young man with a hearty appearance walked out. He walked up to Ye Qiu, extended his hand, and said with a smile, "Team Leader Ye, it's been a long time! You seem to have grown quite a bit taller!"

The person speaking was Wu Xuefeng, the vice-captain of Team Excellent Era.

Ye Qiu and Wu Xuefeng had interacted several times before.

But the last time we met was during a challenge match at an internet cafe in Hangzhou, and it's been almost a year since then.

Ye Qiu has turned eighteen years old now, having gone from being seventeen last year.

As for his height, it has indeed increased from 169 cm to 174 cm.

Ye Qiu grew five or six centimeters in a year, but he felt that he could still grow taller, since boys can usually grow until they are around 20 years old.

"Long time no see, where's your captain? Why isn't he playing in the professional matches?" Ye Qiu glanced around the Excellent Era crowd but didn't see Ye Xiu.

Wu Xuefeng smiled slightly: "You should know about our captain's situation. He can't be there in person and can only play online."

"A professional match, you don't have to come to the venue?" Ye Qiu was a little stunned.

Are the rules of the Glory Alliance really that loose?
If you can participate in professional matches without being there in person, wouldn't that mean you can have someone else play for you?
But then I thought about it again, this is a professional competition, and those who can become professional players are the top players in Glory.

Since they are already top-tier players, whether or not someone uses a substitute player is actually meaningless.

Just like Ye Xiu's drunken slumber on the battlefield, looking across the entire Glory League, can you find another Battle Mage with staff techniques as powerful as Ye Xiu?
“The league doesn’t stipulate that players must be present at the event. After all, esports competitions are not about the players, but about the characters they control, right?” Wu Xuefeng said with a smile.

"How did he register as a professional player? Did he mail his ID card over?" Ye Qiu asked curiously.

"Well, I think I heard from our boss that our team captain is from Beijing, so when registering professional players, the boss just went to the captain and got his ID card, and then registered him."

"So this is ah."

Ye Qiu suddenly realized.

"I thought your captain was too ugly to show his face, but it turns out he's not in Hangzhou. It seems I misunderstood him." Ye Qiu turned to look at Su Muqiu, who shook her head slightly.

He had never taken Ye Qiu's earlier statement that Ye Xiu was an ugly monster seriously.

Everyone has two eyes and two nostrils, so how could someone be so ugly that they dare not show their face to others?

"See you on the field then."

"See you on the field!"

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