League of Legends: League of Unknowns

Chapter 492: Jackpot!!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

After such a big competition had ended, a Mundo frenzy was inexplicably set off across the nation.

Dr. Mundo was a champion that looked like some crazy lunatic, and when the entire Summoner’s Rift was gripped by this crazy being, the entire game seemed to transform into a mental hospital which gates couldn’t close and leaked out the atmosphere.

“The new champion, Team Skycrown, the former e-sports emperor rises once again!

“Team Skycrown, god-like Support, devil-like Top!”

“Last year banned, this year champions, Team Skycrown has once again made history in the LPL!”

Once they had won the championship, the internet media started their aggressive ‘bombing’.

The treatment before and after the competition was worlds apart, to the extent that Team Skycrown didn’t dare to believe it themselves.

They had won championships and glorious honors before, but those hadn’t been LOL. LOL was now really high profile, meaning the moment you won a championship, you would really feel like you were the most dazzling one in the world!!

“Oh, oh, Thunder Club, yes, I’m the manager of Team Skycrown. I see, you’re Jiang Long, the manager of Thunder Club…?” Meiqi sat in the bus which was returning to the hotel, talking on the phone non-stop.

“Thunder Club, wasn’t that the club that wanted to buy our team previously?” Lin Dong asked, suddenly remembering the details.

Meiqi glanced at Lin Dong out of the corner of her eyes and she placed her hand on the receiver part of the phone, ignoring the boring drabble from the other side as she asked in a quiet tone, “How much were they offering previously?”

“50,000 RMB.” Lin Dong said.

Meiqi cocked an eyebrow, a sly fox-like smirk forming on her lips, and went back to her call, “300,000 RMB is too little, at least 500,000 RMB. Think about it and once you’ve thought about it, give me a call again. I’ve got a call from SFYTQ’s manager right now to discuss sponsorship.”

“5-500,000!?”

Lin Dong was gaping after he heard that, his jaw almost hitting the ground!

Even with the LPL championship, the prize money was only 500,000 RMB, and adding on to the fact that they needed to deduct taxes, they were left with about 400,000 RMB. What was Meiqi discussing with Thunder Club until she could reach 500,000 RMB… you gotta understand that Thunder Club’s asking price last year was 50,000 RMB, even going as far as to say that there won’t be one cent extra!

“Meiqi, you accepted their deal? 500,000?” Luocheng wasn’t keen on joining any clubs and hurriedly asked Meiqi.

“No way, even if those guys offered me 10 times the amount, I wouldn’t agree to it. They want to collaborate. Aren’t you guys always at the Demacia Cafe streaming? They want to use the title of champion to advertise live on their platform. Basically, during our team’s usual ranked games or training, they want to stream it on their platform…They offered 300,000 RMB for this and I didn’t agree. It feels too cheap, plus, we don’t really have the interest or energy to do a live stream, so it’s best to find other buyers.” Meiqi explained.

Holy sh*t!!

The few people in the bus, including Jian Feng, all their jaws hit the ground!!

Sh*t, this was something that was previously not worth anything, and now, the asking price was 500,000 RMB for this!?

Why…why weren’t they grabbing it!?

Wait, this money was theirs!!

“Sis, asking for such a high price, will they buy it?”

In Lin Dong’s opinion, this type of thing was very valuable, and being able to sell it for 100,000 RMB was already nothing short of amazing. Selling for 500,000 RMB was practically highway robbery and Lin Dong had met the Thunder Club’s manager before. When he was displeased, the extra flesh on his face would wobble. Presumably the moment Meiqi had hung up the phone, his face would be jiggling a lot!!

“If they don’t buy it, there will be others. Don’t worry about it, the live broadcasting platform has a better circle than you think. What is important in this era? Network resources and network traffic, so if their platform receives high traffic, they can feed a large number of people accordingly. Pop up advertisements, game-related products, snack packagings, Taobao, commentaries, boosting accounts, you guys can’t even imagine all of this. We’re not a club and we don’t have a stable workshop to produce any of these items. Plus, you guys don’t like to deal with the commercial things and there are too many bothersome things anyway. Selling the license like this directly is best, and even if we raise the price a little, they would still make a lot of money off our fame which is their own issue.” Meiqi further elaborated.

Luocheng, Lin Dong, Da Luo, Zhou Yan and Wu Sen all had their mouths wide open, this really opened their eyes to how little they actually knew…

However, the one thing you could tell from the sparkling in their eyes was that if the deal went through…

500,000! 500,000 RMB!!

They had never seen such a huge amount of money in their entire life, how many BBQ buffets could 500,000 RMB buy!? Ugh, okay, that was not the point.

Also, they didn’t need to move out anymore, they could continue living in that big luxurious apartment!!

They had held back their desire to shop for anything in the past two years, and now, finally they could splurge on whatever they wanted to. They were once so poor to the extent that they didn’t buy any new clothes for the new year, even winter clothing cost about a few hundred each, how could they spend that much.

Now, the days would be different, hahaha!

In actuality, their initial decision to not join any club had been the correct decision. If they had joined a club, all this money wouldn’t even be distributed to them, all they would have gotten was the salary and prize money…

500,000 RMB, if they really thought about it, splitting it between the 7 of them also meant that one person would get about 70,000 each, that was awesome!

Not to mention, the prize money for the championship was also about 70,000 RMB per person, holy f*cking cow, they had hit the jackpot just like that!!

“This is only the beginning, there are still a lot of sponsors who are calling me. Wanting to hang a brand on our Team Skycrown will cost a lot of money. Anyway, it won’t take us long before there is the Worlds, so whatever sponsors like Wrangler or Thunder…hehe, even SFYTQ, all of them will actively look for us.” Meiqi smiled brightly as she said this.

The price of sponsorship will be extremely high, after all, the standards of the S International League is equivalent to that of the NBA already. An advertisement that would be seen by tens of millions of people around the world, do you feel throwing out a few hundred thousand would be enough!?

Luocheng, Da Luo, Zhou Yan and Lin Dong were all just greenhorns in this sense, it was impossible to have these kinds of benefits back when they were playing games. They were only playing for the sake of their goals and their enthusiasm and passion for e-sports. How could they imagine that once they won the championship, their income would be so high to this extent!?

They could never have dared to imagine, jackpot, it really was a jackpot!!

***

“F*cking b*stards, f*ck it all!” In the Sky Club office, Xu Pingyang threw the phone down onto the ground in anger.

“Boss, what’s wrong?”

“I already talked to SFYTQ before this, but now they’ve run off to make good with Team Skycrown instead, f*cking sh*t!!” Xu Pingyang was close to exploding!

Money, that bountiful money was f*cking gone!!

“SFYTQ’s manager has no brains, don’t they know investing in a team without a club is equivalent to wasting their money!? Idiots, f*cking idiots!!” Xu Pingyang screamed.

A team had to be reliant on a club, or there would be no sponsors.

The reason was simple. For the sponsors to sponsor a team, of course they hoped that the team would bring them a long-term advertisement effect to enhance their brand awareness and to enhance the popularity of their brand. If there were changes in the team members, when it disbanded after a defeat, internal conflicts which couldn’t be resolved, players retiring from the professional league or other variable factors which couldn’t be foreseen, the money they invested would just be a waste.

Yes, the threshold to enter the industry of e-sports seemed low as though anyone who wanted to join could just do so. However, in actuality, the threshold that they held was extremely high, and if you couldn’t pull off brilliant results in the competitions, they would definitely die off slowly…

Team Skycrown was not supported by any club, and the rumors that Team Sky had spread stated that they would disband, which was why no sponsors wanted to simply invest.

But now, Team Skycrown had won the championship and this championship was credible, because usually, a champion team that didn’t have the confidence nor perseverance wouldn’t have lasted without a club!

SFYTQ’s manager must have considered all these factors and had even included the risk of the team’s dissolution when offering the sponsorship…

Only, for SFYTQ’s manager to throw a vote for such a risky venture in a team with no club, this made a giant e-sports player like Xu Pingyang extremely pissed seeing as they had even negotiated the price already!!

“Hello, is this Mr Fang? Previously, your Thunder Club wanted to sponsor us…”

Xu Pingyang hadn’t even finished his sentence when the other side just mumbled that they had something urgent to do and hung up the call, which just added fuel to the fire on Xu Pingyang.

SFYTQ had been the first choice for their sponsor as they had a wealth of money. The second would have been Thunder. Although they gave a lot less compared to SFYTQ, Xu Pingyang hadn’t expected that even his backup option would not be available. When did Xu Pingyang start to get treated like this! Sky Club was a top e-sports club, and yet, these dogs weren’t choosing Sky Club but rather a team that was going to dissolve soon!

“Tonight, destroy that contract tonight! I want to let these crazy sponsors know how stupid it is to support a team with no club. I want them to come and beg me on their knees just to get a discussion with me!!” Xu Pingyang said as he grit his dirty yellow teeth.

“Boss, that’s not…really a good idea. Why don’t we wait a few days, I’ll get the keys somehow…”

“Just do it!” Xu Pingyang drew out a wad of bills, throwing it on the table.

Sun Liang saw the money and his eyes lit up.

This money looked like it was enough to cover his one month expense on his ‘entertainment’!

Thinking with his lower body, Sun Liang nodded his head.