November 6th, Tuesday …
Shanghai, Long Yu Corporation.
Chrétien and Jin Yong were also busy preparing for IOI's global finals.
IOI's global finals might be held in Europe this time, but there was still a lot of work to be done in China. For example, the local server's operations, offline viewing activities, communicating with various live-stream platforms about the live-stream of the competition, and so on.
In comparison, they were actually more tired than Eric and Zhao Xuming.
That was because Zhao Xuming reported directly to Boss Pei. He could decide many things himself, saving a lot of inefficient communication time.
Chrétien and Jin Yong had to report to Finger Games, Long Yu Corporation, and even Dayak Corporation respectively. Many normal plans had to go through the process before they could be approved.
Some plans could only be handled safely, while others had to be completed as soon as possible.
At that moment, the two of them had just finished their work and had a chance to meet.
Chrétien asked, "Is there any new news from GOG?"
Jin Yong shook his head. "I haven't heard."
Chrétien sighed. "Boss Pei is really patient."
"It's already so late, but there's still no leaks. There's no news at all. I even heard that the broadcasting rights have not been finalized."
"I feel like there must be a conspiracy behind this."
Jin Yong comforted. "Not necessarily. Perhaps Boss Pei is too busy and did not have time to care about GOG's international invitational tournament."
Chrétien did not believe it at all. "That's impossible."
"Who can't handle it? It's impossible for Boss Pei to be busy."
"We can't underestimate Boss Pei under any circumstances. Otherwise, we will suffer the most serious consequences!"
"I'm 100% sure this time that Boss Pei is targeting us."
"We can tell from the timing of GOG's international invitational tournament …"
Last year, GOG's international invitational tournament and IOI's global finals were staggered.
GOG started in September and ended at the end of September; IOI started at the end of December and ended at the end of January.
There was a gap of nearly three months between these two large-scale competitions.
In fact, Finger Games had originally planned to organize the international competition around September or October. However, they had not considered making a big deal at that time. They had only wanted to find an ordinary venue to do it casually.
He had not expected GOG to make such a big fuss.
Thus, Finger Games overturned their original plan. After postponing it, they set the time at the end of December.
On one hand, they had more time to prepare so that they could make a bigger scene and overshadow GOG. On the other hand, they wanted to stagger the timing of GOG's international invitational tournament as much as possible to avoid the lingering heat and make a difference.
The facts proved that IOI's global finals had indeed achieved the expected popularity. However, most of the popularity was won by FV Team in the end …
But this year, the situation was different.
To Finger Games, it was a little too late for the global finals to be held at the end of December. It was already January next year. Which year was the global finals?
Therefore, this year's time had to be brought forward.
September, October, and November were the most suitable months, and the latest should not be the end of December.
They wanted to hurry, but there were still various regional competitions before the global finals.
GOG and IOI were in a similar situation. They had only started to expand to other regions in the world this year. Thus, the starting time for each competition zone was different.
Some of the competition zones started later. They couldn't cut the competition schedule in half, right?
It wouldn't be good to forcefully compress it either.
Thus, after considering the time of each competition zone, they finally set the global finals in November.
They would definitely have to work hard to move the time forward next year. It would be best to move it to around October.
What surprised Finger Games was that GOG's international invitational tournament had been delayed until this time!
On the surface, GOG had encountered the same problem. They had to wait for the competition schedule of the other competition zones.
However, Chrétien felt that things were definitely not that simple.
They had purposely scheduled the same time. They wanted IOI to die!
It looked like Boss Pei was very confident in GOG and his own international invitational tournament. He must have been preparing to do something.
Thus, Chrétien did not dare to delay and kept observing.
However, there did not seem to be any big movements over there after observing for a long time, especially the domestic business. It had been calm and peaceful.
From the news from the various live-stream platforms, they had not even finalized the sale of the broadcasting rights for GOG's international competition.
That was a little delusional. IOI had already negotiated the conditions with the various live-stream platforms after all and sold the broadcasting rights for the IOI World Competition.
What was Boss Pei waiting for?
Chrétien could not sleep or eat in peace if he could not figure this out.
He was the organizer of the international competition last year. Boss Pei's unpredictable methods still gave him a lingering fear when he thought about it.
He might not be the host of this year's international competition, but it reminded him of the fear of being suppressed by Boss Pei's overall intelligence.
Whenever he encountered something slightly abnormal, he would worry that Boss Pei was brewing some bad ideas.
Jin Yong's cell phone suddenly rang as the two of them chatted.
His expression changed slightly as he stood up and went outside to answer the call.
After a while, Jin Yong hurriedly returned.
"He's making a move, Boss Pei is making a move!"
"News from the live-stream platform said that Boss Zhao signed contracts with more than ten domestic live-stream platforms in one go from yesterday to today. All live-stream platforms, big and small, were included. Not a single one was left out!"
Chrétien frowned when he heard that.
Did you see that? This was Tengda's efficiency!
Even someone like Boss Zhao had become so efficient in Tengda. That was really surprising.
This also confirmed the thoughts of Chrétien and the others: Tengda had been dragging it out not because Boss Pei was too busy to take care of it, but because they were secretly brewing something and waiting for the right time!
Otherwise, they would not be so swift and decisive.
Jin Yong continued, "What's even scarier is that Tengda's contract conditions with these live-stream platforms are very strange. They allow these live-stream platforms to use the recommendation resources on the platform to convert the broadcasting rights fees!"
Chrétien was stunned. "That can happen?!"
He did not ask if the source of the news was accurate because there was a high chance that it was not wrong.
Long Yu Corporation still had a certain amount of influence in the country and had its own information channels. What's more, Tengda had signed with so many live-stream platforms with great fanfare this time. It could not keep it a secret, and obviously did not intend to keep it a secret.
Of course, the contents of the contract itself were confidential. Jin Yong and Chrétien could not see the specific details of the contract, but they could roughly understand the contents as long as they spoke.
Chrétien could not sit still anymore. He stood up and walked around twice.
"Boss Pei's move is as sinister as ever!"
"The consequences can be imagined. The other platforms will definitely throw most of their platform publicity resources to GOG. On the homepage of the various platforms, there will definitely be a huge difference in the space occupied by these two world competitions …"
"This is killing people!"
"The key is that we can't do anything."
"We have already signed the contracts with the various live-stream platforms. We have already agreed on the money. We did not mention the recommendation spots at all."
"I'm afraid it will be very difficult to supplement the agreement now."
Chrétien and Jin Yong were both helpless.
That was because IOI had signed with various live-stream platforms long ago. When they signed, they had not considered the recommendation spots at all.
The live-stream rights of these live-stream platforms were bought with money. They should at least give some recommendation spots, right? Otherwise, wouldn't they be spending money to buy loneliness?
There might be GOG's international invitational tournament but there were so many recommendation spots on the live-stream platform.
At that time, Chrétien had thought that with so many recommendation spots, it would be enough even if all the best ones were given to GOG and some second-rate ones were left for IOI.
Take the scrolling banner on the homepage for example. You might be in front and I would be slightly better, but overall, it would still be considered acceptable.
However, now that Boss Pei was doing this, it would not be a matter of one page for another.
At that time, the scrolling banner might be cancelled directly and all the promotional materials for GOG's international invitational tournament would be displayed!
After all, the greater the recommendation, the more money there would be.
These live-stream platforms might have also spent money to buy IOI's broadcasting rights, but they had already spent the money after all. How could they be like GOG, where they could still dig out more money?
Jin Yong said, "Boss Pei has obviously been waiting for us to sign the contracts with the other live-stream platforms and can't be changed anymore. Then, he will sign this contract with these platforms at lightning speed, directly blocking our way out!"
The two of them were speechless after analyzing for a while.
Chrétien probed. "Can we talk to these live-stream platforms? Doesn't Tengda's agreement with them not require a lot of recommendation spots? "
Jin Yong shook his head. "That's not enough."
There was indeed no mandatory requirement, but the number of recommendation spots was how much money they could exchange for. This was clearly marked.
Boss Pei would definitely not be stingy in this regard.
On the other hand, IOI had already signed the contract with the live-stream platform. Whether or not they gave recommendation spots would have a certain impact on the live-stream platform, but it could not be compared to real money no matter how one thought about it.
IOI could not possibly give money to the live-stream platform and ask them to give up on the money that Boss Pei had promised, right?
Who would pay for this?
Or Dayak Corporation? Would Long Yu Corporation?
It was unrealistic for anyone to pay for it!
The key was that IOI's broadcasting rights had already been sold. Would they have to spit out the money that they had obtained because of Boss Pei's actions?
They were probably thinking too much.
The key was that Eric and Jin Yong did not have the final say in this matter. What's more, they knew very well that even if they reported the situation and gave suggestions, it would most likely sink into the sea. The upper echelons would definitely not accept it.
It would be strange if the upper echelons could approve something that involved spending money.
Boss Pei's move had accurately hit IOI's Achilles heel!
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