Team Leader Su and Zhang Yuan were chatting in the hall while Huang Wang was showing the team around.
"This is the massage room. Someone will come here regularly for a full-body massage to prevent problems with the cervical and lumbar vertebrae.
"You can come to the rooftop occasionally to get some fresh air and drink some wine. However, we can't drink too much, just a little.
"This is our conference room, mainly for analyzing tactics …"
Huang Wang introduced casually. The members of the H4 Club were all envious and jealous.
What massage room? What the f * ck about drinking wine on the rooftop?!
We've never thought of such things!
Pang Ling stopped in front of the whiteboard in the conference room and became very interested in the training schedule on it.
"You wake up so early in the morning?
"You sleep so early at night?
"There are additional meals?
"Two hours of fitness every day?"
Pang Ling looked at Huang Wang and seemed to understand how the muscles on his body came about.
This training schedule completely subverted Pang Ling's understanding.
After strolling around the DGE Club, Pang Ling's competitive mentality had disappeared.
It was not because he had thought things through, but because he was so shocked that he could not compete anymore!
The only thing that made Pang Ling feel proud before was that the H4 Club was a veteran club with better conditions and more formal in all aspects.
Now that he saw the situation of the DGE Club, he instantly felt that the H4 Club was a third-rate club.
They even had a massage room and several additional meals every day to supplement nutrition!
It looked very formal at one glance. It was a training schedule made by a professional nutrition expert!
Pang Ling did not quite understand some of the details in this training schedule, such as why they had to work out for two hours every day.
However, there must be a very deep reason since it was a training schedule specially made by the H4 Club.
Pang Ling silently noted down this training schedule.
Thinking about it this way, it was not unjust to lose the mock competition previously.
We did not lose to talent, we lost to science!
"It's time to eat, the takeaway is here!" Zhang Yuan shouted downstairs.
Huang Wang had almost finished introducing the entire training base and immediately called everyone downstairs to eat.
Pang Ling heaved a sigh of relief and said silently in his heart. Fortunately, he managed to get back at them with food.
The H4 Club used to order takeout, but in the past two weeks, the boss felt that it was not good for the players' health to order takeout all the time, so he hired a cook.
On the other hand, the DGE Club seemed to be stuck at the stage of ordering takeout.
From the looks of it, it seemed like the H4 Club was a step ahead and had a slight advantage.
However, when Pang Ling went downstairs and saw the neat rows of food boxes in the dining room, as well as the exquisite, fragrant, and beautiful dishes in the boxes, he realized a problem.
It turned out that both of them ordered takeout, but the difference in delivery was actually so huge …
After a casual taste, Pang Ling felt that there was no need to compete in the mock competition in the afternoon.
After being beaten in all aspects, his mentality had completely collapsed!
…
…
July 23, Saturday.
GOG and IOI's competition would be held at the same time!
One of the two competition venues was in the east and the other in the west, separated by more than half an hour's drive. They were both rented medium-sized indoor venues.
Small venues were not grand enough, and large venues were not easy to rent. Moreover, the preparation time was too long, so both sides unanimously chose such a compromise plan.
Although the location was compromised, the money spent was not compromised at all.
Needless to say, the related facilities and publicity of the venue must have been spent a lot of money to make it beautiful.
Both sides were also spending a lot of money on publicity!
IOI, in particular, used the title of 'international invitational tournament' to advertise crazily in games, websites, and other channels. There were posters of domestic and foreign players everywhere, gaining a lot of attention.
Naturally, GOG could not make a fuss in this aspect because it did not have the gimmick of a domestic and foreign competition. It could only rely on its huge player base.
In short, both sides were fully prepared. It all depended on the results on the day of the competition.
At 1 PM, Pei Qian arrived at the competition venue for the IOI International Invitational Tournament on time.
According to the schedule, there would be four competitions today to determine the top four. Shang Yang Games was also very smart to arrange for each competition to be between domestic teams and foreign teams. Obviously, they wanted to throw out the concept of a domestic and foreign competition from the beginning to attract as many viewers as possible.
The tickets on both sides were sold very cheaply. It was no different from giving them away for free. After all, they were not thinking of making money at all. They were purely trying to fight for popularity.
Pei Qian also bought a ticket in the back row and came to supervise the competition.
As for GOG's movements, he could only use live-streams to observe.
This time, Tengda Games and Shang Yang Games arranged for live-streams at the same time. What's more, they gave enough publicity on the live-stream platforms to warm up.
The current live-stream industry was visibly becoming popular.
Two years ago, live-stream was still in the ascendant stage without much capital attention. Recently, the data of the live-stream industry was changing every day.
What's more, live-stream platforms had basically learned from Aili Island and developed bullet screen functions to further improve the viewing experience of live-streams.
At the moment, the two largest live-stream platforms in the country, ZZ Live-Stream and Waiwai Live-Stream, were already starting to smell like gunpowder. As more live-stream platforms entered the market, the smell of gunpowder would obviously become more intense.
Pei Qian also had the idea of burning money through live-streams, but he had to wait for the right time.
The main thing was that it was too early to enter the market. If he accidentally monopolized the market because of his first-mover advantage, wouldn't he be finished?
Thus, Pei Qian wanted to wait for the other live-stream platforms to develop first and let the bullets fly for a while. When this industry became a red sea and there was basically no profit to be made, he would then enter the market. Wouldn't he be able to make a loss then?
Pei Qian came at the right time. There were already many people at the venue. Basically, there were no empty seats.
That was for sure. If there were not enough seats, they would lose half of their momentum. Even if they hired actors, they had to fill up the seats.
Pei Qian opened the live-stream on his cell phone to check the difference in popularity between the two sides.
Hmm … it seemed like there was not much difference.
GOG's competition was obviously more popular, but IOI's popularity was not bad either.
Pei Qian was not sure if this popularity was fake by the platform. However, from the number of bullet screen comments, IOI's international invitational tournament was indeed watched by many people.
The 'competition between Chinese and foreign' was indeed a big attraction.
Hmm, it looked like the idea of organizing a competition was correct. There was hope for IOI to make a comeback!
Pei Qian could not help but feel a little smug. After all, he was the one who came up with this idea.
There were simple cosplay and song and dance performances at the opening ceremony. After that, the teams entered, introduced themselves, warmed up, and awkwardly chatted with the commentators. Then, the competition officially began.
The first segment was not too complicated because most people were here to watch the competition. The song and dance performances only needed to be slightly adjusted. Too much would cause a whole screen of question marks.
Soon, the Chinese and foreign teams started fighting. The two commentators were passionate and very professional. The audience was also very supportive, bursting into applause and cheers from time to time.
Pei Qian watched for a while and then quietly took out his cell phone.
The most awkward thing was that he could not understand it!
That was because he had not played IOI much, and IOI was releasing new heroes very quickly. Thus, he could not recognize more than half of the heroes in the competition.
At the same time, Pei Qian was very curious about GOG's situation. Thus, he secretly used his cell phone to check.
"I'm definitely not defecting to the enemy. My heart is still with IOI!
"I just want to see the tragic state of GOG's failure."
Pei Qian found GOG's live-stream on his cell phone and clicked in.
The first round of the competition on both sides had entered the most intense period. The situation was changing rapidly, and the bullet screen comments were very dense.
However, Pei Qian was shocked when he saw the bullet screen comments.
That's not right …
Why is everyone not discussing the competition itself? Why are they fanning the flames?
"GOG's competition is still more interesting. It's so exciting!"
"That's right. All kinds of operations, strategies, and teamwork are very integrated. It's completely different from high-end games. Is this the strength of a professional team?"
"It's much better than IOI. IOI is like a bunch of noobs fighting each other!"
"Their tactical standards are on a completely different level. I've also watched IOI's competition. It's said to be a competition between foreigners and foreigners, but in fact, it's no different from high-end passersby. It's like a sheet of loose sand."
"That's right. I think it's not as entertaining as Fish-Catching Internet Cafe's internet cafe competition! The opening battle of Fish-Catching Internet Cafe's Live Esports Museum was much more interesting than this competition! "
"Let's watch GOG. Noobs are fighting each other over there. It's boring."
Pei Qian felt that something was wrong. He quickly opened IOI's live-stream.
Although it was strange to watch a competition live, Pei Qian did not care about that.
However, the bullet screen comments here were not as good as GOG's live-stream.
"What are they playing … is that the standard of a foreign team?"
"Noobs are fighting each other."
"Are you guys playing in the silver-ranked promotion competition?"
"It's so boring. I'm leaving."
"That's it? That's it? That's it? That's it? "
"What are you guys talking about? I think it's very interesting. "
"Hehe, I feel bad for your inexperienced look. Come and watch GOG's competition. Let's see what a professional team is and what entertainment is!"
Pei Qian was furious.
Why were there so many people trying to incite a battle?!
Everyone, don't be bewitched!
However, when he returned to the live-stream website's room list, he saw that the popularity of both sides was rising!
GOG's audience was obviously increasing while IOI's was decreasing.
Pei Qian immediately panicked.
Everyone, don't be like this. This is only the first 'best-of-three' match on the first day. Keep watching before you run!
"I must hold on to IOI's position and not waver."
"Eh? A team from GOG chose Ruan and Modest? "
"No, I have to control myself. I'm on IOI's side!"
"I'll just take a look. It should be okay, right?"
"…"
"That's strange. Why do I feel that GOG's standard is higher, and the competition is more exciting …"
Still, Pei Qian could not help but start watching GOG's competition. As he watched, he found a problem.
Although most of the audience members were not of a high level, they could still easily tell whether the competition was a fight between noobs or a fight between deities.
GOG and IOI were the same type of games. Naturally, they could be compared.
Are the team members' basic skills solid?
Were there any exciting moves such as extreme counterattacks?
How were the team's tactics and overall synergy?
Were there many low-level mistakes?
Did the team battle look good?
From all these, one could see the difference in their competitive level.
Now, GOG's competition had completely surpassed IOI in terms of competition level and viewing value. What's more, GOG was more famous. Thus, many people changed sides halfway through the competition.
"What's going on?"
Pei Qian scratched his head, puzzled.
Logically speaking, the veteran clubs should have established GOG and IOI branches at about the same time, right?
Some clubs' IOI branches were even established earlier.
Why was there such a huge difference when they actually fought?
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