Chapter 148: Pie or Trap
Soon, the "Benyue Cup First Huaxia College Student E-sports Invitational" became a hot topic on the Internet.
This is another influential e-sports event in the industry in addition to the WCG world-class e-sports event sponsored by Samsung. Since this competition adopts an invitation system, several top teams across the country have signed up for the competition, and everyone is ready to show their style in Pingjing.
At this time, e-sports was not very popular, and there were not many decent events. It was possible to have a national competition platform like the "Benyue Cup". The e-sports circle was still very concerned, and many people were very excited.
Su Xiaoxiao had already figured out this point.
Only invitational tournaments will attract a lot of attention and traffic in a short period of time. Because these teams are very well-known in a small range, and have a group of core fans, they will bring their own attention and traffic. Moreover, for their own publicity, they will use their own resources to promote spontaneously. At the same time, the e-sports teams do not have any appearance fees at this time, as long as they provide basic travel and accommodation fees.
But Su Xiaoxiao still set a championship bonus of 100,000 yuan, which was already a sky-high price in this era.
For a time, at the largest Dogpu Forum in China, this e-sports invitational tournament became the hottest post, and the moment it was posted became an absolute hot topic. People left messages saying, "I also said where to go for this National Day. Now, I understand, I'm going to Pingjing to watch the competition!"
"It seems that our students who are left behind in Pingjing know what to do."
"I just want to watch ACEP team play interstellar, everything else is secondary."
There are various discussions on the Dogpu Forum, but it basically has nothing to do with winning or losing. The discussions are about going to Pingjing to watch the competition on National Day, or envious of college students in Pingjing.
Su Xiaoxiao can understand that now everyone is mainly watching the fun, but some fashionable and avant-garde young talents follow the trend and are far less than the unprecedented popularity of the e-sports industry in more than ten years later. At that time, the number of viewers in an e-sports game even exceeded that of the NBA and some World Cup games.
The market still needs to be cultivated slowly, and he is still very clear about this. However, since he has been reborn, what he has to do is to make arrangements and enter the industry in advance, dominate the industry, avoid detours, and make up for the regret of missing out on the big cake of the e-sports industry because he is too old.
Thinking of this, Su Xiaoxiao looked at the famous e-sports forum Mastergame. In the forum, everyone has already started to discuss this invitational tournament.
These discussions seem more professional. They carefully analyzed which two teams would meet, who would win, and who would lose. Some people even discussed the influence of off-field factors and started to gossip.
Obviously, everyone is more optimistic about the last WCG Star Champion Eagles, but some people believe that the ACEP team may become the biggest dark horse.
"Because I've watched their games over the past six months, I found that their tactics are more advanced, and they often have some tricks, and their awareness is also good."
No one pays attention to a small club like them in Pengcheng.
Su Xiaoxiao didn't care too much.
Before 4 pm, the sales department felt the benefits of cooperation with Su Xiaoxiao. Agents in various cities in the southern region also asked to host landing activities, and the phone number of the two sales bosses was about to be blew up.
Benyue Computer has become a hot topic in the media again. People are waiting to watch the competition. Before this has started, they have already received such great attention, not to mention the forums of various college students, especially on chinaren, the Benyue Cup e-sports invitational tournament was also very popular.
People in the industry forum also began to discuss: What tricks are Benyue playing this time? What is e-sports for?
It seems that the opening ceremony of this Dingsheng Festival has already begun, and the relevant popularity has already risen.
Even on the internal forum in Benyue Company, people were discussing it.
"Who can win? Is it ACEP or the Eagle?"
"Will these teams participate in WCG competitions in the future?"
"Why is there no red alert?"
Everyone's discussions are different, but they are all the same grand occasion.
Seeing these Su Xiaoxiao was also very excited. He never thought that he could return to this era and watch himself build an industry. He couldn't help but stretch and smiled with satisfaction.
At this moment, the phone suddenly rang. He took a look and found that it was a company soldier from Huhai Group.
I don’t know what he was looking for him, but I thought it was strange last time, but Su Xiaoxiao still picked it up.
He first said politely: "Hello, Mr. Lian."
"Hello, Mr. Su." Lian Bing's voice was so polite that Su Xiaoxiao often felt very weird. After all, a company as big as Huhai Group, with a dignified assistant to the president and senior vice president, is it necessary to be so polite to himself, a young manager?
I couldn't figure it out, but I was still very polite and said, "Mr. Lian, you said."
"Mr. Su, did you hold an event for the Benyue E-sports Invitational?"
"yes!"
After hearing Lian Bing say this, Su Xiaoxiao was stunned and thought to himself that he had just started an event. Is Huhai interested again? Just as he was thinking, Lian Bing indeed said: "Mr. Su, I want to consult, are you recruiting event sponsors? Our Huhai Group is willing to pay a certain amount of advertising fees for this."
After he said this, Su Xiaoxiao suddenly felt confused when he covered his face.
It’s not that this event is not worth sponsoring, but I just think it’s a bit abnormal to Huhai give sponsorship like this.
The next moment, he said tactfully: "Mr. Lian, this invitational tournament was hosted by Benyue, so it is called Benyue Cup. The purpose is mainly to promote our brand image store, so from the perspective of the company, there is indeed no need to accept sponsorship. If other manufacturers come in, it will weaken the overall effect of our plan..."
Immediately hearing Su Xiaoxiao's concerns, Lian Bing hurriedly said, "Mr. Su misunderstood. We will not affect Benyue's overall brand promotion. You only need to mention our Huhai Group in the trophy or promotion. As for the on-site competition, I hope there will be two teams we sponsored to participate. The ranking doesn't matter, and the rest can be ignored."
He said, Su Xiaoxiao listened.
The two sponsor teams entered the finals, and it was not difficult to operate in the future. However, such conditions are still a bit rare now, and I always feel that Huhai Group has other plans.
I had to ask: "How much do you plan to sponsor?"
"Six hundred thousand."
"How many?" Su Xiaoxiao thought he had heard it wrong, so he repeated the number.
I imagine that this was in 2001, an e-sports competition, with a sponsorship fee of 600,000 yuan, and there were no unreasonable requirements. This was simply exaggerated, and he really couldn't understand it and said, "Mr. Lian, do you have any other requirements?"
"There is only the last requirement. After Pingjing, another invitational competition will be held in Jianghai. The rest of the conditions do not matter. You can talk about it. In short, as long as you are willing, our Huhai Group will immediately transfer the money to the account to promote this cooperation between us. What do you think?"
“…”
Hearing Lian Bing's decisive tone, Su Xiaoxiao always felt something was strange about Huhai Group. No investment institution was rushing to sponsor an immature e-sports event. The business had nothing to do with it. Is Huhai Group's vision as long as it is? No, how could there be so many reborn people?
Based on the principle that something abnormal will happen, Su Xiaoxiao said directly: "Mr. Lian, I'm afraid I think this is inappropriate. We just want to be Pingjing's stop."
"It doesn't matter. Jiang Hai can do other stations in the future. I will give you 100,000 yuan per station."
“…”
"Mr. Lian, why are you so anxious to pay?"
"It's not that we are in a hurry to give money, but we are very optimistic about the e-sports industry you mentioned, and we believe that this industry is more suitable for landing in rivers and seas in the future, so we must make arrangements in advance. Of course, we also have personal optimism about you, so we have carefully studied your article."
"Don't worry, how can you give money to harm people?" Lian Bing said at last.
Su Xiaoxiao thought and thought about it, and was convinced that he had no reason to be harmed by Huhai Group, and it would not affect Benyue's computer.
Finally, Su Xiaoxiao said: "Since Mr. Lian is like this, I think we can go in two steps. Our company's internal magazine has been converted and has regular issue numbers. This competition is an exclusive cooperative paper media. A special issue will be published to report it. This time you can participate in it by placing special advertisements first, and the Jianghai competition will be natural in the future."
As he said, Lian Bing immediately said: "No problem, but we have a condition. All participating teams need to stay in our newly opened hotel in Xiguan Village, Pingjing. We can provide it and offset part of the sponsorship fee, which can also save you some money."
"No problem." Su Xiaoxiao said.
The two chatted for a while, finally confirmed the advertising fee and hung up the phone later.
No matter how Su Xiaoxiao thought about it, he felt that this was a bit weird, because he always felt that it was strange to pay on his own initiative.
So when he and Wang Mingming talked about this matter and said that they had already brought sponsorship to the company, Wang Mingming was completely stunned. Although hundreds of thousands of dollars are not much for a magazine, it is the first issue after all, and there is such a large group to invest in advertising, the future is unimaginable.
I learned again that they were going to sponsor the e-sports competition that Su Xiaoxiao was going to do on the National Day.
Wang Mingming sent a message: "Brother, your little sister Han Lu, will come to work tomorrow, don't worry."
"Han Lu?"
Seeing this name, Su Xiaoxiao was stunned, but then he remembered that it was Han Dahai's sister.
He sent a message and said, "Okay, I understand."
"Don't forget to give us some advice, brother, I'm..."
"Don't worry." Su Xiaoxiao replied last time. He didn't think much about it, but only instructed Wang Mingming: "You must review the contract when the legal affairs officers are asked to do so. You must never have any problems with this, and you must let the other party pay first!"
"Okay, don't worry, brother, I'll apply to the company to get you a commission."
Wang Mingming said excitedly, but he didn't expect that he would get income as soon as the version was revised. Wang Mingming's mind was still buzzing until the end of the chat...
On the other side, Su Xiaoxiao didn't think much about it and continued to work again.
After a while, Bai Jie sent a message: "What happened just now? Xiaoxiao, I see you have always been surprised."
"No, a company wants to sponsor our event, and finally became the advertising sponsor of our magazine. The reason why I was surprised was that they didn't need to do this was a little abnormal." Su Xiaoxiao said, and explained again: "But now I figured it out, why bother? As long as they control the contract, what can they cheat?"
Looking at the message he sent, Bai Jie felt something was wrong.
So he asked again: "Huhai Group?"
"Hey, how did you know?" Su Xiaoxiao asked casually.
He didn't expect that Bai Jie's sense of smell was still very sensitive, and he didn't notice Bai Jie's frowning expression.
After a while, he asked again: "What's wrong? Dear Teacher Bai, is there any problem?"
"No, no." Bai Jie replied.
She knew in her heart what was going on, but she didn't know why she came to Su Xiaoxiao.
It seems that my father has really reached the point of getting close to him. Did they see the relationship between him and Xiaoxiao? For a moment, Bai Jie sighed helplessly. In fact, she has feelings for her father, and her father is also for her. Even her mother admits that her father is impeccable in treating her daughter. But... she is just known by her mother what to do?
She didn't want her mother to be sad. She originally wanted to say to Su Xiaoxiao, maybe you shouldn't accept this sponsorship.
But he still said to Su Xiaoxiao: "Well, Xiao, it's good. This will make the e-sports event more successful and also give the internal magazine a good start..."
Although she thought it was normal, Su Xiaoxiao still realized something was wrong and asked, "Why do I feel that you are not very happy? You said it, if you don't have to, I will just push this cooperation."
"No! Xiao, this is your critical moment. I will support you no matter what, as long as you are good to you."
"But you don't seem to be happy!"
"Do you know if I'm happy?" Bai Jie asked, then smiled awkwardly at Su Xiaoxiao.
Su Xiaoxiao always felt that there was something wrong, but she couldn't find anything. There was no problem. Even if there was a problem, she didn't want to say it, so she didn't force it.
When he got off work in the evening, he was about to leave when Wang Mingming sent a message: "Brother, the cooperation has been confirmed, they have already come to me. When the legal department of the contract saw it, he said it was quite fair. You must have a share of the money! You are really undecided to choose your ability! Let me tell you the truth, I think you did the right thing this time."
"Hey... I didn't take it to heart at all... What a big deal!"
"I just like a hint of calmness like you. Anyway, thank you, when you have time, I will ask you to drink with me."
"One word is determined..."
Chapter completed!