Friday afternoon.

Pei Qian is in the office checking the latest report submitted by Yangyang Games.

This weekend, the ioi qualifying tournament and the gpl preseason will start at the same time, which coincides with the timing.

Needless to say about the GPL pre-season, from the time the news was released to the official start now, players have been paying close attention to it and can hardly wait.

In addition to the fixed share reserved for the company, the tickets for the GPL preseason games have already been sold out. Audiences who have not grabbed the tickets can only watch it on the live broadcast platform, or go to Moyu Internet Cafe to feel the atmosphere.

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The Longyu Group also spent a lot of resources to promote the ioi qualifying competition, including the ioi national server official website, some video game websites, clubs and self-media and other channels.

During the promotion process, Longyu Group bundled the ioi qualifying tournament with several established clubs and the ioi World Championship, and the publicity effect was pretty good.

On the one hand, words like "challenging the top of the world" sound relatively high-end. On the other hand, several established clubs such as SUG are well-known and are familiar faces to e-sports enthusiasts, which has objectively improved their performance.

The value and recognition of this qualifying competition.

Longyu Group’s promotion was later than that of FV Club, but it obviously spent much more money than FV Club.

FV Club spent 3 million in publicity funds. Based on this standard, the Longyu Group's publicity funds must be at least 10 million.

Pei Qian didn't know whether it was specifically because the promotion of FV Club stimulated the Longyu Group, or whether it was because the Longyu Group itself had already made a publicity plan, but it was just two days late.

But this is not important. Anyway, now that the ioi qualifying competition has attracted attention, it will not be robbed of all the popularity by the gpl pre-season like before. This is a good thing for Pei Qian.

Pei Qian looked at the time. It was now four o'clock in the afternoon. It was almost time to get off work and welcome the wonderful weekend.

He turned off the report on Yangyang Games, turned off the computer, and prepared to go home and sleep happily.

Just then, there was a knock on the door outside the office.

“Tuk-tuk-tuk.”

Pei Qian was stunned for a moment, why would anyone come to report on work on Friday afternoon?

"Please come in."

As soon as Pei Qian finished speaking, Tang Yishu opened the door and entered.

She looked a little tired, she must have just rushed back to Jingzhou from the imperial capital and came here immediately.

"Senior, tomorrow is a day off. I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to make it in time, so I came directly to report." Tang Yishu's chest rose and fell slightly, apparently she had jogged for a while on the road.

Pei Qian poured a cup of tea: "Don't worry, it's not a particularly important matter. It doesn't matter if we talk about it on Monday. Come, have some tea."

Tang Yishu took a few sips from the tea cup and began to talk about her experiences in the imperial capital.

"Senior, at the incubation base, those independent games have quite a lot of bugs, and their completion looks very poor. However, their work efficiency is pretty good. I have followed what you said and mandated that they must play 10 games a week.

Hours of game.”

"I, I didn't see anything at the cold noodle girl's place. Everything seemed to be good, the decoration and service were good, and the business was booming. But when I went there, there was a small problem in the kitchen and the food was served slowly.

A little more."

"Oh, and I happened to meet some people when I went there. The boss of the cold noodle girl seemed to be introducing them, but I, I didn't hear clearly what he introduced."

Tang Yishu followed Pei Qian's instructions before going and observed the incubation base and the Cold Noodle Girl's store from her own perspective. Then, while trying to remember, she introduced the details she noticed to Pei Qian.

Pei Qian touched his chin and frowned slightly.

The things Xiao Tang reported were a mixed blessing for him.

There are a lot of bugs in the incubation base? Well, this is to be expected. Independent games already have a lot of bugs, and with Xiao Tang’s aura, just fixing bugs can make these independent game producers miserable.

In this way, bugs will greatly affect their energy, and the progress of game development will definitely be greatly slowed down. This is good news.

These producers are very efficient at work, which is not a good phenomenon, but forcing them to play games for ten hours a week should distract them from developing games just like bugs.

In other words, there are only some minor problems at the incubation base, which are within my expectation and have been generally alleviated.

But for the cold-faced girl, the situation is not very optimistic.

As an ordinary consumer, Tang Yishu found nothing wrong with the dining environment, service attitude, food taste, etc. This shows that Meng Chang has done a good job!

If a fast food brand can achieve this level, it is actually enough.

Just like those large chain fast food brands, their food is indeed more delicious, but if you want to say it is particularly delicious? That is not the case.

The essence of fast food lies in fast food and standardized processes, which ensure that the taste and quality of all meals are maintained at a high level as fast as possible.

According to Tang Yishu, judging from the standards of a fast food, the cold noodle girl definitely passed the test.

The only problem may be the speed of serving food, but this is probably due to the influence of Xiao Tang, not the fault of the cold noodle girl's back cook.

Even Mr. Li's Mingfu family banquet can't stand it, let alone an ordinary fast food restaurant like Cold Noodle Girl.

By the time Xiao Tang leaves the store, everything should be back to normal.

Doesn’t this mean that... cold noodle girls basically have no flaws in the eyes of ordinary consumers?

Decent food and service, coupled with Meng Chang's incredible marketing capabilities, plus a steady stream of funds from Dream Ventures...

Sooner or later something will happen to this project!

Even if the store does not make money, with Meng Chang's active financing, the valuation of Cold Noodle Girl will inevitably skyrocket, and Yuanmeng Venture Capital has many shares of Cold Noodle Girl, which is equivalent to holding a hot potato, and

The longer you hold it, the hotter it gets!

Xiao Tang also said that Meng Chang was receiving some guests and introducing them to various details about the cold-faced girl.

Who are these people? If they were ordinary friends, would Meng Chang personally receive them in the store and introduce them?

Mostly investors!

The cold noodle girl's store is running well, and Meng Chang is very articulate. I'm afraid it will be a matter of time before other investors are tricked into entering the business.

The valuation of the cold-faced girl will definitely increase for a while!

After making this inference, Pei Qian suddenly realized that the situation seemed to be much more dangerous than he imagined.

Of course, Pei Qian couldn't be sure whether the cold-faced girl would become popular, but considering his own character, he didn't dare to take this risk.

It seems that you need to be mentally prepared in advance to leave the market and stop making profits.

It's just that under the current situation, it's probably very difficult to sell the 8 million that was spent at a low price. We can only make some reluctantly and cut off the meat as soon as possible.

Take it down again and earn more.

Pei Qian silently wrote down this matter and planned to go to He Desheng next week and ask him to find a suitable time to sell all the shares of Lengmian Girl so that he could no longer hold them.

After asking a few more detailed questions, Pei Qian became more convinced of his opinion.

"You have worked hard these two days. There will be no regular student meeting tomorrow. You can go back and have a good rest and review."

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December 10, Saturday.

Gog's GPL pre-season and ioi's qualifying rounds start at the same time!

Although they start at the same time, the schedules of both sides are very different.

The GPL preseason will last until the end of the month, so only two to three bo3s are scheduled every day. The games start at 1 o'clock in the afternoon and last until around 9 o'clock in the evening.

The ioi qualifying competition is different, because there are few participating teams, and it is basically a formality. The places for the World Championship must be determined quickly, so the schedule is very intensive.

There were games all day long on Saturday and Sunday, from morning to evening. The entire qualifying round was completed in two days to determine the three places for the World Championship.

This seemingly unscientific schedule was specially arranged by Zhao Xuming of Longyu Group, mainly based on the following considerations.

First of all, it has a certain drainage effect.

Compared with the GPL pre-season, although the start time is the same day, the ioi qualifying competition starts in the morning. Many players who are waiting to watch the gpl have nothing to do in the morning and will definitely come to watch the ioi qualifying competition. Objectively, it has achieved the goal of attracting traffic.

Purpose.

The second step is to find time for each team to prepare for the World Championships.

Zhao Xuming has received internal information from Chretien. The World Championship will use a new version to play the game, and make appropriate adjustments to the gameplay to show the new look of ioi.

At present, the new version of ioi has gradually gained recognition from some players around the world, and Zhitou Company has found through internal research that the new version will indeed speed up the pace of the game, strengthen confrontation, and thus enhance the enjoyment of the game.

Therefore, using the new version in the World Championship can show the interesting features of the new version of ioi to those "stubborn" old players, and can also better attract new players.

However, version changes have a great impact on each team, so Zhao Xuming hopes that the qualifying rounds will be completed as soon as possible, so that the three teams participating in the World Championship can start training on the new version of ioi as soon as possible.

The last thing is to seize the time and go through the motions to prevent accidents from happening.

E-sports is different from traditional competitive events. The strength gap between teams is not that big. In many cases, if the game version changes slightly, the strength comparison of the teams will be reversed.

If the time is extended, it cannot be ruled out that some teams will use competition as a substitute for training, and the more they play, the better.

Zhao Xuming hopes that these three old clubs will qualify, so he naturally wants to avoid this situation as much as possible.

The schedule is compressed and all games are played within two days. Weak teams cannot use games as training, and the results will be even less suspenseful.

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Zhao Xuming was backstage in the studio, supervising the battle on the spot.
To be continued...