458: Landing in Cologne
During this period, Gu Feng and his team did not forget to maintain their most basic feel, and they entered the perfect ladder competition and began to control thunder and lightning.
Speaking of the perfect ladder competition, Gu Feng received his first sponsorship fee after he controlled LVG during this period.
This money is officially given by the Perfect World Battle Platform. The requirements on the other side are quite simple. The first is to put the name and logo of the Perfect World Battle Platform on the cuff of the lvg team uniform. The second is to use the portrait of the lvg player and the team logo of the lvg on the Perfect Platform. The third is that everyone in lvg must play the game on the Perfect Platform when playing the game live.
Among these requirements, the first one is the other party's main purpose, and the second and the third ones are included.
Because they also know that their platform does not have the best combat power. Even if Gu Feng and his team play their own platform during live broadcast, they are just entertainment. If they really want to play technical games, they still have to go to faceit abroad. The perfect official just doesn't want Gu Feng and the others to play games on the enemy platform.
The two requirements combined with Perfect at that time, the price of Perfect was 120,000 yuan a year, which was very sincere. After all, Perfect's official requirements were not very high, and it was easy to achieve.
However, just when Gu Feng thought that as long as both parties agreed, he could end comfortably, why did he show his role as a professional team manager? He went to negotiate with the perfect official and pushed the price of this contract to 180,000 yuan for a year. The additional condition was that in addition to the perfect official logo on the cuffs of the LVG team uniform, there would be perfect official logos on the front chest and back.
Gu Feng made a profit alone with this sponsorship fee... I'm sorry to forget that Gu Feng has no shares.
Gu Yu alone earned 1260,000 yuan, but after deducting taxes and other things, you will not get more than 100,000 yuan. Moreover, Gu Yu should not take out this money, but will be reserved for the club to use, which is a disguised investment.
In addition to perfection, there are also many domestic brand owners who come to LVG to ask for sponsorship. The sponsors of big brands include Mercedes-Benz, and the smaller ones also have some domestic peripheral brands, such as Daeryou, AOC, etc.
Why did I ask Gu Feng’s opinion about this? Gu Feng has no taboos in this regard. As long as it does not affect the players’ normal training, try to take as much as you can.
Although Liu Kun and his team started their professional team mainly because of their dreams, Cs was in a slump and Cs team appeared.
I feel that since I have this ability and economic strength, I have the CS team.
But after the team really got together, a professional team invested more than they thought. Now that they have been able to end their hardships and have finally ended their hardships. Liu Kun and the others definitely hope to see money appear after a comeback.
Gu Feng let Liu Kun and the others make some money, and the most important thing here is that Gu Yu can make a lot of money, which is enough.
After the sponsorship, Gu Feng's life returned to peace. During the holidays, Gu Feng and their teammates played games in the club and started a live broadcast every day.
The number of viewers in the live broadcast room that he had let him ignore had exceeded 1 million unknowingly. And with Gu Feng's stable live broadcast, the number of attention in his live broadcast room is growing at a visible rate. Basically, Gu Feng only needs to live broadcast, and it is normal for him to increase the number of attention by 10,000 a day.
However, the rest time is always short, and soon Gu Feng and his friends spent their holidays in such a comfortable rhythm, and lvg began to train intensively on a daily basis.
The team's daily training subjects were formulated by Gu Feng and Watim before the start of the IEM Dallas game. Now they don't have to decide what again. Just start practicing according to the rules set before.
In terms of tactical play, lvg now follows the tactics of raising a father with Gu Feng as the main output, which is somewhat similar to Avangar where Jame was in charge.
However, unlike avangar, Gu Feng does not need to eat as much team resources as Jame.
If you try a place, you can consume 10 resources in the jame of Avangar, and most of the time you can play a role of 7-8 points. This investment and profit ratio is extremely terrifying and efficient in the general professional team.
But Gu Feng is different. He invests 10 points of resources. Most of the time he can play 11 points, and sometimes he can play 12-13 points when he is in a good mood. This is definitely the only one among the professional players in CSSGO.
At that time, the avangar was able to reach the second place with four tools with the sniper of the jame, so it is very exciting to see where the current avangar enhanced version finally goes.
Although Jame's playing style has been thoroughly studied, there is a very obvious difference between Gu Feng's lvg and avangar, that is, in addition to Gu Feng's Dinghai Sword Needle, there are two solid firepower output points, Kuang Ge and Bubzkji.
It can be said that as long as Gu Feng doesn't play, the firepower intensity of the LVG team can basically rank among the top three in the current CSSGO professional team.
During the twenty days since the start of the IEM Cologne competition, everyone in LVG maintained the training at 9:00 a.m. and finished training at 9:00 p.m. during the training, they would have a day off every 10 days.
Although this kind of training life can make countless bosses who think 996 is a blessing and cry out to their confidants, the intensity of this training is much softer than the time before Gu Feng and his team played in Dallas.
But to be honest, this training intensity is normal in the e-sports professional circle, and because Gu Feng also has a fitness plan, there is still one hour during the training time to exercise the players.
During Gu Feng's training period, He submitted an application for recruitment to Gu Feng.
He wanted to hire some logistics management personnel. The most important thing was that lvg's social account needed someone to manage. Secondly, he could not handle lvg's internal affairs alone, so he needed to find someone to help him share the responsibility.
Gu Feng felt that He Yi’s application was very reasonable, so he naturally had no reason to refuse him, so he agreed readily.
After Gu Feng approved it, he did not make it too high-profile. In terms of lvg's social account operation, he only recruited a girl with experience in operating a Weibo account. At the same time, he only recruited two staff members in the field of internal affairs management.
Although lvg is very famous in the CSG gaming circle at this time, lvg currently only has one project in the CSG branch. It is not like other professional clubs, and it has many e-sports project branches.
This means that although the matter in the lvg team is complicated, it is just a bit troublesome and not difficult to deal with.
Such a 4-person logistics team is stable enough to operate normally without too many omissions.
Next, everyone in LVG returned to a calm daily life. Apart from training, there were training. In Gu Feng's opinion, days without competition were regular and dull. In such a dull daily training, most of the time had passed.
When the lvg people come back to their senses from training, it is already the end of June, and there are still 6 days left to pay attention to IEM Cologne, which is about to start.
Fortunately, he had already processed the visa to Germany for everyone in LVG a week ago, and even the air tickets were prepared for Gu Feng and the others in advance.
The role of a good logistics manager is fully highlighted at this time. Gu Feng and the others don’t have to worry about anything next. They just need to take good care of their own training and then go to the field to play well.
The invitation rules of previous IEMs have basically not changed much. First of all, 8 teams ranked high in the world were directly invited, skipping the qualifiers and entering the group stage directly.
Subsequently, the other 16 professional teams will be qualified to participate in IEM Cologne through different methods: either direct invitation or based on the ESL world ranking.
This year, the method of lvg participating in IEM Cologne is relatively simple and crude, because they are currently ranked first in Asia in the world ranking of esl, so they directly got the only direct invitation quota in esl Asia.
To be honest, Gu Feng and the others felt a little guilty after getting this quota, because if LVG did not take this quota, they could easily enter IEM Cologne based on the world rankings.
In this way, the direct invitation quota in Asia will be vacant, which is also beneficial for CSS.
Now that LVG has obtained this place, Tianlu and the others can only look at their world ranking pitifully, hoping to catch the last last bus to ibm.
But fortunately, Tianlu successfully entered the invitation list of IEM Cologne with the score of 15th in the world, and Gu Feng's old boss VG also entered IEM Cologne with the limit of the position ranked 20th in the world.
In this way, Gu Feng and his team set two new records. For the first time, three teams entered the stadium of IEM Cologne at the same time.
Another one is that 13 Chinese players from IEM Cologne participated in this time, which is the largest number of people among all the countries that came to IEM Cologne.
The carnival between CS players and audiences, CS is finally about to rise.
Although they also knew that Gu Feng and his LVG could not hit the foreign team's heads like the wnv team back then until they finally won the championship.
But they at least had new expectations, because at this time, not only was there a team like LVG that was so talented that it was almost overflowing, but also desserts like Tianlu and VG that could be tasted at any time. Basically, this is a grand scene that they would never look forward to in their entire lives.
In the next period of time, Gu Feng and his teammates' training intensity decreased significantly. It was not that they started to become lazy at the moment, but that the training some time ago was indeed a burden for LVG players. In addition, the high-intensity training mode of taking one holiday every 10 days made everyone in LVG feel tired.
So the club wants the players to relax their tight spirit and mentality appropriately and deal with the next game in a better state.
So most of the next lvg training revolves around the cooperation and tacit understanding between the players. The training intensity of this kind is not very large, and it even feels like the players are having fun openly, but don’t be puzzled that this is indeed training.
This kind of training is comfortable, but it did not last long. It took only two days to complete the whole process. By the third day, everyone will pack up their things and go to the airport.
Going so early, on the one hand, the LVG players have to go there to get familiar with the environment in advance, and on the other hand, it is a few days earlier to make it easier for the players to reverse the jet lag.
At this time, the advantages of teams with better results are reflected. On the one hand, they don’t need to play the qualifiers as hard as Gu Feng. On the other hand, their game time is a few days later than Gu Feng and the others. Compared with the rushing LVG, their time is much more abundant.
However, why do you have two tricks in internal affairs? Gu Feng and the others were arranged in an orderly manner along the way. Although the itinerary was compact, the contestants would not feel overworked.
On July 2, LVG players landed in Europe. Compared to the 12 hours after taking off to Dallas, LVG people who came to Europe only had to endure a 6-hour time difference. For professional players who often stay up late, it was just a matter of playing a few more games.
After landing, the lvg people who stayed up late to play games for a while, woke up after sleeping and waking up on July 3. At this time, the lvg people had already solved the problem of their jet lag, and they were all full of energy.
The organizer of this competition arranged the same hotel for all professional teams participating in the competition. Because the organizer arranged the same hotel as the organizer of the previous IEM and this IEM, Gu Feng is still quite familiar with this hotel.
Because almost all the professional players who came to participate in the competition stayed in this hotel, Gu Feng also met many professional players who came to participate in IEM like them when he put his things in place and took his teammates out to visit the hotel.
When Gu Feng met these familiar professional players, his first reaction was that he was extremely excited to go up and ask them for autographs, but now Gu Feng has become the one who is pestered by them to ask for autographs.
This is also impossible. Although Gu Feng has not made a long debut, he won the top 1 strongly in the first year of his debut. In addition, Gu Feng is handsome and strong, so it is strange that no one likes such a person.
After simply signing a name for these little fans of his own, Gu Feng continued to visit the hotel with his teammates.
After that, there was nothing much time. Gu Feng and his teammates walked around the hotel and met many familiar or unfamiliar professional players. They could nod and say hello to each other. After that, LVG and his group returned to the room prepared for them by the organizer.
Chapter completed!