Chapter 123: Bring ROX back to LPL
After discussing the details of the champion skin with Riot, it’s time to come to an end on the North American tour.
Li Zhien and Cui Zhenli got on the flight back to Seoul on the same day that Lin Qiguang went to Riot headquarters, and everyone in ROX also stepped into Los Angeles International Airport in the evening of the next day.
In the waiting hall of the airport, the atmosphere among everyone was still cheerful. After all, it was still more than half a month before the team was officially disbanded, and everyone had also made an appointment to participate in the Kespa Cup together.
Of course, Lin Qiguang is not included in the list of players participating in the Kespa Cup. He still has many things to do at home and cannot spare time.
For the members of this ROX Tigers team, they have no regrets.
They won their first league championship in the summer split, defeated many strong teams in the World Championship and easily advanced to the finals. In the finals, they faced their old rival SKT and defeated them with a clean sheet.
The group of down-and-out people who were almost facing unemployment at the beginning, after experiencing countless hardships and hardships, finally stood on top of the world and became new legends. What else is there to regret?
"Brother, we will be separated for the time being. Don't worry, I will go to China to find you soon!" Little Peanut said.
Lin Qiguang raised his hand and ruffled Little Peanut's hair, "Don't just play around while you're back in Seoul. Find a Chinese teacher to learn it first and get used to it. When you arrive in China, in addition to training every day, I'll At least two hours of Chinese lessons should be arranged for you.”
"Huh? But Chinese is really difficult."
Hearing Lin Qiguang's arrangement, Little Peanut immediately frowned, and the other team members and coaches all laughed when they saw this.
Lin Qiguang looked up at the crowd again: "Everyone should think carefully about what I said before when we return to Seoul. It has not been long since we entered the League of Legends e-sports industry and we have suffered so much. Next, we should prepare for our own success. Thinking about the future.”
Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, all looking thoughtful.
Last night, Lin Qiguang led everyone to have an in-depth chat.
In the original time and space, after the ROX Tigers disbanded, both Smeb and Peanut accepted invitations from SKT. However, Smeb had a very tough temper and wanted to take revenge on SKT, so he went to KT.
Pray and Gorrila, the two bound "Xuanming elders", went to the newly formed Dragon Ball team and became teammates with the "manly brother" Khan.
Kuro went to the AFs team to become a leader. After staying in AFs for two years, he came to the BLG team of the LPL to become a leader. In S10, he returned to the LCK and joined KT to retire.
During the chat last night, Lin Qiguang also confessed everything about his family background and his plans to return to China to form a team, and sincerely invited everyone to join the LPL.
Lin Qiguang’s idea is to use him as a middleman to imitate the “Ten Samsung players coming to China” and create a momentum of “Five ROX players coming to China” and “sell” ROX players to the LPL teams.
Moreover, Lin Qiguang also promised that he, as an intermediary, would not charge any fees. If the players and coaches are willing to come to China to join the LPL, he would also introduce professional lawyers to them to deal with the teams that are interested in them and sign contracts that are favorable enough.
During the chat, Lin Qiguang also deliberately added a dose of surprise and revealed the industry secrets of LPL's preparation for alliance, which shocked everyone in ROX.
Seeing that everyone had different reactions but no one responded immediately, Lin Qiguang decided to take the initiative and looked at the bone that he thought was the hardest to chew - Smeb.
"Jinghao, what are your thoughts? Should you stay in the LCK or simply join SKT and compete with me in S7, or should you come to China and try a new environment?"
Smeb looked very confused. He bent down, put his elbows on his knees, put his hands on his chin, closed his eyes and thought for a long time.
Lin Qiguang didn't turn around, just waiting for Smeb's reply.
Nofe, Ssong, Gorrila, and Cry all had overseas experience in their previous lives. Among them, Nofe has coaching experience in LPL teams such as EDG, IG, and V5.
As for Pray, although he and Gorrila separated at the end of his career, it was mainly because Gorrila received an invitation from the European Rabbit Team MSF to earn pension money.
At this point in time, Pray and Gorrila will definitely not be separated, and the relationship between Lin Qiguang and Pray is also very good, so this invitation should be a sure thing.
After waiting for a while, until the announcement started to remind passengers flying to Seoul to prepare for boarding, Smeb finally spoke, but his words were unexpected by Lin Qiguang.
"I actually don't care about going to China. You can make money wherever you go. But you said before that you could introduce Tara to me. Is that true?"
Good guy,
As expected of you, Song Jinghao!
"Hahahaha." Lin Qiguang couldn't help laughing, "Hey Yigu. Song Jinghao, you are so cute. I will send you the contact information of Long Zai later and ask her to prepare a copy of Tara for you. How about a signed photo of the entire team as a gift for returning home after winning the championship?”
A smile suddenly appeared on Smeb's face, as if he was still a little shy, "Although I really want autographs and photos, but I also hope that Hyomin can wear my team uniform and help me add fuel to the Kespa Cup. ”
"Song Jinghao, you can do it. I actually like Hyomin's style~" Lin Qiguang raised his eyebrows and joked, "No problem, in addition to the autographed photos of the whole team, when the Kespa Cup starts, Tara - Park Hyomin will definitely wear yours. Cheer for you”
Although Lin Qiguang has no friendship with the Tara members except Long Zai, since he has made up his mind to get involved in the "Troll" incident and help Long Zai and her teammates clear their grievances, Park Hyo Min must have been successful after the incident. I won’t refuse to put on Smeb’s jersey and cheer him on.
At this time, Kuro and others had also stood up and were getting ready to board the plane.
Pray came over and patted Lin Qiguang's arm: "We all believe in you about going to LPL. When the time comes, please help us make arrangements."
Kuro interjected: "But we agreed that we must choose a good team for my brothers!"
Cry also came over: "Brother Qiguang, can you also help me make arrangements? I will work hard to learn Chinese!"
Lin Qiguang shook his head: "If you are the winning team, I don't think you have any hope. Originally, the winning team in LPL was pretty good. Now that Brother Rui Xing wants to join, there will be no place."
Cry scratched his head: "Well, I used AD to get to the top of the Korean server before, maybe?"
Lin Qiguang nodded, hey, this EDG coach Nofe + bottom lane Zet, don't they just live together?
Everyone expressed their stance one after another, and Lin Qiguang finally felt relieved.
The reason why I do this is to find a good place for my teammates and make more money.
After all, he needs to use Smeb as a "chip" to change someone else.
Lin Qiguang's return did not alarm the outside world. Except for a few club owners, such as Wang Sicong and Ed Zhu, the outside world knew almost nothing about his movements.
After returning to China, he rested at home for a day, and then Lin Qiguang started various matters to form a team with his mother.
First, Jiasheng Entertainment, a subsidiary of Jiasheng Group, acquired the League of Legends branch of QG Club. The team was renamed "LIGHTGAMING" and the contract officially came into effect at 8:00 on November 22 (the first day of the LPL 2016 winter transfer period).
Prior to this, all matters will not be announced to the public.
Announcement of the formation of a team also requires a certain amount of time to brew. Otherwise, it would be too boring to break the news as soon as we return home. It would be exciting to light the fire until winter begins.
Lin Qiguang has been thinking about the name of the club and team for a long time. Some nice and meaningful names are like "Melody of Light" and "Victor of Light". However, Ed Zhu directly sneered at such a naming method:
"A young man pretending to be a literary person? The name of my EDG is to use my English name EDWARD plus GAMING. If you kid is a young man, I won't take you to play anymore!"
Okay, let’s be more vulgar. It’s okay to call it “LIGHTGAMING”, right?
In the newly formed LIGHTGAMING club, Jiasheng Entertainment holds 66% of the shares, and Lin Qiguang uses the "pocket money" + technology given by his parents to invest in the shares, holding 34%.
The reason why it only accounts for 34% is mainly because Lin Qiguang plans to concentrate on his career for a while and cannot devote too much time to managing the club. Of course, in the first year of the club, there are obviously not too many complicated and trivial matters for him to deal with.
Lin Qiguang has been equipped with the club's management and operations staff, including his mother, who are all middle-level staff with rich experience in Jiasheng Entertainment. After all, e-sports has many similarities with entertainment, and you can get started with a little proficiency.
What's more, Lin Qiguang has the insight to be "ahead" for several years. As long as he controls the general direction of the club, he will be fine.
During the week when Lin Qiguang "disappeared", the voting for the 2016 League of Legends All-Star Game in each major competition area has quietly ended.
As the FMVP winner of the League of Legends 2016 Global Finals, although he is Chinese, Lin Qiguang still ranked first in the voting for the top lane position in the LCK division.
Among them, Flashlight’s Korean mom fans and girlfriend fans must have put in a lot of effort.
However, as soon as the voting ended, Lin Qiguang posted updates on Twitter and INS respectively, saying that he was unable to participate in the All-Star Game due to personal reasons, and @Smeb, who received the second most votes, hoped that he could replace him in the All-Star Game. Have good performance.
For this result, the LCK forum as a whole naturally applauded. After all, Lin Qiguang's popularity is indeed high, but it is not a big deal for a Chinese to represent the LCK division in the All-Star Finals.
Therefore, Lin Qiguang's move of "taking the initiative to give up talents" actually increased his Korean fans a lot.
In addition to top laner Smeb, the jungler with the highest votes is Peanut, the mid laner is Faker, the AD position is Pray, and the assist is "The God of Thresh" MadLife.
But there is a problem. According to the regulations of the All-Star Game, a team can only send a maximum of two players in the composition of each division's representative team, and ROX has occupied 3 places this time.
So Little Peanut politely gave up this spot to Bengi, and Bang, who was full of expectations and wanted to go to the All-Stars, failed again.
There is no way, the LCK audience just likes Pray more than Bang.
There is not much to say about the LPL lineup. The top laner is "Light" Mouse, the jungler is 7-chan who has just been renamed "Clearlove7", and the mid laner is "Wei-chan" who has been renamed from GodV to We1less. There is no doubt that AD It’s “Bath-chan” Uzi, and the assistant is “Wind Whisperer” Mata.
The All-Star Game will be held from December 9th to 12th. Before that, various big players in the winter transfer period will gradually surface.
And Lin Qiguang, after finishing the basic affairs of the club, went to Dalian to visit Lao Wang, made Comrade Lao Wang and his wife happy, and then returned to the magic city. Dear classmate Wang Shicong, I’m here to harvest your wool~
(End of chapter)