Chapter 8 Educational qualifications? Undergraduate!
September 24th, Magic City.
Cui Ze is a person who does what he says. As long as it is planned, he will never delay.
I sent a WeChat message to PDD before going to bed last night. After getting the exact reply, I immediately booked the flight tickets and set off directly to board the plane early the next morning.
After experiencing the cheating incident in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and being affected by the May 5 unblocking incident, PDD immediately turned into a coward and suspended the live broadcast.
However, although he has not appeared in the live broadcast room for a long time, from time to time there will be a report that triggers heated discussions in the circle. For example, today he had dinner with a certain big anchor, tomorrow it was revealed that he mentioned Cullinan, and the day after tomorrow it was said that he donated money to build a building. A Hope Primary School
Anyway, it’s just setting up characters everywhere to build momentum for the rerun.
Right now, Panda Live is not completely dead. By next spring, PDD, which has suspended its live broadcast for a year, will join Douyu with such great momentum and start a period of unlimited glory that will last for several years.
So it is a very good choice to join before Little Elephant and Big Goose have merged and PDD has not yet resumed airing.
Luckily, although I didn’t say hello in advance, the lawyer Wang Can introduced by Chen Yu happened to be free today, and Cui Ze said a lot of good things, so I went to the appointment with him.
It has to be said that professional lawyers are different. Anyway, when Cui Ze read the contract, he felt that there was no big problem. But after Xiao Xiang's people vacated the conference room, Wang Can quickly pointed out to him many things in the contract. loopholes.
The main problem is liquidated damages.
This brokerage contract seems to provide good benefits. For example, the share ratio is much higher than that of ordinary anchors. There will be varying degrees of traffic support every month, every week, and every day. After the broadcast is launched, Da Sima will be arranged Wait for well-known anchors to join in and attract attention, etc.
But these benefits are not something you can enjoy casually. In the final analysis, Cui Ze is just a rookie player who has not performed amazingly in the top leagues. The agency has devoted so many resources to support it. What should you do if someone gets angry and runs away?
Then increase the liquidated damages!
This is also a tried-and-tested routine in the current online live broadcast industry. First, draw a big pie to sign anchors with potential for development, and then use high-priced liquidated damages to firmly tie them up.
For some small and medium-sized live streaming guilds, the main source of revenue is even the anchor’s liquidated damages!
After Wang Can discussed the pros and cons of this contract for a while, Cui Ze directly and decisively rejected Xiaoxiang Interactive Entertainment and hoped that they would draft a new agency contract.
This directly alarmed PDD who was sleeping at home.
It was he who recommended Cui Ze to Little Elephant. As the second largest shareholder of Little Elephant, PDD naturally needs to follow up on the signing.
After receiving the call and understanding the situation, PDD immediately cursed:
"Ya'er? You brought a lawyer? Wori, your banana stick is hammered!"
Are you 18 years old?
Which 18-year-old young man in the e-sports circle knows how to bring a lawyer with him when signing a contract?
I met a master!
When PDD arrived, Cui Ze immediately put on a mask and pretended to be an ignorant and cheerful boy.
Don’t look at me, I don’t understand anything, I don’t know anything (Little Bear Spreading Hands.JPG).
The lawyer was recommended by my boss. I just respect his professional opinion as a lawyer.
Professional is different. Wang Can quickly drafted a brokerage contract template on the spot, but the content was completely different from what Xiao Xiang expected.
To put it simply, Cui Ze made it clear that he does not need those fancy traffic support. As a professional League of Legends e-sports player, as long as his performance on the field is good enough, the traffic will naturally follow.
At the same time, Cui Ze is also willing to make concessions in terms of remuneration in the brokerage contract.
The monthly basic salary has been reduced from 20,000 yuan/month to 8,000 yuan/month, the share of rewards in the live broadcast room has been reduced from 45% to 40%, and the share of advertising and endorsements in the live broadcast room has been reduced from 35% to 30%. , the share of advertising and endorsements outside the live broadcast room has been reduced from 70% to 60%
Accordingly, Cui Ze is willing to give up this part of the benefits, but there are preconditions.
The brokerage contract was only signed for two years, and because it was clear that no additional traffic support was needed, the amount of liquidated damages was restored from the original sky-high price to become the basic breach of contract fee for the network anchor.
Regarding the new contract proposed by lawyer Wang Can on behalf of Cui Ze, Xiaoxiang Interactive Entertainment did not immediately agree, but withdrew from the conference room for some discussions.
About half an hour later, PDD returned with someone and asked Cui Ze a question: "You are the talented mid laner of the LDL, the FMVP of the Summer Finals, and a star player that several teams in the LPL are vying for. You just care about money. Like dirt?"
Cui Ze finally stopped pretending to be stupid and responded with a bright smile: "Money is precious, and life is more valuable. If it is for freedom, you can throw away both." Finally, Cui Ze signed a contract with Xiaoxiang Interactive Entertainment, and exchanged the remuneration share of being reduced to a mid- to low-end anchor in exchange for a low liquidated damages and a fairly free contract period of two years.
If this matter were to be exposed in the future, I don’t know how many e-sports players in the circle would say "f*ck".
We are all Internet-addicted teenagers who have not graduated from high school. How come you are the only one with so many scheming ideas and can withstand the temptation?
In this regard, Cui Ze just wanted to say: Although I am similar to you in this life, I am just an Internet-addicted teenager who has not studied for a few days in high school, but... man, I was a serious college graduate in my previous life.
Education?
Undergraduate!
After signing the contract with Xiaoxiang, Cui Ze did not stay in Shanghai for long.
Having dinner with PDD and others that night, we set off back to Yanjing the next day.
After returning to the base, the team members were all very curious about Cui Ze's sudden disappearance for a day. They started to ask questions before they could even sit still, but Cui Ze ignored them all.
The only person who knows something about the inside story, apart from the team’s manager Wang, is the little brother ZDZ.
Now the team members are all immersed in the fantasy of getting LPL tickets and thinking about competing in the top league next year. Little do they know that their LPL dream will burst like a bubble in less than two months.
Not to mention which capital took over the LPL seat of the OG team, but as long as it is an investor with a little industry insight, it will definitely not retain the team lineup without Cui Ze.
For Cui Ze, he can share the hardships with these players in the team, but he cannot share the happiness with them.
He has higher goals to pursue and more ambitious dreams to strive for, but he doesn't have the energy to grow with them.
What's more, based on the pitiful memory points of their past lives, except for his younger brother ZDZ, the others do not have the talent and potential to continue to improve.
From now on, until the team changes ownership or before the autumn and winter transfer period, his main tasks are live broadcasts and - scoring points in the Korean server.
It’s just a few days before the opening of the S8 Global Finals qualifiers. Now the top players from all major competition regions have gathered in the Korean server. I can’t miss this annual opportunity to gather together!
No words for a night.
On the second day after returning to Yanjing, with the help of the Yanjing distribution staff of Little Elephant Interactive Entertainment, Cui Ze was already ready for the live broadcast in the base training room.
The live broadcast platform is naturally Douyu. Compared with Huya, Xiaoxiang has more major League of Legends anchors in Douyu. Especially after PDD settles in Douyu, the limelight will be the same for a while.
Every one of the team members were very curious about Cui Ze's live broadcast, but they were not surprised.
In their view, it is normal for Cui Ze, as a star player of the LDL, to start a live broadcast after leading his team to win the Summer Finals championship and FMVP.
"When the team is officially promoted to the LPL, we will inevitably start live broadcasts." The manager also cooperated very cooperatively to complete the brainwashing of the players with this statement.
September 25, 2018, 14:00 sharp.
On Douyu Live Broadcasting Platform, in the League of Legends division, a live broadcast room named [Veronica-Cui Ze] and titled [Korean Server Score Rush] was quickly pushed to the live broadcast homepage.
And Cui Ze’s first live broadcast journey began here.
(End of this chapter)