CSGO Unboxing Streamer: A Charity-Driven Tycoon

Chapter 353 is all about being simple and straightforward!
RSS wins the championship.

Golden rain fell from the sky.

Lu Li stood in the VIP box watching everything that was happening below, his smile coming from the system's broadcast.

【Ding! 】

[Congratulations to the host's team for winning the professional major league championship! Reward: 300,000 points!]

There are only four ways to earn points.

These are: international esports events, with a maximum of one million points awarded based on ranking and viewership; national esports events, with a maximum of one million points awarded based on ranking and viewership; continental esports events, with a maximum of five hundred thousand points awarded based on ranking and viewership; and major professional leagues, with a maximum of three hundred thousand points awarded based on ranking and viewership.

Although 300,000 is not the highest amount, it proves that Lu Yiming's current approach is feasible, giving him a reason to take his next big step.

His gaze fell upon the system panel that had been opened before him, and he looked at the "Secondary Profession 3" section.

Secondary Profession (3): Esports Manager Level C (1.35 million/5 million Honor Points)
He also has a chance to win the RSS Spring Championship in the league, plus the Summer Championship, the Intercontinental Championship, and even the S Championship later on. If he can win all of them, it can bring him 2.1 million points.

In CS:GO, Lu Yiming plans to continue hosting the Intercontinental Championship and the Major. If he can win both, there is a real chance that his secondary professional rank will be upgraded to B-level this year.

at this time.

A mobile phone was placed in front of Lu Yiming, and next to the phone was a bullet screen with messages of celebration from his viewers.

In this regard.

After closing the system interface, Lu Yiming said, "Alright! Don't overhype them! Domestic competitions are just the beginning for them. After securing a Major ticket, the most important thing is their performance at the Major in July! It's too early to be happy now!"

That's what it says.

But the curve of Lu Yiming's lips betrayed his mood at that moment.

Viewers teased him, saying he wasn't being sincere, to which Lu Yiming laughed and said, "Insincere? Sometimes I really have to question your level of education! Didn't we agree you were all college students? How can you use that word! Brothers! You need to study harder!"

They made a sarcastic remark.

Then a wave of red envelope rain was arranged. The number of red envelopes in Lu Yiming's live broadcast room is increasing. Ten thousand red envelopes with each red envelope costing 200 yuan were sent out.

This free giveaway of two million has netizens praising Mr. Lu as truly deserving of the title of the number one philanthropist among sharks.

RSS's victory was something that was predicted long ago. Some bloggers who focus on esports would normally prepare two congratulatory videos in advance and release them precisely after the champion was crowned if they wanted to ride the wave of popularity.

However, most esports bloggers only made videos of RSS winning the championship, which shows that RSS's victory was widely expected.

As the red envelope giveaway ended, Lu Yiming straightened his clothes. It was unusual for him to be wearing a suit today. He looked at the live stream camera and smiled, "Alright! That's all for today's live stream. I'm going to do an interview now! See you in the interview live stream!"

As the owner of the championship team, it's natural that he needs to attend and give an interview. This wasn't originally a scheduled segment, but there was a lot of demand for it online.

It's a consensus that Lu Yiming doesn't like giving interviews, but there shouldn't be any problem with interviewing his own people, which is why this interview session took place.

In response, viewers flooded the chat with messages like "See you next time."

The interview room is next door. There are four VIP boxes in total at RSS Live, but tickets are not sold to the public. Except for box number one, which is reserved for Lu Yiming, the other three can only be entered by people he invites.

For example, the person in box number four at this moment.

It's PDD and Eggplant.

The right to use box number three was given to Peng Peng. When filming the show before, he asked Lu Yiming for a ticket to the finals, but those tickets were already sold out, so he simply gave him the right to use the box.

Box number two was arranged as the interview venue.

The host was arranged by Shark Platform. In fact, although Lu Yiming did not restrict other platforms from broadcasting, Shark Platform was the only platform with the right to enter the live broadcast.

Therefore, while other platforms' live streams are somewhat delayed, Shark platform allows viewers to see the match almost simultaneously with the live audience.

The interview was arranged in advance, and the questions would focus on the RSS team, without touching on personal or company-related issues.

To Lu Yiming's surprise, the person he was interviewing was Eggplant.

Seeing Lu Yiming push the door open and enter, Eggplant laughed and said, "Hahaha~ Surprised? You were supposed to be a beauty! But I was afraid you wouldn't like it! After all, your sister-in-law is probably watching the live stream too!"

While saying "eggplant," he winked at Lu Yiming.

At this moment, the official live broadcast also switched over, and the audience happened to see Lu Yiming push the door open and enter. As Eggplant finished speaking, the screen was filled with comments like "Long live understanding!"

In this regard.

Lu Yiming shrugged and said, "Whether she's a beauty or not is unimportant! I'm just here to go through the motions! So, what questions have you prepared?"

As he spoke, Lu Yiming walked to the sofa and sat down.

He'd taken the initiative from the back of the table. Eggplant wasn't a professional host to begin with, but he was determined to be one. He held up his cue cards and looked at the instructions on them.

After sitting down, he looked at Lu Yiming and asked, "Then let's hurry up! Question one! From a netizen! Mr. Lu! Will RSS Club continue to form other teams? I heard that RSS Club is currently forming a PUBG team. Does this mean that PUBG will soon start esports competitions like CS:GO?"

Last year, PUBG acquired the full copyright from South Korea, and Lu Yiming owns 35% of the shares.

Lu Yiming didn't pay much attention to this game; he only helped promote it at the beginning.

After using the Di Ting (谛听) device.

The gaming environment in the Chinese server immediately underwent a qualitative change. As for the international server, due to local laws, the "Diting" (谛听) software was listed as a surveillance device abroad and could not be used. Therefore, many people were forced to play the game on the Chinese server.

When playing solo queue in the early morning, it's common to encounter teammates who are mostly foreigners. This has even led some entertainment streamers to specifically wait for foreigners in the early morning or late at night.

As for overseas revenue, it is also very considerable. In less than a year last year, the revenue exceeded 500 million US dollars. This year, it has more than doubled. At the beginning of the year, an event was launched, and the revenue was 200 million US dollars in just one month. It can be described as a money-printing machine.

However, despite the game's popularity, the competition format remains the same. Fanxing Group has not invested heavily in PUBG tournaments, which has led many PUBG players to jokingly say they are not part of the game's ecosystem, highlighting their resentment.

Lu Yiming raised an eyebrow at this question and said, "No~ This game has nothing to do with the Fanxing Group! It's just that I personally own shares in it! How did it become a game of the Fanxing Group? Not all games on the Perfect Fanxing platform are Fanxing games! We need to understand that distinction first! So how could I possibly care how others operate it! You all know! I rarely manage my own company~"

As soon as these words came out.

Lu Yiming's viewers in the live chat were overjoyed.

This precisely proves the claims made by PUBG players that they are definitely not born from a biological mother.

At this point, the live chat was filled with jokes and banter from PUBG players. Lu Yiming then added, "However, we did receive some news about PUBG esports, which is why we're planning to expand the RSS Pabu Chicken Club~ But for detailed information, please check the official website! I won't reveal any more details here!"

These words rekindled hope among PUBG players. After all, although PUBG wasn't exactly a game under the Starry Sky umbrella as they understood it, at least with RSS's participation, the tournaments wouldn't be too bad.

After all, as the owner of RSS, Lu Yiming clearly has extremely high expectations for the team, but these expectations are not the kind that an owner should have. Rather, he is a pure gamer who hopes his team can achieve good results.

This can be seen from the efforts he has made.

Everyone knows.

Lu Yiming's involvement in e-sports is purely out of passion; it doesn't make him any money at all.

The players' demands are simple: they want to see a winning team.

The two are essentially in agreement.

That concludes the first question.

Eggplant asked the audience if they were satisfied, and they were, of course, satisfied. Eggplant then immediately asked the second question.

"The second question also comes from netizens! They ask, why are these domestic teams so bad? Mr. Lu, why did you arrange for them to be RSS's opponents? I think RSS has absolutely no need to participate in this competition. It's like college students taking the high school entrance exam. It's just bullying them!"

These questions were not rehearsed beforehand. After all, the moment the questions were finalized was when RSS won the championship. At that time, Lu Li was in his own live broadcast room and didn't have time to see what questions the netizens had prepared for him.

The card in Eggplant's hand was made from cut-out A4 sheets of paper pasted on, and he had just received it before Lu Yiming entered the room.

of course.

The content of the questions will be filtered.

Upon hearing this, Lu Yiming raised an eyebrow, thought for a few seconds, and then said, "Regarding this issue! Actually, this is what I think! We should give them some opportunities!"

"Although our esports scene has always upheld the tradition that ten runners-up are not as good as one champion, and that not winning a championship should be a disgrace, you have to understand the environment of CS:GO in China. In the past, there was very little sponsorship,"

"I think it's right to criticize teams that have resources but no results, because they have let you down. But in the case of scarce resources, no matter what the results are, I think it's enough that they have tried their best."

"Therefore, now that I've increased my investment in CSGO, the resources have improved accordingly. But for those veterans who have always stuck with the CNCS scene, I personally hope we can give them more opportunities, even if, as you said, they are indeed acknowledged to be no match for RSS, but that's only now! Who knows what the future holds?"

Lu Yiming answered very seriously, and the audience listened attentively to his response.

As Lu Yiming said, CSGO tournaments were not very popular in China before. Although their respective fans were disappointed that they could not achieve any results every year, it did not affect their continued love for the game. They can be described as a very Zen-like group.

It was after Lu Yiming made CSGO a huge hit and started forming a team that CSGO tournaments finally gained a large fan base. Coupled with the increase in the number of players, this led to the prosperous scene we see today.

But Lu Yiming knew.

This is nothing but a false prosperity. Once he withdraws his investment in CSGO tournaments, it will take at least two or three years to restore the current state of affairs, if not immediately.

Um.
Ultimately, it still needs someone to operate it.

It has to be President Lu! Without President Lu, there would be no CS:GO today!

[Who can argue with that? At least several hundred million has been invested! No, it's probably over a billion! Just the venue alone couldn't be solved with just a few hundred million!]

In my opinion, Lu Yiming should be inducted into the esports Hall of Fame!

[Damn! You're making me want to cry! Back when I watched CS:GO tournaments, there were only a few thousand people in the livestream, most of whom were AFK and just dropping loot boxes. Who would have thought that there would be millions of viewers now!]

[I started playing CS:GO after watching Lu Zong's streams, it's been over two years now~ Back then, a regular Dragon Lore Axe only cost tens of thousands of yuan, now even a regular one costs hundreds of thousands. I wish I hadn't bought a house back then, I could have just stockpiled skins with Lu Zong!]

[Huh? Mr. Lu is stockpiling jewelry? What's going on? Does Mr. Lu need to stockpile jewelry?]

[Haha! Looks like the person upstairs isn't a long-time fan! Long-time fans know! CEO Lu has hinted to us many times that the price of the jewelry would rise, and even showed us how he stocked up on it during a live stream, but many people didn't believe him at the time!]

[Waaah~ I just remembered! I was planning to buy a butterfly knife back then, I got it for 1200, now it's over 9000!]

【.】

Lu Yiming's answer moved the viewers in a strange way.

At this moment, Lu Yiming could also see the comments on the screen, and immediately laughed and said, "Don't be too touched! I also had my own selfish reasons for doing this!"

[Stop talking, Mr. Lu! We understand! You genuinely love this game!]

[Yeah! Give me a gift next time you sign up; I haven't sent a membership card in ages!]

Go to Lu Zong's live-streaming sales channel! I buy all my daily necessities from that channel now; it's economical and guaranteed authentic! But the prices might not be the cheapest~ lol.

【.】

The problem continues.

Lu Yiming answered each one seriously.

With the last question answered, the interview, originally scheduled for five minutes, came to an end.

Um.
It actually took ten minutes.
RSS won the championship, so Lu Yiming naturally went to celebrate with the team. That night, he booked a private room. Before the banquet started, Lu Yiming stood up, raised his glass, looked at everyone, and said, "You all saw what I said in the live stream yesterday! Maybe some of you are wondering if it's true! I'll say it here: it's true!"

The words fell.

The expressions on everyone's faces varied. The members of the RSS CSGO team were naturally beaming with joy, while the others who were invited to the celebration banquet looked at the RSS CSGO team with envy.

At this moment, Lu Yiming's gaze swept over the Alliance Department and the newly established PUBG Department.

He immediately said, "I know you have ideas! Here's the deal! The league division will use this year's Grand Slam as the standard! The PUBG division will tentatively aim for the international tournament championship. If you can achieve the standard I set, your rewards will be the same as the CS:GO division!"

The words fell.

The scene instantly erupted in excitement.

Especially the few people in the Alliance Department, who were full of enthusiasm and shouted "Long live President Lu!"

The newly joined PUBG team members, on the other hand, were pleasantly surprised.

Lu Yiming nodded in satisfaction at everyone's reaction.

As the saying goes, "a serious injury can inspire a brave man." No matter how tortuous the process, he is willing to pay as long as it brings him a championship!
The key point is its simplicity and directness!
(End of this chapter)