CS: Demon King C, you said I was a genius?

After Jee and Xigua left, the calmness on Gum's face gradually faded.

After thinking about the possible impact of this incident, he hurriedly opened his mobile phone address book.

After a brief pause, he stood up again and hurried out, jogging downstairs, then drove away directly.

Fortunately, today was Saturday and there wasn't much traffic on the road. After about twenty minutes, he took the elevator upstairs, panting, and stood in front of the door of a large flat in the community.

After opening the door, Jeff wanted to make a joke, but when he saw Gum's anxious look, he realized what had happened.

"Come in first and talk."

Gum followed him to his boss's study, and without even sitting down, he spent two or three minutes explaining the whole story of Mitsuha's signature.

The story is simple to tell, but difficult to handle.

Jeff frowned and was silent for two minutes after hearing this. Then he couldn't help but cursed: "This idiot!"

His original intention of founding the LVG team was actually similar to that of other domestic club owners, all for passion.

If you really want to make money, you'd be stupid to set up a professional CSGO club.

Considering the current size of their club, even if they ate spinach in every game, they would still be losing money.

Only those second- and third-tier domestic teams that are still using community housing as training rooms rely on eating spinach to support themselves.

Now they can only rely on the team to achieve good results and then attract capital sponsorship to maintain the club.

The method to attract sponsorship is very simple, that is commercial value, the most important of which is the fan base of domestic players.

Some time ago, LVG entered the Major finals in Copenhagen, which made this relatively young team gain a large number of fans.

What followed was stronger financial support from major sponsors.

Although my recent performance in IEM Chengdu was not ideal, it is still acceptable. I just need to work harder next time.

In addition to academic performance, fans care most about the character and other aspects of the team members.

Therefore, Jeff has very strict requirements on the image of his team members, and he often discussed this issue in meetings in the past.

For example, you cannot insult the people who put pressure on you in the ladder ranking, you cannot argue with fans on public platforms, let alone fuck fans.

These will have an impact on the club's reputation.

But now there is such a thing as Sanye, and it is still related to a bad artist with a history of drug abuse.
Jeff felt like he had a headache. Their club didn't have a dedicated public relations department, and he was not good at handling this kind of thing.

He looked up at Gum who was sitting opposite him, and after a few seconds of silence, he asked, "Do you have any ideas on how to deal with this matter now?"

After hearing this, Gum just said "uh" and didn't say anything else. He was just the head coach of the team, how could he handle such a thing?
He is good at assigning specific tasks and working hard to complete them, but it is a bit difficult for him to have his own ideas.

Seeing that he didn't say anything, Jeff stood up helplessly and said, "Let's go back to the club and ask the person involved what he thinks first."

Gum nodded, said nothing more, and drove Jeff towards the club.

With so many trips back and forth, he seemed to have become his boss's personal driver.

Jeff sat in the back seat of the car looking at the city scene outside the window. He was not in the mood to chat. His mind was full of thoughts about how to properly deal with the matter of Sanye.

Suddenly, the ringing of his cell phone brought him back to his senses. He took a look and saw that the caller was "Guan Yu Beef - Mr. Wang", and his face became even worse.

Guan Yu Beef is the biggest sponsor of LVG. It can be said that they have been investing in sponsorship since the establishment of the team club.

He called at this moment, and it seemed that he knew about the embarrassing incident in their club.

"Bad news spreads a thousand miles..."

Jeff adjusted his facial expression, forced a smile and answered the phone:

"Hey, Mr. Wang! Hahaha! Long time no see. When are you free to have dinner together?"

"Oh~ I just found out about this. We are just kids and don't know what's going on."

"Don't worry, Mr. Wang, I will handle this matter personally."

"Yeah, I know. Yeah. Don't worry... Yeah..."

After talking for more than ten minutes like coaxing his father, Jeff finally persuaded the other party temporarily.

After hanging up the phone, the corners of his mouth that had been raised instantly drooped. This matter was more serious than he had imagined.
After Su Zhe finished the interview with the live host, he returned to the lounge from the backstage contestant passage.

Before he opened the door, he heard sounds of playing and fighting coming from the lounge, mixed with the screams of children.

"Looks like he's teasing the kids again..."

Su Zhe couldn't help but smile. He pushed the door open and looked inside. He found that his cousin and Nexa were each holding one of the child's arms.

NIko was tickling the child with a lewd look on his face. The child was being "tortured" by the three big men and could only struggle and beg for mercy.

After noticing the lounge door being pushed open, several people stopped what they were doing and looked over.

The child also breathed a sigh of relief, having escaped the "bullying" from his teammates.

When Taz saw that it was Su Zhe, he chuckled and said, "I've packed your things in the lounge for you, let's go straight back to the hotel."

Then everyone walked out of the venue together and took a bus to the hotel.

On the way back to the hotel, everyone in G2 was very happy and sang celebratory songs together in the car.

Although the G2 team has always been ranked among the top five in the world, they have a good corporate culture and always find it difficult to reach the final stage of some major competitions.

So far, the last time they stepped onto the finals stage of an S-level event or above can be traced back to August last year.

As for the last time, it was in February of last year...

They have competed for the championship trophy twice in 16 months from the beginning of last year to April now.

This result is obviously extremely unsatisfactory for a team like theirs that has two star players.

Therefore, it is naturally a very happy thing that they were able to win consecutive games all the way to the finals of the IEM Chengdu event and have the hope of winning the championship trophy.

After returning to the hotel, everyone no longer had the idea of ​​going out for dinner to celebrate, mainly because tomorrow's game was crucial.

It is easy to have accidents when eating out. It would be terrible if you suddenly have a stomachache in the middle of a game.

Similar things have happened before. Their G2 League of Legends division had an incident where they paused an offline game and went to the bathroom together...

Not to mention the fines, the players' performance in the game will definitely be affected.

So it would be better to just eat some clean fast food in the hotel restaurant to make do with it, and then celebrate properly after winning the championship tomorrow.

Then, under the leadership of Taz, they first conducted a brief review of today's game.

After the review, the five of them gathered together to watch the live broadcast of the match between Faze and Mouz.

On the one hand, I want to see what the current status of the two teams is, and on the other hand, I want to see if they have developed any new tactics and playing styles during the game.

After all, my cousin is famous for his thick tactical book. He can even use different tactics in each of the more than 20 rounds in a map.

The sky outside the training room window darkened as the game progressed. The progress of the two teams, Faze and Mouz, in the semifinals was much faster than expected, and the results were not unexpected.

Faze easily crushed Mouz with a score of 2-0 and will meet G2 in the finals tomorrow to compete for the final championship.

"Faze is in good shape..."

Niko said with some emotion and some relief that the Faze galactic battleship was basically an old acquaintance of his.

Karrigan and Rain were both his former teammates, and Broky was promoted by him.

He himself had once sat in the cockpit of a Galaxy Battleship.

Taz sighed and said, "They're in pretty good shape... It's going to be hard to win tomorrow's game... We need to work overtime tonight and prepare more."

After hearing what Taz said, no one refuted it.

Judging from the world ranking alone, Faze is still ranked first in the world.

If we only talk about the strength on paper, the Faze players who are in hot form seem to be no worse than G2.

Although many netizens said that G2, now with three cores, can establish a dynasty.

But the fully-powered Faze is a four-core lineup, and it is a lineup that has been run in for several years.

Although G2 has crushed many strong teams in the past few days, they basically have problems with their hard power. The main reason is that they cannot fight head-on with guns.

Now facing the hot-tempered Faze, if they cannot defeat them in a head-on fight tomorrow, will the opponent find flaws in their coordination?

Su Zhe stared at the Faze members who were cheering and celebrating on the live broadcast screen, and couldn't help but recall the last time he fought with Faze.

"This Faze is much stronger than the one I faced in NIP..."

Several members of G2 felt heavy pressure and responded to Taz's task of extra training.

After more than an hour of defense practice, everyone entered a short break, planning to practice for another hour before going back to sleep.

Niko turned his head to look at Su Zhe beside him and asked with concern: "Why do I feel that you are a little bit off? Are you nervous?"

"Ah? Oh!" Su Zhe, who had been distracted for a while, reacted and waved his hands, "No, no, how could I be nervous? Don't worry, I will do my best tomorrow."

Su Zhe said this with great confidence, but when he met Niko's still skeptical gaze, he had no choice but to spread his hands and answer truthfully:
"Well, I'm a little nervous. Even though I've already defeated them once before, I still feel a little unsure this time..."

"But I will try my best to adjust my mentality, and it will definitely not affect my performance tomorrow!"

After hearing this, Niko's expression changed. He pulled his chair closer and sat next to Su Zhe.

At this moment, Niko, like an elder, spoke in a caring tone, "Are you worried about losing the game tomorrow?"

Su Zhe nodded truthfully and said "hmm".

E-sports is cruel. There can only be one winner in a competition, and the rest are losers.

As for the runner-up, he can be said to be the biggest loser.

When Su Zhe was practicing defense just now, his mind unconsciously started thinking about other things.

The offline venues were full of domestic audiences supporting him.

He couldn't imagine what the situation would be like if he lost the game under such circumstances.

Besides, if we lose the previous games, we can just fight back next time.

But this time they have reached the final, and he is a little afraid that if he misses the chance to win the trophy, he doesn't know how long he will have to wait for the next one.

My former teammate, es3tag, has been on this journey for five years.

k0nfig has been on this road for two years.

Rez, who has the best talent, has been on this path for more than a year.

Although Su Zhe has the system, he now knows that he will eventually run out of strength. He doesn't know when he will be able to hold up his own championship trophy.

The more eager you are, the more nervous you become.

The more competitive you are, the more afraid you are.

Niko seemed to understand Su Zhe's thoughts. He sat and lay in a comfortable posture, and suddenly smiled:
"I don't know if you've heard about this. When I first debuted a few years ago, a commentator said that I would eventually win a Major."

Su Zhe nodded. He had of course heard of this kind of news circulating on the Internet.

Niko continued, "Do you know how long it took me to win my first championship trophy after my debut?"

Su Zhe shook his head. In his impression, Niko had won all the championships except the trophy that symbolized the highest glory.

For Niko, winning this level of S-class competition is a relatively small honor.

Niko smiled, held up four fingers, and said, "From my hometown team to Mouz, and then to Faze, it took me four full years to win my first championship trophy."

Su Zhe was a little surprised when he heard: "Four years?"

He hadn't looked up Nikko's profile, but figured he'd be the champion soon after debut, right? It took him four whole years!

Nikko's expression didn't change, still smiling, and he said softly, "Yeah, four years."

"I was just like you back then, maybe even crazier than you. I even dreamed about winning the championship at night."

"You know what? At that time, many people said that the champion of each competition was fluid, but only the runner-up, me, was fixed."

"Hahaha, I was so unwilling to accept it back then, wondering why I was always just a little bit short. Why couldn't I win the championship? I was clearly better than them all!"

"But I don't know why, but whenever it comes to the finals, I get so nervous I lose my form."

Su Zhe listened carefully to NIko's words. Although his words were filled with resentment, the expression on his face remained unchanged.

Nikko continued slowly, "Later I realized that failure is the main theme of life."

"Even Team A, who once won numerous Major championships, seems to be in the same situation now. They have been in a slump for most of their careers."

"I'm not saying this to prepare you for failure, but to tell you that failure is the norm on the road to becoming a professional gamer. You have to be mentally prepared for it."

"And what you need to do most now is to try your best despite the possibility of failure. No matter what the outcome is, do you understand?"

“Failure is actually not that scary. Only by learning to accept it can we grow.”

Su Zhe was thoughtful.

"Should I be mentally prepared for failure first, and then try my best to change the outcome?" he thought silently.

Although his thoughts were a little confusing for the time being, he seemed to have lost his fear of failure.

NIko looked at Su Zhe who was deep in thought and said nothing, patted his shoulder again and said with a smile:

"Okay, the break is over, let's continue practicing." (End of this chapter)