100: Chapter 100: The Official Launch of the Esports System

Langchao Group.

When Lin Xiao pushed the door open and walked in, he was holding a newly printed data report.

"Boss."

He placed the report on Qin Mo's desk.

"When we were fighting against Weikan, we didn't have this many merchants pulling out simultaneously."

"But as soon as Taobao said a word, the number of products on Douyin Mall dropped by a third."

He pushed up his glasses.

"This is too exaggerated."

Qin Mo leaned back in his chair, his expression unchanged.

"Normal."

"How could Weikan possibly compare to Taobao back then?"

He picked up the coffee on the table and took a sip.

"For these merchants, Douyin Mall is just the icing on the cake; most of their revenue actually comes from Taobao."

"Taobao's highest monthly active user record is 900 million. 900 million shopping users is an extremely exaggerated magnitude in the global internet market."

"And Douyin, in the year and a half since its launch, only has 90 million daily active users in the domestic market, and only 150 million monthly active users. Not to mention, these users are all Short Video users; even fewer are users who shop and consume."

He put down his coffee cup.

"So."

"How could Douyin Mall compare to Taobao? If I were a merchant, I would also choose Taobao."

Qin Mo paused.

"However, Douyin Mall relies on exclusive merchant self-operation and Livestream E-commerce anyway. It doesn't matter much if other merchants leave; it won't affect the core."

Lin Xiao nodded and flipped the report to another page.

"How is the takeover of JD.com going?"

Qin Mo asked.

"The largest warehouses have been taken over, and the handover of regional branch warehouses is proceeding one after another."

Lin Xiao pulled up the progress chart, and the map on the screen was marked with over a dozen red markers.

"Following your instructions, we are contacting small manufacturers in various places, letting them sign directly with Langchao Group to become suppliers for our self-operated low-price warehouses."

He paused.

"These merchants are all small in size, which Taobao doesn't look at at all. The quality of the products they make isn't high, but the prices are very low, and the profit margins are thin. There is almost no room for them to survive on Taobao."

"Most of these manufacturers' goods are distributed to rural areas and town markets by contacting distributors themselves."

"Now, most of them have signed with us."

Listening to Lin Xiao, Qin Mo nodded.

"When we list on Pinduoduo, we must ensure the supply of special-price factories. This is the key first step to capturing the sinking market."

Lin Xiao pushed up his glasses.

"Our self-operated factories cut out all intermediate systems. From production to warehousing to logistics, everything goes through our own channels. The sinking market products we make have low costs, so we can indeed sell them at prices never seen before in the market."

"We should be able to achieve what you said, Boss: capturing the sinking market in a short time."

Qin Mo leaned back in his chair, the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

"Taobao never looked down on the sinking market before, never looked down on rural and town residents, thinking they had no shopping needs."

"Although that is the truth, most buyers on e-commerce platforms like Taobao and JD.com, including Douyin Mall, are urban users. There are almost no rural users, and the proportion of town users is extremely low."

He paused.

"But that is because..."

"On previous e-commerce platforms, there were simply no low-priced products supplied to them. It wasn't that they didn't have needs; it was that no one went to satisfy their needs."

Lin Xiao nodded and just closed the file.

The office door was pushed open again.

Zheng Yue walked in quickly, holding a tablet with the league of legends update announcement shining on the screen.

"General Manager Qin, league of legends has officially pushed the version update."

He paused.

"The esports competition system has been built-in, and all processes have been cleared. Online registration, automatic match scheduling, and game recording uploads—these core modules have all been run through."

"Offline esports venues in various places are also in communication, and the venue in Magic City has already been successfully set up."

Zheng Yue looked up at Qin Mo.

"Do you want to go and see?"

Qin Mo thought for a moment and shook his head.

"No rush. It will take a few months for this tournament to move offline. Just let IceFrog watch the esports system side."

He looked at Zheng Yue.

"Your next task is to focus on the public beta preparation for crossfire."

Zheng Yue nodded.

"Understood."

...

Meanwhile.

Just after the league of legends update went live, many players discovered that a national tournament section had been added to the client.

As long as they had reached the Master rank or above in the past month, they could form a team to participate directly. The system would automatically match them against other teams in the same server area for battles.

On the day of the update,

the esports entry rushed onto the Weibo hot search, and the league of legends official Weibo simultaneously announced the complete competition process.

The section launch did not start the competition immediately, but gave all players who reached the rank three days of buffer time to form teams.

The competition officially starts in three days.

The first stage rules of the league of legends tournament are very simple.

For all registered teams in different server areas of each server, regional selection matches will be held on the weekend in a best-of-three format. As long as a team loses three rounds in total, they will be eliminated, and finally, the top ten teams from each area will be decided.

In the second stage, the top ten teams from all areas of the current server will conduct an online points round-robin, and the top sixteen will be finalized.

The third stage.

These sixteen teams will enter the offline double-elimination tournament of the current server area.

Once in the offline stage, every team will have prize money.

Even the lowest sixteenth place will have 100,000 Great Xia coins.

The top three have prize money ranging from 3 million to 1 million!

Looking at the specific schedule details and prize amounts, countless players instantly boiled over.

The comment section of this announcement was overwhelmed in less than half an hour, and the popularity directly rushed to the top of the Weibo hot search.

There is no other reason.

It is simply because the prize money is too generous.

"Sixteenth place gets 100,000? That's 20,000 per person if split among five people? That's comparable to my income for over half a year!"

"I thought only the champion would get prize money. I didn't expect to get money once entering the offline stage."

"Starting at 100,000, capping at 3 million. This Qin Mo is really willing to spend money. It's a pity I'm only Diamond, otherwise, I would definitely try to form a team. After all, you just need to get into the top sixteen."

"Three days to form a team. Any brothers above Master rank want to rush together? There's still time, hurry, hurry, hurry!"

Previously.

When the specific information was not released.

Everyone thought that you had to win the championship to share the prize money.

But no one thought that as long as you make it to the top sixteen of the Great Xia server, even if you are eliminated in the first round, you still get 100,000.

For the vast majority of ordinary players, this number is no longer the concept of pocket money.

It is a solid sum of income!

The 3 million for first place made countless players boil over. If a team can earn so much money every year, then it is truly possible to treat playing games as a career.

After all, 3 million, divided equally among each player, is 600,000. 600,000 a year is already a quite high income level!

For a time.

High-ranked players from all major servers all started moving.

Players who were still hesitating acted one after another.

Posts recruiting for teams completely flooded the league of legends official forum.