156: Chapter 156 Sports Events That Are Not Well-Received by Outsiders

The next day.

JD.com's food delivery service went live first, and quite a few people specifically downloaded the JD.com app to take a look.

The restaurant list was indeed made up of sit-down restaurants with physical storefronts, not those small workshops that only did delivery.

However.

Although they were all sit-down restaurants offering delivery, the prices weren't too expensive because there were subsidies in the early stages.

Of course.

The prices were definitely not as low as the Pinxixi Flash Buy; they were standard.

But all users paying attention to this matter knew that this was just the beginning, so it was normal for prices not to be low.

Once Taobao officially entered the market, and all three platforms were squeezed into the same track, various subsidy campaigns would naturally break out, and cheap delivery and milk tea would be inevitable by then.

With the launch of JD.com's delivery service, Taobao was only a day behind.

Just when everyone thought that the buzz for the coming period would belong to the delivery war, that morning, the league of legends official Weibo released a video.

When this video was first released, not many people noticed it.

But in less than an hour, it rushed to the top of the trending lists on major social platforms.

At the beginning of the video, the scene was an internet cafe. Several young people were sitting in front of computers playing a match. The camera swept across their faces, and each person's face held an outburst of excitement.

Their fingers tapped rapidly on the keyboards, and they kept communicating through their headsets during the match.

As the final team fight ended, these people jumped up from their chairs simultaneously, hugging each other. Someone took off their headset and slammed it onto the table, and the eyes of the person next to them were already red.

The camera cut.

Another internet cafe, another city, another group of completely unfamiliar people, the same scene. The moment they won the match, several people screamed wildly.

The scene cut again, players from different countries appeared on camera, all equally teary-eyed after winning the match.

Finally.

Countless video clips were edited together. Everyone spoke at the same time; among them, some spoke Chinese, some spoke Korean, some spoke English.

And all their words finally converged into one sentence that appeared in the center of the screen.

"The third stage of the league of legends tournament, we are coming!"

As the screen darkened, with countless match scenes forming the background, a line of introductory text continued to appear.

"The third stage of the league of legends tournament is about to officially begin."

"In half a month, the offline matches of the third stage will be broadcast live simultaneously on the homepages of major servers. More tournament activities are about to be launched, so please stay tuned."

After this video was released, many netizens were stunned for a moment, but soon remembered that league of legends had indeed said it would organize an esports tournament, and the tens of millions of dollars in championship prize money had even trended for several days at the time.

But the first and second rounds were played so quietly, so quietly that many people thought this so-called esports plan had already been shelved.

No one expected.

The first two stages had been completed so quietly, and now the offline matches for the third stage were really going to be held!

Qin Mo was really not joking.

In other words.

league of legends had not abandoned this project, so the final Global Finals and the tens of millions of dollars in prize money were actually real!

However.

Although they recalled the tournament and knew that league of legends was not joking, most of the comments in the video's comment section were questioning and mocking.

"The first two rounds were finished without a splash. Isn't it too late to start promoting now that the third round is starting? No one watches game tournaments at all. It would be embarrassing if they went to all this trouble and no one watched in the end."

"Games are only fun when you play them yourself. What's the point of watching others play? I'm afraid Langchao Group is going to lose a lot of money this time."

"To be honest, compared to the esports tournament itself, I'm more curious about what the viewing activities will give away. If they give away skins, I can leave the stream running. Anyway, leaving it running won't delay me from playing ranked."

"Following Langchao Group's consistently generous style, the viewing activities will definitely give away skins, maybe even legendary skin chests. As long as I can get free skins, it's not impossible to leave the stream running for a while."

"If no one watches, will they still give out the final tens of millions in prize money?"

So for a time.

Although league of legends players generally did not favor this esports tournament, and few people thought that there would really be many people paying attention to game matches, they were still quite looking forward to the viewing activities themselves.

Besides league of legends players, others outside were even less concerned about so-called esports.

As for the people at Anli Group and Penguin, they only felt that Qin Mo was neglecting his proper work.

If it were just a simple release of a third-stage video, it probably wouldn't have made it to the trending list, so these trending topics were all bought by Langchao Group.

But this was something that couldn't be helped.

Esports didn't have much attention at the beginning, so they needed outside help.

However, Qin Mo believed that by the time the third stage officially started, the popularity of the league of legends esports tournament would no longer be containable.

...

Meanwhile.

In Shanghai, inside an indoor stadium.

This stadium was newly built in Shanghai, its outer walls were gray concrete, and a huge LED screen hung above the main entrance, usually used to scroll and play tournament trailers and advertisements.

Before this.

It had always been a dedicated venue for several traditional sports events, and occasionally rented by stars to hold concerts. The venue could even accommodate tens of thousands of spectators.

However, since half a month ago, this venue had been booked, and until a month and a half later, the interior of the venue had even undergone specialized renovations.

The person in charge of the venue only knew that the venue was to be used for some kind of esports. Although he hadn't heard of this term and didn't understand what it meant, the price offered by the other party was very generous, so naturally, he didn't care whether the other party was holding a concert or doing something else.

At this moment, inside the venue.

The lights in the auditorium were not fully turned on yet; only a few warm-colored ceiling lights were on in the front row area, and several figures were sitting in the first few rows of seats.

Qin Mo sat in the middle, and Jiang Youyou leaned on his shoulder.

Zhao Lei, who insisted on following them, was sitting in the back row.

She had just graduated a few days ago, and her outfit today was more mature than when she was at school. Her long hair was casually scattered on her shoulders, and she was wearing a light-colored dress. Her cheek rested on Qin Mo's shoulder, and her eyes looked towards the stage, which was still pitch black in front of her.

Although she knew that league of legends matches were very exciting, she had personally played it during the internal beta, and this time she also knew that it was Qin Mo who asked her to come and see the offline match venue.

However.

The offline venue rented this time was a ten-thousand-person stadium, not that kind of small studio for hundreds of people.

And this was just one of the venues in Shanghai. One had to know that for the third stage of league of legends, offline viewing was possible all over the world. Langchao Group had renovated not hundreds, but dozens of venues of the same scale globally.

"A ten-thousand-person stadium, will really so many people come?"

Her voice was not loud, and it seemed a bit light in the empty auditorium.

She was just worried that Qin Mo was wasting his effort.

Qin Mo smiled.

"The ten-thousand-person stadium is just the beginning."

"Do you know where I have placed the venue for the fourth stage, that is, the final Global Finals of league of legends?"

Jiang Youyou shook her head.

And Qin Mo's tone was flat, as if he was talking about a trivial matter not worth mentioning.

"The Bird's Nest."