189: Chapter 189: A Head-on Confrontation – Refusing to Join the Tencent Esports League!

As Qin Mo's voice rang out, everyone in the room turned their gaze toward him.

"We should choose to cooperate, right?"

The one who spoke was Luo Haijie. He had joined Langchao Group after crossfire became a massive hit. With a solid track record, he was now the Vice President of the Development Business Group.

However, upon hearing his voice, Qin Mo slowly shook his head.

"The league of legends esports project does not need to rely on any other industrial chain. We are self-sufficient, and the Global Esports Alliance of Tencent Group will have no impact on us."

"Once the esports potential of league of legends fully erupts, the outside world will naturally know how to choose."

Having said that, Qin Mo looked at Zheng Yue.

"Issue an announcement tomorrow declaring the independence of league of legends esports. We will not join any other esports system."

"If other organizers want to host global events, we will decide whether to let league of legends join based on whether the price they offer is sufficient."

Qin Mo's tone was quite decisive, leaving no room for discussion.

Knowing Qin Mo well, Zhao Lei and the others simply nodded and did not offer any rebuttal to his words.

At the round table, although some investors and executives seemed to want to say something, they could only open their mouths and close them again as Qin Mo's gaze swept over them.

But the next second, "Why should we choose to be independent?"

Luo Haijie couldn't help but ask, a hint of doubt in his tone.

"President Qin, currently, a large amount of global online and offline esports resources have been monopolized by Tencent Group. To reclaim these resources, the popularity of league of legends events must surpass the entire Global Esports Alliance."

"That is almost impossible to achieve."

Hearing the other party's doubt, Qin Mo did not explain much, simply leaving behind one sentence.

"Have confidence in league of legends."

As he spoke, he looked at everyone. "You must remember."

"Currently, the global daily active users of league of legends have reached 45 million. Before league of legends, this number peaked at only 5 million."

"But the correlation between player numbers and the esports industry isn't actually that high." Luo Haijie spoke again, still wanting to persuade Qin Mo to reconsider.

Listening to his words, Qin Mo frowned. Luo Haijie's attitude was not normal; it was too deliberate.

It was likely that the email Tencent Group sent him contained additional clauses, urging him to push himself on this decision.

This was a common tactic in business warfare—having the other side's people speak for you.

However, "This matter ends here."

Seeing that Luo Haijie still wanted to say something, Qin Mo slowly glanced at him. Upon seeing this, Luo Haijie shut his mouth with some disappointment.

However, at this moment, Kim Seok-jin, who was sitting to the side, seemed to have thought of something and spoke in quite proficient Daxia language.

"Actually, we don't just have league of legends; we also have crossfire."

"President Qin, in your planning for crossfire, there is also an esports component. It's just that in the initial planning, the esports events for crossfire were to be built next year alongside the professional esports system for league of legends."

"But now, facing the blockade, should we launch the crossfire events early to share some of the pressure on league of legends?"

Because he had acquired more shares of Smilegate some time ago, Kim Seok-jin had simply joined Langchao Group full-time, taking charge of crossfire, and now had the qualifications to sit at the table.

As he finished speaking, the others looked over. That's right. If another large-scale event were added, the pressure on league of legends would indeed be much smaller, and the probability of surpassing the Tencent Group Esports Alliance would be higher.

But facing everyone's gaze, Qin Mo slowly shook his head.

"There is no rush to advance the crossfire events; follow the original plan."

"What I want is to use this one game, league of legends, to completely crush this so-called Global Esports Alliance!"

...

After dota 2 announced its Global Finals, almost all players around the world were waiting for Langchao Group's response.

After all, in the span of one night, since the dota 2 video announcement, other top global game companies had successively announced their cooperation with the Tencent Group Global Esports Alliance and detailed which games they were bringing to the partnership.

Although most of these games had only announced their cooperation and had not yet officially built their own esports events, with the resources of the Tencent Group Esports Alliance, it would not take long for these games to build their systems.

Not to mention, dota 2 would also be launching its Global Finals before league of legends.

However, it was strange that although dota 2 had announced its global event and there were only ten days left, Tencent Group had not yet launched the competition rules and promotions simultaneously.

At first, the outside world was a bit puzzled as to why dota 2 had only started with an announcement and then had no follow-up.

But soon, someone explained that Tencent Group was waiting for the choice of league of legends.

If league of legends chose to join the Global Esports Alliance, then without a doubt, the dota 2 Global Finals would definitely be postponed so as not to divert the popularity of league of legends.

As long as league of legends chose to join, it would be the leading entity within the Global Esports Alliance, and Tencent Group would definitely use all its resources to promote the league of legends events.

dota 2 would be cast aside.

But if league of legends did not join, then Tencent Group would begin crazy promotions for the dota 2 Global Finals, hoping to steal all the attention and popularity before the fourth stage of the league of legends competition began.

But Tencent Group would not give Langchao Group too much time—three days at most.

Within three days, if league of legends had not yet made a statement, then the dota 2 event would proceed fully.

At this moment, the dota 2 Global Finals seemed like the Sword of Damocles hanging over the head of the league of legends events.

Just as countless players around the world thought that Langchao Group would need some time to consider before giving their answer, no one expected that only ten hours had passed.

At 8:00 AM the next day, the global official account of league of legends simultaneously released a statement.

The statement was not long, containing only one sentence.

"The league of legends events will be independent and will never join the esports system of any other organization or facility!"

Once this announcement was released, it was as if a bomb had been dropped into an already turbulent internet lake!

No one had expected that after Tencent Group announced the Global Esports Alliance and brought in major top global game companies, monopolizing many offline and online esports resources, league of legends would actually choose to stand firm and never bow down!

For a time, the entire internet was buzzing with discussion.

"Not to be rude, brother, but even if you refuse, couldn't you have dragged out Tencent Group's time? By announcing the refusal now, didn't you just give the dota 2 event more time?"

"Are they really planning to have one game stand firm against all global game companies? Goodness, that's too exaggerated."

"Others have dozens of games, and the number is still increasing as they sign with various game companies. Can they really win by relying on just one game, league of legends? Are they not even bringing out crossfire to help fend them off?"

"It wouldn't be that next year we really won't have any league of legends matches to watch, would it?"