High School Belle Fell in Love with Me

Chapter 652: Chapter 277: Airport Pickup (Part 2)

"Emm, mainly because I thought about the amount of taxes I’ll have to pay next year. The financial sector didn’t make things difficult for anyone, so we should get some benefits for paying so much, right?"

"Absolutely right! Otherwise, we can just find an excuse to delay it for a few years!"

...

A week later, Li Yang began to officially compete, moving from the top 24 to the top 16.

The journey was smooth, and in the knockout stage, Koala Team remained at the forefront.

However, the North America division showed significant progress and could basically keep pace with Koala Team.

At this moment, the neighboring LOL World Championship concluded.

Without a doubt, because of Li Yang’s presence, the team that won the S8 was dismantled, and this year, the best performing team in the LPL only made it to the semifinals.

Moreover, that team was very strong and had exceptionally good luck.

In the semifinals draw, they were matched against the weakest team.

On the day of the draw, all their team players couldn’t stop laughing, and even the audience thought it was an incredible draw, paving the way to the finals.

However... the strongest LPL team, which had dominated the LPL for a season, lost to the weakest team in the semifinals.

They got beaten badly!

A bunch of conspiracy theories appeared online, talking about betting odds, taking money, and such.

But in reality, it was just incompetence!

This incident became the last straw for LPL fans.

They weren’t lacking in patience.

But their threshold was pulled too high.

Who told Li Yang to lead the LPL to a championship back in 2014?

Winning the championship represents being the strongest, the strongest team, the strongest division.

And after Li Yang left, what has happened to the entire LPL? Four years! A full four years!

The best result was only making it to the semifinals.

When have the Great China fans ever suffered such grievances?

Damn, with so many skilled players, they couldn’t form a strong team that could win the championship?

Look at PCL over there, what are their players like?

They have training matches every day, and the duration of their rank games is even included in evaluations.

And LPL players? Every damn day, they neglect their duties, only thinking about fooling around to gain fans, playing rank games as if their own father died, barely playing a few games a day or brushing them off.

Training matches? What the hell is that? Just half-assed it, transferring girlfriend is more fun.

What about girlfriends entering the base or running to the live broadcast room every day, in the eyes of the LPL players, it’s no big deal.

If any PCL player brought their girlfriend to the base, or brought them to training matches or live broadcasts, they wouldn’t be able to play on stage for two months.

PCL players often complain about too many training matches and being too exhausted from usual matches.

But such complaints, for the audience, are the greatest emotional value.

Damn it, I’m supporting you guys so much, if you don’t train properly, who will watch?

After the LPL World Championship ended, there was a storm of cursing online.

Overnight, nearly all the viewership traffic shifted to the PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Global Championship.

Previously, many viewers were unwilling to watch because they loved the game LOL.

But after repeated disappointments, they changed everything!

"I’m a ten-year-old Koala Team fan!"

...

After the first day of the finals of the Global Championship, Bai Qing knew this event was firmly established.

This will be the hottest esports event in the world, and next year, various fees will rise substantially.

Currently, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has around 120 million users globally, and the number of people watching the first-day finals was a whopping 50 million.

How many people watch an NBA game live globally?

Previously, the events were free, and major platforms competed for viewership, so each match had seven to eight million viewers, with the most having ten to twenty million.

But ever since the pay-to-view model started, the traffic plummeted, with many matches having only a hundred thousand viewers, the most reached several hundred thousand, only popular matches reaching around a million.

China had the highest number of viewers.

The most popular NBA match in recent years was two years ago during Kobe’s retirement, watched by 300 million people globally.

Regular events globally attract between 30 to 40 million, with those breaking 50 million being quite rare.

And how much is the annual NBA broadcasting rights worth?

Bai Qing had already started calculating how to sell next year’s broadcasting rights.

This year, the broadcasting rights weren’t very expensive, only sold for 1.2 billion, including the spring, intercontinental, summer, and global championships.

All regions combined amounted to this sum.

PCL alone contributed 600 million.

...

The finals lasted for five days, with six matches each day.

Compared to the previous format of five matches a day, modifications were made for the Global Championship.

The audience reacted that five matches weren’t satisfying.

During these five days, there was no break.

Bai Qing witnessed every match, especially Koala Team.

Koala Team didn’t perform as dominantly as last year, and even by the end of the fourth day of the finals, they hadn’t secured first place, trailing by more than ten points.

Bai Qing had a feeling that Li Yang seemed to be doing it on purpose.

On the fifth day of the match, she noticed that Koala Team had changed their strategy.

Their strategy had always been three assault players creating opportunities for Li Yang up front, with Li Yang using precise shooting to rack up kills.

The advantage of this approach was that, even with bad luck, they could secure two or three points, and with a bit of luck, they could gain ten to twenty points.

The downside was also clear, unless they had fortune on their side, Koala Team couldn’t get the chicken dinner, or secure first place in a single match.

Because of this, by the final circle stage, Koala Team would always be short by one or two people, unable to compete against full teams.

Koala Team’s elimination points were still the highest, but their ranking points were only seventh.