“Senior, it seems DGE Club is currently participating in an ‘Entertainment Competition’ hosted by ZZ Live. They say the prize money for winning a match is up to one hundred thousand yuan, split equally between players and the club.”
“Senior, it appears Fei Huang Studio has received a project from Sloth Apartments, helping to edit a promotional video for them, and they’ve also asked Chen Lei to write a theme song for it.”
These enormous dangers immediately put Pei Qian on high alert!
DGE Club was already repeatedly walking the edge of crisis. The previous two million yuan sponsorship was already a very dangerous signal, but unexpectedly, just a few days later, they had come up with something new!
Win one match, one hundred thousand yuan?
It didn’t sound like much, but this “Entertainment Competition” would likely gain extremely high exposure!
If DGE Club’s exposure increased, they might receive more sponsorships, and the situation would become troublesome…
As for the partnership between Fei Huang Studio and Sloth Apartments, it caught Pei Qian completely off guard.
And to make matters worse, even Chen Lei had secretly returned to Jingzhou to ambush him!
Pei Qian was speechless. Chen Lei, you keep saying we’re good friends, but when you came back to Jingzhou, instead of coming to see me first, you went to find Huang Sibo to figure out how to harm me!
Both situations were very dangerous.
But it was too late to stop them now; he could only think of ways to salvage the situation immediately.
For Sloth Apartments, Pei Qian thought of a solution: have Liang Qianfan write all the rental requirements for Sloth Apartments on their official website and the Tenda Life APP!
Sloth Apartments had numerous regulations, especially the lack of storage space, prohibition on purchasing furniture or changing room layouts, and only accepting long-term rentals rather than short-term or shared rentals. These rules could have a deterrent effect on the vast majority of people.
Clearly stating these restrictions upfront would effectively deter most people!
Pei Qian was indeed worried about exposure channels like promotional videos, but he also knew that exposure was inevitable.
Every move Tenda made now attracted a lot of attention. Creating a rental project like Sloth Apartments couldn’t remain hidden forever.
What Pei Qian worried about more was potential customers coming to the site, seeing the apartments, and impulsively deciding to rent them!
After all, Sloth Apartments was designed by Liang Qianfan, and this extremely minimalist style had a tremendous visual impact. Many people might not have time to consider the disadvantages of Sloth Apartments before impulsively moving in.
Therefore, Pei Qian had to have Liang Qianfan list all the drawbacks and issues of Sloth Apartments first, deterring potential customers before they came to view the apartments.
This way, there should be very few people who would impulsively rent at Sloth Apartments.
And even if they did rent, the inconveniences of daily life would continue to have a deterrent effect over time.
As for the DGE Club, Pei Qian hadn’t thought of a good solution yet.
He could only think of ways to solve it gradually later on.
Soon, all the management trainees had completed their reports.
For the first Loss-Making Trainee meeting after the exam period, Pei Qian expressed his satisfaction.
“Everyone has done very well. Please keep up the good work!”
…
That afternoon, on the ZZ Live platform.
The “Entertainment Competition” was about to begin!
Even before the match officially started, a large number of viewers had already flooded into the livestream. This was mainly due to ZZ Live’s overwhelming promotion of this competition.
Moreover, the name “Entertainment Competition” inherently possessed excellent promotional qualities. Hearing these words, many people instinctively wanted to learn about the competition rules.
The schedule had been released. ZZ Live had invited all of China’s top-tier teams, and the “Invincible Team DGE” that YiYi Live had been hyping for so long was also among the participating teams!
So, many viewers came to the ZZ Live platform, wanting to see if the legendary “Invincible Team” was truly invincible or just hyped up by the streaming platform.
The popularity YiYi Live had painstakingly built for Huang Wang was now being leveraged by ZZ Live.
But YiYi Live wasn’t going to back down.
You ride my coattails, why can’t I ride yours?
ZZ Live had invested massive promotional resources for this Entertainment Competition. YiYi Live knew it would be difficult to stop, so they didn’t try to stop it. Instead, they prepared to directly capitalize on it.
Because Huang Wang was streaming his first-person perspective on YiYi Live!
Indeed, the competition was being held on the ZZ Live platform, but if you wanted to see Huang Wang’s first-person perspective? Sorry, you could only come to YiYi Live.
Furthermore, DGE Club members weren’t the only ones participating in the competition. Members from other clubs like H4 were also participating, including people like Pang Ling, who had signed with YiYi Live.
So, although they were competitors who normally would want to destroy each other, the two sides miraculously reached an agreement on the “Entertainment Competition.”
You leverage mine, I leverage yours. How much attention we each get depends on our abilities. Neither interferes with the other.
With both major streaming platforms promoting the Entertainment Competition, the event had accumulated enormous attention before it even started!
Most viewers already understood the rules of the Entertainment Competition.
Simply put, the Entertainment Competition could be seen as an entertainment match. Viewers scored based on an entertainment index, but the prerequisite was winning.
If you lost, no matter how entertaining your performance was, it was useless.
The reason for setting such rules was mainly to ensure the matches had enough competitiveness. If it were purely about entertainment, both sides might pick ten unpopular support heroes and mess around, which would make the match completely unwatchable.
The biggest advantage of the current rules was that: the primary goal for all teams was to win, and to be as entertaining as possible while ensuring victory.
This way, both sides would play very seriously, guaranteeing the competitiveness, confrontation, and watchability of the matches.
At the same time, these rules ensured that the strength gap between both sides could be narrowed, avoiding the situation in official matches where one team might completely shut out the other while giving their full effort.
Good entertainment could double the prize money, so strong teams would rack their brains to be entertaining, increasing the entertainment value of matches. But this entertainment could also backfire, with a weaker team that was playing seriously possibly defeating them.
Whether the strong team won while being entertaining or the strong team failed while attempting to be entertaining, both scenarios would generate significant talking points.
Therefore, these rules excellently balanced entertainment value and competitiveness while also creating sufficient gimmicks.
At DGE Club, Huang Wang began distributing the program list.
Winning without being entertaining would only earn fifty thousand, while winning entertainingly could earn one hundred thousand, a whole doubling.
So, Huang Wang and his team had already prepared several entertainment strategies that they could immediately implement when the match began.
For example:
Feeding kills all game without killing a single enemy, but keeping the economy even through laning and fighting for map resources, ultimately winning through split pushing, distraction, and backdooring with 0 kills.
The whole team chose five unpopular weak heroes and won.
One person being AFK the entire game, winning 4v5;
Ultimate “Four Protect One” strategy to win;
Cutting minion waves, cutting three lanes at the high ground to win.
Everyone not dying or returning to base, winning.
Winning with Coach Ma…
Of course, winning with Coach Ma was too difficult, so everyone decided to play a couple of matches first, test the opponent’s current level, and then decide whether to deploy Coach Ma.
After all, entertainment was entertainment, but if they messed up, they’d lose out on a hundred thousand yuan, which would be too painful.
The reason they prepared so many entertainment styles was mainly for fear that viewers would get bored.
By interspersing various styles, with the entertainment getting better as they went on, viewers would feel impressed and give high scores. High scores meant receiving the full hundred thousand yuan prize money.
The second team would go first. Huang Wang signaled his teammates to follow the first script: win the entire game without killing anyone.
…
The match began, and dense barrages of comments started floating by in the live stream.
Five minutes into the game.
“DGE’s second team has solid fundamentals! Perfect last-hitting! Good positioning and strong ability to pressure the health bar in the lane. All three lanes have the advantage!”
“Huang Wang is quite fierce. The opponent has already been forced back home twice, missing many minions.”
“DGE Club being hyped as invincible seems to have some basis.”
Ten minutes into the game.
“What’s DGE doing? How did they inexplicably start with a 0-5 score? The jungler just keeps stealing camps, not caring if their laners die?”
“Poor anti-gank awareness in all three lanes. How do they keep getting caught? When did the enemy jungler become so fierce?”
“Fortunately, DGE’s players always die after pushing the lane, so their development hasn’t fallen behind. They’ve also secured all the map resources, so the economy is still even.”
“So, you’re being entertaining? How come both teams seem very serious, with no one pulling any tricks?”
“Is this the DGE that’s hyped to be invincible? That’s quite laughable!”
Twenty minutes into the game.
“How is DGE already at 0-12? Not a single kill?”
“The enemy players always successfully escape with low health? Their luck is too good…”
“Are DGE’s players doing this deliberately? Look, they die one by one, never getting team-wiped. But whenever there’s a team fight, the opponents end up with five low-health champions who can only return to base, while DGE can then secure map resources.”
“DGE even took the Baron? If you cover up the kill count, I would have thought DGE had a huge advantage!”
“The opponents have so many kills, yet their economy in each position is worse than DGE’s? This is too surreal!”
Thirty minutes into the game, DGE won by backdooring.
“Wow! They won?”
“Winning with 0 kills until the end? What kind of match did I just watch?”
“I get it now, DGE has been entertaining us from the start! Their goal was to win without getting a single kill! I was wondering why Huang Wang seemed to have several opportunities for solo kills or last hits but gave them up. I thought he was being timid, but it was intentional!”
“Damn, so that’s it. DGE’s acting was too good! They not only fooled their opponents but also the audience!”
“Impressive, they can even win like this. I now believe DGE is an invincible club!”
Many viewers only now belatedly realized what had happened and began frantically voting, instantly maxing out the entertainment index!