I Inherited 5,000 Years of Family Property

After a reassignment of personnel, Zhang Menglong became the major shareholder and head coach of the club, also serving as a substitute player for all esports disciplines.

In order to improve the players' skills in a short period of time, Zhang Menglong also designed a training program based on his knowledge of esports, which was certain to lead to significant improvement quickly.

"When did you learn to code?" Wang Ling asked with surprise, watching Zhang Menglong's fingers clatter across the keyboard. He knew that wasn't Zhang Menglong's major.

"What are you writing there?"

"I'm writing a game program that can help players enhance their reaction time and dynamic visual ability."

"Awesome!" Wang Ling exclaimed. "You're the most inspiring rich second generation I've ever met!"

"Keep it low-key!"

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"It's done!" Zhang Menglong returned the computer to Wang Ling. "For this game, each player must train for at least 30 minutes per day. In one month, their level will definitely be a big step up from now, and that's effective for every esports discipline."

"Ok, I'll have someone arrange it right away," Wang Ling told the former head coach as he called him over, "Coach Dai, I'm leaving the training in your hands."

"Don't worry, boss, I'll make sure the players follow through," Coach Dai assured. Stay connected with My Virtual Library Empire

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"Old Zhang, our team is now shaping up, and we've also secured the right to host the Esports Olympics. We just have Riot and Blizzard left to deal with. If they don't grant us authorization, and we proceed with hosting their games, we could be in a lot of trouble," Wang Ling expressed concern.

"You're talking about Riot and Blizzard, right?"

"Exactly. Following their development over the past few years, they've nearly become the big brothers of the game industry. They are very protective of their status in the industry, and as you know, because of the pandemic, last year's World Championships were postponed until now, and the current year's event will take place in May."

"And the timeline for our Esports Olympics is also starting in May. If it were any other year, it might not matter, but with this year's scheduling conflict, they definitely won't let us run major events related to their games, which is why they've rejected our request."

"That's not surprising," Zhang Menglong remarked, "Our competition is selected through a qualifying process, picking out the best teams from around the world to participate. Just the selection period alone takes a month, then add the knockout stages, finals, and semi-finals, and all in all, it'll be over two months. Teams would have to choose one over the other."

"So what do we do now?" Wang Ling asked, "So far, the world events hosted by Riot and Blizzard are the most influential for these games. Although our Esports Olympics sounds grand, it's still only the first edition, and it lacks the same level of prestige."

"If the prestige is low, then we'll just raise it!" Zhang Menglong declared, "Start by spreading the news that the champion of each discipline will get a prize of 100 million US dollars, the runner-up 50 million, and third place 20 million!"

"Are you being serious?" Wang Ling thought Zhang Menglong was only joking last time.

"Nonsense, of course I'm serious. When have I ever said I was joking?"

"Damn, 170 million US dollars for one discipline, 1.7 billion for ten disciplines. My father only gave me that much money in total, and we've already spent a great deal of it building this club. How could the measly sponsorship fees cover but a fraction? How are we going to make a profit?"

"When did I ever say I was looking to make money?" Zhang Menglong said, "I'll cover the costs, as for the profits, we'll divide them according to the shareholder agreement."

"Are you out of your mind?" If it went according to that, Wang Ling would indeed make a fortune, but Zhang Menglong was clearly going to lose money!

"Do you have some grudge against money or what?"

Zhang Menglong obviously couldn't tell Wang Ling that he could earn Cred Points just by spending money, right? He probably wouldn't understand it anyway, and might even be scared to death if told.

"Haven't I told you that I'm not the least bit interested in money?"

"Here we go again!" Wang Ling was speechless. "Forget it, you're the boss; what you say goes. I'll just follow you and make my earnings."

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Time quickly moved on to April, and the preparations for League of Legends Season 11 were already underway. Due to the outbreak of the pandemic, the fans could only watch the matches from their homes via live stream, their desire to attend the events in person amplified countless times.

The lineup of sponsors this year was also unprecedented, with every business keen to take advantage of the post-pandemic industry recovery.

Riot Games' overwhelming publicity put them on major media outlets time and again.

"Damn, the prize pool this year has actually accumulated to 50 million US dollars, which is unprecedented in history!"

"Yeah, the first S Tournament's prize was only 500,000 US dollars, even last year's prize pool was just 12 million US dollars. This year it has exploded by so much, the competition is definitely going to be incredibly exciting!"

"Based on last year's champion prize ratio, this year's winning team can take home 25 million US dollars. Even if the club takes a 10% cut, all the players can still split 22.5 million US dollars, which is more than 100 million!"

"It looks like the teams this year will be going all out to get into the World Championships, the qualifiers will definitely be thrilling!"

Countless League of Legends players were filled with anticipation for this competition.

"The first Esports Olympics will be held at the Olympic Center in Jiangnan City, Huaxia. Countries from around the world can send teams to participate with the following ten Esports events: Street Fighter, CSGO, League of Legends, Warcraft... Each country can send up to three representative teams, with the champion's prize money at 100 million US dollars, runner-up at 50 million US dollars, and third place at 20 million US dollars."

This piece of news spread like a bomb across media outlets big and small all over the world.

"100 million US dollars for the champion?"

"Holy shit, who is the organizer, so rich? Is it the World Olympic Committee?"

"No, I checked, it's a newly registered company, with Wang Ling as the legal representative, holding a 49% stake, and the major shareholder is Zhang Menglong, holding a 51% stake."

"Organized by Zhang? No wonder, so lavish!"

"From April to May? And there's a League of Legends event? But isn't there also the S11 tournament? What do we do?"

"What the hell? With a championship prize of 100 million USD and another at 25 million USD, only an idiot would participate in S11!"

All the major clubs around the world received this news at the same time.

You have to know, maintaining a club is extremely costly, take the nation's top League of Legends teams for example, perhaps a top-level professional player's annual signing fee alone is up to ten million, and the annual expenses can definitely reach tens of millions.

However, the prize money from the domestic top competitions is just so little, and living off sponsorships is extremely difficult for these clubs.

The earliest Esports clubs had to carefully budget travel expenses, accommodation, and meals every time they went out to compete until things slightly improved in recent years.

So for those clubs, making money is very important, this is an opportunity for them to get rich overnight. If they win the championship, perhaps they will have several years of operational costs covered!

"Sign up! Quickly go sign up!"

"But boss, we've already signed up for S11, we don't have more energy..."

"Are you brain-dead? There's a fourfold difference in the prize money, why still go for S11? Cancel the S11 registration, inform all the players, prioritize preparing for the Esports Olympics. Just win the championship, and the club will only need 20 million US dollars, the rest you coaches and players can split!"

"80 million US dollars? Great! I'll sign up immediately!"

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"Have you heard? The Esports Olympics champion's prize money is 100 million US dollars, with the runner-up and third place having 50 million and 20 million respectively!"

"What? Even the third-place prize money can match the S11 champion's prize!"

"Yes! Participating in the S Tournament would drain three generations of wealth, so why not rush to sign up for the Esports Olympics? Maybe in two months, we'll be living in a villa by the sea!"

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"Huh? What? 100 million US dollars in prize money?"

"Coach Liu, we're not going to S11, we're aiming for the Esports Olympics!"

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