Chapter 125: The Local Major Players Have No Manners!

When he first heard someone in the barrage say that the stickers were on sale today, Xu Beifang's initial reaction was disbelief.

But he thought about it again and realized it was indeed the right time for the stickers to come out, otherwise the Legends Stage matches would be starting soon.

Xu Beifang pressed ESC to exit Deathmatch, and sure enough, he saw the client displaying updated content, requiring him to exit and update.

He opened the console, entered "quit," and closed the game.

Sure enough, he saw that Steam indicated CS: GO had updated content, and the official news push on the right was also about the capsule images.

"The stickers are really out," Xu Beifang said again. "No... I can't enjoy such happy news alone. I'm going to wake byali up."

Xu Beifang greeted the camera in the live stream and walked out of the practice room, returning to the room to pull byali out of his sleep.

"What is it again, brother!" byali was completely dazed. As a standard night-owl player, he had gone to sleep at 2:00 AM last night, and it wasn't even 10:00 AM yet, and he had been woken up twice by Xu Beifang.

Xu Beifang said to him with surprise: "The stickers are out! Stop sleeping, get up and open the stickers!!"

"So fast?" byali didn't blame Xu Beifang anymore; he got up, put on his clothes, and went to the practice room with him.

Xu Beifang sat down again, and byali also turned on his computer and tagged everyone in the VP small group to explain the news.

His CS: GO client had finished updating, and he launched the game directly.

Soon, he entered the normal game screen, except the bottom left corner of the main interface started displaying that the 2018 FACEIT London Major Championship capsules were on sale.

"See, I didn't lie to you! They really came out today!" Xu Beifang turned his head and said to byali.

As Xu Beifang spoke, he clicked directly into the capsule page, which quickly led to a secondary page, namely:

Challengers Stage Team Stickers and Challengers Stage Player Autographs.

Xu Beifang first checked the team stickers.

He saw the VP team sticker at a glance.

"Just like previous years, quite clean," Xu Beifang turned his head and said.

Then he found the holographic sticker for VP below, dragged it to shake it left and right, and found that there wasn't much difference overall, except that the orange hair on the bear in the VP logo could change color.

Immediately following was the glitter-level sticker; the white bear on the entire sticker was in a high-light state, which looked pretty good.

"Let's look at the player stickers," michu's voice suddenly sounded from the side, giving Xu Beifang a fright.

"When did you get here?"

"Just now when I saw byali's message, I came up to see the situation," michu said with some excitement.

Like Xu Beifang, as a newcomer, this was also his first time having a sticker, and having received this thing that belonged to his own glory, he was naturally overjoyed.

But at this moment, he was still turning on his computer and could only look at the screen on his teammate's computer.

Xu Beifang nodded, then found the player autograph interface and started looking for the stickers of the VP members.

At first glance, he saw the sticker of tonyblack from the Vaga team. It wasn't that this player was famous.

It was that this guy's sticker was very interesting; it had a stick-figure mouse head, which was very memorable.

They first found byali's autograph sticker; his sticker looked very much like a personal signature, a very freehand posture.

"It looks good!" Xu Beifang exclaimed. This signature had great aesthetic appeal and looked very comfortable.

michu added from the side: "I like this design of the 'y' dragging the 'ali' up, it's just that I feel this 'a' could be designed more interestingly; this 'a' of yours feels too sloppy."

"Nothing to be done, the style has to be unified," byali spread his hands.

To be honest, byali's signature was indeed good-looking; Xu Beifang planned to collect a few later.

Xu Beifang continued to flip through, and soon pasha's sticker also appeared in their field of vision.

The teammates hadn't actually discussed the designs with each other; according to pasha, if teammates came to interfere with this thing, there would be no personal ideas left.

Sticker design had to have personality!

Then they saw the classic quote on pasha's sticker—pasha, myfriend!

The entire sticker was laid out vertically, with "pasha" and "friend" all in uppercase, covering the background of the entire sticker with huge fonts, and then a small "my" in the middle.

"He even omitted the suffix of his own ID!!" byali gave a thumbs up.

Then he raised his phone to take a picture, sent it to their small group, and tagged pasha:

"You are worthy of being the man who spoils his fans the most."

pasha replied to the message in less than 3 seconds: "Damn, it's pretty good. I feel like I can buy my daughter a piano with the quality of this sticker this year."

The three people in the practice room laughed non-stop. Although pasha said he started his career to make money, he really didn't design this sticker for the sake of money; he was just expressing his own thoughts.

Besides, whether the stickers actually make money doesn't have much of an impact.

The revenue from CS: GO capsules, apart from Valve taking 50% for themselves, half of the remaining revenue from team stickers is distributed to the teams that produced the stickers, and after the club takes a cut, the remaining revenue is distributed to the players.

And for the revenue from player autographs, after Valve takes 50%, the rest is distributed purely among the players.

Just half, and players can receive at least $100,000 in revenue.

Of course, it depends on the club's split; VP's split doesn't involve the players' personal sticker revenue, which is why they can get such high income.

Some clubs keep the players' split very low, so even if players get a sticker, they can't get much money.

$100,000 seems like a lot, but some things only have a concept when compared.

For League of Legends professional players, some players' individual streaming contracts are even much higher than the sticker income of these CS: GO teams that make it into the Major!

You have to know that these players are already the 160 strongest players in the world right now; being able to get this income is actually somewhat unreasonable for the esports industry.

But for Xu Beifang, he was already very satisfied.

Next, he flipped to neo's sticker. The sticker designed by this VP brain was of the minimalist type, focusing on big letters!

It also looked very good.

Finally, Xu Beifang saw his own sticker. Compared to his teammates, his sticker looked more like a stick figure.

The "n" at the beginning was plain. Originally, he wanted the dot above the "i" to be designed as a small flower, but he didn't know if the designer was taking revenge or what; he always felt this "i" looked like a windmill.

The "c" also followed the style, plain. When it got to the "e," it was a bit interesting; the designer finally followed his idea, the entire "e" letter was elongated, becoming a bit oval-shaped.

Then the horizontal line in the middle became a rugged wavy line.

After knowing his concept, the designer even added a little bit of something like an eggshell on the side.

The overall sensory experience was still quite good.

"It's kind of fun!" michu exclaimed.

Xu Beifang turned his head to look at the screen and found that everyone in the live stream was also giving consistent praise:

【Stick-figure style, I like it】

【Not saying anything else, I'm going to turn on my computer and buy capsules. I must open a Nice sticker today!】

【If I didn't understand it wrong, does that 'e' mean an egg?】

【I'm going to buy the hell out of it!!】

【Although the background color of this year's sticker isn't good-looking, I love this sticker too much!】

【Preparing to buy a gold sticker to put on my AK, let Nice bestow upon me the power to break through!!】

【Are you sure it's not 'giving it away'?】

Overseas netizens had good feedback on the design of this autograph sticker.

Xu Beifang himself was also very satisfied, although he was a bit dissatisfied that the "i" had been messed with by the designer.

He took out his phone and took a picture of his gold sticker.

The overall changes to the London Major stickers this year weren't actually big, but the gold stickers still looked better.

He opened WeChat and sent the photo he took to danking:

"How did you know my autograph sticker was out?"

Then he continued to look down; VP only had michu's autograph sticker left to see.

"Not very good-looking," byali said bluntly. "I feel like the overall height is too high, there are a few strokes running outside the sticker."

michu was also very helpless: "Nothing to be done, the ID was thought of casually when I first started playing professionally. As a result, when designing yesterday, I found there really wasn't anything good to do, but it's okay."

"Being able to have a sticker is already good enough, what more could you want?"

"Actually, it's okay," Xu Beifang replied. "It has its own style, at least it feels better than that Cthulhu sticker of NiKo's."

Perhaps because he grew up living by the sea, he always felt NiKo's sticker was as sticky and disgusting as an octopus tentacle.

【What is NiKo's sticker like?】

【Is NiKo in the Challengers Stage? Why didn't I see his sticker?】

【Holy crap, I'm very curious about NiKo's sticker now, damn it!】

"Oh, this can't be said," Xu Beifang also realized what he had inadvertently exposed and quickly changed the subject. "Let's open the capsules first. Today I must open VP's gold sticker and my own gold sticker! Let's come with 100 team capsules and 100 autograph stickers each."

michu added a very vicious sentence from the side: "I wish your mood today is like the blue sky and white clouds."

Xu Beifang hit him on the arm not too lightly: "Screw you."

Then he started to top up and pay to buy the capsules.

He first opened the player's personal stickers, left hand on ESC, right hand operating the mouse to open.

"Blue..."

"Blue..."

"Blue..."

He was opening the capsules quickly and orderly, and the two teammates beside him had also finished updating and started entering the game to check the stickers of others.

michu's blessing was very on point, Xu Beifang wished he could hit him again, because after opening more than 30, he hadn't even seen a purple one yet, focusing on "blue happiness"!

"Today I will definitely be able to open my own sticker!"

Then, while he was operating mechanically, his eyes suddenly saw a flash of red...

Xu Beifang:!!!

He thought he had seen it wrong, turned his head to look at the barrage, and found that the barrage was also a group of people spamming "WTF!".

Xu Beifang clicked on the sticker, and the huge red background came into view.

He held his head with both hands, unable to believe the scene before him.

Then he patted his teammates beside him with both hands.

byali turned his head to look, and his expression changed:

"WHAT!!"

michu was also dumbfounded: "Luck is something that always has a limit for one person. Once it's used up, you're pretty much done, you know?"

Watching their teammate open a glitter sticker in front of them, michu and byali were almost suffocating!

Only then did Xu Beifang carefully look at the gold sticker he had opened:

Sticker | device (Gold) | 2018 London Championship

【WTF!!!】

【He opened device's gold sticker just like that?】

【Laughing like an idiot, but actually I also want to be like an idiot】

【Eat my spear, you lucky bastard!!】

【Go die, you!!】

"Do you know? The CS: GO game market was lifted up because of lucky bastards like me," Xu Beifang said with a smile.

byali asked: "How much is this sticker? Let's check the Steam market."

Xu Beifang clicked to sell on the Steam market, wanting to check the price.

But he found that it seemed to be too early; there wasn't a single device gold sticker on the market right now.

"I am the first person to open a device gold sticker!" Xu Beifang said with a smile. "Now that the Steam market hasn't opened the warehouse, let me be Nice Warehouse No. 1!"

【Nice Warehouse No. 5 received!】

【Hahahaha!】

【Just flip it!】

【Resell it to device himself for 10,000 yuan】

【Damn! I'm adding to my position!】

At this moment, Xu Beifang's phone suddenly made a notification sound; he took a look and found it was a message from danking.

danking: WHO ASKED YOU!!!

danking: I'm so angry!! Beifang, you just wait until you come back and see if I don't beat you up. In the 2019 Major, I will definitely play sniper against you and blow your head off.

Xu Beifang didn't care about danking's threat at all, and even picked up his phone to take a picture:

"How did you know I just opened device's gold sticker?"

danking, who had just picked up his phone, saw the message and felt his whole body go numb!

Xu Beifang was still very kind at heart and took the initiative to type:

"danking, I keep my word. I said if I had a share, you'd have a share. Look at my sticker, doesn't that 'e' look like an egg?"

"It's a pity, I just didn't communicate with you. Now that I think about it, it seems like adding a crown on the egg would be more appropriate. I'll pay attention next time I design a sticker."

danking only felt invisible knives constantly stabbing into his heart; it was too painful!

He planned to calm down and looked at the lively Tyloo big group.

Then he found that the guys in the Tyloo main team were also discussing the sticker matter.

Damn! Having a sticker is such a big deal!!

Do you think I'll be jealous? Do you think I'll be sad?

How is that possible??

I'm in a great mood right now... I... wuwu, I'm in a great mood!

These local Major players have no manners at all!

Next, we are entering the Legends Stage matches.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 126 =====