Chapter 34: Making Money Isn't Embarrassing!

"How about it? My personally trained jungler is sharp, right?" Jiang Ming leaned lazily against his gaming chair, his long fingers tapping lightly on the desk. "Three-lane support with seamless transitions, jungle vision airtight, and teamfight initiations like they're equipped with precision guidance."

"Streaming?"

"We will stream, but not now. The qualifiers aren't finished yet. Once the qualifiers are done, the team members will meet everyone in the team's exclusive YY channel. Please support us then."

"Hehe, speaking of support, if anyone needs anything, click the link in the bottom right corner of the stream room. Ah Ming successfully reached Master today, and the snack shop is having a big sale. Friends who like snacks, don't miss out."

"When you get hungry during ranked matches, grab a pack of meat floss cakes... Ah Ming's snack shop features only selected brand-name snacks. Great prices with guaranteed quality. What are you waiting for, everyone!"

【???】

【No way, Ah Ming, that sudden act of being flashy nearly gave me a backache.】

【Streamer, your style changes faster than Flash!】

【Where's the Master-level aura from just now? Switching to a sales streamer in a second, is that okay?】

【Brothers, type 'Real' in the public chat!】

【Order placed! Don't ask, just asking is recharging for the faith!】

Taking advantage of the huge number of viewers in the stream room, Jiang Ming, with no burden of being an idol, launched a wave of advertisements.

This overwhelming traffic shouldn't go to waste; personal streaming attention is secondary; it must be converted into real money.

The requirement isn't high: if even one percent of people buy a pack of meat floss cakes, the backend order count would look like a scene of rockets flying everywhere!

One can only say that joys and sorrows are not shared. While Jiang Ming was celebrating his promotion to Master in grand style, the WE training base was silent as death.

Strawberry, the team's top laner, stood behind everyone. Having watched the entire match, his mouth hung slightly open, unsure what words to use to comfort his teammates.

A small mistake?

Or perhaps a moment of inattention?

Forget it. Those excuses work on outsiders, but don't fool yourselves.

WE had four people queued up on the same team, yet they were still beaten by the opposing JM, who was only bringing along a single jungler, Imperial Prince, and they even dragged PDD from IG into the defeat.

"The patch changes have had a huge impact on the mid-jungle dynamic!"

Ab, also standing in the room, sighed.

The new season's increase in the strategic status of the mid-jungle duo by Riot was like a thunderclap warning for WE.

"The game pace is too fast, and the damage of mid-lane assassins is too terrifying; we simply can't wait for the AD to develop fully." Smile painfully rubbed his brow.

Curl was the first to emerge from the defeat, stating frankly: "Ab, I suggest we find videos of this person JM. His understanding of the meta is truly superior to many others."

Ab: "I..."

Ab really wanted to say that as a professional team coach, he had no need to study the gameplay or even tutorial videos of a random player, but the failure of his own teammates was right before their eyes, leaving no room for any avoidance.

The mid-jungle duo had been completely crushed; WE's tactical system, on which they had relied for survival, was also rubbed on the ground by someone.

"The ILP5 championship is in the past; now is the era where assassins rule."

Suddenly recalling a sentence JM had said in the stream room, Strawberry's gaze turned to look at Ruofeng, whose face was as pale as paper.

The era of mid-lane assassins!

Ruofeng, can you do it?

Regarding the mental state changes of the WE members after a ranked match, Jiang Ming did not care about it.

Every move he made to push the league's development was originally intended to reshape the ecosystem of the esports industry.

This barbaric era, wrapped up by capital, needs someone to chisel open the chaos with an iron fist. The million viewers jumping in the stream room right now are precisely the fulcrum with which he will pry open change.

After chatting for a while with the stream room, he continued his ranked career.

Amidst the laughter and conversation with the water friends, Jiang Ming's fingers on the keyboard never stopped.

Full-day streaming serves both to consolidate the victory point advantage of being number one on the national server and to refine the torrent of traffic poured by the YY platform into the sharp edge that will belong to NXG in the future.

In this fan world where 60E runs rampant, if a newly promoted team cannot split heaven and earth with the force of Lei Ting, it will eventually become an unknown duckweed under the shadows of the big houses.

Convert the stream room fans into attention for NXG!

In the esports circle of the barbaric era, the fan culture was actually no weaker than in later generations; otherwise, strange fan groups like 60E and 59E would not have appeared.

Jiang Ming's thinking was very simple: after NXG advances to the LPL, not to say the fans will directly surpass old clubs like WE, but at least it won't become such an obscure nobody that no one buys tickets to watch their matches.

If a professional player lacks personal fame, they can still seek opportunities through competition based on hard skills, but if a club lacks traffic, it truly becomes a struggle to move forward.

First, forget about commercial investment and sponsorships; people running ads don't even consider fringe teams. Second, there is the issue of recruiting and updating fresh blood for the club.

I ask you, for a newcomer, is the first choice a big house, or is it to go to a club with no strength and no results, like taking a gamble?

On this point, the LCK region of the original world has the most to say. With SKT dominating alone, any newcomer with a bit of talent, except for mid-lane players, would prioritize joining T1 for their club; other teams could only eat the leftovers of T1 or wait for players to leave T1 before introducing them at high prices.

He knew better than anyone that the first page of the life-and-death ledger of an esports club is always written with the two characters "Traffic." A team without spotlights is destined to wither amidst the cold eyes of sponsors and the betrayal of talented newcomers.

NXG right now has undoubtedly made a good start. As the boss, Jiang Ming brings his own attention. For a period in the future, as long as they can demonstrate a certain level of competitiveness, traffic and regional resource allocation cannot be lacking.

Therefore, in subsequent ranked matches, Jiang Ming intentionally or unintentionally kept NXG on his lips, tirelessly performing subconscious reinforcement on the stream room audience.

Deepening everyone's impression that there is a team named NXG in the upcoming LPL league!

During the afternoon and evening ranked matches, Jiang Ming's luck was actually quite good. He first achieved a small winning streak of four games. In the latter half, although he encountered some throwers and thin-skinned people in between, with his stable performance in the mid-lane and his powerful command ability, they all won in the end.

It was just around 9 PM. After queuing up with a jungle-support duo whose prefix was DY Stream, he was directly acted against, causing the winning streak to be terminated again.

"Damn it, can you not be so ridiculous? Not even pretending to act, just exchanging a few insults and then starting to feed each other?"

Playing until the late night, seeing Jiang Ming's victory points getting higher and higher, some players who realized they could not compete with him by normal means began to play dirty tricks.

Things like home internet cutting out during key teamfights, the support going AFK at the start forcing the AD to 1v2 in the bottom lane, the jungler forcing a tower dive at level two to catch opponents, giving up double buffs at the start. Two people with the same prefix ID came up with an awkward reason they themselves didn't believe, and then started the "If you're a man, you feed" act.