Chapter 346: Lottery Draw
On the fourth floor of the Experience Store, in Chen Mo’s personal studio.
Chen Mo was currently reviewing a document detailing the current status of major domestic clubs forming professional teams for *League of Legends*.
At present, a total of 12 domestic clubs had expressed willingness to establish *League of Legends* professional teams. Chen Mo had obtained the information and relevant personnel structures of these clubs as soon as possible.
The financial strength and capabilities of these 12 clubs varied. After roughly checking their backgrounds and achievements in other projects online, Chen Mo ultimately selected 10 teams as the first batch for the *League of Legends* professional league.
Among them, a few teams left a relatively strong impression on Chen Mo, such as MG Team (formerly UB Team), IF Team, EG Team, and NRG Team (Northend Gaming).
Except for NRG, these teams were all established domestic powerhouses with solid foundations, strong economic resources, and more standardized management.
NRG was an esports club formed only during the *Warcraft* era. Although still relatively young, just the name itself satisfied Chen Mo. (Northend refers to Northrend.)
After finalizing the ten teams, Chen Mo sent the list to Zhao Yunting, instructing her to contact these clubs and reach preliminary cooperation agreements.
This was the first year of *League of Legends*’ release. It was still in its rising and developing phase, with countless matters requiring attention and gradual organization.
It was already too late to establish a complete league system this year. After all, it was already mid-year, and the timeline was too tight.
Moreover, the major clubs weren’t fully prepared. Various rules and regulations were incomplete, venue selections were undecided, and it was uncertain how many viewers would watch such a regular league.
Therefore, Chen Mo decided that for the *League of Legends* Season 1 World Championship, he wouldn’t adopt a league selection system. Instead, he would directly use an invitation system, inviting four teams each from the Chinese server, Korean server, European server, and North American server to compete for the championship.
The Season 1 World Championship was scheduled for October, leaving just over three months for preparation. Considering that in Chen Mo’s previous life, the competition systems and rules were already well-established and could be directly adopted, this preparation time was still feasible.
Furthermore, domestic esports competitions had been held before. For example, the Divine Fantasy Game Platform had hosted *Warcraft* tournaments, and the relevant staff had some event experience—it wasn’t starting from absolute zero.
Chen Mo tasked Zhao Yunting with handling communication with the major clubs. Additionally, she was to investigate reliable domestic esports event hosting teams, and if necessary, directly acquire an entire team.
By the time the *League of Legends* World Championship was held in October, the number of champions in the game was expected to reach 50. Although still somewhat limited, many evergreen champions would already be available, ensuring the competition’s entertainment value and balance.
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It had been a long time since he last drew from the lottery, and Chen Mo couldn’t help but open the virtual screen on his wristband again.
In truth, *League of Legends* hadn’t brought him explosive revenue so far. Since its launch, it had only generated around 600 million. Moreover, a large portion of this money had been used by Chen Mo for promotional expenses domestically and overseas.
Of course, this was largely related to Chen Mo’s marketing strategy. After removing champion fees, *League of Legends* lost a significant profit point.
Additionally, Chen Mo hadn’t implemented many operational activities, such as limited-edition skin lotteries. Combined with players’ relatively low enthusiasm for purchasing skins and the player base not yet reaching a massive scale, although *League of Legends* was highly popular, its revenue data wasn’t as staggering.
In Chen Mo’s previous life, *League of Legends*’ revenue only exploded after Season 3. Before that, it had been completely suppressed domestically by *CrossFire*. This was simply the result of different revenue models.
By now, the entire team’s division of labor was complete. Qian Kun would oversee *League of Legends* version updates, while Zhao Yunting’s operations team would handle maintenance. Next, Chen Mo planned to start a new project.
Of course, before starting a new project, he still needed to do his daily spending.
He topped up another 50 million, converting it into 50,000 diamonds.
Chen Mo was now quite familiar with the process. He drew the lottery one by one, and soon, 500 draws were completed.
The items drawn this time were quite scattered. Chen Mo scanned through them and noticed several new skill books and items:
- Design - Story Skill Book (Tier 2): 40 copies
- Design - Professional Knowledge (Human Anatomy): 100 copies
- Design - Professional Knowledge (Advanced Modern Architecture Skill Book): 40 copies
- Presentation - Art Style (Advanced Cult Style Textbook): 80 copies
- Presentation - Art (3D Modeling): 60 copies
- Presentation - Art (Action Effects): 50 copies
- Presentation - Music and Sound Effects: 30 copies
- Item - Fear Obscuring Device: 10 pieces
- Item - Rate Regulator: 20 pieces
- Item - Intelligence Reduction Aura: 20 pieces
- Item - Memory Replay Potion: 50 pieces
“Human Anatomy? Advanced Cult Style Textbook?” Chen Mo began examining these newly drawn items.
Human Anatomy contained detailed medical knowledge, such as the structure of human blood vessels, nerves, and bones, as well as the different effects of various injuries on the human body.
This knowledge was mainly surgical in nature. Unlike traditional medical textbooks, these skill books weren’t just dry facts; they also included content applicable to game development.
The Advanced Modern Architecture Skill Book covered more complex building structures. Previously, before making *Minecraft*, Chen Mo had already drawn some architecture skill books, but those were more basic, covering ancient and modern buildings, mainly focusing on external structures without much internal detail.
This advanced skill book, however, detailed the internal structures of many modern buildings, including ventilation ducts, electrical systems, water supply and drainage systems, and more.
The Advanced Cult Style Textbook primarily provided materials and detailed explanations of cult-related art styles. In fact, when Chen Mo made *Diablo*, he had already used cult art styles in the game. However, since *Diablo* was a top-down perspective game, many models and textures didn’t need to be extremely detailed.
This advanced skill book deepened Chen Mo’s understanding of cult art styles and provided more diverse materials.
Skills like modeling, action effects, and music and sound effects allowed Chen Mo to better handle first-person perspective games, enhancing the game’s realism and immersion.
Combined with the game-specific psychology skill books he had drawn earlier, Chen Mo’s grasp of player psychology had now reached an extremely nuanced level.