Chapter 205: Debut on the Spot!
“You’re provoking them so much; be careful of extreme fans doing extreme things,” Li Lishi said to Jiang Shu as he walked into the hall, having witnessed the entire process.
“Heh heh.” Jiang Shu didn’t care. Li Xiuman and Yang Hyun-suk had been hated by fans for so many years and were still doing fine; he was just getting started.
“Later, you and Sang-hyeok should record a vlog; it can also avoid some problems,” Li Lishi said, glancing at the camera.
“Alright.” Jiang Shu didn’t refuse. He was quite interested in this great demon king, but his main task here wasn't to take photos with Faker.
“Where are our IZ*ONE girls?”
“Chairman Jiang, please come this way.”
“Li Lishi, please.”
The group went deeper into T1. It wasn't Jiang Shu’s first time at the T1 club, but it was his first time going to the training room they were headed to now.
The training room he had seen before was for the youth academy, while this time they were going to the second team players' training room.
With so many members in IZ*ONE, they naturally wouldn't use the first team players' training room. Although T1's first team training room could accommodate so many people, they couldn't just make the first team members vacate for IZ*ONE's variety show, could they?
Anyone who did that would definitely get scolded.
When Jiang Shu and his group arrived at the training room, they saw IZ*ONE's members divided into two, with five members sitting on each side. Behind each group of five members, Kwon Eunbi and Li Caiyan were each holding a laptop, wearing headphones, and talking animatedly.
At this moment, the coach responsible for coordinating the group reality show recording for T1 walked over, bowed to Jiang Shu and Li Lishi, and then spoke.
“We have divided IZ*ONE’s members into two groups and selected Kwon Eunbi and Li Caiyan as coaches for a group confrontation.”
“That sounds interesting.” Jiang Shu looked with interest at the girls below, who seemed quite serious. The large screen above was displaying the pick and ban phase.
Except for Kwon Eunbi and Li Caiyan, the other ten wore T1 team jerseys, and their names were on the back, making them look quite official.
Seeing this, Jiang Shu suddenly had an idea and turned to Li Lishi.
“LCK commentators should all play games, right?” Jiang Shu asked a rhetorical question.
Commentators in any region have professional requirements, just different levels, and LCK has the highest requirements, even having rank requirements for commentators. Not playing games is impossible.
“They do.”
“What do you think about holding a ‘Commentator Cup’ where commentators form teams to compete? Would it be interesting?”
Li Lishi was stunned by the question.
It was the period when the World Championship was about to end, and viewers during the offseason could be said to have nothing to do. If a Commentator Cup was put together at this time, the viewership wouldn't be low.
And it would be a perfect opportunity for these commentators and retired players, who constantly evaluate professional players, to compete for the audience to see, letting them sharply critique.
However…
Li Lishi glanced at the IZ*ONE members below.
“Chairman Jiang wants them to participate?”
Jiang Shu smiled and nodded.
“Esports fans’ spending power is also quite considerable.”
What's more, the overlap between esports fans and K-pop fans is quite high.
“That’s a good idea, but the commentators’ skill level isn’t very high, and IZ*ONE’s current skill level probably isn’t up to it.”
As Li Lishi spoke, the match had already begun.
Jiang Shu initially thought, how bad could they be? Until he finished watching this game.
Turns out… some people really can be that bad.
“I thought Xue Yun was bad enough, but I didn’t expect there to be an even more skilled player,” Jiang Shu couldn’t help but exclaim.
Li Lishi couldn't help but laugh.
“Chairman Jiang is referring to that trainee from JYP?”
At that time, Jiang Shu had sharply criticized T1 during his live stream, and Li Lishi had watched the whole thing as well.
“Xue Yun is a trainee from our company,” Jiang Shu corrected the mistake in Li Lishi’s words.
“Oh, I see.” Li Lishi nodded. “After watching their match, is Chairman Jiang still planning to let them participate in the Commentator Cup?”
“From Li Lishi’s tone, are you planning to host the Commentator Cup?” Jiang Shu said, surprised.
There was no special period in this world, and LPL hadn’t come up with this thing that emerged in response to the times. Since they hadn’t, Jiang Shu would give them a hand.
“I will submit an application to the alliance. Whether it can be successfully held depends on the alliance’s response.” Li Lishi didn’t speak definitively, but in reality, his nod meant approval.
Fun fact, he is the chairman of the LCK Council.
“Mm.” Jiang Shu smiled and nodded, looking at the two teams below who had already started their second match. “What kind of series is this?”
“Best of three.” The coach, who hadn't said much, responded upon hearing the question.
“Then let’s wait for them to determine a winner.”
“Get Chairman Jiang another cup of coffee,” Li Lishi said.
“No, thank you.” Jiang Shu stopped the other person, sitting in his chair and watching the big screen.
About twenty minutes later, Li Caiyan’s team typed GG again, and Kwon Eunbi’s team won the match two-zero.
Although they were all quite bad, at least there was a Sakura who knew how to play, and in the beginner stage, she was still able to dominate.
The celebrating girls soon saw Choi Ji-yeon walking towards them.
“Secretary Choi!” Kwon Eunbi quickly called the members over and bowed to Choi Ji-yeon in greeting.
“You all continue, Renmei, come with me.” Choi Ji-yeon finished speaking and turned to leave. The girls looked at each other, and finally, Hitomi Honda quickly followed her.
Zhang Yuanying looked up and happened to see Jiang Shu above. Her eyes lit up, and she waved to Jiang Shu.
“Chairman Oppa!”
Zhang Yuanying’s shout attracted the attention of the members and the T1 staff, who all looked up and saw the group above.
It would have been fine if they hadn't seen them, but now that they did, they all bowed in greeting.
Jiang Shu nodded in acknowledgment and then sat back down.
Hitomi Honda followed Choi Ji-yeon all the way to the second floor and immediately bowed upon seeing Jiang Shu and Li Lishi.
“Chairman! Li Lishi!”
“How’s your Chinese coming along?” Jiang Shu switched to Chinese and asked.
“Still pretty good,” Hitomi Honda replied in accented Chinese.
“Introduce yourself.”
“Hello, Chairman, I am Hitomi Honda, and I am eighteen years old.”
“I’ll be going to Shanghai in December, and I’ll take you with me. Your current Chinese level isn’t good enough; your pronunciation needs to be more accurate.” Jiang Shu had a bit of a headache listening. After Hitomi Honda spoke, he had to filter it in his mind to understand what she was saying.
“I will continue to work hard!”
“Alright.” Jiang Shu waved his hand and switched back to Korean. “Your trip to Shanghai is confirmed. Go back and tell everyone about this. Let those who are interested learn Chinese. In the future, for similar events, I might take you all.”
“Of course, activities in mainland China are limited to you three: Kura and Nako.”
“Yes.” Hitomi Honda’s spirits lifted.
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