Rebirth of the Entrepreneurship Era

Xu Yiyang wanted to engage in team competitions, not to make money, but to increase the popularity of Internet cafes among college students.

Moreover, e-sports competitions have not yet begun to germinate. If you do it early and cut in early, you may have a lot to do in the future.

This college student CS team competition is regarded as a practice.

So Xu Yiyang asked them: "Are you interested in forming a formal CS team?"

The man said: "Yes, there is, but it doesn't seem to be very interesting, because I haven't heard of any other teams, and there are no competitions. Whether a team is formed or not is actually just a few of us just playing around."

Xu Yiyang immediately said: "Our Internet cafe will officially open soon, and we are going to hold a city-wide college student CS team competition in October. If you form a team, you can come and sign up!"

"Really?" The man asked in surprise: "What rewards do you have for the competition? Do you charge registration fees?"

Xu Yiyang said with a smile: "There is no registration fee, but we should limit the participating teams. Tentatively, each university can only have a maximum of three teams to register. As for rewards, the prize money for the champion team will be at least 5,000 yuan. More than 3,000, and the third runner-up will be more than 2,000, and there may be some discounts from our Internet cafes, such as stored-value cards."

Xu Yiyang just casually set a simple rule. The reason why he wants to limit the number of applicants in each school is because he is afraid that if there is no limit and no registration fee is required, those who end up using the mouse will sign up for a team to participate in the competition. It's just too watery.

As for bonuses, Xu Yiyang doesn't know how much bonuses are suitable for competitions these years, but it's just a rough calculation. If there are five people in a team, if they win the championship, each person can get at least a thousand yuan. This should be very useful for college students nowadays. attractive.

Sure enough, when the man heard the amount, he immediately said excitedly: "Really? That's great! Let's participate!"

At this stage, I haven't heard of Internet cafes that host CS competitions. After all, CS has only been out for three or four months.

Moreover, according to everyone's experience, there are really very few competitions that give rewards and do not require registration fees.

This is mainly because organizing competitions is actually a business in itself.

For example, in the past few years, every city likes to hold singing competitions, and it can easily incite thousands of people to sign up. A bonus of one block, and then find a local TV station to expose it, basically there are no other rewards.

Therefore, after such a competition is held, the organizer will make a small profit from the registration fee alone.

Not to mention this kind of singing competition, even a competition for amateur players in the billiard hall requires a registration fee.

However, in Xu Yiyang's view, any competition that relies on registration fees to make money must not be a big competition.

A real competition relies on fully mobilizing everyone's enthusiasm and making the competition as famous as possible, so the upfront cost is naturally borne by oneself, and the profit point in the later stage of the competition is not on the participating teams, but on advertising sponsorship body.

Afterwards, Xu Yiyang exchanged contact information with them, and the leader was Guo Peng, who was the one with the best skills and the best awareness in their temporary team, and could be considered their captain.

Xu Yiyang told Guo Peng that if registration starts for the competition, he will reserve a spot for him, hoping that he will go back and think of a name for the team, and then train hard.

Guo Peng naturally readily agreed. He felt that the strength of his temporary team was good. If he trained hard, he should have the strength to win the ranking.

Seeing that it was getting late, Guo Peng said: "Boss, let's go back first. When you start registering for the competition, you must send me a text message."

Xu Yiyang nodded, sent them to the door, and hurriedly said to the others: "After the Internet cafe opens, we must make good preparations and engage in this competition seriously!"

Although everyone is not very clear about the benefits of having a competition, since Xu Yiyang said it, everyone naturally has no opinion and is waiting for Xu Yiyang's orders.

Xu Yiyang immediately made another division of labor, asking Zhao Xin to find an advertising company to design promotional materials, such as leaflets, posters, and competition logos, and then asking Chen Meng to take other people to distribute leaflets in colleges and universities, and let Shen Lele be in charge of registration at that time.

As for Xu Yiyang himself, he is responsible for formulating the rules of the competition system.

At the same time, he also plans to add ten more computers to be placed on the second floor. At that time, the second floor will be used as a competition venue.

Although Xu Yiyang had never held a similar competition before, he had never eaten pork and seen pigs running, so after some research, he came up with a set of competition rules.

First of all, the registration team must be a local college student team in Zhonghai, and there are mixed youths in society, Xu Yiyang doesn't want to have too much contact with them;

Secondly, the total number of registered teams is 64, and the 64 teams are divided into 8 groups for the group stage. Xu Yiyang believes that it is very easy to gather 64 teams without registration fees and with generous rewards.

Again, the rule of the group stage is that in each team, No. 1 vs. No. 8, No. 2 vs. No. 7, No. 3 vs. No. 6, and No. 4 vs. No. 5. Everyone will play a knockout round first, and the 64 teams will be directly eliminated. Half of it is eliminated.

Although it seems that there are many teams and the game seems long, the elimination is actually very fast.

For example, under normal circumstances, a CS game lasts for one hour, and each round counts the freeze time for a total of two minutes.

In order to speed up the group knockout round a little bit, Xu Yiyang set the game to 24 rounds, with 12 rounds in each half.

The preliminaries can be held in the two rooms below. In each round, four teams can play two games at the same time.

Sixty-four teams, if four teams play at the same time at a time, only 16 rounds are needed to end the first round.

If it's a weekend, play eight rounds a day, two days is enough to finish.

There are 32 teams left in the first round, and 4 teams in each group will go to the second round of group knockout, 4 into 2;

There are 4 teams in the group, the team with the smallest serial number will play against the team with the highest serial number, and the remaining two teams will play against each other.

In this way, 8 groups played a total of 16 games.

These 16 games are still played in two houses at the same time, so only 8 rounds need to be played.

The 8 rounds of the game can be played from Monday to Friday, starting at 7 o'clock every night, two rounds a day, and can be done before the weekend.

After the group 4 enters 2, there are only two teams left in each group.

Immediately afterwards, there was the third round of group knockout matches. The remaining two teams in each group played against each other, 2 into 1.

Eight games, two houses at the same time, four rounds, one Saturday morning is enough.

In this way, there is one team left in each group, and this is the final eight.

The top eight will draw lots and play a total of four games to determine the top four.

In the quarter-finals, there will be a total of four games from eight to four, but the two venues are played at the same time, and two rounds can solve the problem.

In other words, by Saturday afternoon, the top four had already come out.

In this way, let the top four draw lots on Sunday morning, and then play two games. The two winning teams will prepare for the championship and runner-up competition, and the two losing teams will prepare for the third-place competition. It can be done in one morning.

Then, in the afternoon, the third place game will be played first, and the championship game will be played in the second game. In this way, two weekends plus five days in between can end all games.

The overall time is calculated, that is, two weekends plus 5 days in between, and the whole process can be completed in nine days.

These nine days did not have much impact on the normal operation of the Internet cafe. It was nothing more than providing 20 machines for the competition, but once the competition became popular among the college students, the publicity effect would be very great.

As for the rewards of the competition, Xu Yiyang finally decided:

Champion group, RMB 6,000 cash reward, and 2,000 RMB stored-value card for the Internet cafe team;

For the runner-up group, RMB 4,000 in cash rewards, and 1,500 yuan in stored-value cards for Internet cafe teams;

For the third runner-up group, RMB 2,000 cash rewards and 1,000 RMB stored-value cards for Internet cafe teams.

In addition, the other five groups in the quarterfinals will each receive RMB 1,000 in cash rewards and 500 RMB in stored-value cards for the Internet cafe team.

Calculated, the cash rewards totaled 17,000 yuan, and the Internet cafe stored value card rewards totaled 7,000 yuan.

The cost does not seem to be low, but students from dozens of universities will know about this competition, which will greatly improve the reputation of the Internet cafe.

As long as the competition is held fairly and justly, and a good reputation is accumulated, the business of the Internet cafe will definitely be very good in the future.

This investment is really worth it.

Moreover, Xu Yiyang felt that if he met a good team, he would sign directly to the Internet cafe. As the home team of the Internet cafe, he could be their manager in the future, and it would be good to start the e-sports industry in the future.

Fortunately, after investing in the Internet cafe at this stage, there is still about 100,000 yuan in profit from reselling military training uniforms, which should be enough to buy ten better computers and organize activities.

Besides, once the Internet cafe starts to operate and profits come in, there is definitely no need to worry about funds.

All that is left is to start the promotion of the competition immediately after the Internet cafe opens to ensure that all the universities in Zhonghai know about this competition and are attracted by the high prize money!

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On Wednesday, the doors of Internet cafes were hung up.

On Thursday, the scalper got all the certificates for the Internet cafe, and the tobacco monopoly certificate of the tobacco company. At the same time, China Telecom provided the Internet connection for the Internet cafe, and the New Century Internet cafe can officially open for business.

Xu Yiyang decided to open for business on Friday afternoon.

On Thursday night, he called everyone to the restaurant where Zhao Xin's father treated guests to dinner when he reported for duty.

In the hotel box, Xu Yiyang took out the shareholder agreement he had prepared.

When the Internet cafe was registered, the shareholders had already written everyone's names in it.

Since it cannot be divisible, the other six people's shareholding ratio is 14.3%, and Xu Yiyang's is 14.2%.

However, the actual distribution principle is still divided into seven equal shares.

The main content of this shareholder agreement is that seven people will set up a general meeting of shareholders according to what Xu Yiyang told everyone before, and the general meeting of shareholders will vote on everything. Each person has one vote, and Xu Yiyang has the right to veto.

At the same time, the general meeting of shareholders also stipulated that the future development direction and capital allocation will be decided by Xu Yiyang alone.

Everyone had no objection to this, but looked forward to continuing to work with Xu Yiyang, so everyone readily signed.

After the agreement was signed, Xu Yiyang said to everyone: "Before, I didn't suggest that you tell your family about our business, because you didn't know how big we can do. Now that the dust has settled, everyone can report the results to your family. Surprise them."