Attention from Professional Teams

Madu, EDG Esports Club.

Support player Tian Ye was chatting with manager A Bu.

"Are you saying this HXDZY's talent is even higher than Hu Xianzhao's back then?" A Bu asked with a frown upon hearing Tian Ye's words.

He knew this ID, HXDZY. A casual player who wasn't famous before. Recently, he had climbed to second place on the Korean server, causing quite a stir in the League of Legends community. Moreover, with his rapid rank-climbing speed, he would soon be able to claim the highly prestigious number one spot on the Korean server. But Tian Ye's words still made A Bu find it a bit hard to believe.

Hu Xianzhao used to be EDG's AD player. Although he had declined now, when he first debuted, he was also known as a teenage genius. He was once one of the three major rookie ADs of the LPL back in the day and was a key target of EDG's cultivation. Before his debut, he had suppressed JackeyLove and A Quai to win the Rookie of the Year award. Unfortunately, he later lost his drive, ruined his own future, and achieved nothing after leaving EDG. Although he had declined now, no one could deny his former talent.

"Yes, I ran into him in solo queue before," Tian Ye said softly, wearing his glasses. "Extremely strong lane pressure, and incredibly good mechanics!"

"Such strong offensive pressure—in all these years, I've only seen it in one person!"

Hearing Tian Ye's high evaluation, A Bu was shocked, his face filled with disbelief: "Are you talking about?"

"Yes, YYDS!" Tian Ye nodded.

As one of the top three supports in the LPL and the only grand slam player in the entire league, he was qualified to evaluate the potential of a rookie AD player. But the fact that he highly evaluated an unknown rookie player like this still left A Bu extremely astonished.

"Have you added him as a friend?" A Bu asked.

"I added him long ago. He's been climbing the ranks very aggressively lately, so it looks like he intends to play professionally!" Tian Ye said.

A Bu pondered. "We have Pu Zhixian in the team now, so I don't know if he'd be willing to come to our club."

"Besides, you saw Hu Xianzhao's situation before. No matter how high the talent is, if they degenerate on their own, no one can stop them!"

He had supported Hu Xianzhao back then, so he naturally knew the entire process of how this teenage genius went from rising fame to becoming a nobody.

Tian Ye nodded. "I've told you about his situation. As for whether to give him a tryout, that's up to you guys to decide!"

***

Madu, IG Esports Club.

Team manager Li Wenjing looked at the scouting report brought by his subordinate and frowned.

"Genius AD?"

"Sweeping the Korean server?"

"Extremely strong lane pressure?"

"A second JackeyLove? Even stronger?"

"Zhang Rui indeed makes it hard to satisfy the boss. Let's contact this young player first!"

Having made up his mind, he called his subordinate.

***

Madu, RNG Esports Club.

"Gala, did you get killed by the opposing AD until you went 0-8?"

"How can you still eat after this?"

"Hehehe!"

RNG player Shi Senming was playfully teasing his AD player, Chen Wei.

"Chen Wei, where did you go?" Li Yuanhao, the mid laner, chimed in.

Chen Wei tilted his head slightly, snorted softly, and said nothing.

***

Chengdu, AL Esports Club.

In an office, manager Guan Hai was chatting with scout Cao Xian.

AL Esports Club, formerly the Rogue Warriors, was later acquired by AG Esports Club and renamed AL. Mentioning AL might not be clear to many, but mentioning AG, many players would know.

Under AG, they possessed many top-tier gaming divisions such as CrossFire, Honor of Kings, CS:GO, and Peacekeeper Elite. The League of Legends division, AL, was not prominent among them. The team was newly established and hadn't achieved any notable results yet. However, their playstyle of charging straight ahead and daring to fight still attracted a lot of casual viewers.

"Are you saying he can climb to number one on the Korean server within these two days?"

Manager Guan Hai was a young man in his early 30s who had previously worked as an analyst and coach.

"Yes, I've been paying attention to this HXDZY for a while," scout Cao Xian, a young man in his 20s who had previously played professionally for a time, replied.

"I investigated his match history. He didn't play much before, but he still reached 15th place on the Korean server."

"These past few days, he has been grinding hard, staying online from morning till night."

"His rank-climbing speed is very fast!"

Guan Hai frowned upon hearing this. "Is he not a trainee from some other team?"

Cao Xian nodded and said, "No, I've inquired around, and other teams are also contacting him."

"So have you added him as a friend?" Guan Hai asked.

"Just added him this morning," Cao Xian replied.

"Not a trainee from another team, nor a streamer, purely a newcomer?"

"Could a genius AD have suddenly appeared out of nowhere?!" Guan Hai found it a bit hard to believe.

LPL producing many genius ADs was a fact known to the entire League of Legends community.

"Yes, definitely a newly emerged genius!"

"This is our opportunity!" Cao Xian's eyes were filled with anticipation.

AL's performance was not good, and the management was under great pressure. AG was no small fry; their other gaming divisions had achieved results, and only their League of Legends division had none, which left them all holding a grudge.

"Sigh, this kind of player won't necessarily choose us!"

"Our League of Legends division's foundation is still too weak!" Guan Hai sighed after hearing Cao Xian's words.

People seek higher ground, just as water flows downward. Being able to join a big club and receive more formal and rigorous training would naturally bring immense benefits to a rookie player's development.

"Let's chat with him first and see if we can add him on QQ or WeChat," Cao Xian said, not discouraged at all.

***

Li Hao's Korean server ranking, after soaring at a speed visible to the naked eye, had attracted the attention of many League of Legends esports scouts and club managers. Many people flooded him with friend requests in-game, wanting to establish contact.

***

The second class in the afternoon was PE.

A few minutes before class started, Xu Jie led Chu Xiaoran to the equipment room.

"Teacher Xu, what are we playing today?" Chu Xiaoran followed behind Xu Jie and asked with a smile. "How about you teach us to play basketball?"

Xu Jie walked up to a pile of footballs, pointed at them, and said, "Today, I will teach you to play football!"

"Huh?" Chu Xiaoran looked disappointed.

Xu Jie looked at his disappointed face, both amused and annoyed. Did this kid know how good his football talent was? Hearing about playing football and making such a face that begged to be beaten!

"Have you played football before?" Xu Jie asked.

Chu Xiaoran nodded and said, "Yes, in primary school and middle school, we had football classes."

"How was it?" Xu Jie asked again.

"Decent! Isn't it just dribbling past people, shooting, and passing?"

"It's too simple, nothing interesting!"

"Basketball is still more fun to play!"