"Hello to all the viewers who are here and watching the live broadcast online around the world! Welcome to the 2016 PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Global Invitational Tournament. Today there will be 25 top teams and 100 players from all over the world competing for a period of time.
Three days of fierce confrontation..."
"In the end, the player with the highest accumulated points will be crowned the first world champion of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. Their names will be engraved on the trophy and in the game, receiving admiration from players from all over the world!"
"Now, let us invite 25 teams from all over the world to make a grand appearance! The first is the No. 1 seed from the Chinese local division, im!"
In the host Kang's passionate words, the emotions of many viewers in the stadium were quickly aroused, especially the first one to appear, which is currently the most popular and strongest IM team in the China Division.
This opening honor naturally belongs to him, and as the ordinary fat man stepped onto the stage at the lead, a smile filled with emotion appeared on his face covered with acne.
In an instant, as if adding fuel to the atmosphere of the scene, the cheers suddenly became overwhelming, causing an overwhelming sound in the venue. Even from chaos to neatness, everyone shouted his name uniformly.
Number.
"Wei Shen! Wei Shen!"
As an e-sports player who was already extremely popular in League of Legends, when he reached the peak of his career, he paid a heavy price for his youth and frivolity, and he plummeted to the bottom.
From a highly praised genius e-sports player to a negative example with mixed praise and praise, as enthusiastic as the applause was at that time, the insults and doubts at this time were as harsh.
And when it moved from the League of Legends project to the PUBG project in its infancy, the doubts and ridicule from the outside world were also pushed to the top. Countless people interpreted it as an escape, and even the name "deserter"
was pressed on his head.
Most people thought that this talented young man would probably sink from there. They never expected that even if he changed to another e-sports event, his outstanding e-sports talent would still be outstanding.
Especially in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, he shined brightly, quickly leading the IM team to kill everyone, becoming the strongest team in the Chinese Division, and single-handedly winning many honors such as the "Killing King" in the division.
A year later, this talented young man took a different approach and once again stood on the stage of the World Championships.
Such an ups and downs experience has undoubtedly given this player a legendary character and made him the most dazzling star in this world championship.
Everything is so familiar. Although it is a different stage, he was still promoted as the number one favorite to win the championship before the game, attracting everyone's attention and becoming the focus of everyone's attention.
It seems that everything is just a recurrence of the scene a year ago, but this time, I will never let the same ending happen again!
Gao Dewei took a deep breath, his eyes behind his glasses became determined, he walked on stage casually, waved in all directions, and then walked to his seat.
At the same time, the teammates behind her also appeared one after another. As the only female player among a hundred players, when Mozi stepped onto the stage with a bright smile, the cheers from all directions were no worse than the former.
After all, girls who are good at games are rare, and those who are good-looking are rare. Those who can stand on the professional stage are definitely rare.
When Mozi stood on the stage of this world championship, the first "PUBG" Global Invitational Tournament had already had a good start. I don't know how many viewers online and offline felt that it was bright and refreshing.
Just like the freshness that the game "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" brings to players, even the introduction of this professional event has given many players something to watch, and even the screen full of "wife" barrages has been maxed out.
The only female player among the 100 players, this gimmick alone is enough to stand out from the crowd. What's more, Mozi, who is at the peak of his competitive status, is also remarkable in the competition area.
As a veteran professional player, with his rich professional experience and Wei Shen, an e-sports genius, the two men form a powerful combination that can guarantee the performance of the entire team.
And with two big brothers leading the team, the two newcomers can show off their talents on the court without any burden or pressure.
It was the wonderful chemical reaction of the team that allowed them to break out of the siege step by step and stand here.
After that, the other three teams from the Chinese Division came on stage and received a warm welcome. As for the unknowns from other divisions, they only received a ceremonial welcome. Who knows that we are a country of etiquette.
This differential treatment is the so-called home field advantage. Looking at all sports competitions around the world, this point is almost the same.
Of course, as long as you perform well enough on the field, you can completely conquer the home audience.
This is also the iron law of any competitive event, the winner takes all.
As the team introduction session ended, many players entered their seats and began to adjust their equipment. The host also took this time to briefly and clearly introduce the competition system of this World Championship to the audience.
As the first world event, the competition system is naturally not perfect enough. This is why the first event had to adopt an invitation system. Although "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" has become popular all over the world, e-sports still does not happen overnight.
Whether it is the establishment of the competition area, the selection and training of players, or the transition from players to event spectators, they are all inseparable from the accumulation of time.
Even football, now known as the number one sport in the world, has finally reached its current heights after hundreds of years of continuous development and evolution.
So at this point, there is no rush for the professional competition of "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds". We can only build the e-sports system step by step.
As the first official sponsor, this first World Championship is naturally more of an instigator. As long as it gets off to a good start and ends successfully, it will be considered as achieving the set goal.
At the very least, you must first set up your own flag on the e-sports stage. The rest is a long period of accumulation, constantly converting players into audiences, and gradually building the basics of the competition system.
Only in this way can the overall situation be gradually revitalized. Therefore, Zhou Dongsheng's instruction in holding this first world event was not stingy. Both the budget and the expenditures of the event were in line with the top world events.
After all, the game itself is already enough to make money, so it doesn’t matter if you lose a little bit in the competition. If you don’t want to leave your children, you can’t trap the wolf. What’s more, this expense is just a drop in the bucket for “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds”, which is making money every day.
In the future, whether it is to expand the prize pool, continue to optimize the competition system, extend the time of the World Championship, etc., we must continue to increase investment, so this is destined to be a continuous "loss-making" business.
But as long as we can open up the traffic entrance of e-sports events, everything will be worth it. Only by binding it to e-sports can we make a competitive game prosperous for a long time.
For example, "Dream Three Kingdoms", a domestic MOBA game that only veteran players know, is not as popular as "Dota" and "League of Legends" in terms of popularity and audience.
However, with the bonus of being the only remaining "domestic e-sports project", it can still be active on the e-sports stage, and can even be shortlisted for the Asian Games and become an e-sports event.
Such a single seedling is like a fig leaf for Chinese e-sports. It may not be big, but it cannot be without it.
However, when Zhou Dongsheng retaliated in the same way, he successfully intercepted Hu and stole the country, and transformed the phenomenon-level game "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" into a serious domestically produced game with the help of Pig Factory.
game.
In this way, there may be an opportunity to change the development trajectory of Chinese e-sports. After all, once the dominoes fall, the chain reactions will often be unpredictable.
But before that, everything depends on the performance of the first domino. If it is not strong enough, it may not be able to promote a chain reaction.
In a unique room exclusively for internal staff, Zhou Dongsheng was watching the game broadcast with great interest. In addition to Principal Wang, there were also many people gathered here.
Among them, Zhang Xiaoguang, head of the e-sports department of Dongsheng Group, also came to the scene, and Brandon Green, the "father of battle royale", naturally could not miss the moment of witnessing his own son's rebirth.
Even Liu specially attended the live broadcast and came to the scene to support the players of his own team. After all, he is also one of the owners of the club.
Pig Factory Games, which is also the organizer, also attaches great importance to sending a vice president to participate. It is also a familiar face, Wang Yi, an old acquaintance of Zhou Dongsheng.
It was Xiang Ding Sanshi who was the one who originally acquired this project. Now times have changed, and the popularity of "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" can be regarded as confirmation of his unique vision.
And Wang Yi undoubtedly represents Zhu Factory’s attitude towards e-sports. After all, the e-sports industry is a piece of cake, and Pig Factory, which regards gaming as its core business, naturally cannot turn a blind eye.
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It's just that because I didn't have a suitable project as an opportunity to enter the game before, my unintentional participation in "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" has allowed the pig factory to successfully intervene and participate in it.
The group of people were chatting and laughing in the room, and the topic mainly revolved around the game itself. Taking this opportunity, Zhou Dongsheng had a more detailed understanding of the development of the current chicken-eating trend.
"After half a year of research and development, our Pig Factory Games has tentatively developed a mobile chicken game. We plan to use this as a touchstone for the mobile game market, and at the same time, we can also accumulate a certain amount of development experience for the subsequent development of "Jedi"
"Survival" mobile game as a foreshadowing..."
Wang Yi smiled and joked with Zhou Dongsheng, and casually revealed such a piece of news. Zhou Dongsheng couldn't help but realize that this was probably the "Knives Out", right?
"PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" became popular all over the world early due to his intervention. This mobile game that followed the trend and gained popularity naturally made its debut early.
This mobile game is, in a strict sense, the first game that introduced Zhou Dongsheng to the concept of "chicken eating".
After all, compared to "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds", which is free to play and has a low threshold, which requires money to purchase tickets and corresponding hardware configurations to play, Zhou Dongsheng's wallet honestly chose the former.
Especially when three or two friends get together and take out their mobile phones to have a blast, the joy is indeed unparalleled.
It has to be said that the application scenarios and advantages of mobile games are indeed incomparable to PC games. As for the experience and comfort, it is obviously not something that mobile game players will consider.
After all, we have already been reduced to playing mobile games, so why do we need a bicycle? Just play it.
In the case where players have no expectations, "Wild Action", which is of decent quality, once caused quite a stir in the mobile game market and was also a contributor to further popularizing the concept of "chicken eating".
It has laid a solid base of mobile game players for the real "people-eating chicken" craze.
Those "memories" flashed through Zhou Dongsheng's mind, and he didn't know if this mobile game that was released in advance would still have the same flavor?
"Zhuchang Games' research and development capabilities in mobile games are beyond doubt. I am very much looking forward to the launch of this chicken-fighting mobile game, which will inevitably set off a phenomenon-level chicken-fighting mobile game craze."
Although the revenue from this game has nothing to do with Zhou Dongsheng, Zhou Dongsheng still offers his sincere blessings. After all, only in this way can the cake get bigger and bigger.
I just don’t know how Tenda will react? Although there is no official authorization in this life, the IP "h1z1" can still be used with difficulty. It is obviously not difficult to develop a mobile chicken game under the guise.
For Tenda, it will definitely not give up such a big piece of cake easily. Maybe the research and development work has already been carried out secretly.
"With Jay Chou's auspicious words, being favored by Jay Chou can be regarded as consecrating this project." Wang Yi joked humorously, and the rest of the people in the room couldn't help but understand and burst into laughter.
Zhou Dongsheng shrugged helplessly. As the game began, everyone gradually turned their attention to the broadcast screen, and Zhou Dongsheng also chatted with Brandon Green.
Feedback to Brandon Green on some of the game content and competition improvements that I have thought of.
"This viewing system is pretty good, but in order to allow the audience to see the players' wonderful operations more comprehensively, I think functions like kill replays are necessary..."
Zhou Dongsheng looked at the broadcast screen and realized that "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" did not have this function at this time, so he reminded him at the right time and continued at the same time.
"Including within the game, many players don't even know how they died. We can also add this replay function to increase the player experience. At the same time... we can also better discover cheat users and facilitate reporting..."
Zhou Dongsheng couldn't help but say sincerely that cheating, as a companion product of the game, was a phenomenon that could not be eliminated even with the buyout system in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. Now, under the free-to-play strategy, it has naturally become more rampant.
There is no psychological burden for cheat players to use it. The account is worthless anyway, so it’s just a matter of pleasure.
The battle of wits and courage between game companies and cheaters is the game industry's "good and evil are not mutually exclusive", and since the devil is always higher, it is almost impossible to completely eliminate cheaters.
Just as there is sunshine, there must be shadows, and game companies can only take a series of measures to curb it.
Fortunately, Pig Factory Games also has corresponding experience in dealing with it. At the same time, because the account is free, there is no burden on the game company to block the account. It only needs to always implement vigorous and vigorous anti-cheating measures.
For players who have high-value virtual items in the game, they will not choose to take risks, otherwise they will lose both their lives and money, and the gain will not be worth the loss.
"Wow~ My dear boss, you are indeed an experienced player. Did God tell you this advice? It's simply great..." Brandon Green was full of praise.
At this time, the game is still going on. In the broadcast screen, a team is killing everyone. Unfortunately, the team prefix is not IM, but a Southeast Asian team from a neighboring country.
Accompanied by the passionate commentary, a player with the ID "forsaken" transformed into the Grim Reaper on the field and was far ahead in the number of kills.
"Forsaken is still showing off! With ten kills, this player from the Southeast Asian region showed us what marksmanship is!"
"Hey, forsaken's team encountered the IM team. Our Wei Shen just got four kills. Now we meet on a narrow road and the brave one wins!"
“Let us wait and see who will win in the end!”
"What?! The forsaken player seemed to have divine help. He just faced him and knocked down Wei Shen with an astonishing reaction!"
"It's incredible, it's incredible. We can see player Wei Shen's stunned expression, as if he can't accept this situation at all..."
At the same time, the director very professionally cut a split screen to show the expressions of the two contestants for comparison.
Wei Shen was seen opening his mouth wide and saying something from time to time.
On the other hand, the forsaken player, a player with a standard Asan appearance, looked calm, as if he had just completed a trivial operation.
Zhou Dongsheng watched with interest. As expected, the variables in e-sports are unpredictable.
Will Wei Shen overturn again despite high expectations?
On the other hand, this forsaken player is extremely talented and can actually show overwhelming strength in the professional arena.
In FPS games, the gap in talent is often milliseconds, but the performance in the game is vastly different.
There is only a slight difference between a genius and a monster, and this forsaken's performance looks like a monster.