Later in the year, the first Dota global official event was held, and the competition called the TI series finally regained its glory in this world.
This is the first time. Players fought their way through various divisions and then came to China. In the end, 16 teams competed.
The reason why they are able to come here is all because of this year's high bonus: the basic bonus is 10 million yuan, and the global jewelry sales will share the prize pool of 9.02 million yuan, totaling 19.02 million yuan.
This was a high bonus that did not exist in the history of e-sports. In 2006, when there was no clear concept of e-sports and no mature gaming industry in the parallel world, Qinghe Games allocated 19.02 million to e-sports.
Bonuses are a very scary thing.
In this life, the start of e-sports is much higher than in the previous life.
Ren He didn't want it to develop slowly. He knew very well that this was a society that valued money. Why did the e-sports industry gradually gain attention in the previous life? Because the monetary benefits it brought were getting higher and higher.
The signing fee for a game anchor is as high as 8 or even 9 figures, which is unimaginable to ordinary people.
Since money and fame can bring attention, Ren He will give it money and fame.
He couldn't care if these professional players would take the money and forget their original intention. He only knew that this would allow e-sports players to get rid of the hardships of life as soon as possible, and that would be fine.
He can't control anything else.
At this time, the branches that the Qinghe faction had spread out were gradually getting on track. Some of them had simple R&D processes and had already begun trial operations, while others, such as search engines and group purchases, were still in the start-up stage and had not been officially launched.
The development process of the Internet is fast but long. Fast because it changes with each passing day, and long because most Internet empires in the previous life have gone through a long period of transformation, and not everyone can achieve it overnight.
Ren He had the patience to wait.
It was early spring, and according to the start time, he should return to the Juilliard School of Music with Yang Xi.
The domestic incident regarding Ren He did not spread abroad because people abroad did not know who Ren He was or what he did.
This is a public opinion carnival with very clear national boundaries, just like the Guo Meimei incident and the Jia Junpeng incident in previous lives. They are both phenomenal, and their farthest influence only reaches overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia.
However, no one in North America cares about who they are, and for the same reason, no one cares about who Ren He is. Although Dota currently has more than 3 million people online online, this number is distributed in various regions, which is just a development.
The format did not cause any sensation in public opinion.
When people began to realize the horror of Dota, it should have been the time when 6 million people were online at the same time. That was the beginning of real glory.
The current Qinghe game is extremely popular in China because of Kunlun, but it is not that good in foreign countries.
But if it doesn't work now, it doesn't mean it won't work in the future. By then, Ren He's news popularity will have long passed.
If Ren He's knight identity is exposed, it will definitely be a global news event, because knights are global idols.
So when Ren He arrived in North America, even if his identity as the big boss behind the Qinghe faction was exposed, no one would care about him. His influence was far less powerful than Yang Xi's, not even as strong as his little professor's identity.
Even if someone recognizes him there, he won't appear on the news. This is the reality of reporters. Only interview those who are valuable, and forget about those who are worthless.
However, Ren He didn't know that reporter Yuan Peng, whom he had met several times and used tear potion on twice, seemed to have rekindled hope when he saw the news about the Qinghe faction.
He has been tracking the knight for a long time, so long that he can't even remember when he started to be so obsessed with the secret identity of the knight.
Looking at this matter from a normal person's perspective, because Ren He has nothing in common with the knights, one is the boss of a large Internet group, and the other is life-threatening, there seems to be no connection.
However, after Yuan Peng thought that the other party and Xu Nuo were classmates and jointly founded Qinghe Games, he suddenly felt that there was a clue pointing to Ren He.
No one knows that Knight and Xu Nuo are classmates, and even now no one associates Xu Nuo with Knight, because it has been too long since his article was judged as fake news, and everyone has also subconsciously recognized this news.
Without any value.
However, only Yuan Peng still remembers the whole story.
First, it was in front of a small breakfast shop, where Ren He performed push-ups at an inhuman speed. However, when they met in the marathon, Yuan Peng could not confirm whether the boy won the prize in the end, but after thinking about it carefully, he only saw one student of the other party that day.
A contestant in appearance.
And when he met the opponent that time, he knew very well that there was no other player with the same entry number behind the opponent. This was also the same as the promise of the final victory: no registration.
Yuan Peng had reason to believe that the person he planned to intercept, even if it was not Xu Nuo, must be inextricably linked to Xu Nuo.
He had been depressed for a while after the fake news incident broke out before, and was so negative that he had no intention of following up and investigating Xu Nuo. At that time, he also went to school to confirm that there was no one in the class who matched his impression, and Ren He was also in the class.
At that time, I made extra preparations and skipped class for a full week.
But now that I think about it, maybe if I had paid more attention to the promise, I would have really discovered the knight.
If you don’t know Xu Nuo, why do you need to report Xu Nuo’s name in the marathon? And the class reported it so clearly!
He thought of a problem. The original marathon race could provide extra points for the entrance examination. The other party might be Xu Nuo's close relative and friend, pretending to be Xu Nuo's identity to get extra points for Xu Nuo!
Although there is still no image data of Ren He on the Internet, and reporters can't find him, Yuan Peng secretly feels that the big boss of Qinghe named Ren He may be a knight!
Yuan Peng turned back to the room, put on his clothes, took his press card and went straight to No. 13 Middle School. He wanted to find everything that could confirm what he was thinking.
I'm afraid I can't find Ren He's ID photo. After all, he has graduated two years ago, but I'm afraid he can still find the class graduation photo. The class teacher will keep such things.
He didn't need any evidence. Yuan Peng only needed to know that this person did exist and that he was the person in his impression. That was enough.
Then he will use his actual actions to find all the evidence that can prove that Ren He is a knight!
