Duan Fei, who is in charge of the e-sports department, has been very busy recently. The new year is approaching, and the WCG 2014 Super League pre-season will start next spring, which is just over a month from now.
We are currently busy promoting various work matters of the WCG2014 schedule. The World E-Sports Association WESA has been officially launched three days ago. Major well-known e-Sports clubs from around the world have applied to join and have become members of WESA.
The 22 domestic and foreign clubs that were previously invited have obtained seats for the WCG2014 Super League at a price of 10 million yuan, and the other 18 seats will be publicly auctioned a week later.
The starting price is 10 million yuan.
The news currently circulating in the circle is that a conservative 50 clubs will participate in the bidding for these 18 seats, one-third of which are e-sports clubs from South Korea. This is normal. The e-sports industry was born in South Korea has developed industries and many clubs.
Nowadays, times have changed, and the landscape of the e-sports industry has undergone historic changes due to the entry of Qunxing Capital. One of the biggest changes is that the voice of the e-sports industry has shifted from South Korea to a large Eastern country.
South Korea's ICM Company, the tournament operator, and WCG, the most influential e-sports brand at present, have both been acquired by Qunxing Capital.
If you want to play e-sports now, you can't do it without participating in the WCG Super League.
Before Stars Capital took over, WCG was already the most influential event in e-sports. Now that Stars Capital has taken over, it has improved by more than one or two levels compared to the original, not to mention its influence.
If you do not participate in WCG events, it is equivalent to playing football and not playing the World Cup or the Premier League.
Not participating means that the club will definitely not be able to continue, because if any capable professional player sees that your club can't even compete in the WCG Super League, they will definitely quit and run away, leaving nothing but a mess. As a result, even star clubs will gradually lose popularity and traffic, and sponsors will withdraw one after another.
In addition to clubs in South Korea, there are also many newly established e-sports clubs in China, attracting the participation of many owners.
These changes have also made domestic professional players suddenly become scarce. Because many new clubs have been established, the demand for players has soared, especially star players who have achieved results are in hot demand.
If a wealthy boss wants to build an e-sports giant, then star players will naturally be indispensable as standard equipment. This has also doubled the value of star players in popular sports such as "League of Legends".
It has now emerged that the transfer fees for star players in popular sports have soared to 5 million yuan.
Under today's new WESA system, there are clear transfer rules for the flow of professional players between clubs. It doesn't mean that players can change jobs if they want, and clubs can't buy people if they want. There are clear rules. Normative standards and management regulations.
The entry of Qunxing Capital has given e-sports a systematic and standardized management, and it is no longer a wild thing.
The WESA organization has clear regulations for players, including regulations on players' personal behavior, moral character, etc. In the chaotic environment before, it was common for players to fight among themselves or even fight in groups. After the online PK, there were still
It’s not over yet, there will be an offline PK.
This also creates a negative image of Internet cafe street gangsters in the eyes of the mainstream, and they are not taken seriously by the mainstream. In addition to prejudice, people in the e-sports circle cannot be blamed for their own problems.
Now Stars Capital has intervened, the World E-Sports Association WESA has also been established, and the Players Conference has also been established.
Naturally, there must be regulations. The image of a street kid in the past must be eradicated, and it is very strict. It violates the industry regulations set by WESA. The most serious thing is to be directly banned for life, or even banned from the entire e-sports industry.
Being punished like this can basically spell the end of a player's career.
The image in the mainstream vision is already negative. If you want to be accepted by the mainstream in the future, you must first solve your own problems.
At present, Duan Fei, who is in charge of the e-sports department, is also busy. On the one hand, he is promoting the launch of the "E-Sports Storm" satellite channel in Hong Kong. The "E-Sports Storm" satellite channel must be launched simultaneously when the pre-season starts.
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On the other hand, the WCG2014 Super League is accelerating. It has been determined that the pre-season will start in February next year, followed by the summer regular season, then the autumn super season, and the most important Winter Nations Cup.
The National Cup may not be as competitive and valuable as the Super League Super League, but the atmosphere and attention are definitely better than the Super League, because the National Cup gives greater honor to a certain extent and can also mobilize players from all over the world.
enthusiasm and participation.
It is now the end of the year, and the preseason will start in February next year. There is only more than a month of preparation time to fully play. It can be said that it is very tight, the time is very tight, and there are so many things. The workload and pressure of Duan Fei and the WESA organization are also very high.
Big, because WCG is an offline competition, which has very high requirements for overall planning.
And he doesn’t dare to relax. After all, this is a matter that is personally decided by the big BOSS of Qunxing Capital. He will definitely pay attention to it silently. In short, he must not mess it up.
Fortunately, the budget provided by the headquarters is very powerful. The budget for WCG2014 was 3 billion yuan, which is beyond the reach of many traditional sports projects.
The host city of WCG2014 has been confirmed to be held in Xincheng. This is the proper home stadium of Stars Capital. Relevant parties in the city are also fully cooperating and supporting. The construction and renovation of the event venue are also working overtime, directly giving the largest sports center in Xincheng to WCG.
Host tournaments.
But this is not enough, more competition venues are needed.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In addition, a large-scale arena dedicated to WCG events will need to be built in the future, and the New City has even planned to start acquiring land.
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Friday, December 27th.
Fang Hong came to the E-Sports Division of Qunxing Capital. At this moment, the person in charge, Senior Director Duan Fei, and several other branch managers were there. They also realized that Big Boss attached great importance to the E-Sports Division.
"The progress is progressing well, the time is very tight, but the task must be completed as scheduled." Fang Hong nodded with satisfaction after listening to a work report, and then looked to Duan Fei and asked: "Is the budget enough?"
Hearing this, Duan Fei nodded and replied: "It must be enough, and the broadcast rights in major regions such as North America, Europe and South Korea have been sold, which adds up to about 10 million US dollars."
For example, South Korea, where the e-sports industry is relatively developed, has TV stations dedicated to broadcasting e-sports competitions, and foreign copyright construction far exceeds that in the mainland. Foreign regions have to pay for broadcasting fees to broadcast WCG events.
Although it has now sold for more than 10 million US dollars, which is insignificant compared to the total budget of the WCG2014 event of 500 million US dollars, but small mosquitoes are still meat. In the future, when the traffic of the e-sports industry increases, it will be another matter.
Duan Fei added: "In addition, the domestic Yixing Video bought the online broadcast rights of the WCG2014 event in the Greater China market for about 18 million yuan."
The price of the broadcast rights is 18 million yuan, which is equivalent to about 3 million US dollars in US dollars. This price is not high, but it is not low for the domestic e-sports environment because it is not an exclusive broadcast right.
Yixing Video is currently the largest online streaming video website in China. Although it is also a company owned by Qunxing, it still has to pay money. It is more intended to promote the development of copyright. However, we are all members of Qunxing, so the negotiation went smoothly.
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In the next year, domestic players and audiences can watch WCG 2014 pre-season, regular season, super season and WCG 2014 National Cup games for free on Yixing Video.
At present, there are no online live broadcast platforms such as Mouyu and Mouya, and viewers can only watch the game through the online streaming website Yixing Video.
However, when it comes to online live streaming, Fang Hong knew that Chen Yu, who was in charge of quantitative capital, wanted Xiao Ling to debut as a game anchor for the IP personification strategy of the artificial intelligence "Classmate Xiao Ling", so he accidentally launched an online live broadcast platform.
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Calculating the time, this online live broadcast platform should be online soon. According to Fang Hong’s development trajectory in his previous life, Douyu was established on January 1, 2014, which is only a few days later. However, Douyu will not be launched until next year.
I'm going in April, and if nothing goes wrong, I'll definitely go online first.
