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Chapter 329 Subsequent Impact of WCG

With the awards of the last project "FIF2000", the first WCG, which lasted for a week, also came to an end. However, the follow-up impact of the competition is still going on. Whether it is for many media or the public, this is a short term. A pretty hot topic.

A traditional media reported the WCG competition with the headline "Game Olympics kicks off, players from all over the world compete fiercely in BJ": "...the unprecedented scale of the World Cyber ​​Game Challenge (Wolrd CyberGame) will be held in BJ Game from August 8 to 20. The museum kicked off and was initiated by the organizing committee of the WCG event. It is said that the total prize money of this event is as high as 26 US dollars....During a week, game masters from all over the world competed in the "StarCraft", "Three Kingdoms 50", "Special War Heroes" and "FIFA3" and other projects compete...

After a week of fierce competition, Chinese players achieved quite good results in their first expedition. The Zonghengtian team composed of Hu Binguo, Zhou Jiake and others won the gold medal in "Three Kingdoms 3", and Ma Tianyuan worked hard in the "StarCraft" project Got a silver medal...

Mr. Chen, the vice chairman of the event organizing committee, said that from the perspective of the process of this WCG, it is generally successful and has a huge influence. In the future, WCG will be held once a year, and plans to cooperate with more countries to build WCG Into a true gaming Olympics..."

A game professional media made a special report with the title "Interviews with WCG Players": "...the reporter interviewed Hu Binguo and others who participated in "Three Kingdoms 3" at the BJ Times Fashion Building where WCG was held. The following are the players Live Q&A.

Reporter: First of all, congratulations for winning the championship of "Three Kingdoms 3"!

Hu: Thank you.

Reporter: What do you think of this champion?
Hu: It's a kind of recognition for everyone's hard work.

Reporter: When did you get together to form a team?

Hu: It was at the beginning of last year. Two of them played online together in an Internet cafe. They are relatively familiar. They came together when they were preparing to participate in the WCG qualifiers. After meeting several times, they are quite familiar with "Three Kingdoms 3", and they know each other a little bit, and finally formed the current Across the World team.

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Reporter: Judging from the competition, your cooperation is quite tacit. Before you came to BJ, did you often train together?
Hu: There was a short training camp, which was actually only a week. Before that, we had a certain understanding of each other, and after training together for a period of time, the cooperation became more tacit.

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Q: What are your future plans?
Hu: I haven't made up my mind yet. Maybe I will take the road of a professional team, but I haven't made a final decision yet. After all, I will look at other people's opinions.

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After the interview, the reporter was thinking that before, many people thought that playing games had no future, but this e-sports competition seems to show people another path, which is the path of professional gamers. For many players who like games and are willing to delve into games For me, this may be a good new choice..."

Another game media was full of joy announcing on the page that "the first WCG opened and the audience exceeded [-] million". It is relatively conservative, because the opening and closing coincides with the weekend, and the only early final is on Friday night, so there are a lot of domestic audiences watching on TV and rushing to the scene.

The success of WCG also attracted the attention of many overseas media. For example, the famous American game magazine "PCGamer" made a special trip to interview many people in the game industry about their views on WCG.

"...I think WCG is a great party where players can have a lot of fun...sadly they don't have a Quake project..." idSoftware co-founder and lead programmer John Carmack Answered questions from reporters.

"...I think it's a great idea to hold this kind of game competition...Our "FIFA2000" is very popular..." EA President Larry Probst answered reporters' questions like this.

In order to create more gimmicks, the media also found Angel Munoz, chairman of CPL (Cyberathlete Professional League, a professional e-sports league, established in 1997), and asked a very sharp question: "Mr. Munoz, do you think WCG Will the holding of BJ in China affect CPL?"

Maybe Angel Munoz didn't want to be led by the nose by the media, maybe he just happened to be in a bad mood, and he left without answering the reporter's questions.But reporters always have a way. Although they didn’t get any valuable news from Angel Munoz, they can still inquire from other CPL staff. Anyway, the title of the article already has "Facing WCG competition Munoz was speechless."

The Korean who won the championship in the "StarCraft" project, on the one hand, publicized the so-called brilliant victory in the media, on the other hand, he said sourly: "In fact, South Korea started e-sports competitions earlier... 1999 The PKO (Progamer Korea Open) International Invitational Tournament in October 10 was the world’s earliest formal event on a global scale, and it is also the starting point of the current e-sports professional league…”

According to the Korean media, e-sports was proposed by them, and the e-sports global competition was held by them for the first time. If Blizzard had not been in the United States since its establishment, and had never had Korean employees, they would not have even Beware of listing StarCraft as a game made in Korea.It's a pity that when they said this, they completely forgot that CPL (Professional E-sports League) and PGL (Professional Gamers League, established a little later than CPL) organized e-sports competitions earlier, and they also forgot the so-called PKO International There are only 16 participants in the invitational tournament, perhaps because CPL and PGL have not held competitions in South Korea for the time being, and of course it is more likely that the Koreans are naturally.

Another piece of Korean media, after congratulating Park Taemin on winning the championship, also revealed a piece of news that inspired the hearts of the Korean people: "BT, the organizer of Korea's highest-level game event organization and the Korean professional game league KIGL, will jointly launch a new project with Samsung Electronics Group. The GameWorld Cup (GWC for short) is planned to be held in Everland (belonging to the Samsung Group) in Seoul, South Korea in mid-October next year. The goal is to establish a grand event for international game competitions and make it a truly international game Olympic Games……"

In Europe, WCG also attracted a large number of viewers to watch the broadcast through satellite TV.Affected by this, shortly after the end of WCG, the famous French competitive marketing company Ligarena publicly announced that it would repackage the regional event "LanArena" that had been held four times into a more professional event with a larger scope, perhaps the Stade de France in [-] The victory of the Gallic Rooster is unforgettable. The new event is called the Electronic Sports World Cup (ElectronicSportWorldCup), referred to as ESWC. Ligarena also intends to promote it globally.

As a result, the just-started WCG competition will soon face two new competitors, GWC and ESWC, and there are two CPL and PGL with a longer history and richer organizational experience in front of it. Smooth sailing seemed impossible.

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Reports about WCG in newspapers, magazines, and the Internet have not yet cooled down. Suddenly, an uncoordinated article "Cut off the black hand reaching out to children-WCG" appeared in a certain newspaper in the south.

"...certain computer games should be destroyed like opium, and certain tournaments should be boycotted like drugs...

In late August, under the banner of winning glory for the country, a so-called game competition kicked off. In order to find out, the author resolutely decided to go to watch it in person.When the so-called game competition started, the author quickly saw the clues that the so-called game competition was poisoning young people..."

Zhang Lexing had already returned to Hong Kong at this time. This article was sent to him by email after people in China discovered it. Of course, someone has already taken charge of the matter. Reporting to him is just a need for work procedures.However, after reading this article, Zhang Lexing's mood must not be much better. After all, it is a game event organized by himself, and he is called a "black hand". How can he bear it.

"...The competition site is not that big, but there are hundreds of computers crammed into it, most of which are children participating in the competition. Competing in such a harsh environment will definitely only harm the children...

... What is the so-called game of competition?The author made a careful investigation. In "StarCraft", the children manipulated ugly and disgusting monsters (referring to Zerg) to attack each other, and the atmosphere was full of violence... "Three Kingdoms 3" is covered with the cloak of the Three Kingdoms culture. But it promotes war and massacre, and you can even set fire in the game (referring to the fire plan in the game)... "Special Warriors" has a nice name, but the game content is only two, kill or be killed, bring children Their consciousness is nothing but violence . . .

The author inadvertently remembered the article "Who Destroys Who" written by a famous writer a few years ago. Once the writer accidentally saw his nephew playing a video game, he was so intoxicated, and then he knew a game called "Doom". Saw killing people, the flames are soaring, the children feel very exciting and have a sense of accomplishment!

'You killed them with a chainsaw, but who were they? ' the writer asked my nephew.

'Who they are, depends on the mood when I play the game. ... If one day the teacher criticizes me, the person I think of when killing someone with a chainsaw is the teacher.If a classmate quarrels with me, the one I want to kill is the classmate..."

'Is it because of such a small thing that you have the desire to kill people with a chainsaw? '

The little nephew was stunned for a moment and suddenly laughed and said: "This game is called "Doom". Its rule is to destroy whatever it sees. Destruction is everything, and there is no need for any reason." '

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What a terrible fact. Afterwards, the author made some investigations and found that seven or eight out of ten children are playing games, and in some places even the entire class is playing games.The future of the motherland is immersed in violent and murderous games, so one can imagine what kind of people they will become in the future.

In the end, I would like to end with a sentence from Mr. Lu Xun, 'Save the children'! "

The article is very long, and it seems to be based on classics and well-founded, but Zhang Lexing wanted to laugh after reading it.Unexpectedly, there are still people like this who have such a prejudice against games. In the mouths of such people, "Special Warriors", a game that emphasizes small team cooperation, becomes "kill or be killed", "Three Kingdoms" " became murder and arson, and "StarCraft" became a violent game of ugly monsters, but he ignored the football game that couldn't pick out any thorns.Fortunately, many people know what football is. Otherwise, under the one-sided eyes of such people, perhaps football can also be called "a large collection of pornographic violence".

Zhang Lexing was very angry and picked up the phone. Since the article was related to WCG, he called Chen Jingyi first: "Mr. Chen, have you read that article?"

"I see. Boss, I sent someone to investigate. This article was first published in a tabloid, and later it was selected by the Digest newspaper in the south. The author is a sea turtle surnamed Tao. It is said that he has a Ph.D. at Wisconsin International University. ..." Chen Jingyi's calm voice came from the phone.

"Mr. Chen, this guy is very unfriendly to WCG. How are you going to deal with it? I don't want this kind of person to spoil the current good situation."

"Boss, don't worry, I have made arrangements and will take care of this matter in a short time."

"Well, I will wait for your good news."

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Dr. Tao is in a good mood now. Although the manuscript fee has not yet been paid, he is still very satisfied with the response to the newspaper. Although only one Southern Digest newspaper has published his article (not counting tabloids), other There were no opposing articles in the newspaper, which made him feel that his views should be accepted, otherwise why would he be so quiet.

In order to get a diploma abroad, Dr. Tao has already spent all his savings at home. Unexpectedly, it is still difficult to find a job after returning. He stumbled upon a good opportunity when he was distressed. If public opinion can be successfully guided by him, what is his next plan? It will be implemented smoothly.Thinking of this, Dr. Tao decided to add more fire, throwing out his second article "New Forms of Mental Illness-Game Addiction", trying to attract more media attention.

But what made Dr. Tao angry was that before his article was published, another guy jumped out.In Dr. Tao's view, this is simply a naked act of banditry. It is obviously his hard-working "research". Seeing that the article will be fully rolled out after it is published, this is simply what the uncle can bear and the aunt can't bear.

However, good news soon came. A well-known TV station in the country sent an invitation to Dr. Tao. Although he didn't explain the reason, in his opinion, it must be an invitation to promote his views.According to the person from the column team on the phone, that person was also invited. Dr. Tao's battle value immediately increased tenfold. Authentic experts.

(End of this chapter)