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After solving the problems in Japan, Boss Jia directly threw everything to Natsume Haruko, and he hurried back to China because the second WCG was about to open.

Time flies, in the blink of an eye, a year has passed, and it’s time for the opening of WCG again.

The second WCG competition, starting from the qualifiers, will be much more intense.

Different from last year, last year’s first WCG, except for “Pokemon”, which held a full year of global championships and selected contestants, all other competitions were held temporarily. Qualifiers.

That is to say, an open invitation letter is sent in the newspaper, and then players from all over the world who are interested in participating in the competition can go to the designated place to participate in the qualifiers, and finally select the strongest players to participate in the main game , It is probably such a process.

But smart people can see that this kind of competition is actually very unrepresentative.

First of all, there may be some expert players who, after seeing the competition invitation, have no money to pay for transportation, or simply do not have visas and so on, they cannot travel to other countries to participate in the unified qualifiers.

Not to mention there are many experts who have not seen these messages at all.

Anyway, after the 1st WCG was held, many experts were aggrieved. They said on the Internet that I can do it too, and I can still win the championship.

In short, this kind of competition is a bit one-sided, and it is impossible to filter out all the experts.

But the 2nd WCG competition will be much more formal.

First of all, except for Pokemon, all the other 7 events in the 1st edition have established their own global qualifier mechanism.

Part of it is the Great-Thousand game at its own expense. Round-robin competitions are held in 32 different cities in 12 countries around the world. Finally, based on the points and rankings of some major international events, it is decided to participate in WCG. Qualifications, this can be regarded as a guarantee for most players in the world to participate in the game.

If you just take a train to participate in the race, if you don’t go, don’t blame others for not being representative.

Of course, countries like Africa don’t have any qualifiers at all. After all, these countries probably don’t even have a decent game console.

Among these 8 games, there are three more games that don’t even need to be paid by Great-Thousand. There are many organizations around the world who are rushing to register to host their own events. The Great-Thousand game only needs to be responsible for the organization. Just start an international tournament.

These three games are Red Alert, Diablo, and Kart.

The popularity of red alert even surpasses the Pokemon League. There are organizations from 14 countries in the world that take the initiative to host national-level events.

There are also 28 national organizations that held city-level events, and the red alert finally established a separate game association, which is the second game association with its own world nature after Pokemon. game.

Of course, these independent game associations are all subordinate branches of the World E-Sports Federation, but because there are too many contestants and competition events, they need to be mentioned separately to manage that’s all.

In addition to the eight competitions of the first WCG, the second WCG also added 4 additional competitions, namely Starcraft hegemony, counter-strike, live football, and top grade speeding.

Among them, Starcraft was a game released in the second half of last year, while Counter-Strike was a game released in early 1997, both of which belonged to Great-Thousand games.

But live football and top grade speeding cars are not. Live football is a game owned by Konami, while top grade speeding cars are games produced by Electronic Arts, also known as EA. This is also the biggest of the second WCG Two highlights, in the second WCG, a non-Great-Thousand game appeared for the first time.

Although the journey for these two games to join WCG is relatively bumpy, after E3 was held last year, Konami and EA announced that they will help their two and three games to establish professional e-sports competitions, and then enter WCG.

But Konami had to cut another game because of the huge cost of hosting the game, and only live football was left.

And EA is mainly because except for the top grade speeding car, the other two professional competitions have very few spectators. Although the national level competition was forced to be held, it was not approved by the International E-Sports Committee and was finally abandoned. grade Speed ​​is just such a unique seedling.

As for the specific journey into WCG, it is also very long.

First of all, they registered for games and events in the International E-Sports Federation in July and August respectively, and at the same time put forward the requirements to enter the WCG.

After that, according to the regulations of the association, they must be in at least 10 countries in the world, which must include the United States, Japan, and China, as well as two states in Europe and South America.

Establish a three-level ladder-shaped competition pyramid starting at least from city-level competitions, rising to national-level competitions, and then international-level competitions, and there are requirements for the prize money, that is, the overall prize money should not be less than 500,000 US dollars .

The holding of these competitions alone caused the two game companies to consume several millions of dollars in funds. Among them, Konami gave up the holding of Contra tournaments because of the huge cost.

If you only spend money, the number of spectators who is the most deadly, the association also has requirements for the number of spectators, that is, the total number of spectators in the entire series of competitions must reach at least one million people.

In the case of EA, they are not bad for money, but it’s because the audience of the two games “Crazy Rugby” and “Sim City” is only trifling less than 100,000, which is not up to The requirements of the International Association can only be waived.

This sounds like a pitfall. At first Konami and EA are also very upset with the International E-Sports Federation and the controller behind the Great-Thousand game.

But they soon discovered that the International E-Sports Federation is actually very beneficial.

At this time, e-sports is a new thing after all. Even in 2020, except for a few games like lol, dota2, and Overwatch that have established a complete league mechanism, many other games are still dead. Can’t die anymore.

Isn’t it because there are too few viewers and the commercial benefits and value are not enough?

Such a standard established by the International E-Sports Committee is actually equivalent to helping them eliminate games with a small audience and insufficient commercial value.

While it can reach the standard game, without exception, it is a well-known figure.

For example, “Football”, as the game is held, many fans of football in reality have become spectators of the “Football” game.

Although the screen of this game is a bit crude, it is only in the game that you can see the famous players from France, Germany, Brazil and other countries gathered in a team to play. , And even see the interesting picture of Bailey tackles Bailey’s dribble.

The same goes for “Top Grade Speed”. After all, the audience still likes to watch all kinds of thrilling racing performances.

The direct income generated by the competition alone has broken through $500,000 in income. Although it is still far behind the cost of hosting the competition, it is still income.

At the same time, the indirect income generated is huge.

After the league was held, the sales of “Football” increased by 1 million copies in three months, allowing Konami to make nearly $5 million in profits, successfully making up for the cost of the competition.

The sales of “Top Grade Speed” increased by 1.5 million copies, and EA made even crazier profits.

But what makes EA depressed is that because of the hot sales of “Football”, the sales of his “fifa International Football” plummeted by 500,000 copies. Obviously, this wave of players have been snatched away by Live Football. .

So it is said that EA has already started preparing for the large-scale e-sports event of “fifa international football”, and is preparing to take back the players it has lost from the hands of “Football”.