Chapter 709: WCG Finals
After listening to Li Xin's report, Yu Wenfei just smiled and didn't worry too much.
"Didn't I tell you before, WeChat is unlikely to surpass QQ in the short term, after all, people have been in business for several years, and this first-mover advantage is still huge. Our WeChat, although it is backed by the traffic mountain of the Facebook spectrum system, will take time to catch up with QQ. Don't worry, take it one step at a time. ”
However, Li Xin still did not give up, and continued: "Is there no way? This is Internet instant messaging, and I am very worried that those users of QQ have developed a habit of using it. In that case, it will be even higher if you want to win over their users to switch to WeChat in the future. ”
As of the end of December, in the domestic network instant messaging market, although there are many companies, but it is roughly a situation of Tencent and WeChat competing for hegemony, the original "second" MSN, the market share is basically eaten away by WeChat.
Therefore, it has become the second largest in the instant messaging industry, and it has also robbed some of Tencent's users.
However, overall, QQ is still the first place steadily, with nearly 300 million registered users and nearly 100 million active users.
WeChat, on the other hand, has more than 100 million registered users and 50 or 60 million active users.
If you have to think of a way, it's not nothing, but the movement is a bit big, Yu Wenfei pondered for a moment before saying, "Let me think about this matter again, and I'll talk about it after a while." You continue to focus on updating the software version, especially on the mobile phone, which must make the user feel very easy to use!"
At that time, it was still the world of button mobile phones, and it was not impossible to use instant messaging software such as QQ and WeChat on mobile phones, but it was indeed a bit troublesome to use.
WeChat is okay, thanks to the strong technical team and Yuwenfei's strict requirements for user experience, users unanimously gave praise after use, saying that it is much easier to use than QQ's mobile phone.
However, Yu Wenfei was still not satisfied, so Li Xin continued to work hard and strive to do better.
Li Xin was followed by Effie, and after Effie was Dong Xiaoxue, Dong Xiaoxue hadn't left yet, Yang Yuanqing had already arrived, waiting in line to report to work......
This is Yu Wenfei's life in a day, busy, boring and boring.
However, with great power comes great responsibility, and while enjoying great wealth and cheering and applause, Yu Wenfei must also bear these burdens.
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When Yu Wenfei was busy in the company, a big event was also happening in the magic city, the 2003 WCG finals, the fierce battle was in full swing!
Today is the last day of the tournament, and before the start of the Grand Finals, the commemorative edition skin will also be discontinued, and a number will be fixed there on the store page.
“84093823”!
$84 million!
The prize money allocated to the contest is $42 million.
This number blinded everyone's eyes, and no tournament has ever had such a prize money in any tournament, let alone an esports tournament, even if all tournaments were included!
Of course, it also makes all the participating teams enthusiastic, and if they can win the championship in this competition, it can be said that they are really rich overnight.
According to the prize money system of this competition, the CS project alone accounts for 70% of the total prize pool, the Warcraft project accounts for 20%, and the StarCraft project only accounts for 10%.
This is also distributed according to the number of gamers and the number of participants, CS is the most popular game, the most influential, the most widely audience, and it is also the most watched project in this WCG Finals.
In addition, according to the statistics of Facebook Games, CS players also contribute the most money in this prize pool!
Warcraft is relatively much worse, but there are still many loyal players in Asia, America and Europe, as for StarCraft, there are too many niches, except for Chinese and Korean players, and the influence is not as good as before.
Based on the 42 million US dollars, the prize money allocated to the CS project has reached 29 million, nearly 30 million!
In the CS project, a total of 64 teams from all over the world were selected to come to the magic capital for on-site competitions.
Any team that makes the World Finals will receive a base prize of $100,000 – a total of $6.4 million.
The 64 teams are divided into four groups, each group of 16 teams, using a round-robin point system to catch and fight, and the top four teams in each group qualify, the competition is quite fierce.
Then the top 16 teams that qualified from the group will be rewarded with an additional reward of $400,000 per team, for a total of $6.4 million.
In other words, as long as you can enter the top 16 in the world, 500,000 US dollars have been received!
That's more than the previous WCG championship prize!
After subtracting these two $6.4 million, there is at least $16 million left in the prize pool, and these are the prize money for the champion, runner-up, and third place.
The winner can take home $10 million!
The runner-up will take home $4 million!
The third runner-up can take home $2 million!
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In the evening, when Yuwenfei hosted a banquet to invite several CEOs of the branch, Effie was absent because she was going to attend the closing ceremony of the WCG finals tonight.
Originally, she wanted to invite Yuwenfei to go, but Yuwenfei didn't agree, so Effie had to go by herself.
However, Yu Wenfei is not completely unconcerned about this, and when he was eating, he asked the waiter to turn on the TV and tune to Dragon TV, which has a live broadcast of the game tonight.
As a result, Yu Wenfei was pleasantly surprised to find that there was a Chinese team in the final championship and runner-up competition for CS!
This team is called the Legend Team, isn't this formed by its own legendary mobile phone company......
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Speaking of which, the experience of Team Legends is as legendary as their name suggests.
Before the start of the game, no one was optimistic about this team, and even all the teams in China were not optimistic, because there were too many old European and American teams this time.
Previously, no Chinese team had ever won any ranking in the CS competition.
Maybe it's because the newborn calf is not afraid of death, or maybe it's stimulated by the high prize money of the game, Xiao Wu and his teammates are really desperate in this competition.
What's even more terrifying is that they have been improving throughout the game.
In the group stage, he stumbled and finished fourth in the group.
In the sixteen into eight, the thrilling elimination of the North American powerhouse 3D.
Eight into four, inexplicably defeated the Korean island strong team Samsung.
In the semi-finals, Xiao Wu and they met the legendary sniper god MTW, which is an old CS powerhouse.
In the first few rounds, Xiao Wu's hands trembled a little in the face of his idol, and the first big game failed miserably.
At halftime, everyone was dejected, thinking that they could not defeat their opponents, but the crow's words cheered everyone up.
"As long as you beat this opponent, you can get four million dollars! Eight times as many as you are now! I'll put it here, as long as you can make it to the finals, all four million dollars will be yours, and the club will not take a penny, 800,000 dollars each!"
The team members immediately became enthusiastic, 800,000 US dollars, that's more than 6 million yuan!
With this money, you can't spend it all in your life......
At the beginning of the second half, the members of the MTW team were blinded at once, which was not at all like the opponent in the first half.
And Xiao Wu also killed his idol three times in a row in the middle door sniper!
As a result, the legendary team reached the final against the Swedish giants SK who swept the world in 2003.