Although Effie, the president of Facebook Games, has gone abroad, the promotion of the 2003 WCG event has not stopped, and the company's headquarters has a special e-sports event department, which is responsible for the original WCG event organization team.

The time has come to the middle of December, after two months of competition selection, the representative teams of each competition region have been determined, and the strong teams from various countries in Asia, Europe and the United States have also gathered in the magic capital, ready to participate in the final finals!

The most eye-catching event is, of course, the CS competition.

This WCG's CS project is really star-studded, and all the strong teams in the world are coming.

Nordic Titan SK-GAMING, MYM, Fnatic, Deutsche Tank MTW, MouseSports, Dutch giants Team Liquid, Maple Leaf giants Evil Genius, CS Uncrowned King 3D and other giants also fought their way out of the encirclement and stood out from the fiercely competitive European region and came to the finals.

Many people may not be familiar with MouseSports, a German team, but when it comes to snipers, there should be no one who doesn't know about it.

In North America, of course, strong teams are indispensable in 3D.

On the Asian side, China and South Korea naturally have the most qualifying teams, and SKT, KT, and Samsung have also obtained the right to qualify.

On the Chinese side, as many as six teams have qualified for the qualifiers, representing the six regions of the country.

Among them, it is worth noting the local grand plan club in the magic capital, and the legendary esports club in Pengcheng.

There is Zhang Liang, an alumnus of Jiaotong University who both Yu Wenfei and Effie know, and after he joined the Hongtu Club, he is also a "man of the hour" in the school.

Jiaotong University top student and professional e-sports player, these two identities may not be surprising when taken out alone, but it is relatively rare to put them on a person's head at the same time.

The legendary e-sports club is the e-sports club owned by the legendary mobile phone company and the crow himself is the general manager.

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Sixteen-year-old Xiao Wu and several teammates, under the personal leadership of the general manager Crow, flew from Pengcheng to the magic capital by plane.

This is Xiao Wu's first time coming to the magic capital.

It was also the first time in his life that he flew and went far away.

Since he came into contact with the game CS, it has been a real change of fate for him. 、

Originally, with his age and academic performance, he should almost go to work in the factory, but because CS played well, the first batch of kings in South China, he was favored by the legendary club and invited him to join the club.

Although the salary of the club is not high, he can still play games with his teammates every day, and he still has a salary of several thousand yuan a month, which is already the most ideal life for him.

This kind of e-sports club sponsored by a large company is indeed much better than the amateur team, and the legendary club is also invincible in the Guangdong provincial selection tournament, becoming the only representative team in South China, all the way to the WCG World Finals.

"Wow! The magic capital is so beautiful, much more beautiful than Pengcheng. ”

Sitting on the minibus to the hotel, Xiao Wu looked at the scenery outside the window and felt a little dizzy.

In 2003, Pengcheng certainly couldn't be compared to the magic capital, no matter how it was from any point of view.

The urbanization construction of the magic capital has always been in a leading position in China.

"Hehe, if you can win the championship this time, the prize money alone will be enough for you to buy a big house in the magic capital and live comfortably for the rest of your life. The crow teased.

"Boss, don't look at the jokes, it's not easy for us to reach the finals, we definitely can't beat those strong teams in Europe and the United States, the sniper gods are here! That kind of pervert, who can beat it!" a member of the team hurriedly said.

In addition to training, they often watch the game footage of European and American teams.

In the video, the reaction speed of European and American masters is really breathtaking, especially the sniper god who was in full swing at that time, and the big sniper is really amazing.

"But that's a real ...... "Another member of the team sighed.

Speaking of the prize money of this competition, everyone's interest was high.

The tournament prize money system has been announced, with CS alone accounting for 70% of the total prize pool, Warcraft accounting for 20%, and StarCraft accounting for only 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.

In addition, CS players also contribute the most in the 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.

As of December 15th, the total prize pool of WCG has reached $32 million and continues to grow.

Because the 2003 WCG Limited Edition Skin Box will be sold until the last day of the Grand Finals, during which time all proceeds will be added to the total prize pool.

Not to mention how much money can be sold in the next half a month, based on the current amount, the bonus allocated to the CS project has reached 22 million......

A total of 64 teams have been selected from all over the world, and those who are selected for the World Finals will have a base prize of $100,000!

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 $12 million left in the prize pool, and these are the prize money for the champion, runner-up, and third place.

Because this figure is still changing, a pro-rata distribution is used.

60% for the winner!

Runner-up 30%!

10% of the third runner-up!

Even if the prize pool does not increase by one point in the latter period, it is only counted as 12 million.

If you win the championship, you will still have $7.2 million in money!

Get rich overnight!

In general, in professional clubs, the prize money is split between the player and the club.

Five players (some teams will also have a substitute) can get 3.6 million US dollars, 720,000 yuan each!

$720,000 is not a small amount of money in any country, especially in 2003.

And because the magic city has decided to build the capital of e-sports, it has also given great preferential treatment to the e-sports industry in terms of taxes, and this WCG finals, all bonuses are tax-free!

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"I didn't dare to think that it would be great if we could make it to the round of 16, 50,000 dollars per person!" said another team member with great interest.

The top 16 teams can get 500,000 US dollars, and the club and the players will be equally divided, and the legendary CS team has a total of five people, with no substitutes, so each team member can get 50,000 US dollars.

That's more than 400,000 RMB!

With this money, you can also buy a house in the non-downtown area of the magic capital.

For these young CS players, it is an astronomical amount, so their goal this time is to enter the top 16!

The crow slapped the player on the shoulder, glared and said: "It's good to have a little talent! The top 16 is not enough, so it's okay, I'll leave it here, if you can enter the top eight, or get a better ranking, then all the bonuses are your own, and the club doesn't take a penny!"

Xiao Wu and the other four team members suddenly widened their eyes and asked in unison, "Boss, you're not kidding, are you?

If the club doesn't share it, the prize money that goes to everyone will be doubled all at once!

$50,000 became $100,000......

And going from the top 16 to the top 8 is nothing more than defeating one more team, and there is still hope for Bo.

Of course, none of them considered the situation that they couldn't enter the top 16, but they were also the king of the Facebook platform, and everyone was still a little confident.

The Raven's promise, of course, is not just to encourage them to achieve better results, but also has other meanings.

The purpose of the legendary company to establish such an e-sports club is to promote the company's mobile phone, and the new mobile phone will be launched soon.

If at this juncture, the legendary CS team can achieve good results in this WCG finals, then the publicity effect is not what 250,000 US dollars can bring.

Therefore, it doesn't matter if the $250,000 is for the legendary company, the important thing is that the team can go one step further and let more players remember the "legend" brand!

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In this WCG competition, Facebook Games has also launched a comprehensive cooperation with the relevant departments of Magic City.

The city has specially provided a large gymnasium as a competition venue, which has been temporarily converted into an esports arena for this competition.

In addition, the city has allocated special funds for a dedicated e-sports stadium, and in the next two years, a new large-scale e-sports competition venue will be built in Pudong New Area.

In terms of publicity, the relevant media in the city are overwhelmingly reported for the time being.

Dragon TV also provides a recording of the pre-game and a live broadcast during the finals, and you can watch all the games in an e-sports column temporarily added by the TV station.

Facebook Games also contacted some foreign TV stations and authorized them to broadcast or record the tournament for free without charging a penny, with the aim of expanding WCG's global influence!

On the network, due to bandwidth limitations, it was not practical to broadcast all the matches in real time on the network, because there were so many users watching at the same time that the network at that time could not meet that requirement.

Therefore, on the Facebook game platform and the Facebook video website, the video of the competition (not live) is provided for global users to watch.

In short, within the scope of the technology license, Facebook Games has done its best!

WCG 2003 was definitely a feast for gamers around the world!