The E3 Game Conference in the 2nd millennium AD.

At this year's E3 exhibition, there was Shenmue 2, there was Sword and Fairy Gaiden, there was metal gear, and there was an interactive movie.

But in the end, an explosive term began to appear.

"Esports. ”

The term quickly became popular after the General Assembly of the Order of the Phoenix.

In reality, players are talking about eSports.

On the Internet, the word is spreading at an explosive rate.

"That's CG, that's the World Esports Series. ”

Jade and Terry are watching a replay of the E3 show on TV at this time.

At this moment, it is the figure of Mori Xia who appears in the picture.

"I think people are a little unfamiliar with the term 'e-sports', but I think everyone is probably familiar with the concept of e-sports. As early as 1986, our ABC channel in the lighthouse country used to broadcast live TV between two children to try to play Nintendo game consoles. Although everyone was still ignorant at the time, I think this may be the beginning of esports. ”

"At that time, we were still using the weak red and white machine, but it is undeniable that the red and white machine was an early classic of the home machine. After the birth of the red and white machine, the prototype of e-sports has appeared. ”

Senxia didn't say anything about Atari, because Atari has always been a pain in the hearts of Lighthouse Nation players.

So when he gave an example, he used the concept of "red and white machine".

Although there is a suspicion of advertising Nintendo, Mori Xia is not shy about it.

Even later, Senxia continued to blow Nintendo.

"Ten years ago, Nintendo held game competitions in twenty-nine cities across the Lighthouse Country. Nintendo created a special cassette for the competition, including Super Mario Bros., Red_Racer and Tetris, with a time limit of 6 minutes and 21 seconds, and the final score was based on the combined scores of the three competitions. ”

Mori Xia continued to blow Nintendo.

For those who don't know, you probably think that Mori Xia is a fan of Nintendo.

But what Mori Xia said is indeed right, Nintendo's competition has really received a wide response and achieved excellent publicity effect.

At that time, there were even 26 copies of the "1990 Nintendo World Championship" FC Gold Edition cartridge in the world.

By the way, every Nintendo World Championship cassette costs more than $10,000, which is still low.

"Nintendo is really good, the Nintendo World Championship is the first official video game competition in history, and it was born ten years before the World Esports Championship. But ......"

Charles one, however, quickly changed from Nintendo to veteran Ren Hei.

"However, Nintendo's vision is too narrow. Their seriousness is only their own games, so the concept of e-sports has not been fully demonstrated. Sen Xia said, "Their vision is limited by the times, and their hearts are also obscured by the fog in front of them." ”

"So, it's different now. "We're going to build a global competition from Aurora to Asia Pacific, from Los Angeles to New York. And that's the World Esports Series. ”

"We will choose two or three games from each of the competitive game genres to play. For example, in the real-time strategy game, we will choose StarCraft, Age of Empires 2 and Red Alert to compete, while in the fighting game, we will choose the two games "The King of Fighters 98" and "Street Fighter 3", and in the first-person shooter game, we will choose "Thor Arena 3" and "Counter-Strike". However, on the MOBA, there is only one game for the time being - "Hero's Track". ”

Everyone laughed at the end.

MOBA is now a lonely game on the Internet, winner takes all, and if you want to play MOBA, there is basically only one game like Hero Track.

In fact, other game manufacturers have not followed the trend, but have only done copycat hero trajectory games.

But unfortunately, online games require a number of people.

The number of people who play online games is limited, and the entire market can only support a MOBA game like "Hero's Track".

After other manufacturers come in, they may be able to attract people at first, but the number of players is always limited, and the current AI technology is not developed, so it is very difficult to play a match with teammates comfortably.

Of course, there are also manufacturers who aim at the field of online games that Senxia has not set foot in, and then the east wind of installing broadband caused by the hero's trajectory has made a small fortune.

In a word: those who learn from me live, and those who are like me die.

Jade and Terry, who were in front of the TV, didn't care about anything else.

After hearing the name "Hero's Track", both of them were excited.

Both of these are players in the hero's trajectory.

The two of them have reached the platinum level in qualifying.

The two often like to play qualifying in two rows, and sometimes they play in three rows with a friend they met on the Internet named "Righteous Poison Knife".

They think they still have a little bit of strength.

"Hey, the registration screen is out!"

The two of them weren't just facing the TV, their computers were also sitting on the computer next to them.

After the end of the exhibition, Senxia announced the details of e-sports, which can be queried on the Internet for the first time.

So the two of them are constantly refreshing the "CG" website.

Previously, the site had a simple promotional interface.

But when 12 o'clock in the middle of the night came, when Jade refreshed the interface again, a different picture appeared on the current screen.

The two went to the game of the hero's trajectory, so after the interface was refreshed, the two began to find the details of the game.

"You need at least five people to be able to participate...... Asia, Weekly, Europe......"

The tournament is divided into three regions, with previous matches decided in each region, and the teams that qualify will play the group stage and finals in Los Angeles.

"Five ......"

Jade and Terry frowned.

Because there are only two of them.

And at this time, their QICQ rang again.

Jade clicked on the message, and then his eyes lit up: "Hey, the righteous poison knife agreed to form a team!"

"Cool!" Terry also lit up.

In that case, there would be three of them.

"But there's still two ...... left," Terry added, "Jed, do you see any of our friends who are going to the race?"

"'Uncle Sam' said he had made an appointment with someone else...... Wait, the righteous poison knife says he has a reliable friend. Jade watched online.

"Oh, yes! But there's one more missing!"

The difference between team games and individual competitions is that team games are sometimes not easy to get players together.

At this time, in addition to skill, the player's connections and time itself are tested.

That's a bit of a problem.

"Hey, there is! Lisa says he's available!"

Lisa is a friend of the two, but this player is a "shemale" on the Internet, and the ID he uses is "Lisa".

"Uh-"

However, as soon as he finished speaking, Jade froze.

"What's wrong?" Terry wondered.

"Lisa said he wanted to play Counter-Strike, and he said that if we could sign up for Counter-Strike together, he would join us. ”

It's embarrassing for him to meow.

But Terry hurriedly said: "It's okay, let's sign up! Counter-Strike, don't we like it too?" 'Righteous Poison Knife' also likes this game, you ask the situation over there, see if the Poison Knife agrees." ”

"Well, it's not a conflict anyway. Jade shrugged his shoulders and began to ask about the Poison Knife.

After all, this is the first conference, and you can't expect to have professional players this year, so Senxia's requirements for the competition are not as strict as in the future, and everyone can actually "cross-border" registration.

But if CG can be recognized and welcomed, Senxia will change the rules to make the entire league more standardized.

As for now, that's all there is to it.

"Phew, this side agreed. ”

This is the case with Jade and Terry, who breathe a sigh of relief and form a team that works on both Counter-Strike and Hero's Tracks.

Then Jade gathered everyone's contact information and prepared to get together another day and sign up for the competition......

"Plan through. ”

On the other side, Sen Xia was sitting in the room, also looking at the information on the computer.

The enthusiasm of players for esports is still very high.

The forum of the A company has exploded.

Even if it's a sector that you don't want to manage, everyone is talking about esports.

The Internet in the Lighthouse Nation is like a carnival today.

"But why did you pay so much attention to the information of the stick country before?" Qianjia was also looking at the information on the computer on Sen Xia's side, and then he asked Sen Xia again.

"Although we all think that country is a little delicate, but this kind of thing, we can't get around there!"

Charles sighed a little.

Although he also felt that the stick country was very eye-catching, after all, Sen Xia was three blacks, and Sen Xia's three blacks were even worse than Ren Hei.

"What will be the impact of esports over there?" Qianjia is still very serious when she is doing her business.

At that time, the GDP growth of the country in 1998 regressed a lot, I remember about 6 percent, and the South Korean won depreciated by half, and the stock market was cut in half and cut in half. "At that time, the people of Bangguo themselves also noticed that there were serious problems in the industrial structure of their country's economy - the pillar industries of the national economy were mainly exports, and they were too affected by changes in the world economic environment. ”

"Ahh I remember a lot of animation companies complained that piracy always came out of the country of sticks. ”

Qianjia nodded, there are some things she knows better.

"Yes, after the financial crisis, the country began to change the industrial structure. The film and television industry, the game and animation industry have developed rapidly after being supported - for example, the game StarCraft, you know, how prosperous StarCraft is in the baseman country. ”

As a new force of the national economy, the e-sports industry has really developed greatly in the baseball country, and this abnormal development is very impressive even if Senxia sees it now.

"Ahh Qianjia also knows this.

- Although Senxia played Nintendo on TV shows before, in fact, Senxia is actually really suppressing the contribution of the stick country.

After the release of StarCraft to the country of Sticks, the game caused a certain amount of popularity, and the economic crisis in the country at that time led to a large number of unemployed people, and many people used the game to pass the time.

But at that time, this game could only be said to be a "relatively popular" game, and it was not up to the current level.

But the TV producers of the baseman country had an idea and started producing programs related to StarCraft.

There were a number of reasons for this, one was that the budget of the baseball country TV was tight at the time, and the cost of producing an interstellar show was low - after all, it was obviously easier to shoot and edit it with two computers, and the other reason was that some people found that this humble computer game had a huge opportunity to develop, and it was very competitive and competitive.

This fortuitous historical opportunity has led to the amazing baseball e-sports.

And what Senxia didn't say is that in four years, the annual output value of the e-sports industry in the baseball country will reach four billion US dollars, and the value of its related industrial chain even exceeds that of the baseman's automobile industry.

- It's just that when the Stick Country came out of the economic haze, the situation changed, and they turned to other industries, and this is the reason why "StarCraft 2" did not become popular in the Base Country.

It's not because people are getting older, it's not because the game is not fun, it's because the economic base is different.

Believe it or not, if there is another serious economic crisis, will they continue to pull the esports industry out as a pillar?

Of course, this matter is not available for the time being.

"Actually, if we could, we would have put the e-sports competition in the baseball country, and the effect would have been better. Senxia also had to admit it.

"But you're not going to do that, are you?" of course Chika knew about Mori Xia's resistance to the country of sticks.

In fact, in the mud bombardment, not many people like the stick country.

After all, the universe is a great power......

"Hey, Senxia, you're going to do eSports? Do you want me to lend you the venue? That's pretty cool!"

However, just as the two of them were discussing, a man came into the house uninvited.

When Mori Xia saw the other party, he rolled his eyes directly.

"Alice, why are you here?"

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Today's two-in-one meow meow ~

Having said that, our company does provide hands-on, and the boss incense the great sage who returned every day.

Therefore, there is still a realistic basis before worshipping Yuzao...... Ahem