284. The Esports tournament is over
The first World Esports Championship (CG) was successfully concluded, triggering a round of hot reports from many domestic and foreign media.
In the previous perception of people in Western countries, Asia is a wild land of the Internet, and they do not know that although the Internet developed in Asia relatively late, it is not much worse than the Western world.
As the first world esports tournament to be held in Asia, CG has attracted countless people's attention.
Including the previous fights and brawls, foreign media have also reported on them. However, this kind of thing is too common, except for daily smearing, foreign media reports are nothing new and cannot attract the attention of foreign netizens.
On the contrary, the news that the competition ended successfully and a number of champions and runners-up were decided attracted the attention of many foreign netizens.
When the winners of several events held up huge checks with $300,000 on the Internet, many people were envious. There's no way not to be envious, it's just a game to get $300,000, which is not a small amount for any ordinary foreign netizen.
After all, there are also many foreigners, they may not be able to save so much money in their lifetime, and they will get 300,000 at once, not to mention becoming rich, at least they can live in an instant I don't know how many times, and I don't know how many years they can struggle less, which makes countless players who love games begin to gear up and prepare to participate in next year's CG competition.
Of course, foreign news is actually not important, because Zhou Fangyuan's current goal is not abroad, he is more concerned about domestic news.
The domestic mainstream media finally spoke out, they did not exaggerate the results of this competition, nor did they belittle it excessively, but only reported it relatively objectively.
It is an indisputable fact that Huaxia players can be said to have zero gain in terms of championship this time, after all, Huaxia is now inferior to Western countries in terms of network construction and computer popularity. And the tolerance of games in China is not too high, many parents are reluctant to play games for their children, and there are many adults who think that games are playthings and are not worth promoting.
Of course, games do have the attribute of playthings, and no one can deny this.
But I have to say that when I thought that the runner-up of the CS individual competition and the third runner-up of a StarCraft individual competition held up the check display board representing 1.1 million and 400,000 soft girl coins respectively, I don't know how many people lost their voices in an instant.
For example, the group of people who scolded players on various occasions before now have nothing to say.
It's ridiculous that when they may still be worried about a bag of instant noodles, there are already people who have made a fortune from things they don't even look down on. Although only a few people get rich, so what?
People can only see the success of other people, and they can't see the efforts of these people, and when they look at the six-digit and seven-digit deposits with red eyes, there is only one thought in their hearts - that is, envy, jealousy and hatred.
Some people began to belittle the game more frantically, others began to change their mindset and look at the game with relative peace, and some people directly reversed their stance and began to contact the game and experience the fun of it. Of course, this is all a later story, and what Zhou Fangyuan focuses on is the mainstream media's evaluation of this competition.
A well-known newspaper commented that the competition was a successful competition, which not only publicized the development of China, but also showed the warmth and hospitality of the Chinese people.
Although they are all good words, they are too online, and the official language is throughout, which makes people want to doze off when they look at it. However, the meaning behind this article is very clear, the country is not opposed to the development of the game industry, after all, video games are obvious flaws, although there are various shortcomings, but at present it has begun to show signs of vigorous development.
There is also a well-known domestic media, which reported from the perspective of game development, it first listed the development process of foreign games, and then focused on describing the development of domestic games, and explained that although the development of domestic games started late, the speed is not slow. The results of this competition are proof that there are also masters in domestic players, especially the one who won the runner-up, and the competition between the champion is only one kill.
The two sides launched a sniper battle on the classic desert map, and finally lost with a score of 10:8, but the big sniper of this domestic player really slipped away, throwing snipers, blind sniping, and instant sniping. Unfortunately, in the end, it was the opponent who played more consistently, barely maintained the advantage, and won the final victory.
But this can't be said that domestic players can't, after all, there are too few domestic players with professional training conditions, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as almost nothing. Most of them can only play occasionally in Internet cafes, and there are not many people who have computers at home. And this runner-up, he doesn't have a computer at home, he can't even go to the Internet café every day, he is an ordinary construction worker, he can only go to the Internet café to play during the break. But his talent is really powerful, and he actually practiced such a good level with such crude conditions, and won the runner-up in one fell swoop and won a million prize money, which is really enviable.
In this report, there are also not too many words of praise, but there is still praise between the lines.
There are also some media outlets that report in a more unusual direction, including one that reported on the sponsors of the competition.
Brother Li's company is not to mention, although it is not well-known among the people, but the fame of the richest man Li is too great, I dare not say that everyone knows everything, but ask ten people, at least seven or eight people still know the name of the richest man Li.
But Zhou Fangyuan belongs to the kind of person who is completely nameless and surnameless. Fortunately, the organizing committee hid his name from the beginning, and only the name of the company was displayed. Before the media reported, he also said hello to Zhou Fangyuan's company, and the third brother also asked Zhou Fangyuan at that time, and Zhou Fangyuan said that as long as he didn't reveal his name, everything was easy to say.
As a result, in this report, the distant network was introduced, especially the subsidiaries of the distant network, which are the key areas.
Games, comics, Internet café management system, Alipay...... Unconsciously, the distant network has stretched out its immature shot far away. The cooperative relationship between Yuanfang Network and Tencent and Ali was also reported, and according to an employee who did not want to be named, the boss of Yuanfang Network is actually the major shareholder of Tencent and Ali, and he is still the largest individual shareholder.
As soon as this report came out, I don't know how many people began to investigate the background of the distant network. But it's a pity that those who should know have known for a long time, and those who shouldn't know finally can't know.
But in any case, this competition is really famous, there are a lot of reports at home and abroad, not to mention, let's just say that there are Chinese people in China, Tiannan and Haibei, there is no one who does not know about this competition. After all, this is a competition with the more "advanced" crooked nuts, regardless of the content of the competition, the final result is that the loser does not lose the battle, and as the runner-up and the third runner-up, I don't know how many crooked nuts have been overpowered.
The website specially produced by Tencent for the competition has more than 300 million hits, and almost every domestic netizen has contributed an average of 30 clicks.
And Hong Kong Island also announced, saying that because of this competition, the direct economic income has been as high as hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars, especially those crooked nuts, spending money is very willing, and it may be that after converting the dollar into soft sister currency, it will indeed give people a feeling that there is suddenly a lot more, anyway, dozens of soft sister coins, in the eyes of those crooked friends, it seems that it is really not worth mentioning, and spending money is called a big spend.
As soon as the news came out, the organizing committee of the competition immediately received invitations from more than a dozen cities in China, hoping that next year's competition could be held in their cities. As one of the most important economic centers in China, Haishi is undoubtedly one of the most developed cities in China, and relatively speaking, it is also the most qualified to be held.
In fact, the organizing committee preferred to put the competition venue in Beijing, but the Beijing side did not take the initiative to invite, and in the face of many invitations, the organizing committee could not sit idly by, and finally chose Haishi.
The closing ceremony of the competition, in fact, is equivalent to nothing, it is a grand award ceremony, after all, those stars have gone to their own places, and foreign stars have returned to China, but even so, the atmosphere at the closing ceremony is still super hot.
Especially at the end, when the colored paper fell from the sky and the official theme song "Beyongd the game" sounded, the audience stood up, and countless people cheered and sang the song together with the colored paper...... According to Brother Xiao Li, he couldn't help but feel a little enthusiastic when he was at the scene.
This is a game that truly belongs to young people, a game that only belongs to players, and it can be said that it is beyond everyone else to be able to achieve such success. It does have a lot of problems and shortcomings, but this competition is actually an accumulation of experience, and next time, there will be no similar problems. Moreover, the organizing committee has already begun to discuss the development of different competition areas in various countries, and it is best to determine a group of winners first, and then directly compete in a more exciting finals when the competition comes.
Of course, this has nothing to do with Zhou Fangyuan, the organizing committee of CG has decided from the beginning of its establishment that it is an organization that is not controlled by any other company, and sponsors will provide funds for the competition to be held every year. Although Zhou Fangyuan really wanted to hold this competition in his hands, he knew that it was impossible, and it was impossible for any fair event to be decided by one person from beginning to end.
Therefore, in each of the next competitions, he can only appear as a sponsor, and the organizing committee has no place for him, even Brother Xiao Li is the same, and all they can carry now is the name of a founder.
But this is not bad, when someone recruits his own name is really known by countless people, this name will definitely make many people's eyes red to the point of explosion.