Chapter 42: The closed beta begins
The official website of "League of Legends" also hung up the promotional poster of "League of Legends" College E-sports Competition", as well as relevant rules and special areas;
1. Registration restrictions: All players must be at least 18 years old college students to register.
2. Registration time: March 9 - March 31
3. Registration method: All participating players must log in to the official website to apply for the beta test qualification within the specified time, and after registering the pass, they can create a character. During the closed beta period, all players will be leveled up to level 30, enter the mall to purchase any items, automatically refresh bonds and gold, and all heroes will be free to use.
4. Sign up for a team: After filling in the personal information, the system will prompt you to enter the personal page, where all players can find teammates and form a team by themselves, and invite them to sign up for a team together.
5. All members of the team must be from the same school (including substitute replacement team members) and be in the state of study in school, no less than 3 of the 5 team members on the field of the participating team, the information of the participating team must be consistent with the valid ID card and student ID card filled in at the time of registration, otherwise the qualification will be cancelled.
6. Successful determination of the team: Before the registration deadline on March 31, all teams can be reorganized at will on the registration page, and after the registration deadline (24 o'clock on March 31), the system will uniformly determine that all teams with 5-7 people are successful registration teams; teams with less than 5 people will be invalid by default and cannot participate in the competition.
Fixtures (tentative):
The competition elimination system is adopted, and college players from all regions of the country who meet the requirements can register, and compete for the final championship through the three stages of promotion competition, regional competition and national finals.
Qualifiers:
Colleges and universities in various provinces and cities will conduct qualifying competitions in Internet cafes and Internet cafes that are officially cooperative.
The qualifiers are ranked according to the points, the higher the points, the higher the ranking; If the number of points is the same, they will be ranked according to the number of wins, and the more total wins, the higher the ranking;
Points criteria: 3 points for victory, 1 point for defeat, 0 points for abstention (no draw)
Divisions:
In the officially designated arena, Spark will also send staff and referees to each competition area to organize players to play, announce the rules of the competition, and the schedule of the player's region.
All players' accommodation and transportation expenses shall be borne by Xinghuo Company;
The regional stage adopts a double-elimination system, with teams that win two games in a row qualify for the group stage, and teams that lose two games in a row are eliminated
The first match of the regional competition: 4 teams in the group are randomly assigned to play against each other
The second match of the regional competition is a match: the two teams that won the last game will play against each other, and the two teams that will lose will play against each other
The relationship between the third game of the regional competition: the team that wins two games in a row will be directly promoted, the team that loses two games in a row will be eliminated directly, and the remaining two teams will play against each other until the champion, runner-up and third place are separated.
Finals:
The top three teams in the regional competition will qualify and participate in the national finals;
The national finals are arranged in a similar way to the regional competition, and the national championship team will be determined according to the specific situation, and trophies and bonuses will be awarded;
As for some other rules, such as power outage, computer reboot, abusive opponent in the arena, negative match, etc.
There are regulations for these.
What Xinghuo has to do now is to find relevant staff and cooperate with Internet cafes as soon as possible.
Internet cafes and Internet cafes are not in a hurry, but the referee and other staff must be found as soon as possible.
There are about 20 days to prepare, so there's no hurry!
The closed beta test lasts for 20 days, and after 20 days, the closed beta will end and enter the public beta time, while the original closed beta area will be closed and converted to a competition area.
This 20-day closed beta is to let everyone feel and familiarize themselves with the game first, and after entering the open beta, the college league will officially begin, and players in the open beta can also watch this game.
The company's legal department has already started to talk about cooperative Internet cafes and Internet cafes.
This is very simple, the college league has a prize of 10 million, and the game will be held in designated Internet cafes, these Internet cafes will definitely attract everyone, and the second is to give Internet cafes some free skins and other discounts.
It is not difficult to find a cooperative Internet café, and then it is necessary to find the venue of the regional competition, the hotel where the participants live, and the venue and hotel of the national finals, which are all handled by professional people!
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On the first day of the launch of the official website of "League of Legends", the number of people who registered for the pass has exceeded 300,000.
The number of people who have obtained the beta test qualification has reached 110,000. Most of them are college students, and there are also non-college students who have obtained the internal test qualification!
On March 8th, the second day of the official website of "League of Legends", more than 300,000 people qualified for the closed beta!!
More than 9CD of them are internal beta qualifications obtained by college students, and some of them must have given their internal beta qualifications to others or sold them.
But it doesn't sell much, after all, as long as you are a college student, you can get the internal test qualification, at most dozens of yuan, and if it is high, you can find other college students to register for the internal test qualification.
On Friday, March 9th, in the midst of a long wait, the "League of Legends" game closed beta begins!
In an instant, more than 100,000 people poured into the game!
The people in the game department of Spark Company adjusted the server without the slightest pressure by obtaining the qualification information for the internal application test.
There are 100,000 people in the internal test, and it reached this number in the moment the internal test was opened, and the number of people in the internal test may exceed 200,000 at night.
Everyone knew that "League of Legends" would be popular, but they didn't expect it to become popular so easily.
On Friday, "League of Legends" occupied the first place in Weibo popularity, and the number of active users on the official website and forum of "League of Legends" exceeded 100,000.
Those who have obtained the qualification for the internal beta can explain the game in the forum, or find teammates, or send strategies, etc.;
There are also people who have not been qualified for the closed beta, game lovers, and readers of the "League of Legends" novels, who see how the game "League of Legends" is being made on the forum.
In short, the official forum is too lively!
At this time, Liang Guodong had returned to the company to host and arrange the "National College E-sports League".
Li Ming is here to contact a TV station or a live broadcast platform to sell the live broadcast rights of this competition.
It turned out that he was overthinking.
The popularity of League of Legends is not low, but no TV station will buy the live broadcast rights, after all, it is just a niche e-sports;
Similar to Qianxun Group's Qiuqiu live broadcast platform, raccoon live broadcast platform, and shark live broadcast platform, they are willing to buy live broadcast rights, but the price given is the price of cabbage;
In their opinion, this "League of Legends" National College E-sports League is just to expand the influence of the game "League of Legends", and Li Ming should license it to them for free, not sell it!
Although this is also the case, but the free license seems to be too cabbage price, this free license must not be opened, even if it is a little less money, so Li Ming did not let people give it out for free for the time being, at least wait for the game to become popular!
"It seems...... It's better to buy a live streaming company yourself. ”