With the award of the last project "FIF2000", the first WCG, which lasted for a week, also came to an end, but the follow-up impact of the competition is still ongoing, whether it is for many media or people, it is a very hot topic in the short term.

A traditional media reported on the WCG competition with the headline "Game Olympics kicked off, and players from all over the world fought fiercely in Beijing": "...... The unprecedented World Video Game Challenge (WolrdCyberGame) kicked off August 20-26 at the Beijing Game Museum, launched by the WCG Organizing Committee, with a total prize fund of up to $500,000. …… Over the course of a week, gamers from all over the world competed against each other in StarCraft, Three Kingdoms 3, Heroes of the Forces, and FIFA2000......

After a week of fierce competition, my country's players achieved quite good results in their first expedition, and the team composed of Hu Binguo, Zhou Jiake and others won the gold medal in "Three Kingdoms 3", and Ma Tianyuan worked hard in the "StarCraft" project to get a silver medal......

Mr. Chen, vice president of the organizing committee of the event, said that from the process of the WCG, the overall success is huge, and the WCG will be held once a year in the future, and plans to cooperate with more countries to build the WCG into a real game Olympic ......"

A game professional media made a special report with the title of "WCG Player Interview": "...... At the Beijing Times Fashion Building, where WCG was held, the reporter interviewed Hu Binguo and others, who participated in "Three Kingdoms 3", and the following is the on-site Q&A of the contestants.

Note: First of all, congratulations on winning the championship of "Three Kingdoms 3"!

HH: Thank you.

J: What do you think of this champion?

Hu: It's a recognition of everyone's efforts.

J: When did you get together to form a clan?

Hu: It was at the beginning of last year, two of them played online in an Internet café, they were more familiar, and they came together when they were ready to participate in the WCG qualifiers, and the other few met online, and they also had a few interactions, and they were all familiar with "Three Kingdoms 3", and they knew each other a little, and finally there was the current team that dominated the world.

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Note: Judging from the competition, your cooperation is quite tacit, did you often train together before coming to Beijing?

Hu: There was a short training camp, in fact, it was only a week, and we already knew each other well, and then we trained together for a period of time.

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J: What are your plans for the future?

Hu: I haven't thought about it yet, maybe I'll go the way of a professional team, but I haven't decided yet, after all, let's see other people's opinions.

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After the interview, the reporter was thinking, many people used to think that playing games had no future, but this e-sports tournament seems to make people see another path, that is, the road of professional players, for many players who like games and are willing to study games, this may be a good new choice......

Another game media is full of joy to announce on the page "the opening of the first WCG, the audience exceeds 10 million", of course, the more than 10 million refers to the estimated number of people watching the WCG live through TV and the Internet, in fact, this number is relatively conservative, because the opening and closing time happened to be the weekend, and the only early final was also placed on Friday night, so there were very many domestic viewers who watched and rushed to the scene through TV.

The success of WCG has also attracted the attention of many overseas media, such as the famous American game magazine "PCGamer", which made a special trip to interview many people in the game industry for their views on WCG.

“…… I think WCG is a great party for players to have a lot of fun without...... It's a shame they don't have a project ......for Quake," replied idSoftware co-founder and chief programmer John Carmack, in response to a reporter's question.

“…… I think it's a great idea to have this kind of game contest...... Our FIFA2000 is very popular......" EA President Larry Problt responded to a reporter's question.

In order to create more gimmicks, the media also approached Angel Munoz, president of the CPL (CyberathleteProfessionalLeague, founded in 1997), and threw out a very sharp question: "Mr. Munoz, do you think the WCG in Beijing, China will have an impact on the CPL?"

Maybe Angel Munoz didn't want to be led by the media, or maybe he happened to be in a bad mood, and he left without answering anything to reporters' questions. But reporters always have a way, and although they didn't get any valuable information from Angel Munoz, they can still ask from other CPL staff, and the title of the article is already "Speechless in the face of WCG competition".

The South Koreans, who won the StarCraft event, on the one hand hyped up the so-called brilliant victory in the media, and on the other hand, said sourly: "Actually, South Korea started e-sports competitions earlier...... The PKO (ProgamerKoreaOpen) International in October 1999 was the world's first full-fledged tournament on a global scale and the starting point of the current eSports Professional League......

According to the Korean media, esports was proposed by them, and the eSports Global Championship was the first to be held by them, and if it weren't for the fact that Blizzard has been in the United States since its creation and has never had Korean employees, they would even accidentally list StarCraft as a Korean-made game. It's a pity that when they say this, they forget that the CPL (Professional Esports League) and PGL (Professional Gamers League, founded a little later than the CPL) organized esports tournaments earlier, and also forgot that the so-called PKO International Tournament only had 16 participants, perhaps because the CPL and PGL have not held a tournament in South Korea for the time being, and of course it is more likely that the Korean nature is due.

Another South Korean media congratulated Park Taemin on winning the championship, and also revealed a news that inspires the Korean people: "South Korea's highest-level game event organizer, BT, the organizer of the Korean professional gaming league KIGL, will co-launch a new game World Cup (GWC) with Samsung Electronics Group, which is scheduled to be held in Everland (part of the Samsung Group) in Seoul, South Korea, in mid-October next year, with the goal of establishing a grand event of international game competitions and making it a true international game Olympics ......"

In Europe, the WCG also attracted a large number of viewers to watch the broadcast via satellite television. Affected by this, Ligarena, a well-known French sports marketing company, publicly announced that it would hold the regional event "LanArena" for four years shortly after the WCG ended Repackaged as a more professional event, perhaps the Gallic Rooster's victory at the Stade de France in '98 was memorable, and the new event was called the ElectronicSportWorld Cup, or ESWC for short, and Ligarena also intended to be promoted globally.

As a result, the fledgling WCG tournament will soon face two new competitors, GWC and ESWC, and there are two CPL and PGL with a much longer history and more organizational experience, and it seems impossible for the WCG to have a smooth global development.

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Newspapers, magazines, and online reports about WCG had not yet cooled down, when suddenly an incongruous article appeared in a digest newspaper in the south, "Cutting off the black hand that reaches out to the children - WCG".

“…… Some computer games should be destroyed as if they were opium burning, and certain games should be boycotted as they were drugs......

In late August, under the banner of winning glory for the country, a so-called game competition kicked off, and in order to find out, the author resolutely decided to watch it in person. When the so-called game competition began, the author quickly saw the clue that the so-called game game was poisoning teenagers......"

Zhang Lexing has returned to Hong Kong at this time, this article was found by people in China, and sent to him by email, of course, someone has been responsible for the handling of the matter, and reporting to him here is only the need for the work process. However, seeing this article, Zhang Lexing's mood must not be much better, after all, it is a game event run by himself, and he is actually said to be a "black hand", how can he bear it.

“…… The competition site is not very large, but there are hundreds of computers crammed into it, and most of the children who participate in the competition in it will definitely bring only harm to the children in such a harsh environment......

…… What is the so-called game of the competition? The author deliberately investigated carefully, "StarCraft" in the children operate ugly, disgusting monsters (referring to the Zerg) to attack each other, full of violent atmosphere...... "Three Kingdoms 3" is dressed in the coat of the culture of the Three Kingdoms, in essence, it is to promote war and slaughter, in the game can even set fire (referring to the fire plan in the game......), "Special Warfare Heroes" name is very good, but the game content is only two, kill or be killed, bring children only a sense of violence......

The author inadvertently remembered the article "Who Destroys Whom" written by a famous writer a few years ago, once the writer inadvertently saw his nephew playing video games, he was so drunk and obsessed, only to know that a game called "Doom Slayer", chainsaw kills, fire, children feel particularly energetic, special sense of achievement!

'You killed them with a chainsaw, but who are they?' the writer asked the nephew.

Who they are depends on how I feel when I'm playing. …… If the teacher criticizes me one day, the teacher is the one I think of when I kill people with a chainsaw. If my classmates quarrel with me, I want to kill my classmates ......."

'Just because of such a small thing, you have the heart to kill people with a chainsaw?'

The little nephew was stunned for a moment and suddenly laughed and said, "This game is called Doom, and its rules are to destroy what you see, and destruction is everything, and you don't need any reason." ’

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What a terrible fact, after the author did some research, and found that seven or eight out of ten children are playing games now, and in some places even the whole class is playing games. The future of the motherland is immersed in the game of violence and murder, so you can imagine what kind of people they will become in the future.

At the end, I would like to end with a sentence from Mr. Lu Xun, 'Save the child'!"

The article is very long, and it looks like it is well-founded and well-founded, but Zhang Lexing wants to laugh after reading it. I didn't expect that there are still such people who have such a prejudice against the game, "Special Warfare Heroes", a game that emphasizes small team cooperation, has become "kill or be killed" in the mouth of this kind of person, "Three Kingdoms" has become murder and arson, "StarCraft" has become a violent game of ugly monsters, and the football game that can't be picked out has been ignored by him. Fortunately, many people know what football is, otherwise under the one-sided gaze of such people, perhaps football can also be called a "collection of erotic violence".

Zhang Lexing, who was angry, picked up the phone, and since the article was related to WCG, he dialed Chen Jingyi's phone first: "Mr. Chen, have you seen that article?"

"See. Boss, I sent someone to investigate, this article was first published in a tabloid, and later selected by the Southern digest newspaper, the author is a turtle surnamed Tao, who is said to have studied for a doctorate at the International University of Wisconsin......" Chen Jingyi's calm voice came from the phone.

"Mr. Chen, this guy is very unfriendly to WCG, what are you going to do with it, I don't want to ruin the current good situation because of this kind of person. ”

"Don't worry, boss, I have already arranged it and will take care of this matter in the short term. ”

"Well, I'll wait for your good news. ”

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Dr. Tao is in a good mood now, although the manuscript fee has not yet arrived, but the response caused by the newspaper still makes him very satisfied, although there is still only one digest newspaper in the south that has published his article (tabloids or something), but there are no opposing articles in other newspapers, which makes him feel that his opinion should be accepted, otherwise how could he be so quiet.

In order to go abroad to get a diploma, Dr. Tao has spent all his family savings, but he didn't expect that it would be difficult to find a job after he came back, and he stumbled upon a good opportunity if public opinion could be successfully guided by him, and then his plan could be implemented smoothly. Thinking of this, Dr. Tao decided to add fuel to the fire and threw out his second article, "A New Form of Mental Illness - Game Addiction", in an effort to attract more media attention.

But what made Dr. Tao angry was that before his article was published, a self-proclaimed professor surnamed Yang popped up in Shandong, who actually put forward the concept of "game addiction" first, and even claimed that it could cure "game addiction". In Dr. Tao's view, this is simply a naked banditry, obviously it is the "research" he has worked so hard to do, and he is also ready for the withdrawal of "game addiction", seeing that the article can be fully rolled out after it is published, but he did not expect to be picked by this guy surnamed Yang, which is simply what an uncle can endure and an aunt can not bear.

But soon there was good news, a well-known national television program sent an invitation to Dr. Tao, although he did not explain the reason, but in his opinion, it must have invited him to promote his views. According to the person in the column team on the phone, the professor surnamed Yang was also invited, and Dr. Tao's combat value immediately increased tenfold, and he was ready to make preparations to refute the troublesome Professor Yang on the spot, so that everyone could see who was the authentic "game addiction" expert.

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