Chapter 101: The process of forging a legend
As long as anyone who knows something about the situation in the domestic e-sports circle, it is clear what is the key to affecting the overall level of gaming in a country. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
In addition to a large player base, there is a good competitive system that allows high-level players to stand out from the crowd and weed out those who don't qualify, and most importantly, it is essential to have a faith.
Take Dota 2, which is currently the best and most representative in China, as an example.
Continuing the player base cultivated by Dota 1 in the early days, Dota 2 undoubtedly has a sufficient number of bases.
At the beginning, Dota was just a map in the Warcraft 3 game, with Blizzard's huge fame and status in the game, plus the map itself was well-made, and the playability was very high, and it gradually became one of the most popular map games in China at that time, from high school to university, from white-collar workers to migrant workers, it can be said that as long as you have been to an Internet café, young people with computers, more or less have been exposed to this map game. And in the future, Dota games such as True Three, Dream Three Kingdoms, League of Legends, 300 Heroes, etc., were born out of this. After nearly ten years of persistence, the inertia cultivated is terrible, regardless of the strength, Dota 1 gathered the most dynamic group of players in China at that time.
Dota 2 is inherited from this.
Those who have struggled in Internet cafes and university dormitories have become the most loyal fans of this game, and they have a broad mass base that many games do not have, but what really transforms this huge enthusiasm into strength is the championship competition with no qualification restrictions like TI.
When the local league qualification can not limit the enthusiasm of the whole people to participate, the resources and interests in the game will avoid the fate of being controlled by only a small number of people, and the highest honor in the Dota 2 world like TI will not become a tool for them to make profits, and without the process of class solidification, the upward channel for most people will not be closed, and the entire game circle will not become a pool of stagnant water.
That's why we can see that when the domestic team results in an odd-numbered year are not ideal, often the next year, the results of the domestic Dota 2 world will usher in a big explosion, because they have a whole year to go through the army, eliminate the weak and retain the strong, and show a new strength with the ambition to lie down and taste the courage.
From the runner-up in Ti1 to the champion and third place in Ti2, from the highest fourth place in Ti3 to the champion and runner-up in Ti4, there are five Chinese teams in the top eight, and such a dominant performance is a perfect embodiment of this competitive mechanism.
No one can lie on the merit book for a lifetime, and there is only one result if the strength is not good, that is, to be eliminated and let the strong make up for it.
However, the fundamental reason why the domestic Dota 2 community has achieved such good results in the world and become a well-deserved overlord and is respected by foreigners as Sean Dota is that they have faith.
As the saying goes, those who chase dreams kill the circle of money.
Just ask, will a professional player who can easily earn millions or tens of millions of annual salaries by sitting at home and playing games, train hard?
The answer is unequivocal: definitely not.
Those professional players who have won high honors don't need to be strict with themselves at all, because compared to staying in the training base every day and not being allowed to smoke and drink, not allowed to bring their girlfriends over, and a closed masochistic process of several hours in a row, engaging in live broadcasts, shooting advertisements, and even endorsing Taobao stores, which is not easier than it, and the money is a lot more. For them, as long as the results are so-so, anyway, I am the world champion and the popularity is so high, anyway, the domestic Dota 2 level is so powerful, what does it matter if you are a little lax.
And the result of thinking like this is usually that the strength of one session is not as good as the other.
As for the thoughts of the countless players who support them at the bottom, who cares?
Lao Tzu worked hard to play games, isn't it just to live a comfortable retirement after making money.....
Luckily, for the large number of players who have inherited from Dota and have very few players who have this idea.
Because they don't have a future in the first place.
Dota 1 has been a poor kid whose father doesn't hurt, his mother doesn't love, and there are people who constantly bully him on the road.
Because it belongs to the free map that comes with the game, Blizzard felt that there was no way to make money, so it was left to fend for itself, all thanks to the Ice Frog (map developer) years of insistence on updating and the unremitting support of the majority of players, so that it has come to this point, not only is it defined as a game type of pioneer status, but also has received development funds from game companies, becoming the world's top online game, with up to 20 million registered players worldwide.
It is the experience of such hopeless days that everyone will cherish it extraordinarily.
Because it contains not only a feeling, but also the youthful dreams of countless people.
For players who came into contact with Dota in those days, many of them were just students, and they didn't have much money on them, so they couldn't have as many places to play crazy as they do now, and staying in the dormitory Internet café to play games was the only entertainment activity for everyone. Dating three or five friends, laughing at the computer together, scolding together, in this small game, there are too many memories and memories of them, those joys and pains, those loneliness and friendship, and how many times the passion of all-night surfing the Internet and the hard work of only winning the victory.
It can be said that without this passion and pursuit, they would not have survived the most difficult and difficult process - because they were worried that without funds and independent copyrights, they would suddenly die out of the game they loved and fought for, so they were born with a firm belief that they would have no regrets about this game.
Do it and cherish it.
Therefore, even in the TI5 competition, the domestic Dota 2 team swept 2,345 places except for the championship, but it still felt shameful, because everyone had only one goal, that is, the championship.
It was against this backdrop that the Wings team was born.
Born in an Internet café team without a reputation, relying on the wild way of playing, they overturned strong opponents all the way when they were not favored at all, and finally topped the TI6 championship with a complete victory record of 3:0...... An Internet café team that is so poor that it can only train three meals and eat a boxed lunch in an Internet café enters the world stage, beating all kinds of giants to win the championship, and the legend is probably like five children who love basketball, and the team formed on the street basketball court swept the NBA to win the championship.
But everyone knows what the foundation behind these successes is on.
Without the constant pursuit of victory and the unremitting love of the game, they would not have been able to stand out from the countless low-level players and become world champions, sitting on hundreds of millions of prize money, and once famous all over the world.
They used their own experience to effectively implement a sentence: those who chase dreams kill the circle of money!
Even this dreamer has become no longer short of money.
In contrast, the situation in League of Legends is infuriating.
In the best of times for the esports community, with the best conditions, but playing a terrible deck!