Lin Zhihong smiled: "Mr. Yang, you forgot jì, the time difference between Los Angeles and Shanghai is 15 hours, Shanghai is now 12 noon, and Los Angeles is 9 o'clock last night." ”

Yang Yun patted his forehead: "I almost forgot about this stubble." Let's go, connect Jiang Shaoyun for me, I want to listen to the report from the United States. ”

Fox TV Network is responsible for the broadcast of WCG in North America, for the sake of the face of many years of friendship with Yang Yun, this time Mercado gave strong support, in addition to the WCG opening ceremony that started at 6 o'clock, at 8:30 o'clock in prime time, it also took half an hour to organize and broadcast the latest WCG battle report, and scroll the news broadcast score at the bottom of the screen throughout the day, and its influence covered many states in the United States.

Three hours ago, hundreds of thousands of families in North America switched their TV channels to Fox for the opening ceremony, many of them are game fanaticists, many are loyal players from MD consoles, GG handhelds, all the way to SS and PC, the whole family loves games, and games are the best way to relax in their daily lives.

In many families, wives prepare dinner, husbands and children watch shows in the living room, waiting for a big meal, and many more simply order takeout by phone and lean comfortably on the sofa to watch the opening ceremony.

Jiang Shaoyun led by example, and the New York headquarters was busy, and he commanded a working group in the conference room, in addition to contacting the front-line reporters of Fox TV, some of them were intently inquiring about the reaction of the rival CPL, and he himself held his coffee, leaned back in his chair and watched the TV broadcast, thoughtfully.

Because China starts at 9 a.m. during the day, there is no night. There are no grand fireworks, no colorful spotlights, Shanghai Science and Technology Convention and Exhibition Center has built a huge stage, hung red banners, posted everywhere Longteng a variety of game posters, in the center of the stage is a complete set of band equipment.

The host announced the opening of the competition in Chinese and English, eliminating a lot of cumbersome processes and opening directly in the form of songs.

The music sounded, Niu Huan in the mainland, Niu Dehua in Hong Kong. Ireland U2. Sang the WCG theme song "Beyond-the-game" together, which swept the audience and caused thousands of people to sing together.

……

Beyond the game

Constantly surpassing

Go beyond the game itself

Passion drives us to win against our opponents

Face to face and enjoy the game with your heart

What you want to transcend is now

We are destined to never fail

Let us burn the whole world with passion

This is the World Esports Series

……

The on-site effect is good. The signal from the global satellite TV broadcast is also very good. When this WCG theme song sounds. Many people sitting in front of the TV also hummed along, and the song has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people after more than half a year of global publicity, and many fans of the game have learned the song. Moved by the tenacious competitive spirit in the lyrics, the game is no longer a simple game, but an attitude and way of life.

At the end of the song, WCG's latest promotional video began to play, the scene was a large curtain, and the TV screen was in high-definition video format, and the effect was much better than the scene.

After the promotional video introduces the competitive games of Dragon Teng in turn, and then leaves the question, what is competition?

World Footballer of the Year alien Ronaldo said with a strange smile: "Competitive is to shoot through the opponent's door." ”

The strong actor O'Neal danced a mechanical dance and winked his eyebrows: "Competitive is to dominate under the basket, and no one wants to break through my hands." ”

Atlanta 1996 Olympic champion Michael Johnson in the men's 200m and 400m had a cool look on his face: "Racing is about leaving everyone behind. ”

Fu Mingxia, the double women's diving champion at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, stood on the 10-meter platform and smiled: "Competition is that no one's diving posture is better than mine." ”

Paralympic air pistol champions, Formula 1 Ferrari teams, famous rugby stars, dozens of sports stars of all kinds put together huge paste, gradually getting smaller, converging into a huge picture, each of them has their own understanding of the competitive spirit in their hearts.

Every audience is also thinking about what they understand the spirit of competition, there is only one champion, is competition the only champion?

Ronaldo took a shot and the ball flew into the net through the goalkeeper's ten fingers, he gave two thumbs up, looked at the other ten Brazilian players running behind him, and said: "Athletic still needs them!" ”

O'Neal roared under the basket and gave the opponent a hot pot block, his team grabbed the ball and shot a long-range three-pointer in the last 2 seconds, and the Minnesota Timberwolves came back to win, he waved his fist: "The competition still needs them!" ”

Michael Johnson ran wildly, surrounded by sparring players, roaring coaches, nervous health nurses, sweaty assistants holding record books, he crossed the finish line, gasped, and sent a grateful look backwards: "The competition still needs them!" ”

Fu Mingxia was reprimanded by the stern coach, silently wept, turned around and gritted her teeth to stand on the diving platform again, her afterglow saw the nervous coach and logistics staff, looking at the other teammates who raised their hands to encourage her, she closed her eyes, began to do diving stretching preparations, and the voiceover narrated: "The competition still needs them!" ”

No one succeeds on their own, one person's victory, he is the only one who is beautiful, but behind him stand countless unknown devotees, these people, they are also part of the competitive team!

At the end of the promotional video, the closing words are like this: "Competition, belong to each and every one of you!" WCG，beyond-the-game，LongGame！ ”

Applause, warm applause, everyone in Jiang Shaoyun's conference room applauded excitedly, this video was made by their North American branch, Fox TV sent a senior director, visited hundreds of well-known sports athletes, and finally made this 15-minute promotional video, the effect is really quite shocking.

"Yes, the video effect is so good, it's almost time to catch up with the blockbuster!"

"Then don't look at who helped to do it, the world's top film special effects company Weta Digital produces the game part, and the gold medal director of Fox TV is responsible for the post-production of Zuò, and the budget of this promotional film is more than one million, how can it be bad?"

"It's very feeling, I don't know if I can win the Oscar for documentary......"

A group of people laughed non-stop, everyone was proud of this video, although video game competition is not yet an internationally recognized sports competition such as the Olympics and the World Cup, but the first WCG did not cut corners, with an attitude of excellence, and tried to be recognized by all countries in the world, and did its best to let the world accept WCG, and participate in it.

The next five competitive games each have their own theme song, and after each song, it is also an introduction to a game, at this time, the corresponding top 32 players will walk around the stage in turn, and the host will make a brief introduction, and the players will wave their hands.

Linkin Park sang "Faint" from "Saloman: Red Alert" and "NewDivided" from "Special Forces", and "NBAGame96" with "Theme Song Hip Hop Cymbal" was written by Ruffian Eminem himself, because Queen really couldn't find time to sing "We-will-rock-you" live, and the band Beyond from Hong Kong sang the cover instead, adding a lot of color to "Pro Evolution Soccer 96".

As for the theme song "Pump-It" of "Need for Speed", sung by the new generation of American band Black Eyed Peas, this year's 60-year-old American surfing music originator Dick Dale personally accompanied by the scene, special guest O'Neill appeared to perform a street dance, although the total length of the song is no more than 6 minutes, but it is very impressive, KTT's generosity has amazed the world, it is really rich.

The song ended, and then the leader spoke, and the official of the General Administration of Sports only stood on the stage for one minute before the host seized the opportunity to ask him to step down, and soon began the first battle of "Need for Speed".

"Haha! I thought that the competition would play my country's "Athletes' March" ......," Jiang Shaoyun joked with his subordinates around him with a smile.

"It's not the Olympics, and you don't need a team leader to walk with the country's athletes with the national flag, WCG still has a long way to go......"

"Yes, e-sports has not yet been recognized by the state, and many countries in the world have not recognized this competition, so I think it's very good that a non-governmental event can be done like this."

The 6 o'clock live broadcast lasted less than an hour, and after the official start of the game, Fox TV began to broadcast a soap opera.

Jiang Shaoyun's team was busy, the phone rang constantly, and there were 3 groups of reporters randomly interviewing families watching WCG in the city, collecting program materials, and some inappropriate remarks needed to be checked by Longteng Company.

At around 7 o'clock, Jiang Shaoyun called China, and the person in charge of answering was Zhao Yongping, Yang Yun was waiting for the live match between SK and 4K, and Jiang Shaoyun hung up the phone after making a brief report.

At half past eight, the latest war report news was completed on Fox TV, and it was already broadcast, and the next broadcast of the latest war report should be on the morning news the next morning, and there were no reporters working at midnight.

At 9 o'clock, Jiang Shaoyun asked his subordinates to summarize information, except for the staff on duty, everyone else went home from work, and he received a call from Yang Yun.

"Shaoyun, how effective is the live broadcast in North America?"

"Very good! The promo video, the performances of the band and the singers, all very exciting! It's amazing that you were able to get a U2 band, and that's a big deal! ”

"It's nothing, in fact, U2 doesn't have any shelves at all, and the asking price is not high, and the other bands, either newcomers or our own signed artists, don't spend much money at all. Didn't your director show the footage of the Chinese leader's speech? ”

"Just a little bit, it doesn't seem to take long to step down?"

"Of course, WCG is a pure game game, and there is no need to pretend to be a joke."

This makes Yang Yun feel quite satisfied, although the cost of satellite broadcasting is very high, and there is a small period of delay, but the effect is much better than the scene, many things cannot be displayed on the spot, and TV can make up for these defects.

Sometimes, it's much cooler to watch TV than to watch live. (To be continued......)