Chapter 611: SNK re-emerges and transforms into e-sports
Tower defense games pay the most attention to the layout, many times a top turret is far more effective than building ten ordinary turrets, how to make multiple defense towers efficiently matched, do not waste firepower, as much as possible to reduce their idle waiting time, this is a science, everyone is extinguished little by little, the more times you extinguish, the more experienced.
The eight guests on the stage withstood 19 waves, and in the 20th wave, the second round of sea, land and air coalition forces attacked at the same time, except for Ye Fan, the other seven people all missed the troops, all the operation orders failed, and the players lost their control, so they could only move the screen over and watch Ye Fan turn the tide.
Every time the enemy breaks through the defense of one person, then the corresponding entrance passage will be closed, and the endless forces above will be transferred to other passages, so after the seven people are broken, Ye Fan was instantly overwhelmed by the last wave of 100% of the troops, and ended the game with a wry smile.
"Happy Camp" can't set aside half an hour to play the details of this RPG game, so the exciting part must pick the thrilling, witty, and resurrected moments, with Ye Fan and his team members behind them, there are still a lot of materials for this kind of moment, which is enough to make people marvel and applaud.
The effect of watching the master play the game is different, there is a band playing several game theme songs of Linkin Park live, the audience in the recording hall is high/tide to watch, enjoying the live atmosphere of the WCG finals in advance, and finally there are two lucky people who won the full ticket to the WCG finals at the Shanghai Science and Technology Convention and Exhibition Center, which makes them overjoyed, excited to only know how to say thank you, envy others.
Towards the end of the program, an audience member asked, "Do you still need to recruit volunteers for the WCG finals?" "They're college students who don't ask for a salary. I hope to do social practice in the summer vacation and experience WCG in depth.
Yang Yun smiled and shook his head. "We recruited enough people a month ago that many talented university students were willing to volunteer," he explains. We recruited and started training in a unified manner from the beginning of June. ”
A large number of spectators felt quite disappointed, this is not to blame Longteng, the organization needs to be carried out a long time in advance, it is impossible to rush to find someone a few days before the game, WCG is treated by the Shanghai Municipal Government as a serious international sports competition, the organizing committee every little detail must be as far as possible not to make mistakes, there are special people to help find loopholes, those recruited students are excellent in character and learning. In addition to training, I have not missed my academic exams.
Yang Yun's voice changed: "But if you are interested, you can also sign up for the college student press corps in various places, which is a perennial volunteer position." With the gradual increase in the influence of WCG, it is not possible to broadcast every ordinary game in the future, and there are many less important games that need to be announced by the reporter representatives of each school, which is also a way to actively participate in WCG sports competitions, and our volunteers for next year's finals will be hired from the press corps. ”
It's also a no-brainer. Shonan Satellite TV's Mango Channel is a variety entertainment program, and Longteng's various game displays are only one and a half hours in the morning and one and a half hours in the evening, plus one hour of news broadcast every night on CCTV Channel 5. With too little time to face the public, Dragon is not suitable for taking up too much time on Mango Channel and only playing games.
It is necessary to popularize competitive games as much as possible and promote them to the general public. To make a systematic league system like South Korea, newspapers are needed. Magazines, periodicals. And with the help of the rising Internet, college students are the best audience, they are adults, have time, and energy, and are the main consumers of the future of Dragon Games.
Although many fifteen or sixteen-year-old genius players can climb to the top of the world at the age of eighteen or nineteen after several years of systematic training, Longteng will never do this openly, minors are a very sensitive topic, and Longteng will never publicly declare that it supports junior high school and high school students to participate in professional competitive leagues.
On July 11th, the first issue of "Happy Camp" was broadcast as scheduled, because of the topic of Longteng Entertainment Game Company, the gimmick of tyrannical Yang Yun, and the wonderful tidbits and insider information of WCG.
Although this novel program is suspected of imitating the cottage Xiangnan Economic Television, everyone belongs to the radio and television system, and the palms and backs of their hands are all meat, even if there is a verbal battle, it is not certain who loses or wins, Yang Yun didn't care about it, he took people back to Shanghai after recording the show, the finals are about to start, and the final sprint training plan has been arranged.
On July 15th, the WCG finals began, and according to the rules of the competition, there were five official competitions, "NBAGame96", "Pro Evolution Soccer 96", "Saloman: Red Alert", "Special Forces", and the game "Need for Speed" sponsored by a third-party KTT company.
Each competition has 32 finals, only "Special Forces" needs 5 people to form a team, so even if all are not repeated, at most only 300 people need to fly to Shanghai and China to participate, in fact, many club players have two, and most of them are Asian players, free package transfer This money is a small meaning for Longteng, you can get the goodwill of the players, Longteng company is not such a stingy enterprise.
21 of the 32 teams in the "Special Forces" game are from abroad, and one of the top 4 popular teams voted on the official website was still lost by a Korean club, so China (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) has a total of 11 teams playing, and the proportion of local Asian clubs is much higher than that of rival CPL's "Quake".
"Red Alert" is dominated by European and American players, China only retains 6 seats, of which two are from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and only 3 people from Longteng E-sports Club participate, namely Ye Fan, A Wei, and Xiao Tao.
As for the other three games, they are all sports, which are the favorite guns and cars of Europeans and Americans, and European and American players generally feel good about sports, so in the WCG finals, Asian players occupy a quarter of the places at most, with an average of less than 8 players.
Maybe it's the same thing, the CPL also chose to start the finals on July 15, and they may have the idea of "I don't want to be happy anyway, I prefer to start at the same time as you, and it will make you feel bad".
The murder is coming to the doorstep.
Yang Yun doesn't care, he has been executing according to his plan, for him, he knows the names of some game masters in later generations, such as Sky, Moon, Grubby, Boxer, Heaton, JohnnyR, Forest, Ruofeng, PDD, in addition to SK, 4Kings, Mouz, mTw, 3D and other European and American powerhouses.
But now it's 1997, 4Kings and SK have just been formed for WCG for less than a year, Sky Li Xiaofeng is still a 10-year-old hairy boy, the Korean league has not yet started, and it is still in the initial stage of chaos, and it is useless to think so much, so he simply didn't think about it, and began to pay serious attention to the list of 32 participating teams.
"It's not good, Mr. Yang...... There are a few teams on the CPL side that are very strong, and we have to admit that the high prize money does attract some high-level players. Wang Zhe and Lin Zhihong both came, standing next to Yang Yun, and said worriedly.
"Which ones? Tell us about the CPL teams that you think are great. ”
Wang Zhe looked at the text in his hand and introduced; "In the final of the CPL "Quake", there are 10 teams in Europe, 12 in the Americas, 2 in Asia, 2 in China, 6 in South Korea and Japan, and exactly 32 teams in Russia and Australia. According to our own judgment, the strength of the top eight is very strong, and of course, the strength of our top eight is not weak. ”
Yang Yun just finished reading the list, and he knew that because of the fame of WCG, the publicity process was big, and the brand reputation guarantee of Longteng Entertainment Game Company, many European and American strong teams participated in WCG under the banner of learning experience, or with the purpose of making a name for themselves, and did not stir up the troubled waters of CPL.
Among these WCG camps, the teams that Yang Yun seems familiar with are SK, 4Kings, and there are also SamSungDigital, a club sponsored by South Korea's Samsung enterprises, plus Longteng E-sports Club, Lenovo Athletic Club, Vanke E-sports Club, Hong Kong Fengyun E-sports, Taipei Daewoo E-sports and many other corporate sponsorships, it seems to be quite powerful.
Yang Yun didn't believe that there were any strong opponents on the CPL side, so he asked.
Lin Zhihong handed over a list: "According to their five games, the Mortal-Team-work (mTw) team from Denmark is the most likely to win the championship in "Thor's Hammer", the PlayMore team from South Korea has the highest call to win the "Command and Conquer" championship, "FIFA96" and "NBALive96" have many amateur players in individual competitions, and "Ridge Racing 2" is the same, Many people are good folk hidden masters who play games in amusement halls or circle of friends. ”
The last three sports competitions of WCG and CPL are not taken seriously, and the focus is on real-time strategy games and first-person shooters, where the best players gather.
Yang Yun disagreed: "It doesn't matter, when they finish the game this year, and after the CPL can't be held next year, we just have a big wave and pick up good training." ”
Lin Zhihong couldn't help laughing: "Are you sure that CPL won't be able to go on next year?" ”
Yang Yun shrugged: "Of course, you don't look at how strong our WCG players are!" I still have a little impression of this mTw, what is the origin of that Korean PlayMore? ”
Wang Zhe smiled, handed over a piece of information, and smiled very mysteriously: "You would never have thought that it was still our old friend!" ”
"What old friend?" Yang Yun smiled, he didn't have an old Korean friend.
Looking down, he almost screamed at the first sentence, and said in surprise: "It turned out to be ...... SNK! (To be continued......)