"There are 10 Dota teams in Europe, 7 in China, 6 in North and South America, 6 in South Korea, 1 each in Japan, Malaysia and Singapore. Even our LongGame Club is struggling to meet those European and American teams, and the strength of European and American players is really strong! ”

Lin Zhihong took a bunch of information about the participating teams and looked at it, and said with some concern: "This is the first official Dota world-class competition after we officially took over the Dota map, if we are taken away by foreigners, won't we be very faceless?" ”

"Dota was originally thought up by foreigners, well, their knowledge and understanding of the map editor is really the pinnacle, which we have to admit, even if we buy the ownership of Dota, it is just an addition and deletion in the original version, and the core mechanism is still the same, so in terms of tactical understanding, European and American players are slightly better."

Yang Yun continued: "Actually, our Chinese team is not without the strength to win the championship, Longteng E-sports Club LongGame, Shanghai Mage, Ningcheng GodLike, Tianfu CityHunter, IFNT composed of European Chinese students, Nebula of Jinshi University, and EHOME, a professional league team in Beijing, tsk, seeing their names, it really makes me feel a lot of emotion!" ”

Lin Zhihong asked curiously, "What do you feel about?" ”

Of course, Yang Yun wouldn't say anything, that was the content of his memory, and it was his secret.

Nowadays, China's DOTA game started in sync with the world. Because of Longteng's vigorous publicity, Dota's influence in China is growing. Last year, the General Administration of Sports organized a group of people to play club leagues in each province, and this year's WCG made these veteran Dota teams in Yang Yun's memory form in advance. And stand out in the country and compete in WCG.

Like Ningcheng GodLike and the European Chinese team IFNT, these two teams are basically online teams formed by gathering people on the Dragon Game Battle Platform due to geographical reasons, while Mage in Shanghai is composed of students from the dormitory, Tianfu's CityHunter is an offline club formed by Tianfu City Hunter Internet Cafe, Nebula is from Tianjin University, as for EHOME......

Yang Yun really admires this EHOME, the real history of EHOME. FTD, CD and Tianfu's CityHunter can be called the earliest four giants in China's Dota industry, and it is the earliest and strongest Dota team in China.

Unexpectedly, EHOME they directly absorbed the eye-catching Html team from last year, and took the capital operation route from the beginning, which shows that the investors behind EHOME have huge ambitions, and he has taken a fancy to the prospects of the e-sports game market and wants to become the second LongGame Dragon E-sports Club.

"There's nothing to feel emotional, it's nothing more than seeing that the vast majority of China's top professional Dota teams are composed of college students. Even if the same university can form a top team in China, I have the urge to pay for them. Yang Yun deliberately changed the subject.

Lin Zhihong laughed: "Forget it, don't be so greedy, LongGame is already the world's top e-sports club." There are countless game masters in the world, can you recruit them? You also often say that we eat meat. Let someone else drink some soup, 1.3 billion people in China. It's normal for dozens of high-level teams to pop up, isn't it better for a hundred flowers to compete? ”

Yang Yun sighed: "I'm worried that the material conditions of their college students are not good. Such a good seedling must not be wasted. I've heard that the Mage team of Shanghai University usually trains to eat steamed buns and pickles to live, and sometimes they are very excited to play an offline 500 yuan bonus game, you think, they are going to school in Shanghai in the magic capital, is this bonus really money? Do you know how much the living expenses of our LongGame club are per day? ”

Lin Zhihong was dumbfounded, there are more than 20 people in the LongGame team, they also live next to the Longteng Shanghai R&D Center, there is a separate SOHO building as a training place, and the front-line members live in the single dormitory assigned by Longteng, receive a salary every month, and use the Longteng employee card to eat for free, this treatment is really too good to be better, compared with Mage, one is really one in the sky and one is underground!

He asked in disbelief, "Mage, they can't even eat?" ”

Yang Yun was helpless: "This is what I heard from Ah Wei, he said that there is a group of top game masters in China in LongChat, and they don't dare to speak lightly in the group, for fear of ridiculing others and attracting hatred." Many of the top domestic master teams occasionally complain in the group, their small teams have almost no benefits, and there are few sponsors, such as Tianfu's CH and EHOME, which are sponsored offline teams, are okay, and those high-level university teams and online teams are completely supported by perseverance and love for Dota with faith. ”

Lin Zhihong was silent for a long time, and said unprecedentedly: "In this way, these 7 Chinese teams, I will meet with them privately and thank them for their persistence in the game." I will give them an emergency sponsorship of 20,000 yuan first, and after the WCG is over, I will negotiate a better charter with the General Administration of Sports to increase the income and influence of the professional league. ”

"Yes, that's it." Yang Yun agreed: "The General Administration of Sports is also doing bad things with good intentions, they want to make e-sports a game like the Chinese Super League, and they have to involve the local sports department, which is indeed convenient for them to manage, but it is not a market economy at all, some provincial teams do not even have a master in the town, e-sports is a special sport!" ”

For the domestic e-sports market, Longteng can only play a leading role, they cannot replace the status of national functional departments, in order to the healthy development of the whole industry, we must rely on the joint efforts of the whole society.

During the summer vacation of 2005, when the WCG went to war, Mango Station would broadcast war reports and news every day, and important events would be broadcast live, attracting the most student players, who could even turn on the TV every day and wait in front of Mango Station, watch programs that they are interested in, skip programs that they are not interested in, and do homework instead.

Viewers with computers at home can also download video recordings, watch replays, and sometimes listen to commentators like KiKi and Yang Liu laugh at a game, and the joy is stronger than watching ten master games by themselves.

Ah Wei, KiKi, Yang Liu, they have become the most well-known commentators in the domestic game industry, and even Ye Fan, the leader of the LongGame Club, will devote himself to the commentary world after retiring next year, interstellar master Ma Tianyuan, Warcraft master Li Xiaofeng, and other e-sports celebrities are also very willing to be special guests, and these professional players who stand at the top of the food chain are still living a good life.

This year's 32 teams competed for the Dota championship, the competition was held in Shanghai, and the WCG organizing committee proudly covered all expenses, including free accommodation, transportation, telephone fees, air tickets and visa fees for the players, transportation from the hotel to and from the competition venue, all the competition machines and hardware equipment, all provided by Longteng Entertainment Games Company for free.

The Shanghai Municipal Government has also arranged for three gymnasiums to be on call at any time, and the WCG has seven competitions, which have games every day, which are really as popular as NBA teams, and fans can choose their favorite teams to buy tickets to enter and cheer, and there are interactive sessions and signing activities after the games, which greatly stimulates the excitement between the audience and the players.

In addition, each professional team has a team subsidy every week, and those professional players who participate in the program interview can get a portrait usage fee, and the Shanghai municipal government will take out all the ticket revenue, and also take out an additional 30 million yuan to subsidize WCG - WCG has become an important business card of Shanghai, an international metropolis in the world, and a considerable part of the tourist crowd every summer vacation is for WCG and Dishui Lake Film and Television Game Base Scenic Area.

However, there was an accident on the first day of the competition, as a warm-up match for the Dota project, one of the host countries in Shanghai, the Mage team faced the British KM team, both of which were mainly composed of students, were standing on the stage of the WCG competition for the first time, and each player was excited and nervous, and they took on the responsibility of the opening game of Dota, and people will inevitably be a little overexcited.

On the rostrum, when the players on both sides shook hands, one of Mage's players tilted his body when he shook hands with the KM team members, and his eyes rolled and fainted.

The host KiKi reacted very quickly and quickly took the topic to other aspects, introducing the guests who have made outstanding contributions to the Dota game to the camera, and the on-site director also quickly issued instructions after a short panic, directing the studio center to switch to the data playback screen, and arranging seven or eight staff and medical staff to check the situation on the stage.

Lin Zhihong, as the leader of Long Tengfang, was also watching at the scene, and as soon as the contestants fainted, he rushed to the stage with people, and signaled the staff to stop other media and spectators watching the excitement.

"What is the reason for fainting?" Lin Zhihong asked the medical staff. (To be continued......)