At 9 o'clock in the morning of the next day, the opening ceremony of the CPL started on time, and Yang Yun, who was 12 hours early, asked someone to bring in a supper and watch the game quietly while eating, he was at 9 o'clock in the evening.

The opening ceremony, which is similar to WCG, is leveled up by singing and dancing, and there is not much new.

The cosplay models and volunteers of each game are the highlights, especially the volunteers in maid costumes, with headscarves and lace stockings, which are very annoying, and if you step on the pulley, put on thongs, and hold a drink tray, it is estimated that the venue will set off a greater noise, and the audience reacted very fiercely, and when interviewed, they all praised it, saying that it was a very good game carnival.

Yang Yun smiled, please, the game carnival is something that Longteng doesn't want, Sega has played for five years, Longteng has taken over and played for another seven years, it's really tired of playing things that I don't want to play anymore, if CPL intends to position itself as a carnival, then it's best, Yang Yun can rest assured that he can wash and sleep, what else to worry about?

The Roses and Guns Band regarded this as a concert, and although several old songs were popular and caused the audience to sing in chorus, it was unfortunately not appropriate.

They don't have the game theme songs specially customized like Longteng's games, and CPL loses points at this point, because not all people are like Yang Yun, who has watched some of the later generations of excellent competitive game promotional videos and listened to those game songs.

After the concert, there was a group competition, and the time was relatively rushed, after all, ABC TV's time was too precious, and it was necessary to attract everyone with the most concise and exciting competition, so the director team deliberately fixed it on a limited number of players during the live broadcast, and the competitive quality of several games was quite high.

The mTw team's "Quake" singles and doubles were all starred, which was really exciting. Especially under the suppression of strong strength, Humiliation, who is armed with a chainsaw and kills people in close quarters, has appeared many times. It caused warm applause, cheers and shrill whistles from the audience. This is the expression of extreme self-confidence.

Even Yang Yun himself does not deny that "Quake" is a respectable game, otherwise there would not be so many game companies that are inspired and favored, pay a high price to buy the Quake commercial engine of ID, and then repackage it to make excellent first-person shooters bloom all over the world, and "Half-Life" is the most successful work built on Quake.

"Hey, I don't know what this ID company thinks. Would you rather break the jade than the whole tile? If I don't cooperate with Longteng to death, then I'm sorry, I can only be a competitor......"

As soon as he thought of the ID company, Yang Yun felt a little heartache, he came to ask for cooperation, but was rejected by the other party, KTT went with a checkbook, and was also rejected, now it's good. EA stood up against the banner of CPL, and ID itself was upside down, blocking the only way for WCG to cooperate with ID Company.

Sentimental! Yang Yun shook his head and found that the other employees on duty were doing things silently in the distance and did not dare to approach and disturb him. The director didn't even have anyone to drink and chat with at night, and he regretted letting Lin Zhihong go home just now.

Continue watching the game and listening to the commentary.

Unlike WCG. The plan for the first day of CPL is for the qualifiers of the 5 competitions to start at the same time, unlike WCG, where there are only Need for Speed and Special Forces on the first day. The top 16 of these two games must be decided, and the other three games have yet to get moving.

And the rules of the CPL format are quite different from those of the WCG in the first round. In the first round of written test, WCG is divided into 8 groups, each group of 4 teams, playing 6 round-robin matches, and the top two with the highest points qualify, while CPL is directly played in order, No. 1 and No. 2 play, the winner will score 1 point, the other person will score 0 points, and then No. 1 will play against No. 3 again, until No. 32.

In this way, everyone has to play against 31 other people, then there are a total of 496 games in the first round, and the highest score can score 31 points, and then rank them down in order, the strength of the top 32 is clear at a glance, which can also be regarded as the strength ranking of each team in the CPL game, which is very objective.

Next is the second round, where the top 8 teams are selected and re-enter the final round of 8 round-robin, divided into two groups for 8-in-4 matches, and the top two teams in each group qualify, so that there are 12 more games.

In the third round, when 4 into 2, the lot will be drawn, and the two will face off, there will be a winning and losing group, and the defeated group will compete for the third place, and the champion will be produced from the winning group, and they are all set up to win two out of three games.

Yang Yun didn't understand this rule very well at first, especially when he saw that the first round of 32 into 16 had to play 496 games for qualifying, he immediately felt troublesome, because after calculation, a single game of CPL has to play a total of 512 battles, and if the 8th place in the top 32 has multiple points of the same kind, it will also play overtime to compete for the qualifying spot, so it will be about 530 games.

The total number of games on the WCG side is 96, and the championship can win the championship with a maximum of 11 games, spread over a period of 1 month, almost only need to play two or three games a week, the intensity of the game is not high, and the day after each game is trimmed to reformulate the tactics for the next opponent, which is a very necessary and reasonable arrangement for professional players.

Look at the CPL side, if you want to win the championship, the champion team needs to play at least 36 games, although a game like "Command and Conquer" is more than 10 minutes and no more than 20 minutes, and a written test of 3 games and 2 wins is no more than 1 hour at most, but Yang Yun is very skeptical that these people can afford it, 36 games are divided into one month, that is, 1.2 games per day, if it is divided into two months......

Yang Yun was a little surprised, could it be that the CPL plans to extend the competition to two months and last until September?

It's not impossible, and the 789 three months would have been the best time to race.

The burden of the organizing committee is not heavy, after the first round of WCG is completed, the eliminated players go straight home, almost after the first week, half of the people will be gone, and there will be a quarter left in the second week, and the more people will come, the consumption will be less and less, and when it comes to the quarterfinals or semifinals, there is actually not much work.

Especially the CPL approach, the first round is 32 into 8, at the beginning may be a little busier more people, and when the first round passes, directly eliminate three-quarters, CPL organizing committee is busy for a month at most.

Yang Yun compared the advantages and disadvantages of the two events on a piece of paper, WCG is more humane, the pressure of the players is small, the competition is relaxed and happy, and you can also participate in various offline activities in your spare time, which is easy to appear The possibility of the seeded players being eliminated in the group stage is easy.

And CPL is to fully tap the strength of each group of players, give them enough opportunities to show, and speak with a cruel winning rate, without the possibility of wrongful killing, but it is very tiring.

He said to himself as if he were self-deprecating: "Is this the rhythm of how much money to take and how much effort to put out?" We don't have enough bonuses, but it's easy, and the players don't have to be bulls. They have a lot of prize money, of course, they will deliberately increase the number of competitions, so that the players will fight for a few more games, or where will the advertising money come from? CPL isn't stupid over there! ”

Each has its own merits, Yang Yun no longer bothered about this issue, and the world will judge the merits of the two when the time comes.

However, judging is judging, so what does it have to do with the two organizing committees? Whoever controls the right to hold the event has the final say, and what the critics say doesn't count.

ABC was really stingy, CPL started at 9 a.m. in the United States, and the live broadcast chose the lowest rated time of the day, leaving CPL less than 2 hours of time, and a large number of advertisements from game industry providers were inserted in the middle.

Yang Yun smiled and wrote down the names of the CPL sponsors on a piece of paper, and if anyone tries their luck at WCG next time, they must be beaten hard.

The Playmore team is on the field, this team is signed up as a South Korean, and several players on the TV screen are also typical Korean male images, with big pie faces, triangular eyes, swollen eye bubbles, and single eyelids.

The team signed up for a total of three games, "Ridge Racer 2", "Quake" and "Command & Conquer", of which "Command & Conquer" has 3 finalists in the top 32, and the level of Korean e-sports is very high, which is amazing, and one team accounts for one-tenth of the total number of people.

The captain's appearance is a little better-looking, he looks a little like Pei Yongjun, to be precise, he is very similar to Pei Yongjun in middle school in "First Love", just like a sixteen or seventeen-year-old child, cold and proud, his ID is Playmore.Jun, I don't know if he really plans to learn from Pei Yongjun as an idol.

Yang Yun hollowed out the mind of this person, but he never had an impression, he was very familiar with Moon, Grubby, and Sky, the top players of Warcraft, and he also remembered the appearance of MTY, Boxer, Grrr, NaDa, and other top StarCraft players, so he ruled out whether this Jun was a master he knew.

Playmore.Jun is numbered No. 5 in the "Command & Conquer" group, Nos. 1-4 sit on the stage at the same time, and face off against No. 29-32 respectively, Jun waits for about ten minutes, and the staff comes to the backstage to inform No. 5-8 and No. 25-28 to prepare.

The CPL organizing committee has an understanding of the general level of each player, of which the No. 5 vs. No. 28 is specially arranged by them, according to their own estimates, both of them should have the strength of the top five, and this kind of high-level battle in the second batch of teams on the field has the meaning of Mars hitting the earth in it, which can pull the audience who have just lost their attention to the TV series again, nervously watching the details of the game.

The camera gives Jun a close-up, and the voiceover details the team, as well as Jun's personal profile, giving him a high rating, praising him as a rare genius in real-time strategy games.

The more the CPL organizing committee praised the Playmore team, the happier Yang Yun became. (To be continued......)