This change in the competition system is still very difficult in the initial implementation.

But earlier, Riot wanted League of Legends to be NBA and more professional.

Until now, hasn't the LPL division done it?

Compared with other divisions, the LPL division has shown very strong financial resources and magnanimity. it! Just get a stadium at home.

Who wanted to get it before?

Esports can play a city as their home stadium and have their own home stadium.

What's more, professional players play home and away, and they have to fly back and forth in the country, which can also be regarded as a disguised display of financial resources.

One day, it may be able to compete with football and basketball, two popular traditional sports.

Probably a lot of people think that esports can't do it to this extent.

But don't forget, the early development of football and basketball is actually very similar to e-sports, but the development of e-sports is relatively late, compared to the popularity of basketball and football, e-sports was still relatively low in the past, and now the penetration rate of computers has become higher.

The number of people playing games is gradually increasing.

Moreover, compared with popular sports such as football and basketball, the basic configuration requirements for a person themselves are relatively large, the requirements and thresholds for e-sports are lower, and the threshold for playing a career is easier, and it is not impossible to become one of the most popular sports in the future.

The prospects for development are very good.

After all, the world is now in a state of peace, and entertainment has become a way for the general public to vent their energy.

Basketball and soccer were also originally developed as entertainment.

But it's not that it's better for people all over the world to play games, it's definitely not okay to be addicted to games, people are self-aware, and wanting to play a career is not an excuse for being addicted to games, you have to make sure that you can support yourself, and you can make sure that you can still have a skill after not playing a career, and then try to play a career.

Like the kind of person who drops out of school directly to play a career, it is ugly, but it is very brainless.

E-sports can't be an iron rice bowl, it's a youth rice, just like football and basketball, it is impossible to play all the time when you reach your age.

Some people are not talented, and they can't earn pension for the next 80 years, so it's best to finish college and then try to play professionally, at least after retiring, they can still rely on a college diploma to find a job to support themselves.

Riot is an ambitious company.

And the company that buys the fist is the careerist among the careerists.

Why can't esports be made big? Why can't esports become the biggest sport besides football and basketball?

The entertainment value and benefits that football and basketball can create in a year are hot for many people, and there were people who wanted to create as popular competitions as football and basketball, and for a while, China had the idea of making table tennis and volleyball bigger.

The problem is cardinality.

Volleyball and table tennis, there are people who like it! But how can there be more people than those who like football and basketball?

On the basis of this, table tennis and volleyball are disadvantaged, so it is difficult to achieve the same level of status as football and basketball.

But eSports can!

Even in China, there are many experts and elders in e-sports who are disgusted.

But the idea of entrepreneurs to make esports bigger has never weakened.

Esports has a great future.

It is precisely because more and more people are paying attention to e-sports, Riot will begin to be nervous about their vacancies in the event, Dota 2 competition, often more than a dozen large and small competitions together, here a major tournament starts, mixed with a small game in the middle, some teams in order to catch up, just finished a group stage of the competition, and have to run to play the group stage of the small competition, and the platform for outsourcing the small tournament can collect sponsorship fees from many enterprises.

Not only does this keep the team alive, the platform earns sponsorship fees, and the game gets promoted.

But the shortcoming of Dota 2 is that it has a small player base.

If the player base is large and the competition continues to be so high-intensity, Dota 2 is likely to replace League of Legends as the hottest e-sports event, and it is also because of the small player base that the salary of professional players in Dota 2 is quite low.

It's like a big difference between the value and salary of a table tennis player and a football player.

Riot knows where its advantages are, and has been thinking about making League of Legends e-sports, in order to keep players sticky and hot, it has begun to find ways to improve the game's mechanics every year.

Continental tournaments, mid-season tournaments, and world finals are also a way for Riot to keep players sticky.

South Korea dominates the game very much, then there are more World Championships, no matter how strong you are in Korea, you will always lose, as long as you lose, there are teams from other regions to win, and there is also an improvement for the game environment.

Like table tennis, it is a competition that our country rules and other countries cannot play.

It's too much of an impact on the competitive environment.

Not so many people like table tennis now, which is why China is too strong.

is so strong that you don't have to think about it, and the Chinese team wins again.

Riot itself doesn't want to see a situation where South Korea rules the world and players lose interest in the game because of it, and it wants to increase the format and increase the number of matches, but this change in the format is not a catalyst, and Riot did not decide to let hundreds of schools of thought go together in the first place, so that many messy platforms have the right to organize League of Legends matches.

Instead, I'm going to let ESL try it out first and hold a worldwide competition.

ESL, is an e-sports league in Europe, -Sports-League is the full name, founded in 1997, with e-sports fans well-known Go4 and IEM and other events, but it is a partnership with IEM and other events.

It can be regarded as the big brother in the industry.

The League of Legends IEM Cup was held with the collaborative help of this big brother.

However, just because it is held cooperatively does not mean that it does not have the ability to hold the event alone.

And why the IEM Cup needs to cooperate is that in the beginning, the founder of the Intel Extreme Masters Cup had little experience in organizing competitions, and found people on the ESL side to help.

The people on the ESL side helped out, and there was only the IEM Cup.

In fact, ESL has always had the ability to host world events, and it is the leader in traditional events such as CSGO and Dota 2.

It's that Riot doesn't give ESL the right to play League of Legends games.

Why is Fist like this?

It's still the fault of poverty, League of Legends didn't make much money in the early days, and restricting large-scale events was to make way for their own leagues, and the league system could ensure that the money was earned by themselves, and Riot didn't want other platforms to share their own cakes.

Now that I realize the importance of the tournament, I find that I want to change but am reluctant to change.

During the S5 season, Riot consciously wanted to change the format, and the problem was that no one dared to break this rule.

Until now, being forced to be tight, Riot found that not developing tournaments on other platforms had a greater impact on its overall situation, and gritted its teeth and planned to break this rule.

At least after there are more world events in the future.

It won't be South Korea alone.

With all this in mind, Riot chose to delegate power to the platform to host world events.

The ESL League was the first to get the news, and their executives were a little surprised to learn that they had been given the right to host League of Legends tournaments.

You must know that a long time ago, they wanted to hold a League of Legends game, and took the initiative to find Riot, but they ran into a wall on Riot's side, but this time the status changed, Riot begged them to hold the game, and the ESL League sat firmly on the platform, but was not so eager to hold any League of Legends event.

This may be the legendary self-inflicted.

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(One more, Carvin.) ）

(ESL is holding the World Championship, and the RNG team is making the emperor all beings equal. ）