Chapter 39: Globalization

"No, as far as I know, it seems that recently Riot is trying to find a way to globalize the influence of League of Legends, so the entire European league has been split into several leagues, originally there were no leagues such as the English league, the German league, etc., but collectively called the European league, and now for globalization, each country has a league. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"The relationship between Scotland and England is relatively special, although they belong to the United Kingdom, but Scotland has the privilege of establishing its own league, so there is also a Scottish league."

Alan explained.

"In other words, the Euroleague is no longer there, but has evolved into dozens of national leagues?" Su Yang somewhat understood what Allen meant.

It turns out that the European League, isn't there only a total of 12 teams?

And the Europa League includes teams from all over Europe at once.

The current situation is that the European league has been transformed into dozens of national leagues, not only representing Europe, but a single league in the name of a single country, which has caused a huge number of teams from all over Europe.

There can be twelve teams in a national league, but how many countries are there in Europe?

These nations are going to compete in a few championship tournaments to compete for a place in the World Finals, which can be described as bloody, almost allowing hundreds of teams to compete with a few teams.

"How long has this rule been around?" Su Yang was surprised, his eyes looking at Allen.

"Riot began to have this idea and setting at the end of the S5 season, but it was delayed until the end of the S6 season because it didn't have a strong sense of action, and it was finally implemented gradually. Alan said with a shrug.

"However, there seems to be a lot of change in China recently, Shanghai is the base of the LPL league, 12 teams are rooted in Shanghai, and Beijing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen have also introduced a series of policies."

"It is estimated that in the mid-season, there will be nearly 48 teams qualified for LPL in China, and the LPL league will no longer be called the LPL league, but will become the LPL division."

"The whole of China has become an LPL region, and 48 teams are competing for a place in the World Championship."

Alan said with a glimpse of "this expansion of the team, and now the mid-season of the World Championship is not just a matter of six teams. ”

"The Mid-Season Invitational will feature three teams from Europe, three teams from North America, three teams from China, three teams from South Korea, two teams from Taiwan, and two teams from the Wild Card region, with the same rules as the original World Finals."

"And the World Finals in the S7 season will be very bloody, except for the sixteen teams that are guaranteed to lock in the group stage in advance as usual."

"The rest of the teams that want to compete in the World Finals can go directly to Riot to sign up, and each team will need to pay a $20,000 participation fee."

"The $10,000 participation fee will go into the prize pool for the winner."

"That is to say, in addition to the original sixteen teams that have already been allocated places, other teams can participate in the team audition by signing up, and then compete for the sixteen team places."

"There will be 32 teams that can participate in the group stage in the World Finals!"

Su Yang smashed his mouth.

This Riot company is also ambitious, which is equivalent to further expanding the influence of League of Legends, and wants to raise its status to the level of sports competition.

But a game that is forever dominated by South Korea will not have a chance to continue to grow.

In a competition without suspense, there will be a bottleneck, and the emergence of this bottleneck will ruin the hot spot of the entire competition, which is equivalent to table tennis in today's sports competition.

The intensity of playing the world championship is not as good as the intensity of playing the domestic league.

And this is the case with League of Legends right now, if there is no league team that can break the dominance of the Korean division, then the competitive game will die sooner or later.

However, Riot is not only working hard to expand the size of the entire world competition, but also to help teams in other leagues.

With hundreds of teams already competing for three spots in Europe, it's obvious what kind of terrifying monsters can be born in such a crazy environment.

Due to the small size of South Korea, its development potential can only be stuck in the limit of twelve teams.

The most terrifying thing is that Riot has increased the prize pool of the champion by an unknown number of times, which has made many players in other esports sports a little jealous.

However, there are still very few esports players who have truly made a direct transition.

Only those who are not satisfied with the pros will consider making the transition to becoming pros in other sports.

"Okay, let's not talk about these things for now, we still have a post-match interview that we haven't been involved in." After Allen won the game, he was in a good mood.

It's a good start.

And he came up and won against a team that was fifth in the league, which made him very excited.

The staff walked over and led the entire team to the backstage interview seat of the game, where a female host was looking at the manuscript on the cardboard, silently memorizing it, in case she forgot the words when she waited for the next interview.

Except for Su Yang, the performance of the other players was quite excited.

This is the first time they have been interviewed of this kind.

Alva was already thinking about what he was going to say, and he was even considering whether to publish his 'miserable' 'training journey' over the past few months.

For example, playing World of Warcraft every day, playing other games every day, not playing League of Legends and the like came to light.

Take a good look at the SREG players.

After a brief preparation by the photographer, the blonde hostess began to make her opening remarks, first greeting the audience in a cliché, and then introducing herself.

At the end of the self-introduction, I began to introduce the players of Team UG.

Su Yang waved his hand at the camera to show his caress to the 'fans'.

This is a habitual move, in fact, he himself knows that there are definitely not many fans of the UG team, and this is only his first time participating in the competition, and it is unlikely that there will be any fans.

So, this gesture is more or less a symbolic courtesy.

Take the microphone.

"Hello everyone, I'm Joy, I'm the new midlaner of Team UG, I'm very happy, we met again in thirty minutes."

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