On April 22, the online registration for the herring cup officially ended.

Regardless of the quality of the event, it is still impossible to predict, but with 21,982 people signing up for the competition, the first Qingyu Cup has set an alternative record, which is the largest number of registrations in the history of a single event competition, worldwide.

Even if the remaining 5,122 people pass the screening, they need to play 6 games before entering the offline competition, which is 30,000 participants.

Of course, this is only a single event.

Compared to ESCL, the largest global multi-purpose event, it is still far behind.

Last year's total number of ESCL registrations reached 1.03 million! Covering almost one-third of the world's esports players.

Then, after passing through layers of screening, they finally set foot in Seattle, USA, and entered the world finals with 641 players from 67 countries and regions around the world.

Just looking at the numbers is brilliant.

The Blue Fish Cup has even received the attention of some overseas media, and Gamespot, the largest game information news media in the United States, updated a not short news on April 20, local time in the United States, reporting that the number of registered participants in China's "Blue Fish Cup" exceeded 20,000 in just one month, which is the largest number of individual event e-sports events in China and even in the world.

At the same time, the operation mode of the game manufacturers such as the "Blue Fish Cup", which is hosted by itself and then entrusted to a third-party media company, and then looks for sponsors and co-organizers, also aroused their interest, and editor Fried believes that this new model may bring new ideas to later e-sports competitions, and even become mainstream.

With an event like ESCL hosted entirely by a third party, it's no secret that Sansan loses money on tournament sponsorship. And with the popularity of several popular competitive games such as Star Wars and Warcraft War 3 gradually fading and their influence decreasing, there has been no new dominant competitive game on the market, and Fried is not optimistic about the future of this model.

The article also introduces the game "Eternal War" and the young herring network.

They pointed out that "Eternal War" is actually a game that just launched last month, and the gameplay is similar to "RotA", which quickly won the love of the majority of Chinese players.

The young company Qingyu Network, which has only been founded for more than half a year, does not have accurate data on its monthly revenue, but according to multiple clues, it should have exceeded 10 million US dollars. This number is not so scary for them, the horror is only half a year.

This also shows the vigorous vitality of China's young and rapidly developing game market.

The news of Gamespot was not reported in a big way, and it only appeared in a place where the website was not very conspicuous, and almost no one in China knew about it, even Xia Qingyu didn't know it at first, it was only because Twitter and Facebook social accounts suddenly added some fan messages that they knew that this was the case.

At that time, they were still playing the "Blue Fish Cup" game.

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The online preliminary round has officially begun, and the name of the five-member team of the herring network is "herring network", continuing their ID style.

All teams will participate in this online primary, regardless of whether you are a professional team or not, of course, in order to ensure the level of offline competition, the teams of several esports clubs are still divided into different groups to ensure that they will not meet in advance in the primary and then eliminate one in advance.

The first opponent of the herring fish network has a catchy name called the "black fertilizer ash volatile" team, and after the referee pulls people to the game room, they see the opposite name and two IDs that they have seen on TV.

Weakly typed and asked, "Boss?" Producer? Is it a real person? ”

There are no duplicate usernames on the same server in Eternal War.

Rao Bin immediately typed: "Yes, yes, yes, it's us." ”

"You're really from the herring network?"

"What's so deceitful about that."

But it seems that there is really a good deception.,I believe that if the official team's ID is not controlled by themselves.,There will be a lot of players who are happy to use such a game name.,It's enough to pretend to be a force.。

"Great, I've finally met you! I love this game so much, many of us in school love it! We are the broadcasting and hosting major of Beijing University of Communication and Communication, and we are the department team! ”

No wonder there is such a team name as black fertilizer ash volatilization, it turns out to be a professional broadcasting and hosting ......

"We like this game so much, we secretly go to the dormitory aunt's room at night to answer the phone to play, and we can't stop playing, sometimes until two or three o'clock at night, and the next day we have no energy in class, and my throat is still sore."

This time, the "boss" finally spoke: "Games are just leisure and entertainment, and students should still focus on their studies and not affect their studies." ”

Between the lines, the feeling of light and light wind was revealed, and the audience was speechless as soon as these words came out.

People on my side wonder if the boss is implying that we employees should also focus on work, and work should ensure spirit and work efficiency......

The other side didn't know how to reply at all.

Before the game started, the other side asked weakly: "Boss, if our team ...... If you are eliminated, will you be banned......"

Of course, this is a joke by the classmates to adjust the atmosphere.

The boss replied: "Each according to his ability." "Highlight a high coldness, she now also regrets this ID and that show, now playing a game almost every time you will encounter players asking questions, and there are so many questions, she still has patience, and she can't help but answer every hand. even asked her about her and Ye Shenxi's private affairs...... Eat the consequences.

The rules of the competition are competitive mode, that is, you need to go through the Ban/Pick process, and at this time, the RotA Captain Long March mode has not yet appeared, let alone popularized, and players are also exposed to such a process for the first time.

Although they are not used to it, and the heroes they have been training for a long time are sometimes directly Ban in a competitive match and cannot choose at all, but slowly they also discover the advantages of this mode.

This mode tests the team's plastic surgery configuration, and therefore extends the tactical play, and also has certain requirements for everyone's hero pool, which can better reflect the comprehensive strength of the captain's two teams.

In addition, the game is rebalanced, and it is inevitable that there will be strong heroes in one version, and this mode can also balance the impact of some heroes being too strong on the victory or defeat.

After the game starts, the other side wants to continue chatting with the official team, for them to be able to meet the boss and producer, and to be able to chat for a few words, the meaning is more than the game itself.

And the jungler hero [Nameless Sword Saint Twenty-Three] chosen by Ye Shenxi began to bring rhythm from the early stage of the game because of his excellent displacement ability that can fly with a sword.