With the arrival of the wNv club, almost 30 meters away, a second club was introduced, Fnatic from Europe, and each club appeared with a brief overview of the club's history and achievements.

When the third club appeared, the cheers in the venue were noticeably louder than before.

This club is WE, which has five competitions, of which Warcraft, Interstellar, and CS are firmly in the top three, and Warcraft is the undisputed representative project of WE.

However, it is a pity that Sky, known as the "Emperor of Warcraft" and one of the founders of the WE Club, suffered a tragic defeat in this year's WRPO division, and at the same time, the WCG held in Cologne, Germany in the summer of 2008 also failed to participate, and finally ranked fifth in the WRPO standings in the China division, missing the first WRPO World Number One Player Championship.

When he lost the game in the division, he burst into tears several times.

This is also a big regret for Sky himself and countless fans, many people feel that it is a pity that the first WRPO Warcraft competition project, WCG double champion Sky failed to appear, and he himself is also very unwilling, but it can't change anything, this is the cruelty of e-sports, and e-sports does not believe in tears.

It is worth mentioning that the top three in the WRPO standings of the Warcraft project in the Huaguo Division are all young new faces, namely Like, Sai and Infi.

Grubby, the champion of this summer's WCG Warcraft event, is directly guaranteed to the WRPO round of 16, and the WCG championship is recognized by the WRPO, and the winner can directly advance to the top 16 to compete for the WRPO trophy.

The next four teams in a row are all from South Korea, namely KT Club, SKT Club, and CJ Club.

The battle in South Korea can be said to be the most tragic division, and the interstellar project is the most of them, you must know that the interstellar SPL team league in South Korea includes 12 giant clubs, and its players are about to fight in order to get a ticket to WRPO.

In addition to the top three players in the standings of the Korean division, there are also 7 players who chose to be traded to join clubs in other regions and reached the top 16 of the WRPO as players from other regions.

In other words, ten of the top 16 interstellar players are Koreans.

They are: Flash, Bisu, JaedBi, BeSt, sea, Jila, F, Luxury

Among them, the top four players in the standings are called the four emperors of the interstellar circle by players in the domestic interstellar circle, namely Bisu Jin Zelong, Stork Song Binggu, Flash Li Yonghao, and Jaedong Li Jidong.

In the interstellar e-sports circle, these four professional players are the most dazzling existence at the moment, and their existence overshadows other players.

And the most of them is the current WRPO standings world No. 1 Flash Li Yonghao, the player, the horror is that he is only 16 years old this year, and what is even more excessive is that he debuted last year, this year swept the star player Stork Song Binggu, won his first OSL championship with super high gold content, and became the youngest OSL champion winner.

In the first WRPO interstellar event, "Ze Bing and Li Shuang" are the favorites to win the championship.

There are 12 events, with a total of 43 esports clubs, and each club also operates at least two competitions.

Finally, it was the finale's turn to come out on the club.

When I saw the "BTG" flag fluttering into the arena, the atmosphere of the audience immediately entered a new high dynasty.

This club is known as the "own son" of the WRPO by the e-sports circle, although the club was only established last year, and it has also been questioned by the circle to return to the WRPO as both a player and a referee.

The best way to respond to doubts is the results of this year's competition, the "BTG Club" was born with a special mission, it is the hematopoietic factory of the esports ecosystem, to train a talented player, and then kick it out, it is impossible for other esports clubs to accept such a mission, because it is a money-losing business.

But there is no doubt that BTG Club is not inferior to the first-tier Korean e-sports clubs that have existed for ten years, such as KT, SKT, Samsung, and CJ, regardless of the strength of the players in the team.

It is the rich of the rich.

However, the mission of BTG Club is different from other clubs, and BTG positions itself as the "Huangpu Military Academy" in the e-sports circle, so the famous star players and champion players do not sign, and they all sign the new generation of talented players.

Of course, the BTG club itself also wants to be honored, and the best expectation is that the newly trained players will win the championship once under the BTG club, and then they will not sign again the next year and sell the players to other clubs.

For example, this time, when the BTG club was founded, players in the esports circle thought that BTG was going to form a bank battleship, and they all thought that Sky would be bought by BTG, which was not bad for money.

The result was beyond everyone's expectations, and the BTG club did not have a single well-known player.

The current BTG club operates six competitions, including the Warcraft team, which has four players, including two young newcomers who reached the top 16 of the WRPO Warcraft project this year, Like and Infi, followed by the interstellar project and the CS project.

As the clock ticked by, each club had an area as the BTG club paraded around the arena and entered the designated area of the big stage.

At this moment, the battle flag is fluttering, the background music is just right to reach the high court paragraph, and the picture in the six large giant screens in the halftime area has become an animated version of the scene after a glimpse of the DJ girl Hatsune Miku, and it is a surprisingly mirror image of the scene pattern.

Accompanied by the sound of music and cheers and shouts at the scene, the long-prepared fireworks ceremony was released as scheduled, and the wonderful pictures were presented in the night sky, pushing the atmosphere of the scene to a new high.

All the esports players who participated in the entrance ceremony were not at peace in their hearts, and this was the highlight moment, which was highly anticipated.

Especially the domestic e-sports players, at this moment, they deeply experienced a sense of ritual and honor, and silently said to themselves that they were e-sports athletes.

This opening ceremony is more high-end than any traditional sporting event.

The audience at the scene was just as excited as the audience in front of the video, and their hearts were just as unsettled.

"Slipped, absolutely surprised, there is a wood, a powerful EB ah wo li."

"It's more than expected, it's worth the fare!"

"I don't know why, this scene inexplicably feels enthusiastic, maybe the rendering of the music and the atmosphere of the scene are too good, just like reading a hot blood comic."

"Yes, it feels good."

"On the activities of the big scene, the atmosphere of the big scene is rendered, and it depends on the operation of my Chinese people."

"Yes, this is for Lao Mouzi to direct, the Olympics have already witnessed its skill."

"I couldn't believe that an esports tournament could do this before?"

"I thought it was just a playhouse, but I didn't expect it to be so showy......"

"Just kidding, the ultimate boss of Bluestar Technology is fake, how can it be a playhouse?"

"Bad (Broken Voice) !!"

"I thought it would be good to have a WRPO event as long as it wasn't weaker than the WCG, but I didn't think I was so wrong."

"Just looking at today's opening ceremony, there will be no suspense about WRPO as the world's number one esports event."

"As an e-sports fan, I am really happy to witness this moment, Bluestar Technology's 'family bucket', right, I support it, by the way, I get a blue mobile phone, the wallet is really annoying, don't do it, you take it, take it away, take it away......"

……

Countless e-sports people in China want to look up to the sky and shout at this moment, this is a carnival feast in the e-sports circle!

There is no harm without comparison, and before Bluestar Technology reshapes the entire e-sports industry, it is a road with little hope for those who are engaged in the e-sports industry in China.

But all this has changed dramatically because of the entry of Bluestar Technology.

The current e-sports carnival moment is the highest expectation in the minds of countless e-sports people, which used to be only a fantasy, but now it has become a reality.

Time passed, the excitement of the entrance ceremony ended, and the clubs returned to the backstage.

At the same time, around 19:10, the lights went out in the middle of the stadium stage, and when it came back on, the rock band Linkin Park was already on the stage, and the sound of music accompanied by music was heard throughout the audience.

At the moment, the song sung by Linkin Park is called "Numb", which is one of the masterpieces of this rock band and one of the most famous English songs in China.

At the end of the opening ceremony, the audience was pleasantly surprised that Linkin Park would perform on stage again, and it was a triple.

Well, the rhythm of buying e-sports tickets for concerts is proper.

Linkin Park's final single was "In The End", which literally translates to "finally, finally."

At around 19:35, the opening ceremony of the first WRPO World Number One Championship in 2008 ended in 95 minutes.

It ended with Linkin Park's performance of "In The End".

Around the wee hours of the morning, key words such as WRPO and Linkin Park appeared on Weibo, Yunge Search and other hot searches, and major forums on the Internet, especially the player circle, were hotly discussed.

Sports-related media and entertainment media, including several mainstream media outlets, are covering this carnival in the esports world.

Luo Sheng once again justified the name of the e-sports platform, which also sparked a big discussion in the society.

Most of the media in Europe and the United States were positive when they made relevant comments, and once again praised Luo Sheng for being good at catching young people.

As a result, esports has gained greater exposure and publicity.

After the opening ceremony, the competition officially started on the second day, and the rules of the three mainstream e-sports events are basically the same, but the BO of different competitions is different.

The round of 16 is divided into four groups: A, B, C, and D.

The 16-in-8 competition was launched on the sub-stage, because the top 16 also had rookies pecking each other, and the strength of the major sub-divisions was not balanced so far, especially in the interstellar event, the players in the Korean sub-division could basically beat the non-Korean players in other divisions.

But after entering the quarterfinals, none of them are weak, and they are not weak.

Therefore, the quarterfinals will be played on the main stage from the beginning, with the quarter-finals and the finals being played on Saturday, while the semi-finals and finals will be played over the weekend.

Saturdays and weekends are also rest days, and the audience is also the most numerous.

The time is also clearly arranged.

Luo Sheng has been in Shencheng for the past few days, and he will not leave until all the games are over, and when the three major mainstream e-sports projects of Interstellar, Warcraft and CS compete for the championship, he will appear again to the scene to present honorary certificates to the first champions.

This is the first event of the WRPO, which is of extraordinary significance, and Luo Sheng basically does not need to be present in the future competition, and other executives will go to it.

……

Friday, the second day of the WRPO event.

The round of 16 is in full swing, and Luo Sheng appeared in the conference room of the WRPO event operations department this afternoon.

"Mr. Luo, this is the e-sports development plan we have formulated in the next five years or so." Wang Qiwei, who was sitting in the conference room, handed a document in his hand to Luo Sheng, who was in the chief position.

When he handed over the information, Luo Sheng stopped and said, "I won't read the plan carefully, you can tell me about it." ”

Wang Qiwei put the materials back beside him, nodded, reorganized and said: "We have already started planning for the second WRPO event next year, and we have decided to adopt the plan of city bidding. ”

The popularity of e-sports has undoubtedly surprised the industry, especially the first WRPO event that is currently being held, which is far more than one level higher than WCG, of course, Bluestar Technology's large investment and the efforts of the event organizers are also indispensable.

But more and more data is showing the potential of this new industry, and its future is very imaginable, such as Cherry, the only mechanical keyboard manufacturer in Germany.

Beginning in 2008, or pushing back a little further, from the beginning of the WRPO event brand, Cherry ushered in a chance to regain its life, and esports almost saved the mechanical keyboard business.

E-sports has driven players' enthusiasm for the consumption of mechanical keyboards, which has made Cherry's mechanical keyboard sales skyrocketing this year.

This also makes the manufacturers who have long given up the mechanical keyboard business unable to sit still, and now they are meeting to discuss the issue of re-entering this field, but Cherry, which has always insisted on it and even became the only seedling for a time, has undoubtedly become the leader of the mechanical keyboard business.

The emergence and continued growth and prosperity of e-sports have given mechanical keyboards a chance to be reborn.

The growth of Cherry's business also indirectly shows the potential of the esports industry, and there are many more statistics that show that the growth rate of the esports industry is very exaggerated.

Wang Qiwei continued: "The host city of the second WRPO event in 2009 has been finalized, Seattle in North America will be held in the North American region, and the final announcement of the end of the event will be announced, and the third edition in 2010 is also in the bidding, and it will be in Cologne, Germany and Seoul, South Korea. ”

Luo Sheng nodded.

Wang Qiwei added: "Another important work is the future vision of the WRPO League, we are studying the scheme of binding clubs and cities under the WRPO tournament alliance system, and the vision of the operation department is that in the future, the whole plate will become bigger, each club should have its own main e-sports stadium, and each club should have its own home stadium in a certain city." ”

Luo Sheng was quite surprised, it seems that the WRPO Organizing Committee and the Operations Department have done a good job, the thinking is so advanced, the key is to plan correctly.

Wang Qiwei didn't know what he was thinking, and immediately smiled: "Of course, Mr. Luo, this is just a kind of imagination within us, and there is definitely no basis to do this now, aside from foreign e-sports clubs, especially South Korean clubs, our e-sports in the mainland started late and was still very bumpy, and now the club that can get it is BTG, and other clubs have limited financial resources, so it is impossible." ”

Compared with more than a year ago, the domestic e-sports circle environment has undergone earth-shaking changes, but it has also moved from chaos and disorder to order, in fact, the overall investment scale of e-sports clubs is still very limited, and it cannot be compared with foreign countries, especially South Korea.

Bluestar Technology has helped many domestic clubs to pull sponsorship behind the scenes, in fact, most of them are secretly paying the bills out of their own pockets, but Bluestar Technology's money is not blowing in the wind, and this behavior of generating electricity with love is definitely unhealthy for the development of the entire industry.

At present, there are 17 e-sports clubs in China, including BTG, that have entered the WRPO league system, all of which have been recognized by the organizing committee, and they are formalized and professional, while there are many non-governmental teams, and their names are also varied.

"Well, this plan is very imaginative, the market size will go up in the future, the market allows you to do this, you can give it a try, do a pilot or something, if it works, then fully promote it." Luo Sheng said simply and clearly, as soon as this remark came out, it gave the operation department and others great confidence, but a simple sentence was the recognition of their work by the ultimate boss.

I'm afraid the boss will not be satisfied.

Luo Sheng didn't stay in the WRPO operations department for too long, and he left after the meeting, and instead of going to the game, he returned to the hotel to rest.

Just take a look at international information, what happened in the industry, some news about the company, and then send someone to arrange some young ladies to play.

Although he is considered by many esports people to be the number one gamer in their hearts, he really doesn't like to play video games very much.

It's still fun to be a young lady.

This time, Qin Weimu and Erin were not around, of course Luo Sheng was turned into a wild horse, without any scruples, galloping wantonly, there were not many opportunities for this kind of vigorous wave.

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(There should be one more chapter at 11 o'clock tonight, and the hole in esports can be filled.) ）