In this barbecue stall, a group of e-sports practitioners chatted with Fang Hong and other people from Qunxing Capital while eating barbecue, and an hour passed unconsciously.

At the end, Fang Hong looked at everyone and said: "For the development of the e-sports industry, we are drafting and establishing a 'World E-sports Association WESA', through which we will formulate industry standards, standardize the management of professional players, competition rules, club income, event organization charters, etc., aiming to integrate and improve the current chaotic e-sports ecosystem, and the establishment of WESA will definitely provide more opportunities for member clubs and their players." ”

The people present, especially those in the domestic e-sports circle, were immediately overjoyed, and the intervention of the giants was different, and they came up to formulate industry standards and specifications.

If you join the WESA organization, you will be able to change to the rhythm of the regular army.

Fang Hong added: "In addition, we will also decide to set up a player conference for the league's constitution, player transfers, etc., and many future events will be held under this rule. ”

The people present nodded one after another, there was no objection, and they didn't have the ability and qualification to object, in short, the big guy just followed it.

Everyone is very excited, especially the people in the domestic e-sports circle are the most excited, being able to come here represents the first batch of people, and the first batch of people who follow the giants must be no different, so they are naturally extremely excited.

After a while, Fang Hong glanced at the head of the e-sports department under the jurisdiction of Qunxing Capital, who understood his meaning and looked at everyone and said: "Starting from next year in 2014, WCG will have a new competition format and schedule. ”

"The official events confirmed for the 2014 WCG tournament include League of Legends, Counter-Strike, Warcraft, StarCraft, Dota, FIFA, and World of Tanks."

As soon as everyone heard that there were only these seven projects, CF, which had just become an official project this year, was directly eliminated? Not to mention "QQ Speed" and "Counter War", which are this year's performance projects.

The WCG2013 of these projects was originally the result of the compromise of the organizers, otherwise the goose factory would not give sponsorship fees.

But now that WCG has been won by the super gold owner father of Qunxing Capital, it is completely different.

But at this moment, the person in charge of the e-sports department of Qunxing Capital continued: "The new WCG schedule is still held once a year, which is divided into two major events: the WCG Super League and the WCG Nations Cup. ”

"The WCG Nations Cup is held every winter and the teams are not from the team club, but from the country. There are 32 places in the final stage, one place can be directly obtained by the host country, and the other places will be allocated by WESA according to the level of each region, and different regions will have different places in the final stage. ”

Everyone listened to it, this is a large-scale cup competition, a proper World Cup in e-sports.

The head of the esports department of Qunxing Capital continued: "...... The WCG Super League, on the other hand, is organized by team clubs and is held once a year with three major schedules, with pre-season matches in the spring, regular season matches in the summer, and super tournaments in the fall. ”

"The preseason games that kick off in the spring are warm-up games that teams play before the start of the summer regular season. The summer regular season is a round-robin system, with 40 teams playing a total of 1,200 games during the regular season, with each team playing a constant of 60 games during the regular season. ”

"The Autumn Super Race is based on the 60 regular season records of each team, and the top 16 places are ranked according to the standings to advance to the Super Series, and these 16 places are divided into 4 groups, with 2 places in each group stage to advance, and finally 8 promotion places will enter the knockout round until the Super Series champion is decided."

The e-sports people present were thrilled to hear it, and they didn't have to worry about not having a game now.

There are super leagues and cups, and the entire tournament system is much stronger, more perfect, and more professional than the previous WCG.

One of the purposes of Fang Hong and Qunxing Capital's decision to fill the WCG schedule all year round is to suppress the space for game developers to hold their own events, and there are WCG events to be held all year round, and WCG events are bound to be regarded as the most important events by clubs and professional players, and all preparations will be based on WCG events.

In this way, other events are not important.

For example, if the S-series of League of Legends conflicts with the WCG event, clubs and professional players are likely to abandon Riot's S-series event in order to prepare for the WCG match.

Over time, other tournaments will be marginalized, and clubs, professional players, and gamers will see WCG competitions as the most valuable and high-profile esports events.

In addition to suppressing other events, there are tournaments throughout the year, which means that there will be continuous traffic attention throughout the year.

And more events for players and clubs means more revenue expectations, more opportunities, more games to play, more prizes, at least more chances of winning.

After a while, the head of the esports department under Qunxing Capital looked around and said, "WESA has a very clear reward system for WCG events, including existing and future plans. ”

"The existing reward mechanism is WCG2014 the total prize pool of the Super League is $65 million, which is divided into seven major preseason events with a total prize pool of $15 million, a regular season total prize pool of $20 million, and a total Super League prize pool of $30 million."

"In addition, the total prize pool of the seven major events of the WCG2014 Nations Cup is $35 million, and the total prize pool of the Super League and Nations Cup is $100 million."

"Whether it is the Super League or the Nations Cup, when it comes to the prize size division of each competition, WESA determines the distribution amount according to the popularity, audience, influence and other indicators of the project.

Everyone was dumbfounded, and they couldn't imagine that the prize money scale of $15 million in a preseason game in a single Super League has already killed this year's Lucheng WCG2013 World Finals, and even some traditional popular sports events do not have this prize scale.

The prize pool of the Lucheng WCG2013 World Finals, which ended not long ago, is only 310,000 US dollars, not even a fraction of the prize pool of the Super League pre-season, and the 310,000 US dollars are still allocated to various projects, such as the total prize pool of the "Counter-Strike" project is only 34,000 US dollars, and the championship is only 25,000 US dollars, which is still a team project.

The Super League and Cup competitions combined reach a total prize pool of 100 million US dollars, and even if it is evenly distributed to each official event, it is more than 14 million US dollars, equivalent to more than 85 million yuan.

After the reaction of the people in the e-sports circle present, they were all ecstatic, especially some people who played popular projects.

At the end, Fang Hong looked at everyone and smiled: "The total prize pool in WCG2014 is 100 million US dollars, and in the future, the prize pool will be increased by 20% on the basis of the previous year, and so on, at least for ten years." ”

When people hear it, they call it a good guy, which means that in 2015 it was $120 million, in 2016 it was $144 million, and in 2017 it was $173 million...... Will the total prize pool exceed $600 million by 2024?

Qunxing Capital is really the arrogant master!

Fang Hong further said: "Bonus money is only one aspect, in the future, WCG's broadcast fees, offline tickets, peripherals and other income will be distributed according to the number of games played by players and clubs, and I believe that in the future, it will exceed the bonus income, and the largest income of a mature e-sports event must not be the most dependent on bonuses." ”

After a while, the person sent by the STK club couldn't help but ask, "Mr. Fang, how much is the fee for a seat in the WCG Super League?" ”

From the new competition system formulated by Qunxing Capital for WCG, the Super League is composed of 40 teams to play all the way to the preseason, regular season and finally the Super League, and the premise of wanting to play the Super League is to get one of the 40 seats, and you must first get the seat qualification to be eligible to play the Super League.

According to traditional sporting events, seat fees are definitely required.

After listening to the simultaneous interpretation, Fang Hong immediately looked around at everyone and said: "The Super League seat fee is determined by the market and competed for through auctions, with a starting price of 10 million yuan. ”

As soon as these words came out, the e-sports practitioners present were stunned, and one of the club managers subconsciously said: "10 million yuan? ”

At this time, the person in charge of the e-sports department of Qunxing Capital said: "There must be a threshold, we are not making a small fuss, the prize money in WCG2014 is 100 million US dollars, and the total budget of various expenditures is 500 million US dollars to hold the Super League and the Nations Cup at the end of next year. ”

"For your club, there will be no loss, next year's tournament will only have a prize pool of 100 million US dollars, and the entry threshold of 10 million yuan is enough for 60 teams to fill the seat fee with prize money, while the actual situation is 40 teams. Mr. Fang also said just now that the bonus is only one aspect, and after getting the seat qualification, you can distribute WCG's broadcast fees, ticket fees, peripheral and other income. ”

Everyone was surprised that the total budget for the WCG2014 years was actually 500 million US dollars, which is more than 3 billion yuan excluding exchange rate fluctuations.

Just looking at this budget, no one present dared to imagine how luxurious the specifications of the event WCG2014 next year.

Qunxing Capital is really unusual.

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(End of chapter)