Duan Fei, who is in charge of the e-sports department, has been very busy recently, and now the end of the year is approaching, and the pre-season of the WCG2014 Super League will start in the spring of next year, and it will be more than a month later.

At present, the World Esports Association WESA has been officially launched WCG2014 three days ago, and major well-known esports clubs from all over the world have applied to join and become members of WESA.

The 22 domestic and foreign clubs invited to the tournament were all qualified for the WCG2014 Super League for 10 million yuan, and the other 18 places were put up for auction a week later.

The starting price is 10 million yuan.

At present, the news in the circle is that there are conservative 50 clubs that will participate in the auction of these 18 seats, of which one-third are from the e-sports clubs in South Korea, which is normal, the e-sports industry was born in South Korea, the industry is developed, and there are many clubs.

Now that the times have changed, the pattern of the e-sports industry has ushered in historic changes due to the entry of Qunxing Capital, and one of the biggest changes is that the discourse of the e-sports industry has shifted from South Korea to a big country in the East.

South Korea's ICM, the tournament operator, and WCG, the most influential esports brand at the moment, have been acquired by Qunxing Capital.

If you want to play esports now, you can't do it without participating in the WCG Super League.

Before Qunxing Capital took over, WCG was already the most influential event in e-sports at present, and now Glos Capital has directly improved more than one or two notches compared to the original, not to mention its influence.

If you don't participate in WCG events, it's equivalent to playing football and not playing in the World Cup or the Premier League.

If you don't participate, it means that the club will definitely not be able to do it, because if you have a strong professional player, your club can't even play the WCG Super League, and they will definitely jump ship and run away, leaving behind crooked melons and cracked dates, and even star clubs will gradually lose their popularity, lose traffic, and sponsors will retreat one after another.

In addition to the clubs in South Korea, there are also many newly established e-sports clubs in China, which have attracted a lot of owners to participate.

And these changes have also made domestic professional players suddenly become scarce, because many new clubs have been established, and the demand for players has soared, especially star players who have made achievements.

If a wealthy boss wants to engage in e-sports giants, then star players are naturally an indispensable standard configuration, which also doubles the value of star players in popular projects such as "League of Legends".

Now there are popular projects, and the transfer fee of star players has soared to 5 million yuan.

Under today's new WESA system, the flow of professional players between clubs has clear transfer rules, not that players can change jobs if they want to, and clubs do not say that they can buy if they want to, and there are clear normative standards and management regulations.

The entry of Qunxing Capital has made e-sports have a systematic and standardized management, and it is no longer a wild way.

WESA has clear rules and regulations for players, which have norms for players' personal behavior, morality, etc., in the previous chaotic environment, it is common for players to fight between players and even fight in groups, and the online PK is not over, but also an offline PK.

This also buckles the negative image of the Internet café street slicker in the eyes of the mainstream, and is not regarded by the mainstream seriously, in addition to prejudice, the problems of people in the e-sports circle themselves cannot be shaken off.

Now that Qunxing Capital has intervened, the World Esports Association WESA has also been established, and the Player Conference has also been held.

Naturally, it is necessary to standardize, and the image of street runners in the past must be eliminated, and it is very strict, violating the industry regulations formulated by WESA, and the most serious is a direct lifetime ban, or even being banned by the entire e-sports industry.

Receiving this kind of punishment can basically declare the end of a player's career.

The image in the mainstream is negative, and if you want to be accepted by the mainstream in the future, you must first solve your own problems.

On the one hand, he is promoting the landing of the "E-sports" satellite channel in Hong Kong, and it is necessary that the "E-sports" satellite channel can be launched simultaneously when the preseason starts.

On the other hand, it is accelerating the pace of the WCG2014 Super League, which has already been confirmed to start the pre-season in February next year, followed by the summer regular season, then the fall super series, and most importantly, the winter Nations Cup.

The Nations Cup may not be as confrontational and gold as the Super League of the Super League, but the atmosphere and attention are definitely not weaker than the Super League, because the Nations Cup gives greater honor to a certain extent, and can also mobilize the enthusiasm and participation of players from all over the world.

It's the end of the year now, and the preseason will start in February next year, and there is only a little more than a month of preparation time for the full game, which can be said to be very compact, the time is very rushed, there are a lot of things, and the workload and pressure organized by Duan Fei and WESA are also very large, because WCG is an offline competition, which has high requirements for overall scheduling.

And I don't dare to relax, after all, this is a matter of the big boss of Qunxing Capital who personally makes decisions, and he will definitely keep an eye on it silently, in short, it must not be messed up.

Fortunately, the budget given by the headquarters is very strong, and the budget of the WCG2014 is 3 billion yuan, which is beyond the reach of many traditional sports.

The host city of WCG2014 is determined to be held in Xincheng, which is the proper home of Qunxing Capital, and the relevant parties in the city are also fully cooperating and supporting, and the construction and renovation of the event venue are also working overtime, directly giving the largest sports center in Xincheng to WCG to host the event.

But that's not enough, more venues are needed.

In addition, it is necessary to build a large arena for WCG events in the future, and the new city has even planned to start acquiring land.

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Friday, December 27.

Fang Hong came to the e-sports division of Qunxing Capital, and at this moment, Duan Fei, the senior director in charge, and several other branch directors of the company were there, and they also realized that Big Boss attached great importance to the e-sports division.

"The schedule is progressing well, the time is tight, but the task has to be completed on time." Fang Hong, who listened to a work report, nodded with satisfaction, and immediately looked at Duan Fei and asked, "Is the budget enough?" ”

Hearing this, Duan Fei nodded and replied: "It must be enough, and the broadcast rights in major regions such as North America, Europe, and South Korea have been sold, adding up to about 10 million US dollars." ”

For example, South Korea, where the e-sports industry is relatively developed, has TV programs that specialize in broadcasting e-sports competitions, and the copyright construction in foreign countries far exceeds that in the mainland, and foreign regions have to pay for broadcast fees to broadcast WCG events.

Although it has sold more than 10 million US dollars now, which is insignificant compared to the total budget of 500 million US dollars for WCG2014 event, mosquitoes are small and meat, and it is another matter if the traffic of the esports industry rises in the future.

Duan Fei added: "In addition, Yixing Video in China bought the online broadcast rights of the WCG2014 event in the Greater China market, which is about 18 million yuan. ”

The price of the broadcast right is 18 million yuan, which is equivalent to about 3 million US dollars in US dollars, which is not high, but it is not low for the domestic e-sports environment, because it is not an exclusive broadcast right.

Yixing Video is currently the largest online streaming video website in China, although it is also a company of the galaxy, but it also has to give money, and it is more intended to promote the development of copyright, but everyone is a galaxy, so the talk is quite smooth.

In the coming year, domestic gamers and viewers can watch WCG2014 preseason, regular season, super game and WCG2014 Nations Cup for free on Yixing Video.

Now there is no shadow of online live broadcast platforms such as a certain fish and a certain tooth, and the audience can only watch the game through the online streaming site of Yixing Video.

However, in the part of online live broadcasting, Fang Hong knew that Chen Yu, who was in charge of quantitative capital, wanted Xiao Aya to debut as a game anchor for the IP anthropomorphization strategy of artificial intelligence "Xiao Aya", and by mistake, he wanted to launch a live online broadcast platform.

Calculate the time, this online live broadcast platform should also be about to be launched, according to the development trajectory of Fang Hong's previous life, Douyu was established on January 1, 2014, and it will be a few days later, but the online time of Douyu will have to wait until April next year, and it will definitely be launched first by Douyu.

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