Super Game Empire

Because it is the first WCG, there has never been any other high-level professional competition in the world, so there is no S1 championship team. The top three WCG Spring League can directly advance to the finals. All teams must go from

The qualifiers began, so Yang Yun was preparing to determine the qualifying places for the finals of various regions around the world based on his memory.

Yang Yun introduced: "In the final round of 32, there are 6 teams in North and South America, 8 in Europe and Africa, 8 in China (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan), 6 in Asia except China, 4 other qualifying lists

It will be generated according to the voting rules on Longteng's official website, and will be resurrected and returned to the stage based on the popularity of netizens and the comprehensive ranking of the team's record."

Lin Zhihong smiled bitterly: "Mr. Yang, I now doubt that we can afford to get 32 ​​teams of high-level level..."

On June 1st Children's Day, the first WCG has started the qualification qualifying competition. According to the rules, the top 100 teams in each event will receive rewards. After almost a month of offline competition, each by country

The divided divisions have a list of excellent teams, and are waiting for WCG to announce the rules for the July finals and select the best candidates from the qualifying competition.

It is mid-June now, and WCG has not yet been delayed to qualify for the official finals on the official website, mainly because EA's CPL league is more popular and the noise is even more disturbing.

In terms of bonuses, CPL is far higher than WCG. The championship award of CPL's real-time strategy game "Command and Conquer 1" is $600,000, and the runner-up is $300,000. The third place is $150,000, and the 4-10th place each has thousands of dollars.

Bonus and physical prizes. The total amount of this game is as high as 1.2 million, making it the highest prize in the history of electronic game competition.

The maximum prize of the single champion of "Saromane Snake: Red Alert" is $50,000, plus $50,000 in physical prizes. Even if the top 100 people are added, each team will have rewards ranging from hundreds to thousands of dollars.

, the total bonus of the entire project does not exceed US$300,000, and it is less than a quarter of "Command and Conquer 1".

Let’s look at another heavyweight shooting game in the CPL camp. "Thor Hammer 1" is divided into two groups, with an individual and a team, with an individual championship bonus of 200,000. The two-person team championship bonus of 350,000, including the runner-up and third place, the previous

Ten consolation prizes, the total prize is also more than $1 million.

WCG's "Special Forces 1" also has a maximum reward of no more than 5+5, but because there is no single player game mode like "Thor Hammer 1" in the game, there is only one team mode with a 5-player team.

The maximum reward is only 100,000 yuan, and the total amount is still no more than 300,000 yuan, less than one-third of "Thorhammer 1".

In these two most important competitive competitions, WCG does not have much more bonuses to CPL. In addition, WCG's "NBA Game96" has a total bonus of 200,000, and "Live Football 96" has a total bonus of 200,000. The third-party sponsored game "Need for Speed" has a total bonus of 1 million.

CPL's "NBALive96" and "FIFA96" each have a total bonus of 1 million, and the third-party sponsored game "Rider Racing 2" has a total bonus of 500,000. Only this one from Namco cannot exceed the wealthy KTT.

Overall, CPL's attractiveness in bonuses is far greater than that of WCG because it was a competition in the same period. Both companies chose 678 for three months, resulting in many teams being able to choose one competition at the same time. They cannot take into account both ends at the same time, so that the whole team can't

World game fans are controversial, this is a fish and bear's paw!

So Lin Zhihong was very embarrassed. He was worried that WCG's final level of the top 32 was not high. If WCG's single champion could not beat the top three in CPL, wouldn't this be a laughing stock?

Yang Yun shook his head: "What are you still worried about? I ask you, which Asian game has a greater influence?"

Lin Zhihong did not hesitate: "Of course it was us. Oh, I understand. There are 14 in Asia, plus the 4 selected on the Internet, we can guarantee that at least 18 teams are the strongest in Asia."

Yang Yun smiled with satisfaction: "Of course. Hey, you don't know how powerful Asians are in playing competitive games. You can see that they will definitely be the only one in China, Japan and South Korea."

Lin Zhihong laughed: "Is this going to make WCG occupy Asia, and does CPL cover Europe and the United States?"

"Who said? Did you not explain the rules of the preliminary round? The results of the first WCG competition will directly determine the rankings of the clubs in the second competition next year. There will be seed teams next year, in the first competition.

The top four teams in the WCG competition will go directly to the finals.”

"I understand!" Lin Zhihong suddenly realized. He clapped his fist with excitement and said, "We will add one more rule this year. All professional competitive clubs that want to participate in WCG competitions must comply with WCG's ranking and points calculations.

The organizing committee requested that as long as we do not recognize the points in the CPL game, those clubs will definitely consider it carefully.”

"You can teach me! This year's first CPL, EA company has invested at least tens of millions of dollars. I want to see if their costs can be recovered and whether they will continue to burn money next year! As long as they can't hold on, they can't hold on!

If you don’t do it, or if you reduce the bonus, it means that they are slapping themselves in the face. The credibility and authority of CPL will be greatly reduced!”

Lin Zhihong finally felt relieved. This was a long-term battle. Longteng is developing sustainably and progresses step by step. EA was a little arrogant. EA wanted to set a trap for Longteng, but she didn't expect that she would fall down and could only bite the bullet and go all the way.

Yang Yun sighed and said, "If EA is rich and powerful, and does not take 10 million a year, it may be that CPL can become the highest end of the e-sports world. But as a competitor, I will never be able to use the Special Forces."

》 and "Red Alert" are authorized to CPL, so from the beginning, they made a mistake in trying to spend money to steal the market, and EA is destined to fail in this battle!”

EA's only way to break the deadlock is to develop or acquire the authorization of excellent competitive games by itself, but who in this world's competitive games are better than Longteng? You can tell just from the number of followers of WCG and CPL, play "Red Alert"

There are more people than those who play "Command and Conquer", and more people who play "Special Forces" teams than "Thor's Hammer", so it's difficult for EA to break the deadlock.

Lin Zhihong was convinced and gave a thumbs up and said, "If you want to make the e-sports league to the highest end, excellent e-sports clubs and talents are important, bonuses are important, but the quality of the game is more important!"

The two laughed. After several WCG matters were arranged, there was nothing particularly important. Yang Yun only pointed out the direction for several other problems that Lin Zhihong had headaches and did not need to interfere in every detail.

CCTV Longteng Game Program Host Competition has ended long ago. CCTV also edited and recorded the finals with the finals, and finally selected three girls who are most in line with the requirements.

Signed contracts with Longteng Entertainment Game Company respectively.

Pan Lele is a cute girl named KiKi. She has just graduated from Ningcheng Radio and Television University. Because of her professional matching, skilled gaming skills, and her appearance and figure, she quickly became the first female anchor to be praised.

He participated in the production of the "Longteng Game Storm" program on Hunan Satellite TV Mango TV and became the first Longteng Game Baby.

Zhang Xiaolu, who is still a sophomore at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music, and Liu Yan, who has just turned 16, were hidden by the company under Yang Yun's special instructions and do not need to show up for the time being. They are still a little immature now.

After several years of training and training by professionals, they will also become the goddesses in the minds of thousands of game otakus.

After the host competition, the Mango TV station of Hunan Province, established on January 1, 1997, directly used the host selection competition as a training program. The planning team participated in the entire process and visited universities across the country.

Mango TV broadcasts videos of preliminary competitions in various places on three nights of prime time every week, and in April and May, it broadcasts the finals every week, not only spreading the selection competition of Longteng game show TV hosts to the whole society, but also taking the opportunity to expand.

With its own popularity, the TV station has confirmed that the station is positioned as national entertainment. The new program "Happy Camp" has been completed and you can meet national TV audiences in early July. The first guest is said to have been invited by Yang Yun, president of Longteng Entertainment Games Company.

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As for the selection of girls in the overseas version of WCG image endorsement, Wang Zhe, Lin Zhihong and others unanimously decided to outsource it to Fox TV and also authorized it to France Canal+. This beauty pageant is of different nature from the domestic host selection competition, Longteng and Mango TV

No one has any experience in operating this area, so the first WCG-Girls selection is considered a learning experience in China.

It's almost July again, and the first WCG and CPL will begin. The global gaming industry is eyeing these two major events, and Yang Yun is no exception. Although his skills are poor, no one can stop him from joining in the fun.

determination.

As for the Huang Weiqiang who found a good project, he accidentally met Longteng's Zhao Yongping and Ma Yun for dinner. Because he was worried that Yang Yun would say something directly and do something behind his back. After urgent consultation, Huang Weiqiang carried the cash the next day.

I found Ma Yun and spent 5 million to buy the Chinese Yellow Pages. Unfortunately, Ma Yun disappeared after taking the money. Huang Weiqiang felt very regretful.

At the same time, no one can stop Huanghai Group from entering the Internet industry in a large-scale manner. Just a few days after talking to Yang Yun, Huanghai Group announced a high-profile investment of 120 million yuan in Yinghaiwei Company, becoming Yinghaiwei's largest shareholder.

And merged China Yellow Pages into Yinghaiwei, with Huang Weiqiang as general manager.

For a moment, Huang Weiqiang was in the limelight. He washed away the shame several months ago and set sail again. He entered the IT industry for the second time, trying to change his mind and become a new person. He would get up wherever he fell.