Super Game Empire

The next morning, the CPL opening ceremony began on time. Yang Yun, who was 12 hours early, asked someone to send him a midnight snack and quietly watched the game while eating. It was exactly 9 o'clock in the evening.

The opening ceremony, which is similar to WCG, has not much new ideas for singing and dancing.

Cosplay models and volunteers in each game are the highlights, especially those in maid outfits, including headscarves and lace stockings, which are very popular. If you step on pulleys, put on thongs, and hold a wine tray, the venue will probably be lifted up.

The audience responded very fiercely in greater noise. When they were interviewed, they all praised it, saying that it was a very good game carnival.

Yang Yun smiled, please, the game carnival is something that Longteng doesn't want to play. Sega has been playing for five years, and Longteng has taken over and played for another seven years. I'm really tired of playing things that I don't want to play anymore. If CPL intends to be positioned as a carnival, then

But Yang Yun can take a shower and go to bed with confidence. What else are you worried about?

The Rose and Guns Band regarded this as a concert. Although several old songs were popular and caused the audience to sing, it was a pity that it was not suitable.

They are not like Longteng’s games. The theme songs of the game are specially customized. At this point, CPL is very frustrated because not everyone has watched some well-made competitive competition promotional videos like Yang Yun.

I've heard those game songs.

After the concert, there are group competitions, and time is relatively fast. After all, ABC TV's time is too precious and it must be used to attract everyone with the simplest and most exciting competitions. Therefore, the director team deliberately fixed it on a limited number of players and several games during live broadcasts.

The quality of competition is quite high.

The single and double competitions of mTw team "Thor's Hammer" were played. It was indeed exciting and exciting, especially under the suppression of strong strength. Humiliation, who was holding a chainsaw, appeared in close combat, which caused warm applause on the scene, cheers and whistles kept coming.

This is a sign of extreme confidence.

Even Yang Yun himself did not deny that "Thor's Hammer" is a respectable game, otherwise there wouldn't be so many game companies that would be deeply inspired and favored by Quake's commercial engine with IDs at a high price.

Package and let excellent first-person shooters bloom all over the world. Half-Life is built on Quake's most successful work.

"Hey, I don't know what this ID company thinks. I would rather be broken than full of things? I won't work with Longteng if I beat you to death. I'm sorry, I can only become a competitor..."

When he thought of ID company, Yang Yun felt a little heartbroken. He came to ask for cooperation, but was rejected by the other party. KTT went with a checkbook, but was also rejected. Now it's better. EA stood up to resist the CPL's banner, and ID was posted on it.

, blocked the only way for WCG to cooperate with ID companies.

Pretentious! Yang Yun shook his head and found that other employees on duty were working silently in the distance and did not dare to get close to disturb him, which resulted in not even a person who drank and chatted with him late at night. He felt a little regretful that he had just let Lin Zhihong go home.

Keep watching the game and listen to the commentary.

Unlike WCG, the first day of CPL is planned to start the qualifiers of five competitions at the same time. Unlike WCG, there are only "Need for Speed" and "Special Forces" on the first day. 16 of these two games must be decided.

Strong, the other three games have not started to move.

Moreover, the rules of the CPL competition system are quite different from those of WCG in the first round. In the first round of written test, WCG was divided into 8 groups, with 4 teams in each group, playing 6 round-robin games, with the highest points, and the top two qualifying, while CPL was directly in order.

In the battle, No. 1 and No. 2 are fighting, the winner is 1 point, the other is 0 points, and then No. 1 and No. 3 are fighting, and they are fighting until No. 32.

In this way, each person has to fight against the other 31 people. Then, there are 496 games in the first round. The highest score can be scored 31 points, and then they are ranked in sequence. The strength of the top 32 is clear at a glance. This can also be seen as

It is the strength ranking of each team in the CPL competition, which is very objective.

Next is the second round, selecting the top 8 teams and re-entering the final round-robin round, and 8-to-4 games were divided into two groups, and the top two teams in each group were qualifying, which was another 12 games.

When the third round is 4-to-2, draw lots and face off in two matches. There is a win-win group, and the defeat group competes for the third place. The championship is produced from the winning group, and they are all set in three games and two wins.

Yang Yun didn't understand this rule at first, especially when he saw that he had to play 496 games in the first round to 32 and 16, he immediately felt that it was very troublesome, because after all, a single game in CPL had to play 512 games in total.

In battle, if the 8th place in the top 32 has multiple identical points, and you have to play in overtime to compete for a qualifying spot, this will be about 530 games.

The total number of games on WCG is 96, and the champion can win the championship with a maximum of 11 games. It takes 1 month to spread it. It only takes two to three games in a week. The intensity of the game is not high. It is adjusted after each game.

One day, re-formatting tactics for the next opponent is a very necessary and reasonable arrangement for professional players.

Look at the CPL side. If you want to win the championship, the champion team needs to play at least 36 games. Although a game like "Command and Conquer" can only take more than 10 minutes to no more than 20 minutes, and 2 wins in 3 games.

The written test will not exceed one hour at most, but Yang Yun is very doubtful whether these people can bear it. The 36 games will be divided into one month, which is 1.2 games a day, and if it is divided into two months...

Yang Yun was a little surprised. Could it be that CPL intends to extend the game to two months and last until September?

This is not impossible, 789 three months is the best time to compete.

The burden on the organizing committee is not heavy. After the first round of WCG, the eliminated players went home directly. After almost the first week, half of the people will be gone, and there are four left in the second week.

One more time, the fewer people will be, and the consumption will be less and less. When it comes to the quarterfinals or the quarterfinals, there is actually not much work.

Especially the CPL approach, the first round is 32 to 8. At the beginning, there may be a little more busy people. When the first round passes, three-quarters will be eliminated directly. The CPL organizing committee will be busy for up to one month.

Yang Yun compared the advantages and disadvantages of two events on a piece of paper. WCG is more humane, the players are under pressure, the competition is relaxed and pleasant, and you can also participate in various offline activities when you are free, which makes it easy for seed players to be eliminated in the group stage.

possibility.

CPL completely fully explores the strength of each group of players, giving them enough opportunities to show off, and speaking with cruel winning rate data. There is no possibility of wrong killing, but it is just very tiring.

He said to himself as a self-deprecating person: "Is this the rhythm of how much money and how much effort is spent? We don't have enough bonuses, but the victory is easy. The players don't need to be bulls and horses. They have more bonuses, of course they will deliberately increase them.

The number of competitions has allowed the players to fight for a few more games. Otherwise, where will the advertising fee come from? CPL is not stupid either!"

Each has its own merits. Yang Yun will no longer worry about this issue. At that time, the world will judge the advantages and disadvantages of the two.

However, judgment is judgment, so what does it have to do with the two organizing committees? Whoever controls the hosting rights of the event will have the final say, and what critics say is not.

ABC is indeed very stingy. CPL started at 9 a.m. in the United States. The live broadcast chose the lowest viewership period of the day. It only left less than 2 hours for CPL. A large number of advertisements from game industry suppliers were also broadcasted in the middle.

Yang Yun smiled and wrote down the name of the CPL sponsor on paper. If anyone comes to WCG to try their luck next time, he must beat them hard.

The Playmore team came on the field. This team registered as a Korean identity. Several players on the TV screen were also typical Korean men, including big pie faces, triangle eyes, swollen eyes, and single eyelids.

This team has registered for three games in total, "Rider Racing 2", "Thor's Hammer" and "Command and Conquest". Among them, there are 3 of the top 32 players in "Command and Conquest", and the Korean e-sports level is very high.

Well, it's amazing that a team occupies one-tenth of the total number of people.

The captain's appearance is a little better, and he looks a bit like Bae Yongjun. To be precise, he looks very much like Bae Yongjun in middle school in "First Love". He is like a child of sixteen or seventeen years old, cold and proud. His ID is Playmore.Jun

I don’t know if I really plan to learn from Bae Yongjun to be an idol.

Yang Yun was thinking about this person in his mind, but he never had an impression. He was very familiar with the top Warcraft players such as Moon, Grubby, and Sky. He also had the appearance of the top StarCraft players such as MTY, Boxer, Grrr, and NaDa.

Remember, so he ruled out whether this Jun was a master he knew.

Playmore.Jun was numbered No. 5 in the "Command and Conquest" group. No. 1-4 sat on the competition stage at the same time and faced No. 29-32 respectively. Jun waited for about ten minutes, and the staff came to the backstage to notify 5-

Preparation No. 8 and No. 25-28.

The CPL Organizing Committee has some understanding of the general level of each player. Among them, No. 5 vs. No. 28 was specially arranged by them. According to their own estimates, both of them should have the strength of the top five and will play in the second batch.

This high-level battle appeared in the team, which was very meaningful that Mars hit the Earth, and could pull the audience who had just lost their attention to the TV series again and watch the details of the game nervously.

The camera gave Jun a close-up, and at the same time, the voiceover introduced the information of the team in detail, as well as Jun's personal basic situation, giving him a very high evaluation, praising him as a rare genius player in real-time strategy games.

The more the CPL Organizing Committee promotes the Playmore team, the happier Yang Yun is.