Chapter 459: World Esports Competition

A few days later, Zhang Yang flew to the United States, where a global event for gamers is to be held.
The previous event was organized by South Korea, but this time, Zhang Yang felt that he organized better because most of the competitive games at this time were produced by his company.
Such as Counter-Strike, Quake, StarCraft, etc. Of course, this World Electronic Sports Competition (WCG) will not only choose these three games, but also Age of Empires, Unreal Tournament, FIFA2000, KOF3D and Warcraft 2.
There are a total of eight games, all of which are computer games. The participating teams are from 40 countries and regions around the world, including 500 participants.
Considering the season, a venue in Miami was selected as the venue. After a simple layout, it became eight competition areas.
This WCG is more popular than the first session of the previous life. It not only has more countries and numbers of participants, more game types, but also a title dealer.
The full name of the game is Zhiduoxing World Esports Competition.
All competition fees are sponsored by the Zhiduoxing Group, and include prizes and bonuses for the first and second place.
The winner team has a prize of 300,000 US dollars, the runner-up 200,000, the runner-up 100,000, as well as trophies and souvenirs. Other contestants can only get some consoling prizes.
The award of the first and second runner-ups alone reached five million dollars. The total cost of sponsorship of this event by the Zhiduoxing Group is tens of millions of dollars, including venue rental, layout, purchase of computer for the game, and provision of room and board for the game and related personnel.
The surrounding two hotels were packaged as a whole, and Zhiduoxing Group also contacted many game-related media and sold the broadcast rights, although they were almost given away in vain.
The main reason is that this competition is only the first one, and the publicity is not strong before, and not many people are willing to watch the game competition. Tickets for the game are not for sale, but for gifted by purchasing Zhiduoxing products.
Because the tickets for the competition cannot be sold at all, no one is willing to buy them for ten dollars, and it is meaningless if they are cheaper.
The duration of the whole game is one month, and the first and second runner-up in the first game every day. The reason why Zhang Yang is coming later is because he wants to award the championship team or individual.
Three days before the start of the competition, contestants from all over the world arrived here. They all wore costumes with the name of the team, and even some costumes also had a list of sponsors.
One of the teams wearing the uniform with the Chiduo Star logo was the most noticed, because everyone found out that this is actually the same as the title merchant.
Many of the people who come to participate in the competition feel that they are very strong, and they have a very good online record. They hope to win the championship and take away a lot of bonuses.
But if they meet the team that the organizer wants to guarantee, can they still win? The referees are all their own.
When a South Korean interstellar team gathers, they all look at their captain. If we win the representative team sponsored by Zhiduoxing, shall we just give up?
The captain raised his head: "What are you afraid of, we are representatives of Korea, StarCraft is the most popular among us, we are also the strongest team in the country, and naturally the strongest team in the world!"
"The champion this time can only be our team. If there is a shady side of Zhiduoxing, we will protest. And what is the game environment of China, you know, how can they have professional players?"
"Except for the American Blizzard, nothing else needs to care!"
Only a few players found out, how about Blizzard? Isn't Blizzard the developer of StarCraft? The team they sponsor, shouldn't it be the team of developers? Do you know some hidden tricks and bugs, can they really win?
In fact, when preparing for the game, Blizzard's Allen asked Zhang Yang, Blizzard sponsored the United States this team is not very good, after all, they are developers.
If you win, others may not be convinced. If you lose, it is even more embarrassing.
If you develop a game of your own, but you can’t play other people, is that a joke?
Zhang You told him, it doesn't matter, this is a publicity channel. You arrange training for those people in advance, so that they can work hard to improve operational awareness, team coordination, etc., and strive to break into the finals during the game.
As for whether you can win the championship in the end, you don’t have to pay attention to it. Many sports events and countries that invented this sport won’t get medals, such as Hua Xia, who invented football...
And Zhang Yang did not believe that the team they sponsored would not win the championship. At least half a year in advance this year, they have prepared this competition and have begun sponsoring the team training.
With a half-year training period, it has a great advantage over those teams who have been invited three months in advance, so if they can’t win the championship, they can only say that the people they chose are too watery, and the battle network scoring system is also very large. The problem needs to be corrected.
Nowadays, the promotion of Battle.net is very smooth, with more than 9 million registered members~EbookFREE.me~ is still rapidly improving. After this competition, the number of members is expected to exceed 10 million.
The number of Blizzard game players is almost 30 million. This is just an estimate and is used for publicity.
The number of gamers also represents the strength of this company, and it will make more people think that this company's games are fun, even if they have never played it.
So many people play, can it be fun?
So when they have the money to buy games, they will think of Blizzard's games as soon as possible.
Zhang Yang watched the teams walk in, with a faint smile on his face, until he saw a team logo printed on the clothes of a team!
Hey, shameless enough shameless, knowing that we are sponsored by Zhiduoxing, actually sent people to participate, the team uniforms are so fancy.
Although you are one of the gaming giants, you are better at TV games than computer games. But think about Warcraft 2 seems to be on sale on the Schneider's platform, they are also normal to participate.
Now that Chang Ni sponsors the competition team, what about other companies?
Sure enough, Zhang Yang soon saw the Sega Bandai team and the Microsoft team, but after a long search, he did not see Nintendo's team.
Zhang Yang is even more unhappy. Yeah, we game giants have sent teams to participate in the competition. You Nintendo will not come, do you look down on this event?
Nintendo’s games are basically TV games and handheld games. There are indeed fewer computer games adapted, but this is not a reason not to participate.
Okay, then the publicity of this competition is not your Nintendo thing!
As he was talking, Zhang Yang suddenly saw an acquaintance and was walking towards him.
why did he come here?