Although this first World Electronic Game Competition was not broadcast live on television, game commentary was arranged on site.
There is only Chinese commentary at the scene, but when the video is sent to other countries' TV stations for broadcast later, it will be accompanied by commentary in other languages.
No matter what kind of event it is, there are professional competitions first, and then there are professional commentators. Football, basketball, tennis, and racing are all the same. E-sports competitions are of course no exception. There are not even professional competitions yet. Where can the profession come from?
What about commentary?
The commentary team this time was seconded from major TV stations. As early as the day of preparations for the competition, Deep Space Company had already started to solve the commentary problem.
Their strategy is very simple, that is, find the smooth-talking person first and put aside their understanding of the game for the time being.
Who is the most slippery person? Without a doubt, it must be the TV station.
Shen Kong first searched for hosts from major TV stations who usually like to play these games, and then selected a few outstanding performers among these people.
This is not over yet. During the period before the start of the competition, these seconded reporters were receiving special training from Deep Space Company.
Every day, they spend one-third of their time playing games, one-third of their time learning game expertise, and finally thirty minutes of actual combat simulation.
The actual combat simulation is very simple, it is to invite players to actual combat, and then let these hosts provide real-time commentary.
Although one month is not long, these commentators who were brought in temporarily have made rapid progress. Yu Dong went to listen to them once during their actual commentary, and they are already in shape.
Even if there is any accident, these people's on-the-spot ability is still good, and there will be no silence.
Moreover, professional e-sports is still in the exploratory stage, and no one knows the commentary industry well. It would be good to have a commentator to introduce the game to the audience during the game.
As for the commentary in other languages, it's easy to solve. It's dubbing in the later stage anyway. You just need to write the commentary and find someone to read it.
After the official game started, Michael Mohan shook his head with regret, "This is the first time I have seen this kind of game with formal commentary. Unfortunately, there is no English commentary, so I can't feel the charm of the game commentary."
Yu Dong smiled and said, "It's a pity that you don't know Chinese."
"Haha, that's right. Maybe I can try to learn Chinese, but Chinese is too difficult and I don't have the confidence to learn it."
"Believe in yourself." Yu Dong looked at Michael Mohan with a smile: "Maybe one day you can absorb something useful to you from Chinese culture and add it to your game. Taking a step back, China is developing
With rapid development, the e-sports market here is extremely huge and deserves to be taken seriously by Blizzard."
Michael nodded: "Anyway, Deep Space is our parent company, and we definitely attach great importance to the Chinese market. In fact, I am still very optimistic about the development of e-sports in China. I met someone in the park today
, I learned a lot from some of the things he said.”
"Oh, really?" Yu Dong was a little surprised, "Who did you meet?"
"A young man named Ren, although he doesn't usually play games, he has great ideas. He told me that in the future, the development of electronic games must focus on e-sports."
Yu Dong nodded, this idea is right. It is good to think of this, but it is not very powerful. Many people can think of it, otherwise there would be no other companies to engage in e-sports competitions before.
But the problem is that it is not easy to take the e-sports path well. Blizzard later failed to grasp the right to speak in the e-sports era, not because they did not do e-sports. On the contrary, they have worked very hard to integrate games into e-sports.
melted.
But no matter how hard Blizzard tries, their game e-sports has failed miserably - maybe they were synonymous with e-sports for a while, but in fact that was not the same thing as the real e-sports era.
In fact, Blizzard later failed to grasp the right to speak in the e-sports era, which has something to do with Michael Mohan.
Compared to the other two partners, Michael Mohan is more arrogant and lacks enough attention to players.
To put it nicely, it means that he is focused on everything and strives to play well, but to put it worse, it means that he is stubborn and stubborn, working behind closed doors, and because of Vivendi's nonsense, his good cards were eventually beaten to pieces.
So when he heard Michael Mohan praise an ordinary Chinese player, Yu Dong was very surprised. He had even developed a strong interest in the person Michael met.
"What else did he say?"
Michael Mohan thought for a while and said: "He also said that the game "Escape" can only be played in leisure time and is not suitable for e-sports."
After saying that, Michael Mohan stared at Yu Dong's face, trying to see if Yu Dong would be angry because of this, but Yu Dong's expression did not change at all, and he couldn't tell whether he was angry or not.
"anything else?"
"He said that "StarCraft" is too difficult to get started and it is not suitable for e-sports."
"Too difficult?" Yu Dong raised his eyebrows, "Did he say specifically?"
"He said that novices cannot get timely feedback when playing "StarCraft" and it is easy to give up. In addition, if a game wants to be good, it also needs to pay attention to the construction of the world view. He mentioned "Runaway" and said that even if Deep Space
It is the development of this type of casual game, and it also pays great attention to the construction of the world view."
Yu Dong pouted, the young man Michael met really had some ideas.
Twenty years from now, any ordinary person will be able to realize these things, but it can be said to be very rare to have such an understanding in this era.
"Are you sure he is not traveling with you?"
Michael Mohan shrugged his shoulders, "I'm not sure, but if he really is traveling with me, he's probably someone from deep space... His English is not particularly fluent, so he shouldn't be working abroad, and he himself said
He won't graduate from college for half a year."
Yu Dong sighed slightly, the masters are among the people.
In fact, after returning from rebirth, Yu Dong discovered that there were many talented people who just lacked an opportunity.
The most typical one is Lao Hu.
Lao Hu is now a leading figure in China's science fiction world, and he still maintains his passion for creation, with more than 300,000 words of works published every year.
But if Yu Dong had not become famous for writing science fiction novels, I am afraid that Lao Hu would never have let his novels be published in his life.
Or maybe, in the previous time and space, Lao Hu later secretly published his own science fiction novel, but because of the wrong timing, he missed the best time and did not become famous.
As for the person Michael mentioned, if he doesn't work for a well-known game company, I'm afraid his talents in this area will be wasted.
"Do you have his contact information?"
Michael shook his head, "No."
Yu Dong said with some regret: "What a pity."
…
Yu Dong did not stay at the scene for too long. He left the auditorium with Cheng Yanqiu before the game was over.
After walking out of the auditorium, Cheng Yanqiu rubbed his temples and said, "The audience was so enthusiastic that my head almost exploded from their shouts."
Yu Dong smiled and said: "After all, there are more than 3,000 people, so it's a bit noisy."
In fact, in Yu Dong's opinion, there are still many deficiencies in the competition scene, the most obvious one being the video playback.
In order to let the audience watch the live game, a lot of TVs were installed in the auditorium, but these TV screens were still too small, which always seemed a bit uninteresting.
However, the audience at the scene was not like Yu Dong who had seen "the world" at a glance. They thought this was already very good.
Hu Ge is also one of those who has never seen it before. Although he often visits TV stations, he has never seen such a display screen, let alone an e-sports game with commentary - he has never even watched an e-sports game.
Not only have I never seen it live, but I haven't seen it on TV either.
When Yu Dong sent the tickets to Hu Ge, Hu Ge didn't hesitate much. After asking for his parents' permission, he took the car directly to Jinling.
After watching the opening ceremony of the game, Hu Ge knew that his trip was not in vain.
Although he had never been exposed to three of the four games, the opening ceremony caught his attention.
The competition scene was much more interesting than he imagined. The e-sports players were on the stage, separated only by a computer screen from the audience, and their game scenes were transmitted to TVs scattered in every corner of the auditorium.
The visual effects of a large TV over 30 inches made him feel very satisfied.
Although he didn't understand much about the game, the commentators were very considerate and would take the time to introduce some game knowledge to the audience, and they explained it in simple and easy-to-understand terms.
The only pity is that the opening game is between a British club and an American club, and Hu Ge doesn't know who to support. Otherwise, it would definitely be more interesting.
But it doesn't matter. After the opening game, the second game will be between a French team and China's Yunchi AG. By then, he will have a home team.
…
"You don't care about the game at all?"
After returning to the office, Cheng Yanqiu asked with a smile when he saw Yu Dong turning on the computer.
"The result of the game is not important to me."
"real?"
Yu Dong smiled and said, "It's not unimportant at all. The goals that wcg wanted to achieve this time have been achieved. After this period of training, Yunchi AG's level is not bad. Even if it fails to win the championship, it will reach the fourth place."
Being strong should be no problem."
In fact, in Yu Dong's opinion, it is quite easy for Yunchi AG to win the championship, especially in the interstellar project, where Ma Tianyuan's personal strength is very strong.
The most important thing is that Ma Tianyuan has gone through a period of targeted training and has become far away from ordinary players, and the most threatening Goryeo players have been thoroughly studied by Yunchi.
Ever since they decided to purchase an e-sports club, Yunchi has begun to make plans. While they are strengthening the players in their own club, they are also generally studying their competitors.
It is actually very simple to study your opponents. Nowadays, even some professional clubs usually play games in places like Internet cafes, and the players from Korea are no exception.
This means that their playing style can be easily detected.
In fact, apart from Ma Tianyuan, the other domestic invited players are not bad either, but they usually play games in Internet cafes, with relatively wild paths and poor equipment, and the maps they usually play are Lost Temple and the
Hunters were not familiar with these two pictures and the other pictures at all, and it was definitely not just these two pictures during the competition, so they suffered a lot.
"You are quite confident in them." Cheng Yanqiu smiled, and then said a little strangely: "I have never seen you play games, but you seem to know a lot about "StarCraft". When you were watching the game just now
, even with explanations, I was confused, but you seemed to be able to understand it at the time.”
"It's not like I haven't watched it at all. I've learned about this game before, otherwise I wouldn't have let Jimmy buy Blizzard."
"I heard from Jimmy that he spent tens of millions more to help you buy Blizzard..."
Before Cheng Yanqiu finished speaking, there was a sudden knock on the door.
The two looked towards the door and saw Spielberg and Lucas standing at the door.
"I didn't disturb you two, did I?" Spielberg said with a smile.
Cheng Yanqiu curled his lips and said: "Mr. Spielberg, you are coming to steal my husband again."
Spielberg raised his hands and said innocently: "Lucas asked me to come to YU. It has nothing to do with me."
George Lucas laughed and said: "Cheng, we are definitely not robbing, but borrowing. We will return your husband to you soon."
"Okay, I'll have someone pour you some tea." Cheng Yanqiu shrugged, and then said to Dong, "I'll go inside and read."
After Cheng Yanqiu left, Lucas walked to the edge of the sofa and sat down, "You did a great job in this competition. I'm glad I came two days early, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to see such a wonderful competition."
Spielberg also nodded and said: "Indeed, this competition was very well organized. The "Space Invaders" tournament held by Atari previously attracted more than 10,000 players to participate. The scene was very lively, but compared to yours
The competition they held this time cannot be regarded as e-sports at all. I originally thought that your competition was held in a hurry and the preparations would not be sufficient. I didn't expect it to be so well organized, even with commentary.
And the explanation is quite professional.”
Yu Dong smiled and said: "Steven, do you understand Chinese? Just say that you are a professional commentator?"
"Because I brought a translator... he must understand the level of the interpretation. In fact, even if the interpretation level is not good, just arranging the interpretation is already a very remarkable thing, and it will make people feel formal immediately."
Yu Dong looked at Spielberg and Lucas with a smile, "Why are you two suddenly coming to see me now?"
He didn't think that Spielberg and Lucas came here to see him without watching the game just to praise him about how well the game was done.
Lucas said, "When we were watching the game just now, we sat with Jimmy and he told us something."
Yu Dong suddenly had a bad premonition and raised his eyebrows: "What's going on?"
"He said you have recently started researching robots."
Chapter completed!