Chapter 378： The allure of eSports

Chapter 378 The Charm of E-Sports

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Next, Need for Speed ​​and Street Basketball are also competing for the championship.

They are all players from different clubs, some from the United States and some from Japan.

South Korea really has no advantage in these three projects, because it started too late, Japan and the United States have already played these games by heart, and some Korean players feel like they are facing gods, not at all. Fab.

However, StarCraft is different.

This game was started by players from several countries almost at the same time, so the competition is who has a better understanding of this game and can play a stronger means.

Lee Ming-chul has now successfully become a player of a Korean consortium e-sports club.

Becoming a club player means that he will have a stable income in the future.

In addition to monetary income, there are bonuses after winning, additional club rewards for champions, and advertising endorsement fees.

This is something that Li Mingzhe, an ordinary young man in the past, could not imagine.

E-sports has given many ordinary people a chance to jump through the dragon gate.

There are already mature systems in other competitive fields, and it is almost difficult for ordinary people to enter that competitive circle if they are not amazingly talented.

But eSports is young, and everyone starts from the same starting point. There is even a StarCraft player in Japan who is nearly forty years old because he won the Hokkaido region.

At this time, age is not an absolute restriction, even if it is nearly forty, it is possible to defeat young people.

"Mr. Zhuyou, your e-sports idea is really great."

In the large independent box in the gymnasium, representatives of many Korean and Japanese consortium chaebols gathered here.

At this time, they were all around a very young man, Zhu Yuxing.

Now with the progress of this competition, its commercial potential has been shown to a certain extent.

This is only the first edition, and preparations for the next e-sports events have already begun.

Several chaebols and consortium members have discussed the next division of interests.

This brand new competitive industry is a completely undeveloped market. Whoever enters the field first will get the first pot of gold. That is really eye-catching, and no one can resist this temptation.

And the credit for all of this goes to Zhu Yuxing.

It was he who first proposed the competitive mode of video games, and he also brought in a number of Japanese local chaebols to do this, which eventually led to the development of e-sports.

These people are now trying their best to compliment Zhu Yuxing.

As long as Zhu Yuxing is complimented and comfortable, and he devolves some e-sports authority a little bit, then they can get more benefits.

Some chaebol families even took the initiative to send their own family girls over after learning that Zhu Yuxing was not married yet.

But Zhu Yuxing is not interested in this, he has his own pursuits and ideas, women will only delay the speed of drawing their swords...

Well, that's too far.

In the face of these people's compliments, Zhu Yuxing didn't react, just said: "The game is about to start, let's take a quiet look and see the finale of the final eight."

Since this event is the first, there will still be some places where the planning is not perfect.

The first and most imperfect thing is the density of this event.

Generally speaking, after the quarter-finals, it basically takes at least three or four days to compete for the final champion.

But the first tournament was not so particular, and the players couldn’t wait to quickly move on to the next one after finishing this one, so the tournament that would be completed in three or four days was compressed into one day.

This morning is the StarCraft quarterfinals.

Four viewing points start at the same time.

Those who watch the live broadcast only need to follow the directions to different branch TV stations or secondary webpage links to watch the episodes they want to watch.

In the quarter-finals, there were three Korean players, two Japanese players and three American players.

Judging from people's most intuitive strength comparison, Japan is obviously weaker, and it seems that StarCraft is not Japan's strength.

Sure enough, after the quarter-finals, all the Japanese players were eliminated, and the rest were two Korean players and two American players.

This became a Korean-American war.

And these four people include Li Mingzhe.

At this moment, his palms were sweating slightly.

Just now, he personally eliminated a powerful player in the United States.

In fact, he almost felt like he was about to lose.

But I didn't expect that a small mistake of the opponent was caught by me keenly, and I quickly used the combination of the Hydralisk and the puppy of the Zerg to raid the opponent's base camp, directly cutting off the opponent's economic line, and then relying on his rapid explosion. The situation was instantly tilted toward him by a large margin, and the game was finally won.

Seriously, he never felt that exciting.

The adrenaline of the whole person is now soaring rapidly.

The veins on his forehead are slightly raised.

It was really exciting.

There are also players who are as nervous and exciting as Li Mingzhe.

Among the four games, Lee Ming-chul was the one that attracted the most attention from South Korea, because this was the only battle between the United States and South Korea in the four games just now.

At that time, when Li Mingzhe was at a disadvantage, the entire audience in the stands covered their eyes in exclamation.

But in the end, it was a near miss.

Lee Myung-chul was also the first name to be cheered by many Korean players and audiences.

At that time, when Li Mingzhe took off his headphones and heard his name, he felt as if his whole body was sublimated.

This feeling is really great.

He finally understood the charm of video games, and also realized the charm of e-sports.

This thing is really fascinating.

Then, at the end of the quarter-finals, he and another Korean player were promoted, and they faced two other American players.

The Korean-American War.

This gimmick is really full.

The TV ratings on the Korean side also began to soar rapidly.

Originally, this TV station was only a relatively backward TV station on the Korean side. It was established by several consortia to compete for the right to speak, and it was never comparable to the orthodox Korean official TV station.

But this time eSports has become an opportunity for them.

This is the first time their station has briefly surpassed Korean state television in ratings.

The new TV station founded by the chaebols has become a gathering place for young people in a very short period of time.

Hey, have you heard? There is now an athletic event going on in the Korea-US War!

What? Where did you hear that? What is the sport? How did I not hear it being said?

This is your ignorance, right? It is a competitive event called e-sports, which is to win or lose by playing games.

What? It turned out to be a game, what's the comparison? boring.

But, this is the Korea-US war, don't you want to see who wins?

Well, this is a bit interesting, you tell me which TV station, I will watch it now.

(end of this chapter)