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After solving the Fusang case, Boss Jia threw everything to Haruko Natsume, and he hurried back to China because the second WCG was about to open.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, a year has passed, and it is time for the opening of WCG again.

The second WCG competition will be much more intense from the qualifiers.

Unlike last year, the first WCG last year, except for Pokemon, which held a full year of global championships, and selected contestants, the rest of the competitions were temporary qualifiers.

That is, a public invitation letter was sent in the newspaper, and players around the world who were interested in participating in the competition could go to the designated location to participate in the qualifiers, and finally select a few strongest players to participate in the competition. This is probably the process.

However, smart people can see that such a game is actually very unrepresentative.

First of all, some master players may not be able to go to other countries to participate in the unified qualifiers after seeing the competition invitation, but they have no money to pay for transportation, or have no visa at all.

Not to mention that there are many experts who have not seen these news at all.

Anyway, after the 1st WCG was held, many experts were indignant. They said on the Internet that I can do it, and I can win the championship.

In short, such a competition is a bit one-sided and cannot select all the experts.

However, the second WCG competition will be much more formal.

First of all, except Pokemon, all seven other main events in the first session have formed their own global qualifier mechanism.

Some of them are paid by Daqian Games, and held circular competitions in 32 different cities in 12 countries around the world. Finally, based on the points and rankings of some major international events, they decided to participate in WCG. This ensures that most players in the world have the opportunity to participate in the competition.

If you can participate in a competition just by taking a train and you don’t go, don’t blame others for being unrepresentative.

Of course, countries like Africa do not have any qualifiers at all. After all, these countries may not even have a decent game console.

Among these 8 games, there are three games that don’t even require Daqian to pay. There are many organizations around the world who are rushing to register and hold their own events. Daqian Games only needs to be responsible for organizing an international competition.

These three games are Red Alert, Diablo, and Kart.

Among them, the popularity of Red Alert even surpassed the Pokemon League. There are 14 countries around the world who have taken the initiative to host national-level events.

There are also 28 national organizations that held city-level events, and Red Alert finally established a separate game association, which is the second game association with its own separate world nature after Pokemon.

Of course, these independent game associations are all subsidiaries of the World E-sports Federation. It’s just that there are too many contestants and competition events, and they need to be raised separately to manage them.

In addition to the eight competitions of the first WCG, the second WCG also added four additional competition events, namely StarCraft, Counter-Strike, Live Football, and Need for Speed.

Among them, StarCraft was produced in the second half of last year, while Counter-Strike was launched in early 1997, all of which were produced by Daqian Games.

But live football and Need for Speed ​​are not the same. Among them, live football is a game owned by Korami, while Need for Speed ​​is a game produced by the US Electronic Arts, which is also the two biggest highlights of the second WCG. In the second WCG, there was a non-Da Qian game competition for the first time.

Although the journey of joining WCG between these two games was quite bumpy, after the E3 last year, Korami and EA announced that they would help their two and three games to establish professional e-sports competitions, and then enter WCG.

However, because Korami has to cut off another game because it consumes a lot of money to hold the game, only live football is left.

The main reason for EA is that except Need for Speed, the other two professional competitions have few spectators. Although they forced to hold national-level events, they were not approved by the International E-sports Commission and eventually gave up. There is only Need for Speed.

As for the specific journey to enter WCG, it is also very long.

First, they registered games and events at the International E-sports Federation in July and August, and also made the request to enter the WCG.

Afterwards, according to the association's regulations, they must be in at least 10 countries around the world, including three countries in the United States, Fusang, and China, as well as one country in the two states of Europe and South America.

Establish a pyramid of three-stage shaped steps for urban competitions, up to national competitions, and then international competitions, and also requires bonuses, that is, the overall bonus must not be less than 500,000 US dollars.

The holding of these competitions alone has cost these two game companies millions of dollars, among which Korami gave up the holding of Conra's event because of its huge expenses.

If you just spend money, it’s fine. The association also has requirements for the number of audiences, that is, the total number of audiences in the entire series of competitions must reach at least 1 million.

Take EA for example. They are actually not short of money, but because the audience of the two games "Crazy Rugby" and "Simulation City" held was less than 100,000, which did not meet the requirements of the international association, so they could only give up.

This sounds like a scam. At first, Korami and EA were also very upset about the International E-Sports Federation and the controller behind it.

But they soon discovered that it was extremely beneficial for the International E-Sports Federation to do so.

E-sports at this time is a new thing after all. Even in 2020, except for a few games like Lol and Dota2 and Overwatch that have established a complete league mechanism, many other games can still die.

The reason is that Isn’t it because there are too few viewers and insufficient commercial interests and value?

Such a standard set by the International E-sports Commission is actually equivalent to helping them eliminate games with small audiences and insufficient commercial value.

And being able to meet the standard game is the best among them without exception.

For example, with the holding of the game, many football fans who were originally in reality became viewers of the game "Live Football".

Although the picture of this game is really a bit simple, only in the game can you see famous stars from Yingguo, France, Germany, Brazil and other countries gathered in a team to play football, and you can even see interesting scenes like Pele tackle Pele's dribble.

The same is true for "Need for Speed". After all, the audience still likes to watch various thrilling racing performances.

The direct income generated by the competition alone exceeded 500,000 US dollars in income. Although it is still much worse than the cost of hosting the competition, it is considered to be an income.

At the same time, the indirect income generated is huge.

After the league was held, the sales of "Live Football" increased by 1 million copies in three months, allowing Korami to make nearly $5 million in profits, successfully making up for the cost of the game.

The sales of "Need for Speed" increased by 1.5 million copies, and EA's profits were even more crazy.

However, what makes EA depressed is that because of the hot sale of "Live Football", his sales of "Fifa International Football" plummeted by 500,000 copies. Obviously, this wave of players has been snatched away by "Live Football".

So it is said that EA has begun to prepare for the large-scale e-sports event of "Fifa International Football" and is preparing to grab the players they lost from "Live Football".