Game development begins with destroying Girls' Frontline.

Xinghuo has money.

But Lin Li deliberately restrained himself in this matter.

Just like making a game, you need to understand the core of the game.

The same applies to organizing competitions. You need to understand the core competitiveness of the competition. The core competitiveness of the current Gundam battlefield is the competition between nations. As for which players are competing?

On the contrary, it's not that important.

They are a collective, a collective that represents the will of the nation, and that is enough.

Let alone the 32-player battlegrounds of Gundam, even in League of Legends' 5v5 tournament, there are still a large number of viewers who don't even know these players, right?

Taking all these factors into account, and considering that large-scale events typically involve teams of 32 people, this is a fairly reasonable number.

Firstly, the prize money will definitely motivate the player to do their best in the competition after being selected as the 32nd place.

However, the prize money is not so large that it would affect the players' normal lives.

Moreover, Spark has no plans to establish a club or to professionalize these players.

The entire Gundam battlefield will only be conducted through server-based competitions in the future.

If you want to play, then you can play. The prize money will be settled separately for each competition. If you don't want to play, then you won't play, and the prize money will be given to the next person in line.

As for the league format, Spark also operates on a server-based national team model, starting with regional leagues, such as the Asian league and the European and American leagues.

After the regional leagues are completed, the winners from each region will be selected.

Go play in the World Championship.

~~~

all in all.

After the first round of sixteen to eight ended.

Aside from the news of the UK and the US suffering unexpected defeats to their opponents.

After the draw for the next round of matches concluded, it triggered further expansion across the entire internet.

After defeating Indonesia, China will face South Korea in the next round, who just defeated Germany.

The entire quarterfinals competition is as follows.

Brazil vs Russia

China vs. South Korea

Japan vs Serbia

Italy vs France

This lottery result

After the result of this match was announced, the Chinese internet was flooded with discussions about the next round of the quarterfinals.

Chapter 592 Spark Has Many "Friends"

The most discussed topic among Chinese players is whether they can defeat South Korea.

Although China has performed well in League of Legends competitions in the past two years, domestic players are still very enthusiastic about playing against Koreans, especially in esports competitions.

This discussion about who won and who lost the match is not limited to Chinese players.

Players worldwide are discussing this.

The reason everyone is discussing this is because, with the current top eight teams, no one knows who will ultimately win the championship.

There are just too many possibilities.

The possibilities and diversity of a competition are actually quite important.

Taking League of Legends as an example, as major clubs stabilize, the appeal of the game itself is declining.

Especially after 2020, there are basically still players who follow this game competition.

Mainly domestic and South Korea.

Because the entire League of Legends competition is basically dominated by two countries, this is naturally a good thing for players in those two countries, but it may not be so good for the game as a whole.

Because if one side dominates, the inevitable result will be a decrease in the attention paid to the game by other regions.

Many players from other regions don't even watch the World Championship anymore; they only watch their own region's group stage matches at the World Championship.

The core reason is that, with so many years of development...

Whether it's the European and American regions or other regions, their chances of winning the championship are basically zero.

However, the World Cup in Gundam Battlegrounds is different.

All participants in the Gundam Battlegrounds are selected from the server, and the 32-person teams inherently mean that even if one player performs exceptionally well individually, the outcome is uncertain.

It won't have a particularly significant impact on the overall battle situation.

The kind of situation where one person can single-handedly win a game, as seen in League of Legends, doesn't exist in Gundam Battlegrounds.

No matter how well you play, in a 32-player battlefield, you can only gain a local advantage at most.

Ultimately, victory in battle depends on command and overall competence.

Moreover, even when the command and overall quality are good, there is always the possibility of upsets and unexpected events. These upsets and unexpected events are the best hot topics.

~~~

5 month 30 number.

Lin Li, wearing a baseball cap, sunglasses, and a mask, walked into the recording center of Xinghuo Building.

As Xinghuo (a Chinese sports website) has become increasingly popular, the "risk" of Lin Li being recognized by pedestrians on the street has also increased in the past two years.

However, this doesn't necessarily mean that Lin Li should act like something else, completely covering himself up.

In particular, this isn't going anywhere else, it's going back to the company.

However, what Lin Li wanted to say was that he didn't need to disguise himself when he went to other places; on the contrary, he would need to disguise himself when he arrived at the company without taking a car.

Because the area around the Xinghuo Building has now become... a... something like a tourist area?

After a year or two of joint efforts by the Shanghai municipal government and Xinghuo, the project has been successfully developed.

The "Xinghuo Building" is a well-known tourist attraction on Baidu and Gaode Maps, with a rating as high as 4.5, except for those passersby who come here for no reason because of the rating.

Almost everyone said it was good.

Even by the end of last year, some Spark players had noticed that tour buses had appeared around the Spark Building, and tour groups were including this place in their itineraries.

The most outrageous thing is that even foreign tour groups do this.

In short, Lin Li might be able to walk normally in other places, but here, wow.

If Lin Li dares to show up, it won't just be players from China, but also from Japan, South Korea, the United States, and Europe. There are far too many people around the Xinghuo Building who know Lin Li.

Since the second half of 19, Lin Li had a sudden urge to eat hot pot rice noodles at a restaurant near the company. On the way back, he felt that it was not far from the company, so he did not take a car.

I was thinking of walking back to the company.

As a result, he was blocked on the road by enthusiastic fans for three whole hours, and in the end, security guards had to take him up.

Lin Li developed a psychological trauma.

Fortunately, this outfit wasn't considered unusual during the mask-wearing period. It was quite unconventional.

This Gundam Battle final was very interesting.

This was something many people hadn't expected before the competition.

China vs. France.

China was a favorite to win the championship.

After all, China has a large population and a strong foundation, so top-ranked players are relatively reliable. Secondly, the sense of honor and unity among Chinese players during national wars is indeed very strong.

France, on the other hand.

Although France is a major European country, its name is rarely heard in esports competitions.

So when the final results came out, everyone was surprised.

Because France doesn't seem to be a major esports powerhouse in the traditional sense, and they don't have much of a Gundam fanbase, yet they still made it to the finals.

Even within Xinghuo itself, there has been analysis of this phenomenon, and the final conclusion is that the reasons why France was able to advance to the finals are similar to those of China.

Firstly, France does not have a Gundam culture foundation, but as the location of the Spark European platform headquarters, France has accumulated a considerable number of Spark platform players after years of operation.

In all of Europe, besides France, there is only Germany.

Secondly, France has a large population of 70 million, and about 20 million of them are gamers. The French player base on the Spark platform is approximately 6 million.

They weren't familiar with Gundam, but they were with Starfire. And as I said before, shooting games are more popular than other games in Europe and America.

Gundam Battlegrounds also has millions of registered accounts in France, with hundreds of thousands of active players. The 32 players who stand out from these hundreds of thousands are naturally the best of the best.

In fact, the French case shows why Gundam Battlegrounds became so popular. It's no exaggeration to say that half of its current popularity comes from the game itself, and the other half comes from the number of global players that Spark has accumulated over the years.

As many people say, the best setup for gaming is having friends.

If Spark hadn't spread across the world, it wouldn't have been possible to bring so many "friends" together to play this game.

~~~

Spark has been preparing for this final for a very long time.

Initially, the idea was to hold an offline competition, but this idea was rejected in the first stage.

On the one hand, the current international environment makes it unsuitable to hold offline competitions.

Secondly, the operation of this first competition was quite exciting, but no one was prepared. After all, no one expected it to become so popular.

Of course, this doesn't mean that Xinghuo was completely unprepared.

In fact, Xinghuo has prepared a lot of things.

Chapter 593 New Technologies in the Finals

During the finals, a competition cooperation agreement was signed with all the contestants, along with a corresponding artist agreement with Starry Sky Entertainment.

This mainly involves providing them with basic brokerage services.

Just as Lin Li himself did not expect the competition to reach this point, many contestants also did not expect to become famous overnight because of this competition.

Of course, Spark's artist agreement is a very basic agreement because these contestants are actually not stable.

Under the server recruitment competition system.

There's only one way to consistently get playing time: ranked matches.

In short, this is a competition mode that only considers skill and nothing else.

The main reason for signing artist contracts with these contestants is to ensure fairness in the roles and to prevent them from being controlled by DB websites or anything else.

Of course, this is just a precaution. After all, this is a 32v32 match. If you want to control the match, you need to buy at least seven or eight players out of the 32 opponents to have a real chance of influencing the game.

In addition, you need to make sure that other database sites are thinking the same way. Otherwise, if you bribe a few people and another database site bribes another person, then you're out of luck.

Therefore, most database websites don't actually do this kind of thing. Their biggest source of profit comes from making money through mathematics. In major esports competitions around the world, it is actually the clubs that like to "buy" players the most.

However, the logic of Spark does not include clubs.

In terms of purity, the Spark model is actually purer.

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After the Spark platform operations team joined the Gundam Battlegrounds World Cup.

Almost the most important thing is preparing for this final, including inviting world-renowned singers to sing the theme song for the final.

This is Xinghuo's strength. By now, with Xinghuo's influence and financial resources, there's basically no star that Linli can't invite. The previous New Year's Eve performance already demonstrated this.

Although this was a relatively rushed plan, they still managed to invite Jay Chou, Ayumi Hamasaki, and a whole host of top European and American stars to perform.

The theme song for Spark is called "Battlefield Glory".

The name is a bit cheesy, but the song's rhythm and lyrics are quite good. Coupled with the current popularity of the Gundam Battlegrounds World Cup, the overall performance is actually quite good.