Esports and spinach
Why do so many people like to play with spinach? As a simple example, on April 24 this year, the ESL Manila Finals, when the unknown Chinese second-team Wings, played against the world number one Liquid.
Due to the "huge disparity" in strength between the two sides, the odds of major spinach websites are almost 9 to 10 times...
Therefore, when Wings exploded the "unprecedented cold" to win the championship, the wind on the roof was also unprecedented... Countless people have lost their homes, and some people have become rich overnight, please see:
In fact, according to the authoritative statistics of H2 Gambling Capital, a well-known foreign spinach data website, spinach participants in Chinese mainland lost a total of $76 billion (about 507.946 billion yuan) in 2013, and China jumped from the world's tenth largest spinach market in 2012 to the second largest, second only to the United States.
The charm of spinach can be seen.
At the press conference of the first National Mobile E-sports Competition (CMEG) held in Beijing on March 19 this year, Ding Dong, director of the Sports Information Center of the General Administration of Sports, said that the overall size of the e-sports market in 2015 has reached 27 billion yuan.
At present, the General Administration of Sport is studying and exploring the issue of open e-sports betting, according to the Hang Seng Securities Research Report, such as the opening of e-sports events will increase the revenue scale of about 3.7 billion yuan for the e-sports industry.
To this I just want to say, you people, run games without brains, make money brains is quite fast, MDZZ.
Introduction to the Spinach website
At present, there are many spinach websites at home and abroad, the following is a brief introduction for everyone, just for popular science, we can take a look at it.
▌Vulcun
Based in San Francisco, Vulcun is currently the world's largest online spinach site, raising $12 million in funding in 2015.
On January 5 this year, Vulcun announced that they will turn off the online payment spinach function due to the increasingly stringent regulatory policies in many countries, but the use of in-game props instead of real money spinach will continue, so... You know.
▌D2L
The spinach website of lao Maozi is very familiar to domestic players. D2L pumping is the least, only 2.5% pumping, more water per day, but always like to return 0.03 (rare quality jewelry) This is not good, suitable for trenches.
▌Gosubet
Famous e-sports portals abroad, of course they also have their own spinach.
▌VP
VPgame is the empress's own spinach website, pumping a little more than 5%, and there is a sports disk, the return of items strictly calculate the decimal point, and rarely take 0.03 to charge the number, that is, the access robot is old problematic.
It is rumored that ImbaTV is also making a spinach website, which is about to be launched, and the authenticity is not yet known.
The future of spinach
Many people read the announcement of the V Society, and they all think that spinach pills are gone, and I think it will not, at least not in the short term. Here's why:
The attitude of the V Society is clearly not resolute enough. The announcement only said that it would "notify the spinach website" and would "take necessary measures", but this obviously did not affect the actual operation and development of the spinach website, because if the law did not prohibit it, who would hang you? If you really want to ban it, V Can directly modify the permissions of the Steam OpenID API to completely cut off the connection with spinach.
I think V's move is to clear up its relationship with the spinach site, because earlier this year, they were sued.
Just last month, Michael John McLeod, a CS:GO player from Connecticut, took Valve to court, saying he lost them for "illegal gambling" after buying a large number of CS:GO skins.
As an official, the V Society not only did not act, but even "supported" this "gambling behavior", so he, as the representative of the players, sued the V Society in court.
Source: Nightmare of The Radiance