"Review 2021" - How to interpret esports with the attitude of a talk show?

Produced | People's Esports

The author | Wang Siqi

Edited | Kevin

On December 23, 2021, at 13:00 at noon, a unique 2021 receipt evaluation meeting was held live at the Tencent meeting - it is worth noting that this evaluation is related to Chinese e-sports in the past year.

The "2021 Receipt Evaluation Meeting" is an online live interactive activity jointly initiated by Tencent Video's 2021 "Talk Show New Year's Eve" program, "People's E-sports" and Netfish E-sports. The so-called "receipt evaluation" refers to the fact that if you compare all the things that have happened in 2021 to the "goods" received, I believe that everyone will have different harvests this year, and everyone's evaluation of "goods" is different.

2021 is an absolute "big year of e-sports", while the events of the year continue to occur, you can summarize e-sports in the form of a talk show at the end of the year, such a cross-circle combination once tried, it has received attention and praise from all walks of life.

We will find that before the event is launched, the "giant receipt" of the 2021 e-sports topic has appeared in the gathering place of e-sports enthusiasts, and the registration channel of the "receipt evaluation meeting" has also been opened - it is reported that the reason for choosing open discussion is that the core of the choice is so that all players who want to express and have an attitude can find the annual event they care about at the end of the year, and they can come here at the end of the year and say two sentences.

Receiving goods - what are the harvests of Chinese e-sports this year?

2021 is a fruitful year for Chinese e-sports. EDG won the S11 world championship, triggering a national heated discussion and e-sports boom; e-sports officially determined the 2022 Asian Games to participate in the project, "correcting" the identity of e-sports projects; Uzi's comeback "God is back" is the hottest topic for annual e-sports fans... The above many topics talked about in the live broadcast have all caused a rather vibrating sound inside and outside the e-sports circle, so that e-sports can be described as "receiving goods" in addition to going out of the circle.

In this event, the owner of the LPL, Wang Siqi, the champion of the 2020 Netfish Arena City Heroes Championship, and Jiangxi HMG Zhang Jia, the champion of the 2021 Netfish Arena Championship Team, participated in the whole process, and several e-sports people expressed their opinions, ridiculed the major e-sports events throughout the year, took stock of several major "receipts" of 2021 e-sports, and produced a number of golden sentences:

"There's love on the field, there's hilarity off the field, and overall, esports is hot, hotter than 105 degrees."

"I don't know if you see me COS Bunny Girl, you can't dress too much when you set up the flag, otherwise you can wear women's clothes like me."

"Guan Ze made a contribution at the end of the year, and it was a cross-border explanation, and it was also about talk shows, and Guan Shen was indeed not an ordinary person."

EDG's victory was first mentioned during today's live broadcast, and this matter has become widely recognized as the "top priority" of this year's e-sports. While EDG won the championship glory, the "flag for all" boom it triggered was impressive, and the small umbrella also revealed its own mental journey of establishing a flag, which caused everyone to laugh continuously.

As a former professional player, umbrella emperor has tried to make a comeback this year, although in the end it could not be achieved, he also analyzed the difficulties of the "Uzi comeback" from his own experience process: "I hope that Uzi can get back to form and get the starting position of the team!" It is not easy to come back after retiring, and we are all looking forward to the fact that 'God' can complete his career dreams. ”

Referring to the harvest of e-sports this year, "e-sports successfully entered Asia and announced several major projects" is undoubtedly one of the major events in the e-sports circle. Zhang Jia, as the provincial team manager of Jiangxi Province, said that he felt deeply about entering Asia this time: "Taking the League of Legends as an example, our team members have all obtained the qualification of the e-sports athlete examination, and have successfully passed the exam and become e-sports athletes - the impact of this e-sports entry into Asia on e-sports practitioners should be very far-reaching." ”

At the end of the live broadcast, for this year's annual summary, Wang Siqi, the winner of the 2020 Netfish Arena City Heroes Championship, was deeply impressed: "My annual summary is 'debut heroes' - no matter whether you have gained more or less in the field of e-sports or in the workplace and at work this year. But we must have the mentality of 'heroes on the scene', and when we accept the challenge, we must have heroic self-confidence, and we must also affirm our efforts this year. ”

Talk shows are once again across the circle with e-sports, and the value of e-sports is increasing

The combination of talk shows and e-sports is not the first time, and in recent years, the topic of e-sports has also appeared in the programs of talk shows many times, and e-sports fever has also successfully gone out of the circle and formed hot topics many times, and has also become ready-made material for talk shows.

Take the "2021 Receipt Evaluation Meeting" creative activity as an example, this activity has a total of 3 days, and every day will open a circle of topic discussions, these three topics are: Olympic Games, anti-fraud and Chinese e-sports, at the same time, this year's hot professional commentator Guan Zeyuan is also coming to the "Talk Show New Year's Eve" program to take stock and comment on this year's e-sports events and his own annual events.

The fact that talk shows are once again combined with esports at the end of the year stems from the deeper similarities between the two – the humor of talk shows is only a form of expression, more of an expression of insight and unique perspective in life; the form of esports is a game, and its core is the strength and sportsmanship of competitive teams. In February this year, "People's E-sports" had an exclusive dialogue with talk show actor Hu Lan, who once lamented that talk shows and e-sports have many similarities, such as anchors and talk show actors need to have humorous eloquence, and the audience of the two also has a lot of similarities: "The audiences who love to watch e-sports and talk shows should be a group of people who love life and happiness - and a single happiness cannot satisfy them, they should be the most optimistic friends." ”

On December 23, the "2021 Receipt evaluation meeting" e-sports special session was affirmed by many netizens, it is reported that in the "Talk Show New Year's Eve" program of Tencent Video at 20:00 on December 25, in addition to e-sports, there are more other annual events presented, such as the Olympics, anti-fraud and so on. Looking at the whole live broadcast process, we will find that by taking stock of the "receipt" of Chinese e-sports for a year, at the same time, we also take stock of the e-sports life that belongs to our year.

As 2021 draws to a close, it is advisable to review and summarize 2021 with a smile while recalling and taking stock, and at the same time look forward to a better next year - 2021 Everyone has their own "receipt", whether it is joy or sorrow, it can be used to celebrate the New Year in a humorous way, which is a positive attitude and a laugh on life.