Eight months, 12 rounds of professional leagues, 23 tracks, the birth of a new champion driver and champion team, after countless dramas, the ups and downs of the F1 e-sports China Championship 2021 season finally came to an end.
As the first national finals held online in three years, Jiushi Smart Sports convened 20 professional team drivers and five-star sports television stations to complete the two-hour national finals for the first time in the form of "Cloud X live" digital production and broadcasting, presenting a star-studded visual feast.
In the final round of the final round, after TSW Team and Xing Sicheng locked in the team and driver championship in advance, the 3 runner-up contenders performed a wonderful attack and defense on the unfamiliar track decided by the live lottery, and the final winning driver also surprised everyone's pre-race expectations...
The finals scene is exciting
Unlike other races this year's season, the finale was played in a pattern where the track was determined by drawing lots. Yang Yibin, General Manager of the Company Department of Bank of Communications Shanghai Branch, and Yang Yibin, Deputy Secretary and General Manager of the Party Committee of Shanghai Jiushi Sports Industry Development (Group) Co., Ltd. and Chairman of Shanghai Jiushi Smart Sports Co., Ltd., jointly unveiled the competition track of the final battle - the Hanoi Street Race in Vietnam as a drawing guest at the scene. This is a track where drivers usually train less and will not host F1 races in the future, so to speak, this one will only "appear in F1 esports"!
Asia's first sailing Olympic champion Xu Lijia and The Asian Porsche Carrera Cup annual champion Lu Wenlong attended the event site, by Lu Wenlong demonstration simulator use points, Xu Lijia personally experienced F1 e-sports, the official sponsor of the event Bright Dairy Marketing Department Director Zhou Hongkang felt the charm of F1 e-sports on the spot.
"It's been a quick drive and it's addictive, and the steering wheel feedback is real." Xu Lijia, who had just come down from the simulator, was still unfinished.
In the final game, Jiushi Smart Sports, as the organizer of the event, also invited four professional team managers: TSW team manager Chen Guozheng, BT team manager Ye Fei, WLG team manager Wang Wanli and INS team manager Ni Zeqiang to the broadcast room.
Zhou Guanyu, China's first official F1 driver, also connected with the studio as a special guest before the official start of the race, wishing all the drivers in the competition the best level!
Finale Battle
TSW Team's Wang Hao brushed a score of 1m32.516s in the flying lap after the suspension, surpassing Tang Tianyu to get pole position, and Yuan Yifan started in the third. The top 3 competitors who finished as runners-up of the year occupied the top 3 in qualifying, setting the tone for the finale.
BT. Tang Tianyu took the first place with a tough start, and in the competition for the no. 1-2 consecutive curves, WLG. Yuan Yifan also surpassed TSW. Wang Hao rose to the second place, and then the first group composed of the 3 drivers who competed for the runner-up began to lead, while Zhang Liao led the second group.
In the ensuing race, BT. Tang Tianyu did everything in his power to defend against WRG. Yuan Yifan, while TSW. Wang Hao and LHR. Zhang Liao quickly approached the front car in the front car fight.
On lap 15, the BT team strategically hoped to use the snare Wu Yachao to help teammate Tang Tianyu, who had been overtaken by WWLG. Yuan Yifan on the DRS straight, delayed braking and prepared to overtake, but missed the brake point and lost the leading position, but his table rival TSW. Wang Hao collided with BT. Wu Yachao's slow car and fell to 4th place.
When everyone thought that the championship competition for this station had been decided, LHR. Zhang Liao suddenly surpassed Tang Tianyu and Yuan Yifan in the next 2 laps and won the championship of the season finale. WLG Yuan Yifan, BT. Tang Tianyu and TSW. Wang Hao ranked 2-4 respectively.
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The birth of the overall champion of the year
The F1 Esports China Championship 2021 season has officially come to an end, with the annual constructors' championship going to the TSW team, and the driver's championship of the year is Xing Sicheng from the TSW team.
Zhang Jingyi, a Washington correspondent of Oriental Satellite TV, interviewed Xing Sicheng, who won the overall championship of this year's F1 e-sports Chinese champion drivers, and said, "I hope to represent the F1 e-sports Chinese team to participate in the world draft, China already has the first F1 driver, and Chinese F1 e-sports drivers also need to go to the world stage!" ”
Xue Jingjing, general manager of Shanghai Jiushi Wisdom Sports Co., Ltd., said that he congratulated Xing Sicheng on winning the championship and looked forward to his successful draft next year and winning glory for the country.
Review the growth path of the tournament
Jiushi Smart Sports is a high-tech enterprise focusing on "digital sports", which closely combines traditional sports events with advanced digital sports simulation equipment and software capabilities, opens up a new ecology of virtual sports events, sports e-sports and other sports events in the digital era, and rapidly develops into a well-known digital sports leader in the sports industry in four years.
After three years of hard work, the F1 E-sports China Championship has become the top event IP in China under the operation of Jiushi Smart Sports, and has been praised by the Shanghai Municipal Youth League Committee as a "green e-sports" business card and the industry as "the best sports e-sports event". The F1 Esports China Championship was first introduced to China by Jiushi Smart Sports in 2019 and is the world's first officially authorized F1 esports regional tournament, which has been held for three consecutive years. In the past three years, the event has grown steadily, focusing on the popularization and promotion of F1 e-sports, while supporting the feeding and echelon construction of F1 e-sports professionals, and has now become the highest standard and largest digital sports event in China.
In the 2019 event "First Year", the landing of the first F1 e-sports China Championship overcame difficulties such as short preparation time, scarcity of professional talents, lack of experience in running the competition, etc. Jiushi Wisdom Sports actively integrated multiple resources, and once unveiled in August, it was a great success, and was enthusiastically sought after by e-sports enthusiasts across the country, and since then it has drawn a strong and colorful stroke on the domestic e-sports industry map, opening a new journey of racing e-sports projects in China.
In 2020, the F1 E-sports China Championship set a precedent again, upgrading the event to a professional league, a development league tournament, and an individual challenge, and officially established the F1 E-sports Development Alliance, aiming to provide assistance for the professional talent reserve of F1 e-sports. In the same year, Jiushi Smart Sports and Five Star Sports reached a cooperation to promote the F1 E-sports China Championship to become the first e-sports event in The country to be broadcast live by TV stations for the whole season.
In 2021, after accumulating the successful experience of the previous two editions, the event further vigorously innovated, and Jiushi Smart Sports has reached cooperation with partners such as Anting Shanghai International Automobile City and Xinjiang Snow Wolf Interactive Entertainment Culture Media, so that the territory and influence of the F1 E-sports China Championship have been further expanded. In the new season of 2022, new members such as the Professional League Divisional Grand Prix, F1 E-sports Global Corporate Race, and Formula Racing Academy will be unveiled one after another, boosting F1 e-sports to a new level from multiple dimensions of event promotion, youth training, and participation experience.
The Shanghai Virtual Sports Open, which was officially announced in November 2021, is the first digital sports comprehensive event newly created by Jiushi Smart Sports, empowering the construction of Shanghai's world-famous sports city, and the launch of this event is evaluated by the industry as representing the development of China's sports events officially entering the digital era.
From start-up exploration to leading enterprises, the "Jiushi Smart Sports" brand has achieved high-speed overtaking and brought subversive innovation to the sports industry. At present, through diversified digital sports competition content and exclusive digital sports simulation equipment, through the mutual penetration and mutual assistance of virtual and reality, Jiushi Smart Sports will create a new "sports meta-universe" for the public.