Recently, Tencent e-sports officials Xuan Langping and Ma Long officially became Tencent e-sports sports exchange officers, at first glance, many people will think that this combination is very wonderful.
One side represents pure traditional sports, and the other side represents a new face of competition that is rising.
On the surface, this is a heavyweight cross-border cooperation between traditional sports and e-sports, but in fact, Lang Ping and Ma Long, two absolute masters of traditional sports, have put forward an important proposition - what is the new look of today's competitive sports?
Or, what is the current state of e-sports in China today?
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"You shouldn't be liked, you'll be replaced"
In the cognition of the older generation, traditional sports and e-sports are incompatible with eight rods, and even many people still do not understand what e-sports represents.
Is it to prevent teens from indulging in daily life? Or is it a sign of not learning nothing?
Esports itself is undoubtedly a game, but "games have many problems" and "games can be addictive".
This is what the general parents say about it, and people can't get rid of the stereotype of "e-sports" = "Internet addicted teenager" for a long time.
Have you ever been carried out of the Internet café by your parents with your ears, leaving your teammates alone?
The root cause is that many people do not have the time and energy to try the game, which indirectly leads to non-recognition and understanding.
They feel that the person who plays the game only needs to move the mouse and keyboard, without paying attention or supplementing it with emotions, and they do not know that in the process of playing video games, they will be full of desire to win.
Many older people even feel that video games are as indistinguishable as TV shows, like when you play a game at home until you are halfway through, your parents will always tell you to go to dinner and play it again.
In their eyes, the game can be paused at any time.
According to the data, only 1% to 3.3% of participants in the esports industry are over 40 years old, while more than 97% of young people are young.
In other words, if you want to change people's stereotypes of e-sports, it seems that you can only wait for a new generation of gamers to grow up to be able to control the right to speak.
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"There are always teenagers shoulder to shoulder, changing the future with their hands"
E-sports is like the contradiction in the discussion of this era, there are constantly questioned, and there are constantly people rushing to it.
So how exactly does China's e-sports open up a new situation and gain a new journey?
So I have to mention - Sky Li Xiaofeng, the first person in China's e-sports.
How to evaluate Li Xiaofeng? Perhaps many young players will not know what he has done and how many awards and honors he has won.
But as long as the three words Li Xiaofeng, Sky and Ren Huang are mentioned, they will be respected, not to mention that he is also the champion of the 2005 and 2006 WCG "Warcraft".
In an era when the concept of e-sports was so barren, he single-handedly let Chinese know that even playing games could achieve honor for the country.
As his fans wrote about him:
Also in 2005, the CS2 team wNv won the championship, and the wNv team successfully flipped the legendary moment of Chinese CS, won the first world championship of Chinese CS, and Chinese e-sports began to rise.
In 2007, when the competition was still WCG, Dota team GL defeated Malaysian team CT to win the championship, which was the first time that Chinese dota had walked the country and won glory for the country.
In the 2012 IPL5 Finals, WE defeated the Fnatic team with a score of 3:1 and won the IPL5 championship, which was the first time that the Chinese LOL team won the world heavyweight LOL competition championship, and it was also a new milestone in the development of Chinese e-sports.
In 2014, NEWBEE won the TI4Dota2 championship, which represents the strong return of the Chinese legion and once again stands at the top of the world.
In the 2018 Asian Games League of Legends exhibition match, the Chinese team won the first gold, marking the official removal of Chinese e-sports from the label of "not doing business".
In the four years from 2018 to 2021, the Chinese LPL team won three League of Legends S championships, proving China's strength.
Those who came out of the dim Internet café are now also competitive athletes who have won gold medals for their country.
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"When I survive the darkness and cold wind, help me wipe away my tears and hurts"
Looking back at the two sports and e-sports, it seems that there is no connection, but in essence they are connected.
For example, the feeling of suffocation and oppression when watching the 2021 League of Legends S-game EDG against DK is surprisingly consistent with the feeling of watching the 3-2 reverse victory of the Chinese women's volleyball team at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
In the upcoming 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou 2022, Zhu Qinan, director of the Competition Department of the Hangzhou Asian Organizing Committee, announced the setting of e-sports sub-events.
Eight events including League of Legends, Glory of Kings (Asian Games Edition), Peace Elite (Asian Games Edition), Hearthstone, Dota 2, Dream Three Kingdoms 2, Street Fighter 5 and FIFA Online 4 were selected.
From being born unoptimized to being selected as a formal competitive event, there are always groups of dreamers who are firmly moving towards the goal.
Who hasn't been mentioned in an Internet café? You say yes
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