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Throughout any project, awards ceremonies are an integral part of professional sports. Through a ceremonial evening, sports leagues reward the best players, clubs and partners of the season, allowing them to accept the public's appreciation and show the league's own strength.
On January 14, the 2021 Elite Night - PEL Annual Awards Ceremony came to a successful conclusion. The best players, the best clubs and other awards have been announced. As the year-end drama of the Peace Elite Professional League, the end of elite night represents the successful conclusion of PEL's 2021 year. By combing through this award ceremony, we can see that PEL as an event product has completed a two-way evolution in terms of professionalism and maturity.
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The award ceremony was held in the form of an independent ceremony, and PEL was one step closer to maturity
Following a bloody video looking back at the classic moments of the season, the 2021 Elite Night - PEL Annual Awards Ceremony unveiled the first award, "PEL Moment of the Year", which was awarded to Paraboy from Shanghai NV Tencent Video. The wonderful operation of the players is the key to the league's circle, and in the era of social media, short and fine operation highlights can often be widely disseminated. The PEL Alliance has set up a separate award for the "Annual Moment", indicating that the official is also well versed in this way, and the alliance's professionalism and mature operation are reflected behind it.
As an event organized by PEL and Weibo, the 2021 Elite Night - PEL Annual Awards Ceremony set up a total of 14 awards in three categories: "Player Category", "Club Category" and "Commentary Host Category", awarding the highest honors of the year to ecological participants.
Specifically, the "Player Category" has a total of 6 awards, including Most Valuable, Rookie of the Year, Fastest Improving, Team of the Year, Most Popular Player of the Year and Moment of the Year. In the "Club Category", there are 4 awards, New Club of the Year, Most Commercial Value of the Year, Most Popular Club of the Year and Club of the Year. There are four awards in the "Narrator Category", namely Best Commentator of the Year, Best Host of the Year, Best Newcomer Of the Year and Most Popular Commentator/Host of the Year.
Through the scope and categories covered by the awards, we can see that the PEL Alliance has given a very comprehensive commendation to the three core links of the healthy development of the alliance: "players", "clubs" and "commentators". From the perspective of multi-dimensional considerations, the alliance has created a multi-dimensional award system, so that participants in the peaceful elite e-sports ecology can get due recognition. From the perspective of fans, the subdivided award setting also ensures that players can form a diversified evaluation system and vote for their favorite and recognized players from multiple angles.
It is worth mentioning that this award ceremony is the first time that PEL has held an award ceremony in the form of an independent ceremony.
Last year, the award ceremony was held at the Peace Elite International Champions Cup (PEC) and co-organized with the Peace Elite game product, which included a lot of game-side content in the design of the award.
This year, due to the independence ceremony, the PEL Awards Ceremony also took e-sports products and event content as the core in the design of the awards, presenting a wonderful year-end drama for PEL fans, which also marked a higher level of fairness, professionalism and maturity of Peace Elite E-sports, and also showed the strong commercial strength and value that PEL currently has.
Seeing this, some readers may ask, how were these awards chosen?
In this regard, the official also announced detailed voting rules. It is reported that the award is jointly voted by fans and the jury, in which the fan vote is carried out on the Weibo platform, participating in the selection of the most popular players, clubs and commentators of the year, which fully ensures the participation of the fan group and the credibility of the award.
The elite jury has 20 club representatives, 10 alliance representatives, 13 commentator representatives, 9 media cooperation representatives and 8 platform representatives. It can be seen that the composition of the jury covers all important components of the peaceful elite e-sports ecosystem, further enhancing the fairness and professionalism of the awards.
In addition, this fairness and professionalism is also reflected in the design of voting rules. For example, in the Club of the Year awards, each delegate has 3 votes to choose from each award, and 3 players recognized by their own side are credited with 5 points, 3 points and 2 points for a total of 10 points. In the end, the 2021 annual points (80%) and voting points (20%) total score won the first prize. It can be seen that competitive performance is still the most important factor for the official, and this also ensures the gold content and persuasiveness of the award.
From the five major leagues in Europe to world-class events such as the NBA and the NFL, awards ceremonies are important milestones in the season, and wonderful stories will be born around the awards ceremonies. A season is made up of countless moments, and through various awards, we can clearly string those moments together.
In 2014, Durant won the most valuable player of the regular season, and he choked up several times during his acceptance speech, paying the highest tribute to his mother with a sentence of "you are the real MVP", which became one of the most moving scenes in NBA history. Whenever they think of this scene, fans will also think of Durant's super strength in that season and the wonderful performance he dedicated to the world.
In the 2014-15 NBA season, the players' union took the lead in introducing the concept of a grand awards ceremony, and in the 2016-17 season, the league decided to make the NBA awards a grand event. This move also confirms the high recognition of the awards ceremony by the mature sports league.
In addition, the award ceremony is not only an affirmation given by the league to players and partners, but also a reflection of the league's comprehensive strength. Through the organic combination of inside and outside the arena, the 2021 Elite Night - PEL Annual Awards Ceremony condenses the story of PEL in the past year into a blockbuster, showing the progress and achievements of PEL to the outside world, and further enhancing the influence of Peace Elite E-sports in the industry.
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New format reform, peace elite esports outlook 2022
As a year-end drama, the 2021 Elite Night - PEL Annual Awards Ceremony has brought the past year to a successful conclusion. The award setting and voting rules all reflect the professionalism and mature management of the PEL League, and this professional attitude and operation of the event is also an important wealth left by PEL to the industry in the past year.
In general, this specialization of PEL is reflected in three aspects: format reform, sports and commercialization.
In the 2021S4 season, PEL introduced an airborne deployment mechanism for the tactical competition category for the first time, which greatly enriched the strategic competition between teams and made the event more beautiful and exciting. In the S1 and S2 seasons, PEL reached cooperation with Shanghai Jiushi Shark Club and Shanghai International Circuit respectively, bringing NBA and F1 elements into the world of tactical competition categories, and expanding the imagination space of the industry for e-sports sports. Throughout 2021, PEL not only ushered in the three major media giants of Tencent Video, Weibo E-sports and Sports E-sports, but also added a number of commercial partners such as Buick and Warhorse, which have become more perfect and mature while improving their hematopoietic capabilities.
Entering 2022, in order to further release the accumulated potential energy, PEL has made a comprehensive innovation to the format. It is reported that the PEL annual event will be planned to be divided into two seasons, spring and summer, and each season consists of three stages: regular season, playoffs and finals. The new 2022 season will kick off on March 10.
In the view of ECO e-sports, optimizing four seasons into two seasons can make the PEL schedule more compact and coherent overall, which helps to improve the retention of the audience. At the same time, this can also ensure that business partners can get enough stable exposure and traffic, thereby enhancing the commercial value of the league.
On this basis, the competition of the new season of PEL will be conducted from a third-person perspective, in line with international events, and further improve the viewing of the event. In terms of user attributes, compared with the first person, tactical competitive players generally like the third person, and now PEL fully adopts the third-person mode of competition, which will better meet the needs of most tactical competitive player groups. This is a very wise step in the long run. It is worth mentioning that at the award ceremony, four clubs officially joined the peaceful elite e-sports ecosystem as a new army, including Jay Chou's JTeam.
Now, with the successful conclusion of the 2021 Elite Night - PEL Annual Awards Ceremony, peace elite esports has also come to the occasion of retiring the old and welcoming the new. Looking back on 2021, Peace Elite E-sports has steadily moved forward, creating a more perfect e-sports product around the reform, sportsization and commercialization of the competition format; looking forward to 2022, we expect that Peace Elite E-sports will continue to bring more surprises to the industry and ecology.