On June 3, RNG player Uzi announced on Weibo that he would officially retire, and then RNG official Bo also issued an announcement to bid farewell to Uzi, plus CCTV Weibo also gave an assist, released an exclusive interview with Uzi retirement video on the same day, for a time, the topic and article about Uzi's retirement brushed the network and circle of friends.
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Who is Uzi? Why did his retirement attract so much attention?
I will not say more about Uzi's record, there are many reports about him during this time, and I think the reason why Uzi's retirement can attract so much attention is not only related to his personal efforts and achievements, but also inseparable from these two people. Together, the three of them, along with their contemporaries, opened up the great picture of esports today.
One is the Warcraft "Human Emperor" Li Xiaofeng (Sky), the other is Dota Dionysus Wu Sheng (2009), and finally add Uzi, the three of them are three milestones in the history of Chinese e-sports.
It is they who have led Chinese e-sports to the public, it is they who have led Chinese e-sports to the world, and it is they who have led Chinese e-sports to commercialization!
Ten years ago, video games were a derogatory term, a forbidden area for parents to touch.
It is they, step by step, who have reversed this image, justify the name of e-sports, play the game well, and can win glory for the country!
Although parents still have restrictions on their children playing games, there are more and more enlightened parents who accept their children's entry into the field of e-sports, which has also become a profession.
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In 2008, Beijing hosted the Olympic Games, the first and only time in China so far, and the grand event was unprecedented. The selection of the early Olympic torchbearer also attracted a lot of people's attention, in the vote of many candidates, a young man attracted everyone's attention, he is Sky Li Xiaofeng, that is the first time that outsiders in the e-sports circle know him.
On May 7, 2008, 10 esports esports players, including two-time WCG World Champion WE.Sky Li Xiaofeng, participated in the torch relay as torchbearers.
Later, people learned that this person had already achieved a lot of honors before 2008.
Regarding SKY's record, it can only be described in one sentence, "A melon is so big that I can't eat it."
He was the first esports player to let the five-star red flag fly at the pinnacle of global esports, and the idol of many young people with esports dreams.
In an interview with him, Tencent introduced him like this:
If the Warcraft world needs a king, he must be Sky. If Chinese esports needs a flag and a leap forward milestone, it's undoubtedly Sky. As a famous player in Chinese e-sports, the excellent results of the Warcraft "Human Emperor" Li Xiaofeng (Sky) in the WCG (World E-sports Competition) have pushed him to the highest peak of global e-sports, and similarly, the existence of Li Xiaofeng (Sky) has also injected a booster into the development of China's e-sports.
At this point, there was an outbreak of e-sports fever, when you go to the Internet café, as long as you play the game, half of them are playing Warcraft, and half are playing World of Warcraft.
From 2008 to 2012, Sky also participated in many competitions and achieved some results, but compared with before, on the one hand, the popularity of Warcraft has slowly decreased, Dota has suddenly begun to become popular, dividing up many players and traffic, on the other hand, Sky's own results are not particularly ideal, and the focus has shifted.
After 2012, Li Xiaofeng gradually rarely participated in the competition, and transformed into the leader of the LOL branch of we club. In June 2015, Li Xiaofeng published an article on Weibo entitled "Belated Farewell, No Other Persistence", announcing his official withdrawal from the war3 project. Subsequently, he founded Shanghai Titanium Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. and served as CEO.
The next person who has a huge impact on the e-sports industry should be Wu Sheng 2009, who is known as the "Great Dionysus" in the e-sports industry.
Mention 09, I believe many people will think of Wang Sicong, married in 2019 09, invited most of the people in the e-sports circle, many players and anchors we are familiar with are among them, but no amount of people can cover up the appearance of Wang Sicong, he actually gave 09 as a groomsman, not only sent a Rolls-Royce, but also personally helped 09 drive the car door. For a time, the e-sports traffic that 09 comes with and the entertainment circle traffic brought by Wang Sicong collided together, igniting the entire network.
Compared with Li Xiaofeng, in addition to having a number of Dota world championship honors, such as he has won 12 championships and 3 runner-up titles, 09 has created the most professional, most formal, and best hematopoietic Dota team LGD in China. He also has two advantages:
He is a high-achieving student at Zhejiang University, and is more likely to be recognized, and it turns out that playing games does not necessarily mean that he will not learn well. A high IQ is more helpful for playing games!
He was one of the first players to retire from the e-sports circle and realize the realization of fan monetization. After he retired from the military, he successively made tens of millions of dollars in a series of operations such as opening a Taobao store to sell computer peripherals and snacks, explain Dota videos, and join Panda TV, a real winner in life, and his experience has also inspired a large wave of game enthusiasts.
The success of these two people has brought great changes to China's e-sports industry and made better promotion and publicity.
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On September 30, 2016, the Ministry of Education issued the Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Declaration of Majors to Be Enrolled in Higher Vocational Schools in 2017, announcing 13 supplementary majors, including "E-sports Sports and Management".
In 2017, the Communication University of China opened Digital Media Arts (Digital Entertainment). It mainly cultivates game planning and e-sports operation and program production talents.
On June 2, 2017, Sichuan Film and Television Academy signed an agreement with Chengdu E-sports Association to open a major in "E-sports Sports and Management", and officially enrolled students in September 2017. Sichuan University of Media and Communications and Sichuan Vocational College of Science and Technology have also announced that they will open e-sports majors.
On April 1, 2019, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security issued a notice officially confirming 13 new career information, including e-sports players and e-sports operators.
From being seen as a flood beast to gradually gaining public recognition, from ignorance to being hot, eventually e-sports became a nationally recognized profession. These changes stem from the rapid development of the e-sports industry, the grand holding of major events, and the grand situation of millions of people watching.
This kind of large-scale competitive competition is no longer just a game. This is e-sports, it is a sports project, different from the traditional sports, which is the product of the new era and the symbol of the Internet era.
Of course, esports has never been a one-man game, but a product of a team, in addition to the three of them, but also their team, and their opponents, who collectively contributed to this prosperity, pay tribute to them!