It is reported that the competition of the Southeast Asian Games e-sports project held in Hanoi in May has been announced, almost all of which are the stage of Tencent and domestic games, there is only 1 European and American games, the only Southeast Asian game, and it is also a company founded and controlled by the Chinese.
Vietnamese media announced the list of 8 sports competitions, they are LOL, Liên Minh huyen thoai (League of Legends Vietnam version), CF, FIFA online4, Free Fire, PUBG Mobile, Mobile Legend, lien quan.
Four events from the last Southeast Asian Games in the Philippines were removed: StarCraft 2, Hearthstone, Tekken and Dota 2.
Compared with the previous competition, 7 of the projects in this competition are Chinese-controlled companies or domestic games.
Among them, Tencent Games has become a big winner. In addition to Crossing the Line of Fire is Tencent, lien quan is the Vietnamese version of Glory of Kings, PUBG Mobile is the PUBG International version, and there are 2 leagues of legends. And the parent company of League of Legends, Fist, is Tencent Holdings, although the Vietnamese media has been emphasizing Fist Games.
In addition, mobile Legend's Chinese name is Endless Showdown, which is a game exported by Shanghai Mu Hitomi Technology.
EA's fifa online4 is the only European and American game to appear, but in Vietnam, they are garena agents.
Free Fire, another chicken-eating game, is also a game developed by GARENA.
Although headquartered in Singapore, GARENA was founded in China, and the owners are also Shanghainese. One of its founders is Chen Ou, the founder of Jumei Premium. But due to different ideas, Chen Ou and his classmates, more than 10 years ago, had already left (forced to leave?). ）GRENA。
And league of legends' Southeast Asian agency is also GARENA.
In addition, they also represented a well-known shooting game "Firefall", that is, the "Hot" that Shanghai Shenhua boss Zhu Jun used to replace "WOW". At that time, because he did not want to invest money in Shenhua, Zhu Jun even invented the idea of letting the stars of his own team endorse "Hot" for free, and the method of deducting wages triggered a hot discussion in the Chinese Super League.
Unlike in China, LOL is almost a Vietnamese national game. Its small anchors who broadcast the series of games (mobile games plus Vietnamese versions) have more than 5,000 people. At the same time, the number of Vietnamese people serving online every day also exceeds 500,000.
Many people think that Vietnam's football is about to take off, but at a time when LOL and its sub-series are rampant in Vietnam, Vietnam's young people who like e-sports will definitely surpass football.