Have you played Just Dance? During Olympic Esports Week, she represented China on the field
With the holding of the Singapore Olympic E-sports Week, everyone has seen the many possibilities of e-sports in the Olympic family in the future, and it has also given some young people who had never imagined the Olympic Games in the past to have a bigger stage, Fang Fang (Fang Yuesi) from China is one of them.
In the Olympic e-sports series of this e-sports week, virtual events closer to traditional sports, such as archery, baseball, cycling, sports dance, and motor racing, were shortlisted, among which "Just Dance" attracted the most attention because of its very ornamental and wide audience, and Fang Fang was the only Chinese player to participate in the event.
Fang Fang (Fang Yuesi) represented China at Olympic Esports Week.
"Mom and Dad, I'm in the Olympics"
"In April, I received a call (from the community manager of Just Dance) asking me to attend an event and asking me to keep it secret, but I didn't expect to represent China at the Olympic Esports Week..."
Looking back so far, Fang Fang described his brain as ignorant at that time, contact with "Just Dance" for 3 years, although he also had a certain number of fans, but Fang Fang has always had some doubts about his ability to step on the "Olympic stage".
According to her own words, she has loved dance since she was a child, studied stage lighting design in college, and only came into contact with "Just Dance" by chance in her leisure.
"It started as a video of myself flipping online, and it ended up being watched by tens of thousands of people. Then I thought that many players may be zero or don't have much dance experience, and if they want to do some of the more difficult dances, they need help, so I'll just make a tutorial myself. ”
During this period, Fang Fang's fans continued to grow, and she also won some small competitions, but it is difficult for her to equate all this with representing China in the 'Olympics'.
In the month since he was notified and the final list was confirmed, Fang Fang did not dare to tell his parents the news, but said: "Mom and Dad, 'Just Dance' has entered the 'Olympics'. ”
Even so, the parents were happy, "Good news, you have been doing this, and entering the 'Olympics' will also help you." ”
Fang Fang and opponent hug.
Stick to the finish
Everything came suddenly, in order to be able to win glory for the country on the stage of e-sports week, Fang Fang had to jump for 3-4 hours every day during the preparation period, and the headphones were always hanging on his head, in order to make himself familiar with the beat of each song in the competition song list, and corresponding to the combing dance movements, and strive to score the ideal score for each song.
If the competition was an unexpected gift for this young man, the subsequent experience was somewhat regrettable.
Because the equipment was disconnected, Fang Fang, who appeared first, was greatly disturbed, resulting in unsatisfactory in-game scores - but at that time she did not choose to interrupt the game, in order to present a relatively complete performance to the audience, Fang Fang insisted on completing the performance.
"I found a problem during the game, but I wanted to finish this performance first, and then see if it was possible to go to the rematch, but there was still no chance of rematch, which is a pity." To this day, you can still hear the unwillingness in Fang Fang's words.
The first Olympic E-sports Week presented many new events for the first time, and Fang Fang regretted the lack of experience in hosting the tournament and insufficient equipment running-in, but she was still grateful for this experience.
"I get to know a lot of players from abroad because there are a lot of similar competitions overseas and they are very familiar with each other. I'm a new person, and they've been with me, making me feel like I'm one of them, which is quite heartwarming. ”
The contestants take a group photo together.
Bringing the Olympics closer to ordinary people
While making friends with overseas players, Fang Fang also found that some overseas players already have a huge influence, with hundreds of thousands or even millions of fans on social media, which made Fang Fang feel that the path he insisted on taking was right.
She told The Paper, "When I played "Just Dance", I really didn't expect to come to this step, it took me step by step to the 'Olympics', and I also have a new goal in the future, that is, Olympic champion."
Only 3 years since he came into contact with Just Dance in 2020, Fang Fang has completed the transformation from an ordinary player to an Olympic Esports Week Chinese participant - it has been proved that e-sports has given more ordinary people the opportunity to enter the "Olympics" and narrowed the distance between the public and the "Olympics".
With more than 110 players from 64 countries and regions participating in the Olympic Esports Series and more than 20,000 tickets sold on-site, it's hard not to look forward to the future between esports and the Olympics.