Hua Chenyu debuted on the e-sports professional stage, and the poor data once again caused netizens to question

On July 8, in the summer tournament of the Peace Elite Professional League, the well-known singer Hua Chenyu (ID: Hua Aotian) ushered in his e-sports professional debut, but his performance was relatively poor, which caused many netizens to question. "All rely on teammates as bodyguards", "Not a shot was fired", "There are also staff on the scene in front of him, specially (for shooting) to fill in the light". The Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News reporter noticed that when Hua Chenyu announced that he would become a professional youth player in e-sports on May 30, it had already caused dissatisfaction among many netizens, and even the former Olympic champion accused, "Can you be a professional player if you like to play games?" Is the threshold for professional sports so low? ”

The data is less than a tenth of the teammates

Former Olympic champion criticism: discrediting esports

According to public information, Hua Chenyu's average damage per game was 157.3 after several games, while the other four players in the team were 609.9, 543.2, 510.3, and 427.3 respectively; Hua Chenyu's average knockdown was only 0.17, while the other four players in the team were 1.29, 1.3, 1.06 and 1.02 respectively. Many netizens questioned, "Why should you take the precious time of a professional player to play with him", "How can there be a young person's reaction speed at the age of thirty".

Some time ago, Olympic diving champion He Chong publicly criticized Hua Chenyu for becoming an e-sports player on his personal short video account, saying, "An amateur-level player can become a professional player? This is to smear the entire e-sports," he also said, this behavior is equivalent to telling everyone that the popularity of players is greater than the strength, as long as there is heat, the club's competitive image and player training can give way to traffic.

According to public information, in the summer tournament of the Peace Elite Professional League last year, the average age of participants was 20.1 years old, of which the oldest was 27 years old, the second was 24.5 years old, and the youngest was 18 years old (minors are currently prohibited from participating). In the player poster recently released by Hangzhou LGD, Hua Aotian (Hua Chenyu) is 33 years old this year, and the rest of the contestants range from 18 to 23 years old. Among them, Cheng C (Mi Jiacheng 23 years old) and YZZ (Ye Zhiwei 22 years old) were selected for the peaceful elite Asian Games version of the national training team some time ago. Under normal circumstances, what are the criteria for professional esports clubs to recruit youth teams? Purple Cow News reporters found that in July 2021, LGD Club posted a peaceful elite youth recruitment on social media, which required the age of 15-17 years old, the consent of the guardian, and some in-game data requirements.

It's easy to debut, and it's hard to convince everyone

Don't let competitive sports become traffic puppets

As e-sports moves towards regularity, more and more stars are moving closer to the e-sports industry, and there are many artists who participate in e-sports variety shows or star exhibition competitions, as well as stars who perform for e-sports competitions or invest in e-sports teams and clubs. Although many people have long-term concerns and controversies about celebrity crossovers to e-sports variety shows and e-sports competitions, the overall crossovers are mainly entertainment, and have nothing to do with the sports events themselves, and the audience of e-sports sports events does not care much about whether there will be stars in the entertainment industry to join.

Hua Chenyu has also cooperated with peace elites many times before, but has not seen such fierce controversy, why is it so difficult to convince the public this time? On the one hand, the issue of age. According to public information, Hua Chenyu is 33 years old, which is much higher than the age that an e-sports professional should have; On the other hand, the problem of his own strength, as a singer, he can't really become a "professional" e-sports player, because he still has his own profession, it is difficult to focus on e-sports-related training; Moreover, as He Chong said, why can Hua Chenyu appear on the professional stage? That can only be explained that because of Hua Chenyu's own popularity, the threshold for competitive sports has been greatly reduced.

Fame does not mean achievements, whether it is for stars or clubs, the end of rash cross-line cooperation is likely to become "lose-lose", after all, now e-sports is an official sport, peace elite has also become an official project of the Asian Games, inviting big-name artists to sing a song, or even playing an exhibition match will not cause much controversy, but the meaning of becoming a professional stage is different, the word "professional" means "work as the main source of livelihood", how can it be child's play?

Yangtze Evening News/Purple Cow News Reporter Shen Zhao Jiang Tiansheng

Proofreading by Xu Heng