Eggbreaking, an upgraded card game evolved from "running fast" and "eighty points", has quickly completed the "upgrade" in the past two years, jumping from the private card table to the competitive sports arena.
Last weekend, in the hall on the second floor of the Shanghai Chess and Card Sports Management Center, the Shanghai National Poker (Egg) Open Tournament came to an end. This is the first stop of the national competition after egg breaking was listed as a performance event at the Intellectual Games in Hefei, Anhui Province in late October this year.
Why can the egg break be centered in Jiangsu and Anhui in the past two or three years, quickly swept the country, penetrating into different social circles and fields?
In the words of Jin Fangwei, vice president of the Shanghai Leisure Chess and Card Association, "It is not as complex as bridge, but it integrates several card types of gameplay, and it has social attributes." The way of upgrading through teamwork reflects a kind of fun and competition, so it is also in line with the spirit of sportsmanship. ”
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Social attributes highlight the charm of breaking eggs
The first leg of the National Egg Breaking Open Tournament in Shanghai attracted a total of 144 players from 72 teams, including sports bureaus in various districts, industry groups, Shanghai Leisure Chess and Card Association, and qualified players.
According to the surging news reporter, before all the players gathered in the hall on the second floor of the Shanghai Chess and Card Sports Management Center, most of the units that selected and sent the participants held selection competitions - in other words, there were actually a lot of egg breakers who hoped to participate in the final competition.
"I think the places given to us this time are a bit small, and we still have a lot of players who play well, so in the end we can only choose the best of the best." Tan Jiemin, head of the secretariat of the Shanghai Anhui Chamber of Commerce, told The Paper that this time they sent a "huge" delegation of 4 pairs of men's doubles and 2 pairs of mixed doubles, and finally won the championship and runner-up in the men's doubles event.
"In any previous event, if you want these presidents to participate, they will never be able to arrive on time from 8 a.m. and stick to the end until the end, only the egg breaking competition can keep them on their feet."
Why is egg breaking, a card game that has just become an intellectual sport, so attractive?
"Compared with the landlord, the teamwork spirit of the egg breaking is more prominent; Compared with Shanghai's traditional card game Big Wei Road, his rules and difficulty are lower, and the number of people only needs 4 people, which is better organized. ”
In the view of Vice President Jin Fangwei, egg breaking can break the age limit of card sports, and is unanimously loved from "post-00s" to "post-50s", thanks to the comprehensive superposition of a variety of factors, "The threshold for breaking eggs is actually not low, but it is interesting, so the audience is relatively large." ”
In fact, according to incomplete statistics, more than 20 million people in Jiangsu and Anhui regularly participate in egg hunting. And when Tan Jiemin said why egg breaking can become popular in the financial world or the circle of company bosses, she said the popular saying, "If you don't break eggs before meals, it is equivalent to not eating; Not breaking eggs after meals is equivalent to eating for nothing. ”
In her opinion, the social nature of egg breaking is also an important reason why this sport can surpass other card sports in just two or three years, "This activity is easy to promote friendship between members of the Chamber of Commerce, and can also deepen their communication, helping the Chamber of Commerce to produce an internal cycle in its usual work and life." ”
Vice Chairman Jin Fangwei also agreed with this view, "It is because it also has social attributes, making it very sticky, and competitive and interesting, I think it may even exceed the number of people who fight landlords in the future." ”
From the folk card game to the arena, the egg is ready
Not to mention whether Egg Breaking can have more participants than Dou Landlord in the future, at least from its current development path, Egg Breaking has achieved an "upgrade" that many other card games cannot reach.
At the 5th National Mind Games held in October this year, breaking cards (eggs) was listed as a performance event of the Mind Games, and entered the finals of the National Chess and Card Network Competition along with traditional sports such as chess, bridge, and backgammon.
Prior to this, the Chess and Card Sports Management Center of the State General Administration of Sports decided to standardize and guide the project under the name of "Competitive Egg Breaking" in accordance with the goal of eventually becoming an official sports project.
National referee training course.
From organizing and formulating the Rules of the Competitive Egg Breaking Competition (Trial), to holding a national referee training course, to planning and holding a national open tournament, the relevant departments have taken multiple measures to lay a solid foundation for the promotion of egg breaking sports, and also ushered in a rare development opportunity for egg breaking sports.
In fact, just one day before the Shanghai National Poker Open Tournament, the organizing committee also organized the 2023 Shanghai Poker Referee Training Course at the Shanghai Chess and Card Sports Management Center, and more than 100 students participated in this training and obtained the referee certificate through the examination.
The top three in the men's doubles, women's doubles and mixed doubles categories of this competition will also enter the training list for the finals of the National Poker Open Championship sponsored by the Chess and Card Sports Management Center of the General Administration of Sport of the People's Republic of China and the Shanghai Athlete Selection Tournament of the Fifth National Mind Games.
Lin Yiwen (fourth from left).
"I really didn't expect that we would also be able to participate in the intellectual games, and we would try to adjust the time and complete the intensive training." Lin Yiwen, who won the mixed doubles event of this competition, told The Paper that he and his partner Xia Ying have been fighting eggs for more than a year.
And from the previous landlord to the big strange road, in the end, because of the egg breaking also has the opportunity to become a chess and card sports athlete, "The rules formulated by the General Administration of Sports are more similar to our previous rules, so it is faster to get started, and I hope that this training can also have more gains." ”
However, there are still many things that need to be improved in the sport of egg breaking - from the perspective of competitiveness, how to optimize the rules and reduce the luck component is still an important issue; From the perspective of cultural accumulation, in addition to the excitement of commercial marketing and mass entertainment, there is still a lack of research and summary of egg breaking; From the perspective of development prospects, the construction of events, talents, rules and other aspects still needs to be strengthened.
"The egg breaking card has its own character, it also has its own character, and it also has the basis to become an intellectual sport." In the view of Vice Chairman Jin Fangwei, the egg breaking is developing in a good direction.
"When the fun is there, the spirit of cooperation is manifested, and the spirit of sportsmanship can be reflected."