Upstream News Chongqing Evening News reporter Zhao Yingji text/photo
Tomorrow (January 1) is the first day of the new year, Chongqing e-sports fans will usher in a good news: the hot pot hero CS GO tournament will start at the Bishan Art Center, Tyloo, IG and other 8 domestic top teams will be on January 1-3 to catch each other, offering one wonderful match after another.
On the afternoon of the 30th, the upstream news chongqing evening news reporter went to the scene of the competition in advance and conducted an exclusive interview with Alex (Bian Zhengwei), the first chinese CS and CS world champion who served as the commentator of the competition, discussing the recent hot topics in the e-sports circle and the development prospects of Chongqing e-sports.
Alex is interviewed
Back to a professional esports club
Although Alex is an authentic Chongqing cub, he has been developing in Shanghai and Suzhou in recent years, and has very little time to return to Chongqing. Talking about the reason for working outside, Alex said that it is for the convenience of work: "Shanghai is the capital of e-sports in the country, big e-sports clubs and companies are there, I am still doing e-sports related things, Suzhou is very close to Shanghai, so I set my permanent residence in Suzhou." ”
In March last year, when Chongqing hosted the WESG (World Electronic Sports Games) Global Finals, Alex returned to Chongqing as a commentator on the event, when upstream news Chongqing Evening News conducted his first interview, telling his growth story from a Player of chongqing Hongyan Echelon to a professional e-sports player.
Now, more than a year later, Alex's identity has also changed – last August, esports club Estar posted an official Weibo post: Alex will officially join the eStar club as a partner in FPS (shooter) projects.
Talking about his new identity, Alex introduced his recent situation: "Now in addition to doing live broadcast and commentary matches, I am back in the professional esports club and have become the management of the FPS branch of the Eastar club. I also ran an esports training course to share my esports experience with new people. ”
Estar Club official tweet
With the four-fold identity of live broadcast, commentary, executive, and lecturer, how to allocate time? Alex admits that club management is now his main business: "Now my main energy is on club management, because I used to be a professional player and know the psychology of players, so I will be more humane management, help these young people grow up quickly, and avoid taking the detours I have taken before." ”
What is humanized management? Alex gives an example: "For example, after training, the player needs to collect the computer desk by himself. I can't simply and rudely ask them to do this, because the imperative tone is easy to be offensive, and I need to tell them why they are doing it? Because this is a kind of etiquette that can reflect the quality of professional e-sports players. After I say this, they will take the initiative to collect the table, which is a good transmission. ”
There is a big gap in the new profession of esports
In April last year, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security issued a public announcement: e-sports operators and e-sports players have become new professions. Subsequently, in November this year, entrusted by the Vocational Skills Appraisal Center of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Chinese Cultural Management Association held the final review meeting of the national occupational skill standards for "e-sports players", which defined the new profession of e-sports players.
In Alex's view, these are the advances of the times: "ESports operators and e-sports players are good career choices. When I played e-sports, there was no profession of e-sports players, and the game was more than 10 computers, and the scene was introduced, and the light on the stage was over. Now there are video introductions for professional e-sports players before they play, makeup artists to take care of their styling, and a dedicated publicity team to promote packaging. The broadcast of the event is also a professional device, with professionals switching OB (viewing angle). Club operations also need to have professionals who understand Weibo and short video production, so at present, there is a large talent gap in e-sports-related professions. ”
Tang Li, director of operations of Zhaoxin Huoquan, who jointly opened an e-sports major (e-sports sports and management) with Chongqing Transportation Vocational College, revealed in June last year: "At present, there is a shortage of 260,000 e-sports talents, and it is expected that the gap will reach 570,000 by 2020." The direction of talent shortage is mainly event operation, e-sports industry companies, event commentary, live broadcast platforms, e-sports physical venues and professional clubs. Taking our company as an example, I now open a salary of 8,000 yuan / month, and I can't recruit a qualified event operator in Chongqing, so I can only introduce it from the north, Shanghai and Guangzhou. ”
The Hotpot Heroes CS GO Tournament is about to take place
Professional esports needs talent support
In December this year, the Olympic Council of Asia announced that e-sports was approved to be included in the official competition of the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games, which triggered a heated discussion in the e-sports circle, and Alex believes that this matter is very important: "This is a signal that the international community recognizes e-sports as a sport, which also means that e-sports has been fought for so many years and has finally been recognized by the international official sports organization." ”
After e-sports become an official competition item of the Asian Games, e-sports can also form a national team to participate in the Asian Games to win glory for the country like traditional sports such as football, basketball, table tennis, badminton, and diving.
As a result, many young people do not study seriously on the grounds that playing e-sports can win glory for the country. Alex believes that this situation is not advisable: "E-sports, as an emerging sports project, is the use of PC, mobile phone side for confrontation, compared with traditional sports, only the venue, equipment is different, its essence is the same, all require good talent and hard training." Only those who have talent + hard work + luck can succeed. Young people can't use esports as a shield, they have to have their own goals. At the very least, it is 1-2 years to enter the professional threshold. ”
The golden age of eSports is 16-25 years old, which happens to be the golden age of study, how to choose between academics and esports? Alex as a person who came over put forward a piece of advice: "At that time, I was because I liked to play football and dreamed of entering the national team, so I entered the professional team in junior high school, and my studies were delayed. Recently, many parents and friends are asking me, what should I do if my children play games and do not go to class? I would like to say that e-sports can play a professional role in the top of the pyramid are a few people, if you spend half a year seriously playing the game, and finally still not being discovered by professional clubs, it basically means that you have no talent, can not eat the bowl of professional e-sports. At this time, you have to go back to school to study seriously and listen to the arrangements of teachers and parents. ”
How to determine whether a person has esports talent? Alex introduced: "There are many projects in eSports, CS, League of Legends, Glory of Kings, etc. are team projects, and StarCraft, Warcraft, etc. are individual projects. As far as CS I have worked in, the most important talent is the ability to aim, you suddenly appear in front of an enemy, both of you shoot at the same time, if you can use your own rapid reaction most of the time, the first time, aim to kill the opponent, then it means that you have the talent to aim. On the contrary, the aiming ability is not innate, even if it is hard to practice in the later stage, it is difficult to reach the professional level. ”
High-level events help Chongqing e-sports
Chongqing is a hot land of e-sports, giving birth to Warcraft world runner-up CQ2000 (Guo Bin), StarCraft world runner-up PJ (Sha Junchun), Warcraft world champion TED (Zeng Zhuo), CS world champion Alex, pro evolution soccer world champion Qin Yuanda and other e-sports masters, and also wrote the miracle of Wings Club becoming the DOTA2 world champion and winning $9.139 million in prize money.
Therefore, in recent years, WESG Global Finals, DOTA2 Special Championship (Major), League of Legends Demacia Cup, KPL (Glory of the King Professional League) Autumn Finals and other large-scale events have been held in Chongqing continuously, as well as well-known e-sports clubs such as QGhapyy settled in Chongqing, Alex admitted that these measures made him feel very pleased: "In the past, Chongqing players wanted to have a good development, they could only go to other places, and now the local e-sports atmosphere in Chongqing is good. Chongqing's young players will certainly have more and more opportunities. If there is a suitable opportunity, I am personally willing to return to Chongqing to help e-sports. ”
The Hotpot Hero CS GO Tournament held in Bishan is a new IP for Chongqing e-sports jointly created by Alex and his friend Peter. According to Peter, "This is the competition that I chatted with Alex, this year we just suspended the WESG, we want to try to make a CS GO game to fill the gap, after all, the current CS GO attention is very high." The reason why it is called hot pot master is because hot pot is one of the symbols of Chongqing, and e-sports masters are masters, and we hope to attract well-known teams from all over the country through this competition. ”
In the end, 8 teams, including Tyloo, the first team of CS GO in China, were invited to Bishan. How can a new tournament attract the nation's top teams? Alex said with a smile: "These teams came to Chongqing, on the one hand, out of trust in me and Peter, after all, I have been doing commentary before, weSG's CS GO competition is hosted by Peter; on the other hand, Chongqing is a popular tourist city in China, they also want to go to Chongqing in the New Year, but also to see the beauty of Chongqing, taste the food of Chongqing, can be described as killing two birds with one stone." ”
When it comes to the future of Chongqing e-sports, Alex himself is also very much looking forward to: "The replacement of e-sports is very fast, I played professional era (early 21st century) Beijing is the center of national e-sports; later, with Shanghai gathering more than 70% of professional clubs and broadcasting companies, Shanghai is now the capital of e-sports." Now that there are more and more high-level e-sports competitions in Chongqing, it will definitely promote the development of the local e-sports industry, and I hope that Chongqing e-sports will become the 'bellwether' in the southwest region." ”