After a month and 43 fierce battles, the 2020 FIFA Online4 Changchun Yatai E-sports Cloud Invitational Tournament came to an end, and Manchester City e-sports reversed Luneng SC to win the championship. As the first national e-sports competition held in the history of Changchun Yatai Football Club, 18 e-sports teams from professional teams, Chinese Super League club teams and civilian teams were invited to participate, plus the host Changchun Yatai E-sports, 19 teams created a new high with the largest number of FIFA online competition teams, attracting an average of 26,000 spectators on the day of the match, and the total number of spectators in 14 matches reached 364,000, of which the number of spectators in the final battle reached 38,000.
Affected by the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, sports activities in 2020 will shift from offline to online. Changchun Yatai Football Club conformed to the situation and moved the e-sports competition held offline to the online, that is, invited 18 e-sports teams such as FSL professional league teams, Chinese Super League club teams and top civilian teams to participate in the 2020 FIFA Online4 Changchun Yatai E-sports Cloud Invitational Tournament. Among them, the 6 FSL professional league teams participating in the competition are all teams representing China in the FIFA Asian Cup in 2019 and 2020, and their participation makes the level of competition reach the top in Asia, showing the influence of Changchun Yatai E-sports.
Changchun Yatai team competed in the 2019 FIFA ONLINE4 International Grand Prix
The tournament is the first event hosted by a Chinese professional football club and co-organized by Tencent E-sports and Penguin E-sports. As Tencent's official live broadcast platform, Penguin E-sports, which focuses on live sports competition, has given strong support to the channel publicity and event rewards of this competition, so that the event has brought a large number of active fans to the FIFA section of Penguin E-sports and achieved mutual win-win. It is worth mentioning that Penguin E-sports has carried out the construction of a special area for this event, the event anchor is at the top, the event schedule is updated, more than 10 event ports are set up to facilitate fans to enter and watch, and 10,000 Q coins of bonus sponsorship is provided for the event.
Changchun Yatai team reached the final of the 2019 FIFA ONLINE4 International Grand Prix
The tournament has a total of 14 match days, mainly using three weeks of weekends to compete. According to the data given by Penguin E-sports, the average number of spectators per day of this event is 26,000, and the total number of spectators is 364,000, of which the number of decisive battles has reached 38,000. In addition, the e-sports competition sponsored by the club has also received the attention of many mainstream media such as Xinhua News Agency, China News Agency, China Jilin Net, Sina Sports, Tencent Sports and so on. The official micro of the participating teams interacted with the competition, such as Changchun Yatai official micro and Manchester City e-sports, Wolves e-sports, Hong Kong NOVA e-sports and other official micro "patted" each other.
Changchun Yatai E-sports Team was founded in October 2017, and in less than a month after the team was formed, it participated in the first S2 season of the China Football E-sports League and won the sixth place. In 2018, they finished second in the S3 season of the Chinese Super League Esports League (CEFL) that year. In November of the following year, they made their first career in esports, reaching the quarter-finals of the 2019 FCC Pro Champions Cup. A month later, the Changchun Yatai Esports team went out again to win the runner-up of the 2019 FIFA Online4 International Grand Prix.
As a professional football club, Changchun Yatai should not only compete in professional leagues and contribute to the development of Chinese football, but also promote and promote the development of China's e-sports industry. In the past three years, Changchun Yatai E-sports has cultivated a number of outstanding professional players, such as Yao Yaxun, the captain of the professional team Manchester City E-sports, Geng Liang, the captain of the Newbee team, and Luan Pu and Lu Ying, the main players of the Wolves Weibo, all from Changchun Yatai E-sports. They not only performed well in the domestic arena, but also participated in the FIFA Asian Cup for China many times.