Just a few minutes after the start of the broadcast, the real-time audience in Gao Yuan's Douyin live broadcast room quickly exceeded 20,000 people, which was the final final of the autumn season of the JJ Dou Landlord Champions Cup S3 season, and it was also the fourth day of Gao Yuan's continuous live broadcast commentary.
For the vast majority of Landlord Players, Gao Yuan's voice has long been firmly locked in with The Landlord in the past few years.
Text/ Song Xinyu
On October 29th, after three months of competition, the final of the 13th JJ Landlord Champions Cup S3 Autumn Tournament hosted by Athletic World finally came to an end. The two teams of the most popular Hunan celebrities and the Guangdong N5 Elite Association once again staged the Battle of Huguang, known as the "Spring Festival Gala of the Landlords", in the final showdown in Beijing.
In the end, Hunan Minghui defeated the Guangdong N5 Elite Club with a score of 4:2 and successfully won the S3 Autumn Championship, while the Guangdong N5 Elite Club could only helplessly relegate to the second place once again after the spring final.
For the majority of landlord fans, the "Battle of the Four Emperors" of the final championship of this autumn tournament has drawn a successful end to this season. For Gao Yuan, who sat in the commentary seat and ended the live broadcast commentary for 4 consecutive days and up to 6 hours a day, this is the 13th year that he and the JJ Dou landlord have gone through together.
In the jianghu of the "Fighting Landlord" enthusiasts, the mention of the name jj Gaoyuan is absolutely thunderous, and the prestige of "high three wheels" and "high long wants" is known to everyone and everyone knows.
From holding the "2014-2017 King of Kings Challenge Champion", "2018 Beijing Card King Championship Champion" and other honors, to embarking on the professional road of Fighting Landlord through TV program commentary, and now becoming a jj Dou Landlord Champions Cup event c-position commentary, the gamer who has a very high discussion in Tianya, Tiger Poker, Zhihu and other forums is now known as "the first person to fight landlords".
But few people know that when he first began to contact the Landlord of Dou, Gao Yuan never imagined that the Landlord of Dou could become his future "main business". "When I first started playing, Fighting Landlord was just a game that belonged to the streets and alleys, and everyone usually entertained." Gao Yuan told us.
Gao Yuan, who has worked as a clerk and sold a house, likes to play games very much outside of work, and can play a game to perfection in a short time. As early as 1998, Gao Yuan was a loyal player in many e-sports games such as Red Alert and CS, and the landlord was only one of Gao Yuan's many leisure methods at that time.
However, with his meticulous analysis of the card game and his extraordinary ability to remember and count cards, Gao Yuan's superb card skills made him quickly stand out among his card friends - "Playing with the people around him can always win, and then I stopped playing for a while, mainly because no one wants to play with me."
In 2007, an online landlord platform called "jj competition" appeared, allowing landlord fans to start "stepping out" of geographical restrictions and fighting online. With the increasing number of players on the "jj competition", in order to meet the needs of players, jj dou landlord officially held the first national dou landlord championship in 2009.
At that time, in order to enhance the fairness and competitiveness of the competition, the jj dou landlord and the social sports management center of the State General Administration of Sports also cooperated in compiling and publishing the first domestic landlord competition rules "China's two dozen and one poker competition rules (trial)", and designed a new rule for the compound bucket landlord team competition. On the one hand, it achieves the "fairness" and "reasonableness" required by the competitive competition, on the other hand, it also establishes a sense of teamwork in the traditional landlord fighting competition, enhances the cooperation between the players, and gives the landlord game a more watchable and competitive feature.
Also in 2009, Gao Yuan, who had dinner with friends, was first pulled to participate in the competition held by the JJ Dou Landlord, and in three consecutive competitions with more than 300 players, Gao Yuan won two championships and one runner-up. The formal competition format, low competition cost, the enthusiasm of the players who exceeded expectations and the sense of achievement after winning made Gao Yuan actively participate in various competitive events held online and offline by JJ Dou landlords. And the outstanding strength and special card path, but also let Gao Yuan slowly began to have a small reputation in the circle.
On the other hand, as the Landlord of Dou continued to penetrate the hearts of the people, JJ Landlord joined hands with various local television stations to launch a series of competition programs with the theme of "Landlord Fighting". The program refers to the traditional sports project to establish a complete set of competition system, the players need to start from the sea selection, through the daily competition - weekly competition - monthly competition layer selection, and finally into the TV competition, the TV competition takes the form of a ring match, by the 4 players with the most successful times to enter the quarterly competition, only those who won the quarterly champion are eligible to enter the finals, and the player with the highest points in the final is the overall champion of the year.
The promotion of television media has made the jj landlord's event appear in the lives of more people, and more and more players and fans have begun to pay attention to the competitive attributes of the landlord as an intellectual sports project. Let players begin to enjoy the joy of competition from the landlords.
In 2014, in the first competition held by Beijing Television, Gao Yuan successfully won the final annual championship. In the following seasons, Gao Yuan continued to use his excellent record to prove his status as the top landlord player in China.
In 2016, the Chess and Card Sports Management Center of the State General Administration of Sport officially announced that "Fighting Landlords" has officially become a sports competition project, and Gao Yuan keenly felt that there must be great prospects for the development of Fighting Landlords in the future.
After that, Gao Yuan ushered in the first transformation of his landlord career, from a gamer to a full-time TV show commentator to accept the invitation of the jj dou landlord, to become a champion cup event live broadcast, and then step by step to stand in the c position, Gao Yuan walked step by step step by step. "Compared to the contestants, the commentary is also quite challenging, because there was no reference standard in the industry before, but as a popular entertainment project, the landlord also needs a commentator."
Based on this understanding, Gao Yuan began to focus on the study of commentary, constantly broadening the boundaries of his own ability, and committed to enabling beginners to have a clearer understanding of the landlord and the game, so that more fans can re-examine and understand the landlord game, and began to think about the special charm of this project as an intellectual e-sports.
"In the beginning, the goal was very simple, that is, to understand the user's interest preferences through live broadcasting, so as to improve their interpretation ability." In order to achieve this goal, Gao Yuan will try to seize any possible opportunity to explain. "By around 2017, there were more than 3,000 games being explained, and basically every day was being explained at that time." He said so.
In 2018, at the official invitation of JJ Dou Landlord, Gao Yuan officially became the c-bit commentator of the JJ Dou Landlord Champions Cup event. "TV commentary is a recorded format that can be edited and post-processed, but jj event commentary is a live broadcast form, which is also a challenge for me, and I also want to verify the previous live broadcast results." 」
After the transformation to full e-sports began in 2018, the new JJ Dou Landlord Champions Cup has gradually grown into a pioneer and game breaker in the field of Dou Landlord project segment. The introduction of the electronic competition system of e-sports, and the use of bridge to further refine the compound team competition mode, this series of measures has greatly improved the ornamentation and fairness of the JJ dou landlord competition, quickly brought together a large number of dou landlord users across the country, so that many viewers who originally only watched the live broadcast of the event are also willing to go offline and become the team members of the positive pk on the field.
It is also in this edition of the event in 2018 that jj dou landlord used the event slogan of "gathering the world's masters" for the first time, so that the concept of the public chess and card competition of the dou landlord further penetrated into the hearts of every participant and viewer.
After entering 2021, JJ Dou Landlord further upgraded the content of the event, and the total prize money for the entire S3 season was as high as 9 million - more than the sum of the previous two seasons. Let the fans of the landlord of all ages and genders find their own positioning and sense of belonging in the competition system of the jj landlord.
At the same time, the All-Star Season section has also joined this S3 season. In the past eleven years, a group of star players, anchors and commentators have been trained through the competition system of JJ Dou Landlord. At the North Film Festival, there were also stars and professional players who carried out cross-border duels for landlord fans. The JJ Dou Landlord official also began to build a personal IP of the team, players, and anchors around the event system, and built a "JJ Dou Landlord Universe".
It is understood that Gao Yuan participated in this year's organizer Athletic World filmed a series of documentaries explaining the true story behind the event brand, this documentary from the perspective of the contestants involved in the event, the staff behind the scenes, and the anchors who are closely related to the landlord, so that the audience can not only see the wins and losses in the landlord e-sports competition, but also see more real stories in front of and behind the scenes, and understand the jianghu exclusive to the landlord.
With the more perfect event system and more diversified event composition, the jj dou landlord e-sports competition throughout the year has not only become a stage for professional players to reach the peak, but also a national event for all enthusiasts to have the opportunity to participate.
Gao Yuan also believes that the landlords who have been fighting now are no longer a niche carnival: "From the earliest offline competitions, to the TV card king tournament with 26 TV stations, and then to the current JJ Fighting Landlords Champions Cup." In 2017, the TV station competition ratings of JJ Dou landlords were already able to 'break 4' in Beijing, and now the precipitation of JJ Dou landlords is far more than just a year or two."
When it comes to the future of the landlord project, Gao Yuan is also full of confidence: "How far can the landlord go, or whether he can enter the Asian Games and the Olympic Games, I don't know." But I believe that as a board game for the Chinese people, one day the landlord will stand on a higher stage!" 」
Starting from the Qingdao audition on July 12, the more than three months of S3 Autumn Competition ended with flowers and applause. Such a "jj fighting landlord universe" has given back to all lovers in the country with one delicious feast after another. With the evolution and change of the JJ Landlord Champions Cup series of events, now the Dou Landlord E-sports is infiltrating the whole people with culture and ushering in a golden age of its own.