In the early morning of November 7, as a little white who rarely plays games, I endured the sleepiness and witnessed edg win the championship, if for no other reason, just to feel this rare carnival atmosphere.
At the moment of victory, the young people of the whole country boiled, and this mood was no less than winning the national World Cup.
All kinds of college carnival celebration videos, brushing up the Internet, maybe many older people can't understand this madness.
In fact, understanding esports as football can be well understood. Every time the European Championship and the World Cup start, countless fans will stay up late for it.
In today's world, the influence of e-sports competitions has surpassed the vast majority of traditional competitive sports.
Look at a few sets of data:
League of Legends S11 Finals, more than 200 million people around the world watch online;
The NBA Finals had only 7.45 million viewers worldwide, a record low in 2020;
The Champions League Finals was watched by 56 million viewers worldwide;
The world cup finals have more than 500 million spectators worldwide...
Except for the football World Cup finals, the vast majority of traditional sports competitions have far lower attendance than the League of Legends S11 finals.
I have to sigh that the times are changing too fast!
In fact, if you think about it, is there any essential difference between watching others play football and watching others play games?
If, you can understand, hundreds of millions of people don't sleep at night, and watching in front of the TV set are running wild on a grassy field, just to kick a ball into the opponent's goal. So why can't we understand that hundreds of millions of people watch more beautiful pictures through electronic devices, and teams cooperate with more complex e-sports competitions?
From the past football basketball, Go chess, to the current video games, essentially a game, with the continuous progress of science and technology, the variety of games and the way of presentation have become more and more novel and diverse.
At present, the major technology giants have begun to lay out the metaverse, and the world of Ready Player One is slowly coming like us.