Chapter 851 (1/2)
September is a delicate season.
She is like a graceful girl, who is about to change into a dress called autumn. The afterglow of summer is the last light yarn on her waist, and the pressure of school opening and the haze of quarterly report are like a pair of safety pants under the light yarn.
Well, let's get back to business
This September of 2055 is undoubtedly a thriller park. After the preliminaries of S2, dream company launched a set of corresponding publicity plans, which made the competition hot. In just a few days, all kinds of news related to it spread on all the media, even many mainstream media that are dismissive of the game industry have made reports on it, and its social attention can be said to be the same for a while.
In the game circle, this game has become the most eye-catching focus campaign in recent years.
The time point of five months of service opening, the form of team warfare, and the ranking method of point system It's not hard to see that the preliminaries system has some implicit meaning of ”testing the quality of the studio”.
If the final ranking of S1 is not convincing due to too many unpredictable factors in the final, S2 At least in the preliminaries, teams have no excuses to look for.
In fact, most of the studios have reached a consensus that the result of the preliminary competition of S2 may determine the real strength ranking of each studio in the minds of the majority of players.
Therefore, for those well-known game studios, from the moment of 0:00 on September 5, a dark war of 50 days has already begun..
Every day, the points they published on their official website are the important cornerstone of victory.
For the professional players who are regarded as ”stars”, it is also a long-lasting trial.
The result of each round of competition, the process of each group battle, and even every point of survival lost in each duel All of them may have an impact on the team's preliminary ranking.
From the perspective of leisure teams, 36 games are only 36 wins and losses. In theory, 108 points is the best result.
But from a professional point of view 108 points that's just ”qualified”. ”Total victory” is a must. As a team that wants to win the championship, it didn't even win in the preliminaries, so what confidence do you have to win all the way in the knockout?
On the basis of total victory, they should try their best to ensure that every game wins with the least cost and the most efficient way Only the team that can achieve the ultimate in this can be on the top of the preliminary table.
In short, the team that pursues the ranking in the preliminary competition must be taken seriously in each and every moment of the 36 valid points competitions. It is impossible for them to fight with the attitude of ”just win in the end anyway” like leisure players. They are doomed to pay more than ordinary players, because This is called ”career”.
”Play games with pay.”. It's never easy to read; to be fair, it's more stressful than doing something else with a salary. Despite the progress of the times, the stereotypes in people's minds still exist No one will say that football players are ”playing football with salary” or that swimmers are ”playing water with salary”, but ”professional players” are always judged by people wearing colorful glasses.
In fact, there is no essential difference between professional players and professional athletes. They also need talent, effort and a little bit of luck. They also have experience, technology, pressure resistance and professional quality. The biggest difference between them is that one side uses physical instruments or venues as competitive tools. On the other hand, the virtual electronic program is used as the competition carrier. Just because the entertainment tendency of the latter carrier is greater than the exercise tendency of participants or brains, it is obviously unfair to look at its practitioners differently.
This time, dream company paid attention to this when it publicized the peak competition S2 to the general public outside the game circle. One of their advertising words is ”don't understand why someone can support themselves by playing games? Then let's see what they can do. ”
Such slogans come out. Not to mention the players who have dabbled in the game, even those who know nothing about the game industry or have never been in contact with the thriller park are interested in this ”peak hegemony”.
And all this It's all the foreshadowing made by dream company for the ”live broadcast” in the second half of the preliminaries.
By late September, when this ”only hears its news. After the hunger marketing aroused people's curiosity, dream company released a message - ”three days later, open bidding for the second half of the preliminaries.”
This one. Not only did they recoup all the previous publicity costs, but they also made a lot of money
Of course, these are all afterwords. At least before September 20, no one knew that the late preliminaries would be broadcast live. At present, most players focus on how to play their own game.
Few people have noticed At the beginning of this 50 day preliminaries period, the prelude to the twilight of the gods The truth has been revealed quietly.