Chapter 159 Reflections on the Challenge

On August 20, the top four of the C City Challenge will be held on the same day as the final. The schedule is the individual top four in the morning, the team top four in the afternoon, and the championship of individual and team matches in the evening*.

Due to the continuous topic of the early stage of this challenge, it completely detonated the enthusiasm of WarGame players. In addition, this day happened to be a Saturday holiday, and the number of people who came to watch the game hit a new high. About 80,000 spectators went to the New World Convention and Exhibition Center to watch the competition.

Unfortunately, the New World Convention and Exhibition Center has a limited area and can only accommodate 30,000 people at the same time. The other 50,000 people have to watch the game on a large screen in the square outside the main venue in the summer sun.

In the morning's personal top four, the first game was between Ma Kang and the Bloody Sword.

This bloody prison knife seemed to work hard and played very well. It even forced Ma Kang into a desperate situation, while Ma Kang's attack was particularly weak in front of the pure "eps eps walk" of the bloody prison knife. Especially in the midfield, Ma Kang gave up the game because of passivity and suffered heavy losses one after another. Fortunately, he He is well equipped, and a protective gear with an OP value of up to 9200 points has reduced a lot of damage for him, otherwise he may be defeated early in the morning.

Just when all the audience thought that the blood prison knife would win, Ma Kang used a gap in the left half of his body when the blood prison knife was shot, and used a move to "cut" it into a short stiffness. After that, Ma Kang showed the quality that a professional player should have, calm, calm, and never gave up. .

In just 20 seconds, Ma Kang showed everyone a perfect set of combo, directly hitting the OP value of the blood prison knife to zero. Although he tried to escape with "episode steps" during the bloody prison knife, Ma Kang's continuous moves were linked. His "episode steps" would be interrupted by Ma Kang as soon as he had a starting action, and there was no chance to use them all.

In the end, Ma Kang successfully reversed and directly killed the 4,000 OP value of the Blood Prison Knife with the remaining OP value of less than 2000 and successfully entered the final.

After the last "two-step duel" with Ren Jingcheng and this battle with Yumakang, the bloody prison knife finally understood that the "epsis step" does not mean that you are qualified to become a professional player. "epsis step" is just a senior team skill. In fact, it is not necessarily rare. Where are you better than other skills?

Back to the player's seat, the bloody prison knife took out Sheng Langyuan's business card from his pocket and wondered if he should go another way...

The second game of the top four competition was played by Fire Machine VS Sheng Langyuan.

The two people with old grudges did not show mercy in this game, and both came up with the same level as the professional players. The intensity of the battle made the surrounding audience feel breathless.

In this game, the fire machine completely forgot his injury. He just wanted to defeat this opponent who had brought him infinite regret for several years, and Sheng Langyuan also seemed to return to the night three years ago. The two fought for their lives like ancient warriors on an abandoned construction site. Kill.

How wonderful such a game is is beyond words. Maybe a series of data can help us make it clear.

In the post-match interview, 93 percent of the audience thought that this battle was the most fierce battle they had ever seen, which made them really feel like they were on the battlefield.

87 percent of the people think that the game has been more exciting than any of the challenge, including the championship game, while the other 12 percent of the audience think that the best is that it should be the scene where Ren Jingcheng won the bloody prison knife with zero injury, and only 1% think the championship game is wonderful.

After that, on the Internet, the click rate of this game exceeded 400,000 times in an hour. Even many professional WarGame forums and websites put the video of the battle at the top post or homepage. In just 12 hours, the number of people watching this video has exceeded 1,500. One million, this number has accounted for half of the total number of domestic players, and it is absolutely a miracle that an amateur game can get such attention.

This is not over. The number of video viewers can only explain the popularity of the game from the side, and cannot directly judge how popular the game is. Video downloads are a real and reliable basis. Taking one day as an example, the final number of downloads is 9.6 million, while amateur competition videos The average number of downloads is 200,000.

9.6 million VS 200,000, a gap of 48 times can fully illustrate the problem.

The game was finally won by the fire machine, and at least five million players in the country remembered the game ID of the fire machine, an amateur player stronger than a professional player.

And if they know that the fire machine is playing such a wonderful game with a recurrence of old injuries and poor legs and feet, I don't know how people will react, I'm afraid a storm called "Fire Machine" will sweep the whole domestic game industry.

Unfortunately, there will never be an answer to this question, because the fire machine boarded the plane to the United States after hurriedly ending the championship battle with Ma Kang that night.

As for the champion of the individual competition, Ma Kang won, but most people think that Ma Kang's championship is really worthy of debate. First of all, putting aside his identity as a former professional player, the fire engine is obviously not in a state in this game. The whole game is plausible, the attack is weak, and the defense is full of loopholes, although with Ma Kang struggled for nearly 40 minutes to end the game, but everyone could see that there must be something wrong with the fire engine.

With Ma Kang winning the C City Challenge, another topic has also become popular, that is, whether it is appropriate for retired professional players to participate in amateur competitions.

This topic was put forward by Tao Na in the current Evening News. Her argument is that the Brilliant Cup Challenge has always been regarded as a supplement to the rookie competition and another breakthrough for professional teams to select talents. It is known as the "Rookie competition outside the rookie competition". Now some retired professional players have caused some weight in it. Isn't it inappropriate for an amateur player to win the attention he should win when he can't go to the national competition?

This argument is actually very untenable, because the Brilliant Cup does not stipulate that professional players are not allowed to participate. In the early Brilliant Cup, many professional clubs let their teams participate in order to train soldiers. It was only later that with the continuous expansion of the professional circle, friendly matches gradually replaced this model, and brilliant The cup has also gradually transformed into an amateur event.

But another fact that can't be ignored is that more and more retired professional players come to participate in the Brilliant Cup. With their old strength and experience, they have blocked many talented children at the gate of the national competition, making them unable to compete in the national competition. Show yourself and lose the opportunity to enter the professional circle.

As a supplementary event of the rookie competition, this is indeed contrary to its purpose. After all, retired professional players can no longer join the professional club in any case. The purpose of their participation in the Brilliant Cup Challenge is the 500,000 championship prize and 300,000 runner-up prize. Since the simple purpose is just money, there is nothing Can you give the opportunity to those children who are expected to join professional clubs? Isn't the annual salary of millions of them enough when they are professional?

Taona's article is only a few hundred words, but every fact proposed in the article cannot be refuted and absolutely fascinating, but this article really attracts attention in the interview after the professional league three days later.

The interviewee was Li Xiao. His successor, Jiantiancheng Club, has been kept secret after retirement, and is also the focus of media attention. That night, this topic was still very hot, but under the guidance of Li Xiao's Taiji promoter, the direction of the problem somehow shifted to the problem of league rookies.

After someone said that the talents in the league are withered, the professional circle is mixed, and there are not many rookies who can really handle it, Li Xiao took out Tao Na's article to talk about it. It was originally just an ordinary interview, but finally triggered a deep reflection.

Under the double push of traditional media and online media, a question has been pushed to all WarGame professionals: are there not many excellent newcomers, or have we given them the opportunity they deserve?

Everyone can't help wondering why it is more and more difficult to find potential newcomers now, and many newcomers would rather give up the opportunity to enter the professional circle and embark on the single-plank bridge of the college entrance examination. Is it just because of the negative effects brought by the highly commercial professional league?

In fact, it's not necessarily possible. The imperfect draft mechanism is also a big problem. There are undoubtedly four ways to become a professional player now. The first is to participate in the rookie competition, the second is to enter the rookie training center of the professional club, the third is to wait for the rookie scouts of the professional club to explore, and the fourth is to participate in the Brilliant Cup Challenge and play Enter the national competition.

The rookie competition is undoubtedly the best place to produce high-quality newcomers, but the rookie competition is held every two years, and the quota is limited to only 100 people. In order to win the reputation of its training center, the professional club has divided the quota early, and there is no chance for non-governmental players to sign up.

It looks beautiful to enter the newcomer training center, but the state stipulates that such training centers can only be open during winter and summer vacations and holidays, and full-time is not allowed. WarGame is a game that requires a lot of time to practice and standardize training. It is undoubtedly a fool's dream to cultivate a surprising rookie with just this little time.

As for relying on rookie detectives, it is even more unreliable. They are subordinate to clubs and have a limited range of areas where they can operate. It is difficult to cross provinces and cities, and how big is a province and a city? The rookie is not a bamboo shoot and grows once a year, so it is difficult to find a suitable one.