Super Tycoon

A few days later, Zhang Yang flew to the United States, where a grand event for gamers from all over the world was going to be held.

In the previous life, this grand event was organized by South Korea, but in this life, Zhang Yang felt that he organized it better, because most of the popular competitive games at this time were produced by his company.

Such as Counter-Strike, Quake, StarCraft and so on. Of course, this World Electronic Sports Competition (WCG) will not only choose these three games, but also Age of Empires, Unreal Tournament, FIFA2000, KOF3D and Warcraft 2.

There are a total of eight games, all of which are computer games. The participating teams come from 40 countries and regions around the world, including 500 contestants.

Considering the season, a stadium in Miami was chosen as the venue for the competition. After a simple layout, it became eight competition areas.

This WCG is much more popular than the first WCG in the previous life. Not only are there more participating countries and people, but also there are more types of games, and there is also a title sponsor.

The full name of the competition is Zhiduoxing World Electronic Sports Competition.

All competition expenses are sponsored by Zhiduoxing Group, and include prizes and bonuses for the first, second and third place.

The prize money for the champion team is US$300,000, the runner-up is 200,000, and the third is 100,000, as well as trophies and souvenirs. Other contestants can only get some consolation prizes.

The rewards for the first, second and third places alone reached five million US dollars. The total cost of the Zhiduoxing Group's sponsorship of this event is tens of millions of dollars, including venue rental, layout, purchase of competition computers, provision of competition and related personnel board and lodging, etc.

The two surrounding hotels were taken over as a whole, and Zhiduoxing Group also contacted many game-related media, and sold the broadcasting rights, although it was almost free.

The main reason is that this competition is only the first, and there was not much publicity before, and not many people are willing to watch the game competition. The game tickets are not for sale, but for the purchase of Zhiduoxing products.

Because the game tickets can't be sold at all, no one is willing to buy them for ten dollars, and it's meaningless to make them cheaper, so it's better not to charge them first.

The entire competition lasted for a month, with one type of game event every day, and finally the champion, runner-up and third place were determined. The reason why Zhang Yang will come later is because he wants to present awards to the champion team or individual.

Three days before the start of the competition, contestants from all over the world arrived here. They all wore clothing with the name of the team printed on it, and even some clothing had a list of sponsors.

One of the teams, wearing uniforms with the logo of Zhi Duo Xing, attracted the most attention, because everyone found out that they were the same as the title sponsors.

Many people who came to participate in the competition felt that they were very strong and had a very good record on Battle.net. They hoped to win the championship and take away a large sum of money.

But if you meet a team that the organizer wants to recommend, can you still win? The referees are all their own people.

A South Korean interstellar team gathered together, and they all looked at their captain. If we win a representative team sponsored by Zhi Duoxing, should we just give up?

The captain held his head up: "What are you afraid of? We are representatives of Daehan. Interstellar is the most popular among us. We are also the strongest team in the country, so naturally we are the strongest team in the world!"

"The champion this time can only belong to our team. If Zhi Duoxing has a shady side, we will protest. And you also know what the game environment in Huaxia is. How can they have professional contestants?"

"Except for the American Blizzard team, don't care about others!"

Only then did a few team members realize, why is there still a Blizzard team? Isn't Blizzard the developer of StarCraft? The team they sponsor, shouldn't it be the team of developers? Did they know some hidden tricks and bugs, can they really win?

In fact, when preparing for the competition, Allen of Blizzard asked Zhang Yang if it was not good for Blizzard to sponsor the American team, after all, they are developers.

If you win, others may not be convinced, if you lose,

It's even more embarrassing.

Isn't it a joke that a game developed by oneself can't be played by others?

Which Zhang told him, it doesn't matter, this is a publicity channel. You arrange training for those people in advance, let them work hard to improve their operational awareness, teamwork, etc., and strive to break into the finals during the competition.

As for whether you can win the championship in the end, don't worry about it. In many sports events, the country that invented this sport can't win medals, such as China, which invented football...

And Zhang Yang didn't believe that the team they sponsored would not win the championship. At least half a year in advance of this year, they have prepared for this competition and have already started sponsoring the training of the competition team.

With a half-year training period, they have a great advantage over those teams that get invitations to the competition three months in advance. If they can't win the championship, it can only be said that the people they choose are too poor, and the scoring system of Battle.net is also very big problem, needs to be corrected.

Today, the promotion of Battle.net is extremely smooth, with more than 9 million registered members, and it is still increasing rapidly. After this competition, the number of members is expected to exceed 10 million.

And the number of Blizzard's game players is almost 30 million. This is just an estimate and it is used for publicity.

The number of gamers also represents the strength of the company, which will make more people find the company's games fun, even if they have never played them.

Isn't it fun to play with so many people?

In this way, when they have money to buy games, they will immediately think of Blizzard games.

Zhang Yang watched the teams walking in, with a faint smile on his face, until he saw a team with the Suuni logo printed on their clothes!

Whoops, Suini is shameless enough to send people to compete even though he knew it was sponsored by us Zhi Duoxing, and the team uniforms are so fancy.

Although you, Suuni, are also one of the game giants, you are better at TV games than computer games. But thinking about it, Warcraft 2 seems to be released on Sunny's platform, so it's normal for them to participate.

Since Sunny sponsored the team, what about other companies?

Sure enough, Zhang Yang soon saw the representative team of Sega Bandai and Microsoft, but after searching for a long time, he did not see the representative team of Nintendo.

Zhang Yang is even more unhappy, what the hell, we game giants have sent teams to participate in the competition, you Nintendo will not come, look down on this event, right?

Nintendo's games are basically games on TV and handheld games. It is true that there are relatively few adaptations of computer games, but this is not a reason not to participate.

Okay, then the promotion of this competition is none of your Nintendo's business!

While talking, Zhang Yang suddenly saw an acquaintance walking towards him.

Why is he here?