Chapter 335 Lin Jingyan, a good teacher
"…Anchor Invitational Tournament?"

"It doesn't sound very professional."

Liu Hao looked at the invitation letter handed to him and felt puzzled.

Speaking of which, as one of the few anchors who has established a foothold in this game that does not even have a national server, and a former successful professional player,

You said that Liu Hao had never thought about becoming a professional in this new game, that's impossible.

But based on his professional experience, he also knew that for a game that had just been launched, this could not be rushed.

How many stages does an e-sports league go through?

Take the experience of League of Legends as an example. First of all, it will definitely take some time for all players to be screened in the ladder and those with stronger high-ranking players to be initially selected.

Then if there is a mature club system, let the club absorb and train these players, and then sell seats to the club to organize the league.

For example, Naraka: Bladepoint follows a similar structure.

If there is no ready-made club system, a qualifying round will have to be added to form a team to play in the league.

All in all, it's a great way to kill time.

In the past, the professional league of Honor of Kings was slower because there was an additional stage for players to train their accounts and research qualifications and equipment.

The game was launched in 13, but its first professional league was not held until 15, and its scale was not much larger than that of the Internet cafe competition.

The League of Legends (LOL) league has been in preparation for nearly half a year since the game was launched. Narrator: Independence Day and CS:GO skipped the qualifying stage and also spent a quarter to screen players who were qualified to play in the professional league.

Logically speaking, if Jedi Gun God wants to organize a league, even if it takes the risk of skipping the qualifying stage, it will take a month or two to get the competition started.

But it was clear that Kotick and the people behind him couldn't wait that long.

They are obsessed with racing against time and can't wait to see the league officially start the day after the game is released.

Since there are requirements from above, the production team below can only follow them.

So the question is, who should we find to play in this game?

EC Studio itself is still making drastic changes and adding various mechanisms, and players' understanding of Jedi Gun God is still in the exploratory stage.

At this time, it is impossible to select professional-level masters from the wide range of players.

Valentine's initial idea was to continue to take advantage of Honor like Tenghai did.

Looking at all the major leagues of Tenghai, aren't they all using some of Honor's star players to prop up the league's initial lineup?

But it was not until he investigated the re-employment situation of players in the major Glory Leagues that he discovered helplessly:
Most of the slightly better players have been snatched away by Tenghai.

The rest are basically youngsters who couldn’t even perform well in Glory’s youth training competitions.

Valentine didn't mind. After all, experience showed that even if one could only reach the youth training level in Glory, there was still huge potential in other games with high operational requirements.

But just because he likes it doesn't mean the audience will like it.

When the uncle-party blogger hired by Valentine "accidentally leaked" the possible lineup for the new season of Jedi Gun God on the Internet, the entire network was shocked.

People looked at each other, talking about one thing -

Who is this?

Who is this?

Valentine overlooked one thing. Although he recruited a bunch of young players from Glory, which could maintain the quality and viewing experience of the game to a certain extent, it could not attract much attention from the audience.

For the games of Tencent and Haier next door, when Honor players switch over, they usually join the league after they have their own fan base and have achieved certain results in the game, so their popularity has already been accumulated.

A group of young players who may not have played much Jedi Gun God before were simply unable to attract the attention of passers-by like their predecessors.

As for the league itself?

Wake up, everyone is still enjoying the fun of the game itself!
Just like what players are playing now, picking up trash, driving, and trying to stop a fight when you see one breaking out, how nice it is.

Why do we have to pay attention to that damn competition?
Is it true that professional players have a higher chance of picking up an 8x scope than ordinary players?

A major feature of applying randomness to games is that the gap between ordinary players and masters is greatly narrowed.

Anyway, if I lose, it's all because of bad luck.

At this stage where the gap in the ladder has not even been widened, how can we expect them to have expectations and awe for the professional league?
Seeing that the Jedi Gun God's competition was like a drop in the ocean when it was put online and didn't even make much of a splash, Valentine had to think of a new way out.

But how easy is it to find this new way out?
He had also thought about inviting famous players from other professional leagues to play a friendly match in the name of an informal competition to increase the popularity.

For example, if China's Samsara Team came to fight Jedi Gun God, with their skills and marksmanship, how could they not be welcome?

But no matter how hard he talked, few star players were willing to buy his ideas.

Although there are many entertaining elements in the gameplay of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, it still takes time to master it.

If you want to perform at a certain level in front of the audience without letting anyone down, you must familiarize yourself with and practice the chicken-eating mode in private.

It goes without saying that such practice will have a huge impact on the players' condition.

Different gun feel, different shooting modes... Once an unlucky guy gets confused, he will basically lose the rest of the game.

Even if we put aside the seemingly irreconcilable relationship between Jedi Gun God and Tenghai system, at this moment when all major competitions are about to start, there are almost no players willing to earn such extra money.

EC couldn't help but feel a little desperate.

At this time, Han Yong came up with another idea.

"Don't you need contestants who are both popular and have relatively outstanding skills?" Han Yong just smiled when he heard about the current difficulties.

"Why not just look for those popular game streamers?"

This sentence made Valentine, whose mind was in a mess, suddenly enlightened.

That’s right, how could I forget about these anchors?
Like Naraka: Bladepoint, Gunslinger is also extremely popular on live streaming platforms.

For example, in China, Liu Hao and Zhao Yuzhe, two guys with a history of bad deeds, were pushed to a level close to T1, which almost made Tang Hao faint.

He was afraid that Huo Xiao would see that these two had made some achievements and invite them back.

In other countries, because there are no certain cultural barriers like Naraka, the popularity of Jedi Gun God is slightly higher.

Although this popularity has mixed reviews.

In such an environment, the anchors who can stand out from the vast number of live broadcast rooms basically have some skills.

Organizing them to play a game seems to be able to achieve better results than professional players.

However, although he was quite attracted by this idea, Valentine still retained the last bit of rationality.

He went to check whether Tenghai next door had ever tried this kind of model of organizing anchors to play games.

The result... is true!

The Teamfight Tactics mode of the League of Legends next door really relies on various anchors as the main force.

Except for a few players like Lin Jingyan and Deng Fusheng who are former professional players who retired from Honor, quite a few players are pure anchors with no professional background. They were recruited by major clubs only after the league was established.

It seems that this model... seems quite reliable?
Anyway, they don’t have a better solution, so what else can they do?
Although the host's technical and tactical level is definitely not as good as that of professional players, fortunately, the entertainment factor of Jedi Gun God itself should be able to dilute this point relatively well.

For the first time, Valentine was grateful for the randomness of his own game.

Moreover, compared to finding professional players from other competitions, the anchors are, after all, the masters of gunslinging, so they are relatively easier to manage.

After adding up all the reasons, Valentine frowned and thought for a long time, and finally decided to do it.

So, this invitation letter came into Liu Hao's hands.

Liu Hao looked at it over and over for a long time, but he really couldn't make up his mind whether he should join in the fun.

On the one hand, the anchor invitational tournament...how come such a competition system reveals a sense of humor?

On the other hand, to play in a competition that sounds not that valuable, he actually has to go abroad?

That’s right, in Gunslinger, for the first time, China was not assigned a division of its own, but was combined with neighboring Neon and South Korea to form an East Asian division.

It is said that EC wanted to save some costs in operating small competition areas and to internationalize its own competitions as quickly as possible, so they finally came up with this idea.

But they seem to have forgotten one thing:

Once these three countries, influenced by Confucian culture, develop, they will be far beyond the reach of other countries.

The game hosts of these three companies raise Gu together...

All I can say is that the production team understands East Asian monster rooms.

The tentatively scheduled venue for the competition is Seoul, South Korea, so if Liu Hao and Zhao Yuzhe want to participate, they have to travel all the way to South Korea?
It's just weird.

As the most popular Jedi Gun God anchors in the Chinese region, Zhao Yuzhe and Liu Hao, who received the invitation letters, looked at each other, undecided.

"...How about we ask someone?" Zhao Yuzhe couldn't help but suggested first.

It's better to find someone to learn from than to be a headless fly here.

Liu Hao spread his hands and said, "Who should I ask? Will they care about me?"

Although Liu Hao and Zhao Yuzhe benefited from a lot of patriotic traffic during the previous turmoil, their popularity also increased tremendously.

But in the professional player circle, their reputation is still the same, hated by everyone.

Even to this day, the two of them have not been able to join the professional player group chat that was re-established by the Glory players.

Now I need to seek advice from seniors. Who should I seek?

Zhao Yuzhe also pondered for a long time, and finally, as if he had made up his mind, he took out his mobile phone and made a call.

There is a senior who seems to be the last person willing to lend a helping hand at this time.

……

"There is nothing better than a carefree life..."

Lin Jingyan lay down on the lounge chair on his balcony and basked in the sun comfortably.

Speaking of which, having debuted in the second season, he is not the oldest among the Glory players, but judging from his current living conditions, he is the one who feels most comfortable with retirement.

Lin Jingyan hasn't appeared in public for a long time, but that doesn't mean he's living a bad life.

On the contrary, a group of old guys represented by him are living a very comfortable life relying on the live broadcasts and leagues of Teamfight Tactics.

For these elderly players, chess and card games like Genting are a godsend for their retirement.

There are basically no requirements for operation, and the program effects are never lacking. Even a steady player like him who is not known for causing trouble can create good live broadcast popularity.

I can only say that these old guys are a perfect match for games like Genting.

After being a host for a while, as expected, Genting’s professional league began to be established.

Originally, Lin Jingyan was still struggling with whether or not to put his live broadcasting career on hold and make a comeback to pursue his dream of becoming a champion.

As a result, the league told him that he didn’t need to release it and he could just broadcast the game live.

In his previous life, Pei Yunteng did not pay much attention to the model of the Genting League.

But he is familiar with the Tavern Chess game across the hearthstone.

He still remembers vividly the scene where the anchors were chatting and saying thank you for gifts in the live broadcast room while playing the game.

When we were going to organize the Genting League in this life, we simply used a similar model.

Except for heavyweight competitions such as the finals or the world championships which will be held offline, other competitions can simply be held online.

As for the players, in addition to the high-level segments of each server, many well-known anchors were also invited.

Anyway, chess and card games don’t pay so much attention to techniques and operations, and the gap between anchors and professional players is far from an insurmountable chasm.

Lin Jingyan was a little surprised by this feeling of relaxation, but he didn't feel disgusted. Instead, he found it quite fun.

So they gathered a group of old brothers to join in the fun.

As a result, because he had been a captain before and had the top overall view and tactical thinking among this group of anchors, Lin Jingyan and others were able to kill gods and Buddhas, which gave the young people in the Genting area a little shock.

Besides competitions and live broadcasts, one of Lin Jingyan’s greatest pleasures is guiding the young players of the Whistling Team in their growth.

Not long after he started playing professionally in Cloud Top, Wind Howl respectfully invited him to return to the team with a very sincere contract.

Although it was Wind Howl that initially kicked Lin Jingyan out, they had the very realistic choice of sliding back on their knees as they watched Lin Jingyan's career take off.

Realistic indeed, but also sensible.

If all the clubs in Glory had the same level of management as Wind Howl, it would not be so easy for Tenghai to destroy the Glory League.

Fortunately, Lin Jingyan is not the kind of person who is used to fussing over things, and he also has feelings for the Wind Howling team, to which he has dedicated his entire glorious career.

He simply used the name of Howling, and now he is considered one of the most prominent guys in the club.

When I have nothing to do, it is a pleasure to watch the young people who have inherited my business and the development of my old friends.

Lin Jingyan is still very satisfied with the overall development of Howling. Although LOL has not been successful, it can be regarded as a breakthrough.

Even Fang Rui has found a unique track and is steadily moving towards the position of the standing goat in World of Warships.

It’s just that the younger generation has been a little restless lately.

Just as he was thinking about it, Lin Jingyan's cell phone rang.

He opened his eyes slightly, picked it up and looked at it, and couldn't help but smile:
"Speak of Cao Cao, and he will appear..."

　First update. I had something to do in the evening, so I wrote it in advance in the afternoon.

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