WCG, this e-sports project can be said to be a World Cup-level existence, but encountered a few troubles in 2006, that is, WCG was almost unable to operate.

This can be seen from the fact that the competition is held in March, which is just the beginning of the year. After all, under normal circumstances, the annual competition is held after October. How can it be held at the beginning of the year?

Just hold it.

The reason why it was held in March was actually due to lack of money. It was postponed from October last year to December, and then to March of the following year, and then it was reluctantly held in China.

However, although it was held very reluctantly, the popularity around the world is still very high. According to statistics, the number of people who signed up for this session exceeded 1,400, and players from 124 different countries and regions signed up to participate.

This scene looks very lively, but in fact there are also very unscientific things. For example, among the 1,400 players, 900 people signed up to participate in a competition.

Needless to say, everyone can guess that this project is naturally about Warcraft.

Thanks to the launch of Warcraft 4 and the global layout of the OO game platform, this game, which was originally about to enter a downward curve in 2006, is still at its peak. Sign up for Warcraft this year

, the number of people in the global finals is 300 more than last year, and there are 28 different countries.

According to WCG’s official promotional release, WCG has become the sports event with the largest number of countries participating in the world besides the Olympics. This is indeed worthy of bragging.

But it is hard to believe that such a competition, which is still in a state of vitality and competition, has insufficient funds. The reason is very simple, that is, the financial backer behind WCG, Samsung Group, is unwilling to continue to invest in WCG.

For example, this WCG was originally scheduled to be held in the United States. However, due to the increasing number of registrations, the competition venue also needed to be increased. However, Samsung Group was unwilling to increase investment accordingly, so the competition venue in the United States was lost.

In the end, some regions in China wanted to tentatively develop the e-sports industry. In addition, the e-sports atmosphere in China broke out in advance. A certain city in China expressed its willingness to provide competition venues for free, so the competition venue was temporarily changed.

, moved from the United States to China, which is why it was postponed from December to March.

It is really because there are too many materials to be modified and the time is too tight, so I am overwhelmed.

Under such circumstances, the WCG organizing committee naturally wanted to find another father. After all, Samsung's father was unwilling to invest money. So naturally, the WCG organizing committee found OO Games, actively hoping that 00 Games could

Become the main sponsor of WCG.

In this regard, 00 Games is still relatively active. Don’t forget that 00 Games is the company directly responsible for Leng Zhimeng, and Leng Zhimeng is an extremely female e-sports fan. After she became rich, she did not fall behind in every WCG.

Yes, we all went to the scene.

At the same time, 00 Games also owns 00 E-sports Club, the only e-sports giant in the country, which almost monopolizes all the first-line e-sports masters in the country. Its Warcraft player Renwang Tiankong has won the Warcraft Global Championship for two consecutive years for an unprecedented time.

The title of championship is heading towards the honor of three consecutive championships this year.

In addition to the project of Warcraft, 00 E-Sports Club is also involved in 13 different e-Sports games. In almost every game competition, it has won the honor of being at least the runner-up at the national level. It is the unshakable No. 1 in the country.

A wealthy family that is much more dominant than WE back then.

Directly accepting WCG is naturally what Leng Zhimeng has always wanted to do, so that she can drastically reform WCG. After all, in Leng Zhimeng's opinion, the current WCG is old and stiff, and needs more

Only new systems and reforms can promote the further development of this sports competition.

When Lang Youqing and his concubine were interested, negotiations between the two parties began directly.

What the organizing committee did not expect was that when the negotiations began, only three people came from the 00 side, and all three of them were women.

Originally, the Korean organizing committee was very dissatisfied with this. After all, they had a delegation of more than 10 people come at once, but there were only three people in 00, which seemed too little attention. Until they learned that among the three people

One of them was the president and CEO of 00, Mr. Leng Zhimengmeng, and his attitude changed drastically.

After all, where is the identity of Mr. Meng? She is a woman known as the queen of e-sports.

Logically speaking, a person like Leng Zhimeng would not appear directly at the negotiation site. Instead, he should leave it to his subordinates to negotiate. At most, he would come forward to sign a contract after the negotiations were completed, and that's it.

But Leng Zhimeng didn't care about this. She came directly with two people, one was a Korean translator, and the other was her own secretary.

Moreover, our manager Meng was very cheerful and asked directly, "How much do you need?"

"Mr. Meng! So the specific scale of next year is still unclear, but this year we have spent 4 million US dollars without paying venue fees. So if we want to hold it according to the grandest standards next year, we will

It may require about 6 to 8 million U.S. dollars of funding!" the chairman of the organizing committee said immediately.

He originally thought that Leng Zhimeng would be picky about the number and then make a desperate counteroffer.

But what I didn't expect was that Leng Zhimeng grinned and said, "It's so cheap, only 8 million US dollars. I thought it would cost tens of millions. The relationship is just this small, no problem, we agreed to this number!"

Leng Zhimeng's words made the president ecstatic. At the same time, he couldn't help feeling regretful in his heart. He lamented why he didn't just offer a little more and directly offer 10 million US dollars. It is estimated that this rich woman would also directly agree.

Unfortunately, it is impossible to increase the price now, so the president could only force a smile and say, "Congratulations, Mr. Meng, for becoming the global title sponsor of our WCG..."

"Wait a minute, you said these 8 million US dollars are only used to exchange for a global championship title?" The next moment, Leng Zhimeng changed his face and said unceremoniously, "My 8 million US dollars is not just for one

It’s just the naming rights, what we hope to get is the management rights of WCG. Next, we, 00, will lead the future reform and management of WCG.

"Management rights are absolutely impossible!" the president refused unceremoniously, and the two sides immediately started a war of words, refusing to give in to each other.

The two sides debated for a full day. In the end, the organizing committee was probably really short of money, so they could only relent and said, "Management rights will never be given, but the competition system reform led by 00 can be carried out. However,

The condition is that 00 must sign a naming agreement for at least five consecutive years."

"That's okay! But the reform must be carried out in full accordance with the reform suggestions put forward by our 00!" Leng Zhimeng's attitude is actually very simple. She is just unhappy with many of the current systems of the entire WCG and wants to change these systems.

That's all. As for whether he really holds the management rights, Leng Zhimeng actually doesn't care.

Then Leng Zhimeng handed over all the reform opinions that he had been thinking about for a long time to the representatives of the organizing committee. As a result, the reform opinions made the people on the organizing committee look stupid.

Because the first item is to comprehensively reform the composition of the organizing committee. It cannot be completely controlled by the Korean E-Sports League as it is now. It must be composed of major e-Sports leagues around the world using a unified election method.

This is the same as the current election and composition method of the Olympic Committee. The purpose is to make the WCG organizing committee a real world organizing committee, not a Korean organizing committee.

This is definitely Leng Zhimeng’s core appeal, because Leng Zhimeng and even all Chinese e-sports players have been tortured by various methods of the organizing committee when participating in the recent WCG.

These organizing committees will always favor and take care of Korean players in various ways, and try their best to create the possibility of winning for them, including but not limited to, all the information for Chinese players is in Korean, and all kinds of competition news are

Just keep in mind the notice, and if you're a little late, you'll be late, etc.

I won’t go into details because the following reform opinions will cover a lot.

First of all, Leng Zhimeng demanded that the organizing committee must be reformed. At least the number of Koreans on the organizing committee should be reduced from a dozen to one person, so that the Koreans would completely lose their dominance in the organizing committee.

On the other hand, when the WCG organizing committee saw this condition, they immediately said that it was unacceptable. WCG is a Korean WCG or something.

Not to mention the following conditions, the mechanism for introducing referees, and the referee's own penalty must be open and transparent. They cannot be completely made by Koreans. In many cases, they don't even know who the referee is.

The second is to introduce a project review mechanism. What new game projects to introduce as competition projects cannot be decided by the organizing committee. They must be reviewed and added according to some fixed review standards. At the same time, they must have multiple countries.

Competition basics etc.

For example, an online game that was only launched less than a year ago and was only played by Koreans actually became a WCG competition event. In the end, only Koreans participated... After all, this is an online game that is only popular in South Korea.

It actually became an official competition event in a grand manner, and there were two gold medals, adding to the Korean gold medal list.

There is also the need to update the game version in real time and keep it in sync with the official game version. It must be at least one work...for example, StarCraft. StarCraft 2 has been on the market for more than a year at this time, but WCG is still

Forced to use StarCraft 1 to compete.

Because the e-sports league in South Korea and Blizzard's e-sports competition collapsed, Blizzard refused to authorize StarCraft 2 to run a league for South Korea, so South Korea continued to use StarCraft 1 to run its own league.

This has led to the fact that Korean players rarely play StarCraft 2 at all. If WCG uses StarCraft 2, the Koreans’ medal dominance in the StarCraft event will be completely over. This is the Korean people who regard StarCraft as their national quintessence.

Said that it was an absolutely unacceptable situation, so the Koreans simply decided to use StarCraft 1 as the competition game version for WCG. When the news was announced, the entire e-sports circle was in turmoil, and Leng Zhimeng himself was also

They were all pissed off.
Chapter completed!