The New Season Is Full Of Twists And Turns.

A few days ago, the dragon team of Shanghai staged a spectacular drama.

After the third round of the Asian Championship finals of the May World Championships, the Dragon Team lagged behind the 0:3 score. Under the competition system of "rob seven", their chances of winning are very slim. Before that, no team has been able to achieve "three chase four" reversal.

However, the dragon team of Shanghai created a miracle. They even pursued the four game and finally crowned the Asian championship. In sports, the pleasure of "overturn" is far more than the success of rolling. Unfortunately, on such a dreamy night, the dragon team can not feel the atmosphere of "champion scene". They are on a weekday training base with only a few staff around them. But they can not be said that they have no audience. The players can feel the excitement of the fans through the barrage of the screen.

The official data show that the day's final live broadcast at B station has a heat value of more than 9 million. When the live broadcast of the weekend weekend was over 470 thousand barrage, it also set a new high in watching the pioneer League. For the electric contestants, the cheers and cries of the audience can stimulate their satisfaction at the moment of victory.

This fall is the reality that E-sports must bear under the special line of war. Though there are shortcomings, E-sports is enough to be happier than other events that have been suspended so far.

Worries about the spread of the epidemic

For the 2020 season of watching the Premier League, the outside world was filled with anticipation. Because in this year, the three year old "watch pioneer League" will usher in the long-awaited competition system.

According to the plan announced before watching the vanguard League, all 20 teams will be divided into four major divisions in the 2020 season, namely, the northern part of the Atlantic, the southern part of the Atlantic, the eastern part of the Pacific region and the western part of the Pacific area. At that time, each team has its own home and will play 28 Games in the regular season, including two times with the team and a team with the non team.

However, the sudden outbreak of the new crown pneumonia has completely disrupted the rhythm of watching the vanguard League. In January 30th, the announcement of the vanguard tournament announced that the 2020 "watch pioneer League" was cancelled in February and March in China.

For Shanghai's Dragon team, Hangzhou blitz, Chengdu hunters and Guangzhou's four teams, this is a disappointing news. From the end of last year, the various teams began to prepare for their home activities, and designed a wealth of offline activities, but in the face of such factors that could not be resisted, they could only act according to circumstances.

Jiang Pu, director of product development in China, said in an interview with reporters that the alliance had underestimated the speed of the epidemic. Especially with the rapid spread of the epidemic worldwide, the adjustment of the league has not been able to keep up with the change of the epidemic situation.

In February 15th, "watching the pioneers League" announced that the scheduled home games in China will be replayed in Seoul, South Korea. However, by the end of February, the number of confirmed cases in Korea increased sharply, and the "watch the pioneer League" was announced again in February 24th. The 2020 season, which was originally scheduled in Seoul, Korea, was cancelled. After sixth weeks in the competition, the whole league tournament was suspended.

Jiang Pu said that the alliance has been closely following the development of the epidemic and is evaluating different plans. Previously, the alliance planned to focus North American teams to Losangeles and continue to compete with "live without live audience". But with California issuing the "ban on going out", it will eventually have to cancel the league matches.

Subsequently, the "watch the pioneer League" announced that from the eighth week, all games were transferred to the online. "It's a tough decision," Jiang Pu said, because online games are a brand new thing for all participants in the league.

Normalization of online competition

In fact, before watching the pioneer League, the two major LPL and KPL competition events in China started the new season's journey in the form of online competition. However, the competition with them is mainly concentrated in China, and watching the vanguard League is a truly global event.

"Our teams and players come from all over the world, so they are not only affected by the epidemic, but also face more challenges than other events when they are organizing the online games," Jiang Pu told reporters. For example, LAN is different from offline LAN. The first thing to solve in online competition is network delay.

To this end, the "watch pioneer League" changed the schedule of the 2020 season in March 18th, and reorganized all the teams according to their respective geographical locations: the North American division and the Asian Games area, so as to minimize the impact of the network delay.

For the combat team, because the composition of the players is relatively complex, and the epidemic situation has led to the adjustment of immigration policies in various countries, visa has also become a big problem for them. For example, in mid February, Chinese athletes and coaches of the Guangzhou charge team could not travel to Korea because of visa problems. They could only train with other members online. In addition, the transformation of the way of competition brings great challenges to the staff of the league.

Jiang Pu told reporters that in the original plan of watching the pioneer League, all the work was arranged around the "offline implementation + offline competition + live broadcast" mode, but the epidemic completely overturned this model. Now, hasty changes can also bring about some job imperfections. For example, when the online games started, because of the purchase and transportation problems of camera equipment and other materials, the screen of players' faces could not be collected, which had a great impact on the audience's experience.

But these problems have been solved over time. At the end of May, as the game entered the fourteenth week, the entire online competition was also on the right track, including athletes, staff and so on, had also adapted to the rhythm of online competition. In particular, the league's competition system innovation aimed at online competition is also helping the competition become more intense.

Nelson's statistics show that up to now, the AMA (average attendance per minute) in the 2020 season has increased by more than 50% compared with the 2019 regular season. Among them, the Chinese market is eye-catching. In the eighth week of China's 4 teams joining the tournament, the AMA on the first day of competition reached 534 thousand, and the AMA value in the next 5 weeks was not 5 weeks when the Chinese team joined in the competition, which also reached 30%.

Jiang Pu told reporters that the League still has a lot of work to do next. Among them, the highest priority is to continuously improve the quality of direct broadcast, and enhance the audience's experience of watching matches, especially in the exposure of players.

As for the future, the uncertainty of global epidemic development always exists. But Jiang Pu said that the vision of "watching the vanguard League" to create a global competition with cities as a whole will never change. Next, as long as conditions permit, they will bring the next race to the audience for the first time. Even in the future, more milestone events, such as the all star game and finals, will be brought to the Chinese audience.

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