From “e-sports” to “sports”, e-sports development has been “official certification.”
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LPL “again” won the championship – FPX Club won the 2019 “League of Legends” global finals, perfect interpretation of the meaning behind this year’s League of Legends global final theme song “Nirvana”.
For two consecutive years, two teams with different styles won the League of Legends Global Finals title respectively, and scored a 3-0 sweep in the final two championships for the second consecutive year. LPL as the League of Legends “China Division has already stabilized the position of the world’s first division.
Of course, LPL’s overall progress and achievements, as well as the continued promotion of the League of Legends throughout China, may be more worthy of our attention than winning the championship and winning the title of the world’s first division. Place…
Nothing flies, some are just a few years to grind a sword
The LPL team has not entered the finals for the past three consecutive years from the past S5-S7. It has not won a championship for seven consecutive years. Now it has become the first division. It has won the S championship for two consecutive years. It is not a “flying sky”. The story, but the establishment of seven years to continue to try and make mistakes, continuous progress, from “teachers and long skills” to gradually form their own set of professional systems and a long process of overtaking.
In 2013, LPL was formally established. Although in the first two years of its establishment, relying on the first generation of local talents, the LPL team won the runner-up for two consecutive years, but did not miss the finals in the next three years, even in the home game in 2017, and two teams reached the semi-finals. In the case of the “Bird’s Nest”, you can only watch the war crowns of the two Korean teams. These can be said to be the result of LPL learning and chasing the atmosphere and system of the Korean professional e-sports in neighboring countries. Bitter fruit.
Of course, LPL did not give up because of the initial unsuccessful. Instead, it constantly searched for reasons after falling, and constantly explored the development path of professional e-sports suitable for China’s national conditions.
Today, the increasingly specialized system of events, the increasingly standardized system of alliances, including the home and away system, the no-lifting level, and the increasingly efficient commercialization of operations, and the broad base of talent acquired from these factors are An important reason for making LPL stronger. At the same time, this is also the inevitable law of the development of professional competitive sports. The more professional sports with higher degree of professionalism, the more perfect the competition system and professional system are needed to have a longer-term development.
The club that entered the world for the first time like this year’s FPX will be able to win the final global championship. This is obviously not the accidental outbreak of the single team, but the improvement of the overall strength of the LPL and the competition area. Strong competition, a good talent development system and a comprehensive logistical support and tactical analysis level can be achieved – in addition to the three teams (FPX, iG, RNG) that have competed in the world and have had high performance in the past two years. The LPL Division also has at least 5-6 strong teams that can “catch their wrists” with the three teams in the league. This is the real strength of the “first division”.
When the League of Legends’ “breaking circle” has become the norm
FPX won the 2019 League of Legends Global Finals, not just in the League of Legends, e-sports circles, or game circles – CCTV News, Shaanxi Communist Youth League, People’s E-sports, China Daily The mainstream media such as China News Network and Guangzhou Daily also rushed to report in the first time.
Of course, the news on the major social media platforms about the winners of the League of Legends Global Finals this year has also swept, becoming a huge traffic that is not inferior to the “Double 11”. Join this traffic, both non-gaming or e-sportsCircle-related big V, there are also many star artists with their own traffic.
In addition to the screens of mainstream media and social media, the carnival on college campuses has become a “normal state.” At Bilibili, you can find a large number of videos showing the collective “carnival” of the colleges and dormitories in the colleges and universities, and there are many famous schools.
In fact, from last year’s mid-season RNG win, to the 2018 League of Legends global finals iG first crown, and then to this year’s League of Legends global finals, FPX in the ruined final performance for the LPL Division to achieve the S champion title In the past two years, LPL has seen the above scenes after winning every contest.
According to the results, the LPL competition won the world championship is no longer a luxury, more is a matter of course, and in terms of influence, with the improvement of the LPL results, there are more and more past Those who are familiar with e-sports, or who are not familiar with the “Emperor League” e-sports project, will begin to pay close attention to and understand the “League of Legends” in the world’s finals. “The ability has been proven.
From “poisonous milk” to “offer meal”, it is an increasingly “breaking circle” infiltrating the public’s field culture
Any competitive sporting event has its own unique “race culture”, and League of Legends is no exception. And whether or not a competitive sport is popular enough, in addition to the game’s own ornamental, competitive and topical, the event culture behind it is also a key element that cannot be ignored – just like football culture and basketball culture Infiltrating into all aspects of the public life, the actual influence of these sports spread to the mass circle outside the fan group, is also an important reason for these two sports to become the mainstream sports competition in the world.
But it’s different from football and basketball, which have been running for decades or even hundreds of years. The history of e-sports is only over 20 years, and the League of Legends is only a decade old. League of Legends is global. Finals calendarHistory is only nine sessions. Therefore, the “race culture” presented inside and outside the “League of Legends” is undoubtedly immature at the beginning – this is especially true in China, where sports culture is not developed.
From the beginning of SPL where LPL really started to participate in the League of Legends global finals, until the S6, which has always been unsatisfactory, the most impressive event in the LPL’s annual event during the global finals. The word “spray”. The so-called “spray” is not a criticism of spurs, but a sneer of disregard of the facts – such event culture obviously does not have the ability to “break the circle”.
However, this phenomenon is actually the first common problem of every new competitive project. It is a kind of “necessity” in the development of competitive sports. Just like China, where football is not developed, the corresponding football culture is also Lack of tolerance and objectivity is also one of the “hardest hit areas” on the Internet.
And now, while the LPL scores are gradually rising, the “race culture” of the LPL is becoming more and more abundant and more mature and rational.
From the “hardware” condition of the culture of the competition – the experience of watching the game, the “League of Legends” tournaments in recent years, especially the global finals, have been viewed from a single live broadcast Two weeks of conventional means, developed to the online platform to watch, offline view from the previous can only watch the scene or in the family environment, Internet cafes, extended to the current bar, restaurant, theater, e-sports, outdoor, school, etc. More different scenes are available for the audience to choose freely.
And from the “software” condition of the culture of the competition – the atmosphere of the public opinion of the event, whether it is the “poisonous milk” stalk that has been popular in previous years, including Colonel KFC, who once became a hot topic, this year can be said to be All the “Heroes League” event audiences are unknown, and the “offer meal” culture that has gradually swept the trend of the entire Chinese e-sports circle is a kind of black humor and reasonable criticism that has gradually formed after abandoning the unreasonable dross components. GoodwillThe special discourse system that is ridiculous in one is a reasonable phenomenon that deserves encouragement.
The improvement of the above two conditions brings about the unique event culture of the League of Legends, and this kind of event culture is more and more capable of spreading to the mass circle. It is also the “League of Legends”. An important evidence of the project’s own influence.
From “E-sports” to “Sports”, e-sports development has been “official certification”
A short film broadcast on the night of the 2019 League of Legends Global Finals, which once caused the boiling of social media – Ms. Zong Ming, the deputy mayor of Shanghai, represented the Shanghai 2020 World Cup finals in Shanghai, welcome to the world. The arrival of “Summoner” and “League of Legends” e-sports players.
This is by far the highest courtesy of the League of Legends in the country, and on a far-reaching level, it also represents a largely official attitude.
E-sports is born out of the game, but it is destined to be attributed to sports because of its competitive nature. Only implemented into the real development, e-sports has been misunderstood by the mainstream society, and has been conflated with the concepts of “online games” and “addicted games” to become an officially recognized sports competition, even as a performance project. The stage of the 2018 Asian Games has gone through a long and arduous journey.
Of course, for League of Legends and the countless practitioners behind it, years of hard work, it is precisely that e-sports really enters the mainstream vision, becoming a fully recognized from the official to the public. Competitive sports.
From the perspective of official policy, support for the development of e-sports has gradually become clear.
At the national level, from 2016, the National Development and Reform Commission issued a notice to encourage the organization of national and international e-sports events. By 2017, the Ministry of Culture issued a document to support the development of new formats such as e-sports, and then to the Bureau of Statistics to announce “Sports. The classification of industrial statistics (2019) clearly categorizes e-sports events into sports competitions from a statistical perspective. The relevant departments have been quite clear about the sports attributes of e-sports and the promotion of the development of e-sports industry.
Looking at the local governments again–Shanghai launched the “Three-Year Action Plan for Accelerating the Establishment of an International Cultural Metropolis” (2018-2020) and the “Innovation of Cultural and Creative Industries in the City” Several Opinions on Development (“Shanghai Text”