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“Is my child here with you? What is he doing?”

Last summer, a stranger added WeChat, the manager of the second team of IG, and asked about the whereabouts of his child. After several conversations, Guo Guo realized that the youth training team he had just recruited had run away from home without finishing high school.

At first, the parents didn’t seem to trust the pot helmet. The words “e-sports” and “young training” made him feel distant and unfamiliar. The e-sports market is getting hot year by year. The IG team that once won the “League of Legends” world championship is still in the circle, but its influence is not as good as traditional sports, and it is difficult to reach middle-aged and older groups.

The moment when IG won the championship / Photo source Weibo “IG e-sports club”

The pot helmet can only be explained from the beginning: e-sports is a sport, youth training is the starting point for professional players, young players are paid, and the golden age of professional players is 18-22 years old, which may conflict with their studies, etc. Wait.

At the same time, Guo helmet also invited the parent to visit Shanghai where the IG 2 team is located to see the environment of their children.

“After he came, he turned around and said he was quite satisfied with us.” Guo helmet’s sincerity dispelled the parents’ distrust. But the parents still took the children back, hoping that he would finish talking about college. But after four years of college, this young man has also passed the golden age of professional players.

But this seems to be a more secure option.

Every young person who loves competitive games has an e-sports dream. But this path of dreaming is far more difficult than most people think.

If you want to become a successful “League of Legends” professional player, you usually have to go through the following stages: through the youth training camp selection, become a member of a club ’s second team, and play well in the LDL (development league), Raised to the first team, in the LPL (League League) to stand out from the crowd, so as to have the opportunity to enter the World Finals.

Tian, ​​who won the FMVP (the best player) in the 2019 World Finals, started from the youth players of the YM team and walked all the way to the world championship.

Tian / Tuyuan Weibo “FPX e-sports club”

But no matter what link, there are few successful breakouts like Tian.

For the e-sports industry, youth training is a conveyor of emerging forces, the birthplace of the next e-sports superstar, and the key to ensuring a virtuous circle of the industry; for these young people with dreams, youth training is their The first high wall encountered.

The moment when you must grow up

Before participating in the selection of the IG’s youth training camp, everything in Hao Tsai’s life seemed to be in control, at least in the game.

In 2018, while peers were enjoying the lush years of high school, 16-year-old Hao Zi dropped out of high school and enrolled in the recruitment of IG second team players. A few days later, he received a notice that he needed to participate in the online trial. But what he did not know is that at this time he has eliminated more than 2,000 people.

The youth training recruitment of IG Team II is in cooperation with the game sparring app. According to Bixin officials, the number of applicants over the same period with Haozi exceeded 2500, but only more than 100 people entered the online trial.

Cruel opportunity

In the second team of IG, the pot helmet is not only a manager, but sometimes has a guardian meaning.

“In @ 苏宁 电子 体育 俱乐部, you should be obedient, eat on time, do n’t eat cold food overnight, clean up the garbage on the table every day, be polite in meetings, do n’t run around everywhere, do n’t hold back any troubles Say it in my heart. “On February 21 of this year, Tang Huanfeng, the youth player of the IG Second Team, was formally signed by the SN team to prepare for the LPL. Before leaving, Guo helmet wrote such a sentence on Weibo, expressing his reluctance.

The unwillingness of the pot helmet / The picture is taken from the Weibo “pot helmet zz”

After all, the professional players who are very beautiful on the field are only a teenager who is just an adult: full of dreams and passion, innocent and pure, but most of them have not experienced society and have not received higher education.

These young people who have not experienced “social beating” can easily get horny if they are not careful.

At the 2019 LDL Spring Games, the top single player of the IG team, He Yulong (ID: 705), dragged the team ’s hind legs, and the whole person suddenly collapsed. “Because of the poor performance in the spring season, coupled with the fact that his teammates and previous coaches have said about him, he is not very balanced.” Guo helmet said, “Actually, he can’t grow through criticism.”

Big Brother Zhixin decided to ask him to talk about it.

“I said that when you came out to play career at such a young age, you didn’t go to school anymore, but the opportunity is actually quite good. If you do it well, it’s still good. Now the platform is also very good.” Guo He recalled, He Yulong He confessed to him that he was not very good at communication. So after the conversation ended, Guo helmet also sent him a book about “communication”.

When the pot helmet used to play professionally, he focused on the top position. In the process of He Yulong’s training, the pot helmet will sit behind him, passing on some of the experience that year.

What everyone did not expect was that after just a few conversations, He Yulong’s Nirvana was finally promoted.

At the end of 2019, He Yulong was contracted by Jingdong E-sports Club for his outstanding performance, and he directly entered the LPL. On February 27 this year, in the online training match between JDG and SN, He Yulong, who debuted, directly won the third game MVP (best player) and announced his own to all e-sports audiences in the most gorgeous way. Debut.

MVP He Yulong / picture from Weibo “JDG Jingdong Electronic Sports Club”

For pot helmets, talking is commonplace. But for newcomers who just arrived, the pot helmet will talk to them at least two or three times a week to help solve some life confusion.

During the training process, the youth helmets will usually sit at the back and observe the status of everyone. “Sometimes if someone doesn’t speak, they will ask him, what happened? Is it unhappy? Or is there any problem? I will help him solve it, either in life or in games.”

For all young people with dreams of e-sports, although the obstacles are long and long, they are much better than they were a few years earlier. Not only do some people care about these young people, but also more opportunities.

The domestic e-sports youth training system is still not perfect, but at least it is constantly improving.

The youth training program of IG Team 2 was officially launched in 2018. Prior to this, the e-sports club did not have many recruitment methods for players. In the past, in addition to the recruitment of official blogs, Guo helmets could only be introduced through a friend or a live broadcast platform to collect good anchors. Sometimes, the pot helmet will also change the “League of Legends” game ID to “Please add QQXXX if you want to play a career” and other forms, hoping to get a few masters in the passerby bureau.

Today, the official League of Legends and major clubs have established their own youth training system. However, due to various reasons such as cost, there are not many official and club youth recruitments. The official League of Legends recruitment is only once a year.

Due to official recruitment restrictions, major clubs have begun to cooperate with some third-party organizations in addition to their own youth training recruitment. The sparring app is the most successful case.

According to the data provided by related people in Bixin, a total of more than 25 youth training recruitments were held in 2019. The project involved mainstream leagues such as “League of Legends” and “Glory of the King”. A total of 100,000 people signed up. This year, the Bixin Sparring Program doubled the number of youth training recruitments.

However, only 10 people were officially selected for the club youth training team in 2019. Who officially joined the second team and played in the game,