Full name E-sports

“That’s true. A 40 million prize pool distributed among only three teams does seem a bit unreasonable.”

Yao Beiguo nodded slightly upon hearing Fang Chang’s words.

“I think you’ve misunderstood,” Wei Yan said slowly, listening to their conversation.

“General Manager Wei, please elaborate.” Yao Beiguo’s expression instantly became respectful when Wei Yan spoke.

General Manager Wei was a veteran of the company, highly valued by General Manager Chen, and he was the one who best understood General Manager Chen’s intentions within the entire group.

Therefore, when General Manager Wei spoke, Yao Beiguo naturally paid close attention.

“I think you’ve misunderstood General Manager Chen’s intention in offering such a large prize pool,” Wei Yan said slowly, seeing their confused expressions, before beginning to explain.

“If we held a normal competition, the prize money wouldn’t need to be that much. A 20 million prize pool is already a very large-scale e-sports event, enough to attract many e-sports teams to participate.”

“However, General Manager Chen deliberately invested 60 million in prize money, which certainly isn’t just for the purpose of increasing the prize amounts for the winning teams.”

“I’ve thought about it briefly, and I believe what General Manager Chen wants to achieve is mass e-sports.”

As Wei Yan said this, a spark ignited in his eyes.

He had been in the game company for over a year, and despite being the manager of Snowy Sky, he had never stopped learning about games during that time.

At this point, his understanding of games, aside from some highly specialized knowledge, also included some of his own unique insights.

“Mass e-sports?” Yao Beiguo and Fang Chang spoke in unison, their confusion growing as they looked at Wei Yan’s face.

They didn’t understand how to interpret “mass e-sports” as Wei Yan described it.

“That’s right, mass e-sports. But this ‘mass’ doesn’t truly mean everyone. Rather, current e-sports events are basically dominated by Club teams. They have their own training systems and professional teams dedicated to studying games.”

“Teams temporarily formed by random players have no chance against such professional e-sports teams.”

“However, if e-sports competitions only feature the same professional teams repeatedly, it becomes too rigid, monotonous, and boring.”

“Why don’t we add some fun and challenge to e-sports?”

Wei Yan spoke slowly, already having some plans in mind.

“But how do we do that?” Yao Beiguo listened to Wei Yan’s words and felt there was some truth to them, but he was currently at a loss as to how to actually implement it.

Fang Chang also looked at Wei Yan with confusion.

Wei Yan smiled slightly at their expressions.

“The method is very simple: allocate a portion of the funds to reward ordinary participating players.”

“Our e-sports competition this time can be organized into two parts. First, we require well-known e-sports Clubs to send their e-sports teams to participate. The e-sports competition involving professional teams will naturally compete for the highest honors.”

“The other is a competition for ordinary players. We can first set up an online preliminary round. As long as they are ordinary players and have reached adulthood, they can form teams and participate in this online preliminary round.”

“Then, through the preliminary round, select a group of strong e-sports teams and have them compete in offline matches.”

“We can set up prize money for these offline matches; it doesn’t need to be too much, 5 million would suffice. And it doesn’t need to be given only to the top three teams. I’ve seen the Limit Survival competition held by Tiange Game Club.”

“We can innovate and improve upon that. A single game usually has 20 teams participating. We can give a portion of monetary rewards to the top eight teams.”

“Then, through continuous elimination matches, the final 20 teams will remain to play the grand finals. In the finals, in addition to the rewards for the top eight, the top three teams will receive additional ranking bonuses. For example, the first-place team: 1.5 million. Second place: 1 million. Third place: 500,000.”

“And more importantly, these top three teams can go on to compete against the professional e-sports teams in the final match. Although the probability of winning the championship might be lower, there is still a certain possibility.”

“Such a competition can also bring some fun to the audience, as professional team matches are very serious, with strict rules on what to do and when. But teams formed by random players are different; they might do something interesting or adventurous, and they could very likely become a variable in the professional competition.”

“Because wild teams don’t have their own system; their playstyle is simply to do whatever they feel like doing.”

“That’s all I have to say. Doing this has two advantages: first, it can increase ordinary players’ enthusiasm for the game. Who wouldn’t want their gaming skills to improve, then participate in a competition and win some prize money?”

“The second point is that it can increase the unpredictability of professional matches, making the competition more interesting.”

At this point, Wei Yan stopped speaking and took a sip of coffee from the table to moisten his throat.

He often watched e-sports competitions and some game live streams. Through the bullet comments, he had noticed a problem: professional matches were too specialized but lacked a bit of fun, unlike some entertaining streamers.

So, he wondered if adding a few unprofessional teams to professional matches could bring some variability to the competition.

This was what he looked forward to.

Yao Beiguo’s eyes lit up as he listened to Wei Yan’s words. He agreed with what Wei Yan had just said. No matter what it was, once it became highly specialized, it would appear quite boring in the eyes of the general public.

However, having managed a Club for so long, he was already very clear about professional competitions.

All Clubs aim for that championship, and to win it, they need to make their teams professional, disciplined, and organized.

This was unchangeable.

And what caught his attention in Wei Yan’s description was the idea of mass e-sports, combined with the prize money for the event.

Countless players would surely participate in the competition.

And as the manager of the Club, he could entirely use these competitions to find some talented players.

It was important to note that the BL Game Club had only recently been established. Apart from Tiange Games having held one professional competition for Limit Survival and tianlong, there had been no previous professional competitions.

Therefore, they hadn’t yet scouted any good players. But if they followed Wei Yan’s suggestion, he could completely watch the matches and find some promising game players to recruit into the BL Game Club.