Elven Tournament Master

Chapter 53 City Race

In the end, Chen Youming agreed to the proposal of the two girls to go to Kupa City.

It wasn't that he was in league with them.

It was because of another sentence from Reiko later——

"I know that the suburbs of Kupa City hold a monthly trade fair between cultivators. This month's market will open the day after tomorrow, and we can just catch up."

For Reiko's dream of becoming an elf trainer, he still respects and supports it, so in the end there is no objection.

Early the next morning, they first went through the formalities for Xiaojie's transfer.

Every Pokémon a trainer wants to compete must be registered.

The elves you tame by yourself are relatively simple. The time and place of taming will be recorded in the elf ball. You only need to go to any elf center in a nearby town to record it afterwards.

The transfer procedures are relatively complicated.

Chen Youming also went through similar procedures for Nine-Tails and Laplace in Dark Gray City before, but he was equivalent to subduing them for the second time, and confirmed at the Spirit Center that the original owners of the two spirits were indeed more than a year ago After he died and canceled his account, he went through the procedures very quickly at that time.

But this time, it took much more time for Guan Xiaoxia and Reiko to transfer Jenny Turtle.

But it’s impossible not to go through these procedures.

Trainers can only use their own elves to participate in the competition. If they bring elves that do not belong to them to participate in the competition, the plot is equivalent to the previous life's proxy playing and cheating. Once found to be serious, they may even be banned for life.

So no matter how troublesome it is, it has to be done.

It took nearly a morning before Guan Xiaoxia finally got Xiaojie into her elf formation as she wished.

After lunch, the three of them booked bus tickets and set off in the afternoon for Kupa City.

Dark Gray City and Kupa City are adjacent cities, and it only takes a few hours by car. The distance is very close, and there are no forests or mountains in between.

Reality is not a game, and there is not necessarily a forest or cave between every two cities.

Near the evening, the three of them arrived in Kupa City smoothly. Afterwards, as usual, they went to the Elf Center to register and checked in at its subordinate trainer hotel.

After putting down the luggage, we went out to have dinner together, went shopping in the night market, and went back to rest.

And the next day——

The next day they went to the playground first...

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There was nothing Chen Youming could do about it.

So on this day, when the two girls were screaming and having fun on the roller coaster, he had to do all the work of queuing, running errands, carrying bags, buying water, etc...

So, maybe this is the price of the so-called travel, probably...

But in the process, Chen Youming also found something of his own interest in the amusement park——

"What is this?" Guan Xiaoxia, who jumped off the roller coaster excitedly again, looked curiously at a poster that Chen Youming was holding in her hand at some point.

Chen Youming heard the words and handed the poster to her directly.

On the front of the poster is a silver trophy with the top shaped like a poke ball.

"I got it when I was queuing up. It seems to be the upcoming city competition here." Chen Youming explained.

"City competition?" Guan Xiaoxia took the poster and looked at it.

It was indeed an ad for an upcoming Elven Tournament.

The organizers are three local brand companies——

Granny's Elf Edible Cube,

Sanmori elf training equipment monopoly,

Luoyu chain cultivation hut.

It has nothing to do with the official Elf Alliance, it is just a small competition jointly organized by the three local companies as a third party.

To make a popular analogy, it is similar to the Internet cafe competition in the previous life.

"Do you want to participate?" Guan Xiaoxia asked.

"What about you? If you are interested, you can sign up together. There is a registration point in this playground." Chen Youming asked back.

Guan Xiaoxia nodded enthusiastically, "Okay."

For such small local competitions, the entry threshold is generally not set very high, so it shouldn't be difficult to register.

Before Chen Youming's time travel, such third-party competitions were already rare.

This kind of competition was more common many years ago, when he first started watching e-sports competitions, when e-sports as a niche emerging industry was just enlightened.

For example, more than ten years ago, WCG, which was popular with a generation of youth with a Beyond The Game theme song, was also Chen Youming's first memory of e-sports.

The e-sports competitions at that time were also like this. They were hosted by third-party sponsors. There were many competitions and covered many well-known games, but they did not involve game developers and operators.

However, such third-party competitions have their limitations after all.

For example, the lack of stable profit returns——

At that time, most of the game sponsors lacked a direct connection with the game industry. Except for advertising, sponsors could hardly make a profit from it.

For example, the participating teams are mixed——

To put it bluntly, the purpose of sponsoring Dad to hold the competition was only for advertising promotion during the main competition, so at that time, except for a few top-tier events such as WCG, most of the competitions would not waste time in preliminaries and qualifications before the main competition Competition, resulting in uneven levels of invited teams.

Another example is that the management is chaotic and there is no supervision——

In those days, it was commonplace for the organizers to default on bonuses and pay less bonuses, and no one cared about it. There was even such absurd thing as a cash reward of [-] yuan promised before the game, which turned into [-] yuan in Internet cafe recharge gifts after winning the championship.

Therefore, with the development and growth of the e-sports industry in the future, there will be fewer and fewer similar Internet cafe competitions, regional competitions, and XXX cups.

Later, with the expansion of the e-sports cake, the entry of capital from all parties, the rise of the TI League of DOTA2 and the S-League of LOL, it marks that e-sports has officially left the era of third-party competitions and started game distribution. A new mode in which the merchant personally goes off to host the game.

When the first TI league started, almost all professional players and spectators thought it was just a hoax.

At that time, perhaps no one would have thought that an offline promotion event that might just be the interest of Valve (the publisher of DOTA2) would become a legend in the future with a championship prize pool of tens of millions of dollars.

Before Chen Youming crossed over in his previous life, e-sports gradually abandoned third-party events in the process of mainstreaming, and the legendary event WCG that accompanied many people to spend their youth was also closed a few years ago.

Of course, there are various shortcomings of third-party events that are not perfect, but in fact, the reason may be that in that world and on that planet, e-sports is not mainstream enough after all.

It is gradually entering the field of vision of the mainstream market, but it has never been able to do it, and it is impossible to penetrate into every aspect of people's lives.

But in this world——

Elf competition can!

Here, elves accompany almost every field of human life, and elf competition is a real national sport. The number of trainers and former trainers accounts for more than three-quarters of the total population!
So in this land, the annual youth competition officially hosted by the league is well known, and the various small competitions hosted by sponsors in various regions have also not disappeared.

　I'm sorry that this chapter talks a lot about the history of e-sports that has little to do with the plot, mainly as an older gaming geek, every time I talk about this topic, I can't help but want to say a few more words, probably this is the so-called age It's big (laughs).Readers who are still interested in this aspect are free to recommend watching the documentary "free to play" made by V agency, and a UP main video called "Mango Ice" at station B.

　　


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