Power of the most popular in China (CrossFire) strikes again
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Power of the most popular in China (CrossFire) strikes again
Yeah, viewers knew who're playing
only the streamer just cant explicitly say or publicly acknowledging its GenG thats playing
not sure about VOD but probably someone uploads it on Bilibili anyway
For context
remember the GenG/Taiwan controversy? this led to few things
This goes back even further to the NewJeans rule during Worlds 2023 where Tencent showed NewJeans performance without having proper permission first. This is partially why many CN league went offstream or had a delayed broadcast for quite some time after that, now they had to be even stricter on getting permission just to make sure they could stream Korean matches without consequences
Note that CN Bundles will have only Skins and Charms
there are no Spray and Cards for CN this years
has it been confirmed they'll be hosted there?
Thats a possibility, considering announcing it in Korea will likely had better crowd reception compared to USA (which is considered the most unfriendly region when it comes to that, heck even if this gets announced in Turkey it might recieved even better considering they are quite into Mobile)
At the same time I think they could be announcing it earlier, be it during their upcoming Anniversary or something
Regardless of APAC winning or not it is already something we wanted to see for so long
we have never seen these in a global title of the same gameplay type as VAL (eg R6/CS) before, the last time it happened was 1.6 days
Its kinda obvious yeah, I guess people worried if they actually going for it (given games like Fortnite actually can do that before)
a new set of strings of "CrossPlayPool" was found today
Which now contains only three separate crossplay pool, each wont matched themselves to another platform
Mobile: iOS / Android
Desktop: Windows / Linux / Mac
Console: PS / XBOX / Switch
Mobile ver. is still in development with one by Tencent for CN version the other by Riot's Console team for globally
Which is good they dont do crossplay, Cross progress is ok
Looks like a fun finals, wonder why ence had a polish team
Most simple answer: Tencent and theres really not much excuse you could counter with when tackled Mainland conglomerates
its just Tencent, simple.
The other way is everyone also gets 4 for fairness (say, if China never has its own league and bundled into APAC, you have option of either kill SEA just like Valve did with 2016-2017 CS or have China stuck in CrossFire that is a game from 15+ years ago (no, CS is not the majority in China) forever
The long term is that I believe China would be a scary region for the other version of VALORANT that currently is in testing, and its not the one with controller
but as for the current term is simply: Tencent, China as a whole & its Marketing/Business approach
Funny take: Could said the same with things like PCS (idc about my region not playing league), LCS
This match somehow makes Huya's heat index for VCT CN very close to CrossFire with their most popular team playing at the same time, that ironically being "AG"
(only 1 M heat behind, so around like 60-100K Viewers behind)
VCT CN doing things I guess, Perfect World would never
For starters, in LPL several organizations contains a sponsored branding slide into their team name. For example Bilibili Gaming in LPL were appended with PingAn Bank after their name, and is only seen in LPL and not in any other game they have a team (not even their VCT team)
JDG seems to have one for their VCT just today: as JingDong Mall JDG Esports instead of just JDG.
JingDong here being an e-Commerce and the company that owns the team, so they put themselves as sponsored team name lol
OP Note: "Standard" is how they called Classic in China version
Some other key noteworthy info
In case you were curious of all 10 games in this list, from top to bottom
Cost a bit differently vs Global servers I think?
This is due to the fixed ratio in VP Conversion, basically 1 RMB in Chinese server gets you 10 VP, but doing the same through the Global server (Hong Kong) gets you 13 or 12. So on same VP price the CN server is much more costly. To offset this issue they had to reduce VP cost
On CN server coming February 15th, This is likely due to the server launched just last July. Technically they missed out 2 champion skins
Has Riot ever brought back previous Champions skins for sale before? (for outside China servers?)
They having a mobile companion app for the Chinese server exclusively
These allow you to add/find friends through the app, even things like check the daily skin rotation without having to access the game. LoL had a similar one for many years already as well
Open Qualifier winner got Disqualified for rule violation
a set of now deleted message were posted today on twitter by someone, involving what seems to be "Ringing" or basically Account Sharing (another player playing in place of another player in disguise)
Few hours before, FULL SENSE have made a statement that Apinya is now no longer with the team and they are ready to support any investigation needed, the player is suspected to be involved in this
If I recall the VCT CN rulebook will count Taiwan HongKong Macau not import but as resident
not sure bout SG
This is from the National Competition, which equals to VRC and VRL (one step below Challenger) which ends in a $70K LAN Tournament. Yes, $70K for what would be a below-Challengers event
We got our own version of Indian Forsaken I guess
a leaked ranked gameplay two months ago seems to showed that you win the match upon hitting 8 wins
in CN standards its not uncommon for CN orgs to put recruitment ahead of game's launch/release. Especially if its operated by Tencent (as it has happened once this year with the Apex Mobile clone) but this one is unable to verify if this is true.
on the sidenote, VAL Mobile has been recently rumored to showed up as earliest as Next Month.
From interview with Eric, Head of TJ Sports VCT department
each club in VCT CN has a minimum salary line for a team and a maximum salary line for a team.
During the transition to the VCT CN League next year, TJ will also pay close attention to all transfer situations and try its best to achieve a win-win situation for the club and players.
League also to start after the Chinese New Year
Also CN teams had only 3 year contract instead of 4 because they start the league 1 year late so every region permanent spot ends at 2026
Only 8 teams in the tournament
Format
Someone on weibo manages to catch a deleted blog post in time
Names in Brackets are Franchises Leagues they competed in: Bold indicates they're champions of that league
All Gamers (CrossFire, LPL, KPL, PEL)
BiliBili Gaming (LPL, OWL as Spark)
EDG (LPL, KPL)
FPX (LPL)
JDG (LPL, PEL)
NOVA Esports (PEL)
Trace Esports (WRL)
Titan Esports Club (PEL)
TYLOO (CS does not have franchises)
Wolves (KPL, PEL, IVL, CODM, S-League)
Zoomer's post saying goodbye to WBG
plixx's post
R1cklee's post
They seem to be doing kind of cryptic but farewell looking posts. WBG isnt making the cut?
Surely 6 Million pending somewhere between the next two games. so close
Number still progressing as it goes, but its 5.5 Million already by game one
By that they have already beat the previous record holder which holds by Free Fire, yes, I know.
*EsportsCharts exlcuded Chinese number BUT here's the chinese heat value right now if you're interest
Better, a Saudi org
not yet, just that but shouldnt be too long of a wait
Act 3 is next month anyway
Most of times we see format changes tend to be for the worse
China flexes on these attempts by changing a format hoping "To bring more teams on LAN"
4 Hololive Talents performing 2 K/DA songs at the Riot Games ONE offseason event in Japan
Which also features a VCT Showmatch tournament, this year its BLEED NAVI ZETA and DFM
That's pretty huge considering this year they had a Showmatch collab, Marketing campaign in Indonesia and now Live performance on Riot's LAN event
The progression is finally happening, and its going to be boosted significantly with the official league announcement
pretty insane when considering this is with $240,000 on the line too (prize)
like its impossible to see any game in India came close to it (even bringing Free Fire back they would've been sweating, given FF's state globally is in decline)
Chart ranking of Most played games in China's Internet cafe September edition
(In this pic CrossFire [2007] is in 2nd Place, VAL in 5th and CS in 10th just only ahead of CrossFire HD Remaster)
Apparently CNVAL made it into Top 5 since launch in July and has always been there since then.
ESL Clash of Nations 2023
apparently it was because the AVL Thailand qualifier recieved very well
led to the country being granted another off-season event host, this is a SEA LAN btw
I think one key thing is they managed to get org to invest is what really stood out for me on their CNVAL plans
like: NiP? 4AM? AG? Lots of LPL & KPL teams?
sure the player quality is still far behind but that's what you expect when orgs cant even put full investment before approval because the govt ready to yeet you to hell for doing that (like what they did with PUBG for few months)
we see that being what both CrossFire and Perfect World's CS trying to get for the Mainland for so many years but it didnt really go explosive.
CF stuck themself with only 10 orgs in a franchise and pulled worse than overwatch moves by having no T2. While CS werent moving much with PPL (and the fact that to this day, Perfect World still doesnt have a True National Chinese league as PPL is All-Asian)
This VCT CN and EVO thing comes in to fill the void where
This also tops with anything riot will sold well in CN (considering the even unsuccessful Wild Rift still nets 50M+ players monthly over there)
It cause so much effect CrossFire went on panic mode by suddenly announcing a rework of their whole franchising the next year tells a lot, when they refused to do it for so many years just because there's no one else to compete with them not even CS on the national esports scene
If they their buyout value equals to $8M (that equals to a KPL spot rn) then yep
The power of King Pro League was too much for BLG
(DRG is a KPL team, so they had a lot of cash)
40 Teams compete for 4 Spots in LAN Finals, where they will join Top 4 of EVO Act 1
Notably similar teams as last act, a few new teams
Wolves (that Wolves from Premier League) IS IN THIS ACT, they managed to found a roster just in time for Act 2
No, Wolves is looking to enter as on their own brand in China (this might mean Wolves will depart away from EG deals)
Wolves finally made a move to look for a Chinese VCT Roster
Wolves Esports Division started in China FIRST with FIFA so they practically going back to their esports home
as for Wolves results in Chinese division, basically they won in almost every game they made a roster in CN: Notably Their Honor of Kings team and their COD team
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