想当电竞“头号玩家”，要弄明白这三件事儿

　　Source: Xinhua

　　Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 3 (Chen Junsong and Cheng Yao) If you have friends who play games, Spielberg's new movie "Number One Player" will definitely keep appearing in your circle of friends in recent days.

　　Playing games, winning hundreds of millions of grand prizes, and saving the earth by the way, the three major settings directly hit the hearts of game lovers, not to mention the game eggs buried everywhere.It is no wonder that game fans are in tears: we have been rejected for a long time, and now we have a director who specializes in filming for us!

　　In fact, the movie setting is in accordance with the reality to some extent, especially for the multi-million-dollar and multi-million-dollar competitions, the "nimble movements" of the players, and the grand spectacle of ten thousand spectators.

　　Although video games were once regarded as a scourge, in recent years, with the introduction of the concept of competition, e-sports has gradually got rid of the burden of "harmful teenagers", attracted many capital and players, and grown into a huge industry.The 2017 edition of China's Game Industry Report shows that in 2017, the actual sales revenue of China's e-sports game market reached 73.05 billion yuan, up 44.8% year on year.

　　The reputation of this activity is also improving.E-sports have entered the classroom, entered the Asian games and are hitting the Olympics. some e-sports events have almost become widely recognized social activities.

　　E-sports is now in the air. It has a very large number of participants in China and can easily arouse emotional resonance.However, the popularity of the tuyere tends to make people lose rational thinking and ignore the real situation of the gaming industry under the aura of wealth and fame.In order to become the "number one player" of the electronic competition, you need to know three more things.

　　Cartography: Xinhua

　　I: "Electronic Competition Major" ≠ Playing Games

　　In September 2016, the Ministry of Education added 13 specialties to higher vocational schools, including "e-sports and management", which belongs to the sports category under the major category of education and sports.Over the past year and a half, the number of specialties related to electric competition has been increasing, and the scope has also expanded from vocational colleges to full-time undergraduate colleges, even key colleges.

　　Many people will be curious about the "electronic competition major": can you play games and report it?Does this major teach playing games?Although some vocational schools are indeed "interested in this", some other institutions are interested in planning and operation.

　　In 2017, the new major "Digital Media Art" (the direction of digital entertainment) of Communication University of China was recruited for the first time. It was also nicknamed "Electronic Competition Major" for its purpose of training talents in game planning, electronic competition operation and program production.

　　According to the "General Rules for Recruiting Students," the school's e-sports major aims to train talents in e-sports data analysis, analysis and design of team tactics and tactics information, and competition organization and management.This shows that "playing games" is not in the plan of this course, and playing games does not mean that this course is easy.

　　Top universities have also begun to involve themselves in the field of electronic competition.The latest example is: Peking University opened an elective course called "General Theory of Electronic Games" this spring semester. The classroom was full and many students came.Netizens joked, "If you don't go to Peking University, you are afraid of addiction."

　　The course was originally scheduled to be an elective course for 120 people. As a result, the space was still "tight" after the classroom was replaced by a 180-person one due to the popularity of the elective course.

　　According to the report of the surging news network, according to the arrangement, the teaching content covers more than ten aspects such as the history of development, professional system and job responsibilities, design process, online games, hand tours, development tools, etc. students are also required to submit game design documents, management documents, and game evaluation as course assignments.

　　A brief introduction to the contents of the course "General Theory of Electronic Games" of Peking University.(photo source: surging news)

　　Second, professional electronic competition is not "fight as you like"

　　The word "competition" means fierce competition, which means it is not a pastime to play with your mobile phone.

　　Statistics show that the current number of participants in China's e-sports field is as high as 1. 5%.There are 2.4 billion people, but only a few hundred high-level players can really name them.Judging from the proportion, it is as difficult for participants to become high-level players as it is for high school students to enter key universities.

　　More realistically, e-sports have high requirements for hand-brain coordination, reaction speed and strategy formulation, which requires high-intensity mental work and long-term concentration.In other words, you need to be young and talented.

　　The golden period of an electric competitor's career is very short, and it is often around the age of 20 when he is in a rush hour, but after five or six years he is likely to be "less skilled than others".

　　Xinhua interviewed three top players in the competition last year. One of them, then 28, was considering retiring and thinking about his future.He wants to find a job within his power to lead a "normal life".The other player chose to retire at the age of 21.（见：专访电竞圈三位“绝世高手”，为你揭示一个真实的电竞江湖）

　　职业选手最能体会电竞与游戏的区别。电竞和其他运动相似，均需要刻苦训练，某种程度上会显得枯燥乏味，与世隔绝。

　　上述文章提到，电竞选手多在电竞俱乐部基地训练。多位选手围绕长条形桌子而坐，桌旁的白板上写着每日的训练计划。部分选手每日训练时间超过12小时，休息时间延迟至凌晨两三点。

　　三：想拿金牌得选对电竞项目

　　电子竞技的火爆势头不可抵挡，传统体育界逐渐向其打开大门。

　　去年4月，亚奥理事会宣布电子竞技在2022年杭州亚运会上成为正式比赛项目。同年10月，国际奥委会发布了一则声明，表示：“具有竞争性的电子竞技，可以被认为是一种体育运动。”国际奥委会主席巴赫曾表示，在拒绝暴利的前提下，国际奥委会未来可以考虑拥抱电子竞技。

　　不过电子竞技不同于电子游戏。电竞成为体育项目，就需要有明确的规则约束，倡导与体育相适应的价值观。

　　不可否认，一些游戏含有暴力、杀戮等内容，与体育价值相悖，因此广受诟病。

　　比如10月27日，中国音像与数字出版协会游戏出版物工作委员会官方网站上表示，因游戏内容血腥暴力，主管机构对“大逃杀”类游戏明确持否定态度。

　　国际奥委会委员安吉拉·鲁杰罗今年3月表示，“我们对电子竞技进入奥运非常严格，比如FPS类游戏（第一人称射击类游戏）就很难让电竞真正变成一个奥运项目，电子竞技需要一些体现友谊、卓越和尊重的、能令奥运更加多元化的项目。”

　　这意味着相比于枪击、杀戮，足球、篮球等不含暴力元素的游戏更符合奥运会非歧视、非暴力的理念，有更大机会闯入未来的奥运项目。

　　事实上，国际足球联合会、美国男子职业篮球联赛都已经为电竞产业开了“绿灯”，推出了电竞项目，电子竞技已经走向了多个全球主要赛事平台。