The WUCGxMLB baseball e-sports league spring finals came to a successful conclusion. The two-day spring finals integrated baseball e-sports leagues, baseball VR experiences and many other activities that young people love to see, and college e-sports has more innovative sports and entertainment projects.
The WUCG baseball e-sports spring finals site, including WUCG e-sports stage, MLB THE SHOW21 home run challenge, MLB Home Run Derby VR experience hall and other MLB themed baseball teaching and game areas. Under the guidance of professional coaches, baseball fans and spectators of e-sports leagues showed off their skills and had a baseball addiction. At the event site, the live event commentator Xu Zheng of the MLB2021 season was specially invited to give a live explanation of the spring finals. The funny language, rich baseball knowledge and professional game commentary made the players and the audience excited.
The four contestants who were selected into the spring finals can be described as five rounds and six generals. They won the championship of Nanjing, Fuzhou, Xiamen and other three cities, and the championship of the spring online competition. On the day of the event, they also presented a wonderful baseball e-sports game for many baseball enthusiasts and e-sports fans, which triggered a warm response from the audience. After a brutal competition, Dachang, the champion of the spring online competition, won the spring finals and became the first player to get tickets to the annual finals. Qi Dong, managing director of MLB China, and Li Dan, director of MLB media and content, also came to the scene to help out in the spring finals and send good wishes to the players.
In the past 5 years, e-sports has made substantial progress that is different from any previous period. E-sports players and professional players have become one of the most important groups in China today. Among them, the university student group is the absolute mainstay. College students face the reshaping of the social class, and the necessary process for reshaping the social class is orderly competition. That is, under the condition of determining the rules, participants formulate strategies according to their own conditions, and improve their ranking as much as possible without violating the rules.
This is almost the most basic set of mechanisms for e-sports. In the e-sports project, the goal of the game is determined from the beginning. On this basis, players optimize their strategies by choosing different combinations, and at the same time optimize the operation process to achieve the game goals as efficiently as possible. It can be said that the reason why e-sports is so popular among young people is precisely because of its superiority at the level of simulated competition. Discovered and recognized the profound connotation, which is the original intention of the WUCG World University Student E-Sports League.
Coincidentally, the original intention of the birth and development of traditional sports stems from the same motivation. At first, as a means of selecting soldiers during the war, sports were only for selecting more efficient war machines. With the changes in the world structure, especially in recent decades, traditional sports have long been recognized as a national power exchange channel recognized by all countries. To provide young people with rich soil, they will bloom vigorous flowers in the arena.
Since 2007, since MLB entered China, it has always regarded the promotion and popularization of baseball as its mission. With the development of this work, a considerable number of baseball audiences have also been accumulated in China in recent years. Responding to existing enthusiasts and allowing baseball to reach a wider audience, these demands have reached the stage where they need to be addressed squarely and put into action.
Now, a new round of innovation is taking place. In 2021, Major League Baseball (MLB) and the WUCG World College Student E-sports League jointly announced that the two parties will use the “e-sports x trendy sports” model to make more people feel the trendy e-sports atmosphere, competitive spirit, and understanding The unique social value of baseball trend culture is one of the biggest highlights of the WUCG x MLB cross-border cooperation.
WUCG builds a multi-cultural cluster by gathering elements that young people like, such as e-sports + electronic music + two-dimensional elements, and builds a cross-dimensional carnival that young people love. This is exactly in line with MLB’s efforts to build a baseball trend culture, open up new markets, target young people, and develop strategies for the future. In fact, when the International Olympic Committee tried to electronically, it also selected baseballs with young trend attributes. From May 13th to June 23rd, in the IOC Olympic Virtual Series, baseball, together with racing, cycling, rowing, and sailing, became the first Olympic-authorized virtual sports event in history. MLB Media and Content Director Li Dan said, “In the future, as MLB’s influence in China continues to deepen and the WUCG college league continues to develop, I believe that both parties will create a greater trend of generation Z cross-border sports and culture arena for baseball and E-sports has played a greater role in the development and popularization of China.”
As an active cross-border attempt, MLB and WUCG represent traditional sports and e-sports, respectively, opening a door to re-recognizing each other. We believe that with the holding of this WUCG Spring Finals, the two sides will create a cooler and younger “baseball + e-sports” sports culture stage in the city competition, autumn and annual finals in the near future. At that time, the true “competitive” spirit will break through the limitations of means and differences and return to its most essential side.
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