｜People’s Esports
author｜Wang Huizhi
editor｜Kevin
On August 28, in the summer finals of the LCK division, the GEN.G team defeated the T1 team with a 3:0 crushing force and stood on the championship podium. "GEN wins the championship" quickly became a hot search list. Equally lively was the Weibo account of "Gen.G's number one fan" Guan Zeyuan . Many netizens shouted in the comment area: "Zeyuan, have you seen it?" Of course Guan Zeyuan saw it, and he tweeted after the game Four Weibo posts filled the entire screen with excitement.
"I am very excited. I feel excited that the team has finally achieved its goal after so many years. But besides being excited, I feel it is reasonable because most people including me predicted this result before the game." Guan Zeyuan told People's Daily Online "Jing" talked about his feelings at the time, "Except that the 3:0 score was a bit unexpected, this I really never thought about it.”
In his opinion, Gen.G’s victory was a natural result: “After the LCK became a league, the investors and founders of the Gen.G team made the right choice in building the team this year. A relatively big change has occurred. First of all, some former professional players have been actively introduced to join the coaching staff. The experience of professional players can better help players improve from a micro perspective; secondly, they spent a lot of money to buy star players and strengthen the lineup. This championship is a great success for both the team and the players. Good results, they badly need the league title to prove themselves"
Like Gen.G is the club culture.
Speaking of the story of Guan Zeyuan and Gen.G, we have to start with S7's SSG. At that time, Crown, the mid laner of the SSG team, left a very deep impression on Guan Zeyuan. Follow At the same time as Crown player, Guan Zeyuan slowly ignited his love for the SSG team. Five years have passed, Crown player has retired, and SSG has changed its name to Gen.G, but Guan Zeyuan's love for this team has never changed.
Crown and Guan Zeyuan
"Every team is in the midst of batches of players changing. Players change, and fans will inevitably get to know new players. In the process of getting to know them, they will also be loved by those who used to like them. Influenced by players, I continue to like this team . As a League of Legends employee, I have the opportunity to interact with the staff and owners behind the club. Gradually, our working relationship becomes friends, and a lasting love will naturally develop. "
is like basketball. Even if the football club changes its name, team logo, or even replaces all the players on the roster, it will not affect the fans' love for this club. "The way you like it will influence you to keep paying attention to it. Unless something bad happens that gives you a reason to hate it, but you rarely see similar situations in competitive sports."
from The initial love and affection developed into recognition of the entire club culture, which is why Guan Zeyuan has continued to love Gen.G over the years. Fortunately, his "ardent fan" has also been officially recognized by Gen.G: "I have a lot of team support items at home, basically everything you can think of, including some that are not open to the public and are given internally by Gen.G. . For example, a commemorative watch that was not released to the public when their team just changed its name, and another example is their 17 The signed uniforms of the entire team when they won the championship in 2016, etc. "
Similarly, every time Gen.G holds an event in China, Guan Zeyuan will basically participate as long as he has time. He still remembers being invited to the event as a host at the end of 2019. Gen.G’s Korean translation of the game did not understand enough and was unable to translate the content in the League of Legends game. Clid, the jungler at the time, stepped forward. "Clid player said to me: 'It's okay, don't worry, I will translate for you.' Everyone knows that he has played in LPL for many years, and his mother is a Chinese teacher, so his Chinese is very good, and it all depends on him that day Came to the rescue, it’s very interesting to think about it now."
Rational pursuit of stars requires more rational life
Although he is called the "number one fan", Guan Zeyuan's way of "chasing stars" is fanatical and rational. "I am happy when the team wins, and I am unhappy when the team loses. I am eager. Hopefully they can win it back next time, but won't do anything else. "
Guan Zeyuan believes that as a fan, when accepting the splendor of competitive sports, he must also learn to accept its cruelty. "I have been following traditional sports since I was a child. No matter how powerful or great a player is, he will not be able to accept it until the end of his career. It is inevitable to go downhill. This is the cruelty of competitive sports. You have to learn to accept it. As an emerging industry, there is a big gap between e-sports and traditional sports with hundreds of years of cultural accumulation. The rationality of fan audiences is one of them, and it still takes a long time to accumulate. ”
Crown, who was once his favorite player, became a substitute after winning the S7 World Finals. He also traveled to North America and chose to retire after returning to the LCK. In Guan Zeyuan’s opinion, this is what every competitive sports player will do. The road he has taken, “It is difficult to retreat after success, but the height he once stood at is something I have not been able to reach so far. There are very few people in this world who can stand on top of the world, and who can be number one in the world in any project. "
In the past two years, Guan Zeyuan has successfully expanded his business section to the commentary stage of traditional sports events such as NBA, European Cup, and also participated in After joining the variety show, he once again broke out of the industry and became one of the top players in the e-sports circle. However, the heat he received did not extinguish his rationality. He clearly understood where his position lies. There is no second reason. My work is more literary and artistic. It is difficult to have a ranking like competitive sports. Everyone has different interests and there is no way to distinguish between superior and inferior. "
He admitted that he was able to achieve the current results because he took advantage of the rapid development of the Internet. "In different commentary jobs, what I do has never changed. As the number of projects that need to be paid attention to increases, the burden on me increases. On the contrary, it is getting worse. The so-called popularity depends more on this era and platform, as well as the influence of the League of Legends project. I don’t think commentary is a job that can gain popularity. "
Guan Zeyuan on the commentary desk
28, after watching the game between Gen and T1, Guan Zeyuan also paid attention to the LPL summer playoffs, and after returning home from Shanghai and Hangzhou to complete work, he continued to watch Premier League , La Liga game.
"Now we are ready to wait for Real Madrid to kick off! Please call me King of high-intensity viewing, that is, I can watch him for 24 hours without the NBA. "At 3 o'clock in the morning the next day, he was still active on the Internet discussing the game, and did not go to bed until the end of the Real Madrid game at 6 o'clock.
Paying such intense attention to various events seems to have become his daily routine, and many netizens are concerned about it. I was impressed by his strong energy and wondered how he could keep his energy high at all times. Guan Zeyuan thought it was simple: "When you face something you like, you will have more energy. I have never heard of anyone doing something they like. , and feel particularly tired. Why do some people play games all night? Isn't it because they like it? Furthermore, I feel that many people’s energy allocation is unreasonable and they do not really allocate their energy to the right place. The third is active physical exercise and adequate rest to ensure that the body is in a better state at all times. "
Stay up all night and then take a long nap, go to the gym to exercise when you have time, and integrate love and work. This is Guan Zeyuan's current life. "I am interested in many jobs. I am interested first and then look for them. opportunity to do it. I have a relatively casual personality. Thanks to the efforts of the agency and my agent, I have so many opportunities now. But speaking from my own subjective point of view, I don’t really want to try it. I can be free when I can, be busy when I can, do what I can, and forget about it if I can’t. The reason why I keep doing it is that I love explaining this thing. "
