although only in the DOTA2 competition.
in the country, the various competitions between Tencent and NetEase are no longer new. Although the two companies are both major players in the gaming industry, Tencent has always been better than NetEase. Perhaps many players have never thought that NetEase will win the first place by defeating Tencent. But just yesterday, the news that NetEase won the DOTA2 Internet Employees Cup suddenly spread throughout the Internet, and even became a hot search on Weibo and for a while.
Some netizens may be curious about what this so-called "DOTA2 Internet Employee Cup" is? Why did he get such a high level of attention for a while? NetEase seems to attach great importance to the champion of this competition. At the first time of winning the championship, " NetEase Yanxuan ", one of its official accounts, posted a celebration message on Weibo and started a forwarding lottery event.
In essence, the "DOTA2 Internet Employee Cup" is not a formal competition officially held by DOTA2, but was led by "Zard", the top anchor of Douyu DOTA2 partition. Because the name of "DOTA2 Internet Employee Cup" is too long, people in the DOTA circle also call it "The Internet", or "TI". This happens to be consistent with the abbreviation of The International, the largest official event in DOTA2.
It's a coincidence that Zard didn't intend to hold such a competition at first. The reason for the start of this game is attributed to the Chinese team's defeat on TI10. For most domestic "Dota" players, the TI10 final is undoubtedly heartbreaking. You may still remember that during that time, the "Why not Mammoth?" was circulating on the Internet. Even now two months later, this sentence can easily make "Dota" players wear the "mask of pain".
It has been 5 years since the Chinese team won the championship last time. There are also more and more players who are disappointed and choose to leave DOTA2. After TI10, the domestic DOTA2 community was shrouded in sorrow and was silent. In order to help more players regain their confidence in DOTA2, Zard plans to plan an event to allow the majority of "Dota" players to relive the happiness brought by DOTA2 as a game.
Under the influence of the top anchors, many players gathered on Zard's YY channel to participate in this event. Because Zard's event is mainly aimed at low-scoring passers-by or novice players, strictly checking the "background" of registered players has also become a very important part, including the record, whether it is a small trumpet, whether its strength matches the segments, etc. Zard also specially connected with DOTA2 professional players to carefully identify them. This event was nicknamed "Dota 101" by "Dota" players. Although netizens know that such an event is not enough to change the current environment of the domestic DOTA circle, they still can't help but look forward to what step Zard can do.
From the results, "Dota 101" is quite successful. Regardless of social status, age, age, as long as they are "Dota" players, everyone is equal. In this talent show, netizens not only saw the newbies who had just joined DOTA2, but also found that the game was as long as 9,000 hours long. There were both fresh blood in their teenage years, and the "historical witness" who still insisted on DOTA2 in their nearly fifty years old. Among them, a 48-year-old aunt who had a game duration of more than 16,000 hours attracted Zard's attention. What’s even more rare is that the aunt’s family, including her husband and daughter, are solid “Dota” players. This also made Zard realize that his idea of changing the atmosphere of the circle is not wrong.
With the popularity of "Dota 101", more and more players are coming to participate. Among them, a female Tencent programmer with ID "Wency" told Zard that there are many "Dota" players in Tencent and have also held internal competitions. They also hope that the domestic DOTA2 circle can get better. Unexpectedly, Tencent programmers directly exploded the employees of other Internet manufacturers who "lurked" in the YY channel, including mihayou and Microsoft and other well-known domestic and foreign Internet companies. The discussion and organization of internal competitions by employees of these large manufacturers has also become an opportunity for the birth of the "DOTA2 Internet Employee Cup".
As the employees of Alibaba and ByteDance joined the battlefield, the "DOTA2 Internet Employee Cup" was officially established. With the leadership of Zard and the rapid spread of news, more and more Internet companies have joined the "DOTA2 Internet Employee Cup". In the end, a total of 16 teams were finalized to participate in this "DOTA2 Internet Employees Cup". To this end, the team members jointly joined a 500-person WeChat group to facilitate competition appointments and training. The specific competition process is jointly responsible by Zard, Douyu, and DOTA2 national server agent Perfect World , each performing its duties. The members of the 16 teams of
are from Tencent, NetEase, Alibaba, Byte, Xiaomi , JD , Meituan , B station, Perfect, Douyu, Baidu , Microsoft, Kuaishou, Huawei , Mihayou, and Lilith. These companies are undoubtedly leaders and even leaders in all walks of life in China. It also makes people sigh that even the DOTA2 competition has begun to "show".
Things have developed to this point, not only the employees' entertainment, but also have risen to the "face" problem of their own company. Besides, these Internet giants usually compete fiercely and have accumulated a lot of conflicts. This time I finally found such a good opportunity, but I can't "calculate the new and old hatreds together." It is this strong smell of gunpowder that has become the biggest highlight of this "DOTA2 Internet Employee Cup".
In addition to the "needle-to-head" between major factories, the grudge between Zard and Mihayou has once again become a joke for players. Because of the game " Genshin Impact ", Zard had some unpleasant experience with Mihayou. For this reason, Zard once joined the Weibo super talk "Did Mihayou go bankrupt today?", and Mihayou set up a doorman in "Genshin Impact" called "Zhenxiang" (homnivorous to Zard's real name). Zard even made a harsh statement that if Mihayou wins the championship, he will go to the COS General Thunder and Lightning to watch the Mihayou headquarters.
By the way, Perfect World official has urgently set up a client viewing channel for this "DOTA2 Internet Employee Cup". This can only be achieved through negotiation with V club , and this also refreshes the "Dota" players' views on perfection that they always "pretend to death" and inaction - as long as they want to do it, they can still do it quickly. The competition has not yet begun. Just the team name and team logo, all major factories have already started to "roll". I have to say that in the "abstract" of team names, many employees of large factories may understand better than those of the old men in Tieba. In addition to the more obvious team names such as "Little Penguin" (Tencent), "Black Pig" (NetEase), and "Shark Dao Dao" (Douyu), it is difficult for ordinary people to tell which team is behind which company.
is like Xiaomi's "RUOK" team, playing the "Are you OK?" meme of Lei Jun ; the perfect "DODO team" is selected by perfect recently promoted DOTA2 virtual idol "DODO"; Byte's "Jiaxin Candy" team undoubtedly took advantage of the popularity of the virtual idol girl group A-SOUL, which it has invested in.
In fact, based on the team's logo, even passers-by can guess 70% or 80% of the companies behind the team. However, when producing these original team bids, the company's artists also increased their power. For example, Meituan’s team logo was completed in one day.
The support songs of each team, the animations of the players appearing are also released one after another. Huawei and Perfect have released their own team support songs on Bilibili. For a moment, there was also a burst of explosive contributions related to B station DOTA2.
has arrived in the main competition, and the "tit-for-tat" between the teams is even more obvious. For example, the competition between Byte and Baidu is all about competing for who is the real "b" in "bat". Of course, Baidu was slightly better in the end, proving that it was the real "b" in "bat" on DOTA2.
The game between Kuaishou and B station is replicated by the game between TS and LGD in TI10. And Kuaishou's victory in the end also made netizens once again show the barrage of "Congratulations TS".
The two sides naturally wanted to grab the opponent and hammer it in the death. Therefore, the team with a large gap in strength can easily play an extremely exaggerated "head comparison". For example, in Tencent's match against Alibaba, Tencent once achieved a "43:5" crushing record. The smoke of gunpowder on the court also spread to the commentator seat. The commentary of major companies also relies on exquisite words and verbal criticisms. Among them, the female commentators of Tencent and JD.com performed extremely well in the game between Tencent and JD.com. The two female commentators not only had to comment on the competition, but also used "Dota slander" to set up the black dots of their opponents, and the program was full of results.
So many teams are uneven in strength. Among them, Tencent's "Little Penguin Team" has always been regarded as a favorite to win the championship before the game. It is said that Tencent has several rankings, and the overall score is also the highest.
, and it turns out that Tencent has indeed lived up to its title of "popularity in the championship". He passed the hurdles and reached the finals with a complete victory. His opponent in the finals is his old opponent in the game industry, from NetEase's "Black Dog Team".
is different from the "Little Penguin Team". Since the "Black Pig Team" fell into the loser's group, every game has been a life-and-death game. But with their tenacious fighting spirit, they reached the finals with one stroke and completed their meeting with their "old enemy" Tencent.
Image source: Weibo @GL doesn't work hard at all
Is Tencent's outstanding heroes, maintaining its "unbeaten golden body" to win the championship, or is NetEase's ultimate reversal and completing the myth of "one wears six". This final has aroused the interest of the majority of "Dota" players. I believe everyone already knows the final result - NetEase defeated Tencent, and with a battle-making posture, he returned to the battlefield from the loser group with one-six, and won three to zero.
Then, the scene mentioned at the beginning appeared - NetEase celebrated variously, and the news became a hot search on Weibo. Tencent can only express regrets on Weibo.
Tencent female commentator posted on Weibo
Putting aside the Internet team and the gimmicks of intra-roll, the success of this "DOTA2 Internet Employees Cup" is closely related to the purest competition atmosphere shown in it. There are no prizes or prizes in this game. Every team player joins this game with his love for DOTA2. This makes every game of their game very pure. Compared with the various "spinach" website sponsorships in the DOTA2 professional arena now, as well as the false matches that are not "groundless", players obviously enjoy this "pure" game more.
The confidence of the team players in the game has also brought many viewers back to the old "wild" era of DOTA2 profession. The NetEase No. 1 player's "Give me Naga, I dare to choose", can't help but remind people of the TI4 champion Hao who "Give me the ghost, don't win the chopping hand".
Even the ridicule after the victory was very similar to those young and frivolous professional players back then. On the day of the finals of
, NetEase No. 1 player Jsc posted this sentence on his Moments: "I will play the best dota in my life after I wake up today." The sentence
is actually a tribute to the champions of TI8 and TI9. For Jsc, this may be the only chance in his life. In this regard, no matter what the result is, it is enough to do your best to play the game without leaving any regrets. This is his glorious moment.
Of course, "DOTA2 Internet Employee Cup" is essentially mainly entertainment. Whether it is a contestant or a player, they can ignore winning or losing to the greatest extent and enjoy the game. For Tencent, a "lose", various emoticons and memes are also coming one after another, including the "hard power champion" and the famous "fireworks" scene of TI8.
But enjoying the game and enjoying the fun brought by DOTA2 is what players and players want the most?
DOTA2 professional arena, have been bound by honor and fame and fortune for too long.Compared to the fun brought by the game itself, we often tie our hearts to the CN DOTA results. There is nothing wrong with this, but how long has it been since we hadn't enjoyed a pure DOTA2 game with our friends?
Maybe, our game atmosphere has really changed, but this does not mean that we will not miss the game atmosphere in the past, nor does it mean that we will really give up DOTA2.
May we enjoy the fun of DOTA2 again in "TI2".
Image source: Weibo @亚博A
Off topic - Interestingly, Douyu also plans to create a "LOL Internet Employee Cup" in the LOL partition.
Now, it has become a "original team".
