This summer, the sober Yang Mi almost dominated the variety show, the short-lived Hua Shao Camping Season, the just-started Secret Escape Season, and the "Fight to the Peak" that caused widespread discussion some time ago.
Even if it is just a passerby fan, Yang Mi is a real game expert and is quite capable in Honor of Kings. This time in this controversial variety show, the most uncontroversial thing is Yang Mi's level and attitude.
As we all know, domestic variety shows now like to engage in workplace experiences and focus on "niche" professions in various traditional perspectives. "Fight to the Peak" has set its sights on the e-sports field, allowing more than 20 stars to experience the competition and training life of professional e-sports players. Yang Mi became a hot search in the first episode of the
program. It’s not because she performed poorly, but because she was too serious and facing her teammates who could not help her, Yang Mi completely lost her expression management.
netizens won the bamboo shoots and quickly made a batch of emoticons that were icing on the cake:
In the first game, when five people in the team could not play jungle, Yang Mi took the initiative to give up her position where she was good at and assumed the jungle position. During the game, Yang Mi was commanding the whole process, but his teammates didn't like to communicate. They played their own games and did not cooperate at all. Some mysterious operations even appeared: Yang Mi called her teammates , Dada , and paid attention to the positioning to help him get the river road. He was like installing a shield, deaf ears.
can be called a loser in the game of eating chickens. Yang Mi was completely speechless in the face of 0-8 results, and the scene was very embarrassing. Old fans of ten years have said that they have never seen such big mi - with seven points of despair, two points of embarrassment and one point mixed with a contemptuous smile, trying their best to suppress anger, helplessness and sense of collapse. After the game, even the coach said that Yang Mi was really not easy. In another game behind
, Yang Mi was still shouting wildly, but her teammates did not respond.
No matter whether you have played Honor of Kings or not, you must know the importance of teamwork at work and have also experienced the lethality of pig teammates. Therefore, Yang Mi's performance cannot be called failure in expression management, but the reality of the world. The topic #Yang Mi is very similar to me playing games# has become a hot search, and netizens also feel sorry for Yang Mi.
There are many female contestants in this show, including Aunt Xue Wang Lin, who has no experience in gaming, , Song Zuer, , , Meng Jia, and , Li Xueqin, , and , who are interested in e-sports but need to improve technology, and there are also "seed players" with very good levels like Xue Ming and , Lai Meiyun, .
Wang Lin wants to withdraw from the show because of her age and not being able to match the pace of the game; Xue Ming lacked popularity in the entertainment industry because he was a female volleyball player before, and encountered the embarrassing dilemma of no one choosing to form a team; Lai Meiyun even experienced the conflict between teammates and coaches, and was unable to persuade him...
The program has been updated to the fifth episode, and the confrontation between teams has gradually entered a white-hot stage, and the problems mentioned above have been slowly solved over time.
But Yang Mi's team paid a heavy price for underestimating the enemy and lack of communication, and unfortunately lost two consecutive losses. After all the
competitions were over, the coaching team ranked all the players participating in the competition in a separate position, and the second place in the battle was given to Wang Lin, who had the greatest progress, and the best player was given to Lai Meiyun. Yang Mi, the middle kaleidoscope, came to the second place because the hero he selected was too single.
After experiencing the initial "pain", these female players seem to have obtained their own inspirational "script" of their passionate e-sports - no matter what age or background, as long as you work hard, you can win and applause. Even if you lose a game, you will have a chance to do it again.
But in real life, women in the e-sports field are not facing such a rich and friendly world.
Many people don’t know that in this era of loudly calling for gender equality and opposing industry gender discrimination, and in an era when the e-sports market is booming, e-sports may be one of the industries with the most serious gender discrimination.
As of May 2017, female players accounted for 54.1% of the total number of users of "Honor of Kings".However, although there are specially set up women's open competitions in non-professional events, the professional arena of "Honor of Kings" has not yet welcomed female players. It was not until October 2020 that Huobao Esports announced that it would join the K-League under the title of "E-Sports Women's Team" and entered the stadium with a roster of three female players, and that it began its career path as a female player in Honor of Kings.
However, how will this team develop in the future? In the daily training sessions since then, the female players of the Fire Leopards always appeared as substitutes. What's even more excessive is that by the 2022 roster, there are no female players left in the Fire Leopard Team.
says, "E-sports competitions, food is the original sin." Girls are just a dish to play games, and they have become a stereotype . Just like, football is not a sport for girls, wrestling is a sport for girls, boxing is not a sport for girls, they can only jump rubber bands from , kick shuttlecock , and play with dolls since they were young.
The stories of Chinese women's football team, "Wrestle Dad" and "Million Dollar Baby" gave a loud slap in the face. Isn’t Yang Mi’s level in “The Battle to the Peak” beat some male contestants? Didn’t Lai Meiyun’s serious attitude teach some people a lesson?
E-sports has been developing in China for 20 years, and stereotypes have been formed, and it seems to be the "man's game".
does have many clubs that select female players, and there is even a thought-provoking phenomenon. When selecting men's teams, they only need to be demanding their grades and game levels, but women's teams are required to attach photos and measurements in addition to their grades.
Compared with men's e-sports that have a complete set of mature youth training systems and selection processes, this statement does not even exist in the field of women's e-sports.
The general consensus a few years ago was that the expectation given by female players was to make money through their good-looking appearance and the identity of female professional players. Strictly speaking, they are not considered real professional players.
This situation is changing step by step, but the road ahead is still long. The professional threshold for female and male players is not a unified standard line, but is lower.
Even in the face of doubts and prejudice, there are still many girls chasing their inner love and devoted themselves to their e-sports dreams. They hold their breath in their hearts, both to prove themselves and to prove that girls can become the king of the e-sports world through hard work!
Written by: Meijiang
Image source: Weibo, video screenshot
