If it was an eSports competition after that, and the competition was not between players, but a map, this eSports competition would probably be criticized to death.
But in 1996, when eSports was still in its infancy, this wasn't anything out of the ordinary.
The process of the competition was as follows. All the players who participated in the preliminaries logged into their accounts and started the competition.
The map for this match was a map that Blizzard had specially created for this match: "Howling Abyss".
Well, this name was given by Blizzard's engineers. It had nothing to do with Boss Jia. It was really just a coincidence that they bumped into each other.
The Crying Abyss was filled with all kinds of level 60 monsters and bosses. At the same time, there was a point counter at the top left corner of the screen. Killing a monster would give you 1 point, killing a boss would give you 300 points, and advancing 1 meter would give you 1 point. There were also all kinds of special items that could be picked up in the Crying Abyss. Different special items gave different points, ranging from 1 to 100 points.
The total time of the competition was twenty minutes. The player with the highest score within twenty minutes would advance to the Top 16.
The competition sounded silly, but it was surprisingly interesting. Because the Diablo spectators' favorite pastime was killing monsters, they couldn't help but laugh when they saw the players helplessly killing monsters in the map.
As for the competition, it wasn't too boring. Because there were many players in the competition at the same time, the camera could switch between a dozen or so players. It was quite interesting to see the details of these players killing monsters and fighting bosses.
Because of the difference in score, different players would choose different ways to earn points. Some players would focus on mowing the grass and try not to touch the bosses if they could.
Some players would focus on killing the bosses and only take the bosses' points. Perhaps the spectators who had never played Diablo before would find it boring, but for the Diablo players, this was probably the most interesting competition in the world.
Since there were only twenty minutes of competition time, the Diablo qualifiers ended very quickly. The final sixteen contestants weren't as concentrated as in previous competitions, but were rather evenly distributed. There were nine contestants from different countries, and one of them was even a Chinese contestant, and she was a female contestant.
However, when Boss Jia saw this player, he couldn't help but hold his head. This player was none other than our beautiful Tian Yujiao.
Back then, Boss Jia and Tian Yujiao agreed that as long as Tian Yujiao won a Pokemon Tournament, Tian Yujiao would be allowed to play the game freely.
Although Tian Yujiao worked very hard, as mentioned before, when the last few Hua Xia Tournaments started, almost all the best players in the world came to Hua Xia to participate. Although Tian Yujiao worked very hard, she only managed to place in the Top 8. She didn't even qualify to enter WCG, let alone win a Pokemon Tournament.
Logically speaking, Tian Yujiao should have already lost and should have gone back to her studies and give up on the game.
However, how could Tian Yujiao give up? She hid it from her mother and secretly went to the Imperial Capital to participate in the Diablo Hua Xia Tournament. In the end, she won the Hua Xia Tournament and qualified to participate in WCG.
This caused Liu Cuifen and Tian Yujiao to start arguing. One of them thought that Tian Yujiao should go back and study if she didn't win the Pokemon Tournament.
On the other hand, Tian Yujiao thought that even though she didn't win the Pokemon Tournament, winning the Diablo Tournament was still a championship. Moreover, there were as many Diablo Tournament players as there were Pokemon Tournament players.
In the end, the conflict between the two could only be resolved by Boss Jia. In the end, Boss Jia stated that if Tian Yujiao could get into the top three of the WCG Diablo Tournament, it would be considered a win. If not, she should go back and study. Only then did the two come to an agreement.
Boss Jia originally thought that Tian Yujiao wouldn't even be able to get into the top 16, let alone the top three. This was because even though winning the Hua Xia Tournament sounded better than winning a Tournament, the Tournament was filled with experts from all over the world. On the other hand, winning the Hua Xia Tournament was only a Hua Xia Tournament player. It was a different story altogether.
Moreover, Tian Yujiao hadn't been playing Diablo for long. Most of her time was spent practicing Pokemon. Who would've thought that Tian Yujiao was actually a f * cking genius. She made it into the top 16 of Diablo Tournament and became the only Hua Xia Tournament player. In the end, she even got 12,832 points, placing sixth out of all the participants.
Well, from this score, it seemed like Tian Yujiao would have a hard time getting into the top 3.
After the Diablo Qualifiers, it was time for the sixth game, Grand Theft Auto.
Although Grand Theft Auto wasn't as successful as Red Alert and Diablo Tournament when it was first released, Grand Theft Auto's sales continued to increase every month. It went from less than three hundred thousand sales in the first month to over eight hundred thousand sales in the current month. It was a game with incredible potential.
Although it didn't have as many fans as Red Alert and Red Alert, it still had a lot of loyal fans. This laid a good foundation for Grand Theft Auto's future breakthrough.
Just like Diablo, Grand Theft Auto wasn't an easy game to plan for. However, Boss Jia was a smart person. He came up with an idea.
That was to let 10 players be randomly born in the map of a city, and then let these players kill each other until the last person wins.
Just look at this, isn't it very similar to a video game?!
Therefore, when Grand Theft Auto was broadcasted live, it unexpectedly became a dark horse. The game that attracted millions of fans in the future was also very popular in 1996. Soon, the audience discovered the great fun of this game. They could watch the players fight their opponents in all kinds of dirty, tough, and lucky ways. The fun of watching this game was no less than the fun of watching the Red Alert games.
Of course, in order not to expose the gameplay of the famous game in the future and let other game companies take the lead, Boss Jia did not choose to let the players freely explore the city to search for equipment. Instead, he placed all kinds of weapons, ammunition, and so on at the players' spawn point, allowing the players to freely choose their own equipment. However, there was a limit to how much money one could spend in this game. What kind of equipment to buy depended entirely on the players' consideration.
In a way, this was more similar to Counter Strike.
Oh right, I should mention that the development of Da Qian's CS is almost done. It will be announced soon.
After the Grand Theft Auto's Qualifiers, it was finally the climax of the third day. It was the Red Alert finals. The eight players that made it into the top eight would fight each other. Only the final winner would be able to pick up the second gold medal of the first WCG.
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