If such a thing happened in 2020, it would definitely cause a huge uproar. The Daqian would probably be scolded all over the world for racism. In the end, they might even be sanctioned by the government. At that time, no matter how bold Boss Jia was, he wouldn't dare to do such a thing.
But 1996 was different. There were only so many e-sports players, and the impact of the incident itself was limited. It couldn't cause any waves, and it couldn't get a lot of media attention.
In fact, the two players who were forced to change their IDs went to the media to complain as soon as they returned to China. The media did publish two columns in the newspaper to report the incident, but it didn't cause any waves.
After all, if there was no force behind the incident, it was almost impossible for it to become a hot topic on Weibo overnight.
A few years later, as the scale of the e-sports industry continued to increase, when someone mentioned this history again, the response was much more enthusiastic than before. Many people were discussing the forced ID change.
But it was meaningless because all the major e-sports events were basically organized by the Daqian. Naturally, the Daqian required all the players to use a Chinese ID no matter which Daqian competition they participated in.
Not to mention the WCG, which was the highest stage, required all the players to use Chinese IDs. By the time some people realized it, it was already too late.
The entire esports circle had been in operation for more than 20 years. Everyone was used to seeing players all over the world using Chinese IDs. They were even proud of having a famous Chinese ID. By then, it would be impossible for everyone to change their IDs back to their original ones.
This was the power of capital. Some things seemed difficult, but as long as the capital wanted to do it, there was nothing that couldn't be done.
However, this incident gave the United States government an excuse to attack the Daqian. It also caused a lot of trouble for the Daqian. But that was a story for another time.
The next morning, Pei Le went to Boss Jia early in the morning and asked him to sign a contract with Boss Jia. Pei Le was in charge of setting up an e-sports club. He and Li Xiaofeng each invested 50,000 US dollars, while Boss Jia invested 400,000 US dollars. The total capital was 500,000 US dollars.
However, as the actual operators of the club, Pei Le and Li Xiaofeng each owned 20% of the club's shares. Boss Jia owned 60% of the shares. At the same time, Boss Jia did not participate in the specific operations. The entire club was managed by Pei Le.
"By the way, what do you want your club to be called?" Boss Jia asked with a smile after the contract was signed.
"I plan to make this club a gathering of the world's most elite e-sports players. It will be the best club in the world, so I plan to call it the World's Elite Club," Pei Le said quickly.
"That's a bad name!" Boss Jia shook his head. "There are very few clubs in the world that start with 'World'. Although it looks grand, it's not down-to-earth. Why don't we change it?"
"Then what do you want?" Pei Le quickly asked.
"World's Elite, which means the world's best. The word 'Jia' isn't good, so why don't we change it to 'Excellent'. We can keep the word 'World', so we'll change it to 'World Excellent'!"
"But the problem is, there's already a game called 'World Excellent'. We can't use the same name as someone else, so I think you should reverse the name and change it to 'Excellent Era'. In the future, our club will be called Excellent Era e-sports Club. What do you think?" Boss Jia asked with a smile.
"Excellent Era! Good name, no problem. I really like this name! "Pei Le immediately said. What kind of joke was this? Boss Jia gave you a name. How could you refuse?
Even if you didn't like it, you had to pretend to be happy.
Besides, the name 'Excellent Era' did sound very good. It was much better than the name 'World's Elite', which was also very tongue-twisting and down-to-earth in the eyes of Hua Xia people.
And so, in 1996, the world's first e-sports club, Excellent Era e-sports Club, was born. This was also something that would go down in history.
By the time Boss Jia and Pei Le finished talking about the club, the fourth day of WCG had already begun.
And on this day, all of the viewers watching the live broadcast were surprised to find that the English IDs above their hands had all changed into strange, square-shaped characters.
However, after the initial surprise, the viewers expressed that they didn't care. No one cared what a character's ID was called, but the TV hosts participating in the broadcast were a pain in the ass.
Central TV had given them a comparison table of Chinese characters and English phonetic symbols made up of three sheets of A4 paper. Before they commentated on the competition, they had to first familiarize themselves with the pronunciation of the Chinese IDs and the meaning behind the Chinese IDs. They were the ones who had to work the hardest.
Fortunately, the hosts weren't idiots. In addition, their IQ was quite high, so their learning speed wasn't too slow. Moreover, some of the hosts really liked this change because after changing the IDs, they had to explain the meaning behind the Chinese IDs to the viewers. That way, there would be a lot more content to talk about. For the hosts, this was simply too good.
The hosts were never afraid of talking too much. They were only afraid of not knowing what to say.
Back to the main topic, on the morning of the fourth day, the last two of the eight events, Heroes of Might and Magic and Crazyracing Karts, finally began.
Crazyracing Karts didn't have much to say. In a racing game, the fastest one would win.
Heroes of Might and Magic was a bit more troublesome. Because it was a flag type game, their competition was a flag battle.
Before the competition, all of the players would receive a certain amount of resource points. Then, according to the resource points, they would be able to allocate their own army. From the lowest Level 1 army to the highest Level 9 army, they could all use resource points to exchange for them. This way, according to the players, there would be different formations.
Every player had three minutes to choose their army formation. After choosing, they would directly compare notes on the chessboard. Because it was a board type game, there would definitely be a first and second player, and the first player would definitely have the advantage.
Therefore, the second player would have 100 more resource points than the first player. This was to make both sides as fair as possible.
After three hours of competition, the two games' preliminaries were considered to have ended. However, it was a pity that among the top eight players in these two games, none of them were from Hua Xia.
The last highlight of the fourth day was the finals of the Sword and Saber Divine Realm.
Very fortunately, there was a Hua Xia player in the top eight of the Sword and Saber Divine Realm. He was also the only Hua Xia player. This player's ID was Kid.
His ID was Kid because he was really a kid. He was only seven years old this year, and he was a child born in 1989.
It was said that this child named Kid had played an arcade game for the first time last year, which was also known as Street Fighter. After that, he became unstoppable. With his amazing talent, he successfully became the king of the entire Yao Du area.
Later, when he heard about WCG, he was determined to sign up for it. His parents were surprisingly open-minded. They actually allowed their seven-year-old child to participate in the competition, but the condition was that his father had to accompany him throughout the whole process.
However, WCG did not have Street Fighter. The only fighting game was Sword and Saber Divine Realm. Therefore, Kid could only switch to Sword and Saber Divine Realm.
Because there were only four months between the announcement of Sword and Saber Divine Realm joining WCG and the official opening of WCG, Kid had only played Sword and Saber Divine Realm for four months at most.
Even so, in the qualifiers of Monster Metropolis, Kid defeated countless players over the age of ten and became the champion of Monster Metropolis, successfully qualifying for WCG.
At the same time, he also became the youngest player among all the contestants. However, he was also the second player in Hua Xia who had the potential to win the gold medal.
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