The audience had their spirits excited by the opening. The fireworks that were going on outside, the commentator's commentary, and the highlight reel from the past year felt somewhat lacking comparatively. The audience still hoped that it would continue. Even if the opening repeated itself, they still felt that it would at least be more exciting than the current program.
Amazing! Beautiful!
This was the impression that the audience received from the opening. But for professionals like Ye Xiu, the stunning opening was no more than just that. What he wanted to know was whether those characters' movements had been planned beforehand or whether they were being controlled at the scene.
If it was the latter, then this opening would be the mark of a new era. Utilizing projection technology to display Glory's matches —- if that concept had truly became a reality, then the audience would be able to see projections of the map, as well as the characters. The scene from the matches could then be shown to the audience. At that moment, not only the audience, but also the players themselves would feel as if it were real.
The scene! This was what it meant to be at the scene!
While the audience was entranced by the opening, Ye Xiu had quickly thought about all of this. Such a change would affect the business more. With the development of the business, more attention would naturally come. This would then, in turn, attract more people to Glory's eSports scene and increase the competitiveness of it. It would indirectly push the game forward.
The use of this technology would become an important milestone in Glory. Even though Ye Xiu couldn't be certain, using it in the opening of the All-Star Competition was already an indicator. Or perhaps the Alliance was doing it to test the technology. The All-Star Competition wasn't an official match, but it would attract a lot of attention. There wasn't a more suitable place to publicly test it out.
Would they still continue to test the new technology? Ye Xiu couldn't be more familiar with the All-Star Competition's layout. On the first day, after the opening, the first event would be the Rookie Challenge Competition.
The participants for the Rookie Challenge Competition didn't need to be chosen. As long as you hadn't been a pro for at two full years, you had the qualifications to sign up. Afterwards, you would then be allowed to freely choose from non-rookie players and 1v1 them. The two parties usually wouldn't use their own accounts, but rather they would use two equally strong characters provided by the host to fight. This was clearly done to take care of the rookies. If they had used their own accounts, then the majority of the rookies wouldn't compare to the veterans' characters. As a result, by equalizing the characters the two parties used, they would both fight on equal grounds.
Since the rookies signed up on their own, their information wouldn't be announced to the public. As a result, every year during the All-Stars Weekend, guessing which rookies would participate was a huge part of the fun for the audience. The rookies' popularity definitely wouldn't be able to compare to the Gods', but for Glory fans, as long as they were on the host's team, any of the team members would attract a huge amount of attention to them. Even more so, there were a few rookies whose names were quite renowned.
This time's Rookie Challenge Competition had quite a few rookies the fans were looking forward to, so everyone was filled with anticipation towards this Challenge Competition.
At this moment, the host, who was only heard but not seen, finally announced the first participant in the Rookie Challenge Competition: Team Thunderclap, Dai Yanqi.
When the name was announced, the applause from the audience wasn't too crazy, but it wasn't too quiet either. Dai Yanqi wasn't considered outstanding by any means among the rookies. If something had to be said about Dai Yanqi, then it'd have to be that she was a female player. For female players, fans always harbored a different type of anticipation and attention. That was why, when compared to the others at the same skill level, they received a bit more attention.
