WGCS – World Gars Championships.
At least I heard that na because Rin-chan once took to the event.
But the last ti I went there, it was purely for fun, so I only knew that it was a huge gaming event.
“Well, that’s about all you need to know, Nana. It would be too long to explain in detail.”
After saying that, Rin-chan took out a tablet from her bag.
I caught it and looked at the screen, which showed the official website of the WGCS.
I take a good look at it, but I still don’t understand. Rin-chan then explained it to .
“The WGCS is always held in this format every year, an official world championship of the five gas and a special tournant of [All Stars].”
“Hmmm…, so it’s a combined event of six tournants?”
“You can say that.”
When I looked at the official website again, I saw that this was indeed the case.
The five gas and the All-Stars that Rin-chan ntioned are divided into different banners, so I guess the All-Stars is treated as a separate category rather than the sixth tournant.
First, I opened the banner for the five gas, and it showed an overview of each of the five gas selected to participate in this year’s WGCS.
FPS “Dead or Valet”.
TPS “Zero Wars 4”.
MOBA “Masterpiece”.
The fighting ga “teo Ring VS”.
And the VR gaming “Double Cross: Hazard”.
It looked like these five gas would be the titles to hold the world championship at WGCS this year.
I only know about Zero Wars 4, and I’ve never heard of the others. Wait, I think Rin-chan might have played the old series of teo Ring, the fighting ga.
Anyway, they all seem to have exploded in popularity over the past few years.
“They’re all nicely divided into different genres.”
“Nana-sama, it’s just a coincidence. There were two MOBA titles in the past year, and the year before last, there were two VR gaming titles.”
“Oh, I see.”
I thought it was great that there were no gas of the sa genre, but if I believed Touka-chan’s correction, it seems to be a complete coincidence.
FPS is an abbreviation for “first-person shooter,” a shooting ga played from a first-person perspective.
To put it crudely, FPS genre shooting gas are the ones where all you see on the screen when you play are guns and your arms.
The main reason for this is that you feel like you are in the character’s shoes, making the ga more imrsive.
The counterpart to this is TPS, the so-called “third-person shooter”.
This is a shooting ga where you control the character from the third point of view, where the entire body of the character you are controlling is reflected on the screen.
Depending on how you control the cara, you can see your character’s facial expressions, so it’s easy to get attached to your character, but it may not be as imrsive or realistic as FPS.
Next is MOBA… To be honest, I don’t know much about it either.
I think the official na is “Multiplayer Online Battle Arena,” and MOBA is the abbreviation.
It seems to be a sub-genre of “real-ti strategy”, and according to Rin-chan, you can simply think it as “a strategy ga”.
This are many gas where the structure of victory or defeat itself is simple, you win if you overpower the enemy while defending your own camp, but the pace is extrely fast, and it’s test your judgnt ability.
I view it as a camp-based ga. This is the genre that Rin-chan is the best at, and I am the worst at.
I’ve studied these three gas, so I have a vague understanding of them, but if you don’t know anything about gas, you’ll probably get a question mark above your head.
To put it bluntly, gaming and VR gaming are two completely different genres, even though they share the sa na.
Or perhaps I should say that the VR genre itself is too different from existing gas.
Tapping the controller and moving the body is completely different, and that’s why there is almost no overlap between the player bases of these two genres.
“By the way, what kind of criteria do they use to select these players?”
“Last year’s top five prize pools in WGCS-authorized tournants, with Masterpiece in first place with a little over 9.5 billion and Zero Wars in fifth with about 9 billion, I think.”
“Isn’t that too close?”
The sixth-place ga is 8.9 billion. Wow, that’s a very close race.
However, the number was only for WCGS-authorized tournants. Any non-authorized tournants were not included in the total prize pool.”
For example, unofficial online tournants are held by volunteers. If the ga is famous and popular, there is bound to be an unofficial fan-made tournant held via social networking sites.
Dragged by Rin-chan, I’ve participated in a few of them myself before.
By the way, the prize pool is not just the prize money for the first place, but the total of all the prize money for the tournant.
If the first-place prize is 500 million, the second-place prize is 300 million, and the third-place prize is 200 million, then the total prize pool is 1 billion.
“So, 9.5 billion….”
“The prize for being the world’s No. 1 prize for Masterpiece was about a billion dollars last year, I think? I don’t really rember; I’ve won too many tournants.”
A billion in just one year is a dream co true.
Probably because Rin-chan is a rich person from the start, she could say that without an inch of excitent.
In reality, only a handful of gars will be able to obtain that million dollars honor.
“So, what’s about the All-Stars?
“That’s the WGCS exhibition event.”
An exhibition event. At Rin’s words, I looked down at the tablet again.
I turned the page back to the top page of the official website.
I tapped on the All-Stars banner I had spotted earlier and opened the page to see the overview of the tournant, which also delivered an aweso presentation.
I was a little dizzy from all the details, but I read through it carefully.
Three things caught my attention as I read the overview of the event.
One. The genre of gas to be used in the All-Stars is not fixed, and the genre to be used in the next All-Stars will be announced at the end of the WGCS All-Stars Special Tournant.
I guess this ans that the genre selected will change every year. Sotis it will be FPS. Sotis it will be a fighting ga. This much I can understand.
My question is about the other two.
Two, the ga titles used in All-Stars are the latest titles that will be released exactly 30 days before the WGCS in global standard ti.
Third. For the above reasons, each country’s All-Stars qualifying tournant will be held using a different ga selected from the sa genre as the ga used in the main tournant.
To put it bluntly, I think it’s a ss.
If you take this explanation as it is, it ans that the All-Stars tournant will not use the sa gas that will be used in the preliminary rounds.
“What is this ss?”
“Well, that’s the reaction of most gars when they see the All-Stars outline for the first ti.”
“But of course…”
Rin-chan’s response reassured that my reaction was correct.
This is the kind of rule where one wrong move could result in disaster.
What if the environnt of the ga used in the main ga is a ss? What if there is a fatal bug? If it’s not polished enough, it could interfere with the whole managent of the tournant.
“Well, they will at least sort out the critical bug for this. That’s why they release the software 30 days in advance.”
“At least that’s what they want, isn’t it?
“Nana, the All-Stars is an exhibition that was different from other championships. This is a crazy competition where even bugs can be used as entertainnt.”
As if to admonish , Rin-chan explains.
“The uncoordinated environnt, the lack of routine, the unexpected bugs. It’s a place to select the best gars who can overco all of this, who have both luck and ability. In fact, it’s funny how many bugs are exploited every year.”
“It’s really a crazy tournant, isn’t it?”
I couldn’t help but laugh at Rin-chan’s amused expression.
It certainly sounds interesting if the rules are “anything goes” with bugs mixed in with world-class players.
I can’t say that everyone is equal, but it’s definitely a setting where dark horses and giant killings are likely to be born.
But if the use of bugs is a matter of course, the search for bugs will probably start as soon as practice is available.
“So, the national qualifying tournant is next weekend.”
“That’s right, but there’s a slight problem.”
“A problem?”
“One of the girls we’ve been recruiting for the VR division quit HEROES for family reasons.”
“Oh, that’s bad.”
That was definitely a problem. If Rin-chan scouted her, she must have been very good, and even if she wasn’t, it still ant that there were not enough mbers, so it was still a problem.
“I’ve given it a lot of thought, and I’ve want to use the Touka to fill in the gaps.”
“Touka-chan?”
“Fill in the blanks? Rin-nee-chan, say what…?”
Touka pouted her lips at Rin’s bold words.
But to be honest, I was surprised.
Touka-chan has always been a girl who can handle anything with ease, and she’s even been good at playing gas.
However, I had a strong impression that she was only playing because Rin-chan invited her, and I didn’t have the impression that she was so into gas that she would participate in a tournant like this.
Seeing my reaction, Rin-chan looked convinced and said.
“Nana, you might not know this, but Touka has a very high aptitude for full dives.”
“Full-dive aptitude?”
“What I ant is that she is good at manipulating avatars in virtual space. You can’t quantify it, but to put it bluntly, Touka aptitude is one of the best, even close to Nana’s.”
“Wow, you’re really good, aren’t you, Touka-chan?”
“I’m embarrassed to be praised by both of you.”
She said this while blushing.
Hmm? I think I just missed a very important thing ……?
“Is my full-dive aptitude high?”
“Yes, your aptitude gauge is broken.”
“Sadly, the latest technology has failed you.”
“No way…”
That’s not a complint. That’s definitely not a complint.
You two, don’t look at with that much sadness in your eyes.
“It’s okay, Nanaka. It’s one of your virtues.”
Toki’s misplaced follow-up, who had been quietly listening to our conversation so far, echoed hollowly in my mind.
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Full dive aptitude to the point where the scouter breaks ……! {it’s over 9000!!}
All joking aside, full-dive aptitude is sothing that grows with ti. If you can think of it as an indicator of how many out-of-human moves you can do.
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