Yesterday afternoon, LGD e-sports club held a press conference to settle in Hangzhou, announcing that Hangzhou is the team's home base, and its major teams including League of Legends and DOTA2 are about to settle in StarCinema Studios, located in Shiqiao Digital Entertainment E-sports Town in Xiacheng District. At the press conference, several tall cosplay beauties attracted attention. They are the players of the LGD club women's team.

LGD, who is affectionately called "God Father" by fans, is the only club among 12 LPL (the highest-level League of Legends professional game in mainland China, and the only channel from the mainland division to the annual mid-season invitational and global finals) club Establish an e-sports club for the women's team. Ning Ning, who is 1.70 meters tall, is the captain of the LGD women's team. After studying accounting in college, she finally chose e-sports because she liked it.

There are many high-value female players in the e-sports team. They all like the name "girl" and think this name is very cordial. Ningning, who was born in Jinan, is such a beautiful girl, but it was purely accidental that she took the road to e-sports.

Ningning recalled that when she was in high school in 2012, she suddenly discovered that everyone around her was playing e-sports: "It feels like e-sports is all of a sudden. Sometimes when classmates and friends chat, the topic is what kind of game they are playing. E-sports. I followed it a few times and found it to be particularly interesting. "Ningning’s first contact with e-sports was League of Legends and DOTA, which were very popular at the time. After playing, Ningning found that there are more and more girls playing e-sports, and there are also e-sports competitions "Meizi Cup" and "Goddess Cup" specially set up for girls. She has more energy to play e-sports. .

However, high school studies are very busy, and Ningning can only play a few games after class to "relieve greedy". As the level continued to improve, Ningning began to participate in some competitions, "League of Legends competitions, at that time, friends formed a temporary team to participate, and the team had no sponsors." At the time, parents often watched e-sports wearing colored glasses. Thinking that it is a video game will delay learning, so every time I go out to play, Ningning will only tell her mother "I went out to play", never said what it is. Fortunately, my mother didn't ask too much, so Ningning was able to "pass the blunder" every time.

When I was in college, I could earn 10,000 or 20,000 by playing games every year

When he was admitted to college in 2015, Ningning chose the accounting major following the opinions of his family. But she soon discovered that she was really not interested in accounting, but she liked e-sports more and more.

"After going to college, I have more freedom and I participated in more competitions. Generally, four boys and I will form a team to participate in some competitions." Ning Ning said with a smile. The champion has 5,000 yuan, the runner-up and the third place have 3,000 yuan and 2,000 yuan respectively. "If there is a ranking, everyone will have a few hundred yuan in prize money, which is very good for the student party. Optical Internet Cafe Organization There are quite a lot of competitions. I participate in dozens of competitions every year, and I can get ten to twenty thousand prizes a year."

Once, a friend who was a live broadcast website invited Ning Ning to do a live game broadcast, "I will pass with the mentality of playing." Unexpectedly, after a month of live broadcast, Ningning's popularity rushed into the top three on the site. An e-sports club in Hebei "fancy" Ningning through this live broadcast platform and sent people to Jinan several times to invite her. Ningning, who was moved by the sincerity of the other party, embarked on the path of professional e-sports players.

The conditions of this club are a bit crude. Five or six players live in a dormitory, and the monthly salary is only 1,500 yuan. In April last year, I heard that the LGD club was going to set up a women's team in Hangzhou. Ning Ning, who knew the strength of the "old godfather", came to try out and was successfully admitted on her own strength. There are currently 5 girls in the LGD women's team, Ningning is the only veteran of the team.

As long as you like it, your income is not a problem

Good-looking, play cool games, and have a lot of income... It sounds like the e-sports girls are very beautiful, but Ningning said that only they know the pay behind them.

"We usually arrive at the company at 12 noon and start training. During this time, we will also do some live broadcasts of games, and the training will not end until 10 pm. I sit like that every day, and training is very boring. Press the keyboard and mouse repeatedly to play e-sports." Ningning said, the training content is mainly "single row (playing alone) to increase the laning experience, and the second is to open a custom talent without runes to practice making up the knife. Basic skills. Sometimes after a day of practice, my fingers will numb, but the most tiring is the eyes. So as long as I get up to the toilet, I will seize the time to take a look at the green plants outside the window."

For e-sports players, physical fitness is also very important, so the girls dance in the dance studio every week. "Usually sitting for too long, you can move when you dance. Those who dance a lot are the dances of the Korean Sky Group, because the rhythm is relatively fast."

Although they paid a lot, compared to the male players, the girls earn much less. The annual income of a high-level male e-sports player can reach several million, while the income of girls is around 100,000. "It mainly depends on the number of players participating in the competition and the results." Why is there such a big difference in the income of male and female players? Ningning said: "The main thing is the degree of attention. Women do not have the kind of competition with particularly high attention. The exposure rate of girls is not high enough, so the treatment should be lower."

Although the incomes of male and female players differ greatly, Ningning still intends to "carry out e-sports to the end": "There is really no psychological gap. I think playing e-sports is very happy, as long as I can get fun from it, I will stick to it."