Data Map: On December 3, 2019, the 2019 WUCG Sanya E-sports Festival opened at the Sailing Port of the Banshan Peninsula in Sanya, Hainan. College e-sports teams from 16 countries including China, the United States, South Korea, Malaysia, and Spain gathered together and would The global champions of the five major events of League of Legends, Dota 2, Glory of the King, Hearthstone, and King of Fighters 14 launched an impact. The picture shows the Chinese team of Jimei University playing the "League of Legends" competition. China News Service reporter Luo Yunfei
ChinaNews.net client, Beijing, April 24 (Xing Rui) The topic of "Wang Sicong 666 yuan as a game sparring for one hour" has recently caused heated discussions among Weibo netizens. While watching "eating melons", many people also became curious about the profession of "game sparring".
With the rapid development of the e-sports industry, many new occupations have been spawned. E-sports anchors and professional players have gradually entered the public eye and are no longer unfamiliar. Compared with the rise of e-sports trainers in the past two years, it seems a lot more "mysterious" by comparison.
Spend three million to find sparring
"E-sports sparring trainer", as the name implies, is paid to accompany others to play games. In terms of industry "terminology", customers served by trainers are called "bosses". If you are willing to spend 666 yuan to find Wang Sicong as a sparring partner, then you become his "boss".
Open the game sparring platform where Wang Sicong is located, the price of the sparring above ranges from a dozen yuan to tens of yuan per hour. It is not difficult to see that Wang Sicong's fee of 666 yuan is far higher than the general price of the platform game sparring.
Wang Sicong settled on a platform as a "game sparring trainer".
As the saying goes, "there is demand, there is a market." The "national husband" part-time game sparring actually reflects from the side that many young people have the need to "find someone to play games with me."
According to an industry data previously released by the game sparring website, in 2019, more than 27 million players were looking for the "great god" to play games with themselves on the platform, and about 68% of the users were "post-95".
There is no doubt that "find game sparring" has become a trendy entertainment method for this young e-sports youth. For their favorite video games, many users have shown amazing spending power. Taking the above platform as an example, the "gold master dad" with the highest order consumption last year spent a total of 3.08 million yuan to find someone to play games with himself. And from January 24 to February 29 this year, a 22-year-old guy from Shanghai, with an average daily consumption of more than 1,500 yuan, found a total of 12 "Great Gods" to play 1850 games with himself.
Data map: On December 3, 2019, in the e-sports education center of Changchun Health Vocational College, students practice the popular e-sports games in the classroom, and the teacher teaches the game operation skills. The college's e-sports and management major opened in September 2018 requires students to study a total of more than 20 courses within 3 years, and e-sports training is one of them. China News Agency reporter Zhang Yaoshe
"New rice bowl" for millions
The blowout consumer demand naturally attracted a large number of e-sports enthusiasts to start the career of the trainer. According to statistics, a game sparring app attracted a total of 2.9 million game sparring teachers last year, and 1.29 million of them made money by sharing game skills. The average monthly income of full-time sparring is up to 7,857 yuan, and the average monthly income of part-time sparring has reached 2,929 yuan.
In the e-sports industry, it has become a consensus that e-sports game sparrers can earn money, and some sparring trainers at the top of the pyramid can even get rich through this career. Earlier media reports reported that a senior game sparring teacher in his early 20s earned millions by playing games with others and paid off his mortgage.
Age distribution of game gods released on a platform.
Although not every e-sports trainer can achieve the "small goal" of a monthly income of 100,000, but to be practical, this profession has at least become a personalized profession with the opportunity to obtain a high salary.
In addition, game sparring may also become the occupation with the longest life expectancy in the e-sports circle. On the game sparring platform where Wang Sicong is stationed, the average age of the game god is 23.27 years old, and the oldest is 39 years old. Compared with the trend of younger e-sports anchors, players do not seem to be too demanding on the age requirements of e-sports trainers.
"Game sparring" also has official certification
After the game sparring profession has become more and more popular, the China Communications Industry Association E-sports Branch released the "China e-sports sparring standards" in 2019. This means that the "e-sports sparring trainer" has been officially recognized as a professional skill, and game sparring has also officially become a profession recognized and controlled by the state.
The document divides e-sports sparring trainers into three levels: elementary, intermediate, and advanced. To obtain vocational skill certification, you need to pass the theoretical knowledge test and skill assessment. Both scores are 60 points (percentile) and above.
E-sports training partner certification platform.
Although e-sports sparring trainers have qualification certification standards, some game sparring platforms do not require their sparring masters to pass the skills certification assessment. It's just that the price of accompanying games with a certificate is higher than that of ordinary accompaniment.
Some sources pointed out that since the document was put on the ground, half a year to February 1, 2020, the total number of e-sports training instructors (including the forecast names of all channels) was about 50,000, and the number of people who passed the assessment was 2500-3000 People around. Although the above data has not been confirmed by official channels, it can at least help people establish a basic judgment, that is, it is not as easy as expected to obtain a paper certificate, and excellent game sparring is only a few people.
The sadness behind the freshness
It is undeniable that there are indeed "big men" who can earn 100,000 a month by playing games with people in this industry, but these people are only rare in the circle. In contrast, many ordinary games sparring far from Wang Sicong's asking price of 666 yuan an hour of capital and confidence.
On a game sparring platform, a large number of sparring teachers have never received a single business since they settled in. In a highly competitive industry, in addition to having superb game skills, an excellent sparring trainer must also demonstrate a good overall quality in terms of emotional intelligence and communication skills. As a full-time sparring trainer, playing games may soon become a repetitive, boring, mechanical labor.
Information Figure: On August 23, 2019, the 2019 Hong Kong Computer Communication Festival opened at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center. The theme of this year's Computer Festival is "Technology Improves Life, Creates Unlimited Possibilities", and many well-known brands in the information industry are exhibiting. The picture shows many e-sports players participating in the e-sports competition. China News Agency reporter Zhang Weishe
In the face of mixed players, some game sparring encounters “bosses” with impure goals and poor comers. In the final analysis, e-sports sparring trainers are also a type of service industry, and the needs around socialism have been running through it. When appearance and sound have also become factors for players to consider when placing orders, higher demands are placed on industry regulation.
As a brand-new profession, the development of "e-sports sparring trainer" is undoubtedly still in its infancy. Behind it, there is not as bright and bright as imagined, some people earn millions every year, and some people get nothing. Even if you are full of love for e-sports, the way to accompany the trainer is by no means to go. (Finish)