Chapter 463: Chapter 285: Twin Legends Clash, Champion Crushed!

GAL League, Peng City Station.

As the most extravagant esports competition in history, the GAL (Golden Era) League has numerous stations around the globe, and Peng City is among them.

Almost every city with a station has built a dedicated GAL arena.

Take Peng City Station as an example; the main arena covers about 30,000 square meters and can accommodate nearly 28,000 spectators. Its design is similar to traditional football stadiums, except instead of a green field, it’s an electronic screen.

Don’t underestimate these venues.

You should know, the construction cost of such a huge arena is not low. Moreover, the locations of these arenas are without exception in top-tier global cities.

This means, more than the construction cost, the real challenge is securing a massive plot in every international metropolis.

But on the other hand...

It’s no wonder the GAL League, known as the "Esports F1," possesses such strength. After all, the capital behind the GAL League is extraordinarily powerful.

LOL? Dota? WoW?

Get out of here!

Purely from an audience perspective, those esports tournaments are okay, at least more successful than the GAL League.

But when it comes to the financial power of league teams, sorry, all the mainstream esports tournaments combined can only be overshadowed by the GAL League.

Don’t bring up things like the investors behind XX club being powerful, you really don’t understand how many conglomerates back T1 in this matter.

To evaluate the financial strength of a club or esports team, just knowing the name is useless.

Even with the name of a huge group, if they are stingy with spending, or spend money frugally, it means that although the parent company or investors are rich, the club remains poor.

In other esports events, the perks for top-tier players are around the million-level, which is only present in super-popular events like LOL.

However, the top-tier player’s salary in the GAL League has already exceeded a billion annually.

This is also why the GAL League can afford to build arenas in over ten major metropolises worldwide.

Aside from this, the wealth of the GAL League also has a lot to do with the "audience."

That’s right!

The clubs are rich, and so are the fans.

The initial audience, who loved watching the GAL League, mainly consisted of old players of the first "Star Emperor," and the "gold content" of players of "Star Emperor" doesn’t need to be explained.

As the influence of the GAL League continues to expand and begins to break barriers, it has attracted many wealthy men and women who don’t even play games.

So it’s true that the audience is wealthy.

Not every viewer is a wealthy man or woman, but the proportion is absurdly high in the GAL League.

Due to the high percentage of wealthy viewers, the tickets for every GAL League station are almost always in a "supply-demand imbalance" state.

Even though the official ticket prices have been increased several times, they are still sold out immediately upon release...

Watching GAL matches offline has become a new pastime for wealthy men and women, while those who can’t afford tickets can only watch the broadcasts.

He Kui is one of the wealthy men.

As a second-generation wealthy from Peng City, his family is quite powerful, living a life many envy by simply collecting rent daily.

After learning that this year’s GAL League in Peng City would upgrade to "Star Emperor 2" with the "Galaxy Set," he didn’t hesitate to buy a ticket at several times the face value.

"Wow, it’s really expensive!"

Though wealthy, he couldn’t help but gasp at the already high-priced tickets which were resold by scalpers at several markups.

But he quickly thought, this Peng City station’s match is very significant; it’s rumored that Ba will be there to supervise, so it’s normal for the ticket to be pricey, it’s not usually this crazy...

So why is this match so significant?

Of course, it’s because as the official sequel to "Star Emperor," "Star Emperor 2" has finally entered the GAL League.

Everyone is eager to see if the competition environment will undergo any new changes with the upgrade to "Star Emperor 2."

And...

Whether the full performance of the Galaxy Set in the GAL League can blow up the opponent’s hardware in one punch?

Yes, everyone wants to see this!

The Galaxy Set has been on sale for quite some time, and players have been buzzing about its driver bugs for a long time.

As we all know, the GAL League has never been about showcasing players’ controls.

Yes, operations are important!

No one said the player’s operations are unimportant; if they really were, how would top-tier players earn such high salaries?

However, the truly fascinating aspect of the GAL League is that major hardware manufacturers showcase their technology and hardware strength on the "competition" stage.

Massive DIY hardware battles!

And the contestants are all hardware giants in the PC and console fields, personally assembling an "invincible" gaming console, which is the core reason why the GAL League is so popular.

As everyone knows!

The GAL League values "extreme performance," not "durability."

What does this mean?

This means that in the GAL League, the machines assembled by each team primarily focus on squeezing hardware for maximum performance, without considering the "lifespan" of the hardware.

Therefore, during GAL matches, machines catching fire or smoking is common; midway through the competition, one side suddenly calls for a pause, and engineers rush to repair the machines or add liquid nitrogen, refrigerant, and such for cooling—scenes that are very familiar.