Chapter 128 - 110: The Three Titans of GAL

"On October 11th, I watched a ’Star Emperor’ Golden Era match in Jiangning..."

"It’s no exaggeration to say this was the most spectacular e-sports match I’ve seen in 2023, and also the most unforgettable."

"Star Emperor, a niche fighting game with only 200,000 average online players, and the contestants weren’t star players either."

"But the players are unknown, the game is niche, that doesn’t mean the match was boring! Quite the contrary, the level of excitement in this match was beyond my imagination..."

"The game isn’t famous, the players themselves aren’t famous, but their teams have quite a background!"

"Intel, AMD, Refused Protection Jia, Daren Shuo, Huazi, Sang, Logitech, Herman Miller, NVIDIA, Microsoft..."

"You think I’m reading a list of Fortune 500 companies? Wrong! I’m reading the official sponsors of the Golden Era League and the team names participating in the event!"

"To be honest, when I learned that a professional league of a niche game had a sponsor lineup even more lavish than the LPL, my reaction was as incredulous as yours in front of the screen!"

"But after watching the first six matches of ’Golden Era Jiangning Station’ on-site, I seemed to understand."

"It was indeed deserving!"

"It’s just like how 90% of audiences haven’t watched an F1 event but F1 can still be mentioned alongside the Olympics and FIFA World Cup as one of the world’s three major sports events."

"The Golden Era League of ’Star Emperor’ can be said to be an integration of technology, team collaboration, and player skills, a perfect visual feast!"

"Major first and second-tier PC hardware manufacturers and well-known companies showcased their expertise, assembled nearly perfect gaming rigs, and through various tech supports, fought fiercely in the game ’Star Emperor’..."

"Some may say, hey! Isn’t it just assembling a computer on-site then playing games, how could it be as exaggerated as you say? Even ’fierce battle’ came into play!"

"I know you won’t believe it, so next, please don’t blink, carefully watch every fragment..."

A series of smoking rigs emerged, the most dramatic even caught fire and burned right there.

The blogger was skilled at editing.

Firstly, using a vlog-style video, they briefly introduced the situation of the ’Star Emperor’ Golden Era League, then directly released the most exciting match segments.

There were rigs smoking, self-igniting, overloading into black screens...

Some players were holding their heads weeping seeing the black screen, some engineers rushed in with fire extinguishers for emergency rescue, some foreigners stripped off their shirts and celebrated madly when their team won, and there were screenshots of AMD’s skyrocketing stock price...

"The Jiangning Station match lasted two days, during which I saw NVIDIA’s mysterious 50 series new card not yet launched, Intel’s unreleased lab-grade independent GPU, and AMD’s sweeping CPU and GPU synergy."

"AMD won with difficulty, starting off 1-2 not smoothly and had on-site arguments between players and engineers, and even AMD Hua Country’s general manager mediated..."

"But they eventually overcame numerous challenges, in the crucial fourth round, the rig was already smoking, yet still persisted until the end."

"By leveraging the advantage of having both CPU and GPU as self-owned products, the AMD team overcame difficulties and ultimately won the championship at Jiangning Station with a 9-2 score and 27 points."

"AMD, YES!"

The video showed the touching scene of AMD reversing Daren Shuo scores and finally winning the Jiangning Station championship, players and engineers tightly hugging, and thousands of on-site spectators chanting AMD YES.

"Is it really that thrilling..."

Lu at the video’s end couldn’t help but feel emotional.

"AMD winning the championship is quite exhilarating."

Chen Ba also saw the video and commented with a smile, "The next day AMD’s stock prices rose, and Su even announced a release plan for a championship commemorative 7900."

Just this Jiangning Station championship already got them so excited, can’t imagine if AMD wins the 23-24 season championship what will happen?

Would Old Huang die of anger?

Thinking of that, Chen Ba couldn’t help but chuckle. He once invited Old Huang to participate, to form his own team like AMD.

But Old Huang seemed to look down on gamers, only agreed to sponsor, didn’t personally join the field to form a team.

Now he regrets it!

Seeing AMD winning Jiangning Station, Intel ranking third, competitors all stealing the show, Old Huang suddenly asked for a league spot.

Relying solely on Daren Shuo, Refused Protection Jia, Desolate Rainbow and such underlings is not sufficient, they’re just too useless, couldn’t compete with Intel, AMD.

Whether for reputation or stock price, Old Huang again started valuing the gaming community he once underestimated, deciding to personally step in.

Of course, Old Huang personally stepping in had another reason, which was the underlings not being competent.

Even with the technology used in the 50 series given, they still got hammered by AMD.

That’s one thing, but damn it, Intel, which specializes in integrated graphics, also came to step on the N card, even indirectly proving their independent GPU technology isn’t inferior through this match.

Old Huang couldn’t stand it.

Although he looked down on gamers, the company’s main business still focuses on AI computation development, but gaming business can also earn money.

Who wouldn’t want more money?

The head of independent graphics personally joined the field; Old Huang even sent a tweet, pre-booking Zhonghai Station’s championship.

"We will bring unparalleled new technology to GAL (Golden Age League) Zhonghai Station, the next station’s championship will belong to NVIDIA!"

Wow!