People who like magicians like to call him Lao Yang. The TV station has a director teacher in his forties, who is very easy-going. Every time he records a program, he will see MagicYang, also known as Lao Yang, which often makes MagicYang feel at a loss. In fact, Lao Yang is not old. He was born in Xuhui District, Shanghai on April 28th, Gregorian calendar 198 1. On his 26th birthday this year, he just wanted to explain the live broadcast of the G League final held by GamesTV. In order to thank him for his contribution to e-sports and channels, the organizer specially prepared a big cake without telling him, and celebrated his birthday at the beginning of the live broadcast, which surprised Lao Yang.
Lao Yang is not tall, thin, with a straight nose, oval face and bright eyes, but he is calm and low-key, which is out of proportion to his age. He belongs to the kind of person who you won't notice when walking in a crowd. When I first met him, I thought he was informal and difficult to get along with. Later, I found out that it was only because we were not familiar with each other. Sometimes the live broadcast will last from 6 pm to early morning, and colleagues will go to eat supper together. When chatting at the dinner table, his sparkling and witty remarks almost became the source of warm atmosphere. Perhaps it is precisely because of this steady and easy-going personality that he is known as Lao Yang. Lao Yang is not surnamed Yang, but his real name is Zhou Chen. The name "MagicYang" comes from Lao Yang's favorite science fiction "Galaxy the legend of heroes". There is a hero named "Yang Weili" in the book, so people can use all kinds of tactics like magicians, so they are called "magicians". Zhou Chen, who was obsessed with tactics since childhood, always regarded "Yang Weili" as a hero, so he used MagicYang's name when giving himself an English name. MagicYang was born in an ordinary family in Shanghai. When talking about Lao Yang's childhood, what impressed Lao Yang's mother most was that Lao Yang liked telling stories when he was a child, while what impressed Lao Yang most was his cartoons when he was a child. When it comes to these cartoons, old Cindy Yang knows a lot, from the legend of heroes and Dragon Ball to Grand Theft Auto, Slam Dunk, One Piece and so on. He said that there are many inspirational and profound truths in these cartoons, such as the chef Sanji in One Piece. He firmly believes that there is an all-blue sea area in the ocean and he has been looking for it all his life. Xiang Jishi is willing to fight against any difficulties and obstacles for his beliefs, which resonates with Lao Yang. Therefore, Lao Yang used the name All-Blue in competitions for a period of time, which shows that these cartoons in childhood had a great influence on Lao Yang.
Regarding the learning environment of Lao Yang as a child, Lao Yang used the word "slightly limited" to describe the academic requirements of his family as a child. In this relatively relaxed environment, Lao Yang has a lot of time and opportunities to try his favorite things, such as all kinds of chess, especially Weiqi. Lao Yang said that he liked the overall situation reflected by Weiqi, and the calm chessboard kept playing the tactics of killing each other.
After Lao Yang became familiar with all kinds of chess and cards, he began to make his own chess. In junior high school, Lao Yang designed a set of naval games with World War II as the background, and designed more than 20 kinds of ships, each of which has its own attack power and defense power, and has its own characteristics of use. The game is played on the map drawn by ourselves, and both sides take turns to make moves, which is somewhat similar to the current web game. At that time, Lao Yang not only spent a lot of time compiling all kinds of game data, but also specially compiled a game rule, and then introduced it to his classmates and friends to play together, and constantly balanced the game. Lao Yang said he missed these games very much. Although they are "crude" compared with the current games, they were really interesting in the mid-1990s when computers were not popular.
Although Lao Yang likes brain games very much, even when he was in primary school, he had his own "red and white machine", but his contact with computer games was still relatively late, so his road to e-sports officially began after graduating from college.
In 200 1 year, Lao Yang participated in the WCGC (predecessor of WCG) StarCraft Competition in Shanghai, and lost to a player named Skye. The dragon is in the knockout stage. Lao Yang said it was a complete attempt and learned a lot.
At the beginning of 2002, Jin Yang Sr entered the last semester of university. He was recommended by the school to be an internship network administrator in an Internet cafe. After a month of boredom, Lao Yang resigned and went home to concentrate on preparing for the WCG Olympic Games. A few months later, Lao Yang successfully entered the final of WCG interstellar project with the name of "Artistic Conception" team member = Y.J. = WCG, where he met the SVS team's open competition, which was a "Zerg" civil war. After discovering that Open would use the flying dragon tactics in reconnaissance, Lao Yang quickly adopted the "explosive dog" tactics in three bases, killing all other farmers, thus winning the competition.
In the 2002 WCG China Finals, Lao Yang unfortunately fell into the loser group and launched a fierce battle with PJ, a famous domestic star player who is developing in South Korea. At that time, the two sides were evenly matched, and all the mines hit on the LT map were lit. Lao Yang took advantage of his opponent's mistakes and finally eliminated PJ, but was later defeated by Ma Tianyuan, who later qualified for the Korean finals. Lao Yang said that he planned to give up StarCraft after the WCG station in 2002, because through WCG, Lao Yang found that he was far behind the Korean masters, which made him feel helpless. Therefore, at the beginning of 2003, after Lao Yang joined the SOZ team, he turned to WAR3 Warcraft project with the help of his friend Qin Gan, and began to train 16 hours a day (BN is Blizzard's global network). In less than a year, Lao Yang became the number one 10 ladder server in Asia. BN ranked first, which made Yang Yi time famous in the world of Warcraft circle. MagicYang became the only China player known to Koreans at that time. The "big tree flow" tactics he studied and improved made Koreans helpless, and even forced Blizzard to weaken the attribute of "big tree" when upgrading the game version. However, the rapid growth of fame and fortune made Lao Yang feel a little uneasy. During this period, one of the competitions that left a deep impression on Lao Yang was the e-sports competition held by the domestic "Philips" company in Beijing, which left a deep impression on people for two reasons. One reason is that the organizer who invited him is willing to reimburse his air ticket from Beijing to Shanghai, which is his first time to fly. The second reason is that he suffered a fiasco in this competition. Lao Yang didn't even qualify for the group stage. This failure shocked Lao Yang, and at the same time made Lao Yang wake up, began to examine his own problems, and his mentality became more peaceful. In 2003, after a year's preparation and the baptism of various competitions, Lao Yang, Suho and China human(CQ 2000) won one of the three places in the WCG Korean Finals. His strong sense of winning glory for his country excited MagicYang, who had just gone abroad. In 2003, in WCG, the organizers took Warcraft as an official competition for the first time. At that time, the game version was "The Rule of Chaos", which was very different from the current game version. Because this is a relatively new game, not many people pay attention to it, and even fewer people study the details of the game and design various tactics. Lao Yang and Su He analyzed every game map before going abroad. For example, they found that on a map called "Dragon Hot Springs", when several monsters are attacking, if their hero is quietly hurt by an elf of others, he will be dissatisfied with his health when replenishing the spring water. As long as the other side doesn't pay much attention to this hero, he will be killed when attacking these monsters.
I didn't expect this detail to play a key role in the game. MagicYang met the Korean master Ex_Bifrost in the WCG2003 final. Lao Yang lost the first game, and the second game entered a heated stage. During the confrontation between the two sides, Lao Yang insisted on not returning to the city in order to wipe out more troops of the other side. Finally, when he returned to the city, the hero only had 1 health. After quickly replenishing his health, Lao Yang destroyed his opponent's base in one fell swoop. This decisive game is on the map of "Dragon Hot Springs". Lao Yang found that the other side was preparing to fight the monster on the map, so he quietly hurt the hero of Ex_Bifrost with an elf, which led to his hero's "accidental" death in the two-track battle. Lao Yang seized this opportunity, killed all the soldiers of the other side in one breath, and won the final victory. After the game, Ex_Bifrost, who has always been gentle, smashed his keyboard. At that time, he must have thought that his own operational mistakes led to the defeat of the game.
Later, Lao Yang incredibly defeated another South Korean orc player, TopSpeed. Vera is inheriting. It is these outstanding achievements that make Lao Yang known as the "Master of Resisting US Aggression and Aid Korea" by e-sports enthusiasts on the Internet. Unfortunately, Lao Yang met his teammate China (CQ2000) and lost the game, while China (CQ2000) won WCG2003 as expected.
Afterwards, some netizens questioned that Lao Yang was helping China manpower to clear roadblocks, and then deliberately lost to China manpower. Lao Yang laughed it off, but judging from his desire for victory, we believe the answer is no.
After returning from South Korea, Lao Yang immediately began to practice the new version of Warcraft "Ice Peak Throne" TFT, and signed a contract with GamEdge to become a professional e-sports player at the end of 2003.
Since then, Lao Yang has participated in CBI, CIG, World War I, ACON4, CEG, WCG and so on until the end of 2005. Although Lao Yang never stopped practicing, in 2004, he seemed to have reached a low point, and WCG was eliminated by SYC, which undoubtedly made Lao Yang feel depressed. Maybe people will know themselves in adversity. Lao Yang said that his advantage is that he likes to study tactics and games with his brain. Faced with such advantages and disadvantages, Lao Yang cried, laughed and struggled. When asked how to look at life now, Lao Yang summed it up in eight words: Journey to the end of the world, let it be.
At the beginning of 2005, Lao Yang and us. WEG TV organizers invited Sky TV to South Korea for a three-month TV league. Lao Yang played against Frenchman Todd for the first time. At that time, Todd was the fourth in WCG in 2004, and his strength should not be underestimated. Lao Yang used a surprise tactic, drilling while drilling on two lines, and using elves to burst hero's energy every time he met his opponent, thus delaying time and avoiding previous battles. Obviously, TOD has not responded to this novel tactic for the time being. Finally, in front of the army formed by Lao Yang, Todd played GG (short for GG, meaning to give up here). But Lao Yang Yi passed the test until he met South Korean player Moon Jae in. At that time, Moon Jae in was in full swing and was called "the alien of the fifth race". Moon relies on his powerful multi-threaded operation and rich experience in international competitions. Even though Lao Yang tried his best, he could do nothing about it. Finally, Lao Yang won the fourth place. Sky won the third place.
I believe Lao Yang must be in great pain at this time. The cruel difference between dream and reality tormented the tactician who longed for victory again and again, and the change of fate began quietly from this moment. After returning from Korea, Lao Yang was introduced as a part-time commentator of Warcraft by Zhang Zhexi, director of Game TV, and Huang Hao, director of Shanghai's "Lifestyle" channel at that time (later joined Game TV). The first video recording was made by BBC commentators. Lao Yang can't remember the details of the game. He said he was not nervous at that time. The BBC still remembers that it was WC3L. He said that when Lao Yang explained the game, he would suddenly come up with a better solution to a certain link, which really made people shine.
Now that two years have passed, the BM combination of BBC and MagicYang has been called a classic in the field of e-sports commentary, and their commentary cooperation is becoming more and more perfect, humorous and incisive. E-sports enthusiasts even collect and sort out their words and make BM quotations for people to browse on the Internet.
In an interview with the BBC, when asked about his impression of the earliest Lao Yang, the BBC said that as early as 2003, he had discussed tactics with Lao Yang, and he felt that this man had good expressive ability and was very suitable for the work of explanation. When asked why Lao Yang insisted on not retiring and still wanted to become a professional player, the BBC supported Lao Yang's dream of becoming a professional player. He said that although some people say that 18-22 is the golden age for e-sports professionals, as long as Lao Yang has enough salary to support himself and still sticks to his dream of being a professional player, why don't we support him to pursue his dream and let him do what he likes?
Lao Yang said, "I am not a perfectionist. If I lose, I lose. I will come back after summing up my experience. "
I envy him very much. Noun explanation:
*MagicYang style back to the city:
MagicYang showed us how to quickly separate troops in the program. He will first choose a relatively empty place as the foothold of returning to the city, and then put down a large building in the center of the army. In this way, due to the characteristics of the game-troops will make way for their own buildings, thus achieving the role of quickly dispersing troops.