FiO @ 电子竞技

发表于GGL.com，自己转自己的文章应该不违反他们的Writer's Agreement吧？反正我没有仔细看，太烦人了，最头疼的就是什么合同条款……

第二章正在写作中，是一位现在玩家们可能都不熟悉的老牌Quake3高手，能和RB齐名的。名字就不透露了。

http://www.ggl.com/news.php?NewsId=2457

Yan Ying is a common name that would not be familiar to most of the players in China. But mention the nickname “Maverick" and it would reverberate like thunder for Chinese Quake players. After all, he's considered the Godfather of Quake in China, the man most credit with jump-starting and focusing the concept of competitive gaming and V-sports for Chinese gamers.

Every child has his own long-range dream-- Maverick once wanted to be a aviator. Perhaps the dream of flying high and running quick was the inspiration for his achievements on the Chinese gaming scene.

Q3ACN.COM

China’s biggest Quake Site, Q3acn.com, was founded Oct, 9, 1999 by Maverick and fellow gamers Huang “Stoneman” Lei (the editor of Gaming World, a popular Chinese magazine); Chen “Sunky” Liangyu; (one of the top Chinese Quake 2 and Quake 3 players); Nie “nbp” Jing (the editor of “Computer Business Information – Gaming World, and a highly-regarded player in China); and Zhang “MZ” Liangyu (Maverick’s friend and now the assistant manager of Tian Fu Gaming Hotline, a well-known Chinese gaming news magazine).

Their goal was to create the most professional web site in the Chinese gaming world, a serious endeavor that would provide a home for the country’s growing gamer community. Q3acn refused to take advertisements early in its existance, focusing on being an independent and generally fun source for news of China’s Quake gaming scene.

Maverick had a hard fight on his hands to establish the magazine. There was a lot of prejudice against gamers, with many saying the violence of gaming would block its progress in China. As such, despite its popularity, it never established a revenue stream that would allow it to thrive financially. Its fortunes have lately waned, as Chinese gamers are now focused more on Counter-Strike and the Quake 3 community has departed for Quake 4. Even Maverick, ever the optimist, admits that the site will likely slowly fade away.

In May, 2000, Maverick left his job at CBI Gaming World and went to Beijing to take a job with Softchina Inc. to begin another chapter in his legendary gaming caeeer. Impressed with the rapid growth of Q3acn.com, and noting the expansion of gaming in other parts of the world, Softchina hired Maverick to set up and stage pro gaming tournaments in China.

The first fruit of his new job was the Impect-Extream China Quake Tournament, held in August, 2000. The tournament, the first major event in China, offered a prize of 83,000 yuan (about $10,000 U.S.). The average salary of a Beijing citizen at that time was 1000 yuan, so, naturally, the tournament caused a lot of excitement. It used the CPL gaming system and management method, but was not the official China stop of the CPL World Tour.

Maverick was only 27 at the time, an old man by gamer standards, but still ambitious and brimming with ideas on where to go next. Despite still facing problems with negative perceptions of gaming, Maverick continued on, organizing Chinese game tournaments.

In 2001, he made yet another move that had a major impact on Chinese gaming. Maverick flew to Korea in 2001 and became the first Chinese journalist to cover the World Cyber Games. His passion for gaming was reflected in the now-legednary article, “Honor Goes To The Gamers,” which lit a fire among gaming fans, helping yet again to grow gaming. In that article, he coined the phrase, “By Quakers, For Quakers,” and it became something of a battle cry among his legion of fans. Yet Maverick remained humble about his role in creating the enthusiasm. “This site is for the Quakers and created by all Q3a gamers. It doesn’t belong to me. I’m just guiding the direction.”

Today, Maverick is 33, and remains optimistic that gaming is just starting to grow in China. Despite his prominence in the gaming community, he is known universally for his kindness toward all. His fame is such that he often has to disguise himself and go on a public server in order to find someone to fight. “It’s a pity I haven’t played in any tournaments,” says Maverick. “I’m not a bad dueler on Quake 3.”

His current job is working on the Ninjas in Pajamas official Chinese gaming site. He continues to also be an active promoter of the gaming scene, although he seems to, at times, pine for the early days and sinple joys of the early scene. "Whatever Chinese gamers have won nowadays, I can’t compare it to the feeling I had when RocketBoy won the 4th prize in WCG," Maverick told me. "You know, it still affects me to the point I’m incapable of putting that feeling into words.”