2. Association of Chinese eSports ACE 联盟

　　In an interview with the chairman of the Association of Chinese eSports, Pei “King” Le, he was quick to mention that this association was not aiming to control the teams. As a matter of fact, they do have some control over them. A team can’t participate in any tournament if the prize-money is lower than 250,000 RMB. At the exception of DreamHack and RaidCall EMS, the western scene does not have any tournaments with more than 250,000 RMB (i.e. $30,000) in prize-money. What does this mean? It means that if there was such an association for the western scene with the same regulations, teams would be playing only two tournaments (not counting the different seasons) throughout year. Isn’t it ridiculous considering that all the players who started playing this game did it because they enjoyed it and because they actually wanted to play the game?

　　在之前ACE联盟领导King的采访中，他很急于解释，联盟的目的并不是控制俱乐部。虽然话是这样说的，但是ACE在2013年对俱乐部的控制作用还是显而易见的。奖金池不达标(最低限25万)的赛事一律不需找顶级战队参赛，就算这些战队自己想去也不行。

　　在西方赛事中，除了最大牌的Dreamhack以及Raidcall EMS，没有任何赛事能够达到这个标准的。说到这里，咱们反过来看一下，如果西方俱乐部有了一个跟ACE相同的联盟，那就意味着2013年的Alliance、Navi之类的队伍只会被允许参加两项赛事。这是多么可笑的一个境界啊?但是，中国的ACE就做到了，愣是把为了游戏，为了竞技而奋斗的选手们限制得一年仅参加了5项赛事。

　　The Chinese teams used to have a significant advantage over the western teams with the team house and salary, but now that several western teams have caught up, the Chinese teams are now disadvantaged. Indeed, while the Chinese teams may still be ahead than most western teams with their team house and salary, they are way behind when it comes to playing the game. This year, the Chinese teams participated in ONLY five tournaments while the western teams played in no less than nine tournaments i.e. four more tournaments. This is already a pretty big deal not to mention that the format used in most of these tournaments actually allow the teams to play more than three matches no matter what. Some of you may not understand what I am trying to say right now so I am going to use numbers.

　　所以，曾经有着俱乐部，训练基地，薪资这些正式框架的中国战队到了今天已经在这些方面上被追上了，没有了这些硬件优势，反而多了一个联盟。这个联盟使得他们的战术打法以及临场应变能力急剧下滑，原因就是缺乏比赛。

　　One of the most powerful Chinese teams, Team DK, participated in five tournaments this year and played 30 official matches (11 Best-of-One’s, 4 Best-of-Two’s, 13 Best-of-Three’s and 2 Best-of-Five’s). The Swedes of Alliance played 83 official matches through eight different tournaments (45 Best-of-One’s, 4 Best-of-Two’s, 33 Best-of-Three’s and 1 Best-of-Five). What should you remember from this? Well, it does not matter how good you are, if you do not have any official matches where you can execute strategies or heroes that you have tried out in practice games, you will have poor results against the teams who can.

　　举个例子：中国的一个强队，DK，在2013年参加了五项赛事，总共打了30场(11个BO1，4个BO2，13个BO3，2个BO5 )。瑞典的Alliance参加了8项大赛事，打了83场(45个BO1，4个BO2，33个BO3，1个BO5)。这些数据说明的就是，不管平时怎么训练，如果缺少正式比赛，就是打不过。

　　Last year, before the second edition of The International, I hosted an event for the Asian participating teams, and despite having a low prize-pool, the teams still enjoyed playing this event. They did not care about the money, but it was still a good way for them to play some serious matches. After The International, some players even thanked me for hosting such an event. But now that ACE have entered into the Dota 2 world, hosting these online events are now impossible. Did ACE become too powerful to give a chance to their teams to practice?

　　去年在TI2结束后，笔者办了一个小型赛事，邀请了些许亚洲队伍。虽然钱不多，但是选手们都反映不错，说这种赛事不看重钱，重要的就是能有机会在正式比赛中找感觉。但是现在有了ACE，也就不再有这种小型赛事存活的空间了。ACE是不是权力太大了?

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