The series of activities for the first "Taichung E-sports Festival" will be held from August 1st to 5th at the Lilo Center. The five-day event not only combines the Taichung Baseball element, but also includes the "League of Legends LSC Campus League Championship," the first Taichung Cup "Garena Challenger Finals” and "Hearthstone Championship Tour Taichung Station”, and so on, which is wonderful to be expected. The Mayor Lin Chia-lung says Taichung is actively promoting the ACG industry, and it is welcome all to join and accomplish the achievement with concerted effort to this event.

The Taichung E-sports Festival, sponsored by the Taichung City Government and co-sponsored by the Electronic Sports Committee of the Taichung Sports Federation, Specially invited the local professional e-sports team player, Lightning Wolf (Tom), who won the champion of the "Heartstone" World Championship this year, and the team leader, Bi Lian-li (Xiao Bi) as the spokesman for the event, and design the cool exclusive e-sports role "Captain Chia-lung", Witnessing the beginning of Taichung e-sports development

The Taichung Information Bureau held the "Taichung E-sports Festival" press conference today (23rd), the attendants including Lin Chia-lung, the city Mayor, Zhuo Guanting, the Director of the Information Bureau, Jiang Zhaoguo, the Councilman & the Chairman of the E-sports Association of Sports Federation, Zheng You, the Chairman of Chunghwa Telecom, Liao Fengmin, the Chairman of the Taichung Baseball Education Foundation, Zhang Taishan, the Adult Baseball Team player of Taiwan Life team in Taichung city, Lin Weizhu, the coachman of the Chinatrust Brothers II team, Xu Peijing, the Director-general of E-sports Association of Republic of China, Wu Jianrong, the Sub-manager of Taiwan branch of Activision Blizzard in Hongkong, Chen Xianlun, the Director of business cooperation, Chen Ren long, the Vice Principal of Ling Tung University, Lai Shu Ling, the Vice Principal of Overseas Chinese University, Cai Youzhan, the Chairman of Youth Senior High School, and so on. Person meeting
The service representatives such as Legislators Huang Guoshu, Lu Xiuyan, city Councilors Weng Meichun, Chen Zhengxian, were also present at the ceremony. E-sports Festival spokesman Tom and the leader Xiao Bi appeared as mysterious guests, proclaiming the opening of the Festival.

The city Mayor Lin, says that the e-sports has become a national sport in Taiwan. The Asian Games has listed e-sports as a demonstration competition. In the future, it may become the official event of the Asian and Olympic Games. Taichung is the leading city which holds the Taichung Cup "Taichung E-sports Festival", with hope to make Taichung a friendly city for e-sports development. It is grateful to Chunghwa Telecom for its sponsorship and support to ensure the quality and scale of this event, together with Taiwan's first world champion of Hearthstone, Tom, and team leader Xiao Bi as spokesmen for the event, and integrated with Taichung's baseball resources, even the Taiwan Life Insurance baseball team player Zhang Taishan and Chinatrust baseball team II coach Lin Weizhu will also organize the e-sports team to participate in the competition, the event can be expected and excited.

Mayor Lin pointed out that Taichung city is actively developing the e-sports industry. From the close cooperation between the municipal government and universities such as Overseas Chinese University and Ling Tung University, to the opening of e-sports related courses in senior high schools, the government hopes to cultivate talents from teenagers. Cooperate in industrial and academic fields, the city government has also invested a considerable amount of budget in planning to build a ACG (Anime, Comics, Games) industrial park in Shui-nan Wisdom City, inviting the common people to participate in the first city E-sports Festival in Taichung.

The Chairman of Chunghwa Telecom, Zheng, says that the e-sports industry has become a national sport, attracting many young people to participate in it, and driving a considerable amount of output. Besides the sponsorship of this competition, Chunghwa Telecom will also broadcast the whole process live. More investment in related business projects are the main tasks of Chunghwa Telecom. Like the 4Gamers familiar to us, has become a subsidiary of Chunghwa Telecom, and the game accelerator produced by this company has also attracted many e-sports players to use.

Mr. Zheng also sayes that the young people in 4Gamers are all the second generation of overseas Taiwanees, aging about 20 years old. Although they grew up abroad, they are now bacj to Taiwan to develop the e-sports industry. This is also one of the reasons Chunghwa Telecom actively invested in e-sports industry. "it is very meaningful to invest in the junior of Taiwan," he says.

The spokesman and contestant of "Taichung E-sports Festival", Lightning Wolf Chen Weilin (Tom), says that he feels very happy to be a spokesman for the E-sports Festival. His battlefield had been abroad in the past few years, but more matches have been held in Taiwan in recent years. When competing domestically, both the factors in audience and environment will make them feel more motivated and hope to be the champion in Taiwan. He is also very happy that he can work with his idol Zhang Taishan this time, looking forward to learning from each other.

Zhang Taishan, the Adult Baseball Team player of Taiwan Life Insurance in Taichung city, says laughing that in order to support the "Taichung E-sports Festival" launched by the city government, the Adult Baseball Team of Taiwan Life Insurance also organized three teams to participate in the competition. It was said that the tournament seemed to be arranged for a fight with Mayor Lin. He'll learn from Tom in private. "I should have won the Mayor!"

The representative of Information Bureau says that in order to promote the first Taichung E-sports Competition, the city government invited the Lightning Wolf contestant Chen Weilin (Tom) as its spokesman. He won the "Hearthstone" World Championship at the end of January 2018 and became the first world champion of “Hearthstone” in Taiwan

The first "2018 Taichung E-sports Festival" is composed of three major tournaments, including the finals of the “League of Legends” LSC Campus League Tournament guided by the Sports Administration of the Ministry of Education, and followed by the Taichung Cup "Garena Challenger", which is open to the common people to participate, even with a total prize up to NT $500,000. Also comes with the return of “Hearthstone” World Tour after the event held in Taichung last year.

The representatives of Information Bureau mentions that in addition to having Tom as the spokesperson for the tournament and participating in the competition at the scene, as the venue of the tournament are adjacent to the Intercontinental Baseball Stadium, the Chinatrust Brothers will especially cross the border to cooperate with the "Taichung E-sports Festival" holding "Brothers Confrontation" on August 4th and 5th at the Baseball Stadium. The Intercontinental Baseball Stadium will not only become the e-sports battle arena, but also the luxury family seat will be transformed into a "legendary battle seat." Fans participating in the event will have the opportunity to play a friendly match against Chinatrust Brothers players.

In addition, the preliminary contests under line will be held on Aug. 2nd at Blizzard Estadium in Taipei. The site for finals of the top 16 will be moved to the site of "Taichung E-sports Festival" on August 4th and 5th.

The representative of Information Bureau says that it was grateful to Garena and Blizzard Entertainment for their willingness to provide tournament authorization and Lilo Center to their dedication of areas. While Chunghwa Telecom is not only the main sponsor of the Taichung E-sports Festival, but also set up a professional stadium with their leading communications technology for the first E-sports Gala in Central Taiwan.