In the hearts of the majority of Chinese WAR3 viewers, the status of WCG events has always been supreme, and there is no event that can be compared with it for 20 years.
As a result, whether or not to win the WCG World Championship has also become an important criterion for many people to judge the strength and status of Warcraft players. There are many viewers who think that Moon has never won a WCG World Championship, so he can't be on the same level as Sky and Grubby, who have won two WCG World Championships. There are even those who think that Moon has never won a major tournament at all, because they think that all competitions except WCG should be called minor races.
However, there are also people who believe that WCG is not the most expensive WAR3 event, and the WCG championship is over-mythologized.
Regarding the topic of the gold content of the war3 game, the well-known Warcraft commentator Mr. Bo has something to say, so I will ask him to share his views today.
The following "I" refers to bo
Viewers who know me well know that Moon is the player I admire the most, but I'm not the kind of fanatical fan who has no brains, and I also see the strengths and weaknesses of my idols more clearly, and I definitely don't have a tendency to only talk about the advantages and not the disadvantages.
Moon does not have a WCG world champion, which is an indisputable fact, because every time he goes to the WCG finals, he either has inflexible tactical changes, or mistakes in operation, or problems with mentality adjustment, so since 2005, Moon has continuously lost to top masters such as FOV, Sky, Grubby, INFI, TH000 and other top masters on this stage, and has never won the championship. However, this does not deny Moon's strength and status in the field of WAR3, because in addition to not winning the championship at WCG, Moon has won several other world championships with higher gold content. Yes, you read that right, I think there are other tournaments with a higher gold content than WCG, and I don't think WCG is the most valuable WAR3 event.
From 2003 to the present (2024), there are at least two events in my memory that surpass WCG, the first is the PGL Professional Player League, which has been held for 4 consecutive sessions from 2007 to 2009, and the second is the ** league hosted by NetEase Blizzard from 2016 to 2021. 
In my opinion, there is a close relationship between the gold content of the competition and the quality of the participants. The quality of players is generally said to be the level of the player's competitive state, whether he is at his peak, whether he has won the championship results, etc., and the key factor that determines the quality of a player in a competition is the way the player is selected in the event.
PGL adopted the mode of private audition + direct invitation of top masters to determine the offline list of 16 participants, and the selection scope includes China, South Korea, and Europe, and basically no top master will be left behind. When it comes to the offline finals, PGL adopts a double-elimination system or a cross-round robin model to play the game, rather than the single-elimination mechanism that WCG has used for many years.
This is just like some educators saying that "one test for life" is too one-sided, and the way of "more tests for life" should be adopted. I'm not saying that the WCG audition process is not rigorous, the selection scale of WCG is also very large, and there will be sub-divisions in many countries, and then the top 3 players will be selected to represent their countries in the final world finals, but the biggest drawback of WCG civil audition is the BO1 single-elimination system. For example, in 2006, my country's well-known dark night player Suho was taken away by a Terran player whose strength was far inferior to his own in the sub-division, and he missed the China Finals and even the World Finals that year. The BO1 format is the most likely situation where the "weak defeat the strong" situation, because the race and map are uncertain, giving the folk masters a huge room to play, but also giving the professional players pressure and risk. This is a plus from the point of view of spectacle and entertainment, but it is a huge point from the point of view of the overall gold content of the game.
In addition, the WCG only gives each country three quota places, which also limits the quality of the players in the World Finals, that is, the level of gold content. Take the WCG 2008 World Finals in Cologne, Germany as an example, the players who represented China this year were TED, INFI, and LIKE three young players of the WE team, and in 08, these three people had not yet become the top celebrities who became famous all over the world. Can you say that these 3 people must represent the strongest level of Warcraft 3 in China at that time? Or do other Chinese players not have the ability to participate in the finals? I think the answer is definitely no. There is no doubt about the strength of Sky, Fly, TH000 and other masters, but they did not get a place in 08, and they lost to others in the inconsistent format of BO1 and missed the World Finals.
But PGL will not have this problem, because the organizer has made all the masters get tickets to the finals through early invitation, and the players who have not been invited will be supplemented through auditions, and after entering the finals, it is not "one round to win or lose", but a more stable "multiple rounds of deciding and losing", and the one who can laugh to the end is basically the stronger side.
Later, the ** league hosted by Netease Blizzard determined the final offline 16-person list through the "monthly competition point system" for up to 4 months each time, and the whole process adopted a strict "BO3 competition system", and there was almost no situation where one game of enlargement was directly eliminated. In addition, the league does not stipulate that each country can only have 3 players to participate, which also allows more players with strength to advance to the finals.
Of course, the gold content of the tournament is also related to the location of the tournament and the amount of prize money of the tournament. Generally speaking, the gold content of offline matches is higher than that of online competitions, and the gold content of high-prize events is also higher than that of low-prize games, while PGL and **League are both offline competitions, and the prize scale is not inferior to WCG.
That's why I think that PGL and ** leagues have a higher gold content than WCG. Moon has won both of these competitions, so it can't be said that Moon hasn't won the Grand Pride, nor can it be said that he is a notch weaker than Sky and Grubby.
But another question arises, some people say that you have blown PGL and ** league for a long time, why are these two events far less well-known and influential than WCG? Why is the first reaction of the audience when it comes to the war3 tournament is WCG and not anything else?
I think the reason for this situation is that the WCG has incorporated the concept of "national honor", and the players who won the WCG World Championship will wear the national flag on the stage to enjoy the unique pride and honor, so that the audience will change from "watching the game" to "watching the players win glory for the country". In addition, our Chinese emperor Sky won the WCG finals in 2005 and 2006 for two consecutive years, and Sky used the five-star red flag on the podium to justify the name of Chinese e-sports, which made the audience even more convinced that WCG is the highest gold content of WCG.
Therefore, WCG mainly wins in two points: one is to create a concept of "national honor" similar to the Olympic Games, which highly sublimates the theme of the event; Second, in this environment of theme sublimation, top e-sports stars like Sky were born, which made Chinese proud, thus further expanding the WCG's event dissemination and popularity. From this point of view, WCG is indeed smarter than other events, but the theme sublimation and the gold content of players are two completely different concepts, and it cannot be said that WCG is the most valuable competition because of these.
I don't want to deny or belittle WCG, because when I saw Chinese players such as Sky, Infi, TED, TH000, and FLY wearing the five-star red flag to win the championship, I also used to burst into tears in front of the screen.
The point I want to make is that the gold content of WCG is indeed very high, but it is not the highest that many people say. Moon has never won the WCG World Championship, but he has won other tournaments with higher gold content, and it cannot be said that his status is inferior to Sky and Grubby. It's not just WCG that is called the World Series, there are many, many wonderful things outside of WCG.
Everyone looks at problems differently, and many problems are inherently different. So how do you see the gold content of the WAR3 event? Everyone is welcome to have a rational discussion in the comment area.