JJ Doudizhu Championships

JJ Doudizhu Championships (JJDC) is an e-sports competition organized by JJWorld (Beijing) Network Technology Co., Ltd. with the purpose of "bringing together the world's masters", attracting the participation of national landlord masters. Its predecessor was the National Landlord Championship that has been held since 2009, and was officially renamed the JJ Landlord Championship Cup in 2019.

## Brief introduction to the event

JJ Doudizhu Championships (JJDC) is a professional event officially held by JJ Landlord and an annual event for landlord enthusiasts, which has been successfully held for 13 sessions from 2009 to 2021.

### Origins of the event

JJ Doudizhu Championships originated from the National Dou Landlord Championship hosted by JJ Dou Landlord, a well-known chess and card competition platform in China, and is a national Dou Landlord Championship with wide influence. The number of participants and the total amount of prize money have increased year by year, and the event mechanism and rules have been continuously improved and developed.

### Event development

The most prominent changes in the course of the annual event are:

## Event content

### Key features:

The biggest feature of the JJ Landlord Championship Cup is its original and gradually improved *duplex team competition* mechanism. Fighting landlords originated at the end of the last century, from the popular traditional poker game in Wuhan "run fast" evolved, and its characteristic is that the players who fight independently in traditional chess and card games are divided into two camps: "farmers" and "landlords", and "farmers" fight against "landlords" through cooperation. In this case, the regular landlord competition usually only has an individual competition, and even if it is contested in the form of multiple rounds of points competition, it is difficult to eliminate the common "luck" factor in card competition.

In order to enrich the competition system and ensure fairness, the JJ Landlord Championship Cup has created a new team competition mode of compound team competition. The compound team competition requires two teams to send four players each, and two by two groups, staggered sitting at two tables, the two tables of players are called points, the successful players become "landlords" and get hole cards, the other player at the same table automatically becomes a "farmer", and the teammates at this table withdraw from the table to watch the game. The two tables are assigned exactly the same hand, that is, the same deck of cards is handed over to the two teams to play once separately to eliminate the randomness in the traditional landlord game, to ensure the fairness of the game and pay more attention to the technical factors of the players. The mechanism of the compound team competition ensures the fairness and competitiveness of the team competition to the greatest extent, and has become a highlight of the JJ Doudi Champion Cup series [8]  。

### Main format

During the period of the National Landlord Championship, the competition system changed greatly, mainly from online and offline dual channels for auditions, and then through the sub-station competition level by level, and finally the finals.

Since 2019, when it was officially renamed as the JJ Dou Landlord Championship Cup, a standardized season system has been established after the introduction of the e-sports competition system. The annual schedule is divided into three main stages: Spring Round, Autumn Season and *Champions Cup* Finals, and the quota for the Finals of the season will be allocated according to the results of the Spring Season and *Autumn* *Round*.

The specific format includes:

 Spring/Autumn Tournament Main Event
 Finals
The 16 teams that emerged from the play-in rounds will continue to compete in a double-elimination format for the title.

## Past Winners

The above list is all summarized from the previous results page of the official website of JJ Doudizhu Championship, please refer to this website for more winners.

## Related Characters

### Match commentary

*JJ Gaoyuan*: A well-known veteran, he has won countless championships in various landlord competitions, and is known as "the king of kings". After settling in Douyin, he adjusted his commentary and live broadcast style, and in 2020, he was the outstanding live broadcast author of Douyin of the year, and was known as the anchor who was "the best at talking cross talk in the landlord world, and the best at playing landlord in the cross talk world".

*JJ Zhang Hao*: The gold medal commentary of the official event of JJ Dou Landlord, the guest commentator of the ace column of Tianjin TV Sports Channel's "Flag Victory", the commentary style is delicate and rigorous, and he can really analyze the game from the perspective of the players.

*JJ Xiuyan*: A veteran of the landlord class, the commentary style is stable, accurate, and ruthless, and the comments are to the point, and he is famous for his chivalrous style.

### JJ Guild Streamer

With the rapid development of the professional tournament of the JJ Doudizhu Championships, it has also cultivated its own guild anchor matrix, with a large number of masters and different styles. For example, Mr. A Jiu, Hunan Famous General Hong Jiang, Confucian War Hero, JJ Digkai, Hunan Famous General Lost Happiness, Forbidden Dongzi, Hunan Famous General - Exclusive, JJ Million as well as birds, samples, and so on.

## Live streaming platform

JJ Live, Douyin Short Video, Douyin Volcano Edition, Kuaishou Games, Douyu Live, Huya Live, Watermelon Video, WeChat Video Account, Bilibili Live, Penguin Esports, YY Live, Weibo Live, Yi Live, Pipi Shrimp APP and PPTV Smart TV can directly watch the live broadcast of the event.

## Tournament evaluation

The JJ Doudizhu Championships has created a national chess and card e-sports IP through the trinity of "events, teams, and anchors", which has attracted the attention of millions of netizens and is another demonstration of the high-quality e-sports industry environment in Chengdu and Taurus.

In the past, offline competitions were difficult to scale due to factors such as venue conditions, and pure online competitions were only at the level of players' self-entertainment because there was no standardized management and event system - only by introducing the system of e-sports events can this event find a channel for improvement. On the one hand, it can not only meet the needs of players, but also make the best players stand out with the tough schedule of professional esports events. The vigorous development of chess and card e-sports is also an effective brand expansion of the current ecology, which can largely cover more age groups of e-sports users, and China's e-sports population will not only be limited to young people.

After the e-sports, players spontaneously completed the regionalization of the team, and the diversity of the participants also truly realized the concept of "e-sports for all" and lowered the threshold for e-sports.

With the innovation and upgrading of technology and competition system, the traditional Dou Landlord project is quietly building a digital ecology, and practitioners in the industry are also benefiting from it. In the era of digitalization, chess and card projects such as fighting landlords are greatly breaking through their own margins, and all the work, in the final analysis, is to let more people love and participate in chess and cards, so that China's traditional chess and card culture can be inherited and carried forward.