After a whole day, the preliminaries were finally over. There were 27 groups of contestants in the preliminaries, and 10 people were selected from each group, for a total of 270 people.
Including the 48 contestants who successfully passed the revival round and advanced to the second round of the semi-finals, there were a total of 318 people who passed the preliminaries.
The statistics showed that there were a total of 323 contestants who had mastered more than 10 languages and were on the invitation list who had directly advanced to the semi-finals.
That meant that there would be 641 people participating in the semi-finals tomorrow.
As for the registered Awakened ones from the Broca area like Park Changnam, Butler Gaye, and Chu Zijin, as well as well-known scholars like Will Bartz from Oxford, there were a total of 45 people who were waiting in the final round of the finals for the contestants who had emerged from the semi-finals.
On the first day of the competition, other than Chen Guang in the first group who had caused trouble, the other 26 groups were uneventful. It could be considered a successful conclusion.
However, as the organizers of the competition, the middle-level leaders of the Huaxia Language Association and Tianguang Agency did not dare to look at the limelight online.
Really, there was no need to look. It was definitely all scolding. This time, even Chen Guang's fans could not wash it away.
In fact, it was not as simple as not being able to wash it away. There were also many fans who had turned against him.
Although there had always been haters lurking in Chen Guang's live-stream room, it was just as one of the viewers had said. He had been continuously sending gifts to Chen Guang's live-stream room. Although he had never won first place that day, he was undoubtedly a die-hard fan of Chen Guang.
However, this time, he had also turned against him.
And because he had been caught by the people in the bullet screen, he was very determined to turn against him.
The reason was that too many people felt that Chen Guang had cheated too crazily and had no bottom line.
After a busy day, Little Cong lay back and leaned against the chair. Although he had been sitting in the chair all day and had not moved much, he really felt weak all over.
However, he could not rest yet. On the computer screen in front of him was a report of the day's data.
Looking at the report, his eyebrows were tightly knitted.
The situation was not as good as he had imagined.
The two channels in Chen Guang's live broadcast room reached its peak when the first group he was in went on stage to compete. There were about nine million viewers.
However, ever since his match ended, the number of people online began to plummet. By the time of the match in the afternoon, the number of people online had even fallen below two million. It was even lower than when he usually played games and livestreamed.
This wasn't good news.
Could it be that Huaxia's number one online celebrity, Chen Guang, was going to fall because of this incident?
Since they hitched a ride on Chen Guang's car, and with the recent increasingly fierce and increasingly popular live broadcast, the market value of Bamboo Live Broadcast has increased nearly tenfold.
How could Little Cong bear to get off the bus?
However, if Chen Guang's image crumbled, his bamboo would also suffer.
Xiao Cong picked up his phone again and again, wanting to call Chen Guang.
But in the end, he didn't make the call.
His relationship with Chen Guang wasn't that close, and he understood that good advice was unpleasant to the ear.
There were other people around Chen Guang.
What needed to be said must have already been said to him.
With his relationship with Chen Guang, it was really not suitable for him to say bad advice.
"Mr. Chen, Mr. Chen!"
A heart-wrenching roar came from Chen Guang's phone, and it was Huang Changming's voice on the other end.
Chen Guang moved the phone a little further away. "President Huang, what's the matter?"
Huang Changming opened his mouth and wanted to say it, but because it was a phone, he was worried that the content of their conversation would be leaked, so he had to cover it up. "I've been looking for you everywhere since the match ended. Where are you?"
Chen Guang ate two mouthfuls of rice. "Going back to the hotel for dinner."
"Are you free at night? I have something to talk to you about. "
"No time, busy."
Chen Guang didn't need to think to know what Huang Changming had to do.
"Hey … don't!"
Chen Guang ignored him.
Huang Changming said again, "Mr. Chen, what do you think about today's matter? Otherwise, tomorrow you will … I heard you have a bad cold? "
Chen Guang said, "President Huang, I'm not sick. I'm fine."
"No, no, no. You're sick."
"You're the one who's sick!"
Chen Guang hung up the phone. Didn't this guy want him to pretend to be sick and forfeit the match tomorrow?
What's wrong with you!
"Old Huang, what did he say again?"
Shi Congde moved his head over and carefully sized up Huang Changming's ashen face.
Huang Changming sighed. "He knew what I wanted to say, so he hung up."
Shi Congde slammed the table and said angrily, "Ridiculous! This guy doesn't even care about his face! No, he must be disqualified from the competition tomorrow! How can anyone be as shameless as him? Didn't you hear what he said in his live broadcast after the match? He said he knows 4,978 languages! And they are all the same as his mother tongue! This is the most shameless person in China in 5,000 years! "
"Disqualified? Stop joking, we don't have any evidence. "
"Do we still need evidence?"
"Don't we? Old Man Shi, have you gone stupid from studying so much? I wanted him to pretend to be sick and forfeit the match. That's the only way. No matter what people say, it's not true. We can still deal with it. But to disqualify him, isn't that a confession? "
"But he doesn't agree!"
"Sigh, what can we do? Don't ask me. I don't know either. "
Chen Guang did not know how many calls he had hung up on that night. There were at least ten people who wanted to persuade him.
In the end, he simply turned off his phone. No one could persuade him.
Even the Heavenly King can't persuade me.
When I'm angry, everyone's face will be slapped!
I'll even hit myself!
The next day, looking at the 16 million viewers in the live broadcast, Xiaocong blinked his eyes. He thought he was blind.
"Brother Hu, is there something wrong with the data? What's going on? 16 million viewers? "
Chang Xiaocong waved his hand and called Brother Hu, the person in charge of Bamboo Technology.
Brother Hu ran over, sweating profusely. "Director Chang, there's nothing wrong with the data. It's just that there are so many people. The CDN server can't take it anymore. The traffic is too much."
Chang Xiaocong took a deep breath. Although this was great news, he did not understand what was going on.
Wasn't the number of viewers dropping yesterday afternoon?
Why was it that the semi-finals had only just begun, and he had already ascended on the spot?
It was not only Bamboo Platform. Overseas, TWHCIH, CCTV Entertainment Channel, Sky Sports, and America's ABC Television were also experiencing similar situations.
The number of users skyrocketed, or the viewership skyrocketed!
Why was this happening?
The heads of the five major media companies were all confused.
Didn't Chen Guang show signs of depression yesterday?
After a night, not only did the limelight not change, but there were more and more people scolding Chen Guang. But the result was that the viewership for today's show had skyrocketed.
But these companies were smart people. Their confusion did not last long. Through the feedback from the first line of information, they quickly found the reason.
Being scolded was also a form of popularity.
Being criticized was also a form of attention.
It was precisely because of Chen Guang's' deranged 'act of cheating in the preliminary round that not only did he receive a wave of criticism in the country, but he was also criticized by the foreign countries as well.
Many famous figures, fashion celebrities, sports stars, and scientists had raised their doubts about Chen Guang. It was so much so that there were even people who tried to direct the fire back to the incident where he forced the landing of DL Flight 199333, claiming that he had nothing to do with that incident and that he was a fake hero!
He wasn't the real hero!
A person who had never had a flight record before, how could he successfully make a forced landing under such extreme circumstances?
There must be something fishy going on!
Just like this time's World Language Conference competition!
He is a liar!
He is a repeat offender!
But this argument was quickly clarified by the spokespersons of the major airlines.
What a joke. Have you seen such a powerful liar?
Until now, we have not digested the hidden meaning in his lectures. The more we study, the more we feel that he is unfathomable.
If such a person is a liar, then we want the whole world to be a liar.
But the scope of these airlines' clarification was limited to the forced landing of the plane. They did not get involved in the right and wrong of the language world. As outsiders, they did not understand and had no right to speak.
In short, the World Language Conference enjoyed high global attention because of Chen Guang's previous hype.
In the eyes of the world, he exposed the shady business and cheated in public in front of tens of millions of people yesterday. He had no bottom line and was quite unscrupulous. He used his wealth to tarnish academia, humiliate scholars, and humiliate the competition.
His crazy behavior instantly brought this matter to an unprecedented height. Even some European and American countries directly put this matter into the national news, as the main focus of the broadcast.
The content of these news was nothing more than the following.
"The Chinese tycoon organized the academic conference in the name of supporting academia. In fact, he is fraudulent. He made the global language world suffer for his reputation."
"The media tycoon Modo said that he is richer than the Chinese people. In the future, the World Language Conference will never be held in China. If necessary, he and his media group are willing to become long-term sponsors of the World Language Conference to maintain academic purity and resist shameless hype."
All these signs made countless people who did not pay attention to this matter know about the "scandal" that was playing out.
Regarding the next day's competition, countless people had all kinds of speculations in their hearts.
They wanted to see if the Chinese tycoon named Chen Guang had the courage to continue on the competition stage when the whole world saw through his tricks.
Would he continue to play his clown role shamelessly until the last moment on the competition stage, or would he pretend to be sick and withdraw from the competition?
This question turned over and over in the minds of countless people. They could not forget it. Even foreign friends with jet lag were waiting in front of the TV and computer.
So, whether it was Bamboo Live or other platforms, the number of viewers rushed to the sky as soon as the competition began.
So, what would Chen Guang do?
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