With the climax of this scene, the opening ceremony was officially over. However, the popularity of this performance continued to spread.
Because the performance was so wonderful that it exceeded all the audience's expectations, CCTV took the lead in replaying the performance alone. Then, TV stations all over the world broadcast it. It was amazing.
With the broadcast of these TV stations, this wonderful performance was firmly remembered by everyone. At the same time, it set the benchmark for cosplay performances that had just emerged in this era.
In the mouths of all the cosplayers, this performance was forever called a god-level performance in the cosplay world. Especially after the popularization of the Internet and the rise of video websites, this WCG performance video became even more popular. In the end, it accumulated billions of views on all platforms.
Well, this was not a TV series with 20 billion views, but a real one with billions of views all over the world.
After all, even decades later, it was difficult to find a cosplay performance that could be compared to this one. The cosplayers who participated in this cosplay performance all became big shots in the cosplay industry and were worshipped by countless cosplayers in the future.
Although these two later became national martial arts champions, they did not care about the reputation of the god-level cosplay at first. They even abandoned it.
In fact, these two people were unwilling to participate in this performance. At that time, they were the most promising martial arts athletes in the country. They thought that games were all crooked. If it were not for the Daqian giving them a lot of money, they would never participate in such a performance.
However, later, as the anime industry went out of the small circle and became very popular in the market, these two players became enthusiastic again.
Then they understood what this performance meant to them. When they were 20 years old in their lives, they had reached the peak of their lives.
And their lives after that were actually tragic.
Ahem, that was a bit off topic. Let's get back to the point.
After the performance of the opening ceremony ended, the audience calmed down a little and welcomed the athletes into the stadium.
This time, the athletes' entrance was more formal.
Many of the athletes entered the venue wearing clothes with the characteristics of their respective countries, but they were all dressed in the same uniform.
This was not requested by the Daqian, but by the countries of these athletes. Because after the first WCG, some countries realized that this was also a way to represent their country, so they specifically asked these athletes to dress in the same way.
Among them, the South Korean delegation wore the most uniform.
This time, the South Korean delegation ranked fourth among all the countries, only behind the United States, Hua Xia, and Fusang.
Moreover, the South Korean delegation was very ambitious. They participated in all 12 competitions. Obviously, they wanted to recreate the glory of the first place in the last competition.
The South Koreans were very ambitious!
However, there were not many teams that really attracted the attention of the country, less than ten. This showed that e-sports still had a long way to go to have a place in the world of sports.
But in terms of business, e-sports developed very quickly. For example, the global broadcasting rights this time were sold very smoothly. This time, CCTV spent 12 million US dollars to buy the exclusive global broadcasting rights, and then sold them for 25 million US dollars around the world. They made double the money, which made the leaders of CCTV laugh.
Daqian Games was a little dissatisfied with this. They thought that they should be able to sell it themselves, and they could sell it for at least 30 million US dollars around the world.
However, Boss Jia still refused. Boss Jia needed to maintain a good relationship with CCTV. More importantly, the status of e-sports in Hua Xia was very awkward, and it could be destroyed by an article at any time.
Therefore, Boss Jia needed to maintain a good relationship with CCTV and gain the recognition of CCTV. This was to win more space for e-sports.
Anyway, for strategic reasons, Boss Jia still sold the exclusive broadcasting rights to CCTV.
And this time, Central TV did not send any newcomers or small fries over. Instead, they sent their top streamers over.
These live streamers had no problem in terms of skills and ability, but the problem was that they did not know how to play games. They did not know any gaming terms.
Left with no other choice, Boss Jia could only send them back. Then, he transferred Sa Benin and the others from last year over. This caused a craze to surge within the Central TV streamer circle to play games.
After all, WCG was now the most popular sports program in CCTV, second only to the World Cup and the Olympic Games. This was a rare opportunity!
In addition, the duration of the competition was extended.
The duration of the first WCG was five days, but the duration of the second WCG was extended to twelve days. After all, there were more events, and there were more preliminaries. More importantly, the finals of the competition were separated. One event per day was to ensure that each event had enough popularity.
Of course, there was another reason. The sponsors of the first WCG protested, saying that five days was too short. The promotion had just started, and the competition was already over.
Therefore, the duration of the WCG was extended to twelve days. After all, the competition had to serve the commercial interests, and Boss Jia was still a businessman.
Twelve days corresponded to twelve events, so there would be a final event every day.
On the first day, there would be the final of the Pokemon event, and the preliminaries of the Red Alert. It was the same as the first WCG. As for the other events, they could rest on the first day and be a good spectator.
The reason why Pokemon was chosen was because Pokemon had the least number of contestants. It was the first, second, and third place of the twelve world championships. There were a total of thirty-six contestants. Even the preliminaries were skipped, and the finals could start directly.
At the same time, all the machines and equipment for this competition were naturally changed to the Thousand Machine Changeable Handheld. The version was also forced to use the version of Pokemon Kim Silver.
At the same time, there was a new rule in this competition. That was, all the Pokemon with a race value of six hundred and above were only allowed to use one. The others were not allowed to use.
There was no other way. In the first WCG, there were only two Pokemon with a race value of six hundred and above, Super Dream and Fantasy.
But in the second WCG, there were two more Mythical Beasts with a race value of six hundred and above, so there were a total of four Mythical Beasts. Because of the huge advantage in race value, almost all the contestants would inevitably choose the lineup of Four Mythical Beasts + one.
In fact, when the second WCG started, the first round of the competition was all Four Mythical Beasts + Water God. All the contestants were the same, because this was the strongest lineup.
This caused the reputation of the first round of the competition to be very bad, and many spectators were cursing.
Therefore, the organizing committee urgently announced a change. Only one Mythical Beast was allowed to participate in the competition.
However, this still did not prevent the situation of the same lineup. At most, it would change from five Pokemon to ten Pokemon. The lineup was seriously similar.
Later on, a new rule was added, and that was, the Pokemon used in the competition were not allowed to be repeated. In other words, in a competition, from the preliminaries to the finals, a Pokemon was only allowed to be used once. Once it was used in the competition, it would not be allowed to be used in the following competitions. This made the Pokemon in the competition become more diverse and full of tactics.
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