Although the organizing committee had set a check-in period of ten days, they had neglected an important issue. Apart from the local participants in Paris, most of the participants from other regions would not be able to arrive in Paris ten days in advance to participate in the tournament.
In fact, these contestants would arrive one after another three days before the competition.
Therefore, in the first seven days of the check-in period, the total number of check-ins was less than five hundred. This made the organizing committee feel that everything was still under control.
However, from the eighth day onwards, the number of check-ins started to skyrocket. When the organizing committee saw that the total number of check-ins exceeded ten thousand on the ninth day, they were completely at a loss for what to do.
Not to mention their expressions when they saw that the total number of check-ins exceeded twenty thousand on the tenth day.
Fortunately, Boss Jia had already arrived in Paris. When he found out about the organizing committee's predicament, Boss Jia ordered the organizing committee to contact the stadium closest to the hotel. Even if they had to spend a little more money, they had to book the stadium as the venue for the tournament the day after tomorrow.
Once Boss Jia gave the order, the organizing committee naturally went to carry it out immediately. However, the chairman of the organizing committee still looked for Boss Jia worriedly and said, "Chairman, even if we changed the venue to that stadium, there are less than thirty-eight hours left before the tournament begins. We won't have enough time to set up the venue!"
"Moreover, all of our publicity for the tournament was to tell the players to come to this hotel to participate in the tournament. However, now that the venue has been changed to a stadium, I'm afraid that we won't be able to inform all of the players. There will be a big problem!"
Of course, setting up the venue wasn't something that could be done overnight. After all, this was the Pokemon International Championship. The venue itself had to be decorated beautifully and had many characteristics of Pokemon.
In addition, they had to prepare live recordings, commentary, and so on.
In any case, the organizing committee had worked around the hotel's huge conference room for almost half a month before finally turning it into an ideal venue for the tournament.
However, the venue had now been changed to a stadium that was many times larger than the huge conference room. Moreover, there were only thirty-eight hours left. Even if the organizing committee were to sacrifice their lives and make everyone work in the stadium without sleeping, it was impossible to turn the stadium into a perfect tournament venue!
"Just listen to me and do as I say!" Boss Jia rolled his eyes at the incompetent chairman of the committee. Then, he began to whisper orders into his ear.
The more the president listened, the brighter his eyes became. In the end, he patted his chest and promised, "Don't worry, chairman. I promise to complete the task this time!"
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August 1st, 1995, in Paris, France, the players who came to participate in the Pokemon International Championship arrived at the entrance of the international hotel before 8am.
Then, the entire entrance of the International Hotel was completely paralyzed because there were too many people participating in the competition. Almost all of Europe's Pokemon enthusiasts came to participate in the competition. 20,000 people directly paralyzed the entire road in front of the hotel.
Fortunately, Boss Jia had made a plan in advance. Or rather, he spent a lot of money to get the Paris transportation department to block the entire road in front of the hotel.
In fact, they had no choice but to block the road. When Boss Jia told the transportation department that there might be 20,000 participants gathering in front of the hotel, the transportation department was dumbfounded. If they didn't block the road, if there was a serious traffic accident, the entire transportation department's leader would be finished!
Therefore, after the Daqian paid a fee, the transportation department made a prompt decision and announced that the road in front of the hotel would be temporarily closed for half a day because of the competition.
In fact, it wasn't just the road in front of the hotel. The road from the hotel to the nearby stadium was all closed.
Just as the contestants gathered at the entrance of the hotel, waiting to enter and wondering how the hotel was going to handle the 20,000 people, dozens of speakers suddenly rang out on the roads around the hotel. A voice announced, "Dear contestants, as a trainer, the competition doesn't just test your Pokemon. It also tests the trainers."
"As a Pokemon trainer, you must have good physical strength to be able to fight side by side with your Pokemon and resist all kinds of dangers together."
"The first test for everyone is not a battle between Pokemon, but a battle between trainers."
"In fact, the real competition venue is Delamey Stadium, 8 kilometers away from here. Now the road from here to Delamey Stadium has been closed. Everyone has 90 minutes. You can only run to Delamey Stadium by your own legs under the guidance of the staff along the way and then sign in."
"If you don't arrive within 90 minutes, you will lose the qualification to participate in the semi-finals!"
"Alright, dear trainers, it's time to show your physical strength."
As soon as he finished speaking, a series of gunshots rang out at the entrance of the hotel. Then, more than 20,000 contestants began to move instinctively. Under the guidance of the surrounding staff and traffic police, they ran towards the Delamey Stadium.
"What's going on? We're here for a Pokemon competition, not a marathon. Why am I running by myself?" When the running started, many people immediately complained.
"I think it's pretty good. The organizers are right. This is a great setting. Without good physical strength, how can you fight side by side with your Pokemon?"
"That's right. And this condition isn't too difficult. The total distance is 42 kilometers. The world record is two and a half hours. We have one and a half hours to run 8 kilometers. This distance can be covered by walking. If someone can't complete this race, then what's the difference between them and a cripple? Hahahaha!! " A muscular guy laughed wildly and then ran away, making the contestant who was ridiculed speechless.
Although a small number of participants expressed dissatisfaction with the sudden appearance of a marathon and directly chose to withdraw, most of the participants still moved towards Delamey Stadium. After all, one and a half hours was enough to walk to the stadium.
"Chairman, you are really brilliant. You brought all the contestants to the stadium in this way. Everyone thought that this was the design of our competition process, but no one knew that we actually changed the competition venue at the last minute." Behind Boss Jia, the chairman of the organizing committee praised him sincerely. "That's right.
"There's no other way. If it weren't for your ridiculous estimation, I wouldn't have used such an unconventional method!" Boss Jia sighed helplessly.
Finally, after one and a half hours, 18000 of the 20,000 participants successfully arrived at the stadium. What Boss Jia didn't expect was that there were still 2000 people who couldn't reach the stadium. The distance of 8 kilometers was easily covered by Boss Jia in one and a half hours yesterday.
It seemed that the Europeans were just so-so!
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