After a full 40 minutes, the first 3000 players finally appeared. After an hour, the number of registered players had reached 4000.
At this time, Boss Jia announced the end of the competition. After all, only God knows how many of the first 3000 players would violate the rules after the review. Therefore, they still needed enough players to fill in the gaps.
It was now around 12: 30 in the afternoon. When the contestants left the stadium, they were pleasantly surprised to find that the organizing committee had prepared bread, sandwiches, hot dogs, drinks, and other food for them. All the contestants were free to take any food they wanted, regardless of whether they were the winner or the loser.
This made the Daqian's fans have a good impression of them.
For the next day, the entire organizing committee began to madly review the GB of the first 3000 players. They checked their battle records to make sure that there was nothing illegal in them.
Although Boss Jia had already announced in advance that he would check the battle records, when they actually started to check, they found a lot of fishy things. In the end, more than 200 players were banned or disqualified from the competition. In the end, the 3262nd player became the luckiest player in the entire competition and successfully qualified to participate in the semi-finals.
After the semi-finals were confirmed, the 3000 players were uniformly arranged into four hotels. The organizing committee provided food and accommodation. The semi-finals would be held for three days. All the rooms in the four hotels were temporarily booked by the Daqian Group for three days.
Anyway, the original budget of 5 million USD would definitely be greatly exceeded this time. If every subsequent game was of such a scale, then the total budget would probably be more than 10 million USD after 12 rounds of games.
However, the smile on Boss Jia's face was like a blooming flower. A competition with 20000 participants, this was an unprecedented big news! Let alone 10 million USD, even if the Daqian Group spent 100 million USD, it would still be worth it.
Sure enough, the media quickly discovered the abnormalities on the day of the preliminary competition. After all, the traffic department had temporarily closed the roads. This was a huge problem for many drivers. These drivers immediately reported to the TV station angrily.
As the number of drivers reporting at the same time increased, the TV station was like a shark that smelled blood, immediately coming over.
At first, the reporters went to the Transportation Department to investigate. The Transportation Department innocently explained that they had suddenly received a request from the Tournament Organizing Committee. They said that the number of participants was unexpectedly large, and the Organizing Committee was afraid of serious traffic accidents or stampedes. Therefore, they requested the Transportation Department to protect the safety of the participants.
After the traffic department investigated the situation, they found that what the organizing committee said was true. Therefore, although they knew that the temporary road closure actually violated the rules, out of consideration for the safety of the 20,000 contestants, the person in charge of the traffic department was willing to bear the responsibility to protect the safety of the people.
Well, this was what the person in charge of the transportation department said to the camera in an impassioned interview.
After the incident, not only did the person in charge of the transportation department not receive any punishment, but he also gained the favor of a large number of voters. Later on, he left the transportation department and directly participated in the election for parliament. In the end, he even became a member of parliament. It could be said that he was very proud of his life.
After the reporters found out the reason for the temporary closure, they knew that they couldn't hack the transportation department anymore. Moreover, they were also shocked by the news revealed by the transportation department.
How could there be a competition with 20,000 participants? How could this be possible?
After all, there were only 9,356 athletes from all the countries who participated in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. The audience for the World Cup final was only 80,000 people.
How could there be 20,000 participants in a f * cking preliminary competition? Wasn't this nonsense?
Did you think that this was a Hua Xia marathon that every department issued a notice and asked everyone to participate in?
However, when the transportation department provided some live footage, the reporters had to admit that there were indeed 20,000 participants. This was really nonsense!
Therefore, the reporters were immediately filled with curiosity about this competition. They started to investigate all kinds of things. In the end, the reporters found out that this competition was actually a competition held by a video game company for their own video game!
After confirming the authenticity of this news, many reporters expressed that their common sense and worldview had been refreshed.
Then, that night, all the television stations in Paris reported about this magical competition that had gathered 20,000 participants. The people of Paris were greatly shocked and full of curiosity about this Pokemon.
This competition seemed to be very cool!
Boss Jia didn't interfere or spend any money. All of this was the result of the reporters' spontaneous reporting. That night, Boss Jia was a little bored and flipped through dozens of television stations. In the end, he found that all the news was about this competition. He was shocked.
"No, I have to add fuel to the fire!" Boss Jia muttered. He didn't want to use the news media before. Then, he called Fox Media's Merkado.
Well, ever since the success of the Titanic live broadcast, Boss Jia and Merkado had become good friends. They had eaten together several times and played golf three times. The two of them were very good friends. Boss Jia's request for a small favor was naturally not a problem. As long as the Daqian company advertised more Daqian mobile phones, it would be fine.
The next day, the global media began to report about this magical video game competition that had taken place in Paris. When the global audience saw that 20,000 participants had participated in the preliminary competition of a video game, they were greatly shocked.
Especially the resourceful Fox Television Station, who had obtained the video of the competition from an unknown source. The audience saw more than 20,000 children holding GPGs running wildly on the streets of Paris, France. The crowd spread from the hotel to the Louvre without stopping. All the audience was shocked by this scene.
Is this Pokemon really so cool and fun?
This news spread around the world for more than half a month before it gradually stopped. According to incomplete statistics, more than two billion people around the world had seen this news.
Therefore, those executives who thought that the competition couldn't bring more sales of the Pokemon games in the high-level meeting were slapped hard in the face. In the following month, the sales of Pokemon Red and Green and Ruby and Emerald increased greatly.
Among them, Pokemon Red and Green's sales increased by 10 million in one go. It was once again biting the tail of Super Mario Bros 2 and preparing to compete for the position of the world's top selling game.
Ruby and Emerald also received an increase of 1 million copies of the game. According to the post-event statistics, the 11 million increase in sales attracted new players who didn't understand Pokemon at all before, or who understood Pokemon but didn't have much interest in it.
People who knew about game operations knew that the 11 million new players were even more important than the 100 million copies of the game.
Other than that, even if the majority of the audience, especially the adults, did not buy Pokemon, they would at least remember the magical game of Pokemon.
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