It was normal for so many foreigners to show up in Yuzhang City. Firstly, it was because of the last round of the Pokemon World Championship.
This was because the Pokemon World Championship did not have any restrictions on the nationality of the participants. In other words, for the tournament held in Yuzhang City in Hua Xia, you only needed to register as a person. There was no requirement that you had to be from Yuzhang City or Hua Xia. As long as you were an individual, you would be fine.
Moreover, there was no restriction on whether you had participated in the tournament before. As long as you were not in the top three of a certain tournament, you could continue to participate in the subsequent tournaments.
This was also the most cunning part of Boss Jia's plan. If players were to participate in one of the branch competitions, they would not be allowed to participate in the following competitions. Then, the number of players participating in the following competitions would definitely decrease. How could the sponsors be satisfied?
Therefore, the more people there were, the better. It did not matter if you had participated in the previous tournament or not.
Therefore, in the subsequent tournaments, there were more and more players who wanted to be remolded. These players wanted to get lucky. The top three players in the previous tournament had already qualified for the finals. If they were not allowed to participate in the subsequent tournaments, wouldn't they have a better chance?
Therefore, the more players there were, the more players there would be.
Not to mention, Yuzhang City was the last stop of the competition. If they missed this competition, they would not be able to become the world's champion this year. No matter what, they had to participate in this final battle. Hence, there were thousands of contestants participating in this battle.
Since the previous tournaments were held overseas, most of the remolded players were foreigners. Although thousands of people were not a lot in Yuzhang City, which had a population of over a million people.
However, these blonde foreigners were like fireflies in the night. They were too eye-catching.
Moreover, it was not only the Pokemon World Championship that attracted foreigners. This time, there were a total of eight tournaments. These eight tournaments were naturally the most influential ones in the world. Naturally, these games had a large number of loyal players overseas. This was especially true for Diablo, which had a shocking number of fans worldwide. In the end, the total number of players who signed up for WCG reached tens of thousands.
Although registration competitions were held in various countries and most of the participants were filtered out, in the end, 256 players were qualified to participate in the WCG qualifiers. Among the 256 players, 241 were foreigners.
As for the other games, there were more or less hundreds of foreign contestants. In the end, there were more than two to three thousand people in total. In Yuzhang City, it was naturally very eye-catching.
This piqued the curiosity of the citizens of Yuzhang. Later, they found out that there was an international competition in Yuzhang.
This was something that had never been heard of in the past thousands of years. Yuzhang was such a small and unknown place in Hua Xia, yet it was able to host an international competition. It was too f * cking awesome.
Although this was just a game competition, it was still an international competition!
The citizens of Yuzhang suddenly felt a huge sense of pride. In 1996, there were more and more contacts with foreign countries. The popular magazines such as' Soulmate 'and' Southern Weekly 'were basically bootlickers. With the promotion of these magazines, in the minds of the Hua Xia people, foreign countries had become a paradise.
This was especially true for the United States. It was a paradise where people did not pick up lost things on the streets, did not close their doors at night, had a salary of more than ten thousand, had a happy education, free medical care, and everyone had guns.
The quality of foreigners was naturally very high. Even if a foreigner said that the moon in other countries was more square, a lot of people would believe it. In this era, if someone could attract the attention and praise of foreigners, it would be the most awesome thing.
For example, this international competition was able to attract so many foreigners to watch. This meant that the WCG was too awesome. It seemed that playing games was not something indecent after all.
Although it was not as good as the Olympics, it was still considered the Games Olympics!
Therefore, after this competition, Yuzhang became the city with the best attitude towards games among all the parents in Hua Xia. Parents would not strongly oppose or forbid their children from playing games. Instead, some parents would want to train their children to become e-sports experts and participate in the WCG competition to win glory for Hua Xia.
Therefore, Yuzhang naturally became the province with the most e-sports professionals in the future. In the Hua Xia E-Sports Hall of Fame, 48% of the players were from Xijiang. This showed how lucky the children of Xijiang were.
Well, back to the topic. On May 20, 1996, before it became the third Valentine's Day, the WCG competition officially opened.
This time, the domestic audience was not very interested in the competition. After all, there were not many players in China. Because of some opinions from the higher-ups, CCTV could not broadcast the WCG competition live. In the end, except for the TV station in Xijiang, no other TV station could broadcast the WCG competition live.
On the other hand, the WCG competition would be broadcast to the world through CCTV. On the one hand, Boss Jia had a good relationship with CCTV. On the other hand, except for CCTV, no other TV station in China had the experience and ability to broadcast the WCG competition live globally.
However, Central TV did not put in a lot of effort. In the end, they only sent a live broadcast team of about a dozen people. Most of them were in charge of technical aspects, and there were only two people who were in charge of the commentary.
One was called Duan Xuan, and the other was called Sabenin. Although they were quite famous in the future, they were actually unknown newbies. There was only one reason why they were sent to the Daqian competition as hosts, and that was because they played the most games among all the newbies. At the same time, they were also the ones who spoke better English. Naturally, they were the most suitable hosts to broadcast the competition live globally.
"Brother, we are going to be rich!" When they arrived in Yuzhang, Duan Xuan was very excited. As a host who entered CCTV, he was actually able to host a global live broadcast. Naturally, Duan Xuan was very excited.
"Rich? My ass!" Sabenin rolled his eyes and said, "Do you think it is possible for two newbies to host a show like this to be rich?"
"But this is a global live broadcast!" Duan Xuan asked, puzzled.
"Yes, it is a global live broadcast, but it is a global live broadcast that does not make money. And I don't think there will be many viewers!" Sabenin sighed and said, "I heard that this time, the TV station and the Daqian competition were very unpleasant. Both sides almost completely collapsed!"
"What is going on? Why didn't I know?" Duan Xuan was dumbfounded.
"Of course you don't know. The TV station is very strict about this news. I only know about it because of my friends!" Sabenin showed off, "Since we are going to share weal and woe together later, I will tell you this secret secretly!"
"This time, the Daqian tricked CCTV. Because this time, CCTV spent a total of 10 million US dollars to buy the global exclusive broadcasting rights of WCG. This is half a year's foreign exchange reserves of our station!"
"At that time, the Daqian people exaggerated this live broadcast. They even used their game in Fusang as an example. They said that as long as the broadcasting rights were distributed, they could make tens of millions of US dollars. In the end, our leader was hot-headed and really bought it! "
"But in the end, except for Fusang who spent 5 million US dollars to buy the broadcasting rights, the broadcasting rights of other countries could not be sold at all. No TV station was willing to broadcast at all. In the end, the TV station did not want to lose face. I heard that with the help of the Daqian, they barely managed to sell the broadcasting rights of the United States and several European countries."
"But these countries were not willing to pay directly. They insisted on signing some kind of VAM agreement. They wanted to split the advertising fees according to the advertising fees of the advertisers during the live broadcast.
The backstage could only reluctantly accept this condition. In the end, there were only a few companies that came to invest in advertising. I heard that the advertising fees were less than 200,000 US dollars. This time, the TV station will lose at least 5 million US dollars. I heard that the director is now ready to take the blame and resign. Do you think the TV station is going to explode with anger? "
"So this time, the TV station only sent a technical team and us two newcomers to make up the numbers!" Sabenin said with some disinterest.
They actually lost 5 million US dollars. CCTV was really miserable!
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