Chapter 860: Big News
After a full 40 minutes, the first 3,000 players finally appeared, and an hour later, the number of registered players had reached 4,000.
At this time, Boss Jia announced the end of the game, after all, God knows how many players will violate the rules among the first 3,000 players after the review, so there are still enough players to fill in.
And now it happened to be around 12:30 noon, and when the contestants left the stadium, they were somewhat surprised to find that the organizing committee had prepared bread, sandwiches, hot dogs, drinks and other food for them, and all the contestants could receive these foods at will, whether they were winners or losers.
This made Daqian's good feeling in the hearts of fans a lot higher.
Over the next day, everyone in the entire organizing committee began to frantically review the GBs of the first 3,000 players, check their battle records, and make sure there were no violations in them.
Although Boss Jia had already stated in advance that he would check the battle records, when he really started to check, he still found a lot of tricks, and in the end, more than 200 players were banned or disqualified from the game, and finally ranked 3262 players, becoming the biggest lucky person in the whole competition, and successfully qualified to participate in the semi-finals.
After the qualification for the semi-finals was determined, the more than 3,000 players were arranged into four hotels, and the organizing committee included food and accommodation, and the semi-finals will be held for three days, and all the rooms in these four hotels have been temporarily chartered by Daqian Group for three days.
Anyway, the original budget of 5 million US dollars must have exceeded the standard this time, and if every next game has such a scale, it is estimated that after 12 races, the total budget will have to go to more than 10 million US dollars.
However, Boss Jia's face turned into a flower, and the competition of 20,000 people participated in this is an unprecedented big news! Don't say it costs $10 million, even if it costs $100 million, it's not a loss.
Sure enough, soon the media found out about the anomaly on the day of the preliminaries, after all, the traffic department temporarily announced the road closure, which was a huge problem for many drivers, and these drivers immediately angrily reported to the TV station.
And with the huge increase in the number of drivers who reported at the same time, the TV station immediately sniffed like a shark that smelled blood.
At first, these reporters lost the investigation of the people from the Ministry of Transportation, and then the people from the Department of Transportation said very innocently that they suddenly accepted the plea of a tournament organizing committee, saying that the number of players who came to participate in the competition was unexpectedly huge, and the organizing committee was afraid of serious traffic accidents, or stampede accidents and other problems, so they temporarily approached their traffic department and asked to protect the safety of these participants.
After the actual investigation of the situation, the traffic department found that what the organizing committee said was true, so although they knew that the temporary road closure was actually against the rules, out of consideration for the personal safety of the 20,000 participants, the person in charge of the transportation department would rather take responsibility and protect the safety of the people.
Well, this is what the head of the transportation department said impassionedly to the camera when he was interviewed by reporters at the last time.
Afterwards, the head of the transportation department not only did not receive punishment, but was loved by a large number of voters, and later left the transportation department to run for parliament, and finally even achieved the position of a member of Congress, which can be described as a proud life.
After the reporters learned the reason for the temporary closure of the traffic department, they knew that they could not be in the black traffic department, and they were also shocked by the news revealed by the traffic department.
How is it possible that there is a competition with 20,000 participants!
You must know that the athletes from all countries participating in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics combined were only 9,356, and the audience who watched the World Cup final was only 80,000.
Isn't it nonsense that 20,000 people participated in the preliminaries of a Nima competition?
Do you think this is a Chinese characteristic marathon issued by various units requiring everyone in the entire unit to participate?
But when the transportation department provided some live footage, the reporters had to admit that looking at this scale, it seems that there are really 20,000 people, which is really nonsense!
So the reporters were immediately full of curiosity about this competition, and then began to conduct various investigations, and finally these reporters made an even more nonsense discovery, that is, this game is actually a competition held by a video game company for its own video games!
After repeatedly confirming the authenticity of this news, many reporters said that their common sense and three views have been refreshed.
Then, that night, the entire Paris TV station reported the news about this magical, 20,000-person match, which shocked the people of Paris and made the people of Paris full of curiosity about this Pokemon.
This game seems to be a very dick look!
All of the above is the result of Boss Jia's spontaneous reporting without interference or spending money. This startled Boss Jia, who was looking through dozens of TV stations that night with some boredom, and found that all of them were news about this game.
"No, I'm going to have to add fuel to the fire!" Boss Jia, who had never thought of using the news media before, muttered, and then called Merck of Fox Media.
Well, since the success of the Titanic live broadcast, Boss Jia and Merkeldo have become good friends, we have eaten together several times, and have played golf three times, the two of them are already excellent friends, Boss Jia proposed that this little thing that needs help is naturally not a problem, as long as Daqian puts some advertisements on Daqian's mobile phone.
On the second day, the global media began to report on this magical video game competition in Paris, and when the global audience saw that there were 20,000 contestants participating in the preliminary round of a video game, they were shocked.
In particular, the powerful Fox TV station got the video of the game scene out of nowhere, so that all the viewers were shocked by this picture when they saw more than 20,000 children with GB running recklessly on the road in Paris, France, and the flow of people spread from the hotel to the side of the Louvre without interruption.
This Pokemon, is it really such a dick and so fun?
And this news spread around the world for more than half a month before it gradually stopped, according to incomplete statistics, more than 2 billion people in the world have seen this news.
As a result, those executives who thought that the competition could not bring higher sales to the Pokemon game at the high-level meeting were slapped hard, and in the next month, the sales of "Pokemon Red Green" and "Ruby and Emerald" actually rose sharply.
Among them, the sales of "Pokemon Red and Green" increased by 10 million in one go, and once again bit the tail of "Super Mario Bros. 2", preparing to compete for the position of the world's No. 1 selling game.
And "Ruby and Emerald" also received 1 million copies of the game, and according to post-mortem statistics, the sales increase of 11 million was brought in by new players who didn't know Pokemon at all, or knew Pokemon, but didn't have much interest.
Anyone who understands game operations knows that these 11 million new players are even more important than 100 million copies of the game.
On top of that, even though more viewers, especially adults, didn't buy Pokemon, they at least remembered the amazing game of Pokemon.