Chapter 88: The Signature of Death
After the official start of the competition, all the contestants and assistant guests have to make final preparations, and at the same time, each group of contestants/guests has several cameras to follow the whole process, which means that although there is no official competition, the live broadcast has already started from this time.
Tong Yao, as a "family member", is no longer suitable to stay here, and there is a special person responsible for bringing her to the VIP seat to watch the game.
Before leaving, she squeezed Chen Lei's palm.
It's all in plain sight.
After reading a long list of sponsors composed of world-renowned brands, the host reviewed the previous episodes and the significant influence achieved by the China Song Contest on a global scale.
Then all the top 10 singers tonight and their respective invited assistant guests made a collective appearance.
Thanks to the blessing of frequently going to the cave to make money in the past two months, there are several people on the stage, Chen Lei actually knows each other, and he has a relationship.
However, these assistant guests are all singers and queens, absolute celebrities at the level of actors and actresses, and at least two awards for the best male and female singers of the year in their hands.
In contrast, in his resume, there is only one pitiful Autumn Music Festival Best Creative Newcomer Award, which is simply a salted fish among salted fish, which is not worth mentioning at all.
When the host announced the curtain, the response from the fans in the audience also illustrated this point. When reporting the names of other celebrities, fans cheered with a tsunami, but when it was their turn, it was sparse and sparse, which was a little embarrassing.
After the collective appearance, it was the on-site lottery.
In order to maximize the effect of the program, this lottery link is also designed to be very interesting, not to draw your own, but to mix it.
The top 10 singers will draw the names first, and then the assistant guests will draw the order of the competition.
For example, Wu Mengdie himself drew the name of his competitor Bai Siyu, and then Wu Mengdie's assistant guest Chen Lei drew the order of the competition, and he drew No. 3.
The combination of the two is that the top ten player Bai Siyu and her assistant guests will be the third to enter the game.
Wu Mengdie's name was drawn by another top ten player, and after the assistant guests drew the corresponding order, Wu Mengdie and Chen Lei were determined to be the tenth to enter the game.
When the results came out, the audience was in an uproar.
Although Chen Lei doesn't have any fan groups, support groups or the like, Wu Mengdie does. When they saw that their idol was confirmed to be the tenth debut, most of Wu Mengdie's fans looked gloomy, with bitter faces and frowning.
The director also cut the close-ups of several different singers and fans on the big screen in a timely manner. The worried expressions of Wu Mengdie's fans are in stark contrast to the cheerful expressions of several other celebrity fans.
Intentionally or unintentionally, it rendered a little tragic color for Wu Mengdie's promotion path.
If Chen Lei and Wu Mengdie participated in "I Am a Singer" at the moment, then they would be drawn to the tenth appearance, and they would definitely be signed out loud when they stood on the stage and couldn't help laughing.
Because of a competition similar to "I Am a Singer", the final ranking of the competition is determined by the vote of the audience, and in the case that everyone can only vote once, of course, the later the contestant appears, the most impressive the audience, and the more votes will be received.
But the Chinese Song Contest is different, the Chinese Song Contest is voted by SMS from the audience outside the venue, and the voting channel for the top ten contestants has been opened from the first minute of the live broadcast.
Except for some die-hard fans of celebrities, most of the passers-by and the audience, of course, vote for whoever sings a good song, and the sooner the contestant appears at this time, the more advantages they will naturally get.
After all, the Chinese Song Contest is still a competition with an official background, and the food is not as ugly as the radio contest of "Listen to it every day". According to the rules of the event, each mobile phone number can only cast a maximum of 100 votes, and the official will no longer accept voting text messages that exceed this number.
In this case, when the players behind come out to start the game, it is very likely that there will be a pain in the audience's votes.
Not to mention, the difference between the first and tenth places is one or two hours, and they are also at a big disadvantage in terms of the transmission time of the competition songs.
In this kind of 10-in-8 knockout round, the draw was drawn to the 9th and 10th, which is definitely a death lot, and it is simply tailored for those two elimination places.
Chen Lei saw with his own eyes that the star who was signed in front of him and was drawn to the 9th place to play cried after the game.
The agent hugged her and comforted her, but he couldn't say anything convincing.
It took so much effort to send his own artists into the top ten, and he waved a checkbook, begging grandpa to invite a superstar to act on the platform like grandma, and as a result, he signed such a death sign.
He wanted to cry himself.
Although Wu Mengdie didn't cry, she was also a little lost.
If she started with a first round or a second round, then there is nothing to say, because she originally came to participate in the Chinese Song Contest with the idea of trying it out, but now that she has reached the top ten, who wouldn't want to go further?
If it's because of the lack of strength, it's okay to say, but if you can't make the cut in the end because of the signing problem, everyone will feel uneasy.
Back in the lounge, Yao Ruoying, assistant Xiaoyu, and several other members of the brokerage team were already waiting there. At this time, when they saw Wu Mengdie coming in, they all stood up to cheer her up.
But in this way, it only adds to the tragic atmosphere.
After sitting down, everyone discussed and thought that the lottery had reached the tenth place, which no one had expected before. But since the fact is so unchangeable, is it that we take the initiative to change the competition strategy, otherwise it will be difficult to advance.
The song that Wu Mengdie is going to sing tonight was set for her by Chen Lei early in the morning, and she has been practicing for a long time.
At this time, if you change the song rashly, you will be in big trouble.
Only Chen Lei is known as a Chinese music library, the style of music is changeable, talented, has always been able to turn the tide of the tide, and help the building to fall, so everyone pinned their hopes on Chen Lei, looking forward to him when he assisted, can he change a song that can mobilize the audience's emotions and can be surprisingly successful.
On the TV in the lounge, the situation on the stage outside is being broadcast live in real time, at this time the first top ten contestants have already taken the stage, and the host has also announced the new rules for assistant performances.
In order to maximize the effect of the show, and at the same time, in order to slightly make up for the contestants who are behind the signing, and give them more opportunities to overtake, the host announced that the top 10 contestants can freely choose the repertoire they want to sing, but the assistant guests must use at least one instrument.
There are two options.
One is that the assistant guests choose their own, so that there is no bonus.
The other option is to randomly select an instrument by lottery, which gives a 10% vote bonus.
This look is for those who are at the bottom of the signing, because the person at the front of the signing has a very big advantage, and there is no need to increase such a big risk for the 10% bonus.
After all, in this game, as long as you can eliminate two people, it will be considered a success.
But for players who are late in the signing, it's the equivalent of stud.
If you lose to work in the sea, you win the tender model of the clubhouse.
Of course, the instruments randomly drawn are all common musical instruments such as guitars and pianos, otherwise, if the guest is drawn with suona, he will not die on the spot.
Under the eyes of everyone, Chen Lei chose to draw lots without hesitation.
Chen Lei also knows very well that in this 10-in-8 competition, as long as two places can be eliminated, even if he only wins the 8th place in the end, it is essentially the same as the 1st place.
So of course, you have to stud, maybe a bicycle can be turned into a motorcycle.
After the rules were announced, there was no accident, the assistant guests who signed the seats at the top chose not to draw lots, and the few guests who chose to draw lots at the back of the seats did not need to come to the stage again, and there were special staff members who would go to the corresponding lounge to be responsible for the lottery.
When the first top 10 contestant was finished, there was a knock on the door of the lounge.
The draw began.