At five o'clock in the morning on August 20th, when the sky had just revealed a gray-white morning light and the road was still shrouded in mist, Chen Jingyi, who had just woken up, drove her red MINICOOPER to the game museum, ready to see how the venue was prepared. As the vice president of the WCG Organizing Committee, she needs to manage a lot of things, from the layout of the venue, to the procurement and installation of equipment, almost all of them need to be asked by her, so that during this time, she can only hand over the distribution work of Fengyun Interactive to her deputy, fortunately, everything is relatively smooth so far, the organization of WCG is orderly, and the distribution work of Fengyun Interactive is also in order.

In fact, there is also a chairman of the organizing committee at Chen Jingyi's head, but Zhang Lexing, who is the president, rarely appears, on the one hand, because he has a lot of things to think about, and he has no energy to directly manage WCG-related matters, and on the other hand, because Chen Zishan is pregnant recently, he can't run too far. Although he didn't have time to take care of the specific organization of the WCG, he used his direct and indirect influence to arrange a full range of publicity for the WCG, including the beginning of the regional competitions in various countries and the current finals.

In order to expand the scope of influence of WCG, Zhang Lexing not only let people prepare the official website of WCG in multiple Chinese, but also used his own satellite TV network and some close media, in order to make WCG the world's first e-sports competition, take the opportunity to promote the games of his own companies, and at the same time provide players with a new direction of development, although at the top of the pyramid will always be only a few, although not every player is suitable, but at least there is more hope.

Chen Jingyi's place of residence is not too far from the game museum, and there are relatively few cars on the road at five o'clock in the morning, so she arrived at her destination in about fifteen minutes, drove the car into the underground parking lot of the Times Fashion Building, and according to the signs, she parked the red MINICOOPER in the area divided for staff.

After locking the car, Chen Jingyi went up the stairs to the ground level and came to the edge of the square in front of the game museum. She raised her eyes to look around, and in the mist, some busy figures flashed, although she couldn't see clearly, but she knew that it was the workers who were responsible for cleaning and setting up the stage had arrived.

Taking a breath of fresh air in the morning, Chen Jingyi walked through the mist to the middle of the square, and didn't go far before she saw Lin Musen, who was in charge of the venue and the coordination of the competition, Lin Musen, who was wearing a white short-sleeved shirt, was directing the workers to arrange the stage on the square at the moment, which would be the most important place for the entire opening ceremony.

"Manager Lin," Chen Jingyi shouted loudly, "How is the venue arranged?"

Hearing someone call him, Lin Musen turned around and looked, and saw that it was Chen Jingyi coming, so he took a few steps to greet him, and said with a smile: "Mr. Chen, you came so early." The layout of this side of the venue is almost complete, and now there is only this stage left, and then clean it up. ”

"Hmm," Chen Jingyi nodded, and looked at the stage being arranged, where several technicians invited by the organizing committee were testing the large-screen TVs located in front of the stage, which were two 36-inch flat-screen CRT color TVs that are rarely seen in China, and were said to have been obtained from abroad by her big boss, Zhang Lexing. A video is playing on the TV screen at the moment, and she looks at it from a distance, and the effect is quite good.

Nodding with satisfaction, Chen Jingyi instructed again: "Manager Lin, how is the equipment prepared for the competition?

"Mr. Chen, please rest assured, we did a comprehensive inspection yesterday, including the computer, game console, LAN for connection and all kinds of cables in between, all of which are OK!"

The gray and white morning light on the horizon gradually brightened, and the mist shrouded in the ground became thinner and thinner, and the hostesses of the WCG finals came to the square one after another on bicycles in various beautiful costumes, most of them were college students selected from Beijing Film Academy, Central Academy of Drama and other art academies. In order to achieve better results, Chen Jingyi also arranged two weeks of relevant training for them, in addition to etiquette training, she also instilled some basic knowledge about the game, not to ask them to like the game, at least to know what the WCG finals are competing.

The hostesses walked into the tent set up for the staff on the side of the square, and then they had a lot of preparation to do, with the help of the stylists, they needed to complete the makeup, hair, and overall styling, including the costumes, which were very laborious, and they had to complete it all in more than two hours.

After explaining to Lin Musen, Chen Jingyi took a turn around the square again, and all the preparations looked almost done, she came to the special tent area for staff on the side of the square, opened the curtain and walked into the dressing room. The spacious dressing room was divided into two sections, and around the screen at the entrance, near the wall of the tent were twenty or thirty dressers, where the hostesses put on make-up and hair, and further inside, through a double curtain, where they changed their clothes and stored their personal belongings.

Chen Jingyi walked past the screen at the entrance of the dressing room, and was greeted by the hostesses sitting in front of twenty or thirty dressers, doing their hair, and they were also eating the standard breakfast provided by the conference—sandwiches and milk. Looking at the hostesses who were quietly eating breakfast while their hair was being groomed, her stomach suddenly began to protest, and then she remembered that she was in too much of a hurry to come out, and she didn't even care about breakfast.

With a smile on her face, Chen Jingyi greeted the stylists in the dressing room and the sitting hostesses, then hurriedly left the dressing room, walked to the staff's kitchen on the other side, took out her identification card, swiped it on the credit card machine, and the kitchen staff immediately handed over a standard breakfast. After taking the breakfast wrapped in a paper bag, Chen Jingyi sat down on the rest chair on the side of the road, tore open the paper bag and ate it slowly, the breakfast tasted good, a bit like the in-flight meal provided in the first class cabin she occasionally sat in, not only very exquisite and very reasonable, but also the amount of food was also suitable for her.

The time gradually came to eight o'clock in the morning, the sky had become bright, the morning mist had been completely dispelled by the sun at this time, Chen Jingyi stood on the stage, and the square could be seen at a glance except for the place that was blocked by the tent. The workers who had finished cleaning and setting up the stage had already left the venue, leaving only the staff with WCG identification cards to do the final inspection in the venue, and the dressed hostesses came out of the dressing room one after another to the pre-designated area to start their work.

"It's good to be young!" Looking at the young and beautiful girls in the sun, Chen Jingyi's heart swelled with a sigh, and then she smiled self-deprecatingly, when she first came out of school, she was similar to these girls in the square, and she couldn't imagine that after seven or eight years of hard work, her mentality was already so old.

At 8:15 a.m., the contestants and spectators began to come to the scene one after another, entering the venue through the contestant passage and the spectator passage respectively, and the contestants signed in under the guidance of Miss Manners, and walked into the contestant's rest area to sit down and wait, while the spectators came to the audience area under the guidance of the staff, quietly waiting for the opening of the competition.

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Zhao Xudong turned around and rode a bicycle out of the alley, taking advantage of the fact that there was no car beside him, he raised his wrist and looked at his watch, it was only 8:35 now, only one street away from the Times Fashion Building, the venue of the WCG finals, and he would definitely be able to catch up with the opening ceremony, he could finally breathe a sigh of relief, he encountered a big traffic jam on the way just now, if he wasn't riding a bicycle, he would be stuck in a jam there.

Looking up at the indicator light of the crossroads, just jumping to the green light, Zhao Xu looked at both sides of the intersection, it looked safe, so he made a hard effort under his feet, accelerated and rushed through the intersection and rushed towards the Times Fashion Building. At 8:46, Zhao Xu looked at his watch again when he got out of the car, and at this time he had already come to the bicycle parking area next to the Times Fashion Building Square, parked his bicycle, and turned around and walked to the audience entrance not far away.

"Sir, please show your ticket!" reminded a staff member wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt with the WCG logo.

Zhao Xu smiled embarrassedly, he almost forgot the admission procedure when he was in a hurry just now, he felt in his pocket, took out his admission ticket and handed it over. The staff took the ticket and checked it, brushed it on a device placed on the table, and then tore the ticket in half, and after collecting half of it, he stacked the other half with an audience identification card and handed it back to Zhao Xu.

The staff reminded: "Sir, please put it away, when you enter the entrance, you only need to brush the identification card on the machine at the entrance of the passage, and the railing will automatically open, if you leave the venue halfway, you will also need the audience identification card when you come back, please take it and don't drop it." ”

Zhao Xu took the admission ticket and put it away, took the audience identification card in his hand, then nodded to the staff in a friendly manner, and turned around and walked towards the entrance. Randomly picked an entrance passage, Zhao Xu swiped the audience identification card on the machine, and with a "tick" sound, the green light on the automatic railing machine lit up, hung up the audience identification card, and he gently pushed the railing into the square.

There are a lot of high-end tents around the square, which are the kind with air conditioning, but when you walk in from the entrance of the audience, the number of tents is very rare, and Zhao Xu can basically see the situation of the entire square at a glance. Between the center of the square and the game museum, a huge arc stage has been erected, about half a meter high, according to the signs, the front of the arc stage should be the audience area, Zhao Xu's number on the admission ticket is "0816", and the corresponding seat is the 16th place in the 8th row of the audience area.

Zhao Xu pressed the number and quickly found his seat and sat down, coincidentally sitting on his right hand were actually two beauties, one was wearing a green printed dress, and the other was wearing a lake blue short-sleeved T-shirt and a pink casual skirt, and his gaze was almost unable to take it back at a glance. Zhao Xu sighed slightly in his heart, in his impression, the games that girls like are usually relatively quiet, and the games that appear in the WCG finals are very competitive, or a bit of a fight, it is said that there are usually few girls who like it, not to mention beauties, in his opinion, beauties should spend more time on dressing up and shopping, how can they have time to nest in front of the computer and endure radiation.

Pretending to be casual, Zhao Xu always glanced to his side involuntarily while looking at the venue. A whisper came from the direction where the two beauties were sitting, followed by a burst of suppressed laughter, Zhao Xu's heart fluttered, but the eyes that were originally scheduled to turn to the right changed direction due to embarrassment, and looked straight at the stage opposite the audience area, but in fact, his mind was not on the stage at all.

In a daze, the time came to nine o'clock unconsciously, and the audience area didn't know when it was already full, and a soft background music sounded in the venue, and Zhao Xu, who came back to his senses, felt a little familiar, but he couldn't remember when he heard it, but he vaguely felt that it seemed that it should be when he was playing a certain game.

"Good morning, everyone, welcome to the WCG World Finals ......" Lin Musen, who was standing on the stage, said briefly for a few minutes, and made a few jokes, feeling that the atmosphere of the scene had been mobilized, he began to get into the main topic: "Then, let's first enter the game group draw that everyone is most concerned about, and invite guests to ......"

Yan Yuxin, the media editor who stood next to Lin Musen and made a temporary guest host, continued: "Let's see, who will be the first guest on the stage?"

With Yan Yuxin's words, the picture on the large-screen TV in front of the stage began to flicker, and the photos quickly switched at a speed of more than five times per second, and then froze on a photo of a foreign man.

"Please......" Lin Musen said loudly in an impassioned tone, "Chris Mason......"

A foreign man dressed almost as on TV walked up from behind the stage with a smile on his face, shook hands with Lin Musen and Yan Yuxin enthusiastically, and then stood on Lin Musen's right hand.

"Mr. Mason, is this your first time in China?" Yan Yuxin asked as she handed the microphone to Chris Mason, like a reporter.

"Yes, I realized that this place is not what I had imagined. Chris Mason replied very bluntly.

"Oh, Mr. Mason, do you think it's too far from what you imagined?" Yan Yuxin continued.

"The gap is very big, I thought it was still very backward, but I didn't expect to find out after getting off the plane that Beijing is very beautiful, and the city of Beijing is also very large, and it is already a modern metropolis. Speaking of this, Chris Mason suddenly showed a childlike smile: "And I don't think I even want to leave!"

"Mr. Mason, why do you have such an idea?" Yan Yuxin's face showed a puzzled expression.

Chris Mason said with a smile: "Because the food here is so delicious, according to our Miss Ji's introduction, if you want to eat it all, it is estimated that the captain will refuse me to board because of overweight." ”

A friendly laugh suddenly sounded on the stage, Lin Musen laughed with everyone for a while, and then picked up the microphone and said: "It seems that Mr. Mason has been conquered by our Chinese food, and while he is not overweight now, I asked Mr. Mason to help us draw the "StarCraft" game matchup." ”

A lottery box containing StarCraft contestant number plates was sent onto the stage by the staff and placed on a table that had been carried up beforehand. At Lin Musen's motion, Chris Mason reached into the lottery box and touched it, and after a few seconds, he pulled his hand out of the box, still holding a small paper card that was covered.

Facing the small paper card to the audience, Chris Mason lifted the white slip of paper covered with his other hand, revealing the player number and ID below, and after turning it over and looking at it, he inserted the paper card into the upper half of the table behind him. Lin Musen, who was standing on the side, waited for Chris Mason to put away the small paper card, and announced loudly: "No. 5 MTY, the upper half." ”

As Chris Mason's hand continued to reach into the draw box, the bracket was gradually filled, and the situation of the upper and lower halves became clear, with a total of 48 people participating in the StarCraft finals, 24 in each of the upper and lower halves, and the top two in each half will be divided through a single round-robin points match (win 3 points, minus 0 points), and then the first place in the upper half will play the second place in the bottom half, and the second place in the upper half will play the first place in the bottom half to compete for the final spot. However, the four players from China were all drawn to the top half, which means that even if they play extraordinarily, they can only ensure that two of them will enter the semi-finals, and the other two will inevitably be eliminated, and the situation is not favorable to the Chinese delegation.

Many domestic players who saw the draw on the spot or through the TV broadcast felt very sorry, although not everyone knew who the four interstellar players representing China were, but they could see the form of the scene clearly, and the Chinese players were all divided into the upper half, which means that it is definitely impossible to follow the Chinese table tennis team to win the top few.

After completing the group draw of "StarCraft", Lin Musen and Yan Yuxin politely shook hands with Chris Mason again, and then sent him off the stage, and then Lin Musen turned to face the audience and said passionately: "Next, please enjoy, the exhibition match of "Pro Evolution Soccer 4", the game is against both sides, Deng Yang from Dalian, China vs Park Chenghao from Seoul, South Korea......"

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