Chapter 30: The Peak Showdown (Part I)

Seeing that Lin Yiwei was not sitting next to Li Xiaorong, but a middle-aged lady, Zhao Lei was quite surprised, in his impression, Lin Yiwei and Li Xiaorong are usually inseparable, just like twin sisters, plus the two of them have been concerned about their own competition for more than a month, to the point that Zhao Lei is also puzzled, and it should be Li Xiaorong who is sitting next to Lin Yiwei today.

Where did Li Xiaorong go?

Zhao Lei slowly glanced at the huge auditorium, there was no faculty seat, there was no senior student seat, it was impossible for her to sit on the junior student seat, so it meant that she was not in the auditorium.

It's strange that yesterday I swore that I would definitely come to watch this game and wait for the big comeback moment.

Could it be that she has completely lost confidence in me Zhao Lei?

Lin Yiwei and the middle-aged lady were whispering, Zhao Lei suddenly found that the faces of the two were faintly similar, both had exquisite facial features, and were very beautiful, could it be that this beautiful woman was Lin Yiwei's......

While thinking about it, the host showed a sweet voice: "Now, the pinnacle of the Sichuan Business School Creative Competition is about to begin, first of all, please invite the two contestants to sit on the stage." ā€

Zhao Lei stood on this side, Zeng Biao stood on the opposite side, and the two invariably turned their eyes to each other, and their eyes collided in the air.

Zeng Biao pursed his lips disdainfully, raised his head, and took the lead on the stage. Zhao Lei also straightened his chest and strode down to the seat.

Applause erupted.

"Now I invite the judges to take a seat on the stage." After introducing the basic information of the two contestants, the host introduced the judges with a smile, "The 12 judges of this competition are led by the former president of the world's top 500 enterprises and the famous Shansung Group of the Republic of Korea, and the remaining 11 judges, four are famous experts from Sichuan Business School, and the other seven are all famous entrepreneurs in our province. ā€

The host introduced the profiles of the judges one by one, and Zhao Lei slowly swept their faces, six on the left, six on the right, and the seats of the two contestants on the stage were arranged in a figure-eight shape. Of the 12 judges, the only one is a woman, a teacher in the Department of Electronics and one of the drafters of the national electronics industry standard, named Ouyang Dan.

Ouyang Dan returned to China shortly after graduating with a doctorate abroad, unmarried, and his reputation in the electronics industry was laid by a number of sensational papers in the academic community during his stay abroad.

Of the seven entrepreneurs, none of them knew Zhao Lei. And Yang Mei, the boss of Yang's Electronics Company, has more or less intersections with them, and some time ago, when Yang Mei learned of the situation, she took the initiative to propose to Zhao Lei that she could come forward to do the work of these judges.

In Huaxia Kingdom, you have to tell a back door about everything, otherwise you will really be unable to move an inch.

Zhao Lei politely refused on the spot, since he was born, he has deeply hated this set, to be a man is to be bright and upright, and to act upright, why let the back door pollute his pure heart?

"The exciting showdown is about to begin. But I still have to introduce the rules of the competition according to the procedure, although many teachers and students may know it very well. The host said nicely.

First of all, the two contestants will be castrated, and the order of appearance will be determined, and they will introduce their product principles, application prospects, potential market share, and possible impact on electronic products. After the contestants are introduced, the different contestants can ask each other questions, and then the judges will start scoring the contestants, with a total score of 100 points. ā€

"The score consists of two categories: 60% subjective score and 40% objective score...... Well, I must especially emphasize that the column of celebrity endorsement with objective score belongs to the column with special elasticity and the largest variable, and it can even directly ignore the table of other sub-categories of indicators, and the score is given by the celebrity endorsement level. However, in more than ten competitions in the school, there has never been a precedent for a contestant to directly obtain a full score by relying on celebrity endorsements. We look forward to filling this gap. ā€

There was a good-natured laughter at the scene, everyone knows that the product situation of the players is clear at a glance, and there is no possibility of any change.

The host also laughed, of course she wanted to be polite, is it also a respect for the school competition.

After the contestants were introduced, the 12 judges scored according to the order of 25% innovation score, 25% application score, and 10% purely subjective score, which accounted for 60% of the subjective score and 40% of the short-term sales index score. Each item subtracts a maximum score, removes a minimum score, and then calculates the average score, and finally the average score of each sub-item is added up to the final score of the player. ā€

The beautiful host looked at the two contestants with a smile: "Do you understand both of them?" ā€

Zhao Lei and Zeng Biao both nodded deeply, of course this is just a routine.

When he raised his head, Zhao Lei's gaze involuntarily tilted to Lin Yiwei again.

Lin Yiwei was taking the mobile phone from the middle-aged lady, covering her mouth and talking for a while, turning it off with a smile, and raising her eyes to glance at Zhao Lei.

The middle-aged lady's mobile phone has been held tightly in her hand.

The beautiful host faced the audience and began the last round of tips: "The two contestants will determine the final ranking according to their scores, and the product that wins the championship will receive a maximum of 5 million yuan in financing provided by the school foundation." Of course, in addition to obtaining financing to start his entrepreneurial journey, the contestant can also have another option, which is to directly choose the patent buyout. ā€

"The patent buyout gives everyone here a chance, but it's a lot of money. There have been three precedents of patent buyouts in previous competitions, and the highest player received a buyout fee of 2.8 million yuan. For us ordinary people, this is astronomical. ā€

"Now, the game officially begins. First, the contestants are invited to the host seat, and the vice principal of the school supervises the castration and decides the order of introducing the products. ā€

Zhao Lei and Zeng Biao got up at the same time and walked to the presiding seat.

As a result of catching the castration, Zeng Biao was the first to appear.

After a 10-minute product introduction, the judges began to start the first round of innovative scoring in the order of four points.

With a total score of 25 points for innovation, how many points can Zeng Biao score?

The 12 judges held up the scoreboards in unison, and there was a sudden whisper of discussion in the auditorium.

The host picked up the microphone and reported the score of the superintendent: "Remove the highest score, remove the lowest score, Zeng Biao's upgraded version of the Walkman The first round of innovative scores is: 18 points." ā€

"Heck...... Of the total score of 25 points, he actually scored 18 points? The voices in the auditorium suddenly converged, and they became louder and louder.

Someone finally couldn't help it and shouted to the stage: "This is not scientific, according to the scoring of previous competitions, Zeng's score cannot be higher than 10 points." ā€

"Protest, the judges' scoring is completely out of the academic spirit, this Walkman is only an upgraded version, almost no innovation, how can it have a high score of 18 points?"

"18 points belongs to the score with strong innovation ability, and the judges have shady scenes!"

The louder and louder remarks made the school leaders sitting in the front row and the local leaders who were invited to come suddenly show embarrassment, but they didn't expect such a grand and strict competition, and the first round of scoring caused dissatisfaction.

"Quiet, please be quiet." The moderator tried to maintain order, "As I just introduced, this is a score based on the judges' subjective judgment, please be rational." ā€

No one expected that the voice of a Korean translator came from the judges' seat: "Host, the former president of Shanxing Group asked to speak and hoped to be allowed." ā€

The judges expressed their opinions, which were within the scope of the rules, and the host said "Please speak", then stepped forward and handed the microphone to the old man.

The Korean interpreter held another microphone and almost performed simultaneous interpretation: "I judge with the professional eye of a senior electronic practitioner that this Walkman product cannot give a surprising high score of 18 points in terms of innovation, and according to the professionalism, its innovation is extremely low." I mention yƬ, the competition supervisor recalculates the score, could it be that there is a mistake in the statistics? ā€

The innovation score given by the former president was the lowest of 5 points among the 12 judges, and the highest one gave an incredible score of 23 points. However, this old man was powerless to change the judges' scores, and only recounted them, whether the scores would be overcalculated.

After a busy recalculation, the final result was still 18 points.

The exotic old man made an incomprehensible gesture and sat down regretfully. As a judge, he can ask all kinds of questions about the competition process, but he cannot change the competition process.

Next, the applicability, subjective and short-term sales indicators are scored in order.

Although the noise in the venue just now could not change the reality of the competition, it has to be said that these dissatisfied protests have put some pressure on the judges, especially the questions of the former president of Shanxing Group, which is the world's leader in electronic products, so that the judges have to be more restrained.

The total score was 25 points for applicability, and the judges gave 18 points; The total score was 10 out of 10 subjective points, and the judges gave 8 points; The judges gave 35 points out of a short-term sales indicator with a total score of 40 points.

There are no objections to these scores on the spot, which are more in line with the actual product.

The final score of Zeng Biao's upgraded Walkman is 79 points.

This score is the second highest in history among the previous entries.

When the host reported Zeng Biao's final score, the scene was quiet, and the people present were all professionals, even if they were not judged by professional eyes, according to the first, third, and fourth products in history, Zeng Biao's Walkman was far from them, and it was impossible to get such a high score anyway.

"Next, I would like to invite the second contestant, Zhao Lei, to the stage, and the product he brought to us is called mobile music."

Zhao Lei, who came to the stage, met Zeng Biao halfway, Zeng Biao had a smug smile on the corner of his mouth, squeezed his eyes at Zhao Lei, and the mockery was all on his face.

Zhao Lei smiled and calmly walked to the presiding seat.

"The mobile music I brought with me, which is only the size of a lighter, was created with the popularization of computers. In other words, without computers and the Internet, I wouldn't have this product. Therefore, when I introduce this product now, if you don't know about computer technology and network applications, you may hear it in a fog, but those who understand these technologies, I believe, will definitely know the value of this product. ā€

After Zhao Lei finished his opening remarks, he paused slightly, and the corner of his eyes drifted past Lin Yiwei, and he found that the beauty was holding her mobile phone and making a phone call, looking a little anxious, as if she was looking forward to something.

ā€œā€¦ā€¦ I've finished introducing its principle, now let's briefly introduce its application prospects, in fact, it's very simple, it's just such a lighter-sized player, which can store a huge amount of music. From now on, if you're away on business, you don't have to carry stacks of CDs, you don't have to change CDs, and you don't have to worry about damaged CDs......"

With Zhao Lei's introduction, whispers sounded at the scene, and hipsters who understand computers and networks have fully understood this product, and they are so excited that they can't help themselves; If you don't understand computers, you will be confused. But the comparison of Zhao Lei's superficial image brought them a huge shock. Just by the four words "no need to bring a disc", it is judged by the superiority of the Walkman.

"Next, I will ask the judges to score, please score the first innovation score first." The moderator announced the entry into the scoring session.

There was another commotion at the scene, and someone shouted: "Full score!" ā€

Encouraged by this shout, the students of the Department of Electronics began to call for rhythmic results, with shouts of "full marks" and "full marks" one after another.

These students are all professionals, who doesn't understand where the subversiveness of Zhao Lei's products lies? It is simply a great revolution in the electronics industry, and it is more innovative than any of the previous champion products of the competition.

The judges raised their cards in turn, and the scene screamed, removing the highest and lowest scores, and Zhao Lei's score in the innovative subcategory with a total score of 25 points finally came out.

The host's voice trembled a little: "It's so exciting, the highest subjective molecular innovation category in history was born on our Zhao Lei's product, full marks!" 25 points! ā€

All the teachers and students at the scene of the "......uproar" stood up, and the applause stirred the entire auditorium, which lasted for a long time.

In the slightly trembling voice of the host, the judges scored the other three in turn, and the scene gradually quieted down.

In the commotion of the audience, Zeng Biao smiled and remained silent, showing that he was confident.

25 points for innovation, 16 points for application, and 6 points for pure subjectivity, the first three, Zhao Lei scored a total of 47 points, three points higher than Zeng Biao's 44 points.

The host picked up the microphone: "Let's enter the scoring of the last link, please ask the judges to ask questions to the contestants, if there are no questions, please directly raise the card to highlight the score." ā€

Everyone knows that this link has the least subjective factors, and it is all scored one-on-one according to hard indicators. All the professionals present can basically give the final score, which will definitely not exceed 20 points.

This link, with a total score of 40 points, will ultimately determine the ownership of the championship, and the scene has been the most vivid explanation of the result from the commotion to the silence, and Zhao Lei has no possibility of turning over.

Even the former president of Shanxing Group, who was most inclined to Zhao Lei, shook his head and wrote on the score board the highest score he could give: 20 points - he could not exceed the rigid target regulations. And even if all the judges are the same as him, Zhao Lei's total score in the fourth link is only 20 points, plus 47 points in the first three links, the final score will be fixed at 67 points, which is a full 12 points lower than Zeng Biao's 79 points.

"I ask for the floor." Among the 12 judges, Ouyang Dan, the only female judge and teacher of the Department of Electronics, raised her hand.