"Ngawang, here's your chance."

Ah Feng, who often resells train tickets around the Spring Festival, excitedly called Ah Wang.

"What an opportunity, it's not the Spring Festival recently, and there is not much profit from reselling tickets."

Of course, they are said to be ticket scalping, but in fact, they have a more recognizable name - scalpers.

Unfortunately, scalpers don't do business every day.

For example, in normal times, there is an oversupply of tickets, and scalpers have little business.

Generally speaking, the craziest period for scalpers is during the Spring Festival.

It's just that it's June and July, where does the Spring Festival come from.

"I'm not talking about trains, I'm talking about tickets to the World Cup."

"The World Cup?"

Ngawang was confused, "Isn't the World Cup going to be held next year, and besides, it's still in Japan and South Korea, do you have the ability to do our scalper's business abroad." ”

"Khan, Ngawang, it seems that you need to watch the news more, you are too ill-informed now, how will you mix it up in the future. Let me tell you, I'm talking about the World Cup, not the Football World Cup, but the Esports World Cup. You know, half a month later, the Global CF Championship will be held in our Yanjing Workers Gymnasium, if we act, we will definitely make a lot of money. ”

"World Esports World Cup, what is this?"

"What's the matter, tell you not to sleep at home every day, you don't listen, now the business is not familiar."

Ah Feng glared at Ah Wang, but still said patiently, "This is a World Cup competition for playing games, and at present, 64 team dances, including the global individual competition and team competition, will come to our country. Of course, it's not the easiest. The most lively thing is that there are a lot of foreigners, and they will come to us to watch this World Cup. Haven't you noticed that there have been more gringos on the street lately? ”

"Oh, no wonder, I thought there were a lot of gringos coming to us lately, and they were here to watch the game."

"Well, let's do it, we're going to have to buy some more tickets now. When the time comes, we will surely get rich. ”

"Okay, okay, listen to you, we'll go now."

……

Australian bookmakers.

Australia is home to the world's largest bookmaker and is one of the few legal gambling regions in the world.

However, in recent years, due to the lack of cooperation from various countries and the lack of major competitions, the business of Australian bookmakers has not developed much. At present, what they are most looking forward to is the start of next year's football World Cup. They felt that it was an opportunity. Moreover, they will also try their hand at online gambling for the first time at the World Cup.

"Tony, here's your chance."

Kate, the head of the Australian bookmaker, said excitedly to his assistant Tony.

"Mr. Kate, what chance?"

"Hehe, I'm going to try out the online gambling business in advance."

Kate has always loved the internet and has been trying to make their gambling business happen on the internet as well. Although, the globe is not the first of their attempts. However, the online gambling business in other countries or regions has been mediocre and unfruitful because of insufficient impact or other reasons.

But this time, Kate had some excitement and he felt it was an opportunity for him in the Australian gambling industry.

"Ahead, Mr. Kate, it doesn't seem appropriate, the World Cup hasn't started yet."

"Of course, next year's World Cup didn't start, but this year's Esports World Cup came suddenly."

"Tony, immediately inform everyone that we have a meeting. At the same time, Tony, find all the information of the 64 teams in the Esports World Cup, and, preliminarily set the odds. Well, in addition, by launching our promotional program for our online gambling business in Australia, we will really give it a hand. ”

……

The CF Global Championship, under the continuous promotion and operation of Penguin Technology, has become more and more influential.

Media, players, spectators, bookmakers, tourist hotels, and major sponsors have been dispatched.

All of a sudden, under the influence of their publicity, the CF World Championship really attracted people's attention like the World Cup.

Whether they're interested in this esports World Cup or not, it's still on the news every day.

Regardless of whether they know CF or not, they are still explaining it in the media.

In spite of...... In short, no matter what is cut by a qiē, they know that one is on the line, and their own country participates.

United States, Japan, Germany, Russia, France, South Korea, Australia, Canada, Brazil, India...... Almost all the countries that can be counted, they participated. No, it should be said that it was the members of their country's team who participated. Although, in the past, the participation of these players may have been just a matter for their own players, or it was a matter for their team. Or, they just love to participate in the competition.

However, when the global media, when countless people watched this game, even these players also had a feeling.

They are not fighting for themselves.

They are fighting for their country.

Their victory or defeat is related to the honor of the country.

With the expectations of countless people, they officially stepped into China and entered the workers' gymnasium.

And a few days before the opening ceremony, the TV media that had not made a move finally couldn't wait.

The TV station took action, and they went from only helping the CF Global Championship to become a customer of Penguin Technology and buying their TV rights.

Yahoo Online took a shot, and they did the same, from the original partnership to the hope of getting the rights to the broadcast. In particular, Yahoo Online also thinks. Streaming CF World Championship live on their Yahoo online will be a very exciting and very eye-catching business.

Similarly, Japan's TV Tokyo took action, and South Korea's SBS TV also shot.

Even, even CCTV, which has always been very conservative and has always hoped for the approval of the relevant departments, has also taken action.

Although the broadcast fees offered by these TV stations are very low, according to Zhang Ning's meaning, as long as there are TV stations that will buy their broadcast rights, even if they don't need money, they are willing to sell. Therefore, under the great profit of Penguin Technology, almost all interested TV stations have applied for purchase.

They feel that such a cheap broadcast fee will not be bought for nothing.

Even if it's such a broadcast, it doesn't have too many ratings, and if you buy it and put it away, you won't lose money.

However, what if, judging from the current popularity of these media outlets, what if it becomes popular, won't they make a lot of money?

Time passes quickly.

During this period of time, Zhang Ning was very busy.

There are many things that I can't think of, all of which appear in front of Zhang Ning.

Like sponsorship, like tickets, like in-venue security...... Originally, I just wanted to promote the CF game as much as possible, but I didn't want to, such a game is really like the World Cup, countless things come one after another. Of course, no matter how tired he is, Zhang Ning is very excited to deal with it. This is completely beyond his imagination, and no matter how well this World Cup goes, he is destined to go down in history.

June 6, 2001 was an auspicious day.

On this day, the Global CF Championship, no, it should not be called the Global CF Championship now, but the Esports World Cup, officially opened.

The original plan, Penguin Technology's arrangement, was to let 32 teams in the single competition and the team competition be divided into 16 groups, and quickly enter the finals by eliminating them separately. However, when countless people watched and when countless spectators came to support, Zhang Ning decided to completely refer to the football World Cup in the CF E-sports World Cup, which was set as ABCDEFGH, 8 groups. There are four teams in each group, and each team will play four times, with the top two teams from each team qualifying.

On the one hand, the advantage of this is that it can increase the number of games.

On the other hand, it can also allow the opponent to play as much as possible and not fail by a mistake.

Of course, one of the most important reasons is that it allows more teams from more countries to pit against each other.

This kind of confrontation, on the one hand, increases the highlights, and on the other hand, it also increases the passion of the game.

Of course, this is also more in the interests of all collaborators.

Who doesn't want this game to last longer, who doesn't want them to watch more games.

What's more, this is still a struggle between countries.

Even if you're not interested in that country, you can look at another country.

In short, the confrontation between dozens of countries, you can always find countries that support them, and players who support them.

Well, having said all that, the real race, has begun.

The first match, China vs Japan.

As the host country, the first match is between the host country and a certain country.

I don't know if it's providence, the first game is the match between China and Japan.

For this match, it can be said that he is really looking forward to it.

Whether it is the Chinese audience or the Japanese audience, they are looking forward to this match.

The Chinese hate the Japanese, and the Japanese have little affection for China.

Zhang Ning didn't want to connect the game with politics, but the hatred between the two countries could not be separated in one or two sentences.

So, when China and Japan start to compete, it's like a football battle between China and Japan.

No, it's more exciting than the Sino-Japanese football match.

Nima, there is a ghost in the Sino-Japanese football war, everyone knows that China will lose, and what they want to see is definitely looking for abuse, and there is a psychological problem.

However, in the case of the Sino-Japanese CF match, that is not necessarily.

China's king team, they can definitely destroy little Japan.

Similarly, for the Japanese audience, they also want to take out China.

They feel that Japan has surpassed China in terms of population, and that all others have surpassed it.

Even if it's a game, Japan, as a big game country, feels that it is definitely not a problem to win China.

The big war officially began at this time.

Whether it's a live webcast, or a live TV, or more friends who don't watch live broadcasts and only watch the results.

They are all looking forward to this game.