Time passed, and the WRPO event finally came to the day of the finals.

On the last day of the tournament, the morning was the finals of Warcraft 3, and the two sides staged the "Papaya War" again, that is, this year's WCG champion from the Netherlands directly advanced to the WRPO round of 16 Grubby, who made it all the way to the finals again.

And his opponent is also Moon, who played in the WCG finals, a Korean player who is known as the "Moon Demon" by players in the circle.

It is worth mentioning that the two youngsters of the BTG team, Like and Infi, were eliminated, and they were obviously inexperienced in the tournament and missed the peak showdown of this event.

Infi was in the group of death, and lost the qualification prematurely, and Like was as far away as the quarterfinals, and was easily taken away by Moon Moon.

The first WRPO lacked its old rival Sky, and the youngsters couldn't stop the top players who had been famous for a long time, resulting in Grubby and Moon starring in "Papaya Wars" together.

The end result was a repeat of this summer's WCG finals, with Moon Moon failing to avenge the WCG at the WRPO finals, and missing out on the "Ready Player One" trophy, which represents the highest honor in esports.

Tears spilled on the field again, as if it were yesterday.

Grubby became the biggest winner of Warcraft in 2008, and won the WCG Championship and the WRPO Championship this year, which are the two most valuable trophies in the esports field to date.

Grubby also won the 2008 Warcraft "Ready Player One" honor, taking home the first Warcraft RPO trophy.

After Grubby won the championship, Luo Sheng reappeared in the arena and personally presented him with the honorary certificate of "2008 Warcraft Number One Player" certified by the WRPO Organizing Committee, and took away a prize of 300,000 US dollars.

As an individual event, Grubby has the $300,000 (before tax) exclusively, and can also take photos with the world's first-class super-rich, which can be described as fame and fortune, and has directly reached a new peak of his individual career this year.

The most distressing thing may be the moon mill Moon, one step away but missed, and WCG fell to the hands of the enemy again.

But there is only one champion.

The FIFA finals started at noon, and in the afternoon was the final of the team sports event CS, which was played against two teams, Fnatic from Europe and the United States, and wNv from the mainland.

In the end, the wNv team narrowly defeated Fnatic, CS's RPO trophy successfully remained in the mainland, and the wNv team also successfully snatched the championship prize of 1.2 million US dollars, which is 8.2 million yuan converted into soft sister coins at the current exchange rate, and there are more than 6 million yuan after deducting taxes, and the six wNv players can get an average of 1 million yuan in bonuses.

For them, it's the rhythm of getting rich overnight.

During the finals, some family members of the players also secretly came to the scene to watch the game, so in order not to affect their game, they did not tell them.

Witnessing all of this with your own eyes, you understand that children are not playthings, they are indeed serious athletes, and after seeing the championship and win millions of dollars, they will no longer object to playing esports.

Too real......

At 6 p.m. sharp, the final finale of the WRPO "StarCraft" was held on the main stage, and if you choose which project represents esports at the moment, "StarCraft" is the undisputed project.

E-sports was born because of the emergence of interstellar, and in a sense, the history of the development of StarCraft is the birth and development history of e-sports.

Both sides of the battle are Koreans, this is something that can't be helped, the current dominance of the Koreans in the interstellar is almost inexplicable, and the top 32 in the Korean division can almost beat the entire non-Korean player.

The interstellar competition is probably the most competitive, starting from the quarterfinals, all the players are doing their best, not to mention anything else, the championship prize is 300,000 for one person to enjoy, and that is not the rhythm of blood.

Known as the Four Emperors of the Contemporary Interstellar World, "Ze Bing and Li Shuang" joined hands to advance to the top four, namely Flash, Jaedong, Bisu and Stork.

The 16-year-old Terran player Flash swept his old rival Stork in the semifinals to advance to the finals, and Bisu, known as the strongest Protoss player in the history of the interstellar world, defeated the Zerg player Jaedong, known as the "Great Demon King", and advanced to the finals to compete with Flash, who was three years younger than him, for the final championship trophy and the $30 prize money.

In this BO5 competition, Bisu once again staged a tragic end to his solo career, and became the runner-up in a high-value event.

This also made the topic of the first WRPO event even hotter.

The result was a 3-1 victory over Bisu by Flash, who won the trophy and took home $300,000 in prize money.

And this 16-year-old South Korean interstellar player has been out of control since the end of this year, all the way to the supernatural invincible, his consciousness is like opening a map plug-in, in the interstellar world where the master is like a cloud, Flash can even become a unique player.

With Luo Sheng reappearing and debuting, and completing the "Ready Player One" certificate of honor for the first WRPO Star Champion Flash, the first WRPO event also came to an end.

Finally, the WRPO Organizing Committee announced the location of the 2nd World Number One Player Tournament in 2009.

So far, the four-day global e-sports carnival has finally come to a successful conclusion.

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Luo Sheng left Shencheng that night, and the first WRPO event was quite successful, although the final financial audit data came out with a loss of 47.42 million yuan, which is equivalent to burning 12 billion yuan in order to hold this competition.

However, Luo Sheng didn't think that he would make a profit in the first session, and he only lost more than 40 million, and he was surprised that there was no 400 million.

It can be seen that the potential and prospects of esports are promising.

The next day, the WRPO event was reported in the Wall Street Journal, and a Wall Street analyst article was published on the paper's secondary page.

This article is about the global esports industry's user base and business prospects.

The Wall Street Journal claimed that the WRPO event was held in four days, directly or indirectly driving the consumption scale of about 1.75 billion US dollars (11.9 billion yuan) in the region, and the article praised the commercialization of WRPO, and emphasized that the current user scale of esports may have exceeded 50 million worldwide, and its commercial prospects may need to be re-evaluated.

These news undoubtedly made people turn their attention to Luo Sheng again, when he spent more than 10 billion yuan to lay out the global e-sports industry, and the e-sports division of Bluestar Technology Group created the WRPO event brand, many people are not optimistic.

As a result, it seems that the commercialization potential of the esports industry is still okay.

I have to say that Luo Sheng not only has a large number of blind admirers in China nowadays, but even Silicon Valley and Wall Street have more and more people supporting him one after another.

In their eyes, this son of the Internet is simply a representative of miracles.

He has never overturned, and he has maintained a winning streak in both the tech and business worlds.

It's incredible, and you can't even think of blind worship.

Although many people don't want to accept their subjective will or even don't want to believe it, but they have to believe the facts in front of them, and the people who follow him have basically profited, but on the contrary, they are heartbroken, and regret not following the trend at that time.

Now there are suddenly more people studying e-sports than before, and there are all kinds of signs on the surface, I wonder if this industry may really grow to become a large industry with an output value of tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of dollars, as Luo Sheng described at the beginning.

If this is the case, Bluestar Technology Group will become the hegemon in the field of esports, and the latecomers will basically be difficult to shake.

Now that no capital dares to play like Luo Sheng, then I am afraid that no one wants to overturn the status of the WRPO event brand, and Bluestar Technology will definitely be able to dominate the e-sports industry.

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At the same time when the WRPO e-sports event was in full swing in Shencheng, there was also a team in Tokyo next door that was stepping up the arrangement of another large-scale event, and it still belongs to the industry of Bluestar Technology Group.

That's right, it's the first concert of the virtual singer Hatsune Miku that its "Virtual Idol" plan is going to create.

E-sports, which has generated widespread popularity in China, Europe and the United States, does not seem to be cold in this place.

Also,Small book is not interested in e-sports.,It can even expand the scope.,Most of the gamers in this book are console gamers.,There aren't many PC players.。

It's no surprise that e-sports hasn't made much of a splash in the book, and the three major esports projects at present, CS, Interstellar and Warcraft, are all PC online games.

However, there are still some people who pay attention to the Shencheng WRPO E-sports Club, of course, their focus is not on the e-sports itself, but on the virtual singer Hatsune Miku who is linked with the WRPO this time.

During the WRPO event, Hatsune Miku was not the protagonist, e-sports was the theme, but because of Hatsune Miku, the WRPO also had some popularity on the side of the company.

That's the benefit of linkage.

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Tokyo.

He Chao has been in Tokyo for more than a month, and he is the head of the project department of Bluestar Technology's "Virtual Idol" program, and there is still a week left before Hatsune Miku's first virtual concert will be held.

At this moment, He Chao is at the concert site, and it is now a busy scene, and the staff are nervously building the hardware equipment for the stage.

At this time, a staff member came to He Chao in small steps, his face was a little nervous, and after seeing He Chao, he said cautiously: "What, there is a problem with a screen." ”

Hearing this, He Chao instantly turned around and looked at the other party and glared, "What did you say?" ”

The staff member said weakly: "We found that the glass plate has been severely deformed, and there are cracks ......."

He Chao took a deep breath, and the people around him heard it and realized that something was wrong, and it was still at this juncture.

"Hurry up and notify the factory in the United States, work overtime to build me a new piece by air, and within 72 hours I will require the clear glass screen on the stage to be intact." When everyone thought that He Chao was going to roar on the spot, he quickly calmed down and commanded.

Now is not the time to hold accountable.

Hatsune Miku's concert uses the projection imaging technology independently developed by Bluestar Technology, but it is not a real holographic projection technology.

Hatsune Miku appears on a transparent screen, and the human eye looks three-dimensional and realistic.

He Chao is responsible for the "virtual idol" plan from the project to the present, the total budget investment has exceeded 1.53 billion US dollars, of which the research and development of projection imaging technology has eaten up the total budget of 200 million US dollars, transparent glass is currently unable to be produced in China, the research and development department is also set up in the United States, "virtual idol" plans to provide about 40% of the proportion of manufacturing and research and development of hardware facilities, and the rest are overseas, mainly in the United States and the United States.

In order to create a three-dimensional and realistic feeling, projection on a huge screen requires the use of a large number of special projectors, and the generation of specially processed computer images, by superimposing these images to create a three-dimensional projection image, which requires the assistance of artificial intelligence technology.

It's great to use a transparent screen to project images, but the disadvantage is that it doesn't produce brightness, so the best effect is to hold a concert at night.

If the brightness of the projected image is increased, the transparency of the screen will inevitably decrease, which will make the viewer aware of the existence of the screen.

In order not to reduce the transparency of the screen, the surrounding light had to be dimmed, so there was only one compromise, and the virtual concert was held at night.

However, this also means that there is still a lot of room for improvement in the current technology, among which in the screen, the best material is graphene, and the screen made of this new material with ultra-high transparency can solve this problem.

However, technical problems are not urgent, and it takes time to invest in R&D, and the Cote d'Azur company is recruiting R&D talents on a large scale, increasing the scale of R&D investment, and the output also takes time.

As for the new material of graphene, there is currently no mass production preparation technology in the world.

The accident did not delay the progress in the middle of the accident, and the plan was carried out according to the original arrangement, and the factory in the United States immediately rushed manufacturing after receiving the news and prepared to be transported by air.

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At the same time, the promotion of Hatsune Miku's first virtual concert has already begun, with a total of 6,280 tickets for the first concert, and the remaining 5,500 tickets were sold out in 1.88 seconds, in addition to the tickets that came with the original sale of the "virtual idol" three-piece product.

The enthusiasm of the dead house greatly exceeded the organizers' expectations.

It is worth mentioning that the retail price of the "virtual idol" three-piece product has reached 19,999 yuan, and the cumulative sales have reached 1.87 million sets, which greatly exceeded expectations, and the sales reached 2.465 billion yuan of soft sister coins.

Selling more than one million is a bestseller, and the three-piece set is not cheap, accounting for exchange rate fluctuations, which equates to a retail price of $193.

It can be seen that the consumption of the dead house is strong.

Over the past year or so, the "virtual idol" project that He Chao is in charge of has also continued to develop, and Hatsune Miku has released three official albums in succession, of which the second album is the best-seller, with 980,000 copies sold worldwide, almost breaking one million.

And these days, Hatsune Miku is attracting fans all over the world as a virtual singer, and the number of fans and enthusiasm of Yuben can be said to be the highest.

However, if the cost is evenly shared, whether it is album sales, or the sales of film and television soundtracks, games and audio production software three-piece sets, it will still be a loss.

The project was originally intended to operate at a loss of ten years, so the loss is not unexpected.

And the current development of Hatsune Miku, for He Chao's operation team, is also happy and assured.

On the second day, the "Virtual Idol" operation department of Bluestar Technology Group released a 290-second top-level CG promotional video for Hatsune Miku's Tokyo concert, which was a theme promotional video about the Tokyo concert.

Well, when seeing the picture quality of this promotional film, the first feeling of fans and viewers is that the funds are burning.

And the publicity budget for this CG is a sky-high price of 17.98 million US dollars.

If you want to recover the cost of this CG promotional film by holding this concert, it is a fantasy, the concert tickets are sold out, but the total revenue is only more than 900,000 US dollars, which is less than a fraction of this promotional video.

What's more, the other investment in holding this virtual concert is also added.

How big the cost is can also indirectly reveal how ambitious Bluestar Technology Group is, if you want to create an epic IP from scratch and eventually make it a cash cow, you have to cultivate it with blood.

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