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The middle of October is coming, and fans and viewers from all over the country, as well as fans and viewers from all over the world, have arrived in Shanghai one after another, and many young foreign players are coming to China for the first time.

Tens of thousands of floating people poured into Shencheng, which also showed a very considerable impact on the economic drive of the local area, and the business of hotel rooms increased significantly during this time, and then there was the surrounding food.

There is a reason why the leaders of Shencheng City attach importance to it, and such large-scale activities are quite effective in stimulating economic consumption, especially in the current economic winter environment, the country is stimulating domestic demand, and household appliances are flying in the countryside.

The year 2008 was a critical juncture for China's economy to take off again, and it can be said to be the beginning of great changes unseen in a century.

This is all thanks to the country's foresight, the financial crisis broke out, and China was able to get out of the economic quagmire, in addition to the trillions of water, one of the important reasons is to stimulate domestic demand.

And this is a premise, not only Chinese people like storage, but another key is that infrastructure construction has kept up, and it is another embarrassment that you have money but can't spend it.

By now, basically every village has cement roads, every household has electricity, the road can be bought with a car, electricity is available, household appliances can be sold, and the people have gradually become rich, so there is a foundation for household appliances to go to the countryside.

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The foreigners who came to Shencheng a few days in advance took the lead in starting to buy, buy, eat and eat, and for the various delicacies of Huaguo, the foreigners who came for the first time seemed to have opened the door to a new world.

And the first feeling of consumption here to Europeans and Americans is...... It's really cheap and affordable, don't be too cool.

The Chinese must have been very upset when they heard it, but there was no way.

After all, they came with dollars, the country needs to earn dollars, after entering China, you have to exchange foreign currency, 1000 US dollars can be exchanged for more than 6800 yuan, most people come from all over the country to prepare a few thousand dollars, to China to spend that is tens of thousands of yuan, a few days can live in a star-rated hotel, meals and big fish and meat without any pressure.

China is also happy to see this picture, there is no way, the country wants to earn dollars, use dollars to buy oil, mineral resources and other commodities overseas to meet its own development, and go abroad to do business, people only recognize dollars, especially oil delivery and settlement, those countries that dare not use dollars have been killed by the US imperialist aircraft carriers.

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The pre-heating finally came to an end with the arrival of October 15th, the opening day of the first WRPO World Number One Player Championship.

The main stadium of the event will be held in the "80,000-person stadium", a large building that spans the past century, but it can only accommodate a maximum of 56,000 seats, but it is also a huge venue.

Luo Sheng originally wanted to arrange the main venue of the first WRPO event in the capital Bird's Nest, but because the Olympic Games had just been held, it was impossible to prepare for the event for a month or two after the event.

However, the modern metropolis of Shencheng is not far behind.

October 15 is a working day on Wednesday, and the opening ceremony is scheduled for 18:00 in the evening, and everyone has already left work and has time to feel like following the event in person or online.

The WRPO tournament lasted for four days, with the opening ceremony completed tonight and the official start tomorrow, Thursday and Friday on the 16th and 17th, the group stage was played, the quarterfinals and semi-finals were played on Saturday the 18th, and the finals were played on the weekend of the 19th.

The first two working days are on the secondary stage, and the last two weekends are on the main stage, and the first WRPO Ready Player One Contest has 12 competitions, of which the quarterfinals of Warcraft 3, Interstellar and CS will be played on the main stage.

Other projects can only hold finals on the sub-stage, which is not influential enough, and the resources are certainly not too tilted, and the sub-stage is much more high-end than the main stage of other e-sports events, after all, this event brand is backed by a large multinational technology group like Bluestar Technology.

In today's e-sports field, Interstellar, Warcraft and CS are the representatives, with the highest popularity and influence.

The WRPO operations department also looks at business benefits.

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Around 17:20 p.m.

The spectators who have purchased tickets have begun to enter the stadium one after another through the major intersections of the stadium, and many people have come to attend the opening ceremony after work, and many people are rushing to Linkin Park, a popular rock band in Europe and the United States.

A young South Korean successfully passed the ticket verification channel and entered the "80,000 people" stadium, and was also shocked by the big scene in front of him.

Although I feel uncomfortable, I have to admit that the Chinese people are indeed very good at holding large-scale activities, not to mention the Olympic Games some time ago, which is extremely difficult for other countries to host in the future.

How can this surpass the forced qualification of the 08 Olympics......

If nothing else, the wallet doesn't allow it.

In fact, during this period of time, the Internet is still tearing up, the domestic media and the majority of melon-eating netizens are scoffing at the stick, and it is rumored on the Internet that the South Koreans leaked the ignition ceremony of the Olympic Games, everything is perfect, and the ignition ceremony has become a big regret.

As for whether the news is true or false, it is not known.

At present, the 80,000-person stadium has an attendance rate of more than 90%, and there are still people who have not arrived, and more than 58,000 people have gathered here.

It is worth mentioning that the number of seats in the 80,000-person stadium is 56,000, but e-sports is different from ordinary sports, and a large number of seats are also arranged in the stadium, and these A-level seating areas, the ticket price is as high as 1500 yuan, which has long been sold out, and was once fried to 2000 yuan / piece by scalpers.

In the middle of the stadium, there are six large high-definition screens, which are an equilateral hexagon when viewed directly below the sky.

The main stage is the confrontation platform, including a main commentary platform in the background, as well as a number of sub-commentary stations, and each major sub-division has a dedicated sub-commentary platform, and the infrastructure is all full.

In addition, there are several special vehicles that have been driven outside the stadium early in the morning, and this is the mobile operator to build more mobile signal base stations around the perimeter, without them behind the scenes, the network here would become crowded, and even stuck to the point of swearing, which is not something that the event team wants to see.

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By around 17:35, the rock band Linkin Park had quietly arrived at the stadium and had gone backstage.

At about 17:40, a luxury convoy arrived, and Wang Qiwei, the leader of the WRPO division, had come to greet him.

It is Luo Sheng, the ultimate boss of Bluestar Technology Group, and the number one player in the minds of countless e-sports people.

"Mr. Luo......"

Wang Qiwei ushered in with small steps, and the other party was a young man one or twenty years younger than him, but he didn't dare to slack off at all.

Don't look at this boss is young, but his aura is strong.

After Luo Sheng got out of the car, he glanced around aimlessly, this time Qin Weimu did not come to Shencheng with him, in the past, when he traveled, Qin Weimu must have been with him, but this time it was not a business trip.

"Good job, hard work." Luo Sheng retracted his gaze and said casually.

"Where, this is the way it should be, duty duty." Wang Qiwei hurriedly replied with a smile: "Mr. Luo, please come here." ”

Luo Sheng nodded, followed Wang Qiwei, and some media who came here also captured Luo Sheng, and after seeing the appearance of the hottest tech celebrity, they also quickly pressed the camera shutter to capture frantically.

Earlier, it was rumored on the Internet that Luo Sheng would appear, and now it is a real hammer.

I didn't expect the founder to really show up.

This also made many people more interested in the e-sports industry, and they were very curious about why Luo Sheng was optimistic about this "small" industry.

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"Mr. Luo!"

"Good evening, Mr. Luo!"

"Mr. Luo!"

Under the leadership of Wang Qiwei, Luo Sheng came to the backstage to watch the progress and situation of the work team behind the scenes.

I remember it vividly.

Most people are seeing the legendary boss up close for the first time, the company's ultimate boss, some people are excited and some people are nervous, most of the staff here are young people, and they are engaged in the field of e-sports, so it is normal for them to be basically young people.

But they didn't look at Luo Sheng directly, and they were all nervous when they saw each other's gazes.

Nonsense, try it for you.

This is the same level of existence as the legendary bigwigs such as Gates and Buffett, who get tens of thousands of monthly salaries, and a spicy man is the boss of the boss's boss, so it's strange if he is not nervous.

"Mr. Luo, the first WRPO is expected to record an overall operating income of about 2 billion yuan, all of which will be diluted to the operating expenditure budget, and this session will probably lose about 50 million yuan." Wang Qiwei, who was following Luo Sheng, chatted.

"Earned a total of 2 billion?" Luo Sheng was quite surprised, and nodded in affirmation: "Well done, I thought that at most it would be about 1.8 billion, and I would lose two or three hundred million." ”

As for the loss of 50 million after the first session, Luo Sheng didn't care at all, in order to lay out the plate of the e-sports industry, more than 10 billion soft sister coins were smashed down, and he still cares about the small 50 million?

What Luo Sheng cares about is income, as long as the revenue data is bright, everything is fine, and the current losses are all to pay for the expansion of the entire market in the future.

"Well, if it goes smoothly in less than five years, it should be possible to stop the loss, and in 2013, it will be a great success to strive for the WRPO to turn losses into profits and make a profit of 1 million, but the premise is that it cannot squeeze profits by suppressing the budget and expansion." Luo Sheng said, as soon as he said it casually, Wang Qiwei's pressure came up.

Is this a performance target given by the ultimate boss?

Definitely!

And the real pressure is not 1 million profits, but the phrase "can't suppress the budget and expansion", which is too elastic, how much budget and to what extent? There are no clear indicators, and it is all up to you to comprehend.

Wang Qiwei has to admire the leadership of this boss, it seems that a casual sentence can put you under pressure and drive you to work hard.

There's no way, who makes most Chinese people like to figure out the boss's thoughts, if you give a hard indicator, he will still figure it out, because he doesn't believe it.

Well, don't you like to figure it out? Then I'll be flexible, you can figure it out for yourself.

Luo Sheng is actually conservative, he didn't say a sentence later, that is, he will strive to earn back the more than 10 billion investment in the early stage around 2017, that is to say, his psychological expectation is that at this point in 2017, the group company will recover all the costs when the cost of investment in the e-sports industry does not count inflation.

If this is said, Wang Qiwei is afraid that he will be crushed, and he may take the initiative to resign and not do it, which is not beautiful.

After watching in the background for a while, Luo Sheng left, he didn't want to affect the front-line staff here, he actually made many people a little nervous here, and if he was nervous, something might go wrong.

During this period, Luo Sheng and the North American rock band Linkin Park met backstage and had a brief chat.

Speaking of which, the organizers spent about $3.5 million on the appearance fee for this band, which is not cheap, but it is not very expensive and very reasonable.

Luo Sheng stayed in a backstage office for a few minutes, and Wang Qiwei briefly reported to him the progress of the work.

Time flies, and there are only five minutes left before the official start of the opening ceremony, and at this moment nearly 58,900 people have gathered in the 80,000-person stadium, which is brightly lit.

At this moment, viewers who were unable to attend the event are also watching the live broadcast on TV or streaming video sites.

Bluestar Video Network, a subsidiary of Bluestar Technology Group, has opened up an e-sports live broadcast channel, but it is a satellite live broadcast method, fortunately, the streaming media technology is strong, and the parent company provides technical and financial support behind it, so that netizens can enjoy high-definition live streaming media quality in this era.

As for live TV, this is only available abroad, such as South Korea's OGN TV.

But there is no place in China, because the country has not opened up so far, which is the sequelae of the "Blue Pole Beam" Internet café incident, in fact, even Yangshi Sports Channel has broadcast e-sports-related programs before.

But a "blue pole beam" incident almost dealt a fatal blow to the fledgling e-sports industry in China, and it was even more unaccepted by mainstream voices.

Now a big name like Luo Sheng has come out to support e-sports in person, and finally reversed some of the situation, but in fact, Luo Sheng's reputation has also been criticized by many parents in this regard, and World of Warcraft has also been criticized by "experts", and the rhythm of the media has also been brought to Bluestar Technology.

Because, Blizzard Entertainment, the developer of World of Warcraft, is now a subsidiary of Bluestar Technology Group. However, Luo Sheng never paid attention to and cared about these remarks.

After all, he is not a soft sister coin, and he can't be loved by everyone.

The e-sports industry will eventually usher in a golden age, whether you like it or hate it, it will always come, it's just a matter of time, and Luo Sheng's entry will accelerate the arrival of this golden age without any suspense.

The opening ceremony did not have so much red tape, no various leaders came to the stage to make speeches or anything, adhering to the parent company's concept of "acting fast and breaking the routine", the process was streamlined as much as possible, so that the opening ceremony had more time to focus on e-sports itself, competition itself, and the links that players and audiences care about most.

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At 18:00 o'clock, the sky had just darkened, the lights in the stadium auditorium area were turned off without warning, and the original gossip discussion gradually disappeared.

As soon as the lights went out, the melody of the music suddenly fluttered throughout the scene.

The audience and those watching the live broadcast will smile when they hear the opening melody of the music, which is the theme song of the first WRPO "Ready Player One" sung by Linkin Park.

This is the latest single released globally, but it is no stranger to esports fans, and now the number of hits on BV video sites has exceeded 10 million, which can also see the foundation and potential of the esports industry.

At the moment, the scene was still dark, only the sound of music.

But that didn't last long, and after just a few seconds, six huge screens in the stadium's midfield were quickly revealed.

The MV video for the theme song of "Ready Player One" appears in the form of an animation, and the lead band linkin Park does not appear in the MV, but another version is included in his latest album, but the highlight themes in this version of the MV video are elements such as WRPO, esports, and star pros.

It is worth mentioning that the virtual singer Hatsune Miku also appeared in it at a glimpse.

Soon after the music video appeared on the six huge screens, the main stage was also illuminated, and the Linkin Park band had been preparing on the stage for a long time, but it was almost impossible for the audience to see it at night.

As soon as the lights were turned on, they instantly shone on the audience.

The style of this single is shown in the blood of war songs, Linkin Park, this rock band is a new generation of music urchins, no door and no faction but can bet on the strengths of many families, is the unique king of mixed music in this era, the music style can be integrated with alternative rock, hip-hop rhythms, gorgeous electronic music and many other elements, has become the spiritual fortress of the rock and roll E generation.

For domestic music fans, Linkin Park also has a high reputation, with a large number of fans, including gamers, whose songs "Numb" and "In The End" are probably not unfamiliar to domestic players.

At the beginning of this year, Tengxun's "QQ Speed" was launched, and players who have played this PC game are basically no strangers to the song "Numb".

Even if you don't know who sang this song, as soon as the melody comes out, you know where you heard it.

At this moment, while the band Linkin Park is singing the theme song on the main stage, the staff behind the scenes are not idle, and another electronic music production team will soon pick up, but the DJ will not appear on the stage, but will appear as a virtual singer Hatsune Miku through a giant screen in the form of real-time calculations.

There's a motion capture team behind the scenes, and one of them, a female "DJ actor" in a characteristic, tight-fitting suit, full of face and full attention, and a DJ equipment.

Her movements are synchronized live to Hatsune Miku's model, and the virtual singer Hatsune Miku is shown on a giant screen for a global audience.

Behind all this, there is a huge lineup of technical team to escort.

All this seems to be just a game competition, but behind it is the use of a large number of advanced technologies, but these technologies will not be directly handed over to individual consumers like Azure mobile phones, so they can't feel the subversive life brought by technology.

The team's mission was simple: to provide background music for the opening ceremony and the entry of professional players from major esports clubs.

Virtual singer, DJing online.

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