Chapter 1045: A Different National Competition

The movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was released, which attracted a lot of media attention.

Although the box office results and attendance were very average three days before the premiere, these media bloggers still gave good reviews.

It's not about collecting money.

Whether it is Wanbao or Gu Miao, they will not do such a thing as stuffing money to buy praise, after all, no matter how good the reputation is, it will be a mirror after all.

The emergence of praise is still due to the excellent completion quality of the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark", as well as the simple and complete, funny and touching plot design.

All the viewers who have watched the film, regardless of men and women, young and old, are full of praise.

There is good news and bad news.

The good news is that with the arrival of July and the official kick-off of the summer vacation, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" will definitely make the box office take off with its excellent word-of-mouth performance and sufficient film scheduling rate.

The bad news is that because of the downturn a few days before the premiere, the theater chain is already studying and considering whether it is possible to reduce the schedule for "Raiders of the Lost Ark"?

Movie theaters are open for business.

Before the release, for the sake of Wanbao's face, this gave "Raiders of the Lost Ark" an over-scheduled film schedule.

But after the release, the attendance rate of the movie has not been able to rise, which also makes the theater chain a little worried, after all, there are so many empty seats, it is better to use it to screen other new films!

Gu Miao said that it was only after she stabilized the theater representatives who were fluctuating in their minds and temporarily retained the film scheduling rate of "Raiders of the Lost Ark".

However, the theater also said.

"Raiders of the Lost Ark" will remain over-booked for a week at most, and if attendance is still so sluggish in the next few days, the schedule rate will have to be adjusted downward.

"One week is enough!"

Du Hao said with a smile: "In fact, since yesterday, the attendance rate of the movie has begun to increase significantly. ”

The holiday tide is coming!

The holiday time is not the same in each province and city, but in any case, it will definitely be closed in July.

As long as the children are on holiday, the attendance rate of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" will inevitably take off, and the box office trend of the movie will inevitably usher in a major turning point with the increase in attendance.

By the way, a mouthful.

Don't look at the attendance rate of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" a few days before its premiere, and the results are a little sluggish, but the film scheduling rate is put on hold, and no matter how low the results are, it is not the existence that other films can touch.

In just three days after the release of "Raiders of the Lost Ark", the cumulative box office has exceeded 150 million.

Although this box office is all dependent on over-scheduled films, and the actual attendance rate is miserable, the average daily box office increase of 50 million is already one of the most popular films in the same period.

Du Hao is very satisfied with this.

After all, the box office a few days ago was purely Tu Yile, and the children didn't have a holiday, and the 150 million box office was no different from the one picked up for nothing.

Since the beginning of July, the box office of the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark" has really begun to explode, and if nothing else, the cumulative box office must be at least 1 billion.

……

After the movie was released, Gu Miao no longer paid attention to the follow-up of "Raiders of the Lost Ark".

Don't get me wrong!

It's not that he doesn't care about the follow-up box office trend of the movie, nor does he not pay attention to the bear-infested first big movie, but he has other things to do.

For example, the rerun of "Guardian of Sheep Village".

After a month-long update broadcast, the animation "Guardian of Sheep Village" finally ushered in the final ending.

To be exact.

In fact, it didn't take a month, as early as 10 days ago, the last episode of the animation "Guardian of Sheep Village" had been unbanned and updated on the Wanbao video website.

It's just that the characteristics of online animation are that as long as the website is updated, whether it is twelve o'clock at noon or three or four o'clock in the morning, the audience can watch it at any time as long as they want to watch it, regardless of time and geography.

This leads to ......

Even though "Guardian of Sheep Village" updated the ending very early, there are still a large number of viewers who will not see it until four or five days.

Ten days is a critical time.

In these ten days, the audience who should watch it has basically seen the ending, and those who have not finished watching it may have been too busy or simply forgotten.

Excluding those viewers who have not watched the anime until now, it can be said that "Guardian of Sheep Village" has ended its premiere on online platforms and can be considered for replay.

Naturally, the online platform does not need to replay, after all, the video is placed on the Internet, and viewers who want to watch it a second time can click in to watch it at any time.

Gu Miao's so-called replay is mainly aimed at TV platforms.

"The speed of domestic network development, although it is already very fast, ranks among the top in the world."

Gu Miao groaned: "But it should also be noted that in remote rural or mountainous areas, there are still many children who do not have the conditions to enjoy the online world, and TV is still the only way for them to get in touch with animation." ”

"That's right!"

Everyone nodded in unison.

Mr. Gu's words can be regarded as a key point, and it also explains the main reason why "Guardian of Sheep Village" should be rebroadcast on the TV platform.

Coverage!

The coverage of the online platform is very wide, after all, there are so many netizens in the country, whether it is a computer or a smartphone, the penetration rate has reached an astonishing level.

But can the online platform really cover every corner of the motherland, including children in remote mountainous areas?

I'm afraid it won't work.

In order for those children to also see the animation "Guardian of Sheep Village", it is imperative to land on the TV platform for replay.

The matter has already been discussed.

CCTV Children's Channel, as the children's cartoon channel with the highest coverage in the country and the widest audience, will be the best choice for rebroadcasting "Guardian of Sheep Village".

Other children's channels?

Although they bid very high and are more sincere, they can't stand their coverage rate is not as wide as CCTV Children's!

Take the famous Shonan Children's Channel as an example, as one of the best children's cartoon channels in China, backed by the big tree of Shonan Satellite TV, it stands to reason that the coverage is wide enough.

But here's the problem......

In some remote mountainous areas or rural areas, satellite TV pots just can't receive the signal of Shonan Children's Channel.

What can I do?

Satellite TV pots have not been banned at this time, and most viewers in rural areas watch TV through this small pot.

The shortcomings of this kind of satellite pot are well known, and some channels cannot be received, especially the TV channels with strong regional characteristics, which cannot be watched in several provinces.

However, CCTV, especially CCTV ace channels such as CCTV 1, children's channels and news channels, not only covers the whole territory of the country, even if you go abroad, you may be able to receive a signal.

That's outrageous coverage......

It is based on this consideration that Gu Miao did not choose Flamingo Cartoon or Xiangnan Children, which are more sincere and offer higher prices, but chose CCTV Children.

After all, it doesn't matter if you have less money, the key is that the animation must be seen by more audiences!

……

In addition to the summer vacation in July, there is another important event that is very interesting to children.

Wanbao Cup National Competition!

As a derivative event of the animation "The Prince of Tennis", the Wanbao Cup National Middle School Tennis Tournament has been held twice so far, and the third one was held in July this year.

In the three competitions, countless tennis geniuses have emerged.

The event, which was originally unknown and did not have much attention, has become more and more popular, and it has become a nationally recognized tennis event.

It's not just the whole country......

It is said that in foreign countries, there are also many tennis enthusiasts who like to watch the Wanbao Cup tennis tournament, and even some professional players come from far and wide to watch the game.

The high popularity of the event has also attracted many sponsors to this event.

Lao Zhang told Gu Miao that in the first two national competitions, few companies were willing to sponsor, and they basically relied on Wanbao Group to support them.

However, since this year, more and more sports brands have paid attention to the "Wanbao Cup Tennis Competition", actively sponsoring the event and sponsoring some school teams.

Take the well-known sneaker brands Nadi and Arkadas as examples, the two world's top sports brands, have expressed the idea of sponsoring the Wanbao Cup National Competition.

It's just that they require that once they accept sponsorship, players must wear their branded jerseys and shoes, and no other brands are allowed.

This regulation made Gu Miao feel bad, after all, the contestants are all students, and people can wear whatever they like, can you control it?

As a result, Wanbao rejected the sponsorship of these two big names.

However, the other party is not discouraged, since the event official does not accept sponsorship, then go and sponsor the team below! Nadi sponsored the Beijing Foreign Chinese Middle School, and Akdas sponsored last year's national runner-up Qiushi Middle School......

Not only did sponsors come in droves, but the national competition, which was previously unpopular and could only be broadcast live on the Wanbao video website, also sold its broadcast rights this year.

Didn't expect that, right?

CCTV 5 was very interested in the broadcast of the event, so he negotiated with Wanbao and won the broadcast rights at a price of half selling and half giving away.

Limited to national competitions!

They are not very interested in the East China competition, the provincial and municipal competitions, and the so-called regional qualifiers before the national competition.

TV broadcasts are only available in the national competition stage, and the previous games, in the words of CCTV, are not worth broadcasting, just watch the network video.

"What do you say about the Worlds?"

"Worlds?"

"That's right! We, Wanbao, are actively communicating with overseas tennis associations and plan to hold a world-class tennis tournament for middle school students. ”

This is not Gu Miao's whim.

In fact, he didn't think about holding the World Championship at all, let alone the so-called active communication.

Mainly some overseas middle schools, seeing the Wanbao Cup is hot, they also want to participate. But the Wanbao Cup is a domestic competition, how can foreign schools participate?

So Lao Zhang proposed that the competition mode of the Wanbao Cup should be replicated in several interested countries abroad, and then the champions and runners-up of each country's national competition could participate in the final world competition.

It's called the Worlds.

The nature is similar to the U17 World Cup in "The Prince of Tennis", but the U17 World Cup is a confrontation between national teams, while the Wanbao Cup World Championship is still dominated by the confrontation between "schools".

Moreover, the contestants are also limited to junior high school students, and high school students cannot participate, and if they want to participate, they must also participate in the World Youth Championships.

"That's a good idea!"

"The Worlds can also be televised, but when do you plan to hold the Worlds?"

"Next year!"

Gu Miao shook her head and said, "The World Championship will definitely not be held this year, and it is estimated that it will not be officially held until next year." ”

"Then next year."

CCTV was very interested in Gu Miao's so-called World Championship, especially the CCTV news reporters who accompanied him, and were keenly aware that this could be a great news material.

No matter who wins or loses, a competition like this involving cross-border confrontation will definitely attract the attention of the whole people, and the popularity will be many times higher than that of the national competition.

Proper big news!

After sending off the visiting guests and finalizing the TV broadcast, this year's national competition was officially launched at the Gangcheon Feiyang Stadium.

In this year's national competition, there were no dark horses in previous years, and the schools that advanced to the top 16 were basically strong schools that had achieved results in the previous two sessions.

It is worth mentioning that as last year's national champion and this year's defending champion, Egawa No. 1 Middle School's performance in the knockout stage is really eye-catching.

You don't really want to defend your title, do you?

Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School, led by Shen Chao, performed extremely well on the premise of replacing most of the main players.

Many professionals have asserted that if other schools do not hide their strength, Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School will 100% defend the championship this year.

"It's boring!"

Ma Kui, who accompanied Mr. Gu to watch the game, yawned and said: "The field is 6:0, this strength is too overwhelming." ”

"It does ......"

Gu Miao nodded.

His expression was a little embarrassed, as if he didn't expect the difference in strength between this year's participating teams to be so exaggerated.

In the first two years of the national competition, dark horses were frequent, and the confrontation between various schools came and went, and there was rarely a one-sided situation, and it was basically a full five games.

But this year is a little different.

The disparity in strength between the teams is too great, and there have been four consecutive 3:0 clean sheets in the knockout round.

This kind of game is really boring and boring to watch, after all, everyone is here to watch the crushing game? Can you make an upset drama on the hour?

It's impossible to get an upset.

The gap in hard power is so big, coupled with the rookie players of Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School, under the guidance of Shen Chao, they have made rapid progress, and it is difficult for any team to stop them from winning the championship.

Just when Gu Miao thought that this year's national competition would be the most boring, a middle school from North America applied for an exchange friendly match with the national champion, which made Gu Miao interested.

"Friendlies?"

"It's a friendly match, but it's actually a smashing field."

Lao Zhang said with a smile: "The other party is not good, do you need me to come forward to reject them?" ”

"No, promise them!"

Gu Miao said thoughtfully: "They want to smash the field and suppress the limelight of our national champion, but I think Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School will not necessarily lose." ”

If it had been two years ago, an exchange tournament like this would have turned out to be a difficult one.

After all, at that time, the tennis environment in China was very poor, and there were not too many talented teenagers, so it was normal for them to not be able to beat others.

But now it's different, the current domestic tennis environment has become very good, the strength of the national champion should not be underestimated, and there are BUG players like Shen Chao in charge, and the exchange match will not necessarily lose.

Gu Miao was very confident in Shen Chao.

He felt that he would not necessarily lose this exchange match, and since there was a possibility of winning, why not agree?

If you win, won't the Wanbao Cup Tennis Tournament be able to take this opportunity to promote to the world?