The prize money alone for this competition is enough to shock the entire nation.
For the participants, as long as they make it into the top 32, their travel and accommodation expenses will be almost completely covered, and they may even have more than 500 yuan left over.
Making it into the top 16 can earn you several thousand yuan, and entering the top eight can make you a fortune.
Not to mention the top four spots; anyone who gets any of them can immediately go back and buy a house or land.
Lin Yifeng put a lot of effort into publicity, directly instructing Liu Shengxing to contact newspapers in other regions to promote the competition and announce the preliminary round schedule.
The entire competition lasts one month, with the preliminary rounds lasting half a month, during which nearly 90% of the participants will be eliminated.
The remaining 128 players will compete for the final 32 spots at the Dragon Arcade in Makino City.
In the final round of 32, the players will compete at the Shangdu Stadium.
Of course, to ensure the formality of this competition, Lin Yifeng even contacted the local TV station to broadcast the entire event live.
Meanwhile, Capcom will also send relevant referees and staff to cooperate.
This is an interesting story.
When Capcom learned that a businessman in China was organizing a competition with a total prize pool of nearly 500,000, the entire Capcom team went crazy.
In 1993, even in the birthplace of Street Fighter, they didn't offer cash prizes. Most of the rewards were physical items, such as official championship trophies and titles like "Number One in XX".
Lin Yifeng's offer was so generous that Capcom officials thought he was trying to scam them out of a partnership, and even sent someone from Nanfeng to Makino to find him.
Once it was confirmed that Lin Yifeng wanted to officially organize the competition, Capcom did not hesitate at all and directly granted Lin Yifeng the right to participate in official domestic competitions.
In 1993, when the importance of interests was relatively low, official authorization would have been given more weight.
Capcom is overjoyed when someone like Lin Yifeng pays to help with promotion. Although the competition itself is only of high value in China and cannot be shown to the world, Lin Yifeng's competition is very important.
It took Lin Yifeng only a week to organize the competition and obtain the authorization.
This process simply involved Yang Biaozi finding a packaging box, noting down Capcom's email address, and sending an email.
When the competition rules and introductions were released in every corner of the country, all arcade players across the country were thrilled.
These days, playing video games is considered a waste of time, but if you can make money by playing video games and become the number one Street Fighter player in China, is that still considered a waste of time?
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