After all, it's not easy for any company to start its transformation, let alone a change like Yang Biaozi's.
After finishing all this, Lin Yifeng figured he wouldn't need to worry about Yang Biaozi for the time being.
Lin Yifeng has a lot of things to deal with right now.
With Yang Biaozi's equipment in place, the e-sports competition is about to enter its mid-month phase.
In the initial registration phase, most of the top talents from various provinces passed the preliminary selection.
The second competition organized by Lin Yifeng was clearly open to the whole country. In addition, the competition itself was extremely popular, with as many as 6,000 people registering for the preliminary rounds alone.
The 6,000 people were divided into two groups, A and B, and conducted preliminary selections in Makino City and Shangdu respectively.
After nearly half a month of preliminary selection, only 128 contestants remain.
The remaining 128 people will begin the next round of competition in the second week of this month.
The Central Province side has been very cooperative in this matter.
Upon learning that Lin Yifeng had organized such a significant event, the General Administration of Sport immediately approved the venue and contract for Lin Yifeng and his team.
Not only the sports bureau, but the tourism bureau was also overjoyed.
Lin Yifeng's influence made Shangdu and Muye the focus of attention.
Inside Pang Donglai's office.
Lin Yifeng looked at the list in his hand, which was also helping everyone organize the competition.
Guo Fengsheng, with a furrowed brow, approached Lin Yifeng with a bill in hand.
"Brother Feng, did you approve this?"
Lin Yifeng glanced at the result and then nodded.
"Um, is there a problem?"
Guo Fengsheng scratched his head, his eyes filled with doubt.
"Brother Feng, isn't it a bit much that you're not charging admission for your first match?!"
"this……"
"We're going to lose a lot of money."
As soon as he said this, everyone in the room turned their attention to Lin Yifeng.
The finance staff, including Xu Qingyi, all had some doubts about Lin Yifeng's decision.
They plan to start using stadiums for the competition when the 128th election takes place.
The stadium alone costs 10,000 yuan to rent for a day, not including other equipment of all sizes. If you calculate it that way, Lin Yifeng and his team's first day of competition was essentially free, a waste of money.
Lin Yifeng smiled as he looked at Guo Fengsheng.
"We still lack brand recognition."
"Besides publicity, our main goal is to get other people to see it."
"Let them watch the game for free, and we can start charging them later."
"Don't forget, this is the first national competition."
Guo Fengsheng's expression was somewhat complicated.
He had internally opposed the competition itself.
Xu Qingyi really wanted to start a competition, but Donglai, unaware of these things, chose to abstain.
There are also clear disagreements among the people regarding various decisions made within the project.
However, no matter how much everyone argued, the final decision rested with Lin Yifeng. If Lin Yifeng wanted to do it this way, they could only offer their opinions.
Lin Yifeng's idea was very simple.
As the first esports event in China, Capcom granted it the necessary permissions to be officially recognized and legitimized.
Even with official certification, in 1993, playing video games was still considered a waste of time.
Whether an event is successful or not has nothing to do with the number of participants; the main thing is to have a good reputation.
Therefore, Lin Yifeng decided to release one episode first to let everyone know, and then broadcast the second episode live.
How are ticket prices determined?
"Brother Feng, I'll go print the tickets once the order is placed."
Xu Qingyi brought the compiled report to Lin Yifeng's side.
After a moment's thought, Lin Yifeng also gave a precise answer.
"The price shouldn't be too high; we'll try our best to keep costs down for this competition."
"Let's set the price at four yuan for a stadium that can hold five thousand people."
“Excluding costs.”
Lin Yifeng glanced at Guo Fengsheng beside him and asked softly.
"How's the sponsorship deal going on your end?"
Guo Fengsheng was in charge of all the sponsorship matters.
Lin Yifeng hadn't expected many people to sponsor the competition, but the situation exceeded his expectations.
As the first e-sports event in China, many companies seem to have high hopes for Lin Yifeng's performance.
Air conditioning companies like Gree, as well as some national enterprises, have all invested in sponsorships. The sponsorship amounts are not high, usually around 10,000 to 20,000 yuan. There is also a company that only invested around 5,000 yuan for advertising space.
But all these companies, big and small, combined, brought in nearly 200,000 yuan in sponsorship revenue for this competition.
Most importantly, these companies have realized that advertising on TV is already a considerable expense, and sponsoring Lin Yifeng's business is much cheaper than directly advertising on TV.
Although it was only a five-day competition, they were already very satisfied.
Of course, securing these sponsorships was also made possible by the strong support of the TV stations.
Because Lin Yifeng and his team wanted to advertise on television, the television station made concessions on the broadcast of the match, offering a very low price.
The time slot was set from 2:30 to 4:30, which is not considered a prime time slot.
Normally, most TV stations are broadcasting dramas at this time, and they are making room for Lin Yifeng's competition to warm up the audience.
The TV station only spent about 50,000 yuan to broadcast the event live for seven days.
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