In order to secure a spot in this competition and gain more exposure, these online influencers will stop at nothing.
During the registration process, you need to submit your name, which must be either your real name or your actual name.
Therefore, in order to increase their chances of being selected, these bloggers mobilized their loyal fans, asking them to fill in either their online names or their real names when registering.
This would increase their chances of winning.
Some people might ask, if it's just filling in a name, won't there be a lot of people with the same name?
No, that won't happen. After the spots are drawn, Bai Yu and his team will contact the people who registered to find out who the spot is for.
Although there may be some loopholes in this approach, nothing in this world is perfect, and sometimes loopholes are actually a good thing.
As soon as Bai Yu and his team posted the video, it attracted tremendous attention on both platforms, with the number of comments in the comment section increasing by dozens or even hundreds per second.
As for the registration link, we received even more registration information.
Twenty-four hours pass quickly, in the blink of an eye.
After the countdown ended, the number of applicants on Douyin alone exceeded 50 million, and the number of applicants on Kuaishou alone exceeded 100 million.
To be honest, even though Bai Yu and the others have seen a lot in life, they wouldn't be surprised after seeing this data.
However, the number of applicants this time still shocked them, and the entire Yuxue Shipping Company was immersed in an incredible state.
Although Bai Yu's own account has over 100 million followers, he knows his own situation. Some of his followers are from multiple accounts, and some are fake followers.
His actual fan base is probably only 70% to 80%; the rest are just duplicate fans.
However, this data is not something he can control, since he can't prevent others from following him with multiple accounts.
That's why he was surprised to see that the number of applicants exceeded 100 million. These fans were accumulated over several years with a lot of amazing achievements.
Even with some duplicate and fake followers, this time, in just 24 hours, more than 100 million accounts on both platforms registered.
This data is extremely exaggerated.
However, once Bai Hao and his team saw the detailed data analysis, they understood what was going on: those online influencers had put their efforts into action.
For example, according to the backend data, the name Chang Le appeared more than 100,000 times in the registration data.
This single statistic clearly shows that online celebrities have been actively involved, mobilizing their fans to sign up together; otherwise, there wouldn't be so many people using the same name.
Moreover, there were quite a few such data. Bai Yu saw many somewhat familiar names in the database, including Lao Deng and Lao Liu, whom he knew.
However, their names didn't appear very often. It's unclear whether they didn't ask their fans for help, or whether the registration was entirely spontaneous on the part of the fans.
Bai Yu didn't care too much about this situation. Anyway, he had already made up his mind that all contestants would be selected by random draw, without any invitations.
Of course, Bai Yu and his group of four are an exception; they are the organizers, so what if the organizers have some privileges?
Besides, Li Shuang and Lu Sheng have been working hard for more than half a year. What's wrong with them relaxing and going out to sea to fish?
As for Bai Yu and Wang Hai, they are the only two partners of Yuxue Shipping Company. The money spent on this competition was paid by the two of them. They are participating in the competition with their own funds. Is it too much to ask for a spot?
Registration closed at noon on the 7th, followed by the draw for spots.
To ensure the fairness of the draw, the entire process is broadcast live. Once a spot is drawn, they confirm the draw with the recipient.
If there are duplicate entries, or if the applicant cannot be contacted, the spot will be cancelled, and the next person will be drawn until all fifty spots are filled.
These rules were explained in the video, so when Bai Yu and the others started their live stream, the number of viewers in the live stream skyrocketed instantly, reaching over a million in just a few minutes.
Keep in mind that they started their live stream at 1 PM, and to get over a million viewers at that time, Bai Yu is truly unparalleled.
What's even more impressive is that Bai Yu and his team can freely display the Kuaishou app icon in the live stream.
As is well known, for Douyin, its competitor Kuaishou is absolutely taboo on their platform. During a live stream, you can't even mention the other party's name, let alone show their icon. If you do, they will either limit your traffic or shut down your live stream.
However, Bai Yu and his group not only mentioned it in the live stream, but also openly displayed the Kuaishou icon in the live stream.
Unfortunately, the spots they're drawing aren't just for Douyin; Kuaishou also has twenty-five spots available.
Then Bai Yu asked Li Shuang to communicate with Douyin officials. If the Kuaishou icon appeared during the live stream, and the official platform restricted their traffic or banned their accounts, then they would have to go to Kuaishou to start a live stream and do a giveaway.
The platform's officials are well aware of the immense popularity of Bai Yu and his team's fan competition among the top accounts on Douyin's e-commerce platform. Under the pressure of this massive traffic, the platform had no choice but to grant Bai Yu and his team's request.
Moreover, they will not only not limit the traffic to Bai Yu and his team, but they will also give Yu Xue Shipping Company's live broadcast room even more traffic. All the traffic that the platform can provide will be tilted towards them.
This is why, when Bai Yu and his team were drawing lots for the spots during their live stream, the peak number of viewers in the live stream soared to nearly ten million.
Many onlookers were still confused, watching Bai Yu and the others draw lots for spots, and then they asked, "What are they doing?"
After they figured out the cause and effect, he only had one thought in his mind: why didn't they know about this sooner!
If they had known that, they would have signed up too!
It is through the reactions of these onlookers that we can see how much of the previous registration numbers were inflated. Out of a total of 100 million registrations, how many of them were actually individual applicants?
The entire process of drawing lots lasted three hours, with over two hundred draws before fifty participants were confirmed.
Unfortunately, contacting someone at midday is really inconvenient.
Moreover, Bai Yu and his group could only contact the other party through the backend of Douyin or Kuaishou, and the probability of getting through to the other party by sending a voice call was really low.
That's why it took so long to finalize the quota.
As for the other fifty spots, they had already been decided and given away as lucky bags during the previous live stream.
After confirming the players, all that's left is to wait for the competition to begin.
For the fans who are coming this time, Bai Yu and his team have made an adjustment to the treatment. They will no longer reimburse the fans' round-trip travel expenses, but will only provide them with a reimbursement of 500 yuan, and the rest will have to be paid by the fans themselves.
It wasn't that their company couldn't afford the travel expenses; the main problem was that Bai Yu and his team realized that fishing itself has costs, especially sea fishing, where the costs are particularly high.
People who can afford to go sea fishing are definitely not short of money, or at least not that short of money.
Bai Yu and his team were already not charging the other side any fees for this competition. If they also reimbursed the other side's travel expenses, and the other side had a pretty good catch during the fishing trip, they could still make a lot of money even if they didn't win the prize money.
This can easily give these anglers a psychological suggestion that sea fishing is a lucrative business, and a highly profitable one at that.
If someone gets addicted to sea fishing, they could easily go bankrupt if they're not very wealthy.
That's why they only set a reimbursement limit of 500 yuan for them in this competition.
Hainan Province is an island province, and Sanya is located in the south of Hainan Province. The best way to get here is by plane.
Everyone knows that plane tickets are not cheap unless there is a special offer. Bai Yu's meeting time is October 10th, a few days after the National Day holiday.
Airfare for this date is unlikely to be cheap, and these athletes will inevitably have to pay for their own tickets if they want to participate.
Once they have the costs, they will naturally consider the cost and return ratio of sea fishing. If the other party wants to continue fishing, then it has nothing to do with Bai Yu and his group.
As time passed day by day, October 10th arrived, the time for the contestants to gather.
Among the 100 contestants this time, internet celebrities and bloggers still account for a significant proportion, making up about 60% of the total.
On the morning of the 10th, contestants began arriving in Sanya one after another and sent messages to Bai Yu's company staff.
The staff's response was always the same: they all sent the other party their location, including the location of the county's dock, and asked the contestants to gather at the dock first.
Bai Yu and his team prepared a large sightseeing yacht for this competition, which was mainly used to provide a resting place for the contestants.
During the day, the athletes compete on the island, and at night they return to the yacht to rest. While the athletes are resting, the yacht sets sail for the next competition venue.
In addition to this yacht, Bai Yu and his team also brought their own company's fishing boat. The crew on this boat consisted of more than sixty people who were responsible for live streaming and filming during the competition, as well as logistics.
There were definitely too many people to fit in one fishing boat, so Bai Yu and his team found a fishing boat rescue boat to carry out safety rescue and other work in their competition area.
In addition, there are eight smaller speedboats, which are responsible for daily personnel transportation.
The competition was held on five uninhabited islands. Since they were uninhabited, there were definitely no ports or docks.
This meant that neither the yachts the athletes were on nor the fishing boats the staff could dock, which is why these speedboats existed.
It's fair to say that the reason this competition cost over ten million was because of these boats; renting boats costs money.
Around 3 p.m., all the participants, including the staff, had arrived at the dock. All the pre-race preparations were complete, and everyone was ready to set off at any time.
With the sound of the cruise ship's horn, the fan fishing competition officially kicked off!
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