These audience judges automatically lined up below the stage, with the first line voting for Broken Dreams and the second line voting for Blue Shark.
The length of these two teams reveals the percentage of votes each band received from the audience judges.
Clearly, the Blue Shark band's line was longer than the Broken Dream band's line.
Seeing this length, both the Broken Dreams band and the band that came to their aid looked rather grim.
If the audience and judges' votes fall too far behind, there's basically no chance of a comeback.
The voting results confirmed this fact.
In the audience vote, Blue Shark Band led Broken Dream Band by 21 votes, with 261 votes to 239.
In Liang Liang's eyes, the difference in votes was not that big. He thought that Blue Shark Band would be leading Broken Dream Band by at least 30 or 40 votes, but he didn't expect that they were only leading by 21 votes.
The gap isn't small, but it's not too big either. After all, the ten judges still have 100 votes. If six judges vote for the Broken Dream Band, they still have a chance to turn things around.
However, this possibility is extremely small; it's unlikely that so many judges would vote for the Broken Dreams band.
"The audience voting has ended. Now, please let the ten expert judges vote."
The ten expert judges then began voting.
The final result was that six judges voted for Blue Shark Band, while only four judges voted for Broken Dream Band.
"Dear audience members, and viewers at home, the voting results are in! The Blue Shark Band from Guozhong Dance City has defeated the Broken Dream Band from Hailou with 320 votes to 280 votes. Thus, the Blue Shark Band has won first place in this year's Tengda Guozhong Cup Popular Song Grand Prix. Let's give them a round of applause!"
Thunderous applause erupted in the ballroom.
The Blue Shark band raised their hands and circled the stage once.
Next came the awards ceremony, where all eight finalists received certificates and prize money.
The first prize is 80,000 yuan, the second prize is 50,000 yuan, and the third prize is 30,000 yuan.
The prize money for fourth to eighth place decreased from five thousand yuan to one thousand yuan.
The total amount of these prizes is 175,000 yuan.
Tengda's boss, Huang Dasheng, took out a total of 200,000 yuan in cash. In addition to the 175,000 yuan in bonuses, there was a balance of 25,000 yuan. This money was used to pay the singers who came here to participate in the semi-finals for their round-trip travel expenses, and the rest was used as the wages of the employees of Tianguozhong Dance City and the cost of hiring security guards.
After the voting ended, eight of the ten judges went on stage to present the top eight singers with prize money and certificates.
The award was presented to the Blue Shark band by Zheng Guanglan, of course.
The ceremony ended with a handshake, the presentation of a certificate and a large fake check, a few words of encouragement, and then the award ceremony was over.
A few thousand dollars is paid in cash, while over ten thousand dollars is paid by check, which you need to cash at the bank yourself.
Besides the large fake check used as a prop, the top three winners also received a real check.
Zhang Liyuan was dumbfounded when she received the check for 30,000 yuan; she didn't know how this thing could turn into money.
This problem is very easy to solve. Tomorrow, have his brother and Han Chui go to the bank to handle it, transfer the account, and open a new passbook. That will be all.
Although they didn't win first place, the 50,000 yuan prize money can still comfort the broken hearts of the Broken Dream Band. However, having to give 10,000 yuan of it to the band is a bit painful to think about.
After the awards ceremony, Huang Dasheng, Zhou Anming, and the president of the Haikou Musicians Association each took to the stage to give a speech.
Liang Liang was backstage chatting quietly with Luo Lin.
"Brother Luo! The competition is over, and we've got the prize money. Next, we're leaving Hainan for Xianggang to shoot a music video. What are your plans?"
Two days ago, Luo Lin made it clear that he would not go to Northeast China with the Blue Shark band.
Of course, if he were to go to Liangliang, he would find some excuse to stop him.
He didn't want Luo Lin to follow him. He couldn't bear the responsibility of having Luo Lin in the future but losing Dao Lang.
"President Zhou hopes I will stay at the National Central Song and Dance City. I plan to stay here for now, but if things don't work out in the future, I plan to go to my girlfriend's hometown to develop my career."
This is the correct path that Luo Lin should take to evolve into Dao Lang.
"I'll transfer your share of the money to you tomorrow. With this money, I think you and your sister-in-law won't have to suffer in Haikou anymore."
Luo Lin in this life is quite different from him in the previous life.
In his previous life, when Luo Lin was in Haikou, he had a child who was four or five years younger than him, whose name was something like Wang Yi, who ate and drank with him.
However, this child did not appear in this life, and may be waiting for Luo Lin somewhere ahead.
"After we leave Haikou, it may not be easy to meet again. Maybe it will be 78 years before we meet again."
"That's true! It won't be easy to meet again in the future. I will never forget the happy days we spent together."
It will take Luo Lin another ten years to become famous, but hopefully Liang Liang's interference won't delay his rise to fame.
Cai Wanlin, perhaps drunk, walked over to the Blue Shark band and plopped down next to Liang Liang, leaning against her without any regard for others.
"Liang Liang! We're heading back to the capital tomorrow. How about we find a place tonight and have a good talk about music?"
"That's a good excuse. While we're talking about music, we can also play something else, like whether the human arm and thigh are suitable for playing the piano."
"Too smart, I like smart people."
"Unfortunately, I'm busy!"
"The competition is over, how come you still don't have time?"
"I'm going to get a good night's sleep tonight, and tomorrow we're going to Sanya for a stroll."
"How boring! Maybe I'll go to Beijing for a visit sometime in the future?"
"No way! I'm afraid those rock 'n' roll hooligans in Beijing will trample me to death."
"Rock 'n' roll hustler? That's a good term. It's not good for you to give people nicknames so casually."
"What nickname? You guys in Beijing who play rock music are just rock hustlers. Take that band you invited to help out, I dare say to their faces that they're nothing. Rock music has been ruined by you bunch of hustlers."
Soon someone from the cultural department said to let these rock and roll artists fend for themselves! This was probably said at the end of next year, but Liang Liang couldn't remember exactly when.
It was from that time that rock music suddenly fell into a cold wind, losing commercial performance opportunities and even being rejected by nightclubs.
This is one of the reasons why Liang Liang formed a band but did not specifically pursue a rock style.
Actually, the band was only a dozen meters away from Liang Liang. Liang Liang still harbored resentment towards the lewd man. Now that the competition was over, he had no more scruples. If things got heated, he might as well have a go.
However, the band did not hear Liang Liang's words.
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