Among the teams participating in this Southeast Division competition, there is a special team – the Pingshan County team.
The person who led the draw was a young man named Fermi, a college student village official at the grassroots level and a fan of Feiyang Entertainment. After discovering that the elderly could participate, he decisively organized some elderly people to participate.
The village's chess and card rooms have all been converted into e-sports rooms. However, only one team from the village made it to the regional competition. But Fermi was already very happy. He drew lots on behalf of the team and trained the players.
The team's advancement to the regional competition attracted many investors. Fermi negotiated cooperation with some factories, selling the village's output to them. The more factories that bought the goods, the better the price, and the larger and more expensive the advertising space on the clothes, which also boosted the development of the village's industries.
Fermi smiled as he looked at the stands filled with colorful light boards. He never imagined he would one day become a team manager! The opening match had made him wish he could go up and play for his team's players.
Unfortunately, Flying Entertainment doesn't follow the usual path, only accepting contestants over fifty years old.
But Fermi, looking at the banner for Pingshan County hanging on the side of the screen, felt his blood boil. The team he had personally coached was about to compete in front of the entire nation in his place—how could he not be excited?! He was absolutely thrilled! (><)
"First up is the Lotus Pond Moonlight team from the Southeast Division! They are Duan Xiulan, Zhang Shuzhen, Wu Lihua, Liu Meiling, and Chen Xiuying."
Duan Xiulan led her teammates forward. After each person's name was called, the host would pause for a moment to allow the contestant to greet the audience.
Duan Xiaoqiang felt his voice was about to go hoarse from shouting so much at the very beginning. He calmed down, took a sip of water, and noticed that there were also light boards for the Lotus Pond Moonlight Team outside.
Aren't their relatives and friends all in this area? Why are there still people outside?!
He even saw his mother Duan Xiulan's name!! His mother actually has real fans!!!
Duan Xiaoqiang excitedly pulled his sister, "Look over there! Mom's light stick! Waaah, those are real fans from the street! Take a picture and show it to Mom later. Mom's so awesome! She even has real fans now!"
Duan Xiaojuan rolled her eyes at him, "Why are you crying? Our mom's team is about to draw lots, don't interfere."
Duan Xiaoqiang's tears, which were about to fall, disappeared instantly. "I really hope to draw a good lot. I feel like I'd like to draw the Contentment and Happiness team from Ontario. I don't think they're that strong."
The supporters of the "Contentment and Happiness" team were displeased, "What's wrong with them?! They're all teams from Ontario, why are you fighting amongst yourselves?!"
Duan Xiaojuan was speechless at her brother's behavior. With all the family and friends around, he was still speaking so loudly. He knew what was going on, but he didn't need to say it out loud!
"Luckily, Mom didn't draw the 'Contentment is Happiness' team. Look at the person next to her, they're practically eating me alive."
"What's there to be happy about?! We got drawn against a strong team from another province."
They all unconsciously felt a chill run down their spines for Duan Xiulan.
After the team selection process began, the audience started waving flags and cheering wildly. As the regional competitions progressed, many teams paid for their own flags, while others had already signed with sponsors who provided all the promotional materials, including light boards and clothing.
Some of the audience members also became fans of the team, and even created a fan group. They made appointments online in advance to order team uniforms and paint the team logo on their faces.
When the camera panned across the screen, they cheered excitedly for their favorite team.
"Ping Shan, Ping Shan, sweeping away the southeast!"
The number of commentators has also increased to four. The sixteen commentators, selected from the provincial competitions by online voting, are distributed to the four regional competition venues.
"The audience at the scene was so exciting! Zhou Yang, do you have a team you support?"
"Yes, of course I support the Pingshan County team. Compared to other teams, they have a coach, I feel they're definitely going to make it to the semifinals!"
"Just stop jinxing us, or your fans will attack you if we don't make it."
"No, no, no, I actually favor all the teams!"
When Duan Xiaoqiang saw that they had narrowly won in the end, he hugged his brothers and sisters together, "Waaah, Mom won!!! Lotus Pond Moonlight is the best team ever!!!!"
Duan Xiulan and her teammates put down the sponsored phones and stood up to wave to the audience, exclaiming, "Look! We actually have fans now!!"
The aunties burst into laughter, waving even more joyfully.
After each match, there will be a live interview with the host and two rounds of lucky draws, with the prizes being plush toys of characters from "The Secret of Penglai Island".
"Congratulations to the netizen [It's so hard to come up with a name] for winning the Dr. Honey doll from 'The Secret of Penglai Island'. Our staff will contact you privately later. Next, the Lotus Pond Moonlight team will draw one audience member to receive a gift."
Surrounded by several of her friends, Duan Xiulan stepped forward and drew her seat number card: "Section C, Number 25."
"Congratulations to this lucky audience member who has won a character doll. After the competition, you can go backstage to collect your prize with your ticket."
Lin Xiaoxiao was laughing so hard her eyes were almost squinting backstage. The viewership of "The Secret of Penglai Island" was okay, but it was far from being a huge hit. The character skins and dolls that the animation department had carefully made stood out in a corner of the Penglai Island gift shop, creating a stark contrast with other merchandise.
Lin Xiaoxiao knew that these masters were feeling a bit bitter, but she herself couldn't say she had no idea how her work would become such a huge hit; she was just completely clueless.
This time, with the Lin Group's funds, the show that the animation team had painstakingly produced became a huge hit, and the team members have been smiling much more lately.
The people in the game department and the newly recruited staff were so busy they were dizzy. Feiyang Entertainment's game department kept hiring more and more people, and eventually there weren't enough workstations in the game department. Finally, Feiyang Entertainment's game department was spun off into Feiyang Games Company to be responsible for related game competitions, and only then did it slowly get on the right track.
Lin Xiaoxiao hadn't expected that a large-scale event would require so many people. Since it wasn't just going to be held for one year anyway, she decided to recruit enough people all at once to give them experience, and by the second year they would all be experienced.
The "Secret of Penglai Island" plush toys are now impossible to buy offline. Even with emergency production, demand still exceeds supply. Longtime fans of Feiyang Entertainment, who bought the toys out of love for the company, are now excitedly buying up all the other merchandise because of the increased value of their purchases. So, when the audience mentioned drawing character plush toys, they erupted in cheers.
Lin Xiaoxiao chuckled. Luckily, she had already stocked up on a set of ten character dolls at home. She took a big gulp of milk tea. It was so delicious! It really felt great to have what others didn't!
Not to mention that this competition has already begun to show its money-making effect. Lin Xiaoxiao suddenly thought of Feiyang Entertainment's project bonuses. Sigh, if she had known the company wouldn't go bankrupt, she wouldn't have set up profit-sharing project bonuses.
She was earning less, but Lin Xiaoxiao quickly cheered up again. After all, even less was more than being a corporate slave in her previous life. Besides, she didn't have any expensive hobbies, and she didn't need to buy a house now. She could just give her employees more money. Anyway, she had gotten a good deal from the Lin Group.
However, what Lin Xiaoxiao didn't know was that the veteran animation team had already started designing other series of skins and dolls with great enthusiasm, trying to earn more money for President Lin so that he could see the hard work and potential of their animation team when it came time to allocate rooms later.
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