Chapter 281: [Another big event]

Latest website: The time has passed and the WRPO event finally comes to the finals.
On the last day of the event, the morning was the final of "Warcraft 3". The two sides of the match staged a "papaya war" again, that is, this year's WCG champion from the Netherlands directly promoted to Grubby in the WRPO Sixteen Finals. Entered the finals again.
And his opponent is Moon, who also played in the WCG finals, and is called by the players in the circle as "Moon Magic" Korean players.
It is worth mentioning that the two teenagers, Like and Infi, of the BTG team were eliminated, and the experience of the competition was obviously insufficient, and they missed the peak duel of this event.
Infi was placed in the death group, and was disqualified prematurely. Like, the farthest stop in the top eight was easily taken away by Moon Demon Moon.
The first WRPO lacked the old rival Sky, and the youngsters couldn't help the top players who had been famous for a long time, which led to Grubby and Moon starring in the "Papaya War".
The final result was a re-enactment of the WCG finals this summer. Moon Demon Moon failed to report WCG's vengeance at the final scene of WRPO, and was recently lost to the "Top Player" trophy, which represents the highest honor of e-sports.
Tears once again spilled over the stadium, as if it were yesterday.
Grubby became the biggest winner of the Warcraft project in 2008. At the same time, he won the WCG and WRPO championships this year. These are the two gold medals in the field of e-sports so far.
Grubby also successfully won the 2008 Warcraft "Top Player" honor and successfully took home the first Warcraft RPO trophy.
After Grubby won the championship, Luo Sheng appeared again on the field and personally awarded him the "2008 Warcraft Player of the Year" honor certificate, and took away a prize of 300,000 US dollars.
As an individual event, Grubby enjoys the exclusive 300,000 US dollars (before tax) and can also take photos with the world's first-rate super-rich. It can be described as a combination of fame and fortune, and this year has directly reached a new peak in the career of personal events. Also envy others.
Perhaps the most distressed is Moon Moon Moon, one step away but missed, WCG once again fell in the hands of the enemy.
But there is only one champion.
The final of "FIFA" started at noon, and the afternoon was the final time of team competition project CS. The two sides played against were Fnatic from Europe and the United States and wNv from the Mainland.
In the end, the wNv team defeated Fnatic, the CS RPO trophy successfully stayed in the mainland, and the wNv team successfully snatched the 1.2 million US dollar championship bonus. According to the current exchange rate, it was 8.2 million yuan for the soft sister currency, and there was also tax deduction. More than 6 million, wNv six players were able to receive an average prize of 1 million yuan.
For them, it is a rhythm of getting rich overnight.
During the finals, some members of the team members also secretly came to the scene to watch the game. In order not to affect their games, they were not told.
Witness it all with your own eyes, understand that children are not playthings, they are truly athletes, and after seeing the championship and receiving millions of dollars in prizes, they no longer oppose them playing e-sports.
Too real ...
At 18 o'clock in the evening, the finale of the finale project WRPO "StarCraft" was held on the main stage. If you choose which project to represent e-sports, StarCraft is an undisputed project.
E-sports is born because of interstellar demand. In a sense, the development history of interstellar hegemony is the birth and development history of e-sports.
Both sides of the battle are Koreans. This is no way out. The Koreans currently have almost no solution to the interstellar power. The 32 top players in the South Korean division can easily pull out one of the non-Korean players.
The star competition is probably the most intense competition. Starting from the quarterfinals, all players are doing their best, and not to mention anything else, the championship prize is 300,000, which is exclusive to one person, and that is not the rhythm of the blood.
"Ze Bing Li Shuang", known as the contemporary four star emperors, joined hands to advance to the semi-finals, namely, Jaedong, Bisu and Stork.
The 16-year-old human race player swept the old opponent Stork to advance to the final in the semi-final. Bisu, the strongest protoss player in the history of the interstellar, cut off the Zerg player Jaedong, known as the "big devil," and advanced to the final with three years younger Compete for the final championship trophy and that $ 30 prize.
In this BO5 game, Bisu again staged the tragic ending of his personal tournament career, and doubled up to become a runner-up in an event with a very high gold content.
This also made the topic of the first WRPO event even hotter.
The result of the game was a victory over Bisu with a score of 3: 1, which successfully won the cup and snatched a prize money of 300,000 US dollars.
And this 16-year-old Korean interstellar player has been out of his professional life since the end of this year. He is super invincible all the way, and his consciousness is like opening a map plug-in. , Can even become the only player.
As Luo Sheng appeared and made his debut again, after completing the "Top Player" honorary certificate for the first WRPO Interstellar Championship, the first WRPO event came to an end.
Finally, the WRPO Organizing Committee announced the address of the 2009 Second World Player Championship.
At this point, the four-day global e-sports event carnival has finally come to a successful end.
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Luo Sheng left Shencheng that night. The first WRPO event was quite successful. Although the final financial audit data showed a loss of 47.42 million yuan, it was equivalent to burning one or two billion yuan to run this competition.
However, Luo Sheng did not even think of making a profit in the first session. He lost more than 40 million yuan. No more than 400 million yuan has surprised him.
This shows that the potential and prospects of e-sports are promising.
By the next day, the Wall Street Journal reported on the WRPO event, and the newspaper's secondary page published an article by a Wall Street analyst.
This article is an estimate of the size and business prospects of the global e-sports industry.
The Wall Street Journal claims that in the four days when the WRPO event was held, it directly or indirectly led to the consumption scale of about 1.75 billion US dollars (11.9 billion yuan) in the local area. The article praised the commercialization of WRPO and focused on electronics. The current user scale of Athletics may have exceeded 50 million globally, and its business prospects may need to be re-evaluated.
These news undoubtedly made people turn their attention to Luo Sheng again. At the beginning, he invested more than 10 billion to lay out the global e-sports industry. The e-sports division of Bluestar Technology Group created the WRPO event brand, and many people were not optimistic.
As it turns out, oh my go, the commercialization potential of the e-sports industry is still okay.
I have to say that Luo Sheng is not just a large number of blind worshippers in China, but even Silicon Valley and Wall Street have been increasingly crowded with him.
In their eyes, the child of the Internet is simply a miracle.
He has never overturned a car, and has maintained a complete victory in both the technology and business circles.
It's incredible, it's impossible not to worship blindly.
Although many people do not want to accept subjective will or even believe it, the facts before them have to believe that the people who follow him are basically profitable. On the contrary, they are distressed and regret that they did not follow suit at the time.
Suddenly more people are studying e-sports than before. There are all kinds of signs that this industry may really be as strong as Luo Sheng described at the beginning, and it will grow to become a market with tens of billions or even hundreds of billions in market size. industry.
If this is the case, Bluestar Technology Group will become the overlord in the field of e-sports, and it is basically difficult for the latecomers to shake it.
Now there is no capital daring to play like Luo Sheng, then I am afraid that no one wants to overthrow the status of the WRPO event brand, then Bluestar Technology can certainly dominate the competitive industry.
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At the same time as Shencheng was hosting the WRPO e-sports event at the same time, a team in Tokyo next door was also stepping up the layout of another large-scale event, and it still belongs to the industry of Bluestar Technology Group.
That's right, the first concert of the virtual singer Hatsune Miku, which is planned to be created by its "virtual idol".
E-sports, which has generated a lot of popularity in China, Europe and the United States, does not seem to catch a cold in this place.
Also, the small book lacks interest in e-sports, and can even expand its scope. Most of the game players in this book are console game players, and there are not many PC players.
It is no surprise that esports has not caused much movement in Japan. At present, the three major e-sports projects CS, Starcraft and Warcraft are PC online games.
However, there is still a part of the dead house that pays attention to the Shencheng WRPO e-sports club. Of course, the focus of their attention is not the e-sports itself, but the virtual singer Hatsune Miku linked with WRPO.
During the WRPO event, Hatsune Miku is not the protagonist, e-sports is the theme, but because of Hatsune Miku, WRPO has also gained some popularity on the Japanese side.
This is the benefit brought by the linkage.
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Tokyo.
He Chao has been here in Tokyo for more than a month. He is the head of the "Virtual Idol" project department of Bluestar Technology. Currently, there is only one week left before the first virtual concert of Hatsune Miku. Time is up.
At this moment, He Chao is at the concert scene. Here is a busy scene, and the staff are nervously setting up the hardware equipment of the stage.
At this time, a staff member hurriedly came to Hechao, and his face was a little nervous. After seeing He Chao, he said carefully, "Well, there is a problem with a screen."
After hearing this, He Chao turned around and looked at the other person and stared, "What are you talking about?"
The staff member said weakly, "We found that the glass plate had severe deformation and cracks ..."
He Chao took a deep breath, and when the people around him heard it, he realized that there was trouble, and it was still in this section.
"Hurry to notify the factory in the United States, and work overtime to rebuild a brand new airlift. Within 72 hours, I requested that the transparent glass screen on the stage be complete." When everyone was screaming at why the scene was super, He calmed down quickly as he commanded.
This is not the time for accountability.
Hatsune Miku ’s concert uses projection imaging technology independently developed by Bluestar Technology, but not a true holographic projection technology.
Because Hatsune Miku is projected on a transparent screen, the human eye looks three-dimensional and real.
He Chao ’s
virtual idol
plan has been in excess of US $ 1.53 billion since the project was established. The research and development of projection imaging technology has eaten up the US $ 200 million of the total budget. Transparent glass is a domestic Currently, production is not possible, and the research and development department is also set up in the United States. The "virtual idol" plan provides about 40% of the domestic manufacturing and research and development of hardware facilities, and the rest are overseas, mainly in Japan and the United States.
In order to create a sense of three-dimensionality and realism, projection on a huge screen requires the use of many dedicated projectors and the generation of computer images after special processing. By superimposing these images into a three-dimensional projection image, artificial intelligence technology is required here. Auxiliary.
Projecting an image with a transparent screen is very good and the effect is very good, but the disadvantage is that it cannot produce brightness, so the best effect is to hold a concert at night.
If the brightness of the projected image is increased, the transparency of the screen will inevitably be reduced, which will make the audience aware of the existence of the screen.
In order not to reduce the transparency of the screen, the surrounding light must be dim, so only one step can be compromised. The virtual concert is performed at night.
However, this also means that there is still much room for improvement in current technology. Among the screens, the best material is graphene. Screens made with this new material with super transparency can solve this problem. problem.
However, technical problems are not urgent, and it takes time to invest in research and development. The Cote d'Azur companies are recruiting research and development talents on a large scale. Increasing the scale of research and development investment, and the output also takes time.
As for the new material of graphene, the production technology for mass production is not available worldwide.
The midway accident did not delay the progress of the accident. It was planned to proceed according to the original schedule. After receiving the news, the factory in the United States immediately rushed to manufacture and prepared to be shipped by air.
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At the same time, the promotion of Hatsune Miku ’s first virtual concert has begun. There were a total of 6,280 tickets for the first concert. In addition to the tickets that were originally sold as "virtual idol" three-piece products, the rest 5,500 tickets were sold online three days ago and sold out in 1.88 seconds.
The enthusiasm of the dead houses greatly exceeded the organizers' expectations.
It is worth mentioning that in Japan, the "virtual idol" three-piece product with a retail price of 9999 yuan is currently sold. The cumulative sales volume has reached 1.87 million sets, which greatly exceeded expectations and sales reached 2.465 billion yuan. Sister coins.
Sales of more than one million are best-selling products, and the three-piece set is not cheap, excluding the exchange rate change is equivalent to a retail price of $ 193.
Visible consumption of dead homes.
Over the past year, the "virtual idol" project he is responsible for has also continued to develop. Hatsune Miku has released three official albums in succession, of which the second album is the best-selling album and has won 980,000 worldwide. The sales volume almost broke one million.
In these days, Hatsune Miku is sucking fanfare around the world as a virtual singer. Among them, Japan's fans and enthusiasm can be said to be the highest.
However, if the costs are evenly distributed, both the album sales and the three-piece sales of movie soundtracks, games, and sound production software will be evenly lost or lost.
This project was originally intended to operate for a loss of ten years, so the loss was not unexpected.
For the current development of Hatsune, for He Chao's operation team, he is also happy and at ease.
On the second day ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Blue Star Technology Group ’s
virtual idol
operation department propagandized for Hatsune Miku ’s Tokyo concert, and announced a 290-second top CG promotional video about the Tokyo Concert-themed promotional video.
Well, when you see the quality of this promotional video, the first impression of the fan audience is that funds are burning.
And this CG propaganda fund is sky-high price of 17.98 million dollars.
If you want to recover the cost of this CG promo film by holding this concert, it is heaven and earth. The concert tickets are sold out but the total income is only over $ 900,000, which is less than the fraction of this promotional film. Even if the concert is During the period, the surrounding authorization, hand-made income and other income were all counted in. The comparison of the figures is also a sloppy salary.
What's more, other inputs for hosting this virtual concert have also been added.
The size of the capital dropped can also indirectly show how ambitious the Bluestar Technology Group is. If you want to build an epic IP from scratch, and eventually make it a cash cow, you must cultivate it by blood.
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