The main sponsor of the World Championship of King of Fighters is Intel, and there are also some small sponsors in each competition area. In order to attract these sponsors, the event preparation team broke its leg and took three years to convince Intel, the sucker, to pay.
The promotion of the competition is also quite thoughtful, mainly publishing registration news in some electronic magazines around the world. There is no such thing as e-sports these days. When various electronic magazines heard that Sega was going to hold the King of Fighters Championship, they all confiscated much advertising fees and helped promote it with great enthusiasm.
In addition, Oriental DreamWorks, one of the organizers of the competition, also filmed a global unified publicity advertisement for the King of Fighters Championship. Each region has a cooperative TV station that pays to broadcast the division finals and world finals of the King of Fighters Championship.
Of course, since no one knows the ratings of such e-sports competitions, the broadcasting fees given by the TV station are very low, and the event team does not expect to make money by broadcasting fees in the first competition.
No matter what, the world's e-sports competition was successfully held.
In another time and space, although "The King of Fighters" is very famous, it is far from reaching the industry's first place. However, due to the emergence of Kang Jianfei, "The King of Fighters" was released several years ahead of schedule. Its high-quality character design and relatively balanced fighting system quickly gathered a large number of loyal fans.
As soon as the news of the "King of Fighters" World Championship came out, it ignited the passion of countless players, and the low registration fee could not stop their impulse. In just half a month, there were more than 1,200 applicants, which greatly increased the workload of the qualifiers preparations.
Since it was the first time such a competition was held, many details were omitted. The qualifiers even experienced various unexpected situations, and many jokes were made in each competition area.
Europe and the United States are not bad. The King of Fighters' Championship has caused quite a lot of public opinion storm in Hong Kong and Taiwan. For most parents, electronic games are definitely something that is depressed. How many students use pocket money to skip classes to the game hall. This time the game company actually held a competition publicly and set up high bonuses. Isn't this using money to tempt children to play games?
A parent in Taiwan wrote to the News Bureau, demanding that such bad competition be banned, and some media also joined in to discuss this topic.
In the end, the King of Fighters Championship had to modify the competition rules, requiring the applicant to be at least 16 years old, and the date of each competition was set on holidays.
As a result, it took two months for the budget competition in Taiwan alone. Finally, the "First King of Fighters E-Sports Championship - The Finals of the Taiwan Division of the China Division" was held at the Taipei Huan Asia Hotel.
The final tickets ranging from NT$500 to NT$1,000 were booked half a month in advance, and more than 1,000 seats were packed on site.
The total income of qualifier registration fees, final tickets, brand sponsorship, TV broadcasting, game peripherals, etc. in Taiwan is more than 20 million. In addition to organizational publicity funds, venue rental fees, etc., you can earn a net profit of NT$10 million.
Therefore, holding an e-sports competition is definitely not a loss to gain publicity. As we can further promote the "King of Fighters" game, we can also make a fortune in each competition area. Taiwan and Hong Kong are considered small. The revenue of competitions in the United States and Japan regions is as high as millions of dollars, which has not included the World Finals.
According to the approximate regional population ratio, 8 Taiwanese players, 5 Hong Kong players and 3 Macau players gathered in Hong Kong to participate in the finals of the Chinese Division at Taiping Cinema.
It was already early June. Kang Jianfei returned from filming in the United States, and "Jurassic Park" had entered the post-production stage.
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"Why don't you go to the competition site and run to me to watch TV?" Zhou Huimin came over with a cup of milk tea and said to Kang Jianfei, who was watching the competition.
The previous games of King of Fighters were broadcasted, but the finals of the competition were live. The TV screens seen by the audience were only half an hour later than the scene.
Kang Jianfei smiled and said, "I will definitely participate in the finals of Tokyo. Forget about the competition in Hong Kong."
Zhou Huimin looked at the TV and said, "What's the best thing about this kind of game competition?"
Kang Jianfei said: "Young people like it."
Zhou Huimin stared at Kang Jianfei and asked with a joke: "Then do you mean I'm old?"
"You admit this yourself," Kang Jianfei suddenly hugged Zhou Huimin into his arms, kissed her face and smiled, "I just like you, the little old lady, I'll give me some incense."
"Hate, let me go!" Zhou Huimin pushed and the two of them started to play and make a fuss.
The competition on the TV has begun. The host introduced 16 contestants from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, announced the rules of the competition, and then put a promotional advertisement for King of Fighters on the big screen.
The King of Fighters advertisement on the TV only takes more than 10 seconds, while the 5-minute full version was screened at the competition site, and many celebrities were invited to shoot it. Although it was just an advertising promotional film, when Ye Zimei played Moribuki and Chun Li played by Li Saifeng appeared, there were still bursts of cheers and cheers.
Sixteen contestants started drawing lots, and the host also took the opportunity to introduce the situation of each contestant.
The audience at the scene reacted enthusiastically, but Zhou Huimin was not interested. She lay tightly in Kang Jianfei's arms and talked, talking about some interesting things she had encountered recently.
The competition finally began. The first game was between Macau and Hong Kong players. The two of them put on their headphones and began to select the players.
Kang Jianfei looked at the TV with his eyes, but his hands gently stroked Zhou Huimin's waist, and reminded him: "Hong Kong is very chaotic this year. You must bring your bodyguards with you when you go out in the future. Don't be careless."
Zhou Huimin originally wanted to say that she was uncomfortable with her bodyguard, but she was not easy to refuse Kang Jianfei's concern, so she had to whisper to agree.
Not only did he remind Zhou Huimin, this year Kang Jianfei has provided bodyguards for all his women, but his children are under strict protection.
It’s not that Kang Jianfei was too careful, but that Hong Kong’s security is so bad this year, both the rich and ordinary citizens have been worried. In the past few months, the security company he and Ye Lao San have opened has been booming, and the number of wealthy Hong Kong people hiring bodyguards has increased exponentially.
A Hong Kong Peninsula as big as a palm. There will be one or two violent incidents every month this year:
On January 19, four robbers robbed the watch at Decheng watch underground at No. 5, Malaudi Road, Tsim Sha Tsui. A foreign female tourist was injured by stray bullets after losing a watch worth 3 million yuan.
On February 24, a gunfight between police and gangsters broke out in Sha Tin city. The police and gangsters fired a total of 19 shots, and a man died. On the same day, police and gangsters broke out in Lidd Street, Tai Kok Tsui.
On February 25, a rare Lei Mingden bird gun robbery occurred in Yau Ma Tei. Two thieves robbed gold and robbed gold jewelry worth about 5 million yuan. One of them fired a shot and several were injured.
On March 10, an armed robbery occurred in Sham Shui Po, but fortunately no casualties.
On April 21, police officers from Tai Kok Tsui surrounded Jinxing robbers, and 17 police and civilians were injured by the robbers.
On April 24, the police surrounded the bandits in Tai Kok Tsui. The two sides fired more than a hundred fierce battles. The bandits detonated five grenades, and 12 city names and one police officer were injured.
On May 5, five robbers robbed Ruixing Sparrow Pavilion in Pelland Street, Mong Kok. A customer of a sparrow pavilion was shot because he did not hand over the gold watch. When the robber left, he took hostages in a downtown city, shot at the police, and threw several grenades, causing 2 deaths and 19 injuries.
Just last month, the Hong Kong University Social Science Research Center published an investigation report that 84% of Hong Kong citizens supported the resumption of the death penalty, and were caused by endless murders. In the past, robbery was a big deal of knives and guns. Now it is often grenades, which is simply too cruel.
Zhou Huimin is actually a home girl. If she doesn't go out unless it is necessary, she can spend the whole day playing the piano and painting at home. So she always brings bodyguards and other things. She doesn't care about it at all. No matter how chaotic Hong Kong is, it has nothing to do with her.
She didn't wear contact lenses at home. At this time, Zhou Huimin was wearing a pair of black-framed glasses on her nose. Not only was it not ugly, but it also gave people a dignified and intellectual feeling. Her white and tender fingers poked Kang Jianfei's chin and said, "I'm going to Taipei for a concert next month. Can you come and accompany me?"
"Okay." Kang Jianfei agreed. "Jurassic Park" is tentatively scheduled to be released at the end of July, and he has time next month. He was busy doing the movie's post-production, but most of the work was handed over to the deputy director Cameron, the director Kang Jianfei, who was the manager.
Because Zhou Huimin's glasses were too hindered, Kang Jianfei took them off and threw them on the coffee table. The two hugged and kissed each other on the sofa. Just when they were in a state of confusion, Zhou Huimin held Kang Jianfei's hand and said with a red face: "Go back to the bedroom, I'm afraid my mother will come back and run into it."
Kang Jianfei hugged Zhou Huimin and returned to the bedroom. Before he could close the door, the emotional head of the jade girl hooked Kang Jianfei's neck and couldn't wait to kiss him on his face.
Zhou Huimin's intoxicating panting sounded from the room, and the game on the TV continued.
In the end, 17-year-old Lin Zhengquan from Taipei County won the championship in the Chinese Division, 19-year-old Zhang Jinsheng from Tuen Mun, Hong Kong won the second place, and third place was a player from Tainan.
When the three winners held up the prize money, the audience was in full bloom, and many young people in front of the TV were also excited.
The prize for the championship in the competition area is 5,000 US dollars, which is 39,000 yuan to Hong Kong dollars, and more than 100,000 yuan to Taiwan dollars. Now that they have won so much money by playing games, how can they not make those young people who like King of Fighters excited? The three winners have become idol-like characters.
I heard that the world champion has a prize of 100,000 US dollars. Those players who think they have good skills and missed the opportunity to register this year are very regretful. More people are ready to practice their skills and wait to continue to sign up for the competition next year.
Whether in Europe, America or Asia, the King of Fighters Championship is not a mainstream thing. The focus is only a few young people who love to play games. However, in the electronic game industry, it has attracted the attention of countless people. Its successful operation has brought a lot of inspiration to its peers. It proposed the concept of e-sports for the first time, which brought incredible reputation to Sega Games.
When it comes to e-sports, Kang Jianfei has to think of the famous Blizzard Games Company, which seems to have been established at this time.
Some time ago, when he was filming in the United States, Kang Jianfei asked someone for information about Blizzard, so he naturally had the intention of acquiring Blizzard. Unfortunately, after asking for a long time, no one had heard of the name of this company, so Kang Jianfei had to give up for the time being. What he didn't know was that Blizzard in 1992 was not called Blizzard, but was called "Silicon and Neural Bond", a rude and hard-to-remember broken name. (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, the novel is better and faster!
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