game trailblazer

Chapter 319 Group Draw
At five o'clock in the morning on August 8th, a grayish-white morning light just appeared on the sky, and the road was still shrouded in mist. Chen Jingyi, who had just woken up, drove her red MINICOOPER to the Game Museum to see the preparation of the venue.As the vice president of the WCG Organizing Committee, she needs to take care of a lot of things, from the layout of the venue to the purchase and installation of equipment, she needs to take care of them one by one. I left it to my deputy to handle it. Fortunately, so far everything has been relatively smooth. The organization of WCG is orderly, and the release work of Fengyun Interactive is also orderly.

In fact, Chen Jingyi still has the chairman of the organizing committee, but as the chairman, Zhang Lexing rarely appears. On the one hand, it is because he has a lot of things to consider, and he has no energy to directly manage WCG related matters. On the one hand, because Chen Zishan was pregnant recently, he couldn't run too far.Of course, Zhang Lexing is not a complete display. Although he has no time to manage the specific organization of WCG, he has used his direct and indirect influence to arrange a full range of publicity for WCG, including from the start of the regional competitions in various countries until the Now the finals.

In order to expand the scope of WCG's influence, Zhang Lexing not only prepared a multilingual WCG official website, but also used his own satellite TV network and some closely related media, in order to make WCG the world's number one e-sports The competition, taking the opportunity to promote the games of its own company, and at the same time provide players with a new direction of development, although there will always be a small number of people at the top of the pyramid, although not every player is suitable, but at least there are more a hope.

The place where Chen Jingyi lives is not too far from the game museum, and there are few cars on the road at five o'clock in the morning, so she arrived at the destination in about 15 minutes, drove the car into the underground parking lot of Times Fashion Building, and followed the instructions on the signs She parked the red MINICOOPER in the area assigned to the staff.

After locking the car, Chen Jingyi walked up the stairs to the ground and came to the edge of the square in front of the Game Museum.She raised her eyes and looked around, and in the shroud of mist, there were some busy figures flashing. Although she couldn't see them clearly, she knew that they should be the workers responsible for cleaning and setting up the stage.

Taking a breath of the fresh air in the morning, Chen Jingyi walked through the mist to the middle of the square. Not far away, she saw Lin Musen, who was in charge of the field and competition coordinator. Lin Musen, who was wearing a white short-sleeved shirt, was directing The workers set up the stage on the square, which will be the most important place in the whole opening ceremony.

"Manager Lin," Chen Jingyi yelled, "how is the arrangement of the venue?"

Hearing someone calling him, Lin Musen turned around and saw that it was Chen Jingyi, so he took a few steps to meet him, and said with a smile: "President Chen, you came so early. It’s almost there, now there is only this stage left, just clean up the sanitation.”

"Well," Chen Jingyi nodded, and looked at the stage that was being set up. Several technicians invited by the organizing committee were testing the large-screen TVs in front of the stage. They were two 36-inch TVs that are rarely seen in China. [-]-inch flat-screen CRT color TV, it is said that her big boss Zhang Lexing got it from abroad.A video was playing on the TV screen at the moment, and she watched it from a distance, and the effect was quite good.

Nodding in satisfaction, Chen Jingyi ordered again: "Manager Lin, how is the equipment for the competition going? But you must check it carefully, and don't let anything unexpected happen during the competition!"

"Mr. Chen, don't worry, we did a comprehensive inspection yesterday, including the computer used for the game, the game console, the local area network used for online connection, and all the cables in between, all are OK!" Lin Musen said to Chen Jingyi made a reassuring gesture.

The gray-white morning light in the sky gradually brightened, and the mist covering the ground became thinner and thinner. The hostesses of the WCG finals came to the square one after another in various beautiful costumes on bicycles. Most of them came from the BJ Film Academy , Central Academy of Drama and other art colleges selected by college students.In order to achieve better results, Chen Jingyi also arranged two weeks of related training for them. In addition to etiquette training, she also instilled some basic knowledge about games in them. Know what the WCG finals are competing for.

The hostesses walked into the temporary tent set up for the staff on one side of the square in twos and threes. Next, they still have a lot of preparations to do. With the help of the stylists, they need to complete makeup, hair, and clothing, etc. The overall shape, these are very troublesome, and they have to complete all this in more than two hours.

After explaining to Lin Musen, Chen Jingyi walked around the square again. All the preparations seemed to be almost done. She came to the staff tent area on one side of the square, opened the curtain and walked into the dressing room.The spacious dressing room is divided into two parts. Bypassing the screen at the entrance, there are twenty or thirty dressing tables near the wall of the tent. This is the place for the hostesses to make up and do their hair. Passing through a double curtain, there is a place for the hostesses to change clothes and a storage room for their personal belongings.

Chen Jingyi walked past the screen at the entrance of the dressing room, and the hostesses who were sitting in front of [-] or [-] dressing tables were doing their hair. They were still eating the standard breakfast provided by the conference—sandwiches and milk.Looking at the hostesses who were quietly eating breakfast while their hair was being combed, her stomach suddenly started to protest. Only then did she realize that she was too anxious to come out and didn't even bother to eat breakfast.

With a smile on her face, Chen Jingyi greeted the stylists in the dressing room and the hostesses sitting there, then hurriedly left the dressing room, walked to the staff kitchen on the other side, took out her identification card, I swiped it on the credit card machine, and the kitchen staff immediately handed over a standard breakfast.After receiving the breakfast wrapped in a paper bag, Chen Jingyi sat down on the rest chair by the side of the road, tore open the paper bag and began to eat slowly. The taste of the breakfast was not bad, a bit like the airline meal provided on the first-class cabin she occasionally sat on, not only It's delicate and well proportioned, and the portions are just right for her.

Time gradually came to [-]:[-] in the morning, the sky had become brighter, and the morning mist had been completely dispelled by the sunlight. Standing on the stage, Chen Jingyi could see everything in the square except for the area covered by the tent.The workers who finished cleaning and setting up the stage had already left the venue, only the staff with the WCG identification plate were left to do the final inspection in the venue, and the hostesses who had changed their costumes left the dressing room one after another. Come out and go to the pre-marked area to start their work.

"It's so good to be young!" Looking at the young and beautiful girls in the sun, Chen Jingyi sighed in her heart, and then she smiled at herself like a self-deprecating smile. It's almost the same, I never thought that after working hard for seven or eight years, my mentality is already so old.

At [-]:[-] in the morning, contestants and spectators began to come to the venue one after another. They entered the venue through the contestant passage and the audience passage respectively. After the contestants signed in one by one under the guidance of the hostess, they walked into the rest area of ​​the contestants and sat down. Waiting, while the audience came to the audience area under the guidance of the staff, quietly waiting for the opening of the competition.

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Zhao Xu turned eastward and westward on his bicycle and rushed out of the alley. When there were no cars around him, he raised his wrist and looked at his watch. It was only 35:[-], only a few meters away from the Times Fashion Building where the WCG finals were held. It's only one street, and he will definitely be able to catch up with the opening ceremony. He can finally breathe a sigh of relief. Just now, he encountered a big traffic jam on the way here. If he wasn't riding a bicycle, he might be stuck there.

Looking up at the light at the intersection, Zhao Xu just jumped to the green light. Zhao Xu looked at both sides of the intersection. It looked safe, so he stepped hard, accelerated across the intersection, and rushed towards the Times Fashion Building.At 46:[-], when Zhao Xu got out of the car, he looked at his watch again. At this time, he had arrived at the bicycle parking area next to the square of Times Fashion Building. After parking his bicycle, he turned and walked towards the audience entrance not far away.

"Sir, please show your admission ticket!" A staff member wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt with the WCG logo reminded loudly.

Zhao Xu smiled embarrassedly. He almost forgot the admission procedure in his haste to leave just now. He fumbled in his pocket, took out his admission ticket and handed it over.The staff took the ticket and checked it, then swipe it on a device placed on the table, then tore the ticket in half, put away half of it, and put the other half with an audience identification card Stack them together and hand them back to Zhao Xu.

The staff reminded: "Sir, please put it away. When you enter the venue, you only need to swipe the identification card on the machine at the entrance of the channel, and the railing will automatically open. If you leave the venue halfway, you will also need the audience identification card when you come back." , please take it and don’t drop it.”

Zhao Xu took the ticket and put it away, took the audience identification card in his hand, then nodded friendly to the staff, turned and walked towards the entrance.Picking an entrance at random, Zhao Xu swiped the audience identification card on the machine. With a beep, the green light on the automatic railing machine turned on. After hanging the audience identification card, he pushed the railing lightly and walked into the square.

There are many high-end tents around the square, the ones with air conditioning, but when you walk in from the entrance of the audience, the number of tents is very small. Zhao Xu can basically understand the situation of the whole square at a glance. Take a closer look.Between the center of the square and the game museum, a huge arc-shaped stage has been built at some point, about half a meter high. According to the sign, the front of the arc-shaped stage should be the audience area. Zhao Xu's ticket The number on the screen is "0816", and the corresponding seat is the 8th row in the 16th row of the audience area.

Zhao Xu searched according to his number, and quickly found his seat and sat down. Coincidentally, sitting on his right were two beauties, one was wearing a light green printed dress, the other was wearing a lake blue short-sleeved T-shirt and pink casual skirt, he almost couldn't take his eyes back at a glance.Zhao Xu was slightly amazed in his heart. In his impression, the games that girls like are usually relatively quiet, but the games that appeared in the WCG finals were very competitive, or a bit of fighting. Generally, there are very few girls who like it, let alone beauties. In his opinion, beauties should spend more time on dressing up and shopping. How can they have time to sit in front of the computer and endure radiation?

Pretending to be casual, Zhao Xu always involuntarily glanced to the side while looking at the venue.A burst of whispering came from the direction where the two beauties were sitting, followed by another burst of low-pitched, crisp laughter. Zhao Xu's heart skipped a beat, but his eyes, which were originally scheduled to turn to the right, changed direction because of embarrassment. Looking towards the stage opposite the audience area, but actually his mind is not on the stage at all.

In a daze, the time came to nine o'clock unknowingly, and the audience area was already full of people. There was a soft background music in the venue, and Zhao Xu felt a little familiar when he came back to his senses, but why? I can't remember when I heard it, but I just vaguely feel that it should be when I was playing a certain game.

"Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the WCG Global Finals..." Lin Musen, who stood on the stage, said briefly for a few minutes, and then made a few jokes. After feeling that the atmosphere of the scene had been mobilized, he began to enter Topic: "Then, next, let's draw lots for the competition group that everyone is most concerned about, and invite guests to play..."

Standing next to Lin Musen, the media editor Yan Yuxin, who was a temporary guest host, continued, "Let's see, who will be the first guest?"

Following Yan Yuxin's words, the screen on the large-screen TV in front of the stage began to flicker, and the photos were switched at a speed of more than five times per second, and then a photo of a foreign man was frozen.

"Please..." Lin Musen said loudly in a passionate tone: "Chris Mason..."

A foreign man dressed similarly to the one on TV came up from behind the stage with a smile on his face, shook hands with Lin Musen and Yan Yuxin enthusiastically, and then stood on Lin Musen's right hand side.

"Mr. Mason, is this your first time in China?" Yan Yuxin handed the microphone in front of Chris Mason, asking like a reporter.

"Yes! I didn't know until I came here that this place is different from what I had imagined." Chris Mason replied straightforwardly.

"Oh, Mr. Mason, do you think it's far from what you imagined?" Yan Yuxin continued to ask.

"The gap is huge. I thought this place was still very backward. I didn't expect to find out after getting off the plane that BJ is a very big city and it is already a modern metropolis." Speaking of this, Chris Mason suddenly showed a childlike smile: "And I think, I don't even want to leave!"

"Mr. Mason, why do you have such an idea?" Yan Yuxin showed a puzzled expression on his face.

Chris Mason said with a smile: "Because the food here is so delicious. According to our Miss Ji's introduction, if I want to eat all of them, the captain will probably refuse me to board the plane because of being overweight."

There was a burst of friendly laughter on the stage, Lin Musen laughed along with everyone, then picked up the microphone and said: "It seems that Mr. Mason has been conquered by our Chinese food, and while he is not overweight, there is Ask Mr. Mason to help us draw StarCraft matchups."

A lottery box containing the number plates of the "StarCraft" contestants was sent to the stage by the staff and placed on a table that was lifted up in advance.Under Lin Musen's gesture, Chris Mason reached into the lottery box and touched it. After a few seconds, he pulled out his hand from the box, holding a small piece of paper that was covered Card.

Facing the small paper card to the audience, Chris Mason used his other hand to lift the white paper strip covered on the paper card, revealing the player number and ID underneath. After turning it over for a glance, he took the paper The card is inserted into the upper half of the table behind you.Standing aside, Lin Musen waited for Chris Mason to put the small paper card away, and announced loudly: "MTY No. 5, upper half."

As Chris Mason's hand continued to reach into the lottery box, the match table was gradually filled up, and the matchup situation between the upper and lower halves also became clear. A total of 48 people participated in the "StarCraft" finals. There will be 24 people in each district, and the top two in each half will be determined through a single round-robin points match (3 points for a win, 0 points for a loss). Then No.1 in the upper half will play against No.2 in the second half. The No.2 of the district will face the No.1 of the second half of the district to compete for the final spot.But by coincidence, the four players from China were all drawn to the upper half, which meant that even if they performed exceptionally well, only two of them would be guaranteed to enter the semi-finals, and the other two would be eliminated. Delegations are not considered favorable.

Many domestic players who watched the lottery at the scene or through TV broadcast felt very sorry. Although not everyone knew who the four interstellar players representing China were, they could see the scene clearly. Being assigned to the upper half means that it is definitely impossible to take the top few places like the Chinese table tennis team.

After completing the group draw for "StarCraft", Lin Musen and Yan Yuxin shook hands with Chris Mason politely, and then sent him off the stage. Then Lin Musen turned to face the audience and said passionately: " Next, please enjoy, the exhibition match of "Pro Evolution Soccer 4", the match against both sides, Deng Yang from Dalian, China vs. Park Sung-ho from Seoul, South Korea..."

(End of this chapter)