As time goes by, the wrpo event finally comes to the finals.

On the last day of the event, the morning was the finals of "Warcraft 3". The two sides of the battle staged a "papaya battle" again, that is, this year's WCG champion from the Netherlands, who directly advanced to the WRPO quarterfinals, and he passed the hurdles and reached the finals again.

His opponent is also Moon, who fought in the WCG final, and a Korean player who is called "Moon Demon" by players in the circle.

It is worth mentioning that the two young players like and Infi under the BTG team were eliminated, and they had obviously lacked experience in the competition and missed the peak showdown at this grand event.

Infi was ranked in the Death Group, and he lost his qualification to qualify too early. Like stopped at the quarterfinals as far as possible and was easily taken away by Moon Demon Moon.

The first WRPO lacked its old rival Sky, and the young players could not suppress the top players who had been famous for a long time, resulting in Grubby and Moon starring in the "Papaya War".

The final result is that this summer's WCG finals are repeated. Moon Moon failed to avenge WCG's one-shot revenge on WRPO's finals, but missed the trophy recently from the "No. 1 Player" who represents the highest honor of e-sports.

Tears shed in the field again, as if they were reappearing yesterday.

Guabi Grubby became the biggest winner of the Warcraft project in 2008, and won the WCG championship and WRPO championship this year, which are the two most valuable trophies in the e-sports field so far.

Grubby also successfully won the honor of "No. 1 Player" in Warcraft in 2008 and successfully won the RPO trophy of the first Warcraft project back home.

After Grubby won the championship, Luo Sheng appeared in the arena again and personally awarded him the "2008 Warcraft No. 1 Player of the Year" honor certificate certified by the WRPO Organizing Committee, and took away a prize of 300,000 US dollars.

As a solo event, grubby enjoys this $300,000 (before tax), and can take photos with the world's top-notch super rich people today. It can be said that they have gained fame and fortune. This year, it has directly reached a new peak in the personal event career. Such a highlight moment is also enviable.

The most distressing thing is probably that Yuemo Moon has missed it in one step, and then wcg failed again in the hands of his mortal enemy.

But there is only one champion.

The final of "Fifa" began at noon, and the afternoon was the final time of the team's competitive project Cs. The two sides were FNAtic from Europe and the United States and WNV from the mainland.

In the end, the wnv team narrowly defeated Fnatic, and the RPO trophy of CSS was successfully left in the mainland. The wnv team also successfully robbed the championship prize of US$1.2 million. According to the current exchange rate, it was 8.2 million yuan for soft girls. There was still more than 6 million yuan left after tax deductions. The six wnv players can get an average of 1 million yuan in bonuses.

For them, it was a rhythm of getting rich overnight.

During the finals, some of the players' families also secretly came to watch the game, and in order not to affect their game, they did not tell them.

Witness all this with your own eyes and understand that children are not a plaything, they are indeed serious athletes, and after seeing them win the championship and winning a prize of millions of yuan, they no longer object to their e-sports.

Too real...

At about 18 o'clock in the evening, the final of the finale of WRPO "StarCraft" was held on the main stage. If there is any project that is selected to represent e-sports nowadays, "StarCraft" is an undisputed project.

E-sports was born because of the interstellar world. In a sense, the history of the development of StarCraft is the history of the birth and prosperity of e-sports.

Both sides of the battle are Koreans, and there is no way to do so. The Koreans currently have almost no solution to the dominance of the interstellar world. Any one of the top 32 in the Korean division can almost beat the entire non-Korean player.

The interstellar competition may be the most competitive. From the quarterfinals, all players do their best. Not to mention anything else, the championship prize of 300,000 yuan is the rhythm that can not be beaten out.

"Zebing Li Shuang", known as the Four Stars of the Contemporary Stars, joined hands to advance to the semi-finals, namely fsh, jaedong, bisu and stork.

The human racer FSH, who was only 16 years old, swept his old rival Stork in the semi-finals and advanced to the finals first. Bisu, the strongest god racer in interstellar history, beat Zerg player Jaedong, known as the "big devil", to advance to the finals to compete with FSH, who is three years younger than him for the final championship trophy and the $30 prize.

In this Bo5 game, Bisu once again staged a tragic ending of his personal event career, and became the runner-up in an event with extremely high value.

This also made the topic of the first wrpo event even hotter.

The result of the game was that FSH defeated Bisu with a score of 3:1, successfully won the cup and claimed the championship prize of $300,000.

This 16-year-old Korean interstellar player has been out of control since the end of this year, and his career has been invincible all the way. His consciousness is like opening a map plug-in. In the interstellar world, where there are already many experts, fsh can become the only player.

After Luo Sheng appeared again and appeared and completed the award of the "No. 1 Player" honorary certificate to the first WRPO Star Champion FSH, the first WRPO event came to an end.

Finally, the wrpo organizing committee announced the hosting address of the 2009 World No. 1 Player Championship.

At this point, this four-day global e-sports event carnival finally came to an end successfully.

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Luo Sheng set off to leave Shencheng that night. The first WRPO event was held very successfully. Although the financial audit data finally came out and lost 47.42 million yuan, it was equivalent to burning 100 million yuan to organize this competition.

However, Luo Sheng never thought of making a profit in the first session, and only lost more than 40 million yuan. It was already surprising that he had no 40 million yuan.

It can be seen that the potential and prospects of e-sports have great potential.

The next day, the Wall Street Journal reported the WRPO event, and the newspaper's secondary page published an article by Wall Street analysts.

This article is about the global e-sports industry user scale and business prospects estimates.

The Wall Street Journal claimed that during the four days of the WRPO event, it directly or indirectly led to a consumption scale of about 1.75 billion US dollars (11.9 billion yuan) in the region. The article praised the commercialization of WRPO and emphasized that the current user scale of e-sports may have exceeded 50 million worldwide, and its business prospects may need to be re-judged.

These news undoubtedly made people turn their attention to Luo Sheng again. He spent more than 10 billion yuan to deploy the global e-sports industry. The e-sports division of Bluestar Technology Group established a WRPO event brand, which many people are not optimistic about.

As a result, now it seems, Oh my go, the commercialization potential of the e-sports industry is still OK.

It has to be said that Luo Sheng is not only a large number of blind admirers in China, but also more and more people are gathering him one after another.

In their eyes, this son of the Internet is simply a representative of miracles.

He has never failed, and he has maintained a complete victory in both the technology and business world.

This is incredible, and it is impossible not to blindly worship it.

Although many people do not want to accept subjective wishes or even believe them, they have to believe the facts in front of them. The people who follow him have basically made a profit. On the contrary, they are heartbroken and regret not following the trend at that time.

Nowadays, there are suddenly more people studying e-sports than before. On the surface, this industry may really grow and grow as Luo Sheng described it at the beginning, and it will become a large industry with a market size of tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of dollars.

If this is true, Bluestar Technology Group will become the overlord in the e-sports field, and it will be basically difficult for those who are latecomers to shake.

Now there is no capital that dares to play like Luo Sheng, so no one wants to beat the status of the WRPO event brand. Then Blue Star Technology will definitely dominate the e-sports industry.

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At the same time when the WRPO e-sports event was held in Shanghai, a team next door to Tokyo, Japan is stepping up the arrangement of another large-scale event, and it is still owned by Blue Star Technology Group's industry.

That's right, it's the first concert of the virtual singer Hatsune Miku, which its "Virtual Idol" plans to create.

E-sports, which has become widely popular both in China and Europe and the United States, does not seem to catch a cold in Japan.

Yes, Xiaobian lacks interest in e-sports and can even expand the scope. Most Japanese gamers are console gamers, and there are not many PC players.

It is no surprise that e-sports did not cause too much noise in Japan. Currently, the three mainstream e-sports projects, CSS, and Warcraft, are both PC online games.

However, there are still some Japanese dead homes who pay attention to the Shanghai WRPO E-sports Club this time. Of course, their focus is not on e-sports itself, but on the virtual singer Hatsune Miku who is linked to WRPO.

During the wrpo event, Hatsune Miku was not the protagonist, and e-sports was the theme. However, because of Hatsune Miku, wrpo also gained some popularity in Japan.

This is the benefits brought by linkage.

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Tokyo.

He Chao has been in Tokyo for more than a month. He is the head of the "Virtual Idol" project department of Blue Star Technology. There is still one week left before Hatsune Miku's first virtual concert.

At this moment, He Chao was at the concert. It was a busy scene, and the staff were nervously building the hardware equipment on the stage.

At this moment, a staff member ran to He Chao in small vein. His face was a little nervous. After seeing He Chao, he said carefully: "He, there is something wrong with a screen."

He heard this and turned around and stared at the other party and said, "What did you say?"

The staff member said weakly: "We found that the glass plate had severe deformation and cracks..."

He Chao took a deep breath, and the people around him heard and realized that something was wrong, and it was at this critical moment.

"Hurry notify the factory in the United States and work overtime to rebuild a brand new air transport for me. Within 72 hours, I asked the transparent glass screen on the stage to be complete." When everyone thought He Chao was about to roar on the spot, he quickly calmed down and ordered.

Now is not the time to hold the accountable.

Hatsune Miku's concert used projection imaging technology independently developed by Bluestar Technology, but not real holographic projection technology.

Because Hatsune Miku is projected on a transparent screen, the naked eye looks three-dimensional and real.

From the project establishment to the presentation of the project, the total budget investment has exceeded US$1.53 billion. Among them, the research and development of projection imaging technology has consumed a huge amount of US$200 million in the total budget. The transparent glass cannot be produced in China at present, and the R&D department is also set up in the United States. The "Virtual Idol" plan provides about 40% of the proportion of hardware facilities manufacturing and R&D, and the rest are overseas, mainly Japan and the United States.

In order to create a sense of three-dimensionality and reality, projecting on a huge screen requires the use of many special projectors and the generation of computer images after special processing. By overlapping these images, the assistance of artificial intelligence technology is required here.

It is good to use a transparent screen to project images, 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 decrease, 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 dimmed, so we can only compromise with one step, and the virtual concert will be held at night.

However, this also means that the current technology still has a lot of room for improvement. Among them, the best material for the screen is graphene. Screens made of this new material with ultra-high transparency can solve this problem.

However, technical problems cannot be urgent, and it takes time to invest in R&D. Coast Blue is recruiting R&D talents on a large scale, increasing R&D investment, and output also takes time.

As for the new material, graphene, the world currently cannot achieve mass production preparation technology.

The accident occurred in the middle and did not delay the progress. The plan was to proceed according to the original arrangement. After receiving the news, the factory in the United States immediately stepped up the manufacturing process and prepared to be airlifted.

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At the same time, the promotion of Hatsune Miku's first virtual concert has begun. There are a total of 6,280 tickets for the first concert. In addition to the tickets included with the three-piece set of "virtual idols" products, the remaining 5,500 tickets were released three days ago through online channels and sold out in 1.88 seconds.

The enthusiasm of the dead housemen was beyond the expectations of the organizers.

It is worth mentioning that the "virtual idol" three-piece product with a retail price of 19,999 yuan in Japan has reached 1.87 million units, which is greatly exceeding expectations, with sales reaching 2.465 billion yuan of soft girl coins.

A best-selling product with sales exceeding one million, while a three-piece set is not cheap, and regardless of exchange rate changes, it is equivalent to a retail price of US$193.

It can be seen that the consumption of dead houses is so powerful.

Over the past year, the "virtual idol" project, which He Chao is responsible for, is also constantly developing. Hatsune Miku has released three official albums in succession, the second album is the best-selling, and has won 980,000 copies worldwide, almost exceeding one million.

During these days, Hatsune Miku is attracting fans all over the world as a virtual singer, among which Japan has the highest number of fans and enthusiasm.

However, if the cost is evenly distributed, whether it is album sales, film and television original soundtracks, the three-piece sets of games and sound production software will be allocated to the loss.

This project was originally planned to lose ten years of operation, so the loss was not surprising.

As for He Chao's operation team, Hatsune Miku's current development situation is also very happy and relieved.

On the second day, the "Virtual Idol" Operation Department of Blue Star Technology Group launched a campaign for Hatsune Miku's Tokyo concert and released a 290-second top CG promotional video, which was a themed promotional video about this Tokyo concert.

Well, when I saw the quality of this promotional video, the first feeling of fans and viewers was that the funds were burning.

The funding for this CG promotion is a sky-high price of US$17.98 million.

If you want to recover the cost of this CG promotional video by holding this concert, it is a fantasy. The concert tickets are sold out but the total income is only over 900,000 US dollars, which is less than a fraction of the promotional video. Even if you count the income from the surrounding authorization, figures, etc. during the concert, the numbers are a drop in the bucket.

What's more, other investments in holding this virtual concert are added.

The amount of capital spent can also indirectly reveal the great intentions of Blue Star Technology Group. If you want to create an epic IP from scratch and ultimately make it a money tree, you have to spend a lot of money to cultivate it.
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