Xu Yiyang wants to engage in team competitions, not to make money, but to increase the popularity of the Internet cafe among college students.
Moreover, e-sports competitions have not yet begun to sprout. If you start early and enter early, you may have great potential in the future.
This college student CS team competition is regarded as a training exercise.
So, Xu Yiyang asked them: "Are you interested in setting up an official CS team?"
The man said: "Yes, there is, but it doesn't seem to mean much, because I haven't heard of any other teams, and there are no competitions. Whether or not to form a team is actually just a matter of fun for a few of us."
Xu Yiyang immediately said: "Our Internet cafe will officially open soon, and we will hold a city-wide college student CS team competition in October. If you form a team, you can sign up to participate!"
"Really?" the man asked in surprise, "What are the rewards for your competition? Do you charge a registration fee?"
Xu Yiyang said with a smile: "There is no registration fee, but we should limit the participating teams. Tentatively, each university can only register a maximum of three teams. As for rewards, the bonus for the champion team will be at least 5,000 yuan, and the runner-up team will receive at least 5,000 yuan." It will cost more than 3,000 yuan, and the second place will cost more than 2,000 yuan. It may also come with some discounts from our Internet cafe, such as stored-value cards."
Xu Yiyang just casually made a simple rule. The reason why he wanted to limit the number of applicants in each school was because he was afraid that if there was no limit and there was no registration fee, then those who knew how to use a mouse would sign up to form a team to participate in the competition. Then It's just too watery.
As for the bonus, Xu Yiyang doesn’t know how much bonus is appropriate for competitions these days. He just made a rough calculation. If there are five people in a team, if they win the championship, each person can get at least a thousand yuan, which should be very valuable to today’s college students. attractive.
Sure enough, when the man heard the amount, he immediately said excitedly: "Really? That's great! Let's participate!"
At this stage, I have not heard of Internet cafes hosting CS competitions. After all, CS has only been out for three or four months.
Moreover, based on everyone’s experience, there are very few competitions that provide rewards and do not require registration fees.
This is mainly because hosting competitions is actually a business in itself.
For example, in the past few years, every city likes to hold singing competitions. Thousands of people can be incited to sign up at any time. The registration fee for each person is dozens of dollars. In the end, there is no substantial reward for the ranking. It is nothing more than a thousand and two thousand. If you get a block bonus and find a local TV station to expose it, there will basically be no other rewards.
Therefore, if such a competition is held, the organizer will make a small profit from the registration fee alone.
Not to mention this kind of singing competition, even a competition for amateur players in a billiards hall requires registration fees.
However, in Xu Yiyang's view, any competition that relies on registration fees to make money will definitely not be successful.
A real competition relies on fully mobilizing everyone's enthusiasm and making the competition as famous as possible. Therefore, the initial costs are naturally borne by yourself. Moreover, the profit point in the later stages of the competition is not on the participating teams, but on advertising sponsorships. On the body.
Later, Xu Yiyang exchanged contact information with them. The leader was named Guo Peng. He was the one with the best skills and awareness in their temporary team, and he was also their captain.
Xu Yiyang told Guo Peng that if registration for the competition started, he would reserve a spot for him and hoped that he would go back and come up with a name for the team and then train seriously.
Guo Peng naturally agreed readily. He felt that the strength of his temporary team was quite good. If he trained hard, he should have the strength to get a ranking.
Seeing that it was getting late, Guo Peng said: "Boss, we are going back first. When registration for your competition starts, be sure to send me a text message."
Xu Yiyang nodded, sent them to the door, and hurriedly said to the others: "After the Internet cafe opens, we must prepare well and seriously engage in this competition!"
Although everyone is not very clear about the benefits of holding a competition, since Xu Yiyang has said it, everyone naturally has no objections and is waiting for Xu Yiyang's instructions.
Xu Yiyang immediately divided the labor again, asking Zhao Xin to find an advertising company to design promotional materials, such as flyers, posters, and competition LOGOs. He asked Chen Meng to take others to distribute flyers in colleges and universities, and asked Shen Lele to be responsible for registration.
As for Xu Yiyang himself, he is responsible for formulating the rules of the competition.
At the same time, he is also planning to add ten more computers to the second floor. When the time comes, the second floor will be used as a competition venue.
Although Xu Yiyang had never held a similar competition before, he had never eaten pork and had seen pigs running, so after some research, he formulated a set of competition rules.
First of all, the registration team must be a local college student team from Zhonghai. Young people in society are mixed, and Xu Yiyang does not want to have too much contact with them;
Secondly, the total number of registered teams is 64, and the 64 teams are divided into 8 groups for the group stage. Xu Yiyang believes that it is very easy to gather 64 teams in a competition with no registration fee and generous rewards.
Again, the rules of the group stage are: No. 1 vs. No. 8, No. 2 vs. No. 7, No. 3 vs. No. 6, No. 4 vs. No. 5 in each team. Everyone will play a knockout round first, and directly divide the 64 teams into Half of them are eliminated.
Although it seems like there are many teams and the game seems long, the elimination is actually very quick.
For example, under normal circumstances, a CS game lasts for one hour, and each round is two minutes including the freezing time. There are thirty rounds in total. In the thirty rounds, each team has half of the game, police and robbers.
In order to speed up the group knockout rounds a little bit, Xu Yiyang set the game to 24 rounds, with 12 rounds in each half.
The preliminaries can be held in the two rooms below. In each round, four teams can play two games at the same time.
There are sixty-four teams. If four teams play at the same time, it only takes sixteen rounds to end the first round.
If it is weekend time, eight rounds are played every day, and two days are enough to complete the game.
There are 32 teams left in the first round, with 4 teams in each group going into the second round of group knockout, with 4 advancing to 2;
There are 4 teams in the group, the one with the lowest number plays against the one with the highest number, and the remaining two teams play against each other.
In this way, 8 groups play a total of 16 games.
These 16 games are still played in two houses at the same time, so only 8 rounds are required.
The 8 rounds of the game can be played from Monday to Friday, starting at 7 o'clock every night, with two rounds played every day, and it can be completed before the weekend.
After Group 4 advances to 2, there are only two teams left in each group.
Immediately afterwards, there is the third round of group knockout, where the remaining two teams in each group play against each other, with 2 advancing to 1.
Eight games, two houses are played at the same time, four rounds are played, and one Saturday morning is enough.
In this way, there is one team left in each group, which is the final eight.
The top eight will draw lots and play a total of four games to determine the top four.
When it comes to the quarterfinals, there will be a total of four games between the eight and four, but the two venues are played at the same time and can be solved in two rounds.
In other words, the semi-finals were already out on Saturday afternoon.
In this way, let the top four draw lots on Sunday morning and then play two games. The winning two teams will prepare for the championship and runner-up battle, and the losing two teams will prepare for the third-place battle. It can be done in one morning.
Then, in the afternoon, the third place game will be played in the first game and the championship game will be played in the second game. In this way, two weekends plus five days in between can wrap up all the games.
Calculating the overall time, that is, two weekends plus five days in between, the whole journey can be completed in nine days.
These nine days did not have much impact on the normal operation of the Internet cafe. They only provided 20 machines for competitions. However, once the competition became popular among college students, the publicity effect it would have would be very large.
As for the rewards of the competition, Xu Yiyang finally decided on:
The championship group will receive a cash reward of RMB 6,000 and a stored-value card for the Internet cafe team of RMB 2,000;
The runner-up group will receive a cash reward of RMB 4,000 and a stored-value card for the Internet cafe team of RMB 1,500;
The third runner-up group will receive a cash reward of 2,000 yuan and a stored-value card for the Internet cafe team of 1,000 yuan.
In addition, the other five groups in the top eight will each receive a RMB 1,000 cash reward and a 500-yuan Internet cafe team stored-value card.
After calculation, the total cash reward is 17,000 yuan, and the total Internet cafe stored value card reward is 7,000 yuan.
The cost seems to be high, but by then students from dozens of universities will know about this competition, which will greatly enhance the reputation of the Internet cafe.
As long as this competition is held fairly and fairly and a good reputation is accumulated, the Internet cafe's business will definitely be very good in the future.
This investment is really worth it.
Moreover, Xu Yiyang feels that if you meet a good team, you can sign directly to the Internet cafe. As the home team of the Internet cafe, you can be their agent in the future, and it will be good to engage in the e-sports industry in the future.
Fortunately, after investing in the Internet cafe at this stage, there is still almost 100,000 yuan in profit from reselling military training uniforms, which should be enough to purchase ten better computers and organize activities.
Besides, once the Internet cafe starts operating, there will be profits coming in, so there is definitely no need to worry about funds.
All that's left is to wait for the Internet cafe to open and immediately start promoting the competition to ensure that all universities in Zhonghai know about this competition and are attracted by the high prize money!
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On Wednesday, the door of the Internet cafe was hung up.
On Thursday, the scalpers obtained all the certificates for the Internet cafe, and the tobacco company's tobacco monopoly license was also issued. At the same time, China Telecom provided network access for the Internet cafe, and the New Century Internet Cafe can officially open for business.
Xu Yiyang decided to officially open the business on Friday afternoon.
On Thursday night, he called everyone to the restaurant where Zhao Xin's father had treated him to dinner when he first reported in.
In the hotel box, Xu Yiyang took out the prepared shareholders' agreement.
When registering an Internet cafe, shareholders have already entered everyone’s names.
Since it is not divisible, the shareholding ratio of the other six people is 14.3%, and Xu Yiyang's shareholding ratio is 14.2%.
However, the actual distribution principle is still divided into seven equal parts.
The main content of this shareholders' agreement is that seven people will set up a shareholders' meeting as Xu Yiyang told everyone before. The shareholders' meeting will vote on everything. Each person has one vote, and Xu Yiyang has a veto power.
At the same time, the shareholders' meeting also stipulated that the future development direction and capital allocation will be solely decided by Xu Yiyang.
Everyone had no objection to this, but looked forward to continuing to work with Xu Yiyang, so everyone readily signed.
After the agreement was signed, Xu Yiyang said to everyone: "I have always not recommended that you tell your family about our business because you don't know how big we can do it. Now that the dust has settled, you can report the results to your family. It's good. Give them a surprise.”
(End of chapter)