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Time passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, it was already February 13th.
For the past ten days, Shi Lei had stayed in Shuangqing City. Other than perfecting the image recognition engine, he had no other entertainment activities.
At most, he would have a midnight snack with Tao Wenxian and Jian Wushuang.
Jian Wushuang had encountered many problems in the process of researching the Immortality Project. This made Jian Wushuang very frustrated. He kept asking Tao Wenxian to hang out in bars for inspiration.
Shi Lei did not interfere much with the two teenagers' decadent life in bars.
Shi Lei had many other things to deal with. For example, he wanted to promote the bicycle competition.
Dream Entertainment officially released the virtual bicycle package on the 27th of last month.
At the same time, they also officially opened the bicycle competition's official website and made the game available for download.
Although the client of the official website could be downloaded by any player, players who wanted to run the client after installing it would need to have a certified VR game set before they could successfully start the game.
That was because the "Bicycle Competition" was specially designed for VR game sets.
Moreover, to play the game, they had to buy the virtual bicycle package.
Shi Lei was preparing to make an announcement on the bicycle competition's official website to promote the game.
At the same time, it was also to refute the rumors!
After all, the bicycle competition's reputation seemed to be a little bad.
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"Bicycle Competition – I am Legend!"
The first bicycle competition would be officially registered on the romantic 14th of February, Valentine's Day.
Any player who was interested in the cycling competition could sign up for it.
This competition would be divided into two modes: speed and endurance. Players could participate in both at the same time.
The competition would be divided into the preliminaries, semi-finals, semi-finals, and finals.
The preliminaries would eliminate eighty percent of the players, and the semi-finals would eliminate half of the remaining twenty percent.
The semi-finals would determine the number of players eliminated based on the number of players.
In the end, only the appropriate number of players would be left in the finals.
A special reminder: this competition would only allow players to obtain the honor of "I am Legend". There would be no team competition.
Any team cheating scheme will be banned by the main system and banned from the competition.
In the end, the top ten of this competition would receive generous rewards.
The champion would receive one million USD, the title 'I am Legend', one million copper coins from the Hero's World, and a Legendary treasure map from the Hero's World.
The second to third place would receive 500,000 USD and 500,000 copper coins from the Hero's World.
The fourth to sixth place would receive 300,000 USD and 300,000 copper coins from the Hero's World.
The seventh to tenth places would receive a reward of 100,000 USD and 100,000 copper coins from the Hero's World.
In order to show Dream Entertainment's fairness and fairness, all cheating methods were strictly prohibited in this competition. The following methods were prohibited: modifying the parameters of the virtual bicycle, using exoskeletons, using stimulants or similar drugs, and other cheating methods.
In order to show Dream Entertainment's equal treatment and non-discrimination policy, an additional 100 contestants will be allowed to participate in this competition.
Among them, fifty spots were open to people from anywhere in the world. Then, the Hero World's main system would randomly select fifty participants.
The other 50 places will be specially reserved for competitive cycling athletes. If you are interested, please prepare your personal information, including your personal honor information, and submit it to the official website of the cycling competition.
Similarly, the main system of the Hero's World would randomly select 50 participants.
Special reminder: The additional 100 participants will be fixed in Shuangqing City and Shuanghu District to participate in the competition.
Please confirm that you have enough time to participate in the cycling competition.
Dream Entertainment will provide invitations for overseas players to apply for tourist visas or business visas.
Finally, Dream Entertainment will provide accommodation and food in Shuangqing City for the additional 100 participants, as well as transportation expenses.
Additional information: The cycling competition and the Hero's World are seamless interactive game systems.
The cycling competition map is all located in the Hero's World.
Interested players are welcome to participate in the cycling competition in the Hero's World.
At the same time, the Hero's World will open a gambling event for the first cycling competition. Players in the Hero's World are welcome to participate.
Friendly reminder: small bets are fun, but large bets are harmful to the body. The maximum bet limit for the gambling event is 100,000 copper coins.
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Ever since the official website of the cycling competition was opened, it had not been very popular.
After all, the content of the cycling competition was too monotonous.
Moreover, the bicycle competition limited participation. Only users who had purchased the VR game kit and those who had to purchase the virtual bicycle kit could participate in the game.
There were only a little more than one million users, and only 100,000 players were eligible to play. The official website of the cycling competition did not have much content. How could it be popular?
What's more, some users who had played the cycling competition complained on the official forums that the cycling competition was not fun at all. It was just a game about riding a bicycle.
Even though it was very realistic, players could not compete with other players online, and there were not many maps. There were only a dozen maps.
Once the players finished all the maps, it would lose its novelty.
But now, after Shi Lei made an announcement on the cycling competition's official website, the players started to discuss it.
The players who complained about the cycling competition's lack of maps and inability to go online finally understood why the competition was set this way.
It was because the cycling competition was placed in the Hero's World!
No wonder the cycling competition's reward was copper coins in the Hero's World. No wonder there were so few maps in the cycling competition. This was to allow the players to ride freely on the maps in the Hero's World!
Originally, the official forum was filled with negative comments about the cycling competition. Other than the players who liked cycling, there were no positive comments.
Now, after Dream Entertainment's official announcement, the cycling competition and the Hero's World were seamlessly connected. The players who complained disappeared and started to praise the competition.
Of course, some players started to complain even more.
This was because when they realized that the cycling competition was not fun, they resold the virtual bicycle equipment.
Now that Dream Entertainment was playing this trick, wasn't it depressing for them?
When these players wanted to buy back the virtual bicycle equipment, how could the players who had already bought it return it?
At this stage, the players who could afford the virtual bicycle equipment were not poor. They were all powerful players. How could they be short of a few thousand dollars?
Some ordinary players who did not have the financial resources to buy the VR game equipment and virtual bicycle equipment discovered that Dream Entertainment had set aside fifty slots for ordinary players.
Although the probability of being selected was low, there was still hope, right?
Dream Entertainment's announcement quickly spread to the cyclists' ears.
Cycling was not a popular sport.
Because it was not popular, it was not very influential and could not earn a lot of money.
For example, the world-famous Tour de France bicycle race had a distance of more than 3,500 kilometers and a duration of 23 days.
But with such a long distance and a long duration, the champion only earned 450,000 euros.
Xia Xia also had a well-known cycling competition. It was the bicycle race around Green Feather Lake.
But the prize money for this competition was not high. Usually, the champion's prize money was around 200,000 USD.
Even if the prize money was increased in the future, it was not as high as the cycling competition.
Therefore, when Dream Entertainment released the announcement that there would be special seats for competitive cyclists, this news spread very quickly in the world of competitive cyclists.
Although the cyclists had to travel to Shuangqing City in Xia Xia, the transportation expenses, accommodation, and food were all provided by Dream Entertainment.
Even if they did not receive any prize money, it was equivalent to a free trip to Xia Xia, right?
Not only were ordinary people busy signing up, but the cyclists were also busy signing up.
Shi Lei's announcement of the cycling competition was to promote the cycling competition. At the same time, it was to refute the rumors and correct the growing criticism of the cycling competition.
Shi Lei did not even think about the large number of cyclists who signed up for the competition!
In the official forum, the players were discussing the cycling competition in a high-profile manner.
Some of the players said that Dream Entertainment's introduction of professional cyclists was unfair to the players.
But not many players cared about this group of players.
Although the players who were qualified to participate in the cycling competition did not care about the one million USD, they would not openly say that it was unfair.
Was there any fairness in this world?
To be fair, one had to be strong to receive fair treatment.
Otherwise, the greatest fairness would only be unfairness.
Absolute fairness in the true sense could only appear in fairy tales.
Shi Lei allowed the players to freely discuss the cycling competition. He wanted the cycling competition and the Brave Warriors' World to form a seamless interactive game system. This was one of Shi Lei's major strategic ideas.
Now, it was only the first step.
Just as Shi Lei was thinking about it, Izur reminded Shi Lei that something interesting had happened.
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