Reborn Action Star: Starting in Hollywood

Chapter 337 The Silly Girl Comes to Her Mind

The expansion of the competition is indeed an issue that must be seriously addressed at this moment.

During the press conference, Lin Yuan told reporters that in the preliminary stage before the finals, 500 contestants will be selected from all registered contestants to participate in the third stage of the finals.

In the final stage, media live broadcasts will begin to intervene, and the contestants will receive more attention.

At that time, he calculated based on the number of applicants within 10000.

The elimination ratio of 1:20 is already very strict.

For those contestants who have registered and come from far away to participate in the competition, we must find ways to give them more stages to perform.

Now that the total number of applicants is expected to exceed 3, we naturally cannot limit the number of places to 500.

All of this points to the same conclusion: capacity must be expanded.

This means more referees, more venues, more competition equipment, more supporting staff, more medical first responders...

Thinking of these problems, Lin Yuan felt a headache.

Fortunately, he has three swordsmen to solve these trivial problems.

The three swordsmen themselves possess strong management skills, and the kendo venues they lead also have a lot of support staff, which makes this problem not so serious.

"I understand. Let us take care of this issue. I will make a budget as soon as possible and give it to you for review." said Kamiizumi Saizhi.

Lin Yuan nodded. Whenever you want to do something well, the first thing you should do is to ask how much money it will cost and how to spend it.
Any plan without detailed discussion of budget feasibility is like a mirage, fragile and vulnerable.

"How much do you estimate the cost will be?" Lin Yuan asked.

"Judging from the current scale of personnel, this kendo tournament will probably cost at least 7000 million US dollars." Shangquansai answered directly.

Although the organizing committee of the conference does not cover the expenses of accommodation, meals, travel, etc. for the contestants, the expenses on venue rental, staff salaries, competition equipment, contestant insurance, etc. are not small at all.

Consider the registration fee of 5000 yen per contestant. Based on 3 contestants, the maximum registration fee is 1 million yen, which is less than 5000 million US dollars.

Compared with the cost of 7000 million US dollars, it is a huge loss.

Although Lin Yuan doesn't want to make a lot of money through this event, he also doesn't like to lose a lot of money.

If you want to avoid losing money, you must prepare a complete operation plan!
In this regard, Kamiizumi Sainao had already made a plan and handed the plan to Lin Yuan.

Two copies, very good.

Lin Yuan opened one copy himself and handed the other copy to GAKKI-chan beside him.

The silly and cute girl who is about to become a director of Sony Corporation will also be the supervisor of Lin Yuan’s Japanese assets in the future. Therefore, Lin Yuan intends to cultivate her business experience.

The two of them carefully looked through the plan given by Kamiizumi Saisao.

This is a standard business operation plan for a sports event. The main profit-making methods are still the two traditional ones: advertising fees and event broadcasting rights.

These two sources of income are certainly important, but the specific income situation depends on the results of the game with the financial backers.

Lin Yuan doesn't feel too optimistic. After all, this event is a brand new attempt. Although it is very popular at the moment, it is difficult to say what the actual effect will be after it is actually broadcast.

In this case, it is difficult to get a particularly ideal price for either advertising fees or event broadcasting rights.

According to Lin Yuan's estimate, it would be very good if he could get a revenue of 4000 million US dollars.

However, there is still a huge deficit compared to the cost of 7000 million US dollars.

Therefore, other means of operation must be considered to increase revenue. Lin Yuan looked at GAKKI-chan, who seemed to be thinking about something, so he asked, "Do you have any good ideas?"

"Ah?" GKAKI-chan didn't expect that she would be called out and was stunned for a moment.

"Just speak your mind boldly, don't worry about what we think." Lin Yuan encouraged.

Under Lin Yuan's encouraging gaze, GAKKI said carefully:

"I have a few half-baked ideas. Just listen to them. Please don't mind if they're stupid."

GAKKI sauce continued:
"I believe the biggest attraction and asset of sporting events like this are definitely the people. Therefore, our primary goal is to focus on the 'people'."

"We can sign an agency contract with each contestant. Note, it's not an agency contract, but an agency contract."

"It means we will represent these contestants, negotiate advertising endorsements after they become famous, and take a portion of the profits."

"This is perfectly reasonable in my opinion. After all, we are the ones who hosted this event and provided them with a stage to become famous, so it is only natural that we should take a reasonable portion of the profits."

After saying her first thought, GAKKI-chan paused and looked at the four men, waiting for their comments.

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "You're right, but what if they don't give you the agency contract? You can't just judge them as losers, right? We don't have any means of restricting the players, and we didn't ask for the transfer of agency rights when they registered."

GAKKI said with a smile: "This is very simple. After all, we provide the stage. Players who want to go further will not dare to offend us easily.

Otherwise, if he is not given a direct shot during the game, it will be difficult for him to gain the attention of the audience and become popular.

Or we hinted to him that we have absolute control over the arrangement of opponents, technical and tactical analysis, etc., and it will be difficult for him to go far without cooperating with us.

So, as long as our profit sharing ratio is reasonable, they will cooperate."

Hearing GAKKI-chan's answer, Lin Yuan laughed. He didn't expect that the silly and cute girl would become quite sinister after she came to her senses.

We accurately grasped the contestants' weaknesses and were not afraid of their lack of cooperation.

In fact, this behavior is not excessive. As long as the eating habits are not ugly, it can be said to be a win-win situation for the event organizers and the players.

If the contestant really just wants to eat all the food by himself, then he is actually going too far.

"What you said is very good. Do you have any other ideas?" Lin Yuan asked.

"I think with such an exciting event like ours, there's bound to be betting. Rather than having spectators go through underground channels and potentially get scammed, why not go through legal channels and directly issue lottery tickets for specific events?"

It allows viewers to directly bet on the outcome of the game, which gives them more peace of mind." GAKKI-chan replied.

Good fellow, you have taken advantage of the biggest weakness of human nature.

But doing so will definitely have excellent results, and you can really consider giving it a try.

"Any other suggestions?" Lin Yuan continued to ask.

"We have all the players' information, so why don't we develop some peripheral products?" GAKKI said.

Lin Yuan felt a chill: "I've really got it! You've figured out how to use the fan economy!"

This afternoon, GAKKI-chan proposed a series of more than ten ideas, each of which was very feasible.

It is true that one should look at people with new eyes after three days of absence. After GAKKI came to her senses, Lin Yuan has more confidence in handing over the management of the Japanese assets to her.

(End of this chapter)