The Rubik's Cube Preliminary will begin on June 1st.

In order to attract more people to participate in the competition, Gillard applied for an additional publicity fund, selected several national newspapers, and advertised them, and gave a championship bonus of up to $1,000.

This $1,000 is about three months' salary for an average worker.

Meanwhile, Gillard and the dealers reached an agreement to help promote and organize local preliminaries.

Gillard selected cities with the top 99 sales to hold the preliminaries. In order to ensure the fairness of the competition, Gillard organized an official team to go to various places to organize the competition with dealers.

There are three to ten places in each preliminary event, and the number is proportional to the local population. However, no matter how many places there are, only the first place can get the preliminary prize.

The first city to hold the preliminaries is of course the base camp of Magic Seven Company, the capital of California, and Sacramento.

Of course, Sacramento's local Rubik's Cube sales are not among the top 100, so it is an exception for the city listed in the preliminaries. Who made the headquarters of Magic Seven Company here!

With Sacramento, there are exactly one hundred cities holding the preliminaries.

The preliminaries were held in sequence from the West to the East, and the game to Chicago began on June 10th.

Jerry Slokham, a teenager of Rubik's Cube, received news about the Rubik's Cube competition very early. He has earned a lot of fame and money by relying on the Rubik's Cube, of course he cannot not participate in this competition.

There are only two events in this Rubik's Cube competition, one is the speed competition and the other is the blind twist.

Jerry is very familiar with the Chicago-area cube master, so he knows that he has no chance of speed.

Among the people he taught himself, there are those who can beat him, let alone other people.

So, Jerry is not going to participate in the speed race.

It was blindly twisted, and Jerry had some confidence.

He thinks his memory is still good.

After special training, Jerry got his ticket to New York as he wished.

...

On June 17, the Albert Hotel near University Square, Lower Manhattan, New York.

This is the place where Gillard and others settled in New York, and naturally Evan also lived here last night.

The reason I live here is because the office of the Magic Seven New York office is located in the nearby Greenwich Village.

Because he didn't sleep well on the train, Evan did not arrange a job yesterday, so he went to bed early after arriving at the hotel.

After a night of rest, Evan finally returned to his full state of energy.

At less than 7:30 in the morning, Evan, Gillard and others had dinner together while communicating today's work arrangements.

The preliminary round in New York has been held, and the venue is at the Madison Square Garden Stadium, which is also the venue for the finals.

The final starts the day after tomorrow, Gillard has to go to the gymnasium to set up the venue tomorrow.

A playoff will also be held on the final day to give those who miss the preliminaries a chance to remedy.

The final schedule will end in one day because the lease for the venue will be that day.

"Evan, wouldn't you really not invite a photography team to record the finals? I think this will be a very meaningful act! And maybe the TV station will be interested..."

When talking about the game-related matters, Gillard made another proposal that Evan rejected.

"The meaning is that there is, but it costs more!" Evan once again rejected Gillard's attempt, "It's enough to have photos."

"As for the TV station, you're thinking too much!"

After sending Gillard, Evan looked at lawyer Albert and consulted: "Mr. Melvin Wickersham asked me to meet. Is there anything I need to pay attention to?"

Melvin Wicksham is the chairman of CWT Law Firm. He wanted to meet Evan, but it was reasonable that Evan could not refuse.

By the way, the firm's name CWT is the abbreviation of the last names of the three partners, among which "W" comes from the chairman's late father.

Facing Evan's problem, Albert smiled and said, "Evan, you don't have to think too much. Mr. Wicksham is a very easy-going old man."

"I hope so!" Evan said quietly.

After breakfast, Evan and Albert got into the car heading to CWT Law Firm at about 8:30.

The driver is Bob.

Lower Manhattan, 82 Broadway Street.

This is the address where CWT Law Firm is located. They own the third floor of a five-story building as the office.

When Evan arrived at his destination, got off the car and observed it for a while, his hair all over his body immediately stood up.

The west of this building is the Hudson River, and less than two hundred meters south of it, if Evan remembers correctly, it will be called the World Trade Center in the future.

Of course, the concept of the World Trade Center was only proposed at this time, and it took more than ten years to truly start construction.

"Evan, what's wrong?"

"It's okay!" Evan withdrew his gaze to the south, calmed down, and walked into the building.

Now that the building is still missing, don't scare yourself.

A few minutes later, led by the firm staff, Evan and his group came to the chairman's office and met the chairman of Wicksham.

"I finally saw the real person, dear Evan Warren!"

The gray-haired Wicksham warmly welcomed him.

After greeting each other, both sides sat down on the sofa.

Evan first expressed his gratitude to Wicksham. They made a lot of efforts in the Rubik's Cube case, at least without them, the court's "temporary ban order" would not have been applied so soon.

"It's nothing, Mr. Warren. As a lawyer, you must serve your employer with all your heart."

Wicksham looked at Evan with a smile. He had this expression since he met.

This made Evan feel particularly uncomfortable, but he still endured it.

Anyway, he had already made up his mind to leave after saying a few words, so he didn't have to worry about asking for excuses. He had to go to the train station to pick up Nina and his younger brothers and sisters later.

In the following period, the old and the young had in-depth exchanges on multiple topics, including the son of the Magic Seven Company case and Evan's entrepreneurial journey.

However, from beginning to end, the dominance of the topic is in Wicksham's hands.

"Evan, the train is coming!"

After chatting for an hour and a half before he knew it, Albert reminded.

Evan took the opportunity to say goodbye, but Wicksham did not try to keep him.

After someone sent Evan and his group downstairs, Wicksham stood by the window and watched their car leave, not long after a young man walked into his office.

"Chairman, is the person gone?"

The man seemed to be very familiar with Wicksham, and while asking questions, he took an apple from the short table.

Wicksham turned around and sat down in the chair. He looked at the man and said, "Let's go!"

The man kept throwing the apple into the air and then catching it, and asked, "How do you feel?"

Wicksham said: "It's still a bit immature in expression control, but he should have really made those industries, and his father did some escort work at most."

When the man heard this, his hand stopped moving. After thinking for a moment, he said, "It seems that Rick can let him develop in California?"
Chapter completed!