Thursday, December 22.

Magic City Airport.

Zhao Xuming and the leaders and members of two other clubs are waiting for the plane.

The time for the global finals of ioi has been finalized. It will officially start on December 31, which is next week's Saturday, and will continue until the end of January for a month.

The competition system is similar to GOG's Global Invitational Tournament, and there are also sixteen teams, four groups, divided into two stages: group stage and knockout stage.

In terms of schedule, group stages and knockout matches are basically arranged on weekends and statutory holidays, while less important games and rest days are arranged on working days as much as possible.

Although the arrangement is not particularly perfect, it is quite reasonable.

However, due to the time difference, the domestic audience's viewing experience is relatively poor. Take the group stage for example. The domestic viewing time is from 3 a.m. to 12 noon the next day, highlighting a cultivating immortals.

After all, it was held in Los Angeles, so there is no way to arrange this time.

Finger companies will only provide hotels and accommodation the day before the start of the game until the team is eliminated.

Therefore, most poor clubs will arrive at the arranged hotels near the competition venue one or two days before the game starts.

In order to allow these two domestic clubs to play training matches with European and American teams in advance and adapt to the local environment, Zhao Xuming decided to go through more than a week in advance and stay in the hotel arranged by the finger company.

The air tickets and the food and accommodation expenses this week are fully reimbursed by Longyu Group.

There are 20 members in total, the two clubs have five team members and team leaders, and a total of 14 coaches. In addition, there are six staff members including Zhao Xuming, accompanied by Longyu Group.

Zhao Xuming went to Los Angeles purely to take this opportunity to go out and watch the ioi competition. After all, the work of the ioi operation cooperation department of Longyu Group was mainly to use the ioi World Championship to promote and promote it. He went to Los Angeles with legitimate reasons.

After arriving in Los Angeles, Zhao Xuming, in addition to settling up the members of these two clubs, would also visit the headquarters of the Finger Company with other colleagues from the IOI Operations Cooperation Department to have some discussions.

A group of 20 people were waiting at the airport.

At present, there are only a few cities in China, such as the Imperial Capital and the Magic City, which can fly directly to Los Angeles, and the ticket price is relatively expensive. Most other cities need to transfer. Although the ticket price is relatively cheap, the entire journey will take a much longer time.

Zhao Xuming did not choose a cheaper transfer route, but chose a relatively small number of direct flights and relatively expensive, which only took about 13 hours.

Zhao Xuming is still a little proud. After all, the air tickets are also reimbursed by Longyu Group. For these clubs, choosing a direct flight is quite generous.

Most of the players in these clubs are Internet-addicted teenagers, and they have basically never left China or seen any world. Zhao Xuming felt that his sincerity was already very good.

As for seating, as an executive of Longyu Group, Zhao Xuming can of course choose business class when traveling business, but after much consideration, he chose economy class.

It’s not that he saves money for the company, but mainly because he doesn’t look good in terms of face.

Because there are a lot of people this time, it is really too expensive to take 20 people to business class. After all, the price of business class air tickets is three times that of economy class. If all reimbursements are all, it will cost 300,000 or 400,000 yuan, which is somewhat inconsistent with the standard.

Zhao Xuming was embarrassed to go to business class by himself and asked the club to go to economy class, so he had to feel wronged.

Of course, the leaders and members of these two clubs don’t care about this. Longyu Group has reimbursed direct flight tickets, and it is a bit too much to ask others to spend three times the amount of money to take business class.

What's more, Mr. Zhao himself is also in economy class.

There is still a long time before boarding. Zhao Xuming was chatting with the leaders of these two clubs and briefly introduced what he had made after Los Angeles.

"This time the hotel arranged by the head company is Courtyard Hotel, which is about 200 meters away from the competition venue and can be reached in a walk, which is very convenient."

"I didn't say the environment of the hotel, it's very good. Anyway, there are all things you should have."

"After we get there, we will go to the hotel to check in directly. We can come to me for reimbursement of the hotel expenses before the start of the game. When the day before the start of the game, we will check out and check in again, and check in the room arranged by the finger company."

"Our company has a translator. At that time, the two team leaders will work hard and go with our translator to find nearby Internet cafes and restaurants to see where to train and eat more."

"Although the Finger Company will also arrange training rooms and accommodation, it will take the day before the game to be officially in place, and this week it depends on ourselves."

Zhao Xuming explained some details, and the two team leaders nodded frequently.

The other team members were also a little excited, and some were a little nervous when they were on the plane for the first time.

Zhao Xuming was chatting with the two team leaders when he suddenly heard footsteps coming from a distance.

"Come on, let's just go here. Everyone stand according to their height, right, stand in three rows, and the main players stand in front of them to raise the club's team flag. OK, I'm going to take a photo."

"One, two, three! Very good, let's have another one."

Zhao Xuming couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, turned his head and saw that he was stunned for a moment.

Isn't this an FV club?

Why are there so many people?

At this time, about thirty people stood together to take photos, and the front row was holding the team flag of the FV club. Five main players stood in front, and Zhao Xuming recognized them at a glance.

Two photographers were each holding long guns and short cannons and shooting at everyone. There was also a cameraman carrying the camera to record the whole process.

Zhao Xuming soon saw more familiar faces in the crowd, including Ding Gan, Wu Yue, Manager Lu and SUG Club members.

Zhao Xuming fell into a state of confusion.

What's the situation?

Since these people have arrived here, it means that they are all here to take the plane. Since they are taking the plane, they must fly to Los Angeles.

But even the FV club members want to fly to Los Angeles. There are only seven or eight people who can survive if they are dead?

Why are there so many people?

Why are the people in SUG clubs here too?

Zhao Xuming originally thought that he was bringing the members of two clubs, and the team was already very large. However, looking at the FV club, a club crushed him in terms of number of people!

Zhao Xuming was a little confused about the situation for a while, and this unexpected encounter was completely beyond his expectations.

Wu Yue, who had just finished taking the photo, also saw Zhao Xuming who was waiting for the flight.

Wu Yue was also a little surprised. Although he had no good expression on Zhao Xuming, it was a bit too much to look at each other and pretend not to see him.

So Wu Yue immediately stepped forward and greeted Zhao Xuming.

"Mr. Zhao! I didn't expect to meet him here, what a coincidence."

Zhao Xuming reluctantly pulled the corner of his mouth and smiled, and stood up: "Mr. Wu, do you want to take this flight to Los Angeles too?"

Wu Yue nodded: "Yes, so is Mr. Zhao? Oh, isn't this a coincidence?"

"But this is normal. This flight is more appropriate in terms of time. We are considered to be the same as heroes."

Although Min Jingchao, Ye Zhizhou and others live in Jingzhou on Wu Yue, the two clubs, FV and SUG, are both in the Magic City, and there are no direct flights to Los Angeles in Jingzhou, so everyone still chooses to set off from the Magic City.

Considering various factors such as departure and landing time, schedule, flight seats, air ticket prices, etc., this flight is the most suitable, so Wu Yue and Zhao Xuming happened to meet.

This meeting made the scene a little awkward.

Because Zhao Xuming deliberately did not take the FV club to Los Angeles, both sides knew this very well.

In this situation, Zhao Xuming had no choice but to never mention this matter and pretended to be polite: "Mr. Wu, there is still some time before boarding the plane. Let's find a place to take a seat first."

Wu Yue smiled and said, "Okay, this won't be a worry for Mr. Zhao."

After the greetings, Wu Yue greeted the others who were accompanying him: "Come on, come with me and find a place to rest."

However, what surprised Zhao Xuming was that Wu Yue and others did not sit in the lounge area next to them, but walked straight into the VIP lounge a little far away.

A string of question marks instantly floated out of Zhao Xuming's head.

What's going on?

The VIP lounge is specially designed for business class passengers or high-end members to provide waiting services. It has various supporting services such as TV, newspapers, magazines, snacks and beverages, and can provide airline services such as change of sign-ups and seats. Moreover, all of them are single leather sofas, which are much more comfortable than the hard-hitting town seats in the lounge area!

Seeing that all the thirty people had entered, even the photography and video brothers following behind had entered, Zhao Xuming was even more shocked.

What's the meaning?

Could it be that all of these thirty people have booked business class?

Zhao Xuming is very clear about the price of air tickets, about 10,000 yuan in economy class, while the price of business class is close to 30,000 yuan. All 30 people booked business class, which costs 600,000 yuan more than economy class!

Too outrageous!

Zhao Xuming quickly denied this idea himself.

Why is FV Club willing to spend 600,000 more flights? This is simply unreasonable!

Well, it should be to show off in front of us and pay to enter the VIP lounge to rest!

Zhao Xuming knew very well that although these business class lounges are claimed to be for business class or high-end members, they can be purchased for a fee. The price is 100 yuan per person.

If this is the case, 30 people will actually only cost 3,000 yuan, which is fine.

Zhao Xuming felt that he could spend 2,000 yuan to pretend to be this, but then he thought that the plane had no delay and would take off in a while. There was no need to spend this money.

It would be better if nothing happened.

After being interrupted by Wu Yue and others, Zhao Xuming was not in the mood to chat with the club leader. Everyone was waiting silently while browsing their phones.

For some reason, Zhao Xuming still involuntarily saw the scene in the VIP lounge.

The environment is quiet and noisy. Sitting on a comfortable single leather sofa, watching magazines, movies, free snacks and drinks are unlimited...

The more I think about it, the more I feel it feels a bit lemony.

Zhao Xuming frequently looked at his watch, but fortunately, he was about to board the plane.

Everyone arrived at the boarding gate and lined up.
To be continued...