Old Harry had a painful face. For him, anything that would cost money was not a good thing.

"Young Master, we have to spend a lot of money on the competition. You have to do some lucky draws. And there are three after each game. Today, there are eight games, and we have to draw 24 prizes, plus there is a 50 silver coin prize in the end. Just the lottery, we have to lose 290 silver coins!"

"Harry, what we gave out was a membership card, not really giving them money, but some membership time. In theory, we didn't spend a penny." Phil continued: "Besides, if you don't draw more, how can you attract audiences? The more frequent the lottery, the greater the chance of winning the lottery, and you can retain more audiences."

In a three-inning two-win match, even if three games are played, the game time will not exceed half an hour, which means that the prize will be drawn every half hour. The interval of half an hour is not long, and many spectators may not even be reluctant to go to the bathroom. They will stay in the seat for a few hours, waiting for each lottery.

Moreover, the 50 silver coin prize will not be drawn until the end, which means that the audience will be forced to stay until the end of the competition before participating in the final lottery.

Phil calculated with his fingers: "We have eight games today, and we will draw 3 prizes in each game, which is a membership card worth 240 silver coins. With the last prize of 50 silver coins, we only gave away a membership card with 290 silver coins, but it was able to stay here for 1,000 spectators for three hours. How valuable is this!"

"Okay, you are the young master, you can do whatever you want, I don't think it's worth it anyway." Old Harry said with some complaints.

Phil smiled. He was used to the stinginess of Old Harry. He did not argue with Old Harry, but changed the subject and pointed to the field and said, "Harry, look, does that contestant look very familiar? I seem to have seen him somewhere!"

"That seems to be Hunter, it's a person from our Luoye Town. He came to participate in the competition!" Old Harry said.

After a few seconds of meeting, Phil answered: "That Hunter in the grocery store? I remember this young man, his football skills are very good. When he was in Luoye Town, few people were his opponents! I hope he can achieve a good result today."

Hunter's football skills are indeed very good. He defeated his opponent in a moment and advanced to the quarterfinals.

The eliminated player seemed very disappointed, but when Phil personally handed the prize of ten silver coins to him, the eliminated player became happy instantly.

Playing a game can earn ten silver coins, which is simply a matter of falling from the sky!

Next, it’s the most popular lottery session among the audience!

Old Harry brought a large box over, which contained a lot of notes with the seat number on it.

Phil smiled and went to the big box, and reached out to pull out the first note.

"No. 114!" Phil said, showing the number on the note to the audience.

The audience on the seat No. 114 stood up excitedly: "I am No. 114, I am No. 114!"

"Next, No. 557!"

"Last one, No. 330!"

The three lucky ones were invited to the middle of the arena, took the membership card worth 10 silver coins from Phil, and then returned proudly to their own actions.

Other viewers looked at them with envy, while some couldn't help but look back at their seat numbers.

"There are seven games left, and I will definitely be able to draw me. If I can draw the final prize, it would be great!"

This is the idea of ​​almost every audience member on the scene.

...

The competition continues and the lottery continues. After each game is over, there will be applause and cheers around. The applause and cheers are not given to the winner who advanced to the quarterfinals, but are celebrating that the lottery is coming.

Including the final prize, there are 25 lucky people to be drawn today. For 1,000 spectators on the scene, it is equivalent to one in every 40 people being drawn. This probability is quite high. After several games, almost one person won in every area of ​​the audience.

Finally, it was time to announce the final prize. Everyone looked at Phil in the middle of the arena with anticipation, and prayed in their hearts that the God of Luck could come to him.

Phil pulled out a note from the box, slowly unfolded it, and then said, "The winner of the final prize, the 50-silver membership card is No. 922!"

A sigh of disappointment sounded from the audience.

Tom, a warehouse manager sitting in the back row, suddenly looked back at the number on his chair, and then he saw a number of 921.

At the same time, beside Tom, the lucky spectator in seat No. 922 suddenly stood up and screamed with ecstasy expressions: "It's me, I'm No. 922, I won the prize!"

"I'm just one number short!" Tom suddenly looked like he was crying without tears.

Under the envious gaze of a thousand viewers in the audience, the No. 922 audience took the membership card worth 50 silver coins from Phil.

...

On the second game day, half an hour before the game was left, the arena was already full of spectators.

After yesterday, many viewers knew that if they came late, there would be no seats and no chance to participate in the lottery. So they arrived at the arena half an hour in advance.

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Since there are only six games, the lottery has also been adjusted. After the eight-to-four game, three lucky spectators are still drawn, while after the semi-finals, five lucky spectators are drawn. After the full-day game, the 50 silver coin prize remains unchanged.

On this day, another 23 lucky people were drawn, and the probability of winning was still very high.

There were only two games on the last day, one was a battle for three and four, and the other was a battle for the championship and runner-up. The battle for three and four was a system of four victories in seven games, while the battle for the championship and runner-up was a battle for five victories in nine games.

The lottery mechanism has also changed again, becoming that after each small game, two lucky spectators will be drawn. That is to say, if each game is full, there will be 16 games. Including the final prize, theoretically, up to 33 lucky ones will be born.

In this way, the audience really didn't even have time to go to the toilet, because each game only had ten minutes at most, and if it was faster, it would be finished in five or six minutes. If you went to the toilet, you might miss the lottery.

...

Hunter, a young man from Luoye Town, never dreamed that he would win the final championship.

It was not until Phil personally put the five gold coins championship prizes into Hunter's hand that the heavy touch made Hunter believe that all this was true.

"Five gold coins, I have never seen so much money in my life! Even if the boss comes to Ash City to purchase goods, he will not bring so much money!" Hunter sighed in his heart.

After witnessing all this, everyone looked envious, and many even showed greedy eyes.

Seeing that the time was almost right, Phil announced loudly: "In a few months, we will hold the second billiards championship, and all the prizes will be doubled by then, that is, the champion can get 10 gold coins!"

The next second, the audience was in an uproar!

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Chapter completed!