Yamauchi Ichino's speech speed is not fast.:

Moreover, he speaks English. The Japanese English pronunciation is extremely strong, so it is not easy for European and American journalists to understand.

"This selection will be divided into three competition areas, Asia, Europe and North America. The scope of the test will cover all aspects of a professional driver, not only driving skills, but also psychological tests. Moreover, the test is very strict because we are choosing real racers instead of playing house games with you. We are very cautious and serious about this."

Hearing Jester say this, the journalists' interest is getting bigger and bigger.

“Is the selection at a designated location?”

Immediately, someone asked, and this question was a supplement to the answers from the previous competition area of ​​Yamauchi Ichino.

So, Yamauchi Katsunomi did not hesitate, but explained directly: "Yes, the selection location for the European competition area is in the UK, while the selection location for the Asian competition area is in Japan, and the North American competition area is in the United States."

"All players who want to become professional drivers must go to designated countries and locations to participate in your selection?" the other person asked quickly.

“It’s not just that.”

However, Yamauchi Ichino nodded this time, but shook his head.

"To go to our designated location to conduct the final test, we are qualified only if we pass the qualifiers. There are not too many places. Perhaps, there may be only a dozen players in each competition area to obtain this qualification. As long as we obtain the players who participate in our final competition area selection, all his participation expenses will be contracted by us."

“Select?”

This made the reporters a little confused.

How to select without the site?

Faced with this problem, Yamauchi Ichinori smiled: "This problem actually doesn't need to be concealed. At the beginning of our development of the game "GT Racing", his positioning was real. Rather than saying that this is a racing game, it is better to say that it is a racing simulation software, with all the data about racing in it. It is true and accurate..."

After boasting about his own experience, Yamauchi Ichinobu solved the answer.

"And, our Dream Wave 3 will have a function that no other host does not have, that is, the online mode. In other words, players can fully connect the network and then compete with other players from all over the world... It is precisely for this reason that we set up the "GT Academy" mode, which is not just the name of our plan in reality, but more importantly, it is also a mode in the game and a pre-selected mode for our real-life professional drivers. In other words, you can only get our second round of realistic selection if you get excellent results in our "GT Academy" in our "GT Racing" game."

If you don’t answer, then you will be so excited, but with Yamauchi Ichinori’s answer, his answer immediately caused an uproar among the reporters.

Even when I first spoke out the GT Academy plan from Jester's mouth, it was surprising and disbelief. After all, it was too vague to select professional racers by playing games?

He also said that this is not a house-playing house? This is not a house-playing house, what is a house-playing house?

"You are fooling everyone!"

Someone immediately questioned Yamauchi Ichinori without any hesitation. After all, what he said just now was a bit too shocking. When Jester said that he had selected professional racers through "GT Academy", they felt a little crazy, but they still thought it was feasible. After all, they had thought that this was selected by swearing, and the so-called GT Academy was just a gimmick for their games.

But now I heard Yamauchi Ichinobu say this, and I realized that what Mars Entertainment is going to do this time is far less simple.

Faced with the questioning of many reporters, Yamauchi Katsunori was not nervous at all. He said without hesitation: "How do you know that this is definitely a playhouse? Why can't we perform preliminary auditions through our games? I said before. Our racing game strives to be extremely real in every detail. It is a real driving simulation software, not just a game, especially in our GT Academy mode. Moreover, the biggest motivation for my development of "GT Racing" is to hope that one day a real driver can come out of my game. For me, this is not a playhouse or a joke, it is a very serious matter."

Although Yamauchi Ichinobu said this, the reporters still couldn't understand it, and the final result could only be a disagreement.

"Choose riders through the game? Ridiculous!"

This is a big game media's answer to the title of GT Racing in Yamauchi Ichinori. Obviously, they all think that Mars Entertainment, Jester, Yamauchi Ichinori is just nonsense. Those car manufacturers, especially those in Japan, are just nonsense with Mars Entertainment. They don't think that Jester can succeed in other aspects, but can succeed in all aspects, right?

Moreover, on the Internet, players have different attitudes towards Mars Entertainment. Many racing games have cheered without the decision of Mars Entertainment, calling it the greatest thing ever. However, there are more players who may not be loyal fans of racing games. Like those media, they conduct auditions through the game, which is simply messy.

The two sides also quarreled on the Internet.

After all, Jester is the head of Mars Entertainment. On the day the Dream Wave 3 was released, he could not stay away from his headquarters. This not only gives his employees confidence, but also gives players confidence.

Jester was happy to see the uproar that Yamauchi Ichinobu had just caused, because the popularity this time was much greater than what he had drawn at the beginning. As expected, this controversial topic still needed to attract more heat.

Even Jester is confident that in the DreamWave 3 game, the sales of "GT Racing" may be soaring all the way, and his "Hao Hero" may not have good results, because the controversy about this game is too great now, especially what Yamauchi Ichinobu said before, I am not just a game, but a driving simulation software. So we can select real professional drivers through the games I developed.

Of course, this is a bit suspicious of being a big deal.

However, this is not too much, because Jester knows that "GT Racing" is indeed a racing game with extremely high authenticity. It can even be said without hesitation that it is by far the most professional racing game.

His professionalism and authenticity are unparalleled. In Jester's memory, he has seen many interviews with people who have become professional drivers through the GT Academy program. They all call "GT Racing". Their extreme love for this game seems to be close to madness. They have their own small world and the ultimate pursuit of cars. Many times, they even seem to compare it to a racing simulation software rather than a racing game.

In Jester's memory, I remember a player named Heitkod, who was just an ordinary person before participating in "GT Academy". He was just an ordinary American, a normal American living in Fresno, California. However, he loved racing games and his dream was to become a professional driver. Later, Sony, Yamauchi Ichinobu and some Japanese car manufacturers launched the "GT Academy" program.

He defeated more than 50,000 competitors at GT Racing's online platform GT Academy and got the opportunity to go to the Silverstone Circuit in the UK for the final training.

After that, he successfully completed the training and became a professional racer, and was also a holder and champion of many racing records, and even. Before that, he had an unemployment crisis.

Later, when Heitkod recalled how he contacted his driving skills, he said that after a year of contact with GT Racing, he decided to bring his training results in GT Racing to real racing, which is to participate in the comprehensive skills competitive obstacle race of the local American Racing Club (SCCA) branch. After all, only practice can lead to true knowledge. This comprehensive skills competitive obstacle race is actually very different from traditional racing competitions. It is more like a warm-up exercise for people preparing to go to the arena. There is no tit-for-tat confrontation, no excessive speed competition, only relatively basic skills training and strict requirements for car control.

What surprised him was that he actually achieved good results in this competition.

For the 12 years since then, Heitkod has been honing his basic driving skills through "GT Racing" and Comprehensive Skills Competitive Obstacles. It can even be said that he does have a different talent in this regard. In addition to winning a number of Comprehensive Skills Competitive Obstacles, he also won the super-stok title awarded by the SCA World Championship in 2010.

The story later became even more legendary. As an ordinary racing game player, Heitkod felt that he could go further, for example, become a real racer. At this time, the selection plan for GT Academy was in full swing.

This is what Heitkod said in the interview.

"The problem is, you can't always go on like this. Comprehensive skills and competitive obstacle races can indeed bring me a lot of fun, but at the same time it is expensive and has no rewards. This also means that I can't make a living with it, and at most I can only treat it as a hobby." Heitkod later fired his job and found a random job specifically for transporting auto parts, but half a year later, he was unemployed again.

Heitkod recalled and said that he could actually continue to do it, but he still hoped to pursue his former dreams. But life is not a drama, it is dull and cruel. When it gradually becomes unsatisfactory, people will begin to deny themselves and think about whether this persistence is really worth it. Heitkod also has the same thought, and has questioned it, but has never given up.

The process in between is not detailed.

Eventually, he became a real racer.

Of course, the selection process is very difficult and rigorous. From the beginning of the GT Academy program in 2008 to the time of Jester traveling, many people completed the selection event from ordinary gamers to professional drivers, and they have truly become professional drivers. Even their strength is quite good. In some events, they have even become the main force of the Nissan team.

For example, the 2011 Heitkod participated in this session. As an example, 53,000 players must first compete in the online qualifiers of "GT5", and then the top 32 players can go to Walt Disney World in Orlando for a screening duel. Only the 16 winners are truly qualified to go to the Silverstone Circuit in the UK for the final week-long selection. But for the contestants, the test has just begun. In the Silverstone Circuit, these 16 players will be the first to learn how to face the pressure of the media. Just like a real professional racer, you should be calm and handle it freely in the face of media doubts and related interviews.

After that, everyone will have to undergo a written test, a health check and a basic physical fitness test. It can be said that the players do not even have a chance to breathe. The ultimate goal of this training is to let the players learn to cope with huge psychological and competitive pressures, and to play their best personal potential, and to achieve the best results on the field (including lap record competitions and qualifying competitions).

"After the whole process, you can't even continue to go on with great concentration, but this is another necessary process, because it's already very valuable to be able to persevere," said Heitkod, and the reality is that he persisted until the end.

In fact, in Jester's opinion, the development of this matter and the current encounter, the possible future encounters are not much different from the original history he is familiar with.

The emergence of gt Academy, whether by chance or by an inevitable product, is no longer important. After all, its success is obvious to all.

But at the beginning of the project, like Blair Heitkod can move from "virtual" to "reality", there are endless sarcasm in the industry, but time and courage eventually broke everyone's doubts, just like Yamauchi Ichinobu convinced Sony senior officials who did not believe how much benefit this game could bring to playstation through the sales of "GT Racing".

Their success constitutes the racing culture unique to the entire GT series, a kind of persistence and persistence in cars.
Chapter completed!