The 2022 German Open Badminton Tournament has all ended, and in the end, the Chinese team ended with 2 championships and 3 runners-up. Interestingly, during the award ceremony, the prize awarded by the organizing committee to the winning athletes turned out to be a computer graphics card. This miracle made many fans cry and laugh, women's singles champion He Bingjiao and women's doubles champions Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan, when talking about the prizes after the game, exclaimed "never expected"!
According to the relevant person in charge, although it is only a computer graphics card, the value of this prize is equivalent to the prize money won by the quarterfinals of the event. After considering the needs of athletes outside of competition training, the organizing committee decided to use a special and practical computer graphics card as a prize for this competition. Many netizens have said that this wave of "unusual roads" is indeed a bit of a show!
In recent years, the scale of development and promotion of sports events has been expanding, in addition to hosting the competition itself, the organizing committee will have a hard time in terms of the amount of prize money for the winning athletes, the design of the podium, the flag-raising ceremony and the prizes. In addition to the prizes for badminton Germany, which are the computer graphics cards, what other prizes have been laughed at? Last season's World Table Tennis Championships were held in Houston, USA. The organizing committee of the event used unique hats, flowers and other prizes to let the world audience feel the unique style of the western city of the United States.
It is worth mentioning that the flag-raising ceremony encourages everyone to take off their hats and stand up, but the organizing committee's move to "cross the line" has made many netizens exclaim "courageous enough"! What's more interesting is that due to the narrow and long shape of the hat, many athletes are distressed because of the "big head" that cannot be worn. At the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships, the Chinese men's and women's teams both won the championship, and in addition to the gold medal, they also brought back two bags of rice. At that time, at the award ceremony, the award guests also presented a huge gift bag surrounded by straw after awarding the gold medal to the Chinese team.
After that, the national table tennis players revealed to everyone that these two "big guys" were rice. Xu Xin, Sun Yingsha and others have complained that these two bags of rice are big and heavy, and they still have to pay "travel expenses" for them when they return to China. In the 2017 World Snow Mountain Extreme Off-Road Race, the organizing committee was even more ingenious, using yak as a competition prize for athletes. This decision has aroused heated discussion among netizens from all over the world, and everyone's biggest doubt is "how to take the cattle away, directly ride away or process and then take them away?" ”
The prizes for these competitions are already classics of world sporting events, and in the Kopa Atadades Cup Futsal Championship in Juliaca, the prizes of the winning athletes are jaw-dropping. The teams that won the top three, in addition to medals, the organizing committee also provided them with luxurious coffins as additional prizes.
It is precisely because of this strange prize setting that this event has also attracted more people's attention. For the relevant prizes set by the organizing committee in sports competitions, are bouquets and trophies favored in the traditional sense, or are fun and strange prizes more popular? How would you choose?
(Luo Treasurer)