Football lottery was undoubtedly the crucial piece. In nature, it could almost reach the point of involving the entire population.
Even if you weren't interested in football, surely you were interested in making money, right?
How many people would be willing to pass up a chance to turn a small stake into a big one—to take a gamble and turn a bicycle into a motorcycle? Especially when quite a few people around them had already made successful bets and earned money.
This caused football lottery to spread almost like a virus.
The economic benefits it brought also began to grow explosively.
If they wanted to keep selling football lottery tickets, the matches had to continue.
Therefore, the ideal situation was to hold football matches every week throughout the league season.
That was when Zhou Xu finally understood why they had to organize round-robin and points-based competitions.
Of course, Zhou Xu had no intention of starting with a round-robin tournament.
There were too many newly established teams in the city, and their quality varied wildly. Although football lottery was the core attraction for the vast majority of citizens, they still had to take into account the experience of the spectators who came to watch the matches.
What everyone wanted to see were thrilling matches with fierce offense and defense, not two terrible teams pecking at each other.
With that in mind, Zhou Xu planned to use simple drawn matchups for the city league, eliminating teams round by round until only one remained.
By the time they reached the regional league, most of the teams would be able to put up a respectable performance.
Having strong teams constantly clash with one another—that was what made it interesting.
At that point, they could begin the round-robin competition and calculate points at the same