This Eileen Cup ran rather long. Basically, each group stage would take around four days to play out. The schedule was lengthy, but also fairly spread out—meant to boost the local economy, a decent little tactic in its own way, and one Eileen had always loved to use.
Dueling witches were internet celebrities in the Witch World to begin with.
They came with huge fanbases and economic benefits built in.
Witches were fairly sincere. Until they got scammed once, they would keep funneling money to their idols sustainably. But since witches as a whole were generally quite intelligent, the moment an idol pulled some trick, they would lose nearly thirty percent of their more hot-tempered and impatient fans in one go. Things like livestream sales or promotions where prices were slashed to nearly one-tenth, only to charge sky-high shipping fees—doing that once was enough to lose ninety percent of their fans.
The remaining ten percent would hardly spend money again, either.
Only the "fun-seeking witches" would still pay.
Giving back to their fans, giving back to witch society—these were mandatory lessons for witch idols.
Though this kept them from raking in money on a massive scale, from another perspective, it meant idols and fans had a high degree of mutual trust and strong attachment. Many witches even enrolled in the same university as their idol, or joined the same school.
Some of Lin Zhaojun's diehard fans had gone to work for the Absolute City Team.
Of course, they still had to be paid normally, and their benefits could not be worse than those at other companies.
Strangely enough, although A Lin only held an A2 in personal academic qualifications, quite a few of her fans had A3 certificates, along with five or six A2 credentials and academy diplomas.
—Witch academy