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After six years of absence due to Covid-19, the maximum tournament on World Baseball Classic 2023 It is being carried out in some countries and each team will demonstrate the best it has to win the coveted economic prize. Everyone’s favourite, the Dominican Republic, was eliminated, while Cuba and Japan have already advanced to the semifinals.
The World Baseball Classic has proven to be a resounding commercial success, breaking records for in-stadium ticket and merchandise sales and for television audiences, primarily outside the United States.
WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC 2023: HOW MUCH MONEY WILL THE CHAMPION TAKE?
The organizers of the Classic reported that for this 2023 the economic prizes would amount to $300,000 for participating; another 300,000 upon finishing first in his qualifying group; and the same figure for reaching the quarterfinals.
In addition, for getting into the semifinals the bag is 500,000 dollars, which would be the total up to now of 1,400,000. In case any selection reaches the final, he would get another half a million dollars. Finally, the winner of the World Baseball Classic will receive an additional million.
According to the BoardRoom site, after delivering the corresponding amount to each federation, the individual prize for each player would be around $50,000, not counting the individual prizes that the most outstanding players in the entire Classic will receive.
WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC 2023: THE COMMERCIAL SUCCESS OF THE TOURNAMENT
This Saturday, the organizers of the Baseball World Cup revealed that in the first round in Taichung (Taiwan), Tokyo (Japan), Phoenix and Miami (United States) they managed to attend 1,010,999 fans, almost double the past record of 510,056 in 2017. .
The 295,850 (29,850 per game) fans who managed to pay tickets to appreciate the 10 games of Group D in Miami, established a classic record for a venue in the United States. The March 12 match between Mexico and the United States at Chase Field in Phoenix was attended by 47,534, an overall mark for a first-round matchup.
Another of the teams that brought the most fans to the field was the Dominican Republic in its four games at the Loan Depot with approximately 34,000 fans. The Miami Marlins reported that all games remaining in the tournament were sold out.
Regarding audience levels, while in the North American market the event has problems attracting massive viewers, the opposite is true abroad.
Japan’s last two clashes in Tokyo saw audiences of 4.44% and 48.0%, the two most watched ever in one country. The game between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico in Miami had a 63% audience share on the island of charm.
Source: Elcomercio
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