Finding a buyer for the presidential plane has been as difficult as raffling off its value. The National lottery she had to adapt the whole theme of her giveaways and give screaming girls and boys special training so they can announce winners with numbers reaching one million.
A little less than five weeks before the so-called special draw, rehearsals began on how they will emerge in five rounds of 20 prizes, the 100 winners of 20 million pesos each.
Mitzi Molina, Sweepstakes Manager of the National lottery He explained that the dynamics changed completely because they had never given so many awards before. In normal draws, 60 thousand or 80 thousand numbers printed on each maple wood ball are inserted in the larger sphere, but the six million pieces would not fit in it, so six small spheres that had 10 balls had to be adapted five centimeters with a single number each.
The spheres start in unit, ten, hundred, unit thousand, ten thousand, hundred thousand until they reach one million. Thus, the screaming girl selected will make up the winning number one to one.
Molina explained in an interview with MILLENNIUM Longer draws of 800 prizes can take up to an hour and 20 minutes, but having to match the winners one by one lengthens the process.
“Here they are going to assemble it and the assembly of the ball more or less the children have an approximate time of two and a half minutes per number, and with the other I love in a minute up to four or five prizes so this variant increases the times a lot ”.
Initially it was estimated that the draw could last up to four hours, but with the agility that the children have adopted, they estimate that the September 15 draw will conclude in two and a half hours.
The screaming boys and girls say they are excited to resume rehearsals and confess that it has been a very different process from the one they have had to adapt to.
Fátima Martínez is 14 years old and has participated as a screaming girl from the age of 9, she says that younger children who are not used to it have more difficulty singing the numbers of the million, but they have helped each other.
“It is also a bit more complex to form the whole number one by one because normally the balls are small and it is the complete number so we just say it and here we have to be forming it and they are much larger balls and apart we use a board, then it is more complex ”.
Rodrigo Vega is 12 years old and in his two years as a screaming child, he had never experienced such a big draw, but he thinks it is something “wonderful”.
“Although suddenly we are wrong, suddenly we do not know, but they are teaching us very well and we are really looking forward to it.”
The boys and girls come three days a week to practice. They must learn not only to handle the new spheres and maintain the perfect coordination that characterizes them, they also have to know how to modulate their voice to shout such long numbers.
The practices are given with all the necessary sanitary measures. The National Lottery enabled transportation that picks them up from their homes, takes them to the facilities and returns them when finished; They go through a medical check-up every day, the removal process and so far, there are no cases with health complications.
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