Inside Asian Gaming

IAG MAR 2021年3月 亞博匯 77 日本 J udgement day has all but arrived in Nagasaki. With all five IR candidates having met the prefecture’s initial qualification requirements, and the deadline for submission of all RFP documentation expiring on 1 March, it is now a waiting game while prefecture officials meticulously analyze the pros and cons of each candidate. An examination committee comprising eight members and chaired by Atsufumi Kikumori, Chairman of the Nagasaki Regional Policy Research Institute, will assess each operator’s IR credentials against the objectives of the prefecture as well as their operational and financial capabilities. Once the documents have been thoroughly examined and assessed, up to three of the current five candidates will be selected for a secondary examination, meaning two will be eliminated by mid- March. The operators must feel like they’re on an episode of Survivor . “Every operator thinks that they are best for the job,” a representative of one of the candidates told IAG . “However, in a way the ‘opponents’ are not the other four operators, but the prefecture itself. In the end, what will hold the most weight in the decision? The only answer is who can create a sustainable IR as per the national policy while using both Nagasaki’s desires and our own know-how as advantages. That is the solution we must seek.” Thestakeswill onlyget higher for the threesurviving candidates, with an integrity survey to be conducted 長 崎即將迎來最終審判。由於所有五位IR候選 人都符合該縣的初始資格要求，並且所有 RFP文件的提交截止日期是3月1日。現在就 只能靜待地方關於仔細審核每位候選人的利 弊。 由長崎地區政策研究所所長菊森淳文擔任主席的8人審查小組將 根據該縣的目標、營運及財務能力，評估每家營運商的IR資質。 待這些文件被徹底審查及評估，目前的5名候選人中至多有3 人將被選中進入第二輪審核。因此，將有兩名候選人在3月中被淘 汰。 營運商一定覺得自己在參加《倖存者》。 一位候選企業的代表告訴IAG：「每個營運商都認為自己最適 合這份工作。」 「但是，某種程度上，『對手並非其他四間營運商，而是該縣 本身。甚麼將在決策中發揮作用？答案就是看誰能根據長崎的意 願和自身的專業特長為優勢，依據國家政策打造一個可持續IR。 這就是我們須找尋的解決方案。」 對於三名倖存的候選人而言，賭注只會越來越高。5月，一家 獨立研究公司將進行誠信調查，然後在6月的截至日期前提交第 二份文件。每個候選人需要在8月提交一份計劃書，最終勝負結果 將於月底宣佈。 我們不妨來了解一下各個候選人（按日語名稱的順序列出）：