Chapter 116 Wild Card
“No…what’s going on with this kid, Little Witch?!
“Why didn’t he even enter the round-robin selection? ! ”
June 10, five o’clock in the afternoon.
Dajing City, Chinese Go Association.
Shang Chaotian, who was working overtime again today, looked a little ugly when he saw the results of the China Mainland Division qualifiers that had just been submitted by the "Wuyue Cup" Organizing Committee.
The "Wuyue Cup" is an annual women's world championship competition. A total of 24 people will participate in this stage.
The last champion Kim Woo-eun of South Korea and the runner-up Zou Yang of China enter this stage directly. The remaining 22 places are allocated to seven people from mainland China, five people from Japan, five people from South Korea, one person from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and Europe One person, one person from North America, and two wild cards will be designated by the organizing committee.
Everything else is simple and clear, focusing on the two wild cards.
According to past experience, one is for China and one for other regions: this way everyone can accept it.
Everyone knows about wild cards, which are just for the organizing committee to plug whoever they want - but not too blatantly.
If a purely related person enters this fortress and cannot convince the public at all, then the credibility of the event will be lost.
Therefore, the general principle of selecting wild card candidates is basically "picking up lost pearls": if a player who is recognized as a relatively strong player fails to swim out of the selection due to some accidents, rely on the wild card player. .
But... Shang Chaotian actually had his own little plan this time.
He intends to use a wild card to bring Rui Zhao directly into the "Wuyue Cup" competition!
This is not only a thank you to Rui Zhao for successfully blocking Bai Yinhua in the "Metropolitan Cup", but also a positive feedback to Qian Sitao's long-term support for the development of the Go industry and Rui Guoquan's key recognition in the sponsorship of this Go game. .
Normally speaking, Rui Zhao has not yet determined his rank and cannot participate in this "Wu Yue Cup".
But the existence of the wild card itself is a kind of "final interpretation right". As long as it's not too outrageous, outsiders will recognize it.
This year's "Wuyue Cup" will hold trials for each division in June. Finally, one week before the competition - about mid-July, the list of all participants (including wild cards) will be announced. It will be officially announced on July 22 The game begins and the top four are determined. The final semi-finals and third round finals will be held at the end of the year.
According to this timetable, Rui Zhao can just complete the finalization before the roster is announced, giving Shang Chaotian enough time to react.
Of course, it will definitely cause quite a bit of controversy if a new first-tier player, who has been scheduled for less than ten days, enters this competition directly with a wild card.
However, Shang Chaotian has fully thought about this operation, and there are sufficient reasons for letting Rui Zhao take the wild card.
First of all, Rui Zhao is strong enough.
Rui Zhao's current level is probably close to the second-tier domestic women's team. Even if he goes to the trials in a really bright way, it wouldn't be too strange to qualify in the end.
Not to mention that she has a record of head-on defeating the former domestic men's professional backbone in her prime - any female chess player who is not selected can give it a try.
Secondly, Rui Zhao has enough fame, attention and influence.
After the "City Cup" battle, [Yizhao Qiyi] is well-known in the circle, and [Go Xiaozhao] is second only to [Lin Qishi's particularly capable dog] in the Go circle. ’s second anchor (although the fans between the two are quite different now).
What's more, Rui Zhao is an absolute beauty and is naturally eye-catching - this is also a very important point for commercial competitions.
So letting Rui Zhao in is probably somewhat controversial, but if you look closely, it’s hard to find a big thorn in the side.
Ke Shang Chaotian never expected that the little witch would overturn in the preliminaries!
This made it difficult for him to deal with it.
This time in the "Wuyue Cup" Zouyang entered the competition directly. Among the remaining chess players, almost four of them had to use wild cards due to accidents - and Yang Manjing was one of them.
When Yang Manjing overturns, Shang Chaotian must give priority to fishing for her!
There is no way. Although it is controversial whether the little witch can be ranked among the top five Chinese women in terms of strength alone, it is still enough to beat Rui Zhao by one head.
Last year’s Three Kingdoms Go Women’s Tournament, the little witch was chosen as the vanguard.
And because of his young age and rapid improvement in performance, he has attracted a lot of attention. He also has a lot of "father fans" and "mother fans". It is not surprising to say that he is the most watched middle and low-level player in the Chinese Go community. Pass!
If we use the wild card to promote Rui Zhao instead of Yang Manjing, I'm afraid this fight will go straight to the sky!
Shang Chaotian was so worried that he scratched his scalp. In desperation, he dialed the number of his deputy.
After all, it was Lu Wenjie who proposed this suggestion to him in the first place. As the chairman, he just made the final decision after thinking about it.
“Hey, Wenjie, have you read the pre-selection list for the ‘Wuyue Cup’?
"...Well, that's what I'm worried about!
"Yes! We thought very well before! It all turned out to be in vain!
“Hey, my idea is, let’s be shameless this time, can we give the two wild cards to ourselves?
“Uh...it seems a bit too shameless. Now...
"Okay! Let me think about it again!"
After the phone call, Shang Chaotian sighed helplessly.
Although he knew in his heart that this wild card should be used to catch the little witch, both emotionally and logically.
But when he thought that Rui Zhao was almost risking his life to stop Bai Yinhua this time, and ended up receiving a thankless thank you, Shang Chaotian felt quite guilty.
Not to mention, almost everyone who has come into contact with Rui Zhao believes that he is absolutely a malleable talent.
While Shang Chaotian was momentarily confused, a notification from Station B suddenly popped up on his phone.
From station B?
Shang Chaotian was stunned for a moment, then quickly opened it.
He had never used the software Bilibili. The reason why he had downloaded it previously was just to follow an anchor.
In this case... As expected, after unlocking the phone, Shang Chaotian saw the news from [Go Xiaozhao]:
"[Go Xiaozhao]: Hello everyone! Tonight (6 At 6:30 on March 10th, I will play online chess with "Little Witch" Yang Manjing on the Yiguo platform. Assistant An An will give a live broadcast at that time. Everyone is welcome to watch! ”
Huh? !
Shang Chaotian was a little dumbfounded for a moment.
I was tangled up in the matter between you two, but...
Why are you two getting into trouble? !
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“Hey, hey! Sister An An, can you hear me?”
“Yes, you can hear me!”
June 10 Late, six-twenty.
According to Ai Jianan's request, Rui Zhao connected the voice on time.
In view of the countless various and bizarre live broadcast accidents in the past, Ai Jianan was fully prepared this time.
The first thing is to bring his own pillars into the voice to ensure that the news can be conveyed in time when necessary - after all, Rui Zhao's mobile phone must be muted when playing chess, so pointing to the phone and WeChat reminder is purely overthinking. .
The advantage of voice is that Ai Jianan, the person who pulls the voice, can control whether to block Rui Zhao. When playing chess normally, Ai Jianan can just block Rui Zhao, but when he really needs to send a message, he can unblock him at any time and send the message.
After confirming that the voice was correct, Ai Jianan logged in to Yiguo first: This time, she successfully logged in, which made her breathe a sigh of relief.
That's right, after a week of unremitting appeals, Yiguo officials finally unblocked the account [Jian Luan An Min] yesterday.
But Ai Jianan didn’t know that her account was able to be unblocked thanks to Shang Chaotian and Lei Jingming’s decision to confess the situation to Lei Qi as soon as possible after the chess holy war, otherwise her account would not be able to I know I will be banned until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse.
"Okay, Xiao Zhaomiao, you log in first. After logging in, I will add you as a friend, and then start the live broadcast!
"Hey, but I never had time to ask you something: Isn’t your account nickname [Youfeng Laiyi]? Why did it become [Yizhao Qiyi] again? ”
The voice of the girl opposite was a little awkward:
"Well, it's a long story...
"To put it simply, I borrowed the account [Youfeng Laiyi] from someone else and returned it later.
"Ah! In addition, Sister An An, please don't tell anyone about the fact that I have used the account [Youfeng Laiyi]. The person who lent the account said it is not convenient for others to know that I have used this account."
“Ah, okay.”
Ai Jianan responded naturally.
She rarely goes to Yi Kingdom now and knows very little about some things that mainly happen in Yi Kingdom. She only learned about such a famous person as [Yizhao Qiyi] after Rui Zhao's acceptance speech.
As for the fact that [Youfeng Laiyi] once played handicap chess with [Dao Tu Jian Qi], she has no idea at all.
However, since he mentioned the digression, Ai Jian'an suddenly remembered something and continued to ask:
"And...you really don't plan on playing chess with Bai Yinhua. Would you like to review the live broadcast?
"Everyone in the Go circle wants to know the details of this game, but the Chess Association said that the record data is damaged and is being restored. You are unwilling to review it. As a result, there are some rumors outside now, saying that there must be a secret operation!
"If Lin Ruixin hadn't testified during the live broadcast a few days ago, saying that he looked at the final board and confirmed that it was you who defeated the opponent by slaying the dragon, otherwise the chess association would be unable to suppress public opinion!"
Rui Zhao's voice became panicked again:
"Sister An An! This, I really forgot about that game, it's not that I don't want to play it again!
" I guess I’m too nervous...Haha, haha..."
Hearing the fake smile of his pillar, Ai Jianan knew that he would not be able to ask anything else.
Although she didn't know why Rui Zhao had been unwilling to disclose the specific details of the chess game, she didn't believe that Rui Zhao would do anything fishy.
After all, he is a pure Go fool!
At this moment, Rui Zhao seemed to want to quickly shift the topic away from the game of chess, and said in a stiff tone:
"Ah! I, I, log in to the country of chess. Okay...Sister An An, let’s not talk about anything else and start the live broadcast quickly...Eh?
"Sister An An, how come [Little Hermione] has already invited me just after I went online? ”
"Ah?"
Ai Jian'an couldn't help but be stunned:
"Are you in such a hurry?!
"I haven't even had time to add you as a friend. ! ”
【Let’s talk about the plot first】
These two chapters are still laying out some settings for the second volume, and you guys should be able to tell. The plot progress is relatively slow, please forgive me.
Next, I would like to ask everyone for their opinions. Is it better to cover the online chess game between Little Witch and Xiao Zhao in one stroke, or to write two or three chapters?
I have chosen the score, but I am really not sure whether I should write down this kind of chess that is not particularly important (but it also affects the development of the plot). Please give me some advice from the experts. ......
【Re-layer armor】
Yesterday, I saw another boss guessing the character. It needs to be emphasized again that none of the characters in this article have any prototypes and are in no way meant to allude to any real people.
However, because it is a realistic novel, for many character settings I need to extract some elements from real characters and add them into the novel to ensure that it is dramatic while not losing the sense of reality. So in fact, if you pay more attention, you will inevitably feel that some of the characters in the article have some shadow of real people, and you may even find some "stitch monsters".
However, this is just a slight reference to real elements, and it is in no way meant to allude to real characters. I emphasize again.
To put it simply, the big guys can guess if they want, but there is no answer for me.
(End of this chapter)