After all of us are reborn, who plays Go?

"Dressed so formally?"

Seeing Ye Qing helping him tidy up his clothes in front of the mirror, Zhan Lang felt a little embarrassed when he looked at himself in the mirror.

In the past, when he was in China, including when he went to Japan to participate in various competitions, Zhan Lang basically never wore a suit. He only wore ordinary T-shirts, shirts or work clothes.

However, due to his age, not many people would require Zhan Lang to wear a Zhongshan suit or a Western suit. After all, he is a minor and there is no need to ask him to be so formal.

So although Zhan Lang won't wear any strange clothes, he just wants to wear whatever is comfortable and won't deliberately wear formal clothes.

But this time it is different. The China-Japan Tianyuan Competition is the first official Go competition between China and Japan, and it will be broadcast live around the world via satellite signals. Theoretically, audiences around the world can watch it.

Of course, the only ones who will be paying attention to this competition are probably China and Japan, and at most South Korea.

But this is also to truly showcase the image of Chinese Go in front of the public, so it is naturally impossible for Zhan Lang to dress as casually as usual.

Zhan Lang now represents the image of the country to a certain extent, so everyone's requirements for his image are naturally higher this time.

The Go Association paid for a master craftsman to tailor a Zhongshan suit for Zhan Lang, and also found a master to trim Zhan Lang's usual frivolous hairstyle.

We must build a good image of Chinese Go in front of the whole world.

Looking at his appearance in the mirror, Zhan Lang touched his short hair and said, "Why do I look a bit like Chen Zhen?"

With the Zhongshan suit, crew cut and his facial shape, he no longer looks like Wolf Warrior but rather like a Jingwu hero.

"Chen Zhen? How is he like him?"

After hearing what Ye Qing said, he glanced at Zhan Lang in the mirror and recalled the image of Chen Zhen from Jingwu Sect in his mind. They didn't match at all.

Where does it look like?

Not at all alike?

When Zhan Lang heard this, he remembered that the image of Chen Zhen in the movie is still from Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury, where he wears a cloth shirt and a white shirt, or has a bare upper body and fights with nunchakus, a typical Bruce Lee-style hero.

It took another ten years for the image of Jet Li wearing a Zhongshan suit in the well-known Fist of Fury to be created.

"It's all the same. Chen Zhen and I are both going to fight the Japanese. It's a pity that the Japanese didn't do anything radical, otherwise I would have been able to join in the fun."

Zhan Lang smoothed his sleeves slightly and pulled them up.

Although Japanese Go players looked down on China and declared before the match that this was a must-win game, this was a game in which Japan guided China and China had almost no chance of winning.

But after all, this competition has a certain diplomatic nature, so the Japanese naturally did not dare to make any insulting verbal attacks.

"I'm still too familiar with Master Fujii Hideaki. If they could go a little too far and say something humiliating, and if they were a less familiar chess player, I could make them eat paper."

Zhan Lang shook his head helplessly. You know, the scene of eating paper in Fist of Fury is a classic, and it was used in a lot of short plays later.

But unfortunately, this kind of pretentious plot is too difficult to happen in real life.

Ye Qing shook his head helplessly when he heard this: "Are you so confident that you can win?
This year, Mr. Fujii Hideaki fought his way out of the first round and won the Japanese Tengen Championship."

These are real results. We can't take it lightly just because he is nearly 60 years old. If he wasn't up to the standard, he wouldn't have won the championship.

"We're both about the same level."

"really."

Ye Qing nodded when he heard this. Although Fujii Hideaki used to have a top-notch level, his level has declined as he got older.

Zhanlang was able to defeat Jiuduan. Even though he had not reached the top-notch level, his upward momentum was obvious and he had a strong upward impact.

If we were to evaluate each other's level now, "equally matched" would indeed be the most appropriate evaluation.

Zhan Lang smiled and shook his head when he heard this, and remembered the line in "Ode to Swordsman": "It's really the same. He's half a catty of scrap metal, and I'm eight taels of gold."

"..."

Ye Qing didn't know what to say after hearing this: "You can't say this in front of other people."

Just say this in front of me, don’t say it outside. I think so, but others may not think so.

Zhan Lang didn't care when he heard this. He moved his body a little to see if the clothes would affect his movements: "I can't say it so bluntly, but I have to say something to make the show more effective.

Don’t people in Japan like to make harsh remarks before a Go match? Go is not as direct and intense as other sports. If there is no hint of tension, it will be hard to stir up the audience’s emotions.”

Without the show effect, it would be difficult for a sport like Go to go viral and attract other people's attention.

Even an intense sport like boxing, where punches hit flesh, can give the audience the ultimate visual enjoyment. Before the game, both players need to provoke each other with words and actions to stir up the audience's emotions, not to mention Go.

After all, most people can't sit down and watch two grown men play chess for six hours. Even if they can understand it, they at least need some motivation to support themselves.

At this time, the "contradiction" between the two sides is very important. Whether the arrogant genius continues to be arrogant, or the one who was slapped in the face makes a comeback, these are the plots that the audience wants to see.

The same goes for commentary. Not many people watch the real Go commentary. Everyone just thinks that what this guy says is really boring. You say there is no big problem when Ai has such a big fluctuation and it is simply impossible for humans to play it.

What everyone likes to watch is the commentary while the audience follows the AI's winning rate and makes a fuss about how incredible this move is, how outrageous that move is, and then tells gossip and jokes.

There is no father and son on the field, and no bragging off the field. This is a good competition atmosphere.

It's a pity that this kind of competition atmosphere can never be restored. As long as more and more people start paying attention, it is inevitable that more and more people will succeed.

Basically, the larger the audience base of a sport, the more foul the atmosphere.

The most outrageous thing is that many netizens analyze every word and action of the chess players step by step, and use a joke made by others to cyberbully others.

It is even possible to change a comment section from vaguely remembering someone saying it to someone saying it, to someone insulting someone, and then make up words that the other person never said.

In the end, everyone was so scared that they dared not speak. They were all lamenting how the atmosphere in the Go circle had become like this. It used to be so good, but now it’s boring.

(End of this chapter)