Go: The live broadcast queen launched a gorgeous rebellion against the dog

Chapter 116 Wild Card
“No…what’s wrong with this little witch?!

"How come you didn't even make it to the round-robin trials?!"

March 6, 10 p.m.

Dajing City, Chinese Go Association.

Shang Chaotian, who was working overtime again today, looked a little unhappy when he saw the results of the Chinese mainland qualifying competition just submitted by the "Wu Yue Cup" organizing committee.

The "Wu Yue Cup" is an annual women's world championship competition, and a total of 24 people will participate in this stage of the competition.

Last year's champion, South Korean player Kim Youen, and runner-up Chinese player Zou Yang, directly entered this stage of the competition. The remaining 22 places are allocated to seven people from mainland China, five people from Japan, five people from South Korea, one person from Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, one person from Europe, and one person from North America. There are also two wild cards designated by the organizing committee.

Everything else is simple and clear, so let’s focus on the two wild cards.

According to past experience, one card is given to China and one card is given to other regions: this way everyone can accept it.

Everyone knows what wild cards are. They are there to make it easier for the organizing committee to insert the people they want - but they can't be too blatant.

If a person with connections who cannot convince the public is allowed to attend the event, the credibility of the event will be ruined.

Therefore, the general principle for selecting wildcard candidates is basically to "pick up the lost pearls": if a player who is generally recognized as having more strength fails to make it out of the qualifiers due to some accidents, the wildcard will be used to help.

However... this time Shang Chaotian actually had his own little plan.

He intends to use a wild card to directly bring Rui Zhao into the "Wu Yue Cup" competition!
This is not only a thank you to Rui Zhao for successfully blocking Bai Yinhua in the "Urban Cup", but also a positive feedback to Qian Sitao for his long-term support for the development of Go and Rui Guoquan for his key recognition in the sponsorship of this Go League.

Normally, Rui Zhao has not yet been promoted to a professional player, so he cannot participate in this year's "Wu Yue Cup".

But the existence of wild cards is itself a kind of "final right of interpretation". As long as it is not too outrageous, outsiders have to accept it.

This year's "Wu Yue Cup" held qualifiers in each region in June, and the list of all participants (including wild cards) was announced a week before the final tournament, which was about mid-July. The final tournament officially started on July 7 to determine the top four. The final semi-finals and three-game finals will be held at the end of the year.

According to this schedule, Rui Zhao will be able to complete his qualification before the list of players for this tournament is announced, giving Shang Chaotian enough time to react.

Of course, allowing a new first-dan player who has been promoted for less than ten days to enter the tournament directly with a wild card will definitely cause considerable controversy.

However, Shang Chaotian had given this operation sufficient thought, and felt that there were sufficient reasons for letting Rui Zhao take the wild card.

First of all, Rui Zhao is strong enough.

Rui Zhao's current level is just about enough to make it to the second tier of domestic women. Even if she really makes it to the qualifiers, it wouldn't be surprising if she qualified in the end.

Not to mention that she also has a record of defeating former domestic male professional stalwarts in their prime in a head-on match - any defeated female chess player who is not convinced can try it.

Secondly, Rui Zhao has enough fame, attention and influence.

After the "Urban Cup", [Yizhao Qiyi] is well-known in the circle, and [Weiqi Xiaozhao] is also the second anchor in the Go circle after [Lin Qishi Tebie Nenggou] (although the number of fans between the two is a bit different now).

What's more, Rui Zhao is an absolute beauty, naturally eye-catching - this is also a very important point in commercial competitions.

Therefore, letting Rui Zhao in may cause some controversy, but if you think about it carefully, it is hard to find any major problems.

But Shang Chaotian never expected that the little witch would fail in the preliminaries!

This put him in a difficult position.

This time, Zou Yang entered the main competition of the "Wu Yue Cup". Among the remaining players, almost four had accidents and had to be picked up with wild cards - and Yang Manjing was one of them.

When Yang Manjing gets into trouble, Shang Chaotian will definitely give priority to saving her!
There is no way. Although it is controversial whether the little witch can be considered among the top five Chinese women in terms of strength, it is still enough to slightly suppress Rui Zhao.

In last year's Three Kingdoms Go Women's Tournament, the little witch was chosen as the vanguard.

Moreover, due to his young age and extremely rapid improvement in performance, he is very popular and has quite a lot of "daddy fans" and "mom fans". It is no exaggeration to say that he is the most popular mid- and low-level player in the Chinese Go community!

If they use the wild card to promote Rui Zhao but not Yang Manjing, I'm afraid the fight will go straight to the sky!
Shang Chaotian was so worried that he kept scratching his head. In desperation, he called his deputy.

After all, it was Lu Wenjie who made this suggestion to him in the first place, and he, as the chairman, just made the final decision after thinking about it.

"Hey, Wen Jie, have you seen the qualifying list for the Wu Yue Cup?
"...Well, that's what I'm worrying about!

"Yes! We had good ideas before! But it was all in vain!
"Hey, my idea is, can we be thick-skinned this time and give both wild cards to ourselves?

"Uh... it seems a bit too shameless...

"Okay! Let me think about it!"

After finishing the call, Shang Chaotian sighed helplessly.

Although he knew that it was more appropriate to use this wild card to rescue the little witch.

But when he thought about how Rui Zhao almost risked his life to stop Bai Yinhua, and his thank you was not worth anything, Shang Chaotian felt quite guilty.

Not to mention, almost everyone who has come into contact with Rui Zhao thinks that he is definitely a talented person with great potential.

Just when Shang Chaotian was struggling, a notification from Bilibili suddenly popped up on his phone.

From Station B?
Shang Chaotian was stunned, then quickly opened it.

He had never used the B station software. The reason he downloaded it before was just to follow a host.

In that case... As expected, after unlocking his phone, Shang Chaotian saw the dynamics from [Weiqi Xiaozhao]:
“[Go Xiao Zhao]: Hello everyone! Tonight (June 6) at 10:, I will play a game of online chess with “Little Witch” Yang Manjing on the Yiguo platform. My assistant An An will be giving a live commentary. Everyone is welcome to watch!”

Ok? !

Shang Chaotian was a little dumbfounded for a moment.

I was arguing about the two of you, and then...

Why are you two getting up?!
...

...

"Hello, hello! Sister An An, can you hear me?"

"I can hear you!"

At 6:10 pm on June th.

According to Ai Jianan's request, Rui Zhao connected the voice call on time.

In view of the numerous various and strange live broadcast accidents that had occurred before, Ai Jianan was fully prepared this time.

The first thing was to pull his own pillar into the voice chat to ensure that the message could be conveyed in time when necessary - after all, Rui Zhao's mobile phone must be silent when he is playing chess, so pointing to the phone or WeChat for reminders is pure wishful thinking.

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, and when he really needs to pass the message, he can unblock it at any time and pass the message.

After confirming that the voice was correct, Ai Jianan logged into Yiguo again. This time she logged in smoothly, which made her breathe a sigh of relief.

That’s right, after a week of unremitting appeals, the official Yiguo finally unblocked the account [简乱安民] yesterday.

However, Ai Jianan didn't know that her account was unblocked thanks to Shang Chaotian and Lei Jingming's decision to confess the situation to Lei Qi immediately after the Chess Saint War. Otherwise, her account would have been blocked for an unknown period of time.

"Okay, Xiao Zhao, log in first. After you log in, I'll add you as my friend and then start the live broadcast!
"Hey, but I haven't had time to ask you something: Isn't your account nickname [You Feng Lai Yi]? How come it became [Yi Zhao Qi Yi]?"

The girl on the other side said in an awkward voice:
“This is a long story…

“To put it simply, I borrowed the account [You Feng Lai Yi] from someone else and later returned it.

"Ah! Also, Sister An An, please don't tell anyone that I used the account [You Feng Lai Yi]. The person who lent the account said it was inconvenient to let others know that I used this account."

"Ah, okay."

Ai Jianan responded naturally.

She seldom went to Yiguo now, and knew very little about some of the things that happened in Yiguo. She only knew about Yi Zhaoqiyi after Rui Zhao's acceptance speech.

As for the fact that [You Feng Lai Yi] had ever played chess with [Dao Tu Jian Qi] by giving him a handicap, he had no idea about it at all.

But since he had brought up the off-topic topic, Ai Jianan suddenly remembered something and continued to ask:

"Also...are you really not going to replay the game between you and Bai Yinhua live?

"It can be said that everyone in the Go community wants to know the details of this game, but the Go Association said that the records were damaged and are being restored, and you refused to review the game, which has led to rumors that there must be some shady manipulation!
"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 you Tulong defeated the opponent, I'm afraid the Chess Association would not be able to suppress public opinion!"

Rui Zhao's voice became panicked again:
"Sister An-An! I really forgot about that game of chess. It's not that I don't want to review it!
“I guess I’m too nervous…haha, haha…”

Hearing the fake smile from his own pillar, Ai Jianan knew that he would not be able to ask anything.

Although she didn't know why Rui Zhao had been unwilling to reveal the specific details of the game of chess, she naturally didn't believe that Rui Zhao would do anything fishy.

After all, he is just a pure Go player!
At this moment, Rui Zhao seemed to want to quickly change the topic away from the chess game, and said in a stiff tone:
"Ah! I'm logged into Yiguo... Sister An An, let's not talk about anything else, let's quickly start the live broadcast... Eh?

"Sister An An, how come [Little Hermione] has already invited me when I just came online?"

"what?"

Ai Jianan was stunned:
"Is it that urgent?!

"I haven't even had time to add you as my friend!"

【Let’s talk about the plot first】

These two chapters are still laying out some of the settings for the second volume, and you should be able to see that. The plot progresses slowly, so please forgive me.

Next, I would like to ask for the opinions of all the big guys. Should this online chess game between the little witch and Xiao Zhao be described briefly or in two to three chapters?

I have chosen the score, but I am not sure whether I should write in detail about this kind of chess that is not particularly important (but it also has an impact on the development of the plot). Can the big guys give me some advice...

[Re-stack armor]

Yesterday I saw some experts guessing the characters again. I need to emphasize again that all the characters in this article have no prototypes and are not meant to refer to any real people.

However, because this is a realistic novel, I need to extract some elements from real people and add them into the novel to ensure that it is dramatic and realistic. So if you pay more attention, you will inevitably feel that some of the characters in the novel have some shadows of real people, and even find some "stitched" things.

However, this is just a slight reference to real-life elements and has no intention of alluding to real-life characters. I emphasize this again.

To put it simply, the big guys can guess whatever they want, but I have no answer.

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(End of this chapter)