Chapter 153: All wins and promotion!

"I-I give up!"

"Thanks for the advice!"

October 7, 5 pm.

As his opponent admitted defeat decisively, Rui Zhao also ended his tenth round of the qualifying tournament.

She breathed a sigh of relief after the game: after her tenth win, she was finally only two wins away from her long-cherished goal.

In the last five games, we only need to win two more.

Such a tolerance rate further reduced Rui Zhao's pressure.

In fact, with continuous victories, Rui Zhao's entire competitive state has been constantly recovering, and now it is almost the same as usual.

At the beginning, she had to play close to the endgame to force her opponent to surrender, but in the last two games, she was able to gain a clear advantage in the middle game and even defeated her opponent!

Although the moves are still a bit tight, it is much better than the beginning when I had to frantically tell myself "I have a system" to play chess.

In addition, Rui Zhao had not opened the system in this qualifying tournament, which made her feel relieved.

She felt guilty about having to rely on external forces when playing chess with others.

Although he is ready to use the system at any time, it would be best for Rui Zhao if he could not use it at all.

And now, the system has finally completed its historical mission.

Rui Zhao also thoughtfully thought of a good place for the system that had made great contributions:
You are already a mature system, it’s time to learn to collect dust in your own little corner!
...

After calling the referee to register, Rui Zhao walked steadily and naturally towards the team leader's rest area to report the good news to Yu Qingguang.

After listening to his students' words, Yu Qingguang smiled and nodded repeatedly:
"Of course! It looks like our dojo is going to have a top-notch undefeated champion!

"Oh yeah! One more thing!

“That girl named Ai just sent me a WeChat message. After knowing your nine-game winning streak, she plans to come over in a few days to film your graduation ceremony!

"If it's convenient, you can have a brief chat with her during your break tomorrow!"

"what……"

Hearing this, Rui Zhao began to look conflicted.

When she first decided to do live streaming, her only idea was to gain more fans so that the system could work and help her get promoted.

Of course, in the end the system worked—even if the way it was used seemed a little wrong, it did work.

But once the qualifying tournament was over, live streaming naturally became a huge burden on his journey to learn Go.

In the past two months, Rui Zhao has experienced the trouble of doing live broadcasts.

Not to mention all the messy preparations, just talking about the live broadcast in Dongjiang last week, it took at least more than three hours just for the journey back and forth and signing autographs for fans!

If this continues, how can I catch up with those geniuses?

So according to Rui Zhao's original plan, after being promoted to the professional level, he would gradually withdraw from the live broadcast work and focus all his energy on Go.

But from her performance in recent times, it is obvious that Ai Jianan has invested a lot of effort in her, training her as the pillar of the agency studio and always serving her at her beck and call.

Although Rui Zhao had taken this situation into consideration to a certain extent and directly set the profit sharing ratio at 50-50 when signing the agency agreement (generally the agency or agent only takes 30%), he felt very guilty when he thought about how much effort Ai Jianan had put into making his live broadcast possible.

Uh...

Either I don’t want any of the previous live broadcast income, and give it all to Sister An An as an apology.

If it doesn't work, I'll give Sister An An some compensation after I earn game fees and prize money from professional competitions...

Although she'd probably still be mad at me.

But! What can I do?

I just want to get a good rank and play Go well...

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"Hey, hey, stop talking nonsense! How could Xiao Zhao abandon me?
"I am Xiao Zhao's best friend!"

At the same time, in a small office in the Southern Times Square office building in Dongjiang City.

This time Rui Zhao did not agree to let Ai Jianan go to Gezhou to shoot the live broadcast and vlog of the qualifying tournament, so Ai Jianan had to broadcast casually on his account [Weiqi Xiaozhao] on Dongjiang to maintain some popularity. As a result, many fans were posting "The anchor doesn't want an assistant sister anymore" after knowing the situation. So Ai Jianan is loudly refuting these nonsense.

It is now July, and Ai Jianan has successfully graduated from Dongjiang University of Communication and officially started his entrepreneurial career.

Although Ai Jianan is the only one in her studio now, there is only one anchor, [Go Xiaozhao], so she is enough for the time being.

Yes, ever since he met Rui Zhao, Ai Jianan has been concentrating on the live broadcast of [Go Xiaozhao] and has not been in a hurry to find a new anchor at all.

In her opinion, she is not short of money for the time being, so she naturally has to take a long-term view.

Instead of recruiting some anchors who have no innate qualifications when they are unknown, it is better to first put up the sign of "Go Xiaozhao" and then slowly attract potential anchors.

Now, the live broadcast work of [Weiqi Xiaozhao] has gradually entered the right track, and now has nearly 200,000 fans. Ruizhao has also gradually become familiar with live broadcasting.

Ai Jianan thought to himself: Even though my live broadcast cannot compete with Go, the queen's favor, it has brought Rui Zhao great fame in the past two months.

We don't ask for anything else, but at least we have secured the position of the second wife, right?

Just then, Ai Jianan received a WeChat message from Rui Zhao.

[Xiao Zhao]: Sure, Sister An An, please come over on the 9th when you are awarded the title!

[Xiao Zhao]: That's just right. I also want to talk to you about something after the game. Ai Jianan was immediately overjoyed.

She was originally worried that this Go idiot would only focus on playing chess and not let her pass. In this case, she would have to consider whether to act first and ask for permission later.

But now... the position of the second wife is indeed secure!

She immediately showed the chat content in front of the camera and said proudly:

"Did you see that, my friends? My Xiao Zhao has me in his heart!"

At the same time, Ai Jianan also began to seriously consider how to further expand his influence after Rui Zhao had the identity of a "professional player" which would improve the quality of his live broadcasts...

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Friday, January 7th.

After a day's rest, the last five rounds of the youth men's and women's competition officially started.

Generally speaking, the qualified players will only appear in the last two days of the qualifying tournament.

Although there are always outstanding players in the qualifying tournament every year, it is not easy to maintain a 90% winning rate in a Go game where "one wrong move can lead to a complete loss of the whole game."

Therefore, in most years, a team that can have a record of ten wins and one loss in the first eleven rounds is already a strong contender for the top spot in the qualifying tournament. In some years, the best team has already lost two games at this time.

If one wants to go through the first eleven rounds without losing a single one, then there is no doubt that one must have strength that is significantly beyond the level of the qualifying tournament - this is very rare in the Go world that advocates "the earlier you qualify, the better".

The last time a player won all the games in the Chinese Go ranking tournament was Lei Qi in 2017.

At that time, little Lei Qi, who was less than twelve years old, had not grown up at all. He was just a cute little boy with tender skin. He looked like a pretty boy who would be very popular with girls in the future.

There was even a female contestant who secretly went up and poked him in the face, but he didn't get angry. He just looked at her with a slightly strange look, which made the female contestant feel guilty and she quickly apologized.

But when the real competition came, this kid who was chased by the female chess players and called "little shota" played with great ease.

No matter whether his opponent was old or young, Lei Qi defeated them one by one with a calm face. In the end, he was promoted to the professional league two rounds ahead of schedule with a record of ten consecutive wins (there were only twelve rounds in the professional league at that time), and became the youngest professional league champion in the history of the professional league.

And after a lapse of six years, it is very likely that another undefeated No. 1 player will be born this year!

That afternoon, the attention of the tournament organizing committee and on-site media had already been focused on the women's table No. 65.

Because one of the parties in this game is Rui Zhao, who had not lost in the previous eleven rounds.

If he wins, he will become another new first-dan player who has won all the games and is promoted to the dan level in advance, following Lei Qi in 2017!
Moreover, this player, who is likely to be promoted to the professional professional league with a perfect record, is also a popular and talked-about Go anchor: [Go Xiaozhao]!
After this news came out, it quickly attracted major media outlets, and even Zhejiang-Hangzhou TV sent a special reporting team to come - normally, the reporting team would have come on the last day of the qualifying tournament.

Both players started the game very smoothly, but after entering the middle game, Rui Zhao, through obviously better experience and judgment, continued to expand his lead based on his own moves.

By the second half of the middle game, the opponent felt that he was losing the game, so he forced himself to make unreasonable moves in an attempt to save the situation.

However, Rui Zhao did not give the opponent any chance and simply simplified the situation through minor losses.

By the 192th move, there was nothing left to stir up, and the opponent had no choice but to admit defeat:

"I lost."

This sentence is simple and ordinary.

But after hearing these words, Rui Zhao, who had basically overcome his psychological barriers, suddenly had a strange sense of unreality.

She even thought for a moment that she was dreaming, until the referee who came to register congratulated her, and she finally came back to her senses.

I... passed the qualifying tournament?
I... was promoted? ! ! !
After realizing this, Rui Zhao suddenly lost control of his body and fell to the ground. Then, pearl-like tears flowed out like spring water, and he cried loudly.

This unexpected movement confused the organizing committee and the reporters waiting in the media area.

Although there have been some players who cried tears of joy after successfully qualifying for the professional league, most of them had waited for several years to finally achieve their wish, or the qualifying process was quite bumpy.

Why are you crying so hard, you are a proud kid who got promoted to the professional league with a perfect record in your first participation?

But at this time Rui Zhao didn't care and just kept crying, and even tried to get up from the ground several times but failed.

As a last resort, the organizing committee had to arrange for staff to work with Yu Qingguang to pull Rui Zhao up and help him out of the stadium.

Just like that: the girl who had been helped away from the competition field crying many times in her previous life, finally followed the same path again after traveling to Blue Star.

But this time her tears were filled with different emotions.

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[Yu Guang]: Lao Lei! Your student has been promoted to the dan position! All twelve rounds of victory!
[Yu Guang]: She just cried her heart out after winning the last set, which was a bit embarrassing… If you didn’t know her, you would think she had been trying for seven or eight years!
At the same time, at the front desk of Tongge Hotel.

Lei Jingming, who was checking in at a hotel with his wife and children, saw the message from his friend and couldn't help but clench his fists and wave his arms in joy.

Lei Qi, who was standing by, saw his father's strange movements and expression. Just as he was about to ask, he heard a group of media reporters who were also checking in suddenly make a noise. They put down their luggage and ran into the hotel:

“Quick, quick!

"The first person who has won all the games and has been promoted to the rank of Dan has appeared at the stadium. Go and report first! We'll do it after you check in..."

Lei Qi was stunned for a moment, then reacted:

By the way, the Dan ranking tournament is still being held here!

Didn’t Teacher Shang also say that after the Chess Saint Tournament, we would find a new beginner to play a game with us and give us guidance?
It sounds like... this year, there is another undefeated team!

After myself, it seems that this is the first undefeated No. 1 pick?
What if you run into this problem while giving instructions on how to play chess?

Lei Qi sighed slightly in his heart, then put aside this little thought that had just come to his mind and concentrated on the last chess battle the day after tomorrow.

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