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

Chapter 398: The Fan Air Battle Begins

"Hello, um, Sister Rui Zhao!"

3:14 am, March , Dongjiang City, Jiangdong International Airport.

When Rui Zhao arrived at the terminal and prepared to fly to Japan to participate in the competition, Hua Ran, the new assistant that Ai Jianan had found for her, was already waiting at the airport and greeted her stiffly at the first opportunity.

But Rui Zhao, who was addressed as "Sister Rui Zhao" by the other party, was also a little uncomfortable:

"Ah... Ran, Ran Ran, hello!

"You, you can just call me Rui Zhao. I'm not used to being called 'Sister Rui Zhao'."

Although there was nothing wrong with the other party's calling, she was still more accustomed to Yang Manjing's way of addressing younger people by their first names.

Hua Ran was born in September 05, half a year younger than Rui Zhao. He is from Luhuai Province and was promoted to the dan rank one term earlier than Rui Zhao.

Since he was promoted to professional Go at an advanced age, his potential is limited. However, Hua Ranran continued to pursue professional Go because of his passion for it. He taught Go at a youth Go training institution in Dongjiang City and looked for opportunities to participate in various competitions.

However, teaching chess to young people is of no benefit to the chess skills of professional chess players, and may even make them worse at playing. Therefore, Hua Ran still hopes to be able to work in a job related to professional Go.

For this reason, when Hua Ranran saw a small live broadcast agency recruiting assistants and commentators for professional Go competitions, although the remuneration was not generous, he found that the work content was highly related to professional Go and went for the interview with the mentality of giving it a try.

However, when she later found out that the person interviewing her was "An An", the assistant of the "Live Broadcast Queen Zhao Tianhou", and that she was about to be selected to be Rui Zhao's new assistant, needless to say, she was very surprised.

In fact, in terms of appearance, Hua Ranran is quite different from Rui Zhao, and can't be compared with Ai Jianan either. She is the kind that people in the live broadcast circle can't even see.

But Hua Ran is introverted and simple, looks very clean and comfortable, and matches Rui Zhao's overall live broadcast style. So Ai Jianan chose Hua Ran without much hesitation.

After all, Miss Ai also knows: If she puts a scheming person next to her silly daughter, she can’t even imagine what will happen!

At this moment, although it was not the first time the two met, they were still very reserved. Ai Jianan, who was also present, couldn't help but sigh.

Although she came to the airport this time, she did not bring any luggage - Miss Ai came here just to see him off and had no intention of continuing to fly to Japan with Rui Zhao.

Sending you thousands of miles, you have to say goodbye in the end.

As for Rui Zhao, she could never be a nanny forever.

This time Rui Zhao is going to Japan to participate in the fan-air battle. Not only will Lu Wenjie go with him from Dajing as the head of the Chinese delegation, but he will also be accompanied by teammates from the Dongjiang team like Zou Yang who can take care of him. This is the best time to let go.

She immediately pulled Rui Zhao aside and gave him some gentle instructions:
"Xiao Zhao, don't be so reserved!
"Ran Ran is cooperating with you in the live broadcast. You have to be flexible in front of her! Otherwise, if both of you don't dare to communicate, how can you do a good live broadcast!"

Rui Zhao couldn't help but shrink his neck: "But I have always listened to you, Sister An An..."

"But I can't stay with you forever!"

Ai Jianan continued:
"Xiao Zhaomiao, as a broadcaster, you have to learn to control what you want to broadcast and what effect you want to achieve.

"I can give you as much advice as I can, but you'll eventually have to take on the responsibility of leading your own livestream. Do you understand?"

Ai Jianan cast his gaze on Rui Zhao, with a hint of encouragement and expectation.

The girl couldn't help but pursed her lips: She had long known that she could not always rely on Ai Jianan for the tasks assigned to her by Shang Chaotian.

Finally, Rui Zhao puffed up his lips slightly and said with determination:

"I know! I'll try my best!
“Although I may not be able to do it well right away, I believe that as long as I can slowly accumulate experience and work hard and seriously, I will get better and better!”

"There's no need to act like you're facing a formidable enemy!"

Seeing his main pillar so determined, Ai Jianan couldn't help but laugh.

"Xiao Zhao, listen to me.

“It’s really simple: just keep being yourself.

"Although there may be some setbacks and accidents along the way, you have to believe that this path is feasible - especially if you don't care about income. "After all, Go is a very pure thing!"

Rui Zhao blinked, thinking about something, but couldn't help asking:
"I, I really don't care about income, but this way, I won't be able to make money for you, Sister An An!"

"Hey, silly boy!"

Ai Jianan smiled and breathed a sigh of relief:
"You are much more important to me than money!"

...

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The next day, March 3th, Dongdu City, Japan.

The 7th Fan-Air Tournament was held as scheduled today at the Toyo Ki-in.

The full name of the Senku Battle is [SENKUU CUP World Women's Go Championship], where SENKUU is the Japanese romanization, corresponding to the "Senku" of the Japanese "Senku Co., Ltd.", so it is generally referred to as the "Senku Battle" in China.

The Fan-Air Battle is a new type of chess competition, which was born in 2018, just like the Wu Yue Cup.

However, unlike the Wu Yue Cup, which has been a standard 24-player world tournament since its inception, the Fan Air War in 2018 and 2019 was a small-scale single-elimination competition that only invited 8 players and ended after three consecutive days.

By 2020, the Japanese Chess Institute, which had already stopped hosting any unlimited world competitions, was no longer acceptable.

The men's results are too poor, and holding an unlimited competition is just to give money to China and South Korea. The women's side still needs to have a world competition to show off, so as not to be ridiculed every day for "keeping to themselves".

Taking this into consideration, the Toyo Chess Institute added some match fees and tournament hosting expenses, upgrading the original 8-player fan-air battle competition to a 24-player world championship.

As for the prize money, there is no need to increase it - the original prize money for the 8-person fan air battle is 1000 million Yingyuan, which is basically the same as the Wu Yue Cup's 50 yuan champion prize.

The competition system of Fan Air Battle is basically the same as that of Wuyue Cup, with three main differences:
First of all, it goes without saying that the rules used are Yinghan rules rather than Chinese rules.

Furthermore, compared to the Wu Yue Cup's fixed promotion route through a single draw, the Fan Kong Battle adopts a re-draw method after each round based on the "same country avoidance" principle.

Finally, unlike the Wu Yue Cup which is divided into two stages, the [main tournament] and the [finals], the Fan Air War will have all the matches completed within a week, and the final will not be a three-game match, but a one-game final to decide the winner.

Logically speaking, as a world-class competition, it seems a bit hasty to use a one-match final to decide the winner.

But this is naturally what Japan did on purpose.

Although in women's Go, the gap between the top Japanese players and those from China and South Korea is much smaller than that between the top Japanese players and those from China and South Korea, after Aoi Natsukawa gradually began to decline, it became increasingly difficult for Japanese female players to win games against the South Korean Ice Queen and the Chinese women's duo.

Therefore, it is better to let the final decide the outcome in one go, to increase the randomness and indirectly increase the possibility of winning the championship for chess players from one's own country.

It can only be said that fan-air warfare has been full of the Japanese people's subtle schemes since its inception.

...

Although the opening ceremony was grand, it did not last long.

After the ceremony, Japanese female chess player Sakurai Miko, 3rd dan, swallowed silently, and then walked towards the designated competition table with a little nervousness.

In her opinion, it was not satisfactory to draw the lot this time, but there was nothing she could do about it.

After all...her opponent in the first round had a very strong suppression power against the attackers, and even created an outrageous record in China of winning 16 consecutive games and being promoted to the sixth level after being promoted to the fifth level.

At this point, she could only hope that the "secret book" that her teacher had gotten for her before the competition would play a certain role...

Soon, she arrived at her own chess table.

On the other side, a dignified and bright girl was already sitting there, waiting for the upcoming first round of the fan-air battle.

(End of this chapter)