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

Chapter 399: Killing an egg against a stone
"Well, these Chinese people are really cunning!

"If I had known this would happen, Youen, you should have not participated in the preliminaries!"

On March 3, at 15: p.m., one and a half hours after the first round of the fan-air battle began.

Park Moon-mi, who was watching the game with Kim Woo-eun in the room, saw the situation of the first round and complained unconvincedly.

In this air battle, China got a wild card, while South Korea did not get any additional spots.

Even though Zheng Caixi, who had won the Women's World Championship once, failed in the qualifying round, the Japanese Chess Institute had no intention of using wild cards - the last wild card was given directly to a Russian player.

Therefore, in the first round, the only South Korean player to appear was An Huilin, while the Chinese players were Rui Zhao and Yang Manjing.

However, Jin Youen frowned when he heard what his teammates said:
"Wenmei... I'm the champion of the previous competition, so I took up the spot directly!"

"Ah..." Park Wenmei finally reacted.

Kim Woo-eun added:
“And, to be honest.

"Even if I'm not the champion, as long as I miss the preliminaries, the Japanese will probably be hoping that I won't participate!"

"what?"

Park Wenmei was startled:
"But you are undoubtedly the best woman in the world! Rui Zhao and the others have all won!"

"Of course Rui Zhao and the others have to save them!
"For a niche sport like Go, the first place in women's competition is definitely not as important as a star player like Rui Zhao!"

The Ice Queen explained:

"As soon as I stopped participating in the competition, Japan's chances of achieving good results or even winning the championship increased greatly, but my commercial value was not very high, so they had no reason to bring me in at all.

"And even for Rui Zhao, the Dongying Chess Academy just said that they would drag her to participate in the competition no matter what, and didn't take care of her in other aspects.

"Otherwise, with her strength, she wouldn't even be able to get out of the first round!"

"Uh……

"This, this is quite..."

Although she felt somewhat unwilling to accept it, Park Wenmei had to admit: she had already been put in the seed, and Rui Zhao was still in the first round, which was really not caring at all.

Like the Wu Yue Cup, because the number of 24 participants is not a power of 2, eight seeded players will also have byes in the first round of the Fan Kong Battle.

However, unlike the Wu Yue Cup's seed allocation method which mainly considers historical performance, although the Dongying Chess Institute has always said that it "mainly considers performance" when selecting seeds, in actual practice it has always mainly considered nationality.

In recent years, the eight seeds distribution of the fan-air battle has always maintained the configuration of "4 Japanese, 2 Korean, 2 Chinese", and has never changed - even though the overall strength of Chinese and South Korean female chess players has actually always been stronger than that of Japan.

This year is no exception, the eight seeds are:

South Korea: Kim Woo-eun, Park Moon-mi
China: Liu Yuhong, Zou Yang

Japan: Aoi Natsukawa, Haruna Akakura, Asa Sanada, Rei Uesaka
——Yes, this allocation of quotas is so unreasonable.

Although among these eight seeds, a certain live broadcast queen had defeated four of them in the Lakeside Cup, and even Park Moon-mi was defeated twice!
But considering the past results and current strength which are slightly inferior to the two Chinese women's teams, Queen Zhaotian was still arranged to start from the first round.

What's more, the Japanese side naturally hopes that this "silly beauty" and "future number one woman" who has attracted much attention from the domestic media can play one more round!

"But... it's just right to let one more person in..."

Compared to Park Moon-mi, Kim Woo-eun himself seemed to have no objection to having one more Chinese player enter the fan-air battle competition.

“What I said after the Lakeside Cup…

"I'm not kidding!"

After saying this, the Ice Queen narrowed her eyes slightly, and a strong fighting spirit arose spontaneously.

...

...

"Vice Chairman Lu...

"Should we... play idiom chain game?" At the same time, in a corner of the Dongying Chess Academy, [Go Xiaozhao]'s temporary live broadcast room.

Hearing the introverted Hua Ran's stiff request to continue the game, Lu Wenjie, who was serving as the guest commentator, was a little speechless.

“That…Xiaohua.

"People usually just say that, they don't really mean to play the game..."

However, Hua Ran had her reasons for making such a request.

The two are currently broadcasting a live broadcast of the match between Rui Zhao, playing black, and Japanese player Sakurai Miko, which has now reached the 73rd move.

Rui Zhao, who played black, now had a winning rate of over 99% - it was already a "dragon among dragons" situation.

Hua Ran, who was rejected by Lu Wenjie, looked at the board and said helplessly:
"But...but if we don't play the game of solitaire...there's nothing much to say about this game of chess...

"Sakurai Miko was already at a disadvantage in the lower left position, and the position of the 52nd move was not good.

“Now we are forcing a robbery again, and we haven’t handled it properly yet, so our winning rate is less than 1%.

"Given Sister Rui Zhao's stability, we can't lose this game..."

"Well, then... let's go commentate on Yang Manjing's game!"

Lu Wenjie glanced at his phone and replied briefly:

"Although she has the advantage now, her opponent is still hiding. He didn't die so terribly, so she can still talk..."

"Ok!"

Hua Ran nodded and was about to change the channel when he suddenly remembered something:
"But, but Vice Chairman Lu...

"I'm Sister Rui Zhao's live broadcast assistant. Is it appropriate for me to broadcast Little Witch?"

“Uh…I think so.

"With Rui Zhao's style, she won't care."

"But I'm in the Little Witch fan group... No, I'm lurking in the Little Witch fan group, and I feel that the Little Witch is quite hostile to Sister Rui Zhao!"

"…It's okay. This is not a matter of principle."

Lu Wenjie was a little speechless, thinking that it was a good thing that this girl worked for Rui Zhao. If it were a smaller-minded employer, Hua Ran would probably be fired sooner or later.

"Okay, okay!"

Seeing that he didn't have to awkwardly continue to force himself to commentate on this match that had already lost its suspense, Hua Ran happily began to tune into Yang Manjing's match.

But during the channel change, Hua Ran seemed to suddenly remember something and said in confusion:
“But… Vice Chairman Lu, I really don’t understand.

"Why did Sakurai Miko insist on starting a war with Rui Zhaojie? Isn't Rui Zhaojie famous for her great strength?

"And everyone has seen the final result. It really feels like hitting a rock with an egg..."

"Uh……"

Hua Ran's question stumped Lu Wenjie. He hesitated for a while before answering:
“I can only say that compared to the Lakeside Cup where Akakura Haruna was controlled and killed by Rui Zhao in one game, everyone still hopes to try their best. After all, a chaotic battle is more likely to lead to accidents.

"Since his strength is obviously inferior to Rui Zhao, Sakurai has to choose one of the two bottles of poisoned wine in front of him!"

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In the afternoon of the same day, the first round of the 2024 Fan Air War ended.

In a highly anticipated match, after three hours and 137 moves, Chinese th dan chess player Rui Zhao easily defeated rd dan Sakurai Miko with a huge advantage of points on the board, getting off to a good start.

(End of this chapter)