Dragon, choose cultural victory to make money

Chapter 27 Yo-Yo Contest

Ben tried to take a deep breath to ease the tension, but his heart was still pounding and the hand holding the yo-yo couldn't stop shaking.

Hundreds of contestants like him were waiting in the square, of different ages, races, and backgrounds, anxiously waiting for the judges.

When he signed up, he thought it was just an entertaining competition. A yo-yo is just a toy, so how big a deal can it be?

However, when we arrived at the scene, we found that there were thousands of audition contestants, including people who had come from other places to participate. All major newspapers in the city were present and followed the whole process to report.

It is said that the main competition will be held at the Twin Cities Arena, which can accommodate 50,000 spectators!

For this competition, Drogo's Toy Store has launched a commemorative yo-yo for the competition, and the proceeds from this yo-yo will be equally shared among all the players who enter the main competition.

If you can get a ranking, you can get rewards ranging from co-branded accessories, exclusive illusions, to co-branded balls according to your ranking, and you can also enjoy revenue sharing. The first place can even get a long-term contract with Drogo's Toy Store.

In other words, playing with toys can become a job and even earn a considerable amount of money.

The audience didn’t just watch the competition, there were raffles between each contestant’s performance.

You can also use the magic device on your seat to vote whether you like the current contestant's performance, which will be counted towards the total score, accounting for 10% of the score.

How on earth did the owner of Drogo's Toy Store come up with these weird measures?
No one had ever thought of holding a competition like this before!
"let's start."

The judges came up with scoreboards in hand.

Ben knew him. He was a well-known yo-yo master in the Riverside District. He was invited to participate in the main competition of this yo-yo competition and serve as a judge in the audition stage.

The rules of the audition are very simple. You have one minute to freely choose a trick and the judges will score you. Those with a score of over 80 will advance directly to the main competition, while those with a score below 60 will be eliminated. There is a waiting area in the middle, and your advancement will be determined based on your ranking after the audition.

If there is a tie, they will be compared based on the weights of the sub-scores.

Ben had secretly glanced at the small score sheet, which included difficulty, success rate, richness, originality, range of motion, and even fluency and choreography artistry, which was so detailed that it was beyond imagination.

Even each contestant's performance will be recorded by video, which can be used for review in case of disputes over scores.

The rules are more rigorous than those of many competitions that have been held for many years.

It’s just that the cameraman was a bit scary. He was tall and thin, wrapped in a leather jacket with only his head showing, but that head was a camera!
Ben slapped his face to sober himself up.

Ever since the ball was confiscated, he has been practicing secretly, but he dared not delay his studies, so he tried every way to squeeze out time every day.

In fact, he didn't expect to get a very high ranking. After seeing how the top players played, he realized that he was not even half as good as them.

He participated in the one-handed online fancy, which is also the most common way of playing. In addition, there is the two-handed spinning fancy.

The comics already have a way of playing without the rope on the hands, which is called the off-hand style, but there are too few people who can do it now, so there is not enough of a competition category.

There are many people doing one-handed online fancy moves and the competition is fierce.

It would be great if we could get into the finals.

He wanted to prove to his father that he was not obsessed with playing, that it would not affect his studies, and that he could make money from the yo-yo.

Release the ball, connect the line, and the moves come out one after another. When your attention is fully focused, the tension will naturally disappear.

The ball and the line seem to be an extension of the fingers, the movements are becoming more and more smooth. It is not difficult, so he must maintain the success rate.

"4, 3, 2, 1, time is up." The judge stopped the stopwatch.

Ben collected the ball at super speed, like sheathing a knife, at just the right time.

The judges wrote and drew on the scoreboard.

The rustling sound of paper and pen making each other rub against each other made Ben nervous again. He swallowed and was a little afraid to face the result.

"80.2 points, congratulations on advancing."

"Haha!" Ben jumped three feet high and ran out of the arena, "Uncle, I did it! I advanced!"

"I knew you could do it. You're so smart." Karaman cheered with his nephew.

Of course I didn't come here by myself. Even in the most developed city on the mainland, the public security is not trustworthy.

"Here," Karaman took out two strings of red things from his back. They were candied strawberries. "I found a new snack at the stall over there. It seems to be called Tanghulu."

"Thank you, uncle." Ben took the candied haws. His mother usually didn't let him eat sweets.

Take a gentle bite and the sugar shell breaks apart, bringing with it a caramel aroma but without the bitterness of burnt sugar. Then the strawberry juice flows out, refreshing, sweet and refreshing.

"Where are we going at noon, Uncle?"

no respond.

"Uncle Karaman?" Ben noticed that his uncle was staring at one direction, not knowing what he was looking for. Suddenly, he handed the candied haws to his nephew and said, "This one is for you too."

"Eating too much sweets can cause tooth decay."

"Wait for me in the restaurant over there. I have reserved a seat. Uncle has something urgent to do."

After saying that, he picked up the bag and ran away.

Karaman came to the yo-yo competition not only to accompany his nephew, but also to have an important mission, which was to meet Elsa.

The few times I went to Drogo's Toy Store to look for her, no one was there, so I had to wait at the competition site. She was a judge in the main competition.

After waiting for a long time, he finally got what he wanted.

"Miss Stone, Miss Stone!"

Elsa looked in the direction of the voice and saw a person running towards her with a small bag.

The orc next to him immediately drew out his battle axe.

"It's okay, I know him." Elsa quickly called out to the orc. She recognized that he was the younger brother of the Arkwright family. Business competition was not enough to get someone killed by an axe.

"Ms. Stone," Karaman ran up to her, leaned over and gasped, "I have a toy design and would like to cooperate with Drogo's Toy Store."

"Oh?"

A few minutes later, Elsa brought Karaman to the box where Drogo was eating candied haws.

"Tell me about your toy designs."

Karaman took out a spinning top from his bag. "I got the inspiration from the yo-yo. I made this spinning top. It can create illusions when it spins."

He placed the top on the ground and whipped it, and as it spun, an illusion of an owlbear appeared.

"As the gyroscope's speed decreases, the illusion will have different manifestations. I designed several gyroscope shapes to make the collision between them more intense, so that gyroscopes can fight each other..."

Karaman talked a lot.

"So what you need is?"

"I want to work with Drogo's Toy Store. Arkwright's Toy Store can't mass-produce this spinning top."

"Oh? Your brother agrees to cooperate with us?"

"I disagree, but this is my design. I like toys and have liked them since I was a child. I want more people to play with my design. It doesn't matter who makes it."

Karaman's expression was sincere.

There is no lack of this kind of pure passion in every industry, but precisely because it is too pure, it is always hurt.

"In that case, let's talk about the details. Have you ever thought about the dangers of a whip? It's not suitable for children."

"Have you ever tried to open a bayonet on the top of the gyroscope, and use a gear structure to make a special launcher, with the chain driving the gear to rotate until the bayonet pops open and the gyroscope is released?"

"What if the tops don't collide during a battle? Do we need a special venue, such as a concave basin, so that they will definitely gather towards the center?"

"Have you ever thought about making the gyroscope modular? Divide the gyroscope into many layers and assemble them freely. The player can choose what shape is suitable for collision."

……

Elsa spoke a lot of Drogo's advice.

Karaman was sweating profusely after hearing this, and asked weakly: "Is this kind of gyroscope designed a long time ago?"

"No, no, no, you are the designer of this spinning top, Karaman Arkwright, there is no doubt about it. I am just offering some suggestions. Take it as my sincerity. Happy cooperation."

Karaman felt dizzy when he opened the box.

"You actually planned this a long time ago, right?" Aisha asked Drogo.

"It doesn't matter. The prosperity of culture is not the victory of one man and one dragon. Besides, we have something to gain from cooperation, right?"

Drogo replied that he needed more and more talented people to emerge.

If he were to make every toy, not to mention how troublesome it would be, it would also be too unethical to spend more than ten chapters every time.

"Look," he looked into the arena, "the trailer is about to start. How does it feel to create a new kind of art with your own hands?"

(End of this chapter)