Chapter 90: Round 1 Opponent
Chapter 90 First Round Opponent
"Sister An An! I won again!"
May 5, 28: am, Yanbei Middle School, Dongjiang City.
Rui Zhao finished her sixth round of the rematch and ran towards Ai Jianan with a smile.
"Hey, do we still need to watch Xiao Zhao's game? He'll win again in a while!"
Ai Jianan, who was chatting with the audience, was in a good mood when he heard the voice and showed off a little in front of the audience.
Then he picked up the mobile phone he was using for the live broadcast and turned the camera back to the bright girl.
"Xiao Zhao! Congratulations!
"But in this case... you should have qualified early, right?"
"what!"
The girl blinked and thought about it, then her smile became brighter and she nodded.
"Yeah! I haven't lost a single game in six games, and I've already made it to the finals!"
In order to reduce randomness, the semi-finals of this "City Cup" did not adopt the previous single-elimination system. Instead, the 192 players were divided into three groups, each with people. The Swiss round double-elimination system was adopted. In the next seven rounds, the top four in each group will advance.
This competition system can give experts a little more tolerance, ensuring that capable players can enter the main competition with the greatest probability, thereby increasing the popularity and quality of the main competition.
This competition system has another feature: although there are seven rounds in total, if you win all the first six rounds, you can lock in a qualifying spot in advance.
Rui Zhao was not assigned to the same group as Bai Yinhua this time, so he had a clear advantage in strength against other opponents in the group. As expected, he won six consecutive games and successfully advanced to the next round.
In other words, Rui Zhao had no matches to play in the afternoon. He only needed to wait for the final announcement of the qualifying list and the main match.
“Congratulations on advancing to the finals!”
Ai Jianan was the first to offer his blessings and also gave suggestions.
"That's perfect! There's no game this afternoon, let's find a place to rest for a while!"
With a whole afternoon of free time, in the past, Ai Jianan would definitely find ways to arrange some extra programs for Rui Zhao to boost his popularity.
But now, looking at the girl's dark circles that were still visible after she put on makeup, Ai Jianan could not do such a thing.
Ai Jianan, who also practiced chess hard, knows very well how tiring it is to practice chess.
So according to her idea, it would be a better choice to take Rui Zhao to a nearby hotel and book a hourly room to have a good rest.
"Ah..." The girl hesitated: "I, I was planning to find an Internet cafe and play another game of online chess..."
But Ai Jianan was not willing to do that: "What are you talking about? Playing online chess! You don't want to rest, I want to rest too! Come with me to the hotel and get a room for an hour!"
"Then, then I can go to the Internet cafe alone..."
"Forget it! With your condition, you can get yourself lost if you go to the Internet cafe alone!"
"No, no! No matter how stupid I am, I wouldn't do that!" the girl retorted stubbornly.
"Of course not. If you don't believe me, ask the audience in the live broadcast room!" Ai Jianan asked this question at a very timely moment.
After hearing this, the comments in the live broadcast room suddenly became lively.
Everyone questioned whether Rui Zhao could go to the Internet cafe alone and suggested that he go to the hotel to rest as soon as possible.
The reaction of the live audience was not unexpected to Ai Jianan:
Any normal person would rather watch a beautiful girl go to a hotel to rest than to see her go to an Internet cafe.
The reason... those who understand will understand.
"Wow... Do I, do I look that unreliable?"
The girl felt very aggrieved when she saw the comments in the live broadcast room, so she had to follow Ai Jianan's advice.
However, Ai Jianan naturally did not give the audience many opportunities.
After persuading Rui Zhao, she immediately informed the audience in the live broadcast room that the results of the main competition draw would be notified to everyone, and they also made an appointment to see each other in the main competition next week.
Then, without waiting for the audience to react, he decisively turned off the live broadcast, leaving only a black screen with “???” floating across the room.
...
...
At 3:30 pm, after the last round of the "Metropolitan Cup" semi-finals ended, the organizing committee quickly organized a small semi-final closing ceremony to publicly announce the list of qualified players. "After two days of group double elimination, the semi-finals of the "Metropolitan Cup" Dongjiang Division have come to a successful conclusion, and all twelve players who entered the final stage of the main competition have been determined. They are:
"Rui Zhao, Cheng Yuyang, Wang Sihua..."
As the vice chairman of the Dongjiang Chess Association, Ke Mulan, loudly read out the list of players entering the main competition, the long prelude to the 'Metropolitan Cup' Dongjiang competition finally came to an end.
In theory, an amateur competition for a niche sport should not last for a month.
But in fact, the chess association has its considerations here.
Setting all competition dates on weekends can ensure that ordinary people have no obstacles to participating and maximize public participation.
A sufficiently long schedule can help maintain the popularity to a certain extent.
Although these small measures are unlikely to completely reverse the overall trend of Go becoming less popular, the leaders of Chinese Go are willing to do everything they can to benefit the development of Go.
As for the increase in workload...
Then you can only make yourself suffer!
"...Qiu Yaoshuang, ahem! Um, Bai Yinhua."
After a cough that was obviously deliberate, Ke Mulan announced the name of the last contestant.
"These twelve players will compete with four famous amateur players who were directly invited by the organizing committee to compete in four rounds of single-elimination to determine the final champion next weekend.
"The last twelve players to participate in the main competition, please go to the temporary office of the organizing committee later to confirm the match situation and receive the main competition certificate. Thank you everyone!"
...
"Xiao Zhao, shall we go over there now?"
In the afternoon, since he just wanted to watch the match and collect his credentials, Ai Jianan did not go to the trouble of starting a live broadcast, and he also returned to addressing Rui Zhao in his usual friendly way.
"A little later!" Rui Zhao whispered, "I, I don't really want to run into that person again before the main competition. It will affect my mood."
"Yeah, me too."
Ai Jianan agreed, and the two of them stood there and waited for a while before heading off.
By the time the two arrived at the organizing committee office, all the qualified players had left after learning about the matchups. Only two curious people who had not entered the main competition were still standing by the door discussing something.
"Hey! Bai Yinhua's luck is really good this time. Isn't the chess association doing some shady manipulation?"
"God knows what the Chess Association is thinking. I even suspect that the Chess Association has a private transaction with this guy!
"If it were up to me, we shouldn't talk to a scum like Bai Yinhua about 'everything should be done according to the rules'. We should just disqualify him from the competition!
"Even if we take a step back and the chess association really can't disqualify Bai Yinhua from the competition, they should at least put Gu Mingqing and Wang Zhen in the same half as Bai Yinhua and find ways to stop him!
"But now it's all gone! Bai Yinhua is completely allowed to do whatever he wants..."
At the end of the conversation, the two of them left shaking their heads.
After hearing these words, Ai Jianan understood everything at once.
Judging from this situation, Bai Yinhua and the two "Four Amateur Kings" must be completely divided into different halves.
This means that in this competition, Bai Yinhua will only have to face one of the two at most.
Ai Jianan couldn't help but frown.
In the case of Bai Yinhua, although she could understand the difficulties of the Chess Association in "everything follows the rules".
But for a guy like Bai Yinhua who has no martial ethics at all, it is completely reasonable to arrange the most difficult schedule for him with a little manipulation.
But how can this be so rigid that they don't even intend to use this trick?
Ai Jianan shook her head slightly and continued to walk inside, only to see that the matchups for the main tournament were already written on the blackboard in the temporary tournament office (it was a borrowed classroom, so there was a blackboard).
Just as the two people just talked about, the draw for this main draw has drawn the two amateur kings into the upper half. If everything goes well, the two kings will meet in the semi-finals.
As for Bai Yinhua, he was placed in the lower half, completely avoiding the encounter with two amateur 8th dan masters before the finals.
His opponent in the first round is...
ah? ! ! !
Ai Jianan's pupils suddenly contracted, and then he turned his head abruptly to look at the girl beside him.
But the girl's eyes were like a pool of autumn water, peaceful and elegant, quietly reflecting the matchup table on the blackboard, as clear as a mirror.
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