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In the video, the two skeletons move vigorously and exchange weapons.
A skeleton that aims at the opponent’s target at high speed, blocks such an attack, and counterattacks in reverse.
The moment when the last target of one skeleton is about to be attacked after such a brilliant workshop.
– Lalala~.
The video cuts off and an advertisement is played in the middle.
I clicked my tongue and said.
“…the removal of the middle advertisement should have been included as a condition.”
But… it’s not bad for maintaining tension, so let’s move on.
I looked at Baek Sang-ho and said.
“By the way, do you really fight like that?”
Then Baek Sang-ho shook his head and said,
“I saw that match myself, and it was just floundering. But I edited it plausibly by stitching it together from various angles like that.”
Then yes.
It’s my first competition, so it doesn’t make sense for regular participants to go back and forth in such a high-level workshop.
I said with a smirk.
“Things that look good to edit are brilliantly edited, and things that are unlikely to be saved by editing are used as gag elements. The ability to quickly control is fine.”
The previous game was somehow saved by editing, but there were countless games that could not be saved by editing.
Among them, there was a team that produced a sketch in which the left and right arms were twisted during an attack and the skeleton’s arms collided with each other throughout the game, and PD Go Jun-young used that as a gag element.
If I had just watched it as a full video, I would have said that, but editing it with subtitles and CG in a fun way made even me laugh.
After such a long time, the interim advertisement ends and the broadcast continues, and a new match comes out.
“uh!”
I saw a man wearing a hat and said,
“Isn’t that the head of Center Back?”
Kim Deok-bae and Kang Chan-soo, who were watching the broadcast together, nodded their heads and said.
“That’s right, Center Manager Back.”
“Oh oh! Broadcast appearance!”
When he turned his head to look at Baek Sang-ho, he was watching TV with a face that was either embarrassed or embarrassed that he appeared on TV.
It is a natural reaction because I have less experience exposed to the public compared to myself and Kim Deok-bae.
Then the game begins with a loud whistle.
“Ohh?”
The opposing team’s skeleton strongly pushes Baek Sang-ho’s skeleton.
However, the behavior of the opposing team’s skeleton is not unusual.
A skeleton of the opposing team that shows a considerable level of dueling ability, such as moving along the optimal path and effectively blocking Baek Sang-ho’s skeleton attack.
“Is this also the power of editing? At this point, I can’t tell.”
Baek Sang-ho replied to my words.
“no. That’s real.”
“Really?”
“I went with a light heart and was pushed back by a narrow margin in the first game. I was really surprised. As a result, I made a hasty correction and won, but it was so great that even ordinary people couldn’t believe it.”
Although Baek Sang-ho does not have combat experience, he has researched and developed various versions of arrogance unlike general programmers who are usually in charge of only one task, so his ability to control the skeleton using the console is unmatched.
No matter how careless Baek Sang-ho was, he was defeated in the first round by a regular participant.
By the way, isn’t this a spoiler?
I’ll tell you all the results.
Anyway.
“Then are you going to call up that team?”
“I think so.”
Originally, only programmers were going to gather and play the game, but this was the method that Jun-Young Ko suggested, saying that the painting did not survive.
In each regional qualifier, programmers hide their identities and participate in the game individually or as a team, then pick the team they like and call up their favorite team to have a revival match between them.
What did you say?
It’s a format in which programmers become a kind of dark judge and discover talent, or something.
Anyway, if this happens, programmers will drop out of the game in the middle and participate as judges and assistants, so there will be no controversy over the fairness, and the programmers accepted that it would not be bad because they could show their skills and earn money through the team they called up.
At that time, after a fierce battle on the air, the opposing team’s skeleton took a slight advantage in the first game and cheered, but immediately after that, Baek Sang-ho manipulated the console with his godly hand gestures, and the appearance of the opposing team member who was shocked to see it came out in close-up. The broadcast ended suggesting that the match would not end like this and that Baek Sang-ho was not an ordinary person.
I nodded and said.
“Well done. It’s pretty fun.”
As long as I’ve reached the extreme of a skeleton and feel this way, I don’t see the reaction of ordinary people.
Unlike the regional qualifiers, if you go to the finals where unlimited rules are applied, the game is literally over.
I said with a bright smile.
“The first button seems to have worked well, so let’s move on.”
*
The aftermath of the first broadcast was tremendous.
Skeleton’s thrilling match touched the hearts of many people.
Somehow, it feels like the romance of robot fighting that people have been cherishing since childhood has come true?
Thanks to this, Kwon Jumin received quite a lot of attention from the players by decorating the end of episode 1, but unlike the external reaction, Kwon Jumin was nervous.
“When are you going to call me?”
In episode 1, only the first match was broadcast, but the actual tournament was held twice and hundreds of teams have already left in Jeonbuk alone.
And since the team that fell that way retrieved consoles and skeletons, Jumin Kwon and his team had no way to prepare for the revival of the losers that Baek Sang-ho talked about except to keep running the simulation in their minds.
At that time, the team member said with a worried expression.
“Isn’t it possible that there is no revival of the losers?”
Then Kwon Jumin said with a determined expression.
“I can’t. It’s not anyone else, it’s Center Manager Baek, the best programmer.”
“I know, but maybe the plan has gone awry or something like that.”
Kwon Jumin read through the anxious team members and said:
“don’t worry. Trust us and wait. We are the one that Center Director Baek acknowledged! Be proud!”
At his encouragement, the team clenched their fists and said:
“right. we are acknowledged I was so nervous that I was talking nonsense.”
“okay. So we wait calmly……”
At that moment, a call comes in from Kwon Ju-min’s cell phone.
“hello?”
The voice over the receiver can be heard by Kwon Jumin who answers the phone.
– Mr. Kwon Jumin?
That person was Baek Sang-ho.
“Chief Baek!”
The team members flocked to Kwon Jumin’s cry.
“Are you the head of center Baek!?”
“Oh oh! finally!”
-Umm… are you all together now?
“Yes. you’re right.”
-Good for you. Please come with me to the address I called now.
Baek Sang-ho jumped up from his seat and said.
“All right! I will go right now!”
-ah. And now that I’m with the production crew… that… well, you should be surprised if I suddenly reveal my identity.
“···Yes?”
I already know, but you want to reveal your identity?
-At that time, I couldn’t take a video because I was talking on the fly.
“Ah yes. All right.”
– Then I’ll wait.
After the call, Kwon Jumin said.
“Guys, we need to practice surprise.”
*
Lightning’s team members are surprised when Baek Sang-ho suddenly appears and reveals his identity.
And after talking about Baek Sang-ho’s identity for a while, the production team said:
“This is enough. Now we can talk properly.”
Then Baek Sang-ho let out a long sigh and said:
“ha. This is not normal.”
“That’s it.”
“Still, you did a good job. Anyway, now let’s get to the point. In the regional qualifiers, there are many other programmers from Seron besides me. These teams now pick their favorite team…”
Baek Sang-ho talked about his future schedule like that.
“Then, are the programmers not competing as players anymore?”
“Yes. After all, we are judges and helpers.”
“But then, won’t the winning teams be discriminated against in the opposite way?”
“You don’t have to worry about that. The teams chosen by us will compete against each other, and the programmers who lost there will join the surviving teams as facilitators.”
In the end, any team that survives to the end can get support from programmers.
“…I can’t lose.”
Your chance to get help from the best programmers.
However, it was a feeling of fighting spirit that this opportunity flew away at once, and even that the opportunity went to another team.
“Of course you can’t lose. Of course, this is true not only for me, but for all the programmers involved. This is a competition that our president put his heart and soul into.”
“A president…”
“Besides, this competition is not the end of this one-time event. The chairman is going to make this a real sport and run it properly. So work hard.”
Kwon Jumin nodded and said.
“All right. I’ll do my best!”
“Now, shall we talk about the skeleton algorithm? First of all, martial arts aren’t bad…”
*
A skeleton competition that has been a hot topic since the first broadcast.
Then, a reversal is revealed that programmers are hiding as judges in the dark, and they lead the defeated team to revive the losers.
At the same time, their charmingly portrayed group play and their ability to develop day by day touched people’s hearts, and a fandom was created for each team naturally.
Among them, Baek Sang-ho and Lightning received the most attention.
They improved their skills day by day, and in the revival of the losers that proceeded in that way, they overcame other teams and became the team that received the most attention.
In the meantime, the programmers who lost their team in the loser’s revival and lost their pride joined the teams that won the tournament, and now they are divided into the loser’s revival team and the tournament victorious team and face a fateful confrontation… .
“The finalists have been confirmed.”
And unlike the broadcast, the real game is far ahead, so the finalists have already been confirmed.
Kim Deok-bae nodded and said.
“Yes. 70 teams that passed the regional qualifiers made it to the finals.”
Originally, we were only going to select 50 teams, but there are some teams that are just too good to drop, so we increased the number of teams that made it to the finals for the fun of the show.
“Lightning. Baek Sang-ho.”
Among them, Lightning and Baek Sang-ho were the ones that caught my attention in particular.
Needless to say, Baek Sang-ho, Lightning.
In particular, a man named Kwon Jumin was growing day by day, absorbing Baek Sang-ho’s knowledge like a sponge sucking water.
In the broadcast, I said that it was helpful because I had been learning martial arts for a long time, but being good at something myself and making it good with a console are two different things.
If it had been that way in the first place, I would have chosen someone like Baek Sang-ho to do something as a programmer.
If you were just a shoe programmer, you would have chosen a shoe manufacturing veteran.
Then Kim Deok-bae said to me.
“By the way, Chairman, the competitions and broadcasts are successful, and companies keep coming in with sponsorship proposals. What should I do?”
“Sponsorship? Maybe PPL?”
“It’s not like that, it’s a way of giving donations instead of putting our logo on the outside of the stadium like a sports game.”
“That’s fine.”
The money I invested this time for the skeleton’s sports shoes, excluding the prize money, amounted to tens of billions of won, including the staff’s labor costs and stadium rental costs.
Right now, I’m doing everything with my own money, but for true sports shoes, cooperation with sponsors is essential.
“Anyway, the finals are going to take place only in one stadium, so please only accept it in a line that does not interfere with the game.”
“All right.”
“If there is any kind of sponsorship for an individual player or a team, he will allow that as well.”
You have to make a hole to make money so that you will work harder to make an algorithm.
I said with a smile.
“Now it’s the real finals.”
Unlike the regional qualifiers, the finals with unlimited rules don’t matter if you destroy the opponent’s skeleton.
In addition to that, the combat experience accumulated and everyone’s algorithmic skills have improved considerably, so it’s worth watching.
“I will also attend the final match.”
It is to absorb the algorithm that 70 teams gathered from all over the country put their heads together.
Of course, since it’s my first competition, it’s probably not at a level I’m happy with, but it’s just in case you don’t know.
“Is there anything else to report?”
“Well… there was a request to decorate the skeleton.”
“Can I decorate?”
“Since the ownership of the skeleton is in Ceron, it is not possible to paint with a color difference. As a result, they all look alike, which reduces intuition and interferes with the immersion of viewers. Until then, it was a regional qualifier, so it didn’t matter because there were so many teams, but now that it’s a national final, it is necessary to give each team a personality.”
That’s right.
If you can tell them at a glance, cheering will be easier and it will be fun.
“Please allow me. After all, if you have enough skills to advance to the finals, you will continue to participate in the competition, so you can choose a designated skeleton and sign a one-year contract. Whether you color it or decorate it, let it be as individual as you want it to be… um?”
What they want is the personality of the team.
And isn’t the individuality of the team the beauty of sports?
Baseball or soccer, where players of different styles gather as a team, as well as martial arts players with different sizes and special abilities.
But can it be called personality just because it is slightly different in appearance?
In addition, giving everyone the same skeleton because we are too hung up on equity will have a negative impact on the creation of algorithms that need to respond to various variables.
“If you give each skeleton something special, more diverse situations will be created and the algorithm will not be strengthened.”
Perhaps this personality is what I need most in dealing with my undead corps.
No matter how perfect the algorithm is, my Seron Undead Corps is specialized in dealing with the Demon King Army.
However, if there are a lot of anomalous skeletons with people’s creativity added to it, even my corps of skeletons will have a hard time responding.
“Personality… yes. In the finals, each team is given individuality.”
It is to ignite their fighting spirit to win the prize by defeating the opponent and raise their creativity to the limit.
I said with my eyes shining.
“Would you like to make a skeleton for each part? And then let the teams come up with their own combinations?”
It leaves the torso and head as it is, and makes it possible to attach and detach the limbs.
In the first place, combining several corpses into one huge individual is nothing to me.
“Five! This can be applied to other skeletons as well.”
A skeleton that can change limbs at any time and can also be equipped with additional equipment.
It is to mass-produce parts suitable for each situation and let the employees change parts on their own.
“Is this really getting more and more like a computer?”
A skeleton that can be combined as desired by assembling parts to make a complete computer.
If this is the case, it will be easy to create variables and will be a factor that makes broadcasting and competitions more successful.
Then another idea came to my mind, and I snapped my finger.
“Or, it wouldn’t be bad to make only one part for each team and the winning side robs the losing side.”
He gives the teams only one desired part.
Within the scope that can be implemented without compromising the balance.
Then, the game is played so that the winning side can steal the losing side’s parts and equip them.
Aside from efficiency, I think one of the fun things is for sure?
I said with a smirk.
“Vice president, ask the teams and programmers to come up with the parts you want. It doesn’t have to be a traditional hand or arm, so it doesn’t matter if it’s a forefinger or whatever.”