Season 5: Chapter 165. Platform War (1)
"YEAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!"
A massive cheer blanketed the stadium. Not just the sound, but even the shockwave vibrations were rendered, making hearts pound.
"That's something Orange King should explain, right?"
Hm?
A reading game?"
"This is completely different from the past streamer competition. Have you all seen Paprika? They're completely serious."
"Oh... probably because the teams that survive here advance to the next main round, so Cheese and Paprika are playing a kind of reading game."
— lmaooooooooo
"Different seats?"
"Apparently, your chat text appears larger the more expensive the ticket and the louder your cheer."
"For Cheese, of course, it’s the famous ‘From now on we'll get first place, right?’ The Knight Order takes first!" Yoo Hayeon imitated Choi Sa-Rang, raising her chin and adopting a high-handed posture.
"Right. Even this kind of behind-the-scenes exists between coaches. It’s blood-boiling stuff! The Paprika coach lost to a coach with zero track record. He has sharpened his blade and returned to the stage!!!" Orange King shouted it almost like a roar.
Black Tea pumped herself up too. "Let's gooooo!"
— What odds
— lmaooooo
. . .
Team: Knight Order
Ding.
Paprika 3
"GOOOOOOOO!"
Cheese 1
Orange King pulled up and matched various numbers.
"Isn't this corruption!?"
"Even making your head bigger so you stand out is possible."
Cheese 4
His eyes also looked slightly tense, but nobody could tell.
This was a struggle to get the tournament's features into viewers' heads as quickly as possible.
Players began jumping from the airship.
"Under the sea~ it’s team Underwater! The coach is Tortilla?"
Paprika 1
"If the matchmaking went this way, the average rank each team sends out would be the same. But! In fact, Paprika could end up with a clean sweep."
"Correct! Before seeing those results, shall we take a look at who those people are?"
All the hearts changed to question marks.
"Oh~! That's why it's a reading game!?"
[EggPlant has donated 3,000 won.]
— Can't they just proceed with a Yoo Hayeon close-up?
— Police as the organizer? Insane
However, the screen didn't advance. Question marks appeared above countless audience members.
Sa-Rang pulled up a memo and conveyed the news. "First, all the other coaches confirmed the dispatch strategy again."
— fr?
Sweet Radish even had this suspicion.
"Why is that?"
Coach: Choi Sa-Rang
"Yes. That contrast is interesting, right? These two have even met before!"
Gold tickets were ten times more expensive than Silver. They had all sold out.
"I-is that so."
— Do you even have Bronze?
[Group A Match]
"What group is everyone in!? See for yourselves! Paprika vs Cheese! Cheese vs Paprika! The long-awaited Group A’s first match!"
— lmaooooo
— Bronze is honestly fine
Ba-bam!
Sweet Radish had no particular reaction.
— Noona!!
— lmaooooooooo
The Platform War used the same All-Dive system as the previously held streamer competition. The system was integrated with
This World
, using virtual reality to its absolute limit. It advanced daily, adding more realism. Participants in the last competition felt the difference firsthand.
On top of that, donations or chat from there appeared massive in the stadium, which was an enormous promotion from a streamer's perspective. Almond had to be grateful.
Cheese 2
— This is it
— Wow so jealous
"Paprika's team would be at a loss!"
— Why is there a gold badge?
Team: Underwater
"Oh. RubySword, you even bought a ticket. Thank you."
— Right
Sweet Radish didn't know where to start explaining, but Almond's dynamic vision couldn't pick that up.
— Why is Orange King even here?
Sweet Potato hadn't been talking about Almond.
Ding!
"The qualifying Group A Round 1 is starting soon. Both Cheese and Paprika have volunteers selected."
"Wow. Hyung, but is even the heat rendered? The heat is really intense~."
— Lord Almond style humor~
"Yes. From Tortilla's perspective, there must be quite a deep grievance. Then, let's take a look at the group compositions these two made!"
"Oh. Yes." Almond just nodded once.
Airships carrying the players appeared around him. Below that, the Survival mode Abyss Shadow appeared.
— This guy doesn't even have Bronze lmaooo
[Gold is nothing special. Bronze is the best value.]
[Gold is nothing special. Bronze is the best value.]
Reference footage appeared. It was the scene of Tortilla losing to Choi Sa-Rang and getting eliminated.
"Oh... h-he lost?"
"Gold, Silver, and Bronze."
"I understand that it was coordinated, led by the coach of the first place scrimmage team."
"Well, the thing is, Paprika is... more favored."
At that moment, the coach appeared.
An announcer appeared to introduce each streamer and team one by one, comparing their strength.
[5.1:4.9]
Orange King asked from beside her, "WHAT!? Volunteers!?"
— Breaking news: high school graduate, “University is pointless”
— lmaooooo
— What the
Paprika 10
"Right. On the other hand, the Knight Order side has absolutely zero track record."
Announcer Yoo Hayeon received this with a beaming smile. "Yes! It kind of sounds like a theory Acorn Jelly would love, right? There’s no corruption. Both sides made identical strategic group compositions. Why would that be?"
[A message from the organizers]
— lmaooooooo
"Why? Why are we lower?"
They introduced the top scrimmage teams and compared their strengths.
At Black Tea's words, Almond looked it up.
He'd said it with Lemon in mind, who'd been silent this whole time.
[Today's match prediction results.]
Sweet Radish nodded. "Right, this is insane. Even the vibrations..."
— That's expensive so there can't be many people
— Where's the shame?
"Oh, why! I need to talk to feel even a little relieved."
"Hello, I'm Yoo Hayeon from the analysis desk."
"Everyone rested well?"
— Is he just hard of hearing?
"Wow, this sound is..." Sweet Potato, sitting in the waiting room, muttered tensely, "The technology keeps improving?"
— Gold is the one that can influence the game
— fr???
Sweet Potato preferred to believe that. He'd been sweating gradually and started to think it wasn't normal. It was probably because the weight on his back felt different.
— lmaooooo
"Bro, that was among ourselves..."
He questioned his ears.
"For Paprika..."
'I meant Lemon.'
"It'll go as you wanted."
A chart showed each of the ten teams’ ranking. Orange King took Paprika's first place team and placed it next to Cheese's last place team.
He deliberately overreacted and made a fuss.
The odds were essentially five to five. They were so evenly matched that predicting the outcome was hardly possible.
— lmaooooo
— “You are correct”
— lmaooo
They all straightened up.
— lmaooooooooooooo
"By that principle..."
Hearts flooded the chat.
Black Tea asked, "Oppa, then what about Silver?"
"Oh wow~! That was amazing!"
Paprika
"Noooow!"
— No track record though?
He knew Paprika's strength better than anyone because many of his old colleagues were there. A match had to be played to be known, but predictions would normally overwhelmingly favor Paprika.
"Look here. Not all teams in Cheese or Paprika are equally strong."
Cheese
— Overacting fr lmaooo
"Now, let's go over the Group A Round 1 strategy."
[Paprika v.s. Cheese]
"Feeling relieved, relieving who, fool? Does Almond hyung seem nervous?"
— lmaooooooooo
— ??
In virtual reality, all kinds of perks could be given.
— Money is everything...
Similar to Orange King, Yoo Hayeon shrugged and made exaggerated gestures expressing curiosity.
Suddenly, a message arrived for the streamers.
"I know. I won anyway."
— RubySword who says that is on Gold...
Sweet Potato, full of fight, called out, "Ohhh! Right! Let's do this!"
'This is unexpected. Did they deliberately adjust it to half and half?'
— What
— Wow tight
"No, the group composition wasn't random! They took applications!?"
The role-play had gotten muddled, but Orange King started explaining regardless.
— lmaooooooo lmaooo
[Teams to Watch!]
The Gold ticket heads had completely turned into question marks.
— When?
"Oh, Silver is the original All-Dive we knew. Bronze is the value model with no chat display board and lower volume."
"What if Paprika's first place team burned themselves out beating Cheese's tenth place team?"
— LOL
— lmaooooooo
— What the
"Yes. In this scenario, an unfortunate situation can arise where all ten main round teams are Paprika. Of course, there's no way it would line up this precisely...! The battlefield is full of variables! But anyway, to gain maximum advantage, group compositions were added as a strategic element to consider!"
— late stage capitalism
"BEGINNNNNNNNN!"
"Oh, Tortilla...! Quite an impressive spec to be appearing here."
— What's with the acting tone lmaooo
"Then, who from each team made the group compositions?"
"Gold gets maximum chat size, maximum cheering volume, bonus betting points... and temporary legendary emotes..."
'Or did our strategy leak?'
— Legendary clip born;
"That's probably the capsule."
— 5 to 5 legendary lmaooo
A massive champion appeared in the center of the stadium. It was the caster.
Pop.
— Wow
— Dead even
Ding.
Almond's eyes went wide and round. He looked seriously delighted.
Sweet Radish scolded Sweet Potato. "
Phew...
just be quiet a bit."
While the players made final strategy adjustments in the waiting room, various content was being run in the stadium.
Whoosh!
Almond was actually complaining about why they were lower.
[RubySword has donated 100,000 won!]
— fr
Ahem.
O-okey." Sweet Radish just let it go.
— Heat isn't rendered...
"No, there’s hardly any seat difference."
— fr fr
— lmaooooo fr
— lmaooooooooooo
— Oh when someone donates, fireworks go off from the audience member
The All-Dive system audience members could zoom in on the match right in front of their eyes whenever they wanted. Different seats were meaningless, but participation level varied by ticket.
— lmaooooooooo
Coach: Tortilla
Huuuuumm!
Black Tea said, "I heard they also sold tickets in tiers this time."
— Actually Bronze was created for more seats so it’s value
She looked at Almond and nodded.
Stadium viewers could open a window to watch any streamer's broadcast. Even the ratio of ticket revenue paid out to streamers changed based on how long ticket buyers watched each streamer's perspective.
"Really? I won the last streamer competition."
— Same words sound different...
— That's technically true but...
— Is Orange King also Gold? Why is his head so big?
— Get a better capsule~
The audience's glow sticks burned bright.
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