Who asked him to play Go!

Chapter 46 · Invite the next genius boy

"New Dragon Cup?"

This name is good to hear.

Full of energy.

Atmosphere.

It is obviously a competition specially prepared for newcomers.

"Come, come with me to the big classroom and announce this to everyone collectively."

The large classroom is a ladder classroom that can accommodate everyone at one time. The entire AB group students are sitting here.

According to past situations, Nie Lan's appearance can arouse applause and cheers from the students.

But this time when he pushed the door open, he was met with a cold reception. There was only sporadic applause, which was inexplicably embarrassing.

It was indeed embarrassing, so embarrassing that many people didn’t know where to look.

I was beaten badly in the game just now, and now I am applauded. No matter how I think about it, I think there is something wrong!

After all, Nie Lan has seen too many big events, so she pretends not to care about these minutiae: "Students, next I want to announce something about the holding of the first Xinlong Cup.

Especially the stronger students should pay attention to this matter. "

Upon hearing that it was related to Ding Duan, many students who were yawning immediately pricked up their ears.

Immediately afterwards, Nie Lan began to talk about the causes and consequences of this incident.

The original reason was that the Go veterans from China, Japan and South Korea gathered together to play mahjong and discuss the holding of the next Elders Tournament.

The Elders Tournament is a regular exchange program of Go among the Three Kingdoms. It brings together a group of veteran players who were active in the 8s and 90s to hold a round-robin tournament.

It's called Laotou Le for short.

But at the mahjong table, the veteran from South Korea suddenly said that a talented young man had recently emerged from Quan Jialong Dojo. He really hoped that he could skip the fixed-stage procedure and directly win the ranking in the world competition.

As soon as these words came out, everyone's competitive spirit was ignited, and they all said that their country also had talented people and could achieve success in the world competition.

After arguing and arguing, some wise old man finally said, let's hold an amateur competition in advance to see which talented boy is expected to compete for the first place.

This proposal unexpectedly received unanimous approval.

Although this was just something a few old people slapped on their foreheads, these old people had a big enough reputation in the chess community in their country, so it really happened.

"The location is in Puhai City, and the time is mid-December. It's only more than a month away. Please work hard, students."

Faced with Nie Lan's sincere words of comfort, the students behaved quite calmly.

Isn't it just an amateur competition? Is it worth the effort?
  There are many amateur competitions in China, and the prize money is also very considerable.

In line with the principle of preferring to be the head of a chicken rather than the tail of a phoenix, many low-level professional chess players even drop out and participate in these competitions as amateurs, living a peaceful life.

The time of the sprinting boys is always precious and they are reluctant to participate in such a small competition.

You know, the stinky chess virus can really spread. What if you play in amateur games and end up ruining yourself?
  "Teacher, what is the prize money for this competition?" Some students raised their hands.

"Bonus? That's not important. The important thing is that if you get the top few in this competition, you can directly determine the rank!"

This news shook the spirits of many students.

Now, less than three months have passed since the stage race.

Many students who had the ability to reach the rank, but failed due to poor performance are still immersed in the past failures, lamenting that the next opportunity will have to wait a year. Who thought that the second chance would come so soon? “This competition should be much more difficult than the fixed-stage competition, right?” Some students worried.

"Of course. After all, this time, in addition to the youngsters from our country, there are also chess players from Japan and South Korea. Because of this, the gold content of this competition is particularly eye-catching."

After some deliberation, Nie Lan slightly increased his voice: "The winner of this competition will be directly determined to be the second dan!"

"Defined directly as the second paragraph?"

Now even teachers Fan Mingren and Yu Ke couldn't keep calm.

Hitting the rank, known as the Dragon Gate Leap, being able to reach the professional rank has been the dream of countless young people trying to reach the first rank. Now there is an opportunity to directly advance to the second rank?
  The distance between the first and second sections sounds very close, but in reality it is also very difficult.

You know, some riders are only at the second level by the end of their career.

If a chess player wants to advance to the next level, he or she must rely on promotion competitions or rankings in large-scale competitions.

Considering that it is unlikely that chess players at the beginning level will achieve results in major competitions, the only way to advance to the next level is probably to compete in promotion competitions.

And now, there is actually an opportunity to skip the first stage and go directly to the second stage?
  Although the second dan does not have much substantial improvement in salary compared to the first dan, the initial title of second dan is very valuable.

This means that you are the super NO.1 in this session, and offers from the Weijia Club will fill your mailbox like snowflakes.

At that time, you will not be thinking about which boss will show mercy to you, but you will be looking back and forth at the boss like picking a watermelon.

Not only that, under the aura of the initial second-level decision, you will receive more attention from the beginning, and the Go players will stop at your chess and start talking, and you will build your popularity early.

After some calculations, the title of the second section was initially decided. It was so precious that it made people jealous. If it were to be put on the set of Conan, this motive would be enough to plant a time bomb.

Inadvertently, an atmosphere of mutual hostility passed back and forth in the large classroom. Everyone looked at each other as if they were looking at future enemies.

Soon, they suddenly realized that they were just being sentimental.

Isn’t this Shi Yu!
  This is a real big boss.

"Of course, don't be too happy, including you." Nie Lan looked at Shi Yu beside him.

"The rewards are certainly generous, but you must know that your opponents are equally powerful. On the way to promotion, in addition to meeting your old rival Jian Wusheng again, Li Xiantie will also attack you halfway."

"Li Xiantie? Who is that?"

Shi Yu's first impression when he heard the name was stiff.

"The talented young man from South Korea, in the words of my old rival, Cao Yanxun, the second-level reward in this competition is specially prepared for him."

Immediately there was a voice from the audience: "Fuck! Koreans are too arrogant, isn't this their fault?"

"Yes! Brother Shi, come on! Fuck him!"

After realizing that this was a vigorous confrontation between China and foreign countries, the students immediately switched to anti-Korean mode, and all of them were righteous.

Shi Yu also felt his blood boiling and his fighting spirit calling.

I didn’t expect that I would be able to exchange views with foreign opponents so soon.

Nothing else, I just want to practice that sentence - please invite the next talented mid laner.

"Teacher Nie, what is the name of this competition?" someone in the audience asked again.

"New dragon." Mr. Nie replied calmly, "The winner of this competition will definitely turn into a dragon in the future!"

(End of this chapter)