Chapter 302 - Rookie Challenge Competition (1/2)

The audience had their spirits excited by the opening. The fireworks that were going on outside, the commentator’s commentary, and the highlight reel from the past year felt somewhat lacking comparatively. The audience still hoped that it would continue. Even if the opening repeated itself, they still felt that it would at least be more exciting than the current program.

Amazing! Beautiful!

This was the impression that the audience received from the opening. But for professionals like Ye Xiu, the stunning opening was no more than just that. What he wanted to know was whether those characters’ movements had been planned beforehand or whether they were being controlled at the scene.

If it was the latter, then this opening would be the mark of a new era. Utilizing projection technology to display Glory’s matches —- if that concept had truly became a reality, then the audience would be able to see projections of the map, as well as the characters. The scene from the matches could then be shown to the audience. At that moment, not only the audience, but also the players themselves would feel as if it were real.

The scene! This was what it meant to be at the scene!

While the audience was entranced by the opening, Ye Xiu had quickly thought about all of this. Such a change would affect the business more. With the development of the business, more attention would naturally come. This would then, in turn, attract more people to Glory’s eSports scene and increase the compet.i.tiveness of it. It would indirectly push the game forward.

The use of this technology would become an important milestone in Glory. Even though Ye Xiu couldn’t be certain, using it in the opening of the All-Star Compet.i.tion was already an indicator. Or perhaps the Alliance was doing it to test the technology. The All-Star Compet.i.tion wasn’t an official match, but it would attract a lot of attention. There wasn’t a more suitable place to publicly test it out.

Would they still continue to test the new technology? Ye Xiu couldn’t be more familiar with the All-Star Compet.i.tion’s layout. On the first day, after the opening, the first event would be the Rookie Challenge Compet.i.tion.

The partic.i.p.ants for the Rookie Challenge Compet.i.tion didn’t need to be chosen. As long as you hadn’t been a pro for at two full years, you had the qualifications to sign up. Afterwards, you would then be allowed to freely choose from non-rookie players and 1v1 them. The two parties usually wouldn’t use their own accounts, but rather they would use two equally strong characters provided by the host to fight. This was clearly done to take care of the rookies. If they had used their own accounts, then the majority of the rookies wouldn’t compare to the veterans’ characters. As a result, by equalizing the characters the two parties used, they would both fight on equal grounds.

Since the rookies signed up on their own, their information wouldn’t be announced to the public. As a result, every year during the All-Stars Weekend, guessing which rookies would partic.i.p.ate was a huge part of the fun for the audience. The rookies’ popularity definitely wouldn’t be able to compare to the G.o.ds’, but for Glory fans, as long as they were on the host’s team, any of the team members would attract a huge amount of attention to them. Even more so, there were a few rookies whose names were quite renowned.

This time’s Rookie Challenge Compet.i.tion had quite a few rookies the fans were looking forward to, so everyone was filled with antic.i.p.ation towards this Challenge Compet.i.tion.

At this moment, the host, who was only heard but not seen, finally announced the first partic.i.p.ant in the Rookie Challenge Compet.i.tion: Team Thunderclap, Dai Yanqi.

When the name was announced, the applause from the audience wasn’t too crazy, but it wasn’t too quiet either. Dai Yanqi wasn’t considered outstanding by any means among the rookies. If something had to be said about Dai Yanqi, then it’d have to be that she was a female player. For female players, fans always harbored a different type of antic.i.p.ation and attention. That was why, when compared to the others at the same skill level, they received a bit more attention.

The age of the rookies usually weren’t very high. Dai Yanqi was only 17 years old. However, she was quite outgoing and wasn’t afraid of going up on stage. As she walked on stage and became the focal point, she waved her hands to everyone and then announced in a loud voice who she would challenge: Chu Yunxiu.

“Sister Chu has always been an idol for us girls. I respect her a lot. I’m using this opportunity to challenge Sister Chu and I hope i’ll be able to receive her instruction.” Dai Yanqi’s issue of challenge had been filled with reverence. She clearly wanted this battle to be a chance for her to greet her respected senior. Whether she lost or not wasn’t important. The audience clearly wasn’t too excited about this match and only gave her an applause as a sign of courtesy. And at this moment, Chu Yunxiu entered the stage from the players’ seats.

Players who had been called could not refuse the challenge, even if they had fought consecutively. And in the history of the event, the most tragic partic.i.p.ant was Ye Xiu. At his very first All-Stars Compet.i.tion, he was the rookies’ most respected player, as well as their opponent whom they most wanted to try and beat. That year, all seven rookies who had partic.i.p.ated in the Rookie Compet.i.tion had chosen Ye Qiu. The final partic.i.p.ant that went up no longer had a good reason to fight him and just simply said “Same”. Ye Xiu had also created a record for “The Player to be Called Out the Most in the Rookie Challenge Compet.i.tion”. Whether it was in a single compet.i.tion or the total times overall, he was the champion…….

Chu Yunxiu was also someone who had seen the stage before. After going up on stage, she naturally said a few warm words to her junior. The two then chose their cla.s.ses, took the character accounts provided by the host and headed to the compet.i.tion stage.

The two walked in opposite directions. As they walked farther and farther from each other, the audience finally noticed that in this year’s All-Star Compet.i.tion, the compet.i.tion stage wasn’t set in the middle, but rather on opposite corners of the stadium.

The audience felt a bit uncertain because of this, but Ye Xiu had noticed something.