Chapter 70 Pre-match of the Streamer Competition

It wasn't just netizens who didn't understand.

An Jin, who was sitting in front of her computer on the weekend, clicked into the official live stream and waited to go on stage to play games, still didn't understand what was happening.

Fortunately, she had a cheat code.

"Brother Wang, I don't understand these rules."

An Jin opened YY's free microphone and asked.

Jiang Jinhan, who was also on YY (a Chinese voice chat platform), explained, "The rules are very simple, let me tell you..."

An Jin listened carefully to Jiang Jinhan's translation in plain language.

The selection rules for the captains of the Streamer Cup are as follows: After the exhibition match, the eight captains can use their respective 100,000 points to auction off teammates for their teams during the team formation phase. The starting bid for a teammate is 5,000 points, with no upper limit.

The streamer who is auctioned off by the team leader will automatically join their team and become one of its members.

The streamer who wasn't won by the team captain will enter the unsold pool and wait for a second auction.

The starting price for the second auction is one thousand per streamer. Streamers who are not sold in this auction will be randomly selected by the official host to join their team.

After hearing Jiang Jinhan's introduction, An Jin immediately screamed, "Then you have to take a picture of me! I don't want to miss out!"

How embarrassing it would be if she failed to sell her ticket in front of so many people.

Jiang Jinhan sighed and said, "I actually hope that others won't take pictures of you."

An Jin gained fame a few days ago for her retirement from the entertainment industry, coupled with her good live streaming performance and her beautiful appearance.

Today, when Jiang Jinhan entered the official video call, he heard the other team leaders jokingly saying that they wanted to compete with him for An Jin.

An Jin understood the meaning behind Jiang Jinhan's words and said smugly, "There's nothing I can do about it. I'm just so likable. You'd better prepare more points."

Jiang Jinhan smiled and said, "Don't worry, I'd be willing to spend all 100,000 points on you."

An Jin hummed a little tune smugly, pretending to be modest, and said, "It's not that bad, we still need to save three thousand for the other teammates."

The viewers in the live chat were speechless.

Even if there's no mirror, there must be a place to pee, right? You're dreaming when you think you have 97,000 points!

I'm worried that if I start with too few points, I might lose too many later and not even make it to the finals.

Tadpole is cunning; he was just guarding against this move. If you spend a lot of money to promote your good teammates, you have to win more games later. Yesterday, some streamers who participated in the competition were just trying to boost their data. They spent all their points and still wanted to make it to the finals. The margin for error is too low.

I don't understand why Tadpole uses points to rank teams. Didn't they used to calculate win rate points based on a best-of-three format?

For the sake of entertainment value, not all the selected streamers are technically skilled. There are so many entertainment streamers. If all the top streamers were put into one or two teams, what would happen to the other teams?

Yeah, if you really want to see skill, you'd watch the league. The streamer cup is all about having fun.

Putting aside whether it's entertaining or not, am I the only one curious about how An An's exhibition match will go?

Before the team captain auctions off the players, all players participating in the streamer cup must play a 5v5 exhibition match through a random draw by the platform.

This exhibition match serves two purposes: first, it allows the audience to see the strength of the team captains and players; second, it provides an opportunity for the captains and the broadcasters to interact.

Simply put...

Let's see what they're made of.

Let netizens see your strength.

This will also allow the already selected team leaders to see your abilities, which will be helpful in the subsequent auction.

An Jin and Jiang Jinhan, who were to participate in the exhibition match, were unfortunately placed in two different teams.

The bad news is that An Jin joined a team full of entertainment streamers, and the only skilled captain was a top laner.

The good news is that An Jin's opponent is not Jiang Jinhan.

The moment the official host opened the small ball and took out An Jin's name from it, she instantly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Great, Brother Wang, I don't have to lane against you."

Jiang Jinhan is known in the league for his exceptional AD carry skills, while An Jin plays support. She definitely doesn't want to encounter Jiang Jinhan in the exhibition match.

Jiang Jinhan glanced at the screen and teased An Jin, "If I'm not mistaken, your ADC is a fill role."

When selecting streamers, the official criteria are either based on their skills or on their entertainment value and revenue.

This resulted in a severe imbalance of males and females among the forty people, and many well-known anchors also ended up in the same positions.

This exhibition match was like that. Because it was completely random, in Anjin's exhibition match team, apart from the top laner and the copy, the remaining three people were all junglers.

An Jin remained calm. Faced with Jiang Jinhan's gloating, she said nonchalantly, "Isn't this even better?"

Jiang Jinhan: "Why do you say that?"

An Jin: "The jungler in our team has filled in as AD, so I'll have something to say if we lose."

Jiang Jinhan asked, puzzled, "What did you say?"

An Jin grinned and said, "If we can't win, it'll be because the AD carry filling in is bad; if we can win, it'll be because I, the support, gave a great command. Don't you know what it means to be able to attack and defend?"

Jiang Jinhan understood.

This is the legendary statement about non-stick pans.

He glanced at the barrage of comments that were about to explode, chuckled, and said, "The operations team called me over, so I'm not talking to you anymore."

An Jin waved her hand dismissively and said, "Go ahead, I'm going to see my temporary teammates too."

She opened her chat window with Lisa, copied the YY channel Lisa had sent her, and switched to it.

Playing an exhibition match is quite different from a regular live stream.

Dejected after being brutally beaten by the opposing bottom lane, An Jin returned to her and Jiang Jinhan's YY chat room.

Jiang Jinhan, who had won, chuckled to himself: "Lost?"

An Jin sighed, "The AD carry who filled in can't beat them."

The opponent also countered our hero selection.

In exhibition matches, hero bans are not allowed so that streamers can showcase their skills.

Although An Jin got to choose her beloved cat, unfortunately, she didn't get the command of the team.

There was basically no trust between the unfamiliar teammates, and they fought individually when the game started. When An Jin gave them instructions, almost no one listened, which resulted in several team battles where the teammates were out of sync and arrived late.

Jiang Jinhan had anticipated this; command is a very important thing in a team.

Even in professional esports teams where players spend every day together, it's not uncommon for teammates to disobey commands.

This situation usually occurs because the "thugs" are stronger than the commanders. Due to the overwhelming strength, the "thugs" start to have ulterior motives.

The "fighter" here doesn't refer to a fighter in the conventional sense, but rather to an individual's role within the team.

Jiang Jinhan understood what An Jin meant, and he whispered, "Think about it from another perspective, it's not a bad thing."

An Jin looked up at Jiang Jinhan with a long face and a very unhappy expression.

"I've already lost, how can it not be a bad thing?"

This is incredibly embarrassing.

She feels ashamed whenever she thinks about how she used to give orders to her teammates, and none of them listened.

Jiang Jinhan remained silent.

For him, An Jin's setback was not necessarily a bad thing.

First, he wanted to get a shot of An Jin. Since An Jin's team lost the competition, many captains who value skill would definitely overlook her.

Secondly, the chaos in An Jin's team also allowed Jiang Jinhan to determine the composition of her teammates.

Most of the streamers in the streamer competition are people who have been playing at the Diamond rank for a long time. When the skill levels are similar, Jiang Jinhan, as the captain, will definitely prioritize choosing teammates who are more obedient to commands when selecting teammates.

The moment he learned that An Jin was participating in the Streamer Cup, he already had plans for his future teammates.