Chapter 53 Interstellar Mech Competition (Please add to your favorites and vote!)
When she turned around, Qiao Mei almost choked on her own saliva.
A gigantic five-pointed star, twice the size of her in her boy form, was walking towards her on those two things that she couldn't quite call legs.
There's also a cute smiling face on the five-pointed star, which looks a bit like the kind of star she's seen in modern cartoons, very anime-like.
"Are you... a star?"
The main people who know her number are Xingxing and Gangan, but Gangan said she's been sick and can't participate in the competition. So, using the process of elimination, it can only be [Xingxing in the Starry Sea].
After hearing Qiao Mei's words, the smile on Five-Pointed Star's face quickly turned into an excited expression of >?<. He stretched out one of his star-shaped fingers towards Qiao Mei and said excitedly, "Yes, yes, it's me! I didn't expect you to be a boy too! Hello, hello!!"
Judging from the rather unusual five-pointed star shape he was using, Qiao Mei guessed that he was probably not a girl. Now that it was confirmed, she nodded, concealing her true gender, and greeted him in return.
"How do we reunite after the match officially starts?"
Qiao Mei watched as the contestants at the front of the line summoned their mechs one after another, and she also released the Flying Ape Mech that she had gotten for free from Gan Gan.
Xingxing then released his Goddess Mecha and told Qiao Mei that all they needed to do was agree on a meeting point, and once they were teleported into the competition arena, they could head towards that location.
"My Goddess Mech moves very fast, so I should be able to find you quickly."
Qiao Mei also knew about the Goddess Mecha. It was a popular choice among B-class mechas, costing 100,000 Star Coins more than her Flying Ape Mecha. The mecha's color scheme was mainly pink and white, and it looked like a graceful beauty with her eyes closed. Its main function was control.
It's perfect to team up with her Flying Ape mech, which is primarily focused on attack.
The main reason is that among the other contestants they are about to meet, there will definitely be quite a few who use other types of mechs.
If all the mechs are offensive, they will be at a great disadvantage when they encounter more agile control-type mechs.
As the queue was about to reach them, Qiao Mei and Xingxing quickly discussed and decided to meet at the Poison Mist Forest No. 17 later. They put a teleportation tag on their mechs, which would be used to transport the mechs and get them into the arena.
The main reason is that this area is in the central part of the competition map, which will make it easier for them to escape the poison gas.
The competition format of the mech competition is similar to a shooting game that Qiao Mei played in the modern world. After players are randomly dropped into the arena, a poison circle will keep shrinking.
Players who ultimately fail to escape the poison circle will be eliminated once their mech's health bar is depleted.
In the preliminary rounds, only 3,000 winners will remain, but exactly 2,000. The final area left by the poison circle can only accommodate a little over 2,000 mechs.
This is what Qiao Mei saw in the official competition schedule announcement, and she has basically memorized it.
So when the mechanical voice reminded them that the mechs would be randomly deployed soon as the competition officially started, they were on high alert.
To avoid ending up in a situation where you're eliminated immediately upon landing.
The StarCraft Mech Tournament is a relatively popular competition, held once a year. During this period, many StarCraft streamers will broadcast and commentate on the competition.
Some streamers even choose to participate in the competition while providing commentary, but this carries a high risk, as they are easily eliminated due to insufficient skills, leading to issues with the live stream data.
Later on, most commentators opted for the safer format of broadcasting commentary from outside the competition venue.
Shu Qingqing, a very popular streamer on X site, is one of the commentators.
There are nearly 7,000 participants in this mecha competition.
Finding a promising candidate among these 7,000 people is a major challenge.
Many streamers chose to select contestants who were favorites to win the mecha competition in previous years, but always fell just short, and made them the main focus of their live streams.
But Shu Qingqing didn't want to do that, because if those people were really capable, they wouldn't have failed to win the championship every year and would only have the title of "favorite to win the championship".
Basically, you can see right through your future prospects at a glance.
In addition, if other streamers do the same, then she will make the same choice, and her content will become very similar to theirs, making it difficult to attract viewers' attention.
Without viewers, her live stream data won't pick up, and she won't be able to make money.
After thinking for a moment, she checked various live streaming platforms and found that none of the streamers were targeting ordinary people. She immediately changed the title of her live stream to—
[Vote for your favorite amateur contestant in the mecha competition live stream!]
There were just too many people. Since she didn't know how to choose, she figured she could just follow the audience's lead and she couldn't go wrong.
Anyway, as long as the person isn't chosen by her, she can easily cover up the mess if things go wrong.
Shu Qingqing changed the title of her live stream to bold red font, making it very eye-catching. It quickly stood out among the many live streams with titles like "Watch my live stream of past Mech Competition favorites" and "Can XXX surpass last year's performance and escape the ranks of favorites this year?", attracting many viewers to enter.
In addition, Shu Qingqing is a top streamer with good stage presence and looks, so very few viewers who come in stay.
Everyone was chattering about which amateur to choose as the main subject of their live stream.
[Qingqing, Qingqing, look at this contestant. He's an amateur, yet he can use an A-level mecha. Is it possible that some high-level player created an alternate account? What do you think about picking him?]
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