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Chapter 253, The Scene of Social Defeat (Please Subscribe)
Best-of-seven matches usually take a long time.

Shen Qiushan, who swept his opponent 4-0, became the first player to advance to the semifinals.

Meanwhile, the other three groups of contestants are still locked in fierce competition.

According to the schedule, today will only determine the top four.

Tomorrow will be the championship battle.

Therefore, Shen Qiushan, who has successfully advanced to the semi-finals, can actually leave the stage.

However, the organizers did not want to let Shen Qiushan leave so easily. In order to give Shen Qiushan as much screen time as possible, they specially arranged a "contestant interview" segment.

To make the interview less abrupt, they called out to Shen Qiushan and Guo Xingwang at the same time.

"For an amateur competition like yours, there's really no need to do a live stream, since it won't get much attention anyway!"

Guo Xingwang, who was eliminated in the semi-finals, was feeling a bit down and casually snapped at a staff member of the organizer.

The host in charge of the live broadcast of the event was named "Xiao Ke". She glanced at Guo Xingwang and replied with a smile, "Teacher Guo, although the Qingyang Cup is an amateur competition, it still attracts a lot of attention."

"For example, during your match with Teacher Shen just now, the number of viewers in the live stream peaked at over 4!"

Xiao Ke is a professional streamer hired by the organizers; she's very good at creating engaging live stream content.

Guo Xingwang said the competition lacked buzz, but she didn't refute him; instead, she presented the data to refute him.

After hearing her words, Guo Xingwang was completely dumbfounded and asked in disbelief, "You just said how many people were in the live stream?"

"More than 4!"

"I know that Mr. Guo once won the national chess championship. Back then, he must have received much more attention than he does today."

"However, 4 viewers online is not a small number..."

Xiao Ke said with a smile.

puff! !

After receiving an affirmative answer, Guo Xingwang almost choked on his own blood. He was a former professional player who had even won a national championship.

He had already lowered himself to participate in an amateur competition like the Qingyang Cup; his original goal was to win the championship and receive the 50 yuan prize.

It's wonderful!
Compared to the 50 yuan prize, saving face isn't really that important.

However, things didn't go as planned, and Guo Xingwang never expected that he wouldn't even make it into the top four.

That was bad enough, but now Xiao Ke tells him that more than 4 people witnessed how he was swept out of the competition 4-0.

The sky is falling!
He's a national champion, after all!
To lose so badly in front of more than 4 people!
How can I ever face anyone again!

At this moment, after seeing Guo Xingwang's expression, the live broadcast room exploded.

"Hahaha, I'm laughing so hard my stomach hurts!"

"I witnessed a massive social media frenzy!"

"I bet Guo never dreamed that more than 4 people would be watching him play chess!"

"Back when Lao Guo won the national championship, probably only a small group of people knew about it, not as many people as those who watch him lose a game today."

"Let's start a live stream. Since things have already come to this, we might as well give everyone some fun..."

I was stunned for a while.

Guo Xingwang finally came to his senses. He smoothed his hair and cleared his throat before speaking again: "As the largest amateur chess competition in the country, the Qingyang Cup has a wealth of talented players, including retired professional players like myself, as well as elites from all walks of life."

"If we make it to the quarterfinals, no matter who wins or loses, there are no real losers!"

He started trying to save face.

As a former professional player and national champion, being swept 4-0 by an amateur player is truly humiliating.

Therefore, the only option is to elevate the opponent's reputation so that his defeat doesn't seem unjustified.

"Our Qingyang Cup is designed to provide a platform for chess enthusiasts across the country to compete and learn from each other."

"As the saying goes, friendship comes first, competition second."

"Just as Teacher Guo said, there are no losers here!" "Welcome Teacher Guo to come to our Qingyang Cup again next year!"

Actually, Xiao Ke didn't want to talk to Guo Xingwang any longer, and dismissed him with just a few words.

Immediately afterwards, her live stream camera focused on Shen Qiushan.

"Teacher Shen, we really didn't expect you to participate in this competition. If we had known earlier, we, the organizers, would have prepared a welcome ceremony in advance."

"It's not that bad, I'm just an ordinary contestant."

Shen Qiushan smiled and waved his hand.

"Teacher Shen, you are too modest."

"In short, it is our honor that you can participate in our Qingyang Cup."

"Also, congratulations to Teacher Shen on making it to the semi-finals!"

At this point, Xiao Ke actually made a gesture of congratulations with her hands clasped in front of her.

"It's only the semi-finals, my goal is the championship!"

Shen Qiushan made no attempt to conceal his ambition.

Listening to the conversation between the two, Guo Xingwang, who was standing to the side without leaving, looked completely bewildered.

Teacher Shen?

Which Teacher Shen is it? She's got such a high profile!
As mentioned before, Guo Xingwang didn't recognize Shen Qiushan at all because he rarely paid attention to the cultural and entertainment industry, and his knowledge of Shen Qiushan was limited to having heard of his name.

After all, Shen Qiushan has been frequently in the news in the past six months.

Seeing Xiao Ke being so attentive to Shen Qiushan, Guo Xingwang naturally became curious about his identity. He silently took out his phone and searched for Shen Qiushan's name on the internet.

As a result, a lot of news links popped up instantly, and he immediately matched the man in front of him with the famous writer who was very popular before.

Guo Xingwang just couldn't understand how Shen Qiushan, a writer, could be so good at chess.
They could all defeat him, the former national champion!
After chatting with Xiao Ke for a while, the other party finally decided to let him go.

It wasn't that the production team had a "change of heart," but rather that other groups had also decided their winners.

As the host of this event, Xiao Ke had to go over and say a few words.

The next day.

The championship match has begun.

The four finalists will be drawn into a match.

The winner advances to the final to compete for the championship.

The losing team can only compete for third place.

With the help of cheat codes, Shen Qiushan defeated his opponent without any suspense in the semi-finals.

In the subsequent championship match, Shen Qiushan easily won 4-0.

They won the championship of the 12th Qingyang Cup National Amateur Chess Tournament!

Ding!
Congratulations, host, for defeating 928 people in the competition.

You have achieved an Academic Excellence Index of 928000 points!
The system prompt sounded as promised.

Shen Qiushan snapped his fingers excitedly. Just as he had guessed, as long as he could win a championship in a certain competition.

You can then collect a massive amount of academic excellence points!
This conclusion has been reached.

Shen Qiushan no longer worried about not having enough academic excellence points.

More importantly, he can now try to increase his "higher-level attributes"!

10 Academic Excellence Index!
However, high-level attributes are exceptionally powerful, including martial arts, medicine, and metaphysics.

These three high-level attributes, any one of them, are very attractive to Shen Qiushan.

(End of this chapter)