Go: Is the portable old man the nine-time champion?

Chapter 84 You Come from Dandong [First Update!]

"You came from Dandong, give me back the white city, and want to eat Cantonese food..."

On the bus from the airport to the competition hotel, Mr. Ke hummed a melody that Yi Zheng could not understand.

Yi Zheng also couldn't understand what the relationship between Dandong and Cantonese cuisine was, and why they said they wanted to come to Korea to compete. Mr. Ke was not only very excited, but also said that he had to do a good job of sun protection.

As a traditional and cutting-edge event among the five East Asian countries, the Qinglong Cup is held in various countries every five years, and this time it is held in Goryeo.

Looking at the dazzling sunlight outside, Mr. Ke couldn't help but exclaimed: "I didn't expect it to be so bright here at night."

"It's daytime, okay..."

Looking at the sunny scenery outside the bus window, Yi Zheng didn't want to complain, but he had to. Although he knew that Mr. Ke was playing with abstractions, no one would lie like that with their eyes open.

"Everyone, we will soon arrive at the venue for this competition, the Korea Hotel. I just handed you the competition manual.

It contains not only the precautions and schedule for this competition, but also an introduction to your opponents. You can take a look at it while you have some time in the car."

The person in charge of leading the team this time is the deputy coach of the national youth team Feng Yuhang, and another member of the national youth team Xuanyunduo.

Xuanyunduo looked very honest, with a dark complexion, and squinted his eyes when he smiled: "Hello everyone, I am here to practice with you during the competition.

If you have any questions about chess, you can ask me. I’m just average at it, and we can learn from each other, hehe.”

Xuanyunduo speaks with a slight local accent and looks harmless. The first impression he gives people is that he is very honest.

But Yi Zheng had heard rumors about the other party. He was the top player in the national youth team at the age of seventeen. The Three Musketeers were previously hailed as the young talent with the greatest potential to challenge for the domestic title.

It is said that he has a very good personality, even a little timid, but he is very strong and sharp in the duel, with extremely amazing strength. He is now a sixth-dan and has even entered the World Go League A.

Yi Zheng took another look at his two teammates, both of whom were old acquaintances.

Yi Zheng did not participate in the ranking competition. Shi Yu was undoubtedly the first in this ranking competition. As a genius who has reached a professional level, he was directly ranked in advance after losing only one game.

Shu Buque performed exceptionally well this time, securing promotion ahead of schedule and taking the last spot in the Qinglong Cup with second place in the promotion tournament.

Yi Zheng's two roommates, Shi Yuhan lived up to everyone's expectations and successfully obtained the professional rank, while Xiong Chong almost failed to become a professional and returned to Yunyi to repeat his studies. However, he was not very old and it was still early for him.

It’s just that Mr. Ke keeps complaining about how the development is different from that of the TV series. Shouldn’t the most promising one be decided?

Yi Zheng casually flipped through the competition manual handed to him and said, "It doesn't seem difficult at all. Shi Yu and I are not at the level of normal junior players. It's difficult for others to beat us.

In a best-of-three format, he and I have at least an 80% chance of defeating our opponents, and Shushu has about a 50% chance, so it's unlikely we'll lose."

Yi Zheng feels that China has a very high chance of winning this time. It takes several years for them to encounter a genius who is far superior to ordinary teenagers, and this year there are two of them at once. How can other countries cope?
Although there is a possibility of a rollover, it is very small.

"Okay, I'll tell you about the specific opponents in this competition right away."

Feng Yuhang, the team coach for this competition, held up the book and said, "Please turn to page five. This is the team members. I think you've all gotten to know each other over the past few days."

Upon hearing this, Shu Buque laughed and shouted, "Coach, you don't need to introduce this guy. Yi Zheng is my cousin, we know each other very well. We've also met Shi Yu before."

"Humph."

Upon hearing this, Shi Yu glanced at Yi Zheng and said, "I didn't expect that we would become teammates instead of opponents. However, with the two of us working together, this competition won't be difficult at all."

On the first day, Yi Zheng unexpectedly didn't show up for the professional ranking tournament. Shi Yu was extremely anxious, thinking that Yi Zheng had met with an accident. Otherwise, why would he not attend such an important professional ranking tournament? Until that evening, when the news suddenly came that Yi Zheng had passed the national amateur competition and became a professional player, Shi Yu was furious. He secretly participated in the competition without me!
He was ranked before me using this method and stole all my limelight.

Shi Yu felt that he was getting angrier and angrier the more he thought about it. He desperately chased the opponent's big dragon in every subsequent game, which resulted in him losing a game because he was too aggressive. Otherwise, he might have won all the games and been promoted to the professional level.

Shu Buque nodded in agreement upon hearing this. "That's right, even if I just sit back and wait for the winner, we're still going to win. Ah! My brother got the MVP award!"

The format of the Qinglong Cup is that each of the five countries sends three players to compete in a one-on-one match, with a best-of-three format.

The first stage will be a five-day round-robin tournament among five countries. The five teams will play in a single round-robin format, with two teams sending three players to compete in a best-of-three series.

The second stage finals and semi-finals.

Semi-finals: Group 1 vs. Group 4, Group 2 vs. Group 3, single match two out of three.

Final: The winner competes for the championship, and the loser competes for the third place.

China has two trump cards, Yi Zheng and Shi Yu, and is invincible to some extent under this competition system.

Feng Yuhang sighed when he heard this. He had originally thought so until the news came a while ago.

Bad news came from the Go community.

"Everyone, let's take a look at the opponents in this match first. The main focus should be on the Japanese and Silla teams. The Korean team is also quite competitive. As for the Ryukyu team, just take a quick look..."

Ryukyu has been a vassal state of China since ancient times, with a total population of less than two million. Even for this competition, they only set aside three places for professional players each year.

But even though there are few places, the level of those who get professional ranks in Ryukyu is average.

Most of the Ryukyu Go teenagers who have a little ambition will go to China to study and compete in the ranking tournament in China.

So basically they are at the bottom of every competition and cannot even participate in the second stage. The main thing is to participate.

As for the southeastern island that Mr. Ke asked about, it has always been a part of the East China region as long as it has never been separated from this world.

Shi Yu, completely unconcerned with the coach's words, took his own booklet and began to read it out of boredom: "Team Japan.

Ryuji Kuroki, ten years and eleven months old, professional first dan.

Yuto Yasui, fourteen years and five months old.

Lin Xinyi, seventeen years and one month old.

Kuroki is quite competitive, but the others are just average."

"The Korean team, Choi Jin Hyuk, Kim Young Hee, Park Ji Woong, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, an arithmetic progression."

"Ryukyu skipped."

"Team Silla, Kim Jae-ho, 12 years old, Park Chan-min, 25..."

Looking at the age of the Silla team, Shi Yu, who had originally looked indifferent, suddenly widened his eyes!

You're telling me this is a rookie competition?!

(End of this chapter)