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The announcement of the Golden Joystick Awards nominations did not significantly impact StarCard's established plans.

On the Chinese internet, the fans of Starcard and the fans of Jade were arguing fiercely, and the conflict even showed a tendency to spread to patriotism, as if not playing Starcard's games meant being unpatriotic. When Chen Dong noticed this trend, alarm bells immediately went off in his mind.

Playing the patriotic card can be a double-edged sword; if not handled carefully, it could have a huge negative impact on the reputation of Star Card.

Therefore, given how things have developed, Xingka can no longer remain silent and needs to step forward to appropriately guide and restrain its fans.

After all, there's a saying in the fan community: if fans do something wrong, the idol has to pay the price.

To maintain Xingka's public image, Xingka's official statements have been very restrained. They don't want to offend Xingka's fan base, nor do they want casual observers to have a negative impression of Xingka due to the domineering attitude of Xingka's fans.

On the eve of the Escape from Chickenkov International Grand Prix, Starcard posted a statement on its official account urging fans to refrain from making comments. The statement also expressed respect for the TGA awards committee's selection results and noted that Jade's Prince of Persia is also an excellent game.

After StarCard's attempts to smooth things over, StarCard's fans have somewhat restrained themselves, and in order to continue playing excellent domestic games in the future, they will stop making enemies for StarCard on the internet.

When faced with enemies and haters, these fans are definitely the strongest support for Xingka, but let's not ask where these enemies and haters came from.

At 3:00 AM Beijing time, it translates to 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM in the United Kingdom, and around 8:00 PM in Europe.

At this point in time, it's barely possible to cater to both European and American player groups. As for countries in East Asia, their economic development is generally low and their player base is small, so they are not the main focus of StarCard's current promotional campaign.

Furthermore, even if they don't want to watch the live stream, they can watch the recording on YouTube after daybreak, which is just as good.

Due to various limitations, Starcard chose to hold this international grand prix online, which saved a lot of costs and made it easier to invite some well-known streamers and professional players to participate.

The biggest names Starcard invited this time are Lud, a streamer with tens of millions of followers on YouTube, and Donk, a once-popular figure in the CS professional scene.

There is still one hour before the online live stream officially begins.

Hangzhou, Xingka.

Chen Dong stood inside the operations department, watching the team members busy in front of several computers.

"Mr. Chen, the live stream room on YouTube has been set up. Due to screen size limitations, the live stream screen can only be divided into two halves, which means that only the live screens of the two contestants' computers can be displayed at the same time."

The operations manager pulled a balding programmer over to Chen Dong and quietly reported on the progress of the preparations.

Seeing the fine beads of sweat on the forehead of the operations manager, Chen Dong nodded, knowing that this was the best solution.

After all, this is a single-player game competition, and the computer screens of the ten contestants are independent. However, the screen size of a live broadcast room is limited and cannot be divided into ten small areas. Therefore, the only option is to adopt the method mentioned by the operations manager, which is to display the screens of two contestants at the same time and change them every once in a while.

In addition, if one of the players encounters an interesting situation, it can be broadcast live.

On YouTube, Starcard created an official account for "Escape from Chickenkov," and the first video posted on the account was related to the international grand prix.

Even though the Grand Prix hadn't started yet, many Escape from Chickenkov players had already entered the dark live stream room to wait.

During the wait, tens of thousands of people in the live stream began to communicate with each other using bullet comments.

"Hey, have you guys seen the footage of that Chinese female player's match?"

"I watched it! I never expected her to pull out a crown in the final moments of the game and pull off a comeback. It was even more exciting than the NBA!"

"Could she be the first person in the world to touch the crown? I certainly haven't seen anyone post pictures of touching the crown on YouTube, TikTok, or any forums."

"That must be her. She's such a lucky girl. I heard she's quite popular in China, a very popular live streamer?"

"That's right, she is Xingka's official contracted streamer. I just don't know when Xingka signed several bloggers on YouTube."

As time passed, the live stream suddenly changed from complete darkness to a computer screen.

Even though it wasn't a live match, Chen Dong still hired a male and a female commentator to provide commentary in English.

After a brief opening speech and an introduction to the competition rules and rewards, it was time for the contestants to take the stage.

The first player to appear in the live stream was Donk, a popular CS player.

With the appearance of Donk, the popularity of the live stream increased dramatically, jumping from around 10,000 viewers to 30,000, and the rate of increase is still accelerating.

According to Donk's camera footage, he was in the club's training room, perhaps having just finished training before coming directly to participate in the Starcard Grand Prix.

Donk waved at the camera, gave a brief self-introduction, and then nodded, indicating to the director that the camera could switch to the next contestant.

Following closely behind Donk in the live stream was the popular streamer Lud.

To be honest, their popularity is actually about the same, but one is more popular in the CS gaming community, while the other is more famous in the console gaming community.

The host, Lud, also waved to the camera and, after his self-introduction, spontaneously promoted Starcard's "Escape from Chickenkov".

It's clear that streamer Lud really likes the game Escape from Chickenkov and is gradually becoming a member of the Starcard fan community.

After Lud's appearance, several less famous YouTubers and TikTok influencers, along with four amateur contestants, took the stage.

As the contestant introductions concluded, the number of viewers in the live stream gradually climbed to 100,000.

To be honest, the number of people is not large, but this is because the Grand Prix has not yet started and the popularity of the live broadcast room has not yet reached its peak.