Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1251

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 5 Episode 136
42. The Scrim Preliminary (3)
The Scrim channel opened in Disworld.
All ten teams gathered.
[Cheese Scrim]
[51/51]
“Heeey, berber-berber! Good day to you all? I’m Camembert, serving as the moderator for this Scrim.”
The operator in charge of hosting, Camembert, made his appearance.
-hey hey
-berber-berr~
-extreme job operator lol
-ber hey
Since he’d hosted events in Cheese Village before, quite a few viewers were delighted to see him.
“Everyone’s here, right? Check your teammates next to you, everyone.”
He quickly verified the headcount first.
“There could be a spy from Paprika here, you know? Or maybe that traitor Jello…”
“Ah, no! When did you start talking about enemies!?”
“Berber-berr~!”
-kekekekekekekekekekeke
-kekekeke jello keke
-zelruto dd
-but now it’s zelra?
-cheese village lol
After everyone had a good laugh.
“As you all already know, I’ll go over it once more.”
Camembert briefly explained the upcoming proceedings.
“We’ll run a total of five games to establish rankings. Since this is the first Scrim, just play comfortably. And I’ll be observing all the Scrims to collect data. That’s all!”
With Camembert’s words, everyone logged into Ril.
Whoosh!
[Loading…]
It’s begun.
Gulp.
Almond swallowed dryly, mentally rehearsing the strategies I’d use going forward.
Secure the route first… split with Hong-cha Lemon… merge when we turtle, then again after…
The split strategy was so complex that I had to memorize it this way just to adapt to it.
-do your best!
-mond fighting~!
-knight order! let’s goooo
The viewers were all cheering enthusiastically.
[Welcome to the Shadow of the Abyss!]
The moment I closed my eyes and opened them again, I was inside the airship.
“The map first!”
“Oh, okay!”
The entire Knight Order rushed toward the map.

* * *
Was it a coincidence?
At that same moment, Paprika also started her scrim.
With both platforms officially launching their scrims like this, there was no way the Streamer Garden wouldn’t be buzzing with discussion.
[Cheese and Paprika starting at the same time lol]
[Everyone’s doing scrims from today on wow lol]
[This planning is so good lol keeping them from meeting each other]
[Having the same schedule makes it so convenient, gotta praise the planning~]
The structured schedule, the internal match system that prevented teams from meeting until the actual competition, and so on.
The Streamer Garden players found it awkward at first, but once the scrims actually started and the system was in operation, they were satisfied.
Because they were far more excited about what would happen when teams that had never faced each other before finally clashed in the real competition.
It felt almost like an international tournament.
“Ooh~ I heard people liked your opinion?”
Popcorn and Oksuha, sitting beside me, speak while crunching on snacks.
He was sitting next to Choi Sa-rang.
Choi Sa-rang, without taking her eyes off the monitor, blurts out.
“I didn’t say it was good.”
“Haha~ yeah, you changed everything for your convenience. I get it. So~ cool! So~ cool!”
Oksuha teases earnestly, but his opponent doesn’t budge.
“Aren’t you practicing? For a hidden team, no less.”
“Hey. We have pride. Would we join the scrims? We’re separate.”
“Then the numbers don’t add up, do they?”
Wasn’t it ten teams from Paprika and ten teams from Cheese participating?
So they’d be mixing five teams each, right?
“You’ll see when you see. You’ll see.”
“…Really?”
Sarang frowned, clearly displeased that there was a process she didn’t know about.
Yet even so, she didn’t take her eyes off the monitor.
“By the way, you don’t need to see the other coaches in Disc World?”
“Even without using my legs, I can’t stay in the capsule long. Being there just makes my mind restless.”
“…I see.”
So the leg issue was a problem even without using them.
A bitter expression crossed Suhan’s face.
‘It’s gotten worse.’
The leg problem wasn’t improving—it was only getting worse.
Perhaps it was only natural.
But Suhan found it difficult to accept.
After all, he still indulges in such fantasies from time to time.
What if someday Jeon-ja-pa makes a comeback, and our team reunites to compete in the league once more… that kind of thought.
Of course, we’d all be older with our skills in the gutter, becoming washed-up versions of Jeon-ja-pa and the kids.
But still, what if we could step on stage and play the game one more time?
Wouldn’t that alone be wonderful?
“It’s started.”
Cheese’s scream began on Choi Sa-rang’s monitor.
Her mouse moved frantically, creating screenshots.
Click, click….
“Sigh. Her vision is still trapped in the same pattern. It’s the same route again. This one.”
Click.
“Route 1, 2….”
Watching her back as she focused so intently on just coaching for a streamer exhibition match, Suhan smiled bitterly.
‘It won’t happen.’
His wish was becoming increasingly real as something that could never come true.
Suhan turned his head away.
That was when it happened.
Bang!
Sarang suddenly slammed her desk.
“Ugh!”
“What, what’s wrong? Did the game go badly?”
Suhan turned back in bewilderment.
‘But she’s extremely composed when playing… what on earth… huh?’
He was thinking—just how angry would she have to be to hit the desk like that?
Surprisingly, she wasn’t even looking at the game screen.
Nothing significant was happening on the game screen beside her.
She was looking at a message someone had sent her.
[Cosmic: Yo kekekeke]
[Cosmic: You got cursed out like crazy kekekeke did you see? kekekeke lolkekekeke]
[Cosmic: (photo)]
[Cosmic: Still a superstar of Rilpro even with your identity hidden~]
A master of scratching Jeon-ja-pa.
It was a message from Cosmic.
Thanks to him, Choi Sa-rang ended up reading community posts she wouldn’t normally even look at.
“Even after we got rid of Recca, they’re still at it.”
“Yeah. How long have they been doing this? Those guys won’t stop until we win the championship.”
Even after winning the championship, they didn’t stop… but Suhan deliberately didn’t add that remark.
In modern society, the saying that ignorance is bliss rarely applies, but here it does.
Choi Sa-rang clearly understood that as well….
“I think I need to exercise my authority.”
Huh?
Suhan asks in disbelief.
“What? Did you forget? You’re the Coach.”
“I know.”
Sa-rang had her own method in mind.
‘Why am I going this far for this game?’

* * *
Beeeep!
[Game 1 Complete]
[1/5]
The first scrim match had ended.
[4th Place]
4th out of 10 teams.
In ranked games, this was called a “rank defense.”
It was shorthand for “rank defense”—not losing rank points.
So it was hard to say they performed poorly.
But considering the expectations the Knight Order held for themselves and public expectations, this was a poor showing.
Because of this, most of the Knight Order were thinking to themselves.
‘Wow, this is tougher than I thought….’
‘The split was a complete mess.’
‘Those bastards knew we were splitting and countered us….’
Being evaluated as one of the strongest teams had a significant negative impact in a survival format.
Due to the nature of the survival format, it was very easy for other teams to target them, and even three teams coordinated attacks simultaneously.
This actually revealed the weaknesses in the Knight Order’s split strategy.
While spreading out wide gave them more information,
the other teams knew they were attempting a split and responded accordingly.
It wasn’t that they engaged in deliberate teaming or malicious play.
But with other teams also having former pro coaches and several former pro streamers,
the Knight Order’s still-inexperienced coordination inevitably fell apart.
“Alright, everyone log into your team world! Let’s start the feedback session!”
Whoosh!
A portal appeared near the clustered teams.
It was a passage that could transport them to a different channel.
All of the Knight Order walked through it.
Inside the portal, Choi Sa-rang was waiting with her arms crossed.
After facing each other, no one spoke up first.
Beeeep!
[Feedback Time]
[09:59]
A notification appeared stating that we would be given 10 minutes of feedback time.
Even then, Choi Sa-rang said nothing.
Goguma throws out a joke as if trying to lighten the mood a bit.
“Ah. This is practically teaming, isn’t it? We got ganked~”
Still, Choi Sa-rang remained silent.
-What?
-Huh?
-Eh?
-What exactly??
-Coach? Knock knock~
Time continued to pass, but the awkward silence of staring at each other only grew longer.
‘What is this, really.’
Danmuji looked like he was about to sweat buckets, and even Almond couldn’t understand why Choi Sa-rang was acting this way.
‘?’
About three minutes had passed?
Choi Sa-rang raised her hand.
Four fingers.
“Four matches.”
“…?”
“No feedback until we complete four matches.”
“…Why?”
Danmuji couldn’t help but ask.
In truth, Danmuji wasn’t so much curious about the reason behind her claim of no feedback until four matches, but rather concerned about what people were saying about Choi Sa-rang.
He was worried.
‘At this rate, she’ll get even more criticism?’
Danmuji himself had already gained trust in the Coach from the moment she defeated Tottia.
But that woman’s provocative behavior made the viewers uneasy.
And that unease from the viewers directly affected Danmuji as a streamer.
“Why, you ask? Because I decided it that way.”
“??”
-?
-??
-Huh?
lol
That’s got some punch to it lol
-Wow
Choi Sa-rang spoke as if she had decided to take all the criticism on herself.
“…Yes.”
Of all places, only Almond knew the answer here.
‘It’s Jeon-ja-pa. He must have his reasons.’
I trusted his judgment when it came to Choi Sa-rang, even if I wouldn’t with Danmuji.
More precisely, I trusted Jeon-ja-pa’s thinking.
-Kekekekekekekeke
-Kekekeke wait keke
-Mond…
-Almond just finds feedback annoying~
-He’d probably like it instead
-But what kind of bizarre method is this???
-What did Almond butter up this guy with?
-Hmm…
Other teams would receive feedback and grow stronger for the next round.
The Knight Order had to enter with the ambiguous ranking of fourth place.
“Would it be okay if we gave each other feedback?”
Danmuji was determined to do it among themselves at least.
“Do as you like.”
-?
-Why is she like that lol
-Wow
-Hey sis! Why are you upset!?
-The villain role… I’m used to it…
Why are you like this? ㅠㅠ
-???
-Is it like self-study?

* * *
Three more matches followed.
The Knight Order’s performance surprisingly declined.
4th place – 4th place – 3rd place – 7th place
It wasn’t until Danmuji dropped to 7th that he truly grasped the severity.
‘Damn it… My understanding of split-pushing in survival matches is lacking too.’
He was a pro at siege warfare.
Everything else was essentially amateur level.
Even the way he handled avatars was practically starting from zero in survival matches.
Above all, the other teams kept improving and coming back stronger.
But we can’t seem to find our footing.
“Um… Sis… I don’t think I have talent for split-pushing…”
“What? No, we did well with hunting, didn’t we?”
“What good is leveling up well if we can’t do this…”
“It’s all my fault! I’m just bad at this game!”
“We all know that, Gobong.”
Hong-cha and Lemon were sighing too.
“These bastards ganked us so we couldn’t do anything!”
Goguma was blaming himself, but once everyone agreed, he suddenly shifted the blame to others.
“Ahahaha! Wait, a group gank?!”
That’s when it happened.
Jello approached.
That’s insane
-Here again lol
-Jello just loves Daegam so much lol
-lol came to tease him
“I mean, split-pushing right out in the open! Just dividing the same time into the same numbers over and over! Shouldn’t your brain get split too then? It’s not a gank! It’s the judgment of the masses!”
Jello made a gesture of opening his skull and laughed heartily.
-For real lol
-They’re trying to split and eat everything, who’s gonna stop them lol
-Brain split lolol
-Lmao
-He comes and still teaches them lol
“Sigh.”
“What a troublemaker…”
“Zelruto, you bastard…! Should’ve kicked you out of Cheese Village for good!”
Everyone threw out complaints one by one.
Strangely enough, Almond said nothing.
‘Why isn’t Daegam saying anything?’
Jello had actually come to hear one word from Almond.
‘Ugh. Tsk.’
Getting no response, I awkwardly shuffle my feet and turn to leave.
-?
-??
What’s up? Haha.
ㅋㅋㅋ (kekeke) is Korean internet slang representing laughter. The “-ㅁㅊ” prefix appears to be a typo or corrupted text, but the “ㅋㅋㅋ” translates to:
[UNTRANSLATED LINE 273]
hahaha
Haha, that came out of nowhere.
Almond’s silence.
Even Jello found it strange, but so did Danmuji.
‘What’s this about?’
The person with the strongest competitive spirit, the one who even earned the title of interview demon, says nothing to Jello.
He could’ve at least said something for the broadcast.
Almond simply stood still, his gaze fixed on something.
Danmuji stepped closer to take a look.
Then he heard Almond muttering something.
That’s when he realized.
‘Ah.’
Right now, there was no room in his mind for Jello.
“What’s wrong? What went wrong? Where exactly…? Could it be that Goguma is just that bad…?”
He was panicking because his greatest life achievement—the split strategy—was in crisis.
“The split isn’t at fault. Goguma is the problem… Goguma…”
Just sweet potatoes lol
Why would sweet potatoes taste different? lol
Sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes, ugh.
I’m dying laughing
-If the guy who won with Balloon Gum is saying this, he must really want to save the split strategy
I’m going crazy lolololol
“…”
Danmuji had even considered giving up on the split strategy.
‘Regardless of anything else, let’s do the split.’
This obsession seemed impossible to stop.
Beep beep beep!
When the feedback notification chimed, Almond’s eyes finally lit up.
“Oh. I’ll go listen to the feedback. Maybe I’ll finally get some answers~”

Whoosh!
[UNTRANSLATED LINE 305]
* * *
Choi Sa-rang had been waiting with her arms crossed throughout all four rounds, just as before.
But something was different this time.
Starting from this round, feedback would be included.
“!”
Behind her, countless screenshots floated in the air.
“Wow… what is this?”
“It’s an exhibition hall~ Whee~”
“Wait, did we fail to do all of that?”
Everyone stared at the numerous photographs with astonished expressions.
Then a time limit notification for the feedback appeared.
[Time Limit]
[09:59]

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