Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1262

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 5 Episode 147
45. Preemptive Extermination (3)
According to the rules revealed so far, the Platform Championship consists of preliminaries, main rounds, and playoffs.
The preliminaries are divided into Group A and Group B, conducted across two groups.
Since survival matches have a total of 10 teams with 50 players per game, they’re split evenly into 5 Cheese teams and 5 Paprika teams. This is Group A.
By creating Group A and Group B this way, 10 Paprika teams and 10 Cheese teams are mixed evenly, and a total of 10 games are played.
During these 10 games, only the top 5 teams advance to the main rounds overall, while the rest are eliminated.
In the main rounds, games are conducted in a single group, and the 4 teams that survive here advance to the playoffs.
The playoffs are conducted as best-of-three siege matches, with only the finals being best-of-five.
“So, after hearing all this, don’t you feel something? Camembert~?”
Camembert had said he would explain ‘why they’re trying to select first place in scrims.’
After organizing the survival match rules once more, he was now asking back if anyone felt anything.
‘What is it.’
‘I have no idea?’
‘It feels like I should raise my hand and say something. What is it.’
Everyone looked confused, glancing at each other.
Suddenly, someone raises their hand.
Snap!
[Foolish Youth]
It was Almond.
-Student, put your hand down
I can’t translate this as it appears to be garbled or corrupted text rather than coherent Korean or English.
Damn, haha
-What’s he trying to do;
-His nickname alone is untrustworthy…
His viewers had no faith in him whatsoever.
“Hmm.”
Camembert nodded and accepted it anyway since he was the one who asked the question.
“Yes. Foolish Youth. Please go ahead.”
Pffft…!
At the mention of his real name, numerous Streamers barely held back their laughter.
Among them, Jello was holding back the most exaggerated laugh.
“Grrr… Guhuhuh… Guhuhuhck!?”
He seemed to be doing it on purpose.
He still harbored resentment toward Daegam.
Jello, haha
What’s that? lol
-That won’t make Reina come to you…
I really like it, for real.
Regardless of who mocked him, Foolish Youth answered with a determined gaze.
Well, that’s because the answer was crystal clear to him.
“I’m planning to rank people and just make the incompetent ones tank.”
From his perspective, it was an entirely natural strategy.
-?
-As expected, such fertile thinking…
-??
How are you tanking for the whole team lol
Crazy lolololol
I can’t translate this as it appears to be corrupted text or random characters rather than coherent Korean.
ㅋㅋㅋㅋ (laughter)
What kind of insurance covers that many tanks then lol
-Tanks are people too…
Ranking people and assigning the lowest-ranked ones to nothing but chores in the game—an extremely typical Achievement mindset, and very much an Almond way of thinking.
Naturally, everyone just took it as a joke.
“Hmm?”
But Camembert, the one who asked the question, reacted with considerable interest.
“It’s roughly similar?”
Doodung─
From the Cheese Operator’s own words came the opinion that all underperforming teams should tank, and it was “roughly similar.”
Naturally, the Streamers could only murmur among themselves.
‘What? That’s actually real?’
‘You’re telling me to play Bioyeokto again!?’
‘Damn it?’
‘Then our team has no hope from the start!’
Everyone naturally wants to perform, to be noticed—it’s human instinct, and for Streamers, it’s almost an obligation.
But if your ranking is low in scrims, you might not even get that chance.
Confusion was inevitable.
“Ah, don’t be so afraid. The nuance is just similar. We’re not going exactly as that Foolish Youth said. We learned from the history of Cheese Village, didn’t we? That hell cannot repeat itself. Berberbeber~~r!”
hahahahaha for real
-If we did what Almond said: Cheese Village Aseng
Throughout history lol
-Glad we tried that
-The process of one man’s madness consuming a village
-Agreed!
“Now, shall we take a look at this screen?”
Ting.
He displayed some kind of data screen.
It was a matchup bracket.
Groups A and B of the preliminaries.
Cheese and Paprika were distributed perfectly evenly.
“Initially, the distribution looks perfectly balanced at fifty-fifty. But what if we consider the worst-case scenario?”
Ding.
The screen changes.
In Preliminary A, Paprika’s five members occupy ranks one through five, and in Preliminary B, Paprika does the same.
“This is entirely possible. Paprika sweeping ranks one through five in the preliminaries. So when the main tournament begins?”
Ding.
[Main Tournament]
The bracket displayed on the screen was painted entirely in a single color.
-Gasp
-That’s crazy
-So this could actually happen
-Iryeolsuga
-No way
Every team was Paprika.
“And the tournament organizers have no safeguard mechanisms in place? They simply created this tournament thinking, ‘Surely Cheese will keep advancing one team at a time~'”
Murmur murmur.
The Streamers’ expressions grow noticeably serious.
“Wait, if that happens, this isn’t even a platform competition anymore, is it?”
“It’s just a Paprika festival. Running on half of Cheese’s prize pool….”
“That’s insane. That would be hell.”
“Iryeolsuga. Are those bastards really training that obsessively just to pull this off!?”
Paprika hadn’t said anything yet.
Yet the Cheese Streamers’ hatred toward Paprika only grew, simply from witnessing the worst possible outcome that could unfold in the future.
They’d all heard rumors, just like Almond had.
“I heard they’re doing 25-person cooperative training! If we keep going like this, aren’t we all getting eliminated!?”
Someone finally speaks up.
Jello.
“This isn’t something we can just overlook! Everyone! Paprika’s 25-person joint training is like North Korea’s nuclear weapons provocation! This is fucking war!!”
A bombshell declaration.
-Lmaooooo
-Hahahahahaha
-North Korea nuclear testlol
-Now I finally understand why North Korea freaks out over US-Korea joint drills…
-For real though lol
-Lol
-But isn’t this side the North Korea here?
Murmur murmur.
The commotion grows louder.
“25-person cooperative training?”
“What the… Are they seriously preparing for war?”
“This is insane. Are you seriously saying we should do the same?”
In truth, the reality of the twenty-five-person joint training hadn’t been officially revealed yet.
But merely hearing about it was terrifying.
Now that the Cheese platform had only just launched, if we all crashed out miserably in the platform tournament and the main tournament became nothing but Paprika’s festival from the start?
“Wait, hold on?!”
Miho suddenly jumped to her feet.
She’d realized something shocking.
“This… it’s not just a problem of Cheese being completely eliminated. Think about it—what if Paprika gets even one more team advancing to the main tournament!”
-Yikes
-Oh no
-Seriously
-She’s right??
-If they all gang up, it’s hopeless
In survival matches, when another team becomes involved in the fight, it’s called an “Another”—a term reserved for describing an extremely dangerous and special situation.
Fighting in a 2-versus-1 scenario is truly the worst possible situation in a survival match.
Even with just one additional team, that’s five more people in terms of numbers, making it a 10-versus-5 situation.
It’s a completely different outcome than one person facing two.
Camembert claps her hands together.
Clap!
“Exactly! You saw it perfectly, Miho. This isn’t just about avoiding the embarrassment of not getting a single team through. We must get at least five teams to the main tournament!”
Ding.
The screen changes at that moment.
[Cooperation]
There wasn’t much written on it.
Just the word “Cooperation” and an illustration behind it that resembled the title “Friends Around the World.”
“We must trust one another. Though we compete and fight right now, we must not forget that we are all one Cheese!”
-That’s just teaming up lol
-They just packaged “gang up on everyone” real nicely
-In the end…
It seemed like they were reaching a beautiful conclusion.
But then─
“To do that! We will establish rankings!”
The story had returned to its original starting point.
Why establish rankings?
-?
-?
-??
-?
The “Cooperation” poster evoking “Friends Around the World” and the talk of establishing rankings didn’t quite match.
In other words, this cooperation from the beginning was something with strict hierarchies.
“Because you must clearly understand who to rally around!”
Identify who performs well on Cheese’s team and push them forward.
“That’s all. We’re not authoritarian and coercive like Paprika. Simply be aware… and make decisive calls when it matters.”
Teams that can’t perform should just die in their place during actual matches.
“Please make that decisive call! I’m worried about facing public backlash… not Cheese’s authoritarian and coercive backlash, but rather the democratic backlash from the citizens! Berbeberbe~r!”
I can’t translate this as it’s not a coherent Korean phrase – it’s just consonants (ㅁㅊㅋ repeated) without vowels, which doesn’t form meaningful words or text.
-Isn’t that too much?
-Do we really have to go this far to win…
-If we don’t do this, it’s hell anyway from the start
If you can’t do it, just drop dead lol
Gasp hahahaha
-Will this even work…?
-Balloon Gum is already out?
“That concludes the explanation! Everyone, thank you for your hard work!”

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The first joint scrim ended like this.
The Streamers’ scrim was over, but the fans’ wasn’t.
They still had heat left in them.
-Jello’s good at gaming and streaming, he does it all, so what’s the problem?
-No matter what, Kkeom is a Nantro Championship winner. Treating him like a punching bag is too blatant
-Kkeom under Jello Kkeom under Jello Kkeom under Jello
Bubble gum is so outdated even for fans lol
The kids on Zelo’s side are also in their 30s and 40s according to the data, but they’re so outdated lol
Internal division.
When you practice, what you eventually clash with isn’t the enemy team, but your own allies.
It was the same for the fans.
Fights break out in the process of determining who performed well and who didn’t.
Already on the Can’t-Can’t-Can’t team, Jello’s fans and Balloon Gum’s fans started pulling each other’s hair and fighting.
Don’t you remember when Jello got tricked by Balloon Gum with Ice Age? lol
-Balloon Gum is genuinely hard to distinguish from a troll, that’s the problem. If he messes up, the team atmosphere gets tense in an instant
Ew, it’s disgusting how Zelo fans pretend to be in their 20s lol. These bastards are all in their 30s now—only their bank accounts are still in their 20s.
Actually, it’s Mosol’s fans whose voices should be louder here.
But they were just too few in numbers to say anything at all.
Gum gel normal battle is crazy
-Let’s just stay quiet…
-If we get involved wrong, we’ll get holes punched like Ace~
-Mosol fighting~
This wasn’t just a problem with the Can’t-Can’t-Can’t team.
Many other teams were also exchanging heated discussions following yesterday’s scrim.
It had gotten to such an extreme that this happened.
3rd Place) Release Miho Release Miho Release Miho
Whether Miho’s antis had hacked the Streamer Garden or pinpointed her location, they’d posted demands to release her as a trending issue.
-That’s crossing the line…
-What is this?
-Are they seriously insane?
Miho originally had a lot of haters lol
Amid this warzone where missiles were being lobbed from every direction,
there was one fanbase that remained remarkably quiet.
[Knight Order fans just trust Coach and go with it]
[If you’re a solid Knight Order fan, upvote this]
[Honestly feels like our team’s just gonna take 1st place anyway]
Only extremely positive posts were appearing.
Why?
7th Place) The reason why the Knight Order kids are being quiet right now
This one trending issue perfectly explained the current situation.
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The coach pulled aggro yesterday, summoned all those cockroach bastards, and stomped them all to death lololololol
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-Real talk
-For real
-Real talk real talk
Hahaha, for real
-I wanna get stomped too…
└?
I should’ve come out yesterday, I’m late lol. I rushed out yesterday and got stepped on lol.
The early bird gets the worm lol
Yesterday I changed my strategy and immediately got first place, that’s actually legendary lol
Hahaha I summoned all the cockroaches yesterday and killed every single one, so look how quiet it is today hahaha
Those bastards already pulled all their tricks yesterday, so they’re out of steam now lol
-Choi Sun-sin’s preemptive extermination style is insane
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This was the result of preventive measures taken in advance.
A woman scrolling through posts let out a breath of relief.
“Phew… Glad nothing went wrong.”
She was grateful that everything had passed without incident.
“Just a little longer… let’s hold on.”
On one corner of her desk, her calendar had several yellow circles marked on it.
“Once the tournament actually starts, it’ll be fine.”
The entire tournament would be over in two days.
In truth, the grueling part of the Streamer tournament was all the practice leading up to it.
Gyu-ri resolved to simply push through those days.

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