Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1273

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 5 Episode 158
48. Business Like Family (5)
[Game Over]
After the Knight Order finished all games in 1st place.
Whoosh!
All the Streamers gathered in the lobby.
Everyone chattered and gossiped about the Knight Order’s results.
“Hey, the Knight Order got 1st place in everything.”
“No way.”
“Wow, that’s insane.”
“Didn’t it turn out exactly like that Coach said?”
Some of them remembered what the Knight Order’s Coach had said.
And for good reason—it was quite an impressive statement, wasn’t it?
“He said it precisely today too. That we’d all get 1st place today.”
From now on, we’ll keep getting 1st place.
After saying something like that, it was impossible not to remember it.
Because that statement essentially meant the rest of them couldn’t get 1st place.
And it became reality.
“That’s crazy?”
“Wow, so he really did it? Like flipping his palm?”
“That doesn’t make sense… Who exactly is that person?”
The shock over the Knight Order’s results was short-lived.
Soon, most of the Streamers’ conversation shifted elsewhere.
Specifically….
“This is all because of Doughnutz!”
Finding the culprit within their own team.
-Starting politics right away kekekeke
-What evidence is that lol
-Out of nowhere?
The Agricultural Cooperative had repeatedly missed 1st place and even been toyed with by the Knight Order, so the team atmosphere wasn’t good.
“What!? Me, me?! Why me!?”
First, Doughnutz was being blamed as the Agricultural Cooperative’s person in charge.
“No, look. We could’ve just done it like yesterday. Why make such a reckless move?”
Ppulranem pressed him.
“Come on. If we’re gonna do it like yesterday, why even do a scrim?! Does that count as practice? Huh? What’s the point if we only do well on practice tests!”
“No, hyung, this scrim isn’t just practice—it’s supposed to establish rankings!”
“Our ranking is already high enough! Huh? By calculation, we’d still be in the top 3 or 4!”
“We could’ve gotten 1st place, but you tanked us to 3rd or 4th today!”
Those who vented their anger like this were actually in a better position.
Because this was closer to showmanship—deliberately raising their voices for the viewers to see.
-Kekekeke, are you blaming Doughnutz for this?
-Does that even make sense?
-Ppulranem, what did you do then?
-Doughnutz designed the whole thing and brought these trash players all the way here;
-Ugh kkk
-Ppulranem honestly plays survival matches pretty well? Doppa fans don’t know anything~
-They did well enough for this
So the viewers’ reactions weren’t particularly sharp either.
Just casual chatter here and there.
The real problem comes when things get quiet.
“Sigh. Hmm… Everyone worked hard.”
Speaking like this, they quietly eye the streamer next to them.
They pretend to have peaceful conversations while drawing daggers.
“Ah… wasn’t this a landing point issue early on? I’d like to check once.”
“That could be it. But wasn’t the teamfight later just not very good?”
Landing points, teamfights.
All just pretexts.
What they really want to say is ‘you played badly’.
“Hmm. I think the landing point design was flawed from the start.”
“The landing point was fine. Landing has a lot of variables, you know. We should focus on the teamfight….”
“Right. Right… lots of variables….”
-Oof
-The atmosphere’s totally ruined lol
-This is suffocating kkkkk
Beyond this, there were various situations.
Only two talking while the rest just bow their heads and stay silent.
Sometimes the entire team falls silent.
“….”
“…sigh.”
“Haah….”
Either staying silent or sighing, doing one or the other.
Even the chat dwindles, and viewers start leaving.
-Can’t watch this
-What are they doing
Say anything, please ㅠㅠ
So where do these departing viewers head?
That was obvious.
To a place where they can complain about this.
They flood into the community.

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[Streamer Garden]
On days when Scream happened, the number of people attaching team names to the headers of their posts exploded.
Before Scream, they had been discussing Almond’s sponsorship rankings, but now they were all talking only about Scream.
[Hambuggies) Damn, one guy ruined the whole team’s reputation]
[Motmotmot) Honestly, wasn’t taking away Balloon Gum’s Iron Ball crossing the line? This deserves to be brought before the human rights committee]
[Magic Girl) Why is Miho pouting when she couldn’t do it herself? I seriously don’t get it]
[Hambuggies) Why you remove pickles from a hamburger.jpg]
[Magic Girl) Isn’t it obvious there’s a spy here? Why are you looking for the culprit in the wrong place? One of them isn’t even a girl, right?]
[Magic Girl) Here comes the Miho anti-fan club again]
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In all this, there was no commentary about the Knight Order, which recorded 1st place overall.
There was only one post about them in the trending rankings.
1st) What? Cheese Village? Platform Tournament?
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Just these guys
(photo)
G O A T
“The Knights”
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Damn, haha the photo haha
-With Seok’s photo like that, it’s seriously insane
Ugh, I’m so sad.
-We worship you…
-This is real
Just these bastards~ lol
That was it.
No further words were needed.
Currently, the Knight Order was Cheese’s highest stock.
In this situation, the words the Agricultural Cooperative had spoken before came back like a boomerang.
2nd) The Agricultural Cooperative’s current status: “It’s not business, it’s family.” jpg
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Fighting like dogs lol
(photo)
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-That place is seriously a mess
Hahahahahaha
What’s up with those old guys’ hairstyles lol
I’m dying laughing ㅋㅋㅋ
-Unknown: You need business to have family! You damn amateur bastards!
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ (lol lol lol lol lol lol)
└That’s true~
-If we compare it to a restaurant, the Agricultural Cooperative is like a Korean home-style restaurant, but it has three plates of the same side dish.
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ (laughing/lol)
Three old guys lol
That old guy is creepy as hell.
“Dad jokes are the best lolololol”
-Info) For the lower ranks, family is valued less than business
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ (laughing/lol)
Once it gets twisted, there’s really no way to fix it.
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ I totally agree
Breaking up is better than going on strike lol
Don’t lose to the knights like this, tsk tsk.
-The Knight Order is a business, but it was a publicly listed company~
Thus, all values were reorganized and reevaluated around the Knight Order.
This was the sweet reward that came to the victor.
However, there was another opinion.
3rd Place) But the Knight Order isn’t actually 1st overall, right?
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They were only 1st at the very end of the first day and then died.
Overall, they probably can’t be 1st?
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-?
I can’t translate this as it appears to be incomplete or corrupted text in Korean. “-ㄹㅇ” is not a standard Korean word or phrase.
-Is that so??
-Well
-The Agricultural Cooperative is 1st
-They just did well for one day and people are making a big deal out of it
-You have to see this as relative evaluation to understand

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Meanwhile, in the channel where the Coaches gathered.
[Coach]
The place was filled with the clamor of Coaches chattering among themselves.
As expected, the topic was the same as it had been on-site.
The Knight Order’s 1st Place this season.
“This can’t be real….”
“Insane.”
“What in the world is happening?”
“Can the gap really be that wide?”
Though the topic was the same, the flow of conversation differed slightly—probably because these were Coaches, after all.
“But how are they getting 1st Place in a luck-based game?”
I understood that the Knight Order had good base stats, but survival matches inherently contained elements of chance.
How were they consistently taking first place?
That was the discussion being exchanged.
Taco explained it this way.
“If we say luck can sway about 20% of the outcome, then the Knight Order’s skill must exceed that 20% by far.”
However, everyone found it difficult to accept.
Why?
“But in survival matches, luck can sway almost 50% of the outcome?”
In survival matches, luck was truly an undeniable variable.
In extreme cases, bad luck could put you at a severe disadvantage.
“Wasn’t this game designed so that even people without skill could win once in a while?”
That was true.
If Siege matches were designed with the fundamental motto of testing the highest skill, survival matches were not.
They were designed to create plenty of elements of chance, giving even less skilled players an opportunity to place 1st once in a while.
After all, it was a respite for those tired of the endless competition of Siege matches.
At this, Taco corrected himself once more.
“That’s why I said ‘if’ luck is 20%.”
“…!”
Everyone’s eyes widened at those words.
Taco’s statement meant that the Knight Order’s skill was so great it could offset even that massive luck factor.
‘So they’re performing more than 50% better?’
‘Well… the results speak for themselves….’
‘There’s nothing to say.’
Everyone seemed to have plenty to say, but faced with such overwhelming results, no one could bring themselves to speak.
There was nothing to do but accept it.
A small-framed figure emerged from behind the Coaches.
[Wanducong]
“Hmm… but shouldn’t we also look at the overall rankings?”
Though small in stature, I was one of the most trusted coaches here.
After all, I was one of the key figures who brought the Agricultural Cooperative to its current position alongside those other middle-aged men.
“The Knight Order didn’t perform very well yesterday.”

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Meanwhile, in the waiting channel where the Streamers gathered.
Camembert appeared right in the center.
Poof.
“Thank you all for your hard work. Warriors of Cheese.”
-Warriors kekekekekekeke
-Did he really say warriors…
Cheese’s warrior lol
-kekekekekekeke
“As announced, our scrim serves as practice, but it also allows us to see with our own eyes which teams are the strongest among us.”
Whoooosh…!
As he spoke, a screen rose behind Camembert.
“Now… let’s see how our overall rankings turned out, shall we?”
Ting.
Light flooded the screen, and the overall rankings table was revealed.
“Here is your ‘rank’.”
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1. Knight Order
2. Magical Girl
3. Agricultural Cooperative & Partners
4. Hambugies
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10. Motmotmot
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It was a shocking result.
-Motmotmot kekekekekekekekeke
-Insanekekekekeke
-Knight Order is 1st place???
-Gasp
People were shocked by two things.
One was that the Knight Order ranked 1st in the overall standings as well.
And the other was….
-Motmotmot is in last place???
The Motmotmot team had plummeted all the way to last place.
Even in the last scrim, Motmotmot had shown respectable results, and with a Challenger mixed into the team, yet they ended up in last place.
It was a result that left everyone bewildered.
-And today it’s a streamer garden war
-That team’s atmosphere must be ruined;
Knight Order is crazy
The curse of bubble gum ㄷㄷ
Even the Knight Order members themselves were talking about Motmotmot’s results rather than their own.
“Wow… Mosol’s team is in last place?”
“…That’s dreadful.”
“I should cut my internet today. For that team.”
In the midst of this, Almond brought up something.
“So if something happens, Motmotmot tanks first and dies, right?”
“!”
A topic no one had dared mention until now.
It was about cooperation, or teaming.
Under the current rules, teaming was possible, and it even felt like teaming was being encouraged.
Wasn’t that why they divided the hierarchy and brought out the scrim results?
But Motmotmot ended up in last place.
So then?
“Yes. That’s correct.”
Camembert, having heard Almond’s words, gestured toward him and spoke.
“Lower-ranked teams become lower ranks.”
-Gasp
-For real?
That’s legendary lolololol
That’s hilarious lolololol
-Are they really doing this?
“And they are bound to obey the upper ranks. However, dividing ranks into ten positions would be too complicated, so….”
As Camembert gestured, another chart appeared.
Ting.
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King – 1
Nobility – 2
Commoner – 6
Slave – 1
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“We’ve divided it into four ranks like this.”
-Haha, oh my god!
-Wait, was this a king game all along
-So now it’s King instead of Daegam
The King is crazy.
-King Daegam
“What, a slave? Why alone ㅠㅠ”
-Nobi kekekekekekeke
Zelnoby ㅠㅠ
-This is insane kekeke
“From now on, I’d appreciate it if you all acted according to your respective ranks.”
At Camembert’s words, everyone exchanged bewildered glances with one another.

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