Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1295

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 5 Episode 180
56. A Variable (1)
It was after Paprika had been completely eliminated from Team B.
Choi Sa-rang immediately began a strategy meeting with Team A.
Team A was important to her as well.
‘I need to get Cheese into the main tournament with at least one more team.’
If all five teams from Team B advance to the main tournament ranked first through fifth, then five out of the ten main tournament teams would be Cheese—which might seem like there’s nothing more to ask for.
But that’s not where it ends.
Cheese likely needs to send six teams total just to break even.
It’s because of the hidden team rule.
In the main tournament, the ten teams will compete once more.
At that point, the last-place team is completely eliminated, and a hidden team takes their spot.
If Cheese gets eliminated and a hidden team takes their place, then Paprika would have six teams and Cheese would have four.
In that scenario, there was a high probability that all of Cheese’s teams would be eliminated in the main tournament.
‘Ultimately, the preliminaries are such a crucial system.’
The entire league’s direction is determined by how many teams you advance to the main tournament initially.
If they’d created a rule like this in professional matches, they would’ve been criticized endlessly.
But since this was an event tournament, they simply prepared accordingly.
That’s why she quickly participated in the strategy meeting for Team A.
It was then that she asked.
“How about Team A? Have you become interested in trying the dispatch system?”
The most effective way to rapidly strengthen Team A was indeed to apply the dispatch system.
Initially, they couldn’t designate a slave from this team, so they went with a different strategy.
But having witnessed the power of the dispatch system, they might have become willing to try it.
‘I feel sorry for the team being dispatched, but….’
Sarang had tried to forcefully push through and send one team on dispatch.
Yet forcing them to lose felt too cruel to her, so she harbored some guilt.
Perhaps because of that, words uncharacteristic of her followed.
“You don’t have to do it. It’s not like you’ve even practiced yet….”
“No! We’ll do it!”
The coaches answered with spirited determination.
They would do it for the sake of victory.
However—
“Who will do it?”
The Radio team’s problem was this.
Who would bell the cat.
“Well….”
The coaches exchanged glances with each other.
“Sigh. We have no choice but to decide it with rock-paper-scissors.”
Choi Sa-rang reluctantly nodded and decided to leave it to chance.
There was no time for further discussion.
It was crucial to practice and run simulations at least once.
“The team that loses at rock-paper-scissors will be on the radio.”
“Yes!”
The coaches proceeded immediately.
“Rock! Paper! Scissors!”
“Rock, paper! Scissors!!”
They played rock-paper-scissors with fierce determination burning in their eyes.
‘Their competitive spirit is remarkable.’
Everyone clearly didn’t want to be on the radio.
Yet their drive to win was this intense.
I felt sorry for whichever team lost at rock-paper-scissors.
“Aaaaaaahhhhh!! I won!!!”
Won?
The person who lost was shouting that they won.
“Our team will be the servants! No, I mean on the radio!”
“?”
-?
-???
-Kekekekekekeke
-That guy definitely lost, right? Kekekeke
-These lunatics kekekeke
-But honestly, Team A’s roster is already weaker anyway kekeke so they might as well earn some money
-They’re willing to try anything~
-??Kekekekekekekeke
Sarang hadn’t turned on her personal broadcast, so she couldn’t see this public sentiment.
‘How is this even happening? Why are they so happy about this?’
This seemed to be about that “different reward” Almond had mentioned.
But as for her, she had no way of knowing what it was.
Only that Almond had persuaded them somehow.
‘What method did he use?’
That man named Sang-hyun Yu.
He frightened me.
How does he make them willingly volunteer to be servants?
‘Seduction?’
I considered the most plausible possibility.
But I knew that wasn’t it.
I could only accept their culture as it was.
“Understood. Then… Pizza Pub team?”
“Yes!”
“We’ll be using the Sacrificial Pawns strategy.”
“Yes!”
“You understand the mechanics, right? The highest-ranked team takes two members….”
“I understand perfectly! After establishing a solid foundation, I’ll sacrifice myself swiftly!”
“Don’t mention that part to your teammates.”
“Ahahaha… Ehehe. You understand the broadcast, Coach? Of course.”
“?”
I’d only mentioned it because I was worried they wouldn’t follow orders.
And so, Team A’s dispatch roster was finalized.
“Well, first… let me quickly explain the core of the dispatch strategy.”

* * *
Meanwhile, at the broadcast desk.
“Who said you can’t put fish cake in pajeon!?”
They were excited that Cheese had brought out the dispatch strategy.
More precisely, it was King Gul who was excited, not the commentators in general.
“They’ve finally implanted the dispatch strategy! Cheese! And look, even the pawns are smiling!”
“Isn’t that just them being out of their minds?”
The Analyst assessed this strategy as completely insane.
More precisely, it wasn’t the strategy itself that was insane, but the system that made this strategy executable.
Voluntarily becoming a pawn and accepting defeat.
“Ah, Analyst. Are you a bit upset because your analysis is completely off the mark right now?”
King Gul teased with a smirk.
But there were other external drawbacks as well.
“No. That’s not it. This dispatch role might look simple, but it’s not. How much experience should Radio gain, and at what moment should we sacrifice them as cannon fodder. There’s a lot to consider. Suddenly bringing this out without practice isn’t a good choice.”
It was a valid point.
Just looking at the minimap movements, the flashiness was noticeably lower compared to when they were in Team B.
It didn’t feel like each team was communicating and moving as a single organism.
It was more like having an emergency contact network.
“If we compare it to restaurants… it’s like someone who ran a meat restaurant seeing their friend’s tripe restaurant doing well, and thinking they can just grill tripe on the same grill.”
-Scary
-Kekekekeke
-This actually happens a lot lol
-Lol
-Huh
“But that’s where they make a mistake. The tripe item has completely different cost structures in prep time compared to regular meat….”
And so on and so forth.
As the Analyst’s explanation grew longer, the Caster cut him off.
“Enough about restaurants! What do you think, King Gul?”
-Kekekekekekekekekekekekeke
-Kekekeke
-For real, brain damage
I got one pair of red glasses to hit, so why did you cut it ㅠㅠ
-Turned into a restaurant lol
That’s because King Gul had been waving his hand, signaling he had something to say.
“That’s exactly why I’m saying you can’t communicate at all with someone who only looks at data! The field is what matters! The field!”
-Kekekekekekekekekekeke
-Kekeke what kekeke
-Whoa
-They’re bickering after a while lol
Even during the original Reel Champs broadcast, the two were famous for their back-and-forth disagreements to narrow their differences.
Perhaps because it was an exhibition match, King Gul attacked more bluntly.
“Cheese’s coaching staff has already half of them tried the radio strategy, haven’t they? And the mastermind behind that operation is Head Coach Choi Sa-rang?”
“Ah! That’s right!”
The Caster nods in agreement.
“So look. If the owner of a gopchang restaurant comes to our house and does the prep work instead? That’s consulting!”
“Ah…! I see what you mean!?”
-Haha
-Haha
-For real
-That’s true
-Kekekekekekekeke lol
-Restaurant counter lol
-Wow, the broadcast got grilled
“Well, we’ve heard both of your opinions! Whether either of you is right will come down to results anyway, won’t it?! How well will Cheese use the dispatch strategy! We’ll see! What’s the situation with Paprika right now? Analyst!”
“Yes. She’s hunting at a decent pace. Paprika is moving with the same strategy as the first match. It seems she didn’t anticipate that Cheese would choose the dispatch strategy. I wouldn’t either.”
-Still dissing lol
-Stubborn as hell lol
-Red Glasses lol
-Really acting like a rookie lol
He did act like a rookie, but his words were accurate.
Paprika’s movements weren’t significantly different from the first match.
They were using a method of funneling good monsters to the ace team “Underwater,” led by “Kalchi.”
The Caster summarizes.
“Yes~ Paprika is all-in again! We just level up the head, the head eats everything, we eliminate all enemies, and instead we take first place~! On the other hand, Cheese looks a bit different from Team B’s formation? King Gul, what do you think?”
The Caster was right.
Cheese’s formation was different from Team B.
“In Team B, the Agricultural Cooperative and Knight Order wedged themselves between enemy lines and played very aggressively, right? But Team A isn’t taking that kind of positioning?”
It was far more defensive and passive than when the Knight Order was used.
This time the terrain was honestly split down the middle.
Cheese’s territory versus Paprika’s territory.
“Yes. It seems like a proficiency issue, doesn’t it? They’re just leveling up steadily. They’re splitting the experience evenly between them… Ah, at this rate, the Radio team will be at a slight disadvantage….”
If things flow this textbook way, the Radio team moving with six people will be at a slight disadvantage.
“The overall structure isn’t much different from Team A’s first match!”
Just looking at the minimap as the Caster said, the only difference from Team A’s first match is one missing team.
It’s the same setup where Cheese got completely wiped out back then.
-Why even use radio then
-What
-It’s literally the same???
-Hmm.
-Their heads are growing so much?
Paprika’s Underwater team was hoarding experience points like crazy.
Without any interference whatsoever.
“Cheese distributed experience evenly across all teams except one! Paprika couldn’t distribute experience evenly across all teams except one! This setup is really interesting!”
Just as he said, their strategies were split to extremes.
Then Red Turtle appeared in that state.
“Now. The first epic monster. Red Turtle has appeared. But this time there are only four of them?”
All ten teams were still alive, but only four appeared.
“This… is going to be absolutely brutal… Whoa whoa whoa!?”
That’s when it happened.
Cheese made an extreme move for the first time.
“Cheese! They’re moving!?”
Now they shot forward like a single body toward enemy territory.
“From Cheese, except for one team! The other three teams are rushing!? Toward the enemy’s Red Turtle!”
“Out of 25 people! 19 are rushing!”
Cheese was essentially operating as four teams.
Three of those teams rushed toward a single Red Turtle.
“Paprika has no idea right now! Because they realized Cheese wasn’t in their territory! They’re just having the Underwater team try to hunt this Red Turtle alone!?”
Paprika had cleared the way to give this Red Turtle to Underwater.
“This is… Paprika!? Aren’t you being too optimistic?”
Knowing Cheese wasn’t in their territory, they thought the first match would repeat.
“They tried to close the gap in head-leveling! They tried to take too much!”
They wanted to feed Underwater more decisively.
And perhaps this would become a critical mistake.
“Cheese is rushing forward as if they knew this would happen!”
“At this rate it’s almost 19 versus 5 in terms of numbers! Even with a level difference of almost 2 levels! It’s not quite a 2-level difference yet!?”
You need to take one Red Turtle to open up a 2-level gap.
Right now it’s a 1.9-level difference.
In other words, practically a 1-level difference.
-OMG
-What is this?
-How did they know??
-Seriously?
-This is a bit much;
-What is this?
-They’re really betting everything on the Turtle again
[The shadow of the Abyss descends!]
Simultaneously, shadows spread across the map in multiple locations.
A variable erupts.
“Aaaaaahhh!?”
[First Blood!]
[Pepperoni → General Gebul]
The Tank of Underwater, who was playing the core role, fell.
“If this happens… then we can’t secure the Turtle!?”
“No, that’s not it! Underwater! Is there any way to escape!? Right now, nineteen players are almost forming an encirclement!”
“This is…”
King Gul cries out in astonishment.
“This is just them deciding to brute force through no matter what!! Cheese has no intention of letting the other teams take first through fifth place!!”
That was it.
From the start, their objectives differed from Team B’s.
They lacked proficiency with radio strategy, and there was a fundamental skill gap to begin with.
In other words, they were trying to sabotage the game however they could, create chaos, and get at least a few of Cheese’s teams into the top five.
-Scary scary scary
-Wow, these guys are terrifying kkk
-Cheese’s unity is what?
-Insane kkk
-Team A became slaves…
-Haha kkk
-Who… who exactly made them slaves…

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