Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 1298

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 5 Episode 183
57. The Enemy’s Counterattack (1)
When the first inter-platform tournament had begun, the spectator stands were a desperate sight for Cheese.
Eighty percent of the audience had bet on Paprika’s victory, so eight-tenths of the stands were drenched in red.
But after the first round’s two matches and the second round’s one match had concluded.
The landscape had transformed entirely.
The ratio of red to yellow had become nearly equal.
Countless people had witnessed the radio strategy and begun predicting Cheese’s victory.
Accordingly, the volume of cheers had shifted as well.
Initially, Cheese as the underdog had screamed with desperate fervor, while Paprika had overwhelmed them with sheer numbers and roaring enthusiasm.
Now, despite equal numbers, Paprika’s cheers had become far more desperate.
“Paprika! One! Two! Three!”
“Paprika! Fighting!!”
Not only the Paprika viewers who had logged into the spectator stands, but the chat window as well.
I’m crying / Sob sob sob
It’s because of Lee Ki-ja ㅠㅠㅠ
-Show us something!
Let’s just use walkie-talkies too.
Please ㅠㅠ
Even Cheese’s own audience could sense that their attitude had changed.
After all, the cheerleaders had brought out not just simple cheers, but various lighting effects, neon signs, and even cheerleading routines.
These were all items purchased with money.
They were truly mobilizing every resource at their disposal.
“Wow… they’re absolutely vicious.”
“They think if they fall behind in game skill, it’s truly over.”
“They’re frustrated because they’re losing to Tribby’s Cheese, whom they used to mock. But…”
Almond’s fans in particular could feel the shift more acutely.
Why?
“When did Gaji-bokkeun turn yellow?”
Gaji-bokkeun had returned to Cheese with tears in his eyes.
He too had realized that at best, the situation was fifty-fifty.
But for him, if the situation was fifty-fifty, there was no reason to support Paprika.
He was originally a Cheese viewer, after all.
“What, we’re not accepting traitors~ Go back!”
“Uuuu! Go back!”
Everyone jokingly teased Gaji-bokkeun.
“Ah, no! I’m not a Cheese fan! I’m just an Almond fan!”
Gaji-bokkeun blurted out the excuse he’d hastily concocted.
But it fell on deaf ears among the long-time Almond fans.
“Don’t lie! You can’t deny it!”
“If you’re really a fan of Almond’s, then prove it!”
The crowd pressed harder instead.
“H-how am I supposed to prove something like that!?”
But there were some things that could be accomplished through pressure and some that couldn’t.
How was I supposed to prove I was a real fan?
“Go over there.”
That’s when it happened.
Rubisword pointed somewhere.
“…?”
Gaji-bokkeun looked bewildered.
“W-what is that?”
“It’s a ‘cheerleader stage’ item I purchased. No one’s been using it because they’re too embarrassed.”
“?”
A cheerleader stage.
A space was set up in front of the audience seating where cheerleaders could stand, and when they danced there, their bodies would be magnified so all the spectators could see them.
“Go and dance. Gaji-bokkeun. Prove your loyalty….”
Click.
Rubisword pulled out a megaphone and spoke.
“Prove it. Before this cheering begins.”
After hearing the explanation, Gaji-bokkeun’s face turned bright red.
‘Dance…?’
I’d never danced in my entire life.
My so-called popular friends(?) forced me to do it, and all I’d done was follow along with a few videos I’d seen online.
But—
“Even if your heart won’t, offer your hips! Gaji-bokkeun!”
“Go! Go dance!”
“Are you going to waste Rubisword’s sacrifice!?”
Countless people were pressuring me.
‘R-Rubisword’s only sacrifice was money!?’
I had to go out there myself.
But when you had no money, you had to compensate with your body—such was the harsh reality.
‘Fine… w-what choice do I have.’
Gaji-bokkeun climbed onto the cheerleader stage.
As the music changed, I began dancing awkwardly.
Sway, sway.
-Kekekekekekekekekekekekeke
-Kekekekekekeke
-Kekekekeke
-What is this kekekeke
-Lolol keke
Rubisword cried out, satisfied that her items were fulfilling their purpose.
“Cheese! One! Two! Three!”
Following her lead chant, all personnel cheered in unison.
“Cheese, let’s goooooo!!”
Gaji-bokkeun continued dancing awkwardly.
-Kekekekeke what is that dance keke
-Who forced him to do that?
-I dance when I’m sad…
-Yo~ Gaji-bokkeun’s dancing~
That guy Gak Jun-bin is crazy.
-Shuffle kekekekekeke so funny keke
-What are you doing kekeke
-Why does it look like he’s crying?

* * *
“Alright! Players are beginning their descent! Will Paprika employ the radio strategy this time!? That’s the key question!?”
Players began dropping one by one from the Paprika airship.
“So far, it appears to be a normal descent?”
One, two, three… four, five.
Five.
It ended at five.
“Huh…?”
“!”
“Wait? Paprika has no additional personnel?”
All three commentators were shocked.
Only the Analyst, who had been discussing the weaknesses of the radio strategy, was relatively less surprised.
“They didn’t use it!?”
“There’s no radio!”
-Radio keke
-Huh?
-This again?
-Radio, now it’s just keke
-Uutlahn?
-Huh?
-Haven’t they taken enough hits yet…
Paprika’s Team B dropped five members each as usual.
“Ah. I see. Paprika seems to be pushing forward with conviction.”
“Hmm. This is unexpected?”
Even the Analyst, who had been skeptical of the radio strategy, adjusted his red glasses and remarked that it was unexpected.
“Wait? Analyst? Didn’t you just say that if they used the radio strategy, one team would have to go in as a sacrifice, which would eventually cause problems later?”
“Ah, yes, if I were to compare it to a restaurant….”
“Cheese! Cheese is staying the same!? The member composition is identical!?”
King Gul cut off the Analyst before he could go on at length.
-Kekekekekekeke
-Restaurant lol~!
-Kekekeke seriously just speak faster
-Kekekeke
“Cheese is just pushing forward as is, right? I mean, they completely dominated earlier, so there’s no real reason to change anything! Just watching one more match is the way to go!”
The Caster spoke in agreement.
Cheese had no reason to hastily introduce changes here.
The changes needed to come from the losing side.
This seemed like a fairly simple truth, but it wasn’t easily followed in practice.
Winning teams always want to secure one more victory and drive the final nail in the coffin as quickly as possible.
That’s when truly bizarre strategies sometimes emerge.
But to observe like this for just one match?
‘How seasoned….’
King Gul realizes it once again.
I sense composure in Cheese’s strategy.
‘This is about building data.’
Observing for one match sounds simple, but in a tournament with even the slightest pressure, it’s absolutely not an easy thing to do.
‘Especially for a team like Motmotmot—if things go wrong, they might not even make it to the main tournament, right?’
Especially the Motmotmot team taking on the sacrificial role.
They’re nowhere near guaranteed a safe ranking.
One slip and they’re immediately eliminated.
Following this strategy, even if they hit the highest rank every match, wouldn’t they end up in fifth place?
Yet they proceed regardless.
They probably want to gather perfect data without any variables.
“So, what do you make of it? King Gul? Cheese is sticking to the exact same strategy.”
“Yes. This is… in other words, they want to see how the opponent comes out. That’s it. Cheese shows considerable composure. On the other hand, Paprika…!”
“Yes. Paprika! It’s a bit different, right?”
“Yes.”
Paprika not adopting radio strategy was the same.
“The landing… that is, the landing points, right? Those have completely changed!”
The positions where they drop have shifted.
“Before, it was like they wanted to divide the 38th parallel—they’d cut the map exactly in half and try to occupy just one side, right? But now they’re scattered almost randomly!”
“Huh? That’s true!?”
The Caster exclaims in surprise and checks the map again.
“Ah… but wouldn’t that make communication even harder!?”
“This is… in other words, it seems Paprika is completely abandoning communication and relying on each member’s individual capabilities.”
King Gul ventures a guess, but….
‘Something feels off.’
The sense of discord was hard to shake.
-For real?
-Brute force approach lol
-Pushing through with weight class?
-Will weight class work against the Knight Order?
“Well… it’s not entirely without merit.”
Still, this strategy had its advantages.
“The opponent is moving based on the assumption that Paprika will cooperate. But if Paprika gains experience quickly through completely individual activities, there’s a slight loss in initial positioning, you see?”
It was exactly as she said.
Cheese was moving under the assumption that the Paprika Team was grouped together, just like in the previous match.
“Ah… y-you’re right!? Cheese is experiencing some positioning loss right now!”
“Plus, Cheese can’t level up the Motmotmot Team!”
“Exactly!”
“But what if Paprika can level up all five teams evenly!? As long as they avoid communication gaps! That’s what Cheese doesn’t know! First of all, the Paprika players have excellent base weight class! There’s a lot of talk like that!”
Weight class.
In the game, weight class refers to fundamental skill capacity. It’s like the growth speed of a character a player controls when there are no variables.
In siege warfare, it’s the ability to secure CS in lane fights, and in survival mode, it’s hunting speed.
“The hunting speed difference is already widening!”
“Ah… there’s no engagement? In that case, Paprika has the advantage, right?”
Since Paprika was separated, they were playing it safe, focusing purely on hunting.
“Right. The survival mode map in the early game is extremely vast. Early engagement? They avoid it whenever they can! The opponent can’t search for enemies forever, after all!?”
In the first match, both sides had prepared for a 25-person engagement.
Both were confident in their timing and believed they would win.
So they clashed with full force, and the losing side was completely annihilated.
But that wasn’t the case now.
“Paprika has abandoned building momentum! It seems they’ve decided not to introduce early engagement variables!?”
Paprika was openly avoiding enemies.
This made it difficult to induce an early engagement.
“Cheese could pursue if they wanted to! But if they follow along, the hunting speed gap becomes too wide… it’s awkward, right?”
“Right! They just give up and hunt!”
There was a moment when an engagement might have occurred, but the spark never ignited and the embers died out.
And something surprising happens.
“Wait, why is the hunting speed difference so huge!?”
Paprika’s hunting speed was incredibly fast.
Not only had they reached level 2, but their experience was already climbing toward level 3.
Meanwhile, Cheese’s Knight Order had only just reached level 2.
-??
-What?
-Huh?
-Is this even possible??
The Analyst tilts his head, equally perplexed.
“Even if they wasted some time, this shouldn’t have created such a gap.”
Fortunately, he didn’t resort to a restaurant analogy this time.
He didn’t have the composure for it.
He’d discovered something so shocking that his eyes bulged out like baseballs.
“…Wait, hold on.”
He shot up from his seat with such force his hips lifted off.
“Why does Paprika only have four out of five members leveling up?”
At those words, the Commentators’ expressions froze as they frantically checked the minimap and the player roster.
King Gul was the first to react.
“AAAAAAAHHHHH!?”
He screamed like a man electrocuted.
-What the heckkkkkk
-What is it lolololol
-lol just noticed
-???What is it?
-Huh?
“Paprika had a radio!!”
The Commentators had overlooked something critical.
-Huh?
-Wait???
-Whoa lol
-Wow
-What?

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