I traveled through time and became a cute girl, I just want to be a fun person

Chapter 319: Upcoming Professional Debut
Jiang Yuan had actually never heard of the Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition, so she couldn't help but ask the other party about the details of the competition out of curiosity.

Wu Yunfeng also spoke with all his heart. This competition is jointly organized by the China Association for Science and Technology, Alibaba Public Welfare Foundation, and Alibaba Damo Academy. It is aimed at mathematics enthusiasts around the world and integrates competition, training, and exchanges. It aims to lead a global technological trend of paying attention to, understanding, appreciating, and helping mathematics.

What makes it different from general math competitions is that it has no age limit and no threshold. Anyone can sign up to participate regardless of their major, academic qualifications, occupation, or nationality. It is also a completely open-book online exam, and the preliminary round has 48 hours to answer questions.

The final consists of 8 questions in 5 hours, which is also an online exam. You just need to answer the questions within the specified time.

An open-book exam does not mean that it is easy. On the contrary, precisely because it is open-book, the answers cannot be found on the Internet or in books, and AI can be used. Unfortunately, AI cannot even pass the preliminary round, so it is still quite valuable.

However, online competitions like this, which are completely unsupervised, do have loopholes that can be exploited, and no one can confirm that there is no cheating happening.

However, if someone gets a score that others can hardly imagine, they will definitely encounter all kinds of doubts. This is the natural limitation of online competitions.

This is similar to those online competitions in competitive games, which are definitely not as valuable as offline competitions. Online players may use cheats or hire others to play for them, while the equipment used in offline competitions are all provided by the organizers, and real people also have to be present. You will know whether it is a mule or a horse after taking a walk.

Therefore, in terms of public recognition, the Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition is far inferior to IMO, the "International Mathematical Olympiad". Even compared with CMO, it lacks value and authority. In the final analysis, the format of an online open-book competition cannot stop the gossips.

What attracts those competition bigwigs is obviously the generous prize money for the finals. There are 5 gold medals, each of which can get 10 US dollars, which is more than 20 Chinese yuan. There are 50 silver medals, each of which can get US dollars. There are bronze medals, each of which can get US dollars. There are excellent prizes, each of which can get US dollars. The total prize money is nearly million Chinese yuan.

The competition class of No. 1 Middle School that Jiang Yuan participated in was aiming for the provincial mathematics competition. Only those who won the provincial first prize and ranked among the top in the province were eligible to participate in the "Winter Camp", also known as CMO, or the China Mathematical Olympiad.

Only the top 60 in the "Winter Camp" will be selected to form the IMO Chinese National Training Team that year. Finally, these 60 people will also have to undergo selection, and finally 6 official players will be selected to represent the country in the IMO.

This multi-level selection mechanism can be said to be very cruel, but it is indeed of great value, and no one would question that this is the highest-level, largest-scale, and most influential mathematics competition for Chinese middle school students.

The selected masters will basically not perform poorly when they go to IMO. In fact, they don’t even need to be qualified to participate in IMO. As long as they can get into the top 60 in the "winter camp", basically all major prestigious universities will extend olive branches to these "geniuses".

This is where the "Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition" cannot challenge CMO. The former does offer sufficient prize money, but prestigious universities will not use this competition as a reference for "special recruitment" or "direct admission".

Therefore, if you are really talented in the field of mathematical competitions, then the CMO route is the right choice. If you can win glory for your country and a gold medal at IMO, you can choose any top prestigious university in the country.

Jiang Yuan only knew about CMO and IMO, and didn't really know much about the "Alibaba Global Mathematics Competition". After listening to Wu Yunfeng's popular science, she nodded and said, "Then let's try it out. I didn't expect the prize money to be so generous."

Wu Yunfeng said, "You don't have to aim too high. At your age, it's already pretty good to pass the preliminary round. Many of the contestants are big names from famous universities. They just do a little bit in the preliminary round and are happy to get into the finals. They will put in their best efforts in the finals. They are aiming for the generous prize money. Not many high school students can beat them."

When Jiang Yuan heard the other party say this, she became very interested in this competition. If she, an ordinary high school student, could step on those big guys, wouldn't she be able to reap another wave of "pain points"?

Moreover, this was a very good opportunity to show off in front of others, so she would definitely not miss it. She had worked so hard to get the entry to the level of "all-round academic master", and if she didn't show off, it would be a waste of her usual efforts!

The preliminary round of the Alibaba Mathematical Competition will be held from April 13th to April 14th of next month. It is still early March now, so there is almost more than a month to prepare for it.

But then again, for such a competition, so-called preparation is basically useless. Competitions rely too much on talent and cannot be won by simply doing a lot of practice questions. In other words, the prerequisite for practicing a lot of questions to be useful is that your talent has reached that level.

In the competition class of No. 1 Middle School, there are still some people who obviously have no talent but insist on being in it. Their purpose is probably to gain the identity of a "competition boss". In fact, it is a complete waste of time, because when the time comes, they cannot even get any awards, which means they have done a useless job.

For someone like Jiang Yuan who is determined to "get a certificate forever", practicing questions is actually quite effective. The more different types of questions there are, the better the effect. Basically, as long as she has mastered a certain type, the other questions of this type will be completely unlocked and will no longer be difficult for her.

This talent of hers actually made other students in the competition class feel frustrated, but because she was never stingy in sharing her ideas and her lectures were easy to understand, she could often make others suddenly enlightened, so over time, everyone had become convinced of her.

After helping Jiang Yuan register, Wu Yunfeng also shared the questions from previous Alibaba Global Mathematics Competitions with Jiang Yuan, asking her to go back and try them out herself to see if she had any experience.

Although Jiang Yuan is extremely talented, Wu Yunfeng feels that she is a little too inflated on a daily basis, and her level of effort is completely inferior to that of students in other competition classes. Therefore, he hopes that the Alibaba Mathematics Competition can be more intense and give her a good beating to let her know that there are always people better than you.

After Jiang Yuan went back and tried these questions from previous years, she thought - is that it?
Suddenly she felt that it was not difficult to get a full score gold medal. This time she might be able to pick up $30,000 for free. She didn't expect that being good at math problems could make a lot of money.

The "all-round academic master" entry combined with the "wisdom" entry will allow her to have an unparalleled advantage in the field of math competitions. She doesn't even dare to imagine what kind of horrible effect will be produced after she obtains the golden entry "perfect academic god" and then combines it with the "wisdom" entry!

She even felt that when that day comes, she would be able to challenge those world-class problems. She remembered reading those online articles written by top students, in which everyone started by proving the Goldbach conjecture. If they couldn't prove it, they could only say that you, the top student, were just a mediocre student.

Jiang Yuan relied on her own cheats, she was indeed a little bit arrogant, but if she could really prove those conjectures and theorems in the future, it would be a contribution to all mankind, and she felt that her vision had grown. But in fact, she knew very well what kind of character she was, and she had no lofty ideals at all. The first driving force for her to prove those conjectures was undoubtedly to show off in front of others, and it should also be to slap others in the face.

There is no way. No matter in which world, it is very rare to find a famous female mathematician. When she takes this path, she will definitely face various doubts. If she can crush all the doubts at that time, it will be very cool and happy just thinking about it!
In addition to setting her immediate goal on the "Alibaba Mathematics Competition," Jiang Yuan is also making rapid progress in other areas.

Other fields specifically refer to table tennis and figure skating. In fact, compared to competitions that require thinking, she feels that the field of sports allows her to feel a more primitive and wild sense of pleasure!

Originally, she played these projects in order to grind for entries such as "strong and powerful" and "light as a swallow", but after working hard and completing various daily tasks, side quests, etc. in this field, her level can be said to have improved by leaps and bounds!

Especially in the field of table tennis, China not only has a very strong coaching team, but also has too many top players. After she was exceptionally selected into the provincial team, her speed of improvement was undoubtedly shocking!
It has been mentioned before that Jiang Yuan can "fight to support her skills" in this field. The higher the level of the people she plays with, the faster she will improve!
Her table tennis level has even reached Lv4 (expert level) without her realizing it. One can only say that this is the foundation of the Chinese women's table tennis team. There are indeed too many strong players. She is just a sparring partner, but her level is rising rapidly!

In addition, she has the characteristic of never regressing once she makes progress, so her progress speed is of course shocking.

The women's team of Jiangzhou Province, in terms of singles, naturally could not be compared with the strongest "Five Golden Flowers" of the national team, but there happened to be two female left-handed players with quite good skills, Qian Tianyi and Kaiman. Jiang Yuan was their sparring partner, and as a result, he turned these two national players into his own experience bag...

The provincial team's head coach couldn't help but sigh, saying that Jiang Yuan's talent reminded him of the talented girl Guo Yue from the Chinese women's table tennis team. This player was also a talented female left-hander. She once formed the Olympic women's dream team with Wang Nan and Zhang Yining, which could be said to be beyond the reach of women's teams from other countries.

Guo Yue's talent is recognized by everyone in the circle. After all, she is the youngest world champion in the history of Chinese table tennis. At that time, many people thought that she would definitely take over from Zhang Yining and become the new generation of big devil.

Unfortunately, she gradually faded out of the national team and did not fully realize her talent.

All I can say is that achieving results too early has both advantages and disadvantages. A genius who is the center of everyone's attention will bear too much pressure. Moreover, the depth of China's table tennis field is so great, with so many geniuses. If you slack off a little, you will be left behind.

In the final analysis, in the field of Chinese table tennis, especially in the women's line, because the dominance is so strong, no genius is irreplaceable, and sometimes seniority is completely useless.

For example, Liu Shiwen, who had a lot of experience and was ranked first in the world women's table tennis rankings for many years, never had the opportunity to play in the Olympic singles. The coaching staff assessed that her mentality was not good. As a result, she actually lost to the combination of Ito Mima and Mizutani Jun from the island country in the Olympic mixed doubles competition, paired with Xu Xin, and won the silver medal.

Later, Liu Shiwen's P card was actually activated in the team competition, and Wang Manyu replaced her, just to make the Olympic women's team more stable. As a result, they were indeed very stable. In the previous Olympics in the island country, they only lost a mixed doubles gold medal in the table tennis event.

I give this example to prove that the Chinese women's table tennis team is indeed too dominant, especially in terms of individual strength. Except for the Japanese women's team who can compete a little and lose gracefully, the women's teams of other countries cannot compete with them at all.

Of course, no one knows what’s going on with Wang Yidi, one of the “Five Golden Flowers”. She’s obviously very strong, but she performs poorly when playing against the Japanese female players. The coaching staff even made a rule that losing a foreign match will result in a deduction of Olympic points because of her.

Jiang Yuan originally just wanted to play around, but he has already stood out in the provincial team and also gained the attention of the national team coaching staff and a big shot in Chinese table tennis.

That’s right, the senior leader Liu Guoliang, who was ridiculed as “the fat guy who doesn’t understand football”, has already noticed Jiang Yuan, the emerging talented girl.

Liu Guoliang really hopes that Jiang Yuan can become a successful player, because table tennis is such a niche sport. If a beautiful girl like Jiang Yuan can become a successful player, it will definitely play a huge role in promoting table tennis.

There is actually another very beautiful female player in the national table tennis women's team named Wang Tianyi. Unfortunately, her strength is slightly weaker and she cannot become an absolute main force. Otherwise, she could definitely be marketed as a super traffic player and attract a lot of male fans.

Qian Tianyi, a member of Jiang Yuan's Jiangzhou provincial team, is also pretty good-looking. Her regular mixed doubles partner is Liang Jinkun. The mixed doubles combination of these two is quite strong and should be ranked among the top five in the country.

The table tennis circle in this world has been completely turned into a fan circle, except that there are a lot of female fans, especially CP fans. They have money and time, so as long as there is an offline game of the Shatou combination, they will buy tickets to watch it. No matter how expensive the ticket price is, they will not blink an eye.

And precisely because Jiang Yuan has attracted the attention of the national team coaching staff, they decided to give her a test to see her quality.

So, she was fortunate enough to get a chance to participate in the WTT regular challenge. Although it was only a small competition with a score of 400 points, there were also "Star Challenge" with 600 points, "Championship" with 1000 points, "World Cup" with 1500 points, and "Grand Slam" with 2000 points. However, even in such small competitions, good players from other countries would come to participate.

The venue for this WTT Challenge is also in China, in Jinyang City, the capital of Shanxi Province.

Jiang Yuan is indeed special because she is the first player to participate in this WTT regular challenge before being selected into the national team.

She will definitely have to start from the qualifying round, but this is indeed her first appearance in the professional arena.

(End of this chapter)