After all of us are reborn, who plays Go?

Two flowers bloom, one branch each.

Before the Japanese team even started preparing, they were already worrying about who would be blamed if they lost the Second China-Japan Go Tournament.

The Chinese team is also racking their brains over the roster for the second Go Challenge Tournament.

Of course, the Japanese team will also be racking their brains over the roster for the second tournament, but the two sides are racking their brains in different directions.

Japan is thinking about who I want to fuck? China is thinking about who I can fuck?
It can also be said that the time for the two boxing matches is very tight. Both sides have very little time to prepare in advance, and they have to be finalized immediately, without even enough time to think too much.

There is no way, because the schedule for the 2nd China-Japan Go Challenge Tournament given by Japan is a bit too tight, and the time intervals are too short.

The first China-Japan Go Tournament just ended at the end of November. Now the Chinese capital has entered winter with snowfall in December, and the Lunar New Year is just over a month away.

However, in a little while, the first game of the second China-Japan Go Challenge Tournament will start in March next year.

It’s not that the two sides can’t get organized within this time, but the time is indeed a bit tight, and the docking work between the two sides is also in full swing.

How should I put it? The Japanese side seems very anxious to avenge its previous humiliation.

If both sides had not made advance preparations for the relevant matters of the Second China-Japan Go Challenge Tournament, the Japanese side would have been eager to start the Second China-Japan Go Challenge Tournament the next day after the game between Zhan Lang and Fujii Hideaki was over.

Even if the Japanese side was not considering the overall process of the competition and the publicity for the sponsors, they would like to finish one game a day at a time and decide the Japanese champion immediately.

After all, after the failure of the first China-Japan Go Challenge, the pressure of public opinion in Japan was too great.

The entire Japanese Go community is eager to avenge themselves and wash away the stain with a second victory as soon as possible.

The victory in the third competition completely proved that Japanese Go is superior to Chinese Go. It was just that we were careless in the first competition.

However, it was only after the game that President Sekimoto announced that the second China-Japan Go Challenge Tournament would proceed as normal.

Only after it was officially announced that the game would proceed normally did both sides dare to start preparations.

Therefore, both sides do not have much time to prepare, after all, there is still a lot of follow-up work to be done after drawing up the list.

But no matter what, the first step for both China and Japan is definitely to determine the contestants.

The Japanese side has already begun to trick Takenouchi into becoming the champion of the tournament, and after asking him to give the list, they are tricking him into modifying the list.

In this case, when the time comes, we can say that everyone was designated by Takenouchi, and he is the champion, so it will be clear who everyone is attacking, right?

Hao Qiang was the head of the first delegation. Since the first competition had achieved brilliant results, Hao Qiang was also responsible for related matters in the second session.

In order to decide the participants for this competition, Hao Qiang specially called Zhan Lang to his office for in-depth communication and listened to his opinions as a great contributor to the first China-Japan Go Challenge.

Of course, the main premise is that Hao Qiang also has his own ideas and thoughts, but they must be agreed upon by professionals.

However, when Zhan Lang heard the conditions and opinions given by Hao Qiang, his face was immediately filled with a look of pain.

Because Hao Qiang said that the outcome of the second challenge match was better than the first. After all, there are many rumors outside that China was able to win against Japan because of luck and because Japanese Go players did not play at their best.

Even Japan has been promoting this all the time. Once this statement spreads to China, naturally there will be many people who are not confident and claim to be objective who will continue to spread it.

But in fact, Japan will definitely use its strongest lineup to compete against China in the second tournament. If the Chinese team wins, it will naturally dispel all the rumors.

This proves that the victory in the first session was definitely not achieved by luck.

But if we lost, maybe some people would really believe those rumors and even directly deny the victory of China's first Go Challenge Tournament.

After all, many netizens have expelled champions. Therefore, Hao Qiang said that it would be best if the second Chinese team could win the challenge and be innovative.

After all, in the opinion of Hao Qiang, a half-knowledgeable layman, if the group confrontation in the ring match wants to attract people to watch, the most important thing is to have stars and novelty.

One is the star player who must appear on the field, because everyone wants to see him, and many people even watch the game just for him.

China’s representatives here are undoubtedly Fang Yuan and Zhan Lang, who have been hailed as anti-Japanese heroes.

Another reason is that we need new faces to give the audience a sense of freshness. Otherwise, the audience will get bored of seeing the same old guys over and over again.

The two stars will definitely be on stage 100%, but the Chinese team will have greater difficulties with the new faces.

However, Hao Qiang believes that no matter how difficult the Chinese team faces, they should at least have two new faces to report to everyone.

When Zhan Lang heard these requests, his expression showed no pain, which showed that he had managed his emotions very well.

To put it bluntly, how many professional Go players are there in China now? Zhan Lang is even familiar with almost everyone, so you can imagine how small this circle is.

Among them, there are only a few who can form combat effectiveness and go into the field. You can easily count them by counting on your fingers on both hands.

To put it bluntly, today's Chinese Go is not the Chinese Go of forty years later, with more than a thousand professional players and more than a dozen active world champions.

To participate in the national competition, one must rely on selection in the competition. Only the world champion of the year can be exempted from the selection. Anyone ranked in the top 30 in the ranking points has the possibility of giving the world number one Shen Zi a big slap in the face.

When Shen Zi was at his lowest point, he even said that he felt any Chinese chess player could beat him.

Now. Now Chinese Go can only be described as extremely poor.

The development of Chinese Go has just begun. Even if we eat Jin Ke La, there is no way to produce 1,800 yuan per mu.

Besides, the number of Go players in China has more than doubled, and this still takes time to digest and absorb. It is not the case that your strength will increase immediately as the population increases.

There is no way a Mach 8 hypersonic missile can grow in the desert! This thing needs a wind tunnel!

Zhan Lang could only shake his head helplessly: "Old Hao, you know that there are only a few people in China who can compete with Japan, and they were basically all gone last year.

You want both victory and novelty, isn't it difficult for me to handle this?"

Hao Qiang didn't follow Brother Crow's example and flip the table. After all, wasting food is shameful. He just asked Zhan Lang unwillingly, "If you must adjust, how many can you adjust at most?"

"You can only adjust one at most. See who is more suitable for the vanguard position? Find a youngster with some drive?"

Hao Qiang just nodded when he heard this. Although what Zhan Lang said made sense, Hao Qiang was still a little skeptical and went to discuss it with Chen Long, the dean.

Because of the results of the China-Japan Go Challenge Tournament, Chen Long's status as the leader of Chinese Go has also risen. There is even an idea of ​​letting him lead the overall development of the three chess and one card games.

However, Chen Long's opinion is exactly the same as Zhan Lang's. If China wants to win, its strength must be preserved. But if it wants to preserve its strength, the players cannot be moved. Moving one player is already very difficult, and moving two players would be a headache.

China really can't find any replacement talent, not even a comparable replacement.

After all, although no one except Fang Yuan and Zhan Lang won in the last session, the Chinese team cannot think that this session will be the same. The ring match cannot rely on just one person.

If one thinks that everyone else is just going through the motions, this kind of thinking is not only irresponsible to oneself, but also to Zhan Lang as the main general.

So Chen Long’s advice was that it would be best not to move any of them!
Having been turned down on both sides, Hao Qiang could only come out of Chen Long's office in disappointment. But as soon as he walked out, he ran into Ye Qing who was walking towards him.

(End of this chapter)