Losing Money to Be a Tycoon

March 30th, Saturday.

In the afternoon, Zhang Yan started live-streaming two hours earlier than usual on Saturday because there was a competition today!

Bunny Tail Live-Stream had been preparing for this competition for a long time. What's more, Zhang Yan had already passed the initial pre-selection.

This week was an online competition. The winners would be able to obtain a spot in the offline competition. At that time, professional trainers would teach them how to drive real racing cars and try their best to convert their driving skills from simulators to driving real cars.

Whoever could convert faster and better would win against the amateur team!

As for the final win, it would definitely belong to the professional team. After all, no matter how talented the players of the amateur team were, it was impossible for them to touch the professional players.

That was unless he transited from an amateur to a professional player and improved himself step by step. Then, there would be hope.

Zhang Yan's goal was very simple: to enter the offline tournament!

He would go all out in the offline tournament. As for the results, it did not matter. The key was to participate.

The key was to obtain the qualifications for this real car.

After all, her skills were trained on the simulator. No matter how the simulator simulated, it was still very different from a real racing car.

No one dared to guarantee how much they could do in the real competition. They could only say that they would do their best.

The competition had not started yet. Zhang Yan began to warm up first.

There were occasional bullet screen comments in the live-stream asking, "F*ck, the streamer is so determined! I saw you running on this picture last month. Why are you still running now! Aren't you tired of running? Swear something else!"

At the beginning, Zhang Yan had indeed relied on the popularity of 'Safe and Civilized Driving' to increase her popularity.

At that time, she took a driver's license, drove a huge truck, and attracted many fans.

However, ever since she started practicing racing, her fans started disappearing slowly.

He had no choice. It was too boring to train in racing!

Many pictures ran for the entire day. In order to pursue the improvement of that fraction of a second, their previous efforts would often be wasted after one mistake. What's more, driving a racing car was not like driving a huge truck for a long distance. They could not relax at all. They did not have the energy to chat with the audience. Therefore, the more they practiced, the fewer people in the live-stream.

There was no lack of cynicism here.

"Why would a female host run the racing track every day if she doesn't live-stream well? The popularity is getting lesser and lesser, right?"

"Continue acting. You'll ruin yourself sooner or later! You've crushed the opening of the Sky Hu!"

"That's right. You obviously don't have the talent. Why do you have to persevere? Wouldn't it be better to realize that you're actually suitable to be a comedian?"

Such bullet screen comments were not rare.

However, Zhang Yan remained unmoved. She continued to practice.

Finally, Zhang Yan arrived at the Safe and Civilized Driving Competition!

Almost all the streamers on Bunny Tail Live-Stream participated in this competition. Many streamers from other platforms and some god-like players in the game also participated.

The results were jaw-dropping. Many well-known streamers did not even pass the pre-selection!

These streamers usually live-streamed all sorts of performances and boasted about their driving skills. However, in the official competition, they were all in a mess and were exposed.

It was just like how some GOG streamers had been playing in Fish Pool Bureau for the sake of the program effect. On the surface, they still looked like they were showing off. They had skills, but at the end of the day, they were just fried fish.

Once they encountered a much stronger opponent than usual in high-end games or competitions, their skills would immediately fail. It was as if they were different people, frequently making forced mistakes.

When it came to a time where they had to compete in strength, they would only know who was swimming naked when the tide subsided.

On the other hand, Zhang Yan was different. All her skills were trained realistically. Naturally, she was not afraid of such a real test.

The number of people in Zhang Yan's live-stream continued to rise with the end of the pre-selection competition.

Players were shocked to find that Zhang Yan's hardwork was really effective. It was fundamentally different from other streamers!

The audience who had left earlier returned.

They had left previously because they could not see the program effect or the unique content that was different from other streamers. After all, practicing car skills was too boring. Most people did not have the patience to continue watching.

However, it was different now. Being able to obtain a good ranking in the competition and defeat other opponents with his true strength was something filled with program effect in itself.

Since the effect of the program was back, and it was better than before, why did the audience not return to watch it?

Many fans of other streamers also flooded into Zhang Yan's live-stream because those streamers had already been eliminated. Zhang Yan could continue to enter the online competition and compete with more powerful opponents.

On the other hand, the fans who had been supporting Zhang Ye felt like they could see the light at the end of the tunnel.

They had always supported Zhang Yan's decision unconditionally. When they saw the number of people in Zhang Yan's live-stream constantly disappearing and the popularity decreasing, they were as anxious as Zhang Yan. They were even more anxious than Zhang Yan.

Now that the popularity was back, he naturally felt relieved that he had not seen wrongly.

After running two rounds, Zhang Yan entered the official competition room and began preparing.

This opportunity was very important to her because Zhang Yan had a racing dream a long time ago. However, the expenses of the racing car were too huge. Zhang Yan could not afford it.

However, the situation this time was different. As long as she could obtain a ranking in the online competition, the official platform would bear all the expenses and hire a very professional coach for her.

This also meant that Zhang Yan could use this opportunity to transform into a professional racing car driver without any cost!

If he could obtain an outstanding ranking, it would prove his talent and perseverance. The resistance of the people at home should be much reduced, right?

…

Soon, the competition officially begun.

A large number of viewers flooded into Bunny Tail's live-stream platform. They discussed enthusiastically while waiting for the competition to begin.

"Hello, viewers of your live-streams. Welcome to the online competition of Safe and Civilized Driving! Today's online competition will be different from the pre-selection stage because our live-stream platform will use a new live-stream method this time…"

The two official commentators of the GPL were the ones hosting the Safe and Civilized Driving Competition.

On this point, Bunny Tail Live-Stream had an overwhelming advantage over other platforms. That was because Bunny Tail Live-Stream had a lot of outstanding commentary resources. Not only were these commentators eloquent and humorous, but they also had a deeper understanding of the game. The audience also approved of them.

It was very reasonable to arrange for him to commentate on today's Safe and Civilized Driving Competition.

They were all from Tengda. It was normal to guest star in it!

Many viewers were curious on the bullet screen.

"It would be different from the pre-selection stage. How exactly is it different?"

"I remember that the director during the pre-selection was already doing very well. The camera repeatedly switched smoothly and naturally between many popular players, so that everyone did not feel any discomfort at all. Could it be that at this point, the live-stream technology could improve further?"

"It should be very difficult. Aren't professional directors used for GPL during the pre-selection period?"

"Or is there a new viewing function this time?"

Soon, the host revealed the answer: On the basis of the live-stream function of the game 'Safe and Civilized Driving', another special function for competitions had been developed!

These functions could be roughly divided into the following points.

First, players could freely enter the official competition room in the game 'Safe and Civilized Driving' and check the first-person perspective of any contestant. They could also watch the director's perspective or God's perspective.

Players could see some very detailed data in the first-person perspective of the contestants, such as the slot, engine turn, the depth and strength of when they stepped on the accelerator pedals and accelerator pedals.

These data had a very important meaning for the audience to deeply grasp the basic strength and skills of the current players.

Second, players could also synchronize their steering wheel with the contestants. That way, they would be able to see the contestants' operations and details more directly.

Of course, just like the live-stream mode, the steering wheel could not be touched in this state. It would automatically exit if it was touched.

This was to prevent any danger.

This function was actually considered a derivation of the live-stream function. However, the operations that the host did during the live-stream was different from the operations of the players during the competition after all.

Apart from that, there was a new improvement this time compared to the initial live-stream function. This time, players no longer needed the game 'Install Safe and Civilized Driving'. Instead, they could directly connect the live-stream signal of Bunny Tail Live-Stream with their own steering wheel!

After all, there was not much signal data for the steering wheel. There was no need to rely on the game itself. As long as the live-stream platform sent these data to the players' computers and then to the steering wheel, it would be fine.

Even players without a steering wheel could open a small window and see the steering wheel and pedals of these players through the simulation.

Of course, compared to the complete version of the game, the webpage function was equivalent to a castrated version. There were many problems.

For example, he could only choose from a few perspectives provided by the official platform. He could not choose all the contestants. What's more, he might not be able to achieve special precision in the transmission of some data. There was still a small gap.

However, for gamers who did not have a safe and civilized driving game on their computers, this was a relatively novel viewing experience.

Third, players could generate recording documents during the viewing process. They could watch and study some players' skills in making turns or taking specific routes repeatedly.

Apart from that, there were other details. For example: the multi-layered small window model of Bunny Tail's live-stream.

Of course, the main window in the live-stream of Bunny Tail's live-stream was the game's real-time competition image. However, on this basis, viewers could also open some small windows to check other content. They could fold these small windows at will or place them in any location on the main screen.

For example, players could place the camera image of the players they were interested in in in the bottom right corner, or put the current ranking on the scoreboard, or some data details on the screen where they preferred.

Compared to the situation where the images of other live-stream platforms remained the same when they were organizing competitions, this could randomly screen information that they liked and move it to the live-stream as a small window, providing the audience with a new choice.

The competition officially began. The commentator also began his passionate commentary. The audience was watching the exciting competition while groping around for the new functions introduced by Bunny Tail Live-Stream. The popularity of the live-stream was constantly increasing!