Chapter 53 : Coach
Chapter 53: Coach
─[Reverse Planet Gallery]─
✪ Yujin’s Brain Speculation “Corporations are money-crazed bastards”
✪ Breaking News) Hack Tour hidden story LOL LOL LOL LOL
✪ Come out, the guy who said Struggle is a team game
✪ Hackphysical <- If he were a pro, who would he be equivalent to?
─[Reverse Time]─
[General] What the hell is happening with the story
[General] Hackphysical’s match history can be summarized in two words
[General] 411th attempt at breaking through the Security Captain
[General] Honestly, I think the Management Bureau is too incompetent
The second ‘Hack Tour’ content attracted massive attention just like the first one.
Anywhere you went in communities related to ‘Reverse Planet,’ discussions about it were plastered everywhere.
It even frequently appeared in general communities that had nothing to do with the game, so there was no need to elaborate on how much buzz it generated.
But if you think about it, this was a rather natural result.
There was no way a broadcast could fail when it started with the unprecedented cheat key called a Fully Responsive AI and the modest achievement of challenging the consecutive win record.
Moreover, the broadcast content itself was rich with new stories and new consecutive win records.
✪ Breaking News) Hack Tour hidden story LOL LOL LOL LOL
(Screenshot of Choi Hyeongcheol and Lee Yujin grinning sinisterly together in front of the Reverse World entrance)
It’s completely different content from the existing story LOL LOL LOL LOL
Why are the Hunting Dogs appearing in the first real mission LOL LOL LOL LOL
And Yujin really is a goddess in the midst of all that LOL LOL LOL LOL
-? Why are the Hunting Dogs appearing already? Isn’t this still the early part??
-The fact that he eventually won that alone is legendary
ㄴHe won? Against the Hunting Dogs in the early game?
ㄴYep, beat the crap out of them 3 vs 1
ㄴWait what;; But what about Lee Yujin, why did he fight alone??
ㄴIf you’re curious, go watch it LOL
-I can hear the story enthusiasts swarming here
-But isn’t this kinda unfair? It means unless you’re at Hackphysical’s level, you can’t see the new story;;
ㄴOriginally the story changes based on skill, dev
ㄴWhat bullshit──
ㄴSurprisingly it’s true ㅇㅇ The story content gets richer depending on mission difficulty
ㄴ? Really?
ㄴAh, seriously dev
-Yup, I’m a skip enthusiast~ I don’t know anything about the story~
Originally, ‘Reverse Planet’ had a system where even when doing the same mission, slightly different content would appear depending on the circumstances.
The more difficult the mission—though in Baek Woohyun’s case, there was no difficulty adjustment so no difficulty existed—the more detailed inner workings you could learn.
However, this only meant that expressions or dialogue would become more detailed; it didn’t change to the extent of the ‘Hack Tour’ content where the story underwent a major transformation.
In other words, completely different stories appearing was an unusual case never seen anywhere before, and it also meant there would be many among ‘Reverse Planet’ users who would find it interesting.
Of course, there were those who felt no interest in this.
Those who had no interest in the main story whatsoever and skipped it all, focusing only on PVE or PVP, felt no interest whatsoever in hidden stories or anything else.
The interesting fact was that even so, their topic of conversation wasn’t something other than the ‘Hack Tour’ content either.
✪ Come out, the guy who said Struggle is a team game
(Roughly drawn picture of a green frog with a gun in front of a corpse)
Okay, next
From now on, Struggle is a solo mode, got it?
-He wins 1 vs 5 alone, seriously LOL
-A player greater than the team “exists”
-Even if it’s a low-tier bracket, does it really make sense to win 1 vs 5
ㄴHe did that throughout all 20 consecutive wins
ㄴAround 20 wins, wouldn’t that at least be Platinum level?
ㄴYep, it’s the Platinum bracket. Even there he just wins 1 vs 5
-Even smurfing is done artistically ㄷㄷ
-Teammates are just tools for pushing the payload
-The way the teammates were all bewildered after everything ended was really hilarious LOL LOL LOL LOL
What they were chattering about was the behavior Baek Woohyun had shown in this broadcast’s ‘Struggle’ mode.
The tightrope walking act of charging alone at five enemies while the team pushed the payload and winning, which could become trolling if he slipped up.
Though Baek Woohyun himself didn’t even think it was difficult enough to be called tightrope walking, at least from the outside it looked that way.
Perhaps because they enjoyed PVP and also worked hard at it, they felt Baek Woohyun’s greatness even more keenly.
The protagonists in mad movies and such videos at most only showed scenes of winning against two or three people, but he faced an entire team alone.
Being people who had directly experienced how difficult that was, they knew even better.
Additionally, the reason this was being discussed was also because the sight of Baek Woohyun being active in ‘Struggle’ mode stimulated the secret desires of PVP users.
PVP users were bound to have imagined at least once sweeping away the entire enemy team alone and seizing victory.
They couldn’t help but be interested in Baek Woohyun, who made real the picture that had remained just imagination due to lack of skill.
☉ Breaking News) The SSR Cup participation roster is out!
However, unlike the first broadcast, the buzz around the ‘Hack Tour’ content didn’t last long.
It wasn’t that the second broadcast was lacking.
Rather, there was more to talk about in the second broadcast than the first.
Yet the reason discussions about the ‘Hack Tour’ content couldn’t be found in ‘Reverse Planet’-related communities in an instant was simple.
It was because content with even greater buzz than the ‘Hack Tour’ content had exploded.
✪ Breaking News) The SSR Cup participation roster is out!
(Roster with the names of about a hundred people)
They basically recruited all the famous ones?
They said they’d hold it at the nation’s largest scale and they really meant it LOL
-They just called everyone, whether major corporations or small-timers
-How are they running it with over a hundred participants
ㄴThey said they’d hold tournaments for each PVP mode ㅇㅇ
ㄴBy mode seriously LOL LOL LOL LOL
-Why did they even call former pros to balance it;;
-Looking at the members, I’m really looking forward to it LOL LOL LOL LOL
-Looking at the prize money, the kids are gonna play like crazy
ㄴIf you win, it’s almost ten million won per person ㄷㄷ
ㄴObviously former pros will win lol bye
ㄴIf they balance it well, somehow it’ll work out won’t it
ㄴLOL LOL LOL LOL Do you not know what former pros are? LOL LOL LOL LOL
-Ah, it’s gonna be tournament practice domination season again for a while
-Why did they hide the director-coach roster
ㄴThey said they hid it because it’s not confirmed yet ㅇㅇ
ㄴHmm… Just who are they trying to bring
SSR Cup. Colloquially known as the SSR Cup.
The tournament that had been openly promoting its aim to be the nation’s largest ‘Reverse Planet’ tournament had finally revealed the roster of participants.
The fact that over a hundred broadcasters were on the participation roster meant, in other words, that the tens of thousands of viewers watching them would also be chattering about it.
It was natural logic that the SSR Cup would devour all other topics and dominate ‘Reverse Planet’ communities.
─[Reverse Planet Gallery]─
☉ Influencer participation seriously
☉ The tournament scale is the biggest ever
☉ Isn’t the former pro seriously unbalanced??
☉ A small-timer with no sense? I feel like saying something bad….
─[Reverse Time]─
[General] Looking at the SSR Cup participation roster
[General] How do you think they’ll organize the teams?
[General] Sad that the one I watch isn’t on the roster
[General] Predicting who’ll be director-coach
Actually, community topics changing wasn’t particularly special.
Even the ‘Hack Tour’ content, just like the SSR Cup, had pushed out all the previous topics and taken their place.
It was always the case that what communities chattered about changed here and there anyway.
The only reason the SSR Cup, this time’s topic dominating communities, was a bit more special was because it extended its influence beyond communities.
More precisely, the term SSR Cup reached even Baek Woohyun, who hadn’t been looking at ‘Reverse Planet’ communities, but anyway.
“……SSR Cup?”
“Yeah. SSR Cup. It’s a tournament being held this time.”
At Jeong Nayeon’s answer, Baek Woohyun tilted his head.
“They want to invite me as a coach? Why?”
“Well, because you’re the hottest among ‘Reverse Planet’ broadcasters these days?”
“Me? Hmm- Is it that much?”
“It is that much. Even this broadcast, how much in the community- Ah, it’s been pushed back by the SSR Cup now, but anyway, there was so much talk after the broadcast ended.”
Even after hearing the explanation, Baek Woohyun just shrugged his shoulders indifferently.
To him, who had no interest in broadcasting from the start and also didn’t look at communities, it wasn’t a story that resonated much.
It was like telling someone who had no interest in foreign countries and had never been there, “You’re incredibly popular abroad!”
“So what are you going to do?”
“Well. What should I do….”
“First, let me give my opinion. I think accepting would be good. For the future, too.”
“……”
“You said you have no thoughts of appearing as a broadcaster now, but as time passes, your thoughts might change again.”
Baek Woohyun smiled bitterly but didn’t specifically deny that it would absolutely never happen.
It wasn’t because he thought his mind would change over time and he’d become a personal broadcaster, as Jeong Nayeon said.
He just didn’t want to coldly snap at Jeong Nayeon, who was working hard to help and persuade him, that it would never happen.
“When that time comes, the record of appearing as a coach at the SSR Cup will be incredibly helpful. The connections you’ll build by participating in the tournament too.”
“Connections? Are connections important for broadcasting?”
“If you’re going to broadcast alone on a deserted island, it doesn’t matter. But still, the condition for participating in most large collabs is connections, so it wouldn’t hurt to know.”
“Ah. That’s what you mean.”
Considering that the most frequently used method in large-scale collabs was recruitment or invitation, Jeong Nayeon’s argument was truly valid.
Whether it’s a method of separately recruiting participants or a format where existing participants invite new participants, the more people you know, the easier it becomes to participate.
Not that Baek Woohyun intended to participate in large-scale collabs.
“Of course, there aren’t only advantages. If there were, everyone would be clamoring to participate whenever tournaments opened.”
Jeong Nayeon laughed and said.
“First, it takes a lot of time, there’s potential to receive stress from other broadcasters, jerks picking fights might appear, and you might needlessly get into controversies.”
“That sounds like more disadvantages than advantages?”
They were excessively harsh disadvantages to participate just looking at connections alone.
Sure, taking a lot of time was one thing, but weren’t the rest too terrible to endure just to build one connection?
Especially considering the fact that for personal broadcasters, one needless controversy could remain as a scarlet letter that wouldn’t be erased throughout the broadcast.
“If connections were all you’d gain from the tournament, that would be true.”
Jeong Nayeon didn’t particularly deny that either.
Certainly, they were burdensome disadvantages to participate in a tournament just looking at connections alone.
“If the tournament succeeds, attention focuses on the participants and the broadcast scale grows. If you win and ride the flow well, a small-timer can grow to mid-tier corporation level… even if reaching major corporation level is too much?”
“That the viewer count increases that much. It’s a bit surprising.”
“If it’s a large-scale tournament, the viewer count alone reaches hundreds of thousands. Even if you just take one percent of them, that’s thousands, so it’s inevitable. No, anyway!”
Jeong Nayeon, who had been explaining, clapped her hands.
“So what are you going to do? Will you accept? Anyway, it’s a coach position, so think of it comfortably. If it really doesn’t work out, you’ll be told you’ve done your job just by giving proper feedback.”
“What’s feedback again?”
“Just repetitive 1v1 practice? Originally it had a different meaning, but in ‘Reverse Planet’ it refers to training by facing off.”
“Hmm….”
“With your level of skill, you’d fulfill the coach role just by doing 1v1 custom matches.”
However, Jeong Nayeon didn’t know.
The fact that ‘over there,’ Baek Woohyun had once been in charge of training new recruits who joined after escaping from the research facility.
He had worked the new recruits terribly hard, and thanks to that, while the survival rate increased, for a while the new recruits either trembled or were seized with fear just seeing him.
If he accepted the coach recruitment, he would actively utilize that experience.
Truly terrifyingly so.
“Let me think about it a bit more.”
‘Oh no.’
Jeong Nayeon clicked her tongue inwardly, sensing from Baek Woohyun’s answer the signs of refusal.
Personally, she really wanted him to participate in the SSR Cup as a coach.
From the start of the conversation, she had said participating would be good, and if she didn’t care either way, she wouldn’t have laid out such detailed explanations like this.
‘Something persuasive- Ah!’
“…Oh, come to think of it, I didn’t mention something important.”
“Something important? What?”
“The tournament prize money amount.”
“How much?”
“The winning team gets ten million won per person.”
“Ten million won? Per person too?”
“Yes. Ten million won per person.”
Jeong Nayeon grinned.
“Combined with the broadcast revenue settlement you received before, it’ll be exactly enough for the price of that top-grade connection device you said you wanted to buy recently. How about it, feeling tempted now?”