Chapter 189 : SSR Cup - The Demon King's Army Marches
Chapter 189: SSR Cup: The Demon King’s Army Marches
-Do not doubt
-Spoilers after seeing the future are a bit;;
-It was a spoiler from a regression disguised as future prediction disguised as simulation
-I almost said you should’ve looked at lottery numbers instead~
After the first encounter ended with Team ‘Shalalala’s total annihilation.
Having revived and returned, they immediately attempted a recapture battle to break through Team ‘Super God Game Approved,’ which had entered strongpoint defense.
Although the side that wins the first encounter has over a 65% win rate, they couldn’t just give up and do nothing.
-“Let’s break through somehow!”
-“If we target the Bronze side and rush in at once…!”
-Nope~ You’ll lose here too~
-Hackstradamus has already prophesied defeat
-But why is the final victory Shalalala’s?
-Don’t? Know
However, Team ‘Super God Game Approved,’ with ‘Super Huring’ also revived and returned, defended the strongpoint by combining their strength and unleashing wide-area skills.
Their counterattack was so fierce that ‘Shalalala,’ who had attempted a coordinated assault while finding gaps, couldn’t endure and retreated after losing two members!
The interesting fact was that viewers had already accepted their retreat as an extremely natural result even before the battle started.
It was proof of how much trust had grown in those seven characters, ‘Hackstradamus,’ which they had initially called just for fun.
“Team ‘Super God Game Approved’ isn’t pursuing the retreating ‘Shalalala’ and is organizing their team members for now.”
“It seems they judged that just occupying the strongpoint until the dead members revive would be enough profit.”
“There also seems to be consideration that if they carelessly pursue and get counterattacked, losing even one person could mess up revival timings.”
In many ways, Team ‘Super God Game Approved’ had no reason to abandon the advantage of defense and pursue. Capture Battle was a rule where you win by holding the strongpoint.
If they lost even one person to a counterattack as Baek Woohyun hypothesized, the loss would be severe. Since this side would die later, their reunion would also be delayed.
Conversely, fighting until total annihilation was foolish for ‘Shalalala’ too. With a numerical disadvantage, they could easily stall time without killing anyone.
If they waited while appropriately wounding them until two revived, then eliminated them the moment they arrived, it would effectively waste 2 revival times.
In team battles with limited end times despite revival being possible, strategies utilizing these revival times were frequently used.
However, it was a strategy not often used in ‘Struggle-Annihilation’ where Team All-In participated, because the end time was too far away, and it was more profitable to just kill everyone completely.
Unlike ‘Struggle-Capture,’ in ‘Struggle-Annihilation’ dead members revived immediately anyway.
“At least it’s clear that in the current situation, Team ‘Super God Game Approved’ is advantageous and Team ‘Shalalala’ is disadvantageous.”
“‘Shalalala’ must break through properly established defense, plus the side seizing momentum and raising morale is ‘Super God Game Approved.'”
-So how exactly do they reverse from here?
-Something crazy will happen anyway
-From what I see, the game seems half over already
-I don’t know anything
It wasn’t strange for viewers to wonder. Every situation was smiling toward Team ‘Super God Game Approved’ rather than Team ‘Shalalala.’
There was that much difference between ‘Super God Game Approved,’ which could appropriately stall for time and even concede once if necessary, and ‘Shalalala,’ which had to break through by any means.
If it weren’t for Baek Woohyun, who showed 100% accuracy prophecies as Hackstradamus and perfectly predicted this match too, no one would have believed in ‘Shalalala’s victory.
Actually, even now, those whose faith was shaking occasionally appeared in the chat.
Those saying Baek Woohyun confused team names, or only stated the winning team backwards, were sneakily revealing themselves.
Since even Kim Gwangjin and Cha Seongcheol acknowledged how much this round tilted toward ‘Super God Game Approved,’ it couldn’t be helped.
Viewers’ faith was like reeds, instantly tilting with even a light breeze.
But eventually, when the first round ended.
“‘Shalalala’ showing a great reversal! In an unfavorable situation, they finally seized victory in the first round!”
“They properly stabbed the single opening ‘Super God Game Approved’ revealed! Reset the game from there! And endured to the end to win! Amazing!”
“……”
-Sha-la-la-la
-They reversed this? For real?
-You got reversed on this? Are you crazy?
-He lifted the curtain and saw the futureㅋㅋㅋㅋ Why wouldn’t you believeㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Baek Woohyun once again proved why he came to be called Hackstradamus.
Amid praise pouring over Team ‘Shalalala’ for their great reversal against ‘Super God Game Approved,’ the number of those praising him was also considerably visible.
Considering quite a few of them had expressed doubt about his prophecy until just before, it seemed like a ploy to cover their mistakes(?).
“If Hackstradamus-nim could provide an evaluation of the first round?”
“Hmm.”
During the break given before the second round started, Kim Gwangjin asked Baek Woohyun a question.
After his excited feelings from the interesting great reversal he’d seen in a long time calmed down, thoughts reached Baek Woohyun’s impressions of having foreseen this situation in advance.
Hearing his question, Baek Woohyun narrowed his eyes as if thinking about something for a moment, then soon smirked and shrugged.
“Well, it was 85 percent.”
-Something’s insane ㄷㄷ
-What was supposed to happen at 85% probability just happened
-Super God Game Approved could’ve won with 15% probability but they didn’t
-Teams that should fall will fall, teams that should lose will lose ㅇㄱㄹㅇ
The victory probability Baek Woohyun measured for Team ‘Shalalala’ was 85 percent. Meaning Team ‘Super God Game Approved’ needed to break through the 15 percent to overturn it.
But they couldn’t. Intoxicated by the victory they’d seized earlier, they showed an opening, which was bitten into and they lost.
That was simply the result.
“They just hit the 85 percent probability! Good. Then how do you see the second round?!”
“The second round—”
The remaining rounds of the 3rd-4th place match continued with similar feelings of future prediction—he insisted it was only mental simulation—.
Baek Woohyun, like the first round, only threw out the early-mid development and final winner, but people continued heated debates.
Saying the reversal would start from here, or the wedge would be driven here. All discussions that didn’t consider at all that he might be wrong.
Then from the finals, the way Baek Woohyun predicted the future changed slightly.
As it was a match determining the championship team of one SSR Cup division, he didn’t predict the final result that might deflate viewers.
Instead, he just proceeded by casually tossing out who would win and who would perform well before battles started.
For example, look at just before the first encounter of the first round of the finals started.
“This one, Team ‘I Took an Arrow to the Knee’ won.”
“Pardon?”
“Player Tarka showed tremendous performance. Was that player Diamond tier? Looks like they can reach Master tier soon too.”
-? What exactly are you looking at
-Now you’ve even mastered future tenseㄷㄷ
-Tarka performs well so the team wins??
-I knew it ㅋㅋ Tarka coin moon launch let’s gooooo
Like this, Baek Woohyun meant he talked about which team would take victory in that battle, and among them, who would show outstanding performance.
Naturally, viewers, especially those supporting the finals teams, rejoiced and grieved at every few words he casually threw.
Rejoicing as if they’d gained the whole world when blessed with battle victory, or saddening as if an unstoppable natural disaster approached when defeat was foreseen.
“Following the first encounter, commentator Baek Woohyun said player Tarka would perform well! For this player to perform, they must charge out right now! Right?!”
“‘I Took an Arrow to the Knee’ prepared their strategy very well. Looking at team practice content, they originally prepared player Tarka as a dagger for this moment—”
-Only throwing fragmentary futures makes me antsy ㅅㅂ
-Finals MVP seems like Tarka will get it
-Nope~ Not yet~ Don’t know~ Just reverse it~
-Tukwang-Tukwang isn’t one to just take this
Other commentators also smoothly matched their commentary to Baek Woohyun’s unique future prediction. Having much experience, they realized this was the most effective commentary method at this moment.
Kim Gwangjin pointed out which moments were important as if representing viewers’ positions, and Cha Seongcheol analyzed Baek Woohyun’s future predictions by examining the overall structure, individual builds, and strategies-tactics they brought.
You could say the three commentators’ roles were clearly divided. Though one was divided into the peculiar role of ‘future prediction,’ anyway.
“Oh? ‘Tukwang-Tukwang’ succeeds in counterattacking. Player Tarka got too excited. Got cut while going in too forcefully.”
-Tarka coin crash ㅅㅂ
-Ah something felt uneasy from the previous battle
-As expected ㅋㅋ Tukwang-Tukwang isn’t one to just take it
-? What? What are you guys watching? Only my broadcast is slow and not showing??
“If ‘Tukwang-Tukwang’ side quickly cut player Tarka, player Jungho who’s rich in CC skills probably stepped up. Following that—”
“Now, while slowly exchanging attacks! As commentator Baek Woohyun said, player Tarka’s position is leaning more forward than before, right? Not missing this—”
However, one thing that could be guaranteed was that this commentary with Baek Woohyun as special commentator was the most distinctive among all event tournaments including the SSR Cup, no, all tournaments combined.
Indeed, where could you see commentary where one person predicts the future, one analyzes how such a future comes, and the remaining one points out the pulse for flowing toward the determined future?
All other commentaries were eliminated from the first paragraph. Because it wasn’t an exaggeration to say there existed absolutely no one except Baek Woohyun who could run mental simulations close to future prediction.
Afterward, jokes circulating in communities that saw those clips like ‘divinely inspired future prediction commentary’ or ‘fast commentary (bbajung) slower than this should have their bbajung badge removed’ were extremely natural.
Additionally, the SSR Cup official commentary broadcast where Baek Woohyun appeared as special commentator pulling in a hundred thousand more viewers than before was the same. Who wouldn’t want to see that?
With encouraging results, the SSR Cup side wanted to keep bringing in Baek Woohyun as special commentator, but unfortunately for them, that couldn’t happen.
“Now, everyone! Let’s go. To uphold our coach’s, Hackstradamus’s prophecy!”
“Undefeated championship awaits us!”
“How will you break through 100% accuracy prediction!”
“…Hehe, I’ll come back with a win. Coach…”
-Demon King’s army marches ㄷㄷ
-Victory declaration before even starting (it’s real)
-If you lose even one match, it’s your fault ㅇㅇ
-Coach declared undefeated championship~
Because Team All-In, now more familiar being called the Demon King’s Army, finally revealed themselves at the SSR Cup.
The forces Baek Woohyun raised bared their fangs toward the ‘Struggle-Annihilation’ division to accomplish the myth of undefeated championship.
It was the Demon King’s Army’s march.