Chapter 116 - The worth of an anchor.
They did not go further into the topic on the way back. When they returned to their apartments, Kang Shengzhe went to install his equipment to prepare for his live broadcast while You Liangxing took the time to find the official homepage for MengMao TV. It was only then that You Liangxing understood what Kang Shengzhe meant when he said he was 'currently fighting with all the anchors in MengMao'.
For the past few days, MengMao TV started broadcasting a ranking competition between anchors and all the anchors were required to participate. The ranking competition consisted of a twenty-minute PK battle and the two anchors' broadcasting rooms would go live at the same time. The fans could give the anchor they liked praises and gifts in the shared room, which would all be calculated into the final statistics of their popularity value to determine the victor, who would be allowed to proceed to the next match.
As a matter of course, the anchors in the top twenty of the ranking list would be issued an honorary title and a large sum of money.
After reading through the foundational competition rules, You Liangxing roughly understood why the platform was doing this. While the competition appeared to be quite meaningless, it was essentially trying to stimulate consumption. The so-called ranking list was calling for the fans to smash money at their favourite anchors to prove their popularity through heaps of flowers to attain the first place.
Concurrently, this sort of competition also had a huge impact on the anchors under the website. The award money sounded nice, but the most important thing was that the final ranking determined the anchor's reputation and position in the website for the next half of the year.
Question: which anchor didn't want to be called the most popular on MengMao TV?
Perhaps because the platform was taking the anchors who were weaker in popularity into consideration, they allowed the biggest anchors curated from a comprehensive algorithm to enter the quarter finals directly, thus leaving more opportunities for the other anchors. However, while the seeded anchors included Piaoluo and Howling Wolf, KK was not included.
"According to the website's logic, the comprehensive algorithm takes popularity, qualifications and records of service and the amount of time live broadcasted into account. My popularity is high enough, but my qualifications and time served is not up to par, therefore..."
Therefore, he had to start fighting from the first round?
You Liangxing did not voice it but his heart had its own calculations. Fighting from the first match was not a difficult thing to do where Kang Shengzhe was concerned. No one could win against him, but therein lied the problem.
Precisely because no one could fight him, all the anchors who competed against him were phased out of the competition early, even if they were initially capable of reaching the top twenty. Meeting Kang Shengzhe was equivalent to exiting the arena with regrets.
Which meant that victory or defeat was not important, the most crucial thing was that... from beginning to end, he was offending too many people.
This feeling was similar to that of the basketball match against the Physical Education Institute. Try this for size: originally, a competitor could have entered the finals but due to bad luck, they met the champion in the first match and the opportunity slipped out their fingers as a result. Even if it was exchanged with anyone else, they could not accept it either.
You Liangxing could not resist the urge to fall into deep contemplation. With the perspective of a businessman, Kang Shengzhe's current popularity and position should make him the main pillar and the money shaking tree of MengMao TV, but the choice of placing Kang Shengzhe on a path of elimination made MengMao's table manners extremely unsightly.
