Cardfight!! Vanguard: Generations Volume 4 [Ryouta Rival]

- Part 5

"Hello all, and welcome to the General Knowledge quiz! I'm your host for today, Hiden-sensei, and I'll be testing just how well you know the game of Vanguard!"

Mitsuba and Akihiro were wearing confident smirks on their faces while Matsushita looked worried.

"This rules for this quiz are simple! After I'm done reading a question, press the buzzer if you want to answer. The group who's buzzer goes off first will get priority to answer, but the window is only fifteen seconds! If they get the answer right, it's a point to their team! If they don't get it right or fail to answer, the other groups get a chance to answer, with priority being passed to whoever buzzed after the first group!"

Assuming you knew the answer but another group beat you to the buzzer, it was still advantageous for you to press it anyways to try and fight for second place, in case they got it wrong.

"However, do note, if a team gets to steal an answer from you, they'll get double points! Triple if the question goes around all three teams! So make sure to get the answer right, or else you'll be giving the other teams a huge chance~!"

That was a lot of pressure on us to get things right on the first try. For this challenge, you'd need a delicate balance between having an answer ready and pressing the buzzer before everyone else.

"If no one answers the question right, we'll move on to the next one. No second chances! If you press the buzzer before I finish reading the question, your team will lose a point! However, you'll still get to answer, so you can make up for it by getting it right. Chances are however, you'll get it wrong, then I'll repeat the question, and the other groups will get double or triple points from your stupidity, so be careful~!"

Mitsuba gulped, pulling the neck of his shirt. Was his intended strategy buzzing before Hiden-sensei finished saying the question so his group could answer first?

"Finally, there are twenty questions in total! You'll receive a payout equal to the amount of points you've gathered throughout the game, but the winner of the quiz will earn an additional 25,000 private points on top of that!"

All the groups looked in awe after learning of that hefty award. Since we have two hours before the auction starts, if we assume each quiz lasts about twenty minutes, then it was possible to gain up to 150,000 extra private points just by winning alone.

If we went through the quizzes fast enough, there might even be potential to earn 175,000 or 200,000 private points. Basically, there was an incentive to go fast and not waste time.

In some ways, I'm glad our competitors were from Akihiro's and Mitsuba's groups. If our group were facing Shimada's group or Shigeru's group, they'd probably try to sabotage us by slow playing or rigging the game with help from another group.

"With all that out of the way, let's begin! Good luck, contestants! You're going to need it..."

Hiden-sensei chuckled before grabbing a stack of cue cards from his pocket. The screen behind him lit up, showing a large number "1" circled in the middle. Looks like we're jumping straight into it.

"Question one! We'll start you off with a nice and simple one. As you may know, the mulligan we all know and love today wasn't always like this. In the past, how would players mulligan before starting a game of Vanguard?"

I hit the buzzer, but Akihiro managed to get it a split second before me. His panel lit up green while mine lit up orange. At the very least, if he got this question wrong, I'd get priority to answer it next, but since it was so simple, I was sure he'd get it.

"Instead of putting the cards you didn't want on the bottom of your deck, you'd return them back into your deck, shuffle it, and draw a new hand!"

"Correct! One point to King Crimson-kun's team!"