Chapter 1553 Online Racing Competition

March 30th, Saturday.

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

Rabbit Tail Livestream had been preparing for this competition for a long time, and Zhang Yan had already passed the initial qualifiers.

This week was the online competition. After the winners were decided, they would be awarded places in the offline competition. At that time, professional coaches would teach them how to drive real race cars and strive to transform their simulator driving skills into real car driving skills.

Whoever converted faster and better would win the amateur group!

As for the ultimate victory, it would definitely belong to the professional group. After all, no matter how talented the amateur players were, it was impossible for them to compete with professional players.

Unless an amateur player transitioned into a professional player, and then steadily improved step by step, there would be hope.

For Zhang Yan, her goal was simple: to enter the offline competition!

Once she reached the offline stage, she would go all out. As for the result, it didn't matter. Participation was key.

The key was to get the qualification to touch a real car.

After all, her skills were all practiced on the simulator, and no matter how realistic the simulator was, it was still very different from a real race car.

No one could guarantee what she could do in a real race. She could only say, do her best.

Before the competition started, Zhang Yan started warming up.

Occasionally, there were comments in the livestream room asking: "Damn, the streamer is so persevering! I saw you running this map last month, and you're still running it now! Don't you get tired of it? Stream something else!"

In the beginning, Zhang Yan did gain a lot of popularity due to the popularity of the game "Safe and Civilized Driving."

At that time, she attracted many fans by taking her driver's license test and driving a big truck.

But since she started practicing racing, her fans had begun to slowly dwindle.

There was no way around it, practicing racing was really boring!

Many maps had to be run for a whole day. To pursue an improvement of a few tenths of a second, a single mistake often meant that all previous efforts were in vain. Moreover, driving a race car was not like driving a big truck on a long trip where you could relax your mind. She simply didn't have the energy to chat with the audience, so the more she practiced, the fewer people there were in the livestream room.

There were also quite a few sarcastic remarks.

"The streamer doesn't livestream properly and just messes around. What's the point of a female streamer running the racetrack every day? Your popularity is getting lower and lower, right?"

"Just keep doing whatever you want, you'll eventually ruin yourself! You had a great start, but you messed it up!"

"That's right, if you don't have the talent, why bother insisting? Wouldn't it be better to realize that you're actually suitable to be a comedian?"

Such comments were not uncommon.

But Zhang Yan remained unmoved and continued to practice diligently.

Finally, Zhang Yan waited for this Safe and Civilized Driving Competition!

Almost all the streamers on Rabbit Tail Livestream participated in this competition. Many streamers from other platforms, as well as some passerby大神 (dàshén, literally "great god" meaning expert) players of the game, also participated.

The result was shocking. Many well-known streamers didn't even pass the qualifying rounds!

These streamers usually did all kinds of funny things during their livestreams and boasted about how good their driving skills were, but when it came to the official competition, they all had problems and were completely exposed.

It was as if some gog streamers were always playing in low-elo games for the sake of the program, seemingly showing off their skills, but ultimately they were just smurfing.

Once they reached a high-elo game or a competition and encountered opponents much stronger than in their usual low-elo games, their skills immediately stopped working. It was as if they had become a different person, frequently making forced mistakes.

When it really came down to a competition of hard skills, the tide receded, and everyone could see who was swimming naked.

But Zhang Yan was different. All her skills were honed through real practice, so she was naturally not afraid of this kind of real test.

And with the end of the qualifying competition, the number of people in Zhang Yan's livestream room had a sustained rebound.

Players were surprised to find that Zhang Yan's hard work really paid off, and there was a fundamental difference between her and other streamers!

Those viewers who had left before all came back.

They had left before because they couldn't see any program effects, nor could they see any unique content in Zhang Yan that was different from other streamers. After all, practicing driving skills was too boring, and most people didn't have the patience to keep watching.

But now it was different. Being able to get good results in the competition and being able to defeat other opponents with real strength was in itself a matter full of program effects.

Since the program effects were back, and even better than before, then what reason did the audience have not to come back and continue watching?

Many fans of other streamers also poured into Zhang Yan's livestream room, because those streamers had been eliminated, while Zhang Yan could continue to enter the online competition and compete with more powerful opponents in the final competition.

And those fans who had been supporting Zhang Yan at this time had a feeling of seeing the light after the clouds had cleared.

They had always unconditionally supported Zhang Yan's decision. When they saw the number of people in Zhang Yan's livestream room constantly dwindling and the popularity constantly declining, they were as anxious as Zhang Yan, even more anxious than Zhang Yan.

Now that they saw the popularity return, they naturally had a sense of relief that "I didn't misjudge her."

After steadily running two laps, Zhang Yan entered the official competition room and began to prepare.

For her, this opportunity was very important, because Zhang Yan had a racing dream a long time ago, but the cost of racing was too high, and Zhang Yan couldn't afford it at all.

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

This also meant that Zhang Yan could use this opportunity to get a chance to transform into a professional racer at no cost!

If she could achieve excellent results, it would be considered a proof of her talent and persistence. The resistance from her family members should also be reduced a lot, right?

…

Soon, the competition officially began.

A large number of viewers poured into the Rabbit Tail Livestream platform, discussing enthusiastically while waiting for the start of the competition.

"Hello everyone in the livestream room, welcome to the online stage of Safe and Civilized Driving! Today's online competition will be a little different from the qualifying stage, because our livestream platform will adopt a new livestream method this time..."

The hosts of the Safe and Civilized Driving Competition were two official commentators from gpL.

In this regard, Rabbit Tail Livestream had an overwhelming advantage over other platforms, because Rabbit Tail Livestream had a large number of excellent commentary resources. These commentators were not only clear and humorous, but also had a deep understanding of the game, and the audience recognized them.

Arranging them to commentate on today's Safe and Civilized Driving Competition was also very reasonable.

They were all Tendai's own people, so it was normal to make a cameo appearance!

Many viewers on the barrage were curious.

"It will be a little different from the qualifying stage, how exactly is it different?"

"I remember that the director during the qualifying rounds was already doing a very good job. The camera switched smoothly and naturally between many popular players, so that everyone didn't feel any discomfort at all. Could it be said that the livestream technology can be further improved after doing this?"

"It should be difficult, right? Wasn't the professional director of gpL used in the qualifying stage?"

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

Soon, the host revealed the answer: based on the livestream function of the game "Safe and Civilized Driving," a competition-specific function was developed!

These functions can be roughly divided into the following points.

First, players can freely enter the official competition room in the game "Safe and Civilized Driving" and view the first-person perspective of any participating player, or they can also watch the director's perspective or the God's perspective.

In the first-person perspective of the participating players, players can see some very detailed data, such as gears, engine revolutions, and the depth and strength when stepping on the accelerator pedal and the brake pedal.

These data are of great significance for the audience to more deeply understand the basic strength and skill level of the current players.

Second, players can also synchronize their steering wheel with the participating players, so that they can more intuitively see some of the participating players' operating modes and operating details.

Of course, like the livestream mode, the steering wheel in this state cannot be touched. Touching it will automatically exit.

This is to prevent danger.

This function is actually a derivative of the livestream function, but the operations performed by the anchor during the livestream and the operations performed by the players during the competition are still different after all.

In addition, compared to the initial version of the livestream function, there has been new progress this time. This time, players no longer need to install the game "Safe and Civilized Driving." Instead, they can directly connect the livestream signal of Rabbit Tail Livestream to their steering wheel!

After all, the signal data volume of the steering wheel movement is not large, and it does not need to rely on the content of the game itself. As long as the livestream platform transmits this data to the player's computer and then transmits it to the steering wheel.

Even players without a steering wheel can open a small window and see the steering wheel and pedal operations of these players through a simulated picture.

Of course, compared to the full version experience in the game, the web page function is equivalent to a castrated version, and there are many problems.

For example, you can only choose back and forth between the several perspectives provided by the official, and you cannot choose all the participating players. Moreover, in terms of the transmission of some data, it may not be possible to achieve particularly accurate, there are still subtle differences.

But for players who do not have the Safe and Civilized Driving game on their computers, this is a fairly novel viewing experience.

Third, players can generate recording files during the viewing process and repeatedly watch and study the skills of some players in cornering or specific routes, and learn repeatedly.

In addition, there are other details, such as: Rabbit Tail Livestream's multi-window overlay small window mode.

In the Rabbit Tail Livestream's livestream room, the main window is of course the real-time competition screen of the game, but on this basis, viewers can also open some small windows to view other content, and stack these small windows arbitrarily, or place them in any position on the main screen.

For example, players can place the camera screen of the players they are interested in in the lower right corner, or put the current scoreboard ranking or some data details on the screen in a position they like.

Compared to the unchanging screen of other livestream platforms when hosting competitions, this mode of being able to freely select information you like and move it as a small window to the livestream room screen provides viewers with a new choice.

The competition officially began, the commentators also began to explain passionately, and the audience watched the wonderful competition while exploring the new features launched by Rabbit Tail Livestream. The popularity of the livestream room continued to climb!