The latest issue of Xiangnan TV's "Masked Talent Guessing Game" has unsurprisingly won applause from the entire Internet. It has even become popular in the table tennis circle, with people even forwarding the video on foreign forums.
The reason is that this program in this world is completely different from the "Masked Singer Guess" program in Wang Chao's previous life, although the format is similar.
The core excitement of that show is actually guessing the identity of the masked person. Because the person invited is not a super big name in the entertainment industry, there are many options, which makes it very difficult to guess. And the person who is not guessed at the end of the show can actually continue to the next episode. It is a continuous show.
However, the program that Wang Chao participated in invited experts from different industries and fields in each episode, and almost all of them were people at the top of the pyramid. This was destined to have no continuity. Even if the guests did not guess any of them, the program team would still announce the answer before the end of the show, instead of leaving the plot to the next episode.
After all, everyone is very busy. It is enough to participate once in the midst of a busy schedule. It is impossible to become a regular guest of a variety show like people in the entertainment industry.
What's more, there are only a few people at the top of the pyramid, so it's really easy to guess.
Therefore, the core excitement of this show is no longer guessing the identity, but the skill display of the experts.
In this case, naturally the more powerful the person comes, the more honors they get, the more awesome skills they display, and the better the effect is achieved.
Looking at the entire country of China, which sport has won more honors than table tennis?
No.
And throughout the decades of Chinese table tennis, is there anyone with more honors and stronger skills than Sun Tianlong?
No.
What's more, this issue not only has a Sun Tianlong, but also a fake Sun Tianlong. This fake Sun Tianlong is like Sun Wukong to the six-eared macaque. It is fake, but it is so imitated that even Wang Wendong cannot be detected.
Therefore, this program has naturally become Xiangnan TV's most-watched variety show since the beginning of this year, bar none.
The scene of Wang Chao and Sun Tianlong repeatedly torturing Wang Wendong was also widely reprinted and commented wildly by foreign netizens.
This is understandable. After all, from debut to retirement, Wang Wendong has won and lost, but he has never lost so miserably.
A non-Chinese associations Great Demon King that makes people envious, jealous, and hateful. When he gets old and loses his life, this kind of thing naturally makes people talk about it, and there is quite a compensatory mood of gloating.
But in the end, foreign netizens agreed that the program team did not do well, and that is the lack of a final climax: let the real and fake Sun Tianlong compete before the reveal to see who is more powerful, Li Kui or Li Gui.
The impact of this incident on Wang Chao was that he received many phone calls that night.
There were calls from high school classmates, from senior brother Luo Jiu and teacher He Jingping, from former teammates of the city team, and from mom Wang Mei.
Facts have proved that the influence of the entertainment industry in China is indeed much higher than that of any sports.
Wang Chao himself never thought that he would become famous because of appearing on a variety show.
The reason for Wang Mei's call was completely unexpected by Wang Chao: "Son, do you still remember what you told me during the Chinese New Year?"
Wang Chao was confused. "What's going on?"
Wang Mei said "Hey": "Have you forgotten? Didn't you tell me that as long as your table tennis team performs well, the country will allocate a wife to you? You also said that you can choose from the national diving team and gymnastics team... Back then I told them, but they didn't believe it, but they all saw you on the variety show this time, and the very famous Teacher He kept praising you, saying how you brought glory to the country and how you were a national hero, and now they all believed it!"
Wang Chao was quite dumbfounded. "Mom, this isn't important, is it?"
"Why isn't it important?" Wang Mei's tone suddenly raised a few notches. "I lived in this hellish place, endured the humiliation, and was ridiculed by them. After more than ten years of hard life, I finally waited until I can feel proud. How can they not believe it?"
Wang Chao could only smile bitterly, "Okay, okay, it's important if you say it's important."
Wang Mei was not finished yet, she said, "But in the end, seeing is believing. Son, when will you come back and bring your girlfriend back so that they can all see it."
Wang Chao Everyone was confused. "Mom, this... I don't have a girlfriend."
"How could it not be?" Wang Mei's voice rose a few degrees higher. "I was watching a gymnastics competition a while ago, and there was a pretty little girl playing on the horizontal bar. She was small, had long hair, and had big eyes. Let me tell you, when it comes to finding a girlfriend, you have to be quick, strike first and drink the soup later. If you are slow, all the good girls will be snatched away by the men's gymnastics team."
Wang Chao remained silent for a long time.
He understands his mother's mood very well. After all, he has worked hard for more than ten years to raise himself, but he has never had a good day, and he has never been able to speak loudly with his head held high. Now that he has become prosperous, his mother has plenty of money. This means that material needs have been met, and spiritual needs have been put on the agenda.
Although Wang Mei was rebellious in her youth and gave birth to a child underage, her thinking is still traditional. When Wang Chao was in high school, she thought Wang Chao was a brat. But now that Wang Chao has started to work professionally. Although she is only eighteen or nineteen years old, she naturally feels that Wang Chao has grown up and it is time to get married and have children.
People say that wealth does not return to its hometown, just like walking in brocade at night.
But Wang Mei feels even more that if he doesn't get married and have children soon after becoming famous, who will inherit the Jiang Shan that Wang Chao has laid in the future?
Wang Chao actually wanted to explain it seriously, but Wang Mei said something else, "Did you know that a while ago, a high school classmate of yours came to see me. Well, she is quite beautiful, with long hair and big eyes. When she saw me, she looked like Sister Mei, and her mouth was so sweet. She seemed to be called... called... Liu Bei. Do you have anything to do with her?"
Wang Chao was a little shocked.
He asked Wang Mei about the specific date, and quickly calculated it, only to find that Liu Bei went to see Wang Mei after he rejected her.
They say you shouldn't guess what a girl is thinking. Wang Chao was a little confused at the moment, but since the girl hadn't taken the initiative to mention it, he couldn't ask directly, so even though he was a little worried, he could only suppress the matter for the time being and talk about it later.
Nothing major happened in the last ten days of March. Spade Q played three rounds of Table Tennis Super League intensively, one at home and two away games. The opponents were from Western Sichuan Province, Heishui Province and Ji Province respectively. The final record was one win and two losses.
So far, Spade Q has a total record of four wins and six losses, still ranking in the middle and lower reaches of Table Tennis Super League.
It is worth mentioning that the ecological chain of Table Tennis Super League is completely different from that of Table Tennis First Division.
Because Table Tennis First Division has low popularity and limited appeal, athletes are usually not inclined to play in other provinces. Therefore, whether a team is strong or not largely depends on the player resources in the province. As for the three northeastern provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning, the Table Tennis First Division team has always been very strong because of the large number of talents. It can even be said that Northeastern Big Three of Table Tennis First Division has three fixed seats in the playoffs every year.
But Table Tennis Super League is completely different.
Table Tennis Super League is popular, the players have high incomes, the club spends a lot of money, and the benefits are huge. In this case, the economy has become the decisive factor in the strength of a team.
Therefore, the three provinces in the free shipping area that appeared to be weak on Table Tennis First Division all stood up, and there were two Table Tennis Super League teams in each province.
Due to the relatively backward economy of the three northeastern provinces, although they each formed a team, they were always tepid and their strength was average.
For example, Liaoning Province Zhonggang Club relied on the favor card to pull in peerless figures such as Sun Tianlong, who was born in Liao Province. However, in the end, this team can still only linger in the middle. In the final analysis, it is because there is no one else who can beat Sun Tianlong.
On the contrary, the Imperial Capital and the Magic Capital, as the political and economic centers of China respectively, each have one of the top teams.
Northern Hubei Province's resources are actually quite good. Both the players and the economy are quite capable. Just imagine how powerful this team would be if Wang Chao and Luo Jiu were on the same team. However, Northern Hubei Province has two Table Tennis Super League teams. As a result, the resources are dispersed and their combat power becomes average.
What is really worth mentioning during this period is that Zhu Ding finally appeared in the Table Tennis Super League arena.
As soon as he appeared, he created a lot of surprising plots.
On March 21st, the two strongest teams, Imperial City Fire Phoenix and Demon City Panlong, faced off again. As a result, Dragon Team played a beautiful formation and ranked Zhu Ding first. Xiao Fei ranked second. As a result, Zhu Ding met Bai Feng in the first game, and actually smashed Bai Feng's front face to pieces with a score of 4:0.
This game was played at home in Shanghai. After the game, the audience was silent because the audience felt that the game was a bit weird.
Zhu Ding didn't come up with anything that made him stand out. His playing style was somewhat similar to Luo Jiu's tactics when China Open played Hook. There were also all kinds of strange bluffs. When he was serving, he even deliberately drew a circle with his right hand holding the racket in front of his face. The action was like practicing Tai Chi. Bai Feng kept an eye on his hand movements the whole time, fearing that he would come up with some new style of serve. In the end, it was just a simple hook.
Later, Bai Feng discovered that Zhu Ding's circle drawing action can be followed by any ordinary serve. In other words, there is really no need to pay close attention to this circle drawing process...
Let's get back to the game.
Bai Feng is a strong-willed person who gets stronger when he is strong. Not to mention, he is a bit similar to Hook. As a result, Zhu Ding keeps doing it, doing it. He was out of form. Although he didn't suffer as much as Hook, he was still weak. In the end, his mentality was broken by Zhu Ding, and he was defeated cursing.
After his defeat, the Magic City Fire Phoenix team immediately fell into disarray. The second single, Zou Zhengyu, was easily defeated by Xiao Fei. In the third doubles match, the two sides fought for a long time. In the end, Fire Phoenix Team still lost 3:4.
So Imperial Capital Panlong won with a big score of 3:0. This was also the only clean sheet in the history of the two teams' confrontation in the past five years.
After this round, the Chinese table tennis community had mixed reviews for Zhu Ding, and all the coaches on Table Tennis First Division said they could not understand it at all. Is this still the same Table Tennis First Division Great Demon King who had suppressed them for six years? Why did he become a weirdo inexplicably?
It is said that oranges become oranges when they grow in Huainan, and oranges when they grow in northern Huaibei. Is there really such a big difference between the soil and water of Table Tennis First Division and Table Tennis Super League? Forcibly turning a hunk from heaven into a silver-dollar sissy?
But regardless of whether they recognized Zhu Ding's performance or not, Zhu Ding's ability to defeat Bai Feng still refreshed everyone's expectations for him. He was evaluated as the main player of Table Tennis Super League's first-tier team this year, and it was judged that Imperial Capital Panlong team had a great possibility of winning the spring competition this year.
On March 26, Imperial Capital Panlong faced Jiangcheng University Team at home, and Zhu Ding once again surprised people.
This time Jiangcheng University Team played with all the main players, but Imperial Capital Panlong still chose to let Zhu Ding start for some unknown reason. So Zhu Ding was directly crushed by Luo Jiu in the first game. Not only did the big score 4:0, but the small score was 11:2 in two games and 11:1 in one game. It was completely terrible.
After the game, everyone was shocked and confused, and finally came to a conclusion: Zhu Ding is Luo Jiu's sparring partner in the national team. Could it be that Luo Jiu took advantage of his weakness?
Up to this point, everyone still thinks that Zhu Ding is capable of fighting.
But then Jiangcheng University lost the second and third games in a row, and the game entered the fourth game. Zhu Ding once again played solo. His opponent was Jiangcheng University Team triple single Duan Changying.
Everyone thinks that this will be a one-sided crushing game. Even if Duan Changying fights for his life, he will never be Zhu Ding's opponent.
But in the end Zhu Ding was crushed by Duan Changying 4:0.
In this game, he was uncharacteristically fierce. He suddenly became very fierce and attacked Duan Changying fiercely. Duan Changying has a fierce and strong style of play, so this game was full of sparks, which was very beautiful.
But the strange thing is that when Zhu Ding was still in Table Tennis First Division, he was very good at strong play. His playing intensity was never lower than Duan Changying, and he played last year In T2, whether it was the defensive toughness shown by Mizutori Hato or the flexible offensiveness shown by Wang Chao in the finals, it should be difficult for Duan Changying to match.
Then why was he directly smashed to pieces by Duan Changying?
Everyone said they couldn't understand it, even Zhu Ding himself said he couldn't understand it. He said this in the post-match interview, "I just wanted to fight him. I thought I could definitely win. I don't know why I lost. I probably practiced too many other moves recently."
The reporter asked him what the other moves were, but he just shook his head and refused to explain.
On March 30th, Imperial Capital Panlong competed again, and his opponent was Shandong Province Power Club.
This time Dragon Team lined up normally, and Li Neng Club played the first single Fang Xiaobo and the second single Yan Ping'an.
In the first game, Xiao Fei 4:2 defeated Fang Xiaobo without any danger.
In the second game, Zhu Ding 4: 0 beat Yan Ping'an.
In the third game, Zhu Ding and his partner beat Yan Ping'an and his partner 3:0.
After this round, the audience was stunned.
They no longer understand what Zhu Ding is doing.
When he played Yan Ping'an, his style of play was almost exactly the same as when he played Duan Changying in the previous round. The entire Taiwanese team was attacking with double-sided looping balls, playing with great passion.
But Yan Ping'an's offensive ability is certainly much stronger than that of Duan Changying in the previous round. The reason why this guy can become one of the current sub-main players in Huaping is because he has the smoothest and most balanced left-handed offensive skills in Huaping.
But Zhu Ding pressed Yan Ping'an's head and beat Yan Ping'an to death in terms of the connection between his left and right hands. The effect he produced was completely different from the previous round.
In the following doubles, he became a support player and rarely attacked. He used the whole process to create opportunities for his partner by cutting, pulling, rubbing, swinging short and wide angles. This style of play was exactly the same as when Wang Chao was leading Lu Jia.
So everyone couldn't help but think about it. Since Zhu Ding is playing with He Jingping, it makes sense that he would learn from Wang Chao. However, what is the mainstream playing style of this former Table Tennis First Division Great Demon King now?
Opinions vary.
There is no definite answer.
Zhu Ding seems to have become an
He spoke so lightly, smiled so brightly, and completely lost the appearance of the irascible macho man before, so that most people thought he was joking rather than answering the question seriously.
All in all, March passed like this. By the beginning of April, Wang Chao planned to report to the Imperial National Team training base and then go to Sweden to compete. However, before he could leave, Qin Huachang came with Fan Xiaodong and invited Wang Chao to go to Liancheng City again.