Meanwhile, the Chinese viewers were all incredibly excited.
"Victory is in sight!"
"Victory is in sight!"
"Victory is in sight!"
But right in the middle of their excitement, the livestream suddenly stuttered.
At first, it froze every ten seconds or so, but soon the interruptions became more and more frequent. Less than a minute later, it froze completely.
The image was completely frozen.
Only the occasional comment appeared, tentatively stirring to life.
All the viewers were dumbfounded.
"Fuck, does it really have to freeze now and mess with our nerves?"
"I just checked—there are probably five million viewers. The whole livestream room is frozen."
"Douyin, are you kidding me? With traffic this huge, you pull this stunt?"
The technicians at Douyin were panicking too, scrambling to adjust all kinds of network parameters.
As they were working on it, their supervisor came over to hurry them along.
The technician immediately broke into a sweat and quickly promised to get it fixed within five minutes.
Meanwhile, at the Yoyogi Park court,
Shen Yanchao saw that the livestream had frozen completely. There was nothing he could do, so he started playing serious defense.
In fact, there was no need for him to defend seriously at all.
The other team couldn't make their threes, and inside the arc, Wang Yi could practically cover the entire paint by himself.
On offense, Wang Yi sank another mid-range jumper. The score was now 20–0.
Then, on defense, Wang Yi got another steal. He took the ball beyond the three-point line and, before the other team could rush out to guard him, pulled up and launched a three.
Easy money!
And with that, the first game was over.
23–0!
When Wang Yi saw the number 23, an idea came to him.
Sure, you only needed 21 points to