The Blue Star Genius Battle quarter-finals had come to an end.
Six people had won four matches.
Besides the four seeded contestants, there were two others.
However, if damage to their battle suits was factored in, four contestants were tied for first, while the remaining two placed fifth and sixth.
The four tied for first were, unsurprisingly, Ito Bridge, Lin Sheng, Nikos, and Lu Yuan.
These four would advance to the semifinals!
The semifinals would begin tomorrow.
Naturally, the news sent the internet into an uproar!
Looking closely,
compared with the quarter-finals, you'd notice—
there were far fewer posts bashing Lu Yuan.
That was because the National Network Security Bureau had acted swiftly. First, they tracked down the IP addresses of the people deliberately posting smears about Lu Yuan,
then they moved in immediately!
"Heh heh heh, with my account's fifty thousand followers, one video gets me a hundred thousand Blue Star coins. This is amazing!"
A gaming streamer sprawled in his chair, laughing out loud.
As everyone knew, online streamers earned most of their money from ads.
Gaming streamers in particular,
since most of their audience was made up of elementary school students, who didn't have money to send gifts.
And even if they sent expensive gifts, their parents could get the charges refunded because they were minors. In the end, the streamer would only have to pay back even more.
Generally speaking, advertisers wouldn't contact a small-time gaming streamer with only fifty thousand followers.
But today, someone had contacted him. All he had to do was post a video, and he'd receive a hundred Blue Star coins.
If the video stayed up for half an hour, he'd receive another 9,900 Blue Star coins.
If it stayed up for twelve hours, he'd get the remaining ninety thousand,