Gourmet Style Beast Taming - Chapter 131
Chapter 131: Chapter 131: The Long Queue
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“Whoa! Is this the Spirit Chef Association of Bai Lu Mountain City?”
Looking at the architecture sprawling on the mountainside before her, Qi Xiaoyu couldn’t resist exclaiming with admiration.
Although the other three didn’t vocalize their astonishment, identical looks of surprise spread across their faces as they took in the towering building.
Spirit Chef Associations exist in every city, each with distinctive appearances and architectural styles.
The Spirit Chef Association in Bai Lu Mountain City, which stood before them now, had a style completely distinct from the one in Dongxia City.
To Qin Lang, the building had hints of the churches from his past life. However, unlike a church, there was no cross atop the highest point of the Bai Lu Mountain City Spirit Chef Association. Instead, there was a colossal snowflake.
In the middle of the snowstorm, it seemed to bring an air of tranquility and hope.
“Pretty awesome, huh?” Liu Tianchen stood with his arms crossed, attaching a proud look, “Once there was a competition for the best-looking Spirit Chef Association buildings among all the cities in Tianhua State. Our own Bai Lu Mountain City Spirit Chef Association achieved an impressive third place.”
“And what place did Dongxia City get?” Zhao Chen couldn’t help but ask.
“If I remember correctly… 1 think it was tenth?”
The group fell silent momentarily.
There are only twelve cities in Tianhua state, alright!
Dongxia City, can you have some dignity!
“Let’s not freeze out here.” Liu Tianchen laughed cheerily, “We should get inside and register quickly.”
With just one day left for the registration, a long queue was forming at the signing up station of the Bai Lu Mountain City Spirit Chef Association, confirming Liu Tianchen’s words.
The number of participants for this Youth Training Competition was quite large.
After about half an hour of waiting, the four finally completed the registration process.
Without leaving the Spirit Chef Association immediately, they sat in its warm indoor lounge, flipping through the promotional pamphlets they received post registration.
“The rules are pretty much the same as those of the Youth Training Competition in Dongxia City.”
After a while, Du Weiwei closed her pamphlet.
Having taken part in the Youth Training Competition once, she was quite familiar with it.
The other three hadn’t participated in the Training Competition before, so they took a little longer to read. But they eventually finished reading the details.
Qin Lang gently closed his pamphlet, revealing an expression of contemplation.
Compared to the training competition that’s open to all age groups, the Youth Training Competition is on a smaller scale.
Its course is very straightforward, divided into two rounds.
The first round is the Selection Battle.
The essence of the Selection Battle is similar to the Scoring Competition in Cooking Contests, which is a widespread selection process for determining a fixed number of candidates who get to advance, filtering them from a large number of contestants.
However, due to the differences between the Spirit Battle and Food Fight, the detailed rules for the two aren’t the same.
The Scoring Competition is where they draw the same topic in advance, letting all the contestants cook their dishes on the same stage. Professional judges would give their scores, and the final advancement list is decided based on the scores.
In the Selection Battle, contestants have more autonomy.
The Spirit Chef Association would arrange ten Spiritual Chefs as “Selection Battle Standards”. These Spiritual Chefs’ food spirits have similar strength. But due to the differences in each Food Spirit’s skills, their strong points and weaknesses vary.
Contestants can freely choose to challenge up to two of the “Selection Battle Standards” for a lvi Food Spirit battle to demonstrate their skills.
Professional judging panels would give scores based on multiple factors, such as the time taken by the contestant to defeat the opponent and the skills displayed during the battle. The higher score will be taken as the contestant’s final score.
Eventually, the top four contestants based on scores will advance to the next round.
The second round is the ranking competition. Its specific rules are similar to the previous Cooking Contest Ranking Competition, with the only difference being that the Food Fight has now become a Spirit Battle.
Given that the Spirit Battle is of a shorter duration, and the Youth Training Competition is on a smaller scale, the ranking competition for the four contestants will be completed within a day.
They will determine their positions as winners or losers and compete for their final rankings within a day.
The succinctness of the Youth Training Competition reflects not only in the competition scale but more in the rewards given.
Since the Selection Battle directly advances to the top four, only the top four contestants of the Youth Training Competition can receive competition rewards. So, compared to the training competition open to all age groups, the rewards in the Youth Training Competition will be fewer.
The first thing on Qin Lang’s mind was the Starstone reward.
The first-place winner can receive ten Starstones, second place gets six, third place gets three, while the fourth-place finisher only gets one.
Also, following the principle of phased rewards, when the Selection Battle ends and the top four advance, they will receive one Starstone assigned to the fourth-place contestant. After the subsequent Ranking Competition, contestants in the winners group can receive an additional five Starstones belonging to the second-place winner.
In the subsequent ranking competition, the losers group fights for third place and gets an additional two Starstones, while the winners group fights for first place and wins an extra four Starstones.
Perhaps to encourage teenage Spirit Chefs to grow faster, the Starstone reward hasn’t been significantly reduced.
However, other rewards have visibly diminished.
In terms of competition points, the first-place winner can only receive 50 training competition points, and the second to fourth place winners receive only 20 points each.
The value of the training competition points is equivalent to that of the cooking competition. If it were the city-level training competition for all ages, the championship points would be 100, the same as the score Qin Lang received for winning the city-level championship.
So, the Youth Training Competition’s points reward is definitely reduced by half.
In terms of title rewards, only the Spirit Chef who takes the first place can get the title of “Excellent Trainer”. The second to fourth place winners have no title awards.
As for the Second-Class Spirit Executor’s Badge…
The championship reward of the City-level Youth Training Competition doesn’t include this.
However, as a compensation, the City-level Youth Training Competition Champion will receive a special reward not available for the City-level Training Competition Champion.
That is, they’ll directly obtain the qualification to participate in the Provincial-level Youth Training Competition.
Compared with the City-level Training Competition, where the champion still has to collect four other Second-Class Spirit Executor’s Badges to participate in the Provincial-level competition, the advancement process of the Youth Training Competition is much simpler.
After learning about all the rewards of the Youth Training Competition, Qin Lang felt somewhat disappointed, but it wasn’t a total letdown.
A competition that can be completed in just a few days is still pretty great.
“Phew–”
Liu Tianchen briskly walked up to them and whispered, “I just went to ask around, there are already more than fifty contestants registered.”
This was the Youth Training Competition, where having twenty participants in a past event was considered pretty exceptional.
Qin Lang couldn’t help but click his tongue.
The participants of this season were really impressive, weren’t they?
“I’ve prepared myself for the possibility of being eliminated in the Selection Battle.” Qi Xiaoyu laid down her pamphlet, shrugging indifferently, “By the way, have you guys chosen your opponents for the Selection Battle?”
The details of the ten “Selection Battle Standards” for the selection battle were also announced in the pamphlet.
All of their food spirits were two-star food spirits, with different combinations of combat skills.
On hearing this, the faces of Qin Lang and the other two turned contemplative.
“I choose number 5 and number 7!” Zhao Chen declared fiercely, “1 feel they’re the strongest!”
Qin Lang:”…”
Du Weiwei:”…”
Qi Xiaoyu:”…”
Liu Tianchen:”…”
You really live up to your name, Adolescent Teenager!
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