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Since 2020, the international Chinese suit of mahjong game Sparrow Soul has held several key events called "four Elephant Wars" every year, but after so many games have been played, no one is more controversial than the 2022 four Elephant Wars Winter Game, which just ended.

The four Elephant Battle is one of the most valuable competitions in the Soul of the Finch. In order to ensure the viewing and fairness of the competition, the authorities deliberately raised the threshold for entry, and it is already difficult to get tickets to the four Elephants. In daily service, only the top 200 players in full service can receive an invitation to participate in the competition, while in international Chinese service, you need to climb to the highest rank of mahjong ranking of "sparrow spirit" and "soul heaven".

The champion of the 2022 four Elephant Games is a previously unknown contestant. He stood out from the 100 or so soul players selected in the audition and entered the finals with an excellent winning rate. and won the championship by a large margin, winning the qualification and honor to participate in international competitions on behalf of the Chinese division.

Although in the finals, the player did not play very well and played a few less-than-ideal cards, everyone excused him for the reasons of different ideas, disconnection and slippery hands in the game and ranked. After all, several players sitting in the finals are outstanding in the soul, and it is not impossible to say that they play some "magic hands" that ordinary players do not understand.

As a result, the level of a player really can not play the so-called magic skill, because shortly after the end of the game, the champion has more and more doubts, and his trip to the four Elephant Wars has gradually become clear: borrowing a number to compete, scoring on luck, and real strength are far below the level of the soul.

In this official match that speaks by strength, what is actually staged is a funny script of "punching the old master to death".

On November 5, bilibili's "Sparrow Soul" anchor "the first Shuai of overtime" wrote a long article to report to the authorities, which ignited the fuse of the incident.

Coincidentally, the anchorman dug up a barrel of real identity very smoothly. As early as February last year, one barrel was opened in his studio to show his support through the captain, and the private chat records of the two men were naturally moved to the front of the stage, which has now become ironclad evidence that has caught up in the whirlpool of public opinion.

According to the anchorman, the purpose of opening a captain for him last year was to seek advice and advice from experts. As one of the highly difficult "soul system" games, the Japanese mahjong rules adopted by "Sparrow Soul" are usually considered to be highly competitive game. players need to practice and study hard in the process from entry to mastery. If you can get advice from experts in your own bottleneck period, you must be able to save a lot of time for improving "sparrow power".

However, in the communication between the two sides, the "come a barrel" account did not appear and was replaced by a "sparrow account" called "painted pear clothes Sa". The sparrow is the saint of the sparrow, and the saint of the sparrow is the soul of the sky. If you just look at the recent record of Sa, I am afraid this person is far from reaching the passing line of the soul.

No one can tell whether Sa is the trumpet of the winter champion, and it is not impossible for the boss to come to the fish pond to fry fish and delay his skills. Soon, however, more contradictions and doubts began to emerge. for example, in the champion interview, a contestant claimed that he had started playing "Finch Soul" in December 2020, but the account he used had a match record before.

For example, there is an obvious time conflict between the two accounts owned by Laiyi, and some games are played almost at the same time. Even in his third year of high school, this account played 247 games in a month. I am afraid that the intensity of such a game is somewhat inconsistent with his identity as a freshman in the college entrance examination.

A simple list of evidence reveals the fact that the winner of the four Elephant War Winter Competition will probably borrow / buy the account used by the contestant before the game. Then, in the face of official questions, he was only vague, claiming that the frequent changes in login to IP were due to the fact that he had "lent his account to a friend".

The extremely high registration threshold for the four Elephant Wars is to eliminate low-level players and allow everyone to enjoy high-quality and high-level games, so the rules of the game expressly prohibit the lending of account numbers, such as Lai Yi, which is not as powerful as the soul. The practice of using other people's accounts to mix into the field is naturally a violation of the principle of fairness repeatedly emphasized in the competition.

On the day of receiving a large number of reports, the Sparrow Soul officials responded quickly, canceling the results of the contestants, banning them from participating in subsequent official competitions, and extending the title of the champion to the second place in the competition, "staying up late and".

Come to a barrel of due sanctions, onlookers also eat warm melons, if there is no accident, the game seems to come to an end, but this matter has only just begun to this stage.

Like Texas hold'em, go and other board games, Japanese mahjong featured by Sparrow Soul is also facing the current situation of AI flooding. Mahjong is a competitive game with opaque information, but in front of the AI with high computing power, human calculation and thinking still seem a little immature.

Of course, the contestant did not use AI to cheat. From the AI analysis after the game, his choice and judgment in many games are not the best solution, or even one of the contestants with the highest error rate. Even so, he won the championship by virtue of his "strength".

Some people think that the player's mistake was offline, but soon a "client" came forward and said that there was no disconnection at that time.

It is not difficult to find a reasonable reason for a player to win the championship, either he is really the chosen one, relying on luck from beginning to end, or on the field, there are many players like him who are not as strong as they are fishing in troubled waters.

Luck is an abstract concept that is difficult to prove, and no one can prove whether the four-figure Battle is a low-probability event in which the weak prevail over the strong. At the same time, it is also unrealistic to strictly examine each contestant's background and strength one by one. Such being the case, several contestants on the final table have naturally become the focus of everyone's attention.

As mentioned earlier, after a round of players were cancelled, the throne of the four Elephant Wars champion was succeeded by the then runner-up "sleeping late and taking a nap". Sleeping late and the contestant is a well-known player of "Finch Soul". There has been a number of big competition results before, and there may be nothing wrong with her taking over the title this time.

However, what is more embarrassing is that this "honorary champion" with a record and ability also has a "black history" of lending accounts.

As a matter of fact, sleeping late and taking part in the competition by borrowing an account is not news in the "Soul" circle. At the time of the first four Elephant Wars, those who had not yet reached the stage of sleeping late and taking a nap and using other people's accounts to participate in the competition and won the crown were exactly the same as the script of the contestants.

For a long time, people have only turned a blind eye to sleeping late and taking part in competitions by borrowing numbers. On the one hand, this contestant can reach the finals in almost every competition, and his strength is obvious to all; on the other hand, due to sleeping late and his popularity and networking in this circle, not many players will tear their face and take the initiative to report.

But the appearance of a barrel broke the deadlock in the "sparrow soul" circle.

The same is borrowed to play the game, is also won the championship, since a barrel in accordance with the violations, then sleeping late and should also receive the same punishment. Many players began to doubt whether the report had something to do with "a small circle does not like outsiders" and sent a large number of e-mails to the authorities after the game, hoping that the principle of "fairness and justice" would be implemented. I hope that the four Elephant Battle will not be reduced to a disorganized "pheasant" competition.

A week after players reported collectively, the official "Finch Soul" came late to deal with the violations of sleeping late and making peace. In terms of the result, both the champions and runners-up of the four Elephant Games fell, and the two men not only cancelled their results, but also were banned from participating in all subsequent official competitions.

It's done, and there's no need to hide it anymore. On the same day of the official announcement, the disqualified late sleeper and the contestant published a long article explaining the current situation to the broad masses of gamers. At the end of the article, she took the initiative to trigger her own "death language", further revealing more well-known players with illegal account transactions, as if to tell everyone that there is more darkness hidden in the depths of this circle.

I thought I caught a little thief, but I didn't expect to poke a nest. In the four-figure Battle, which is full of experts, no one knows how many players are blatantly engaged in illegal activities.

In the circle of "Soul" players, although everyone admits that luck is a distraction that cannot be ignored on the road to victory, the role of technology should not be underestimated.

For example, Japan, which has built a professional mahjong system, has special M.League events, trained a group of professional players who earn money by playing mahjong, and brought in a number of sponsors who are willing to invest. If Japanese mahjong were just a simple game of luck, the professional mahjong industry would probably not last until today.

The significance of professional mahjong is also reflected in the Sparrow Soul. Each season's Quadrant Champions are eligible to participate in the annual "Beidou Battle" to compete with the world's top "Soul" players, including professional teams that make a living.

From this point of view, it is reasonable to cancel the results of a contestant. No one wants to see a player who depends on "luck" and "fluke" compete with other top players at the top of the purple ban. It may be a better choice to postpone the champion of the four-elephant game to the rich experience of sleeping late and sleeping late.

It's just that for the game, is it the result that determines everything, or is fairness more important?

After that, someone used big data to calculate the probability of winning the championship for such a low-level "sparrow" player. If the standard is 100 Soul Tian contestants, the probability of winning is about 4/1000 for one barrel contestants, and 1% for other Soul Tian contestants. In other words, the chance of Sparrow Hao winning the championship is about 40% of that of Soul Tian contestants-provided that he is the only one of his level in the four Elephant Wars.

Everyone knows that the user of the self-posting bar @ idonotloveyou0 is the first to commit a foul, and the subsequent series of penalties deserve it, but in the final analysis, the official attitude towards such large-scale competitions may be the cause of this farce, and if it can be closely monitored before the game, there may not be a series of problems after this.

A barrel is like a hermit in a novel and TV series, unknown, but also a blockbuster. His record put a lot of soul players to shame, and his appearance exposed the long-hidden scandal in the "soul" circle, and when it was all over, he disappeared from the public view again, just like he did at the beginning.

Even if one barrel does not win the championship, as long as the four Elephant Battle of "Sparrow Soul" continues as usual, then in the foreseeable future, there will still be contestants like two rounds and three rounds, and they will still take practical actions to tell everyone that in the world of "sparrow spirits", strength is not all.

Once Pandora's box is opened, it's hard to close it again. At present, the large-scale "witch hunt" in the "Sparrow Soul" circle has not yet ended. According to the revelation, no one knows how many people will be divided by luck in the four-figure War, which boasts of its technology.

Improving your card skills is a painful process. Some players avoid the pain that everyone has experienced and enjoy the sweetness of victory in the spotlight-this is not only the charm of board games, but also the controversy that board games can never avoid.

This article is from the official account of Wechat: game Research Society (ID:yysaag), author: Okny

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