The Game of Life-Chapter 763 - 762 Competition System

Chapter 763: Chapter 762: Competition System

Chapter 763 -762: Competition System

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This competition format was far more complex and commercialized than Jiang Feng had imagined.

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Reading the pure English made him a little headache, although it wasn’t to the point of being unable to understand, it reminded Jiang Feng of the painful times when he took the Level Six exam.

Perhaps because this time the Chinese-American Chef King Contest is based on restaurants participating as units, no restaurant wanted the variety show to affect their original business since the show was recorded monthly. After considering this, the production team came up with a competition format that was completely different from what Jiang Feng had previously imagined.

Both the Chinese and American sides have eight restaurants eligible to compete. For the first month and a half, the eight restaurants from each side will compete internally in a point-based contest, with scores updated weekly. In the end, the top two restaurants in accumulated points on each side, a total of four restaurants, will enter the final showdown.

To not interfere with the normal business of the restaurants, the point contest was divided into two types. Each restaurant could send four contestants, and unless there was an unforeseen event, no changes to contestants were allowed mid-competition.

Before the competition started, each contestant could submit to the production team ten dishes that they were skilled at making. The production team would randomly draw one dish every week as that week’s competition dish, counting from Monday to Sunday. Restaurants operated normally, receiving one point for each designated dish sold; an additional point was awarded for positive customer feedback, while two points were deducted for negative feedback.

This was the format for the first half of the point contest.

Every two weeks there would be a mini evaluation, the content of which would remain confidential for now. Restaurants would receive different points according to their ranking in the evaluation.

The format for the second half was roughly the same as the first half, with the only difference being that the business of the restaurants would be somewhat affected because the eight restaurants would swap contestants with a randomly drawn rival restaurant. The four contestants would work with the staff of the opponent’s restaurant to ensure that the sales figures wouldn’t fluctuate too dramatically, with the competition content being identical to the first half, except that the ten dishes submitted must fit the style of the opponent’s restaurant.

If the opponent’s restaurant’s revenue dropped significantly during the swap period, three hundred points would be deducted as a penalty from the chef’s original restaurant.

It could be said that if you “screwed up” your opponent’s business, you’d be “screwed” as well.

The competition format was quite interesting, and Jiang Feng thought that the production team did a good job coming up with a competition mode that was able to attract viewers’ attention without too much impact on the normal operation of the restaurants.

But this format seemed almost made for cheating.

During the swap in the second half, if the confidentiality was handled well, it might be slightly harder to cheat. It would be far too easy to hire fake customers to run up the score during the first half when restaurants operated normally.

Then Jiang Feng saw the notice.

The first point explicitly prohibited any form of cheating.

After all, this competition was a reality show. Although it was a “show”, it needed to be authentic. Besides the thrilling competition, the daily lives and personal appeal of the contestants were also selling points.

The production team’s cameramen, in addition to shooting in the kitchen and the restaurant, would also follow the contestants home to capture content that they were willing to share. But Jiang Feng suspected that, with the American way of reality TV, they would film even the content that wasn’t agreed upon.

The production team might have realized that their competition format was too conducive to cheating by those inclined to do so, which is why they put this warning first. They claimed that they would employ the highest level of data monitoring and conduct extensive investigations upon finding any data anomalies, to eliminate ballot-stuffing as much as possible.

If cheating was proven, the contestant would be immediately disqualified.

It sounded quite legitimate, but whether it would be enforced as stated remained to be seen.

What really surprised Jiang Feng was the location for the final showdown.

Once the top four were decided, the competition format became very typical, just what everyone would imagine: four groups of chefs congregating in one place to engage in an intense showdown on a grand stage, with a judging panel deciding the ultimate champion.

It wasn’t very innovative, but it was what people truly wanted to see.

Competition, isn’t that so?

Traditional, but thrilling!

Jiang Feng had originally thought that the final would surely be set in the United States, offering him a chance to experience a trip funded by public expense. However, the final competition location turned out to be set in Beiping.

The reason given by the production team was that the main judge, Xu Cheng, currently lived in Beiping and didn’t want to move, so it was the others that had to go through the trouble of relocating. However, Jiang Feng suspected that the real person who didn’t want to move was someone else, for instance, Chef Arno, who truly had a grip on the lifeblood of the production team.

After reviewing the entire competition system and process, Jiang Feng felt it was quite good.

If he were just a regular viewer instead of a contestant, he would probably find such a variety show quite interesting. It would be like when he watched the first season with Chef Arno participating, where he would stay up all night to binge-watch it.

In reality shows, the “show” is only a small part of it—the real focus is on the “reality.” As long as the competition is fair and has a degree of fun, that’s enough both for the contestants and the audience.

There’s no need to create so many meaningless conflicts for sensationalism. In the first season, Chef Arno had already proven with his actions that what the audience loves to watch isn’t conflicts—they might just simply enjoy watching people get scolded.

Apart from the program schedule, Chef Arno also took the time to ask Jiang Feng if he had any comments.

Jiang Feng certainly had no comments and simply replied to Chef Arno with a “no.”

There was no response after that.

He then casually forwarded the document to Wu Minqi and Sun Maochai. They were definitely going to participate in the competition, which had been agreed upon previously, but they hadn’t discussed who the remaining contestant would be.

After some thought, he forwarded the document to Zhang Guanghang as well.

Kidding, Zhang was the face of their Taifeng Building.

As long as Zhang joined the competition and the show aired—given the current estimated quality—this variety show was sure to explode. Last year’s amateurish Good Taste culinary competition had gained some national popularity, catapulting Zhang Guanghang right onto the hot search. Now, with such a professional cooking competition, it would be a disservice to Chef Arno’s comeback if it didn’t reach a few hundred million views.

If the show took off, even without winning the championship, Taifeng Building wouldn’t have to worry about business for the next ten years.

As long as Zhang Guanghang didn’t gain weight and kept his shape for the next ten years, he would be the handsomest guy in the culinary world.

As Jiang Feng was fantasizing about Taifeng Building quickly making a fortune and paying off their debts, Zhang Guanghang replied.

Zhang: I’ve looked at it, the competition system is good, but it’s inconvenient for me to participate, find someone else please.

Jiang Feng: ?

He felt as though he was watching a pile of bright, mountain-high cash grow wings and fly before his very eyes.

The fluttering kind.

Zhou Shi: ?

Zhou Shi had been observing Jiang Feng from the beginning.

At first, he could tell that Jiang Feng was probably reviewing some files because he looked focused and serious. Later on, probably because the files were satisfactory, his expression relaxed a great deal and he seemed quite content.

Later on, Zhou Shi couldn’t quite understand Jiang Feng’s expressions anymore.

It was pleasure at first, then joy, followed by ecstasy. Within that ecstasy, there was even a hint of a golden scent from who knows where, and now suddenly it had turned into despair and sadness, as if he had just lost two million.

“What’s wrong?” Zhou Shi asked.

“Nothing,” Jiang Feng said, with a sad face, as he messaged Sun Maochai asking who else he thought was suitable for the competition, “just felt like I’ve lost money.”

Jiang Feng sniffled, as if he really had lost money.