"Forum administrator..." Bobby turned to look at two young men in the distance who were holding stopwatches and looked like scorekeepers.
Then he walked towards the two people and stared at them for a long time before he couldn't help but stepped forward and asked, "Sorry to bother you."
One of the young men wearing a black and white striped T-shirt glanced at Bobby and said, "Hey! Black brother, are you okay?"
Although Poppy has done enough when it comes to soliciting sponsorship from others, he still feels a little embarrassed when he doesn't do it.
He hesitated for a moment and then said: "Um... you are the administrators of the fighting robot forum, right?"
"Yeah, what? Are you participating in the competition too?"
"That's right, I am the captain of the Casal team that is participating in the World Series."
The manager looked at Bobby with some surprise, "Oh, it's you, I thought you looked familiar. You had a barbecue stall before you were still in Tangdu, right?"
"Yes, it's me."
"But you are a team captain, what do you want to do with our team administrator?"
"Because now our robot needs to be repaired for the next competition, but because of the insufficient number of spare parts and the fact that the robot has been seriously damaged, we are in urgent need of some parts."
"Ah, parts, you can go to the store to buy them."
Poppy looked a bit embarrassed, and then took out a few bills from his pocket, "But we only have so much money now, and we still have to cover our daily expenses."
The administrator understood what Bobby said and said: "I understand, I just don't have any money and want to find sponsorship?"
"You are so smart, you understand everything as soon as you say it."
The administrator waved his hand and said, "Hey, we often encounter this kind of thing and receive emails like this every day. But there is one thing I want to ask. Even if you get some parts and you can compete, what if you still need them later?
You already have parts, do you still want to look for sponsors? Does your team really not have any domestic sponsors?"
"To tell you the truth, our team is just a private team. Although we are here to participate in the World Series, resources are very scarce and we have to solve it ourselves. This World Series opportunity is rare. Although we have scarce resources, we do not want to
How could we miss it? Originally, we thought we would be eliminated soon, but we didn’t expect that the team members all performed very well and persisted until now, so there was an insufficient number of parts.”
"That's it." The hospital manager hesitated for a moment, holding his chin with his left hand, "But... our forum is just a platform for contacting robot enthusiasts. In fact, we don't have any parts to provide assistance. After all, we are not a sponsor."
Poppy didn't expect the administrator to accept it like this, and felt a chill in his heart, "Then, the competition you are holding here is..."
"Oh, the competition here is just for communication. As for the two prizes, everyone uses their own to bet on them. Whoever wins can take away the other party's parts. Everyone can choose what they need.
Competing with opponents who have spare parts can also be said to be a kind of resource replacement, letting strength speak for itself."
"So that's it." Poppy's eyes lit up, and he finally understood what the competition on this forum meant.
"Then, can I participate?"
"Of course, but do you have the parts? According to the regulations, to participate in this kind of competition, you need to have parts as a bet."
Speaking of this, Poppy hesitated for a long time, and his expression looked a little tangled.
He came out today without bringing anything. It seems he can only wait until tomorrow.
Immediately, Poppy made a level here and decided to compete here again tomorrow to win those parts through battle.
In the next few hours, Bobby traveled to many places and found many fighting robot parts stores, but no one was willing to fund them.
When he returned to the hotel, the team members looked at him expectantly.
"Captain, how are you? Is there any news?"
"Yes, Captain, you must have gotten the parts, right?"
Bobby looked at the hopeful eyes of the team members and couldn't bear to tell them the true situation.
I saw him deliberately pretending to be calm and smiled, and then said: "Of course, I am very lucky. I met a store that can sponsor parts. However, because the number of sponsored products is limited, they can only give them to us in batches. We will need them tomorrow.
I'm going to pick up the first batch of parts."
"Really! That's great! Captain, you are so awesome!"
"That's great! As long as one robot can be repaired first, it's a great thing. There are still a few days until the competition!"
Seeing the excitement of the team members, Bobby couldn't help but show a helpless expression on his face.
But this expression was quickly replaced by a smile, as if Bobby had never experienced any tangled things.
But his younger brother Sean saw everything.
He knew his brother very well and understood that he couldn't bear to tell the team members that he really wanted to, and he was just trying to show off.
After all the team members left, Sean called Bobby out of the hotel.
"Brother, how is the situation today?"
Bobby knew he couldn't hide it from his brother, so he sighed, lowered his head and looked at the cold ground and said, "It's not good. No store is willing to sponsor us."
Sean sighed, "I guessed that if it weren't for a big sponsor, no one would be willing to help us. So how do you explain to the team members that you just told them that parts will be available tomorrow?"
"I went to a forum today where a fighting robot competition is held, and I learned that the players participating in the competition all bet with their own parts, and then win other people's parts through victory."
Sean was slightly startled, "So, you're going to compete to win parts?"
Poppy nodded helplessly, "Well, there is no other way now. Don't we still have some extra parts? I plan to give it a try tomorrow. I have seen the strength of those people, and some of them are not very good.
powerful."
"But is this really okay? If you meet a master, wouldn't it be very dangerous? I'll go with you tomorrow."
"No." Bobby immediately rejected Sean's proposal, "I can be alone, you have to stay here to take care of others."
Although Sean wanted to help, he could understand what Bobby meant. If both of them disappeared, the team members would definitely be suspicious.
Moreover, the competition has regulations that players participating in the World Series cannot go out to participate in other competitions during the competition. At this time, in order to ensure the condition of the players' robots.