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Chapter 34 - Results

Bandeer: A '4'? But... That- That is impossible... I saw your hand in the last round... It only had two blanks, or you... did you steal my card!?

Todor: No I did not.

Bandeer: Then... Then what?!

Referee-1: 30 seconds left!

Bandeer: NO! THIS IS NOT RIGHT! THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE!!!

Todor: Bandeer, time to end this game.

Bandeer: I thought... that... I actually won... but now... I saw... I saw your hand, it was two blanks! Yet now it's a... '4'?

Referee: 15 seconds left!

Todor: I told you, Bandeer. I will win. Because I am... the "Perfect Perfectionist"!

Todor used a '4' and Bandeer used a '4' in the second half of phase 5.

Referee-1: Both players used the same card '4', so this phase is a tie! And with that, Round 2 has officially ended, Todor won two rounds and Bandeer won 1!

The results of the first two Rounds:

Todor 2 - 0 Bandeer

Referee-1: The winner of the "Joker's gambit" is Todor!

Bandeer: How? I wanna know... How did you do it? Todor? How was that not a blank?

Todor: I will reveal it to you.

Bandeer: Please, do.

Todor: Remember the first phase of this, the second Round?

Bandeer: Yeah... When setting the fire.

Todor: Before I created a fire, I ripped a card so I could separate it because a card is built up by multiple layers. What I did is that I separated the two layers completely when it was behind me to set the chair on fire. And then what I needed to do is put the bottom layer on the upper layer so it would look like it's just a blank as well!

Bandeer: You have even thought of that... That's why you did not care if I saw your cards... Also, just one more thing. Why was your hand wet? After all that happened, there is a reason for that as well, right?

Todor: Absolutely, you are right. So first of all, I planned this strategy of burning down the cards way before. The problem was, how will I do that? Because it's against the rules to bring something like a lighter into the matches that would make my life so easy. So I had to come up with a plan. I had a lighter already so it was no problem, but I knew already that if we open or remove the head of the lighter, depending on what liquid is inside the lighter, it turns into gas instantly, so I couldn't use that to make the ignite easier. But still, back in the hotel I decided to open the top of the lighter, and then I went to the kitchen of the hotel we have to live in right now and poured some cooking oil into it.

Bandeer: You did all of that... So when you were outside, when being body checked...

Todor: The referee noticed I have a lighter, because I bringed it with me here, knowing the referee will find it, so I opened it and poured the oil into my hands. So what you saw and even mentioned early on, that my hand is wet... It was not water, it was some oil. I needed that to make sure that I will be able to light the cards in time, because that 60 seconds time limit is barely enough to do anything.

Bandeer: How in the hell do you get to the point of actually doing something like this? How can you find something like this?

Todor: And not just that, in the beginning of the first Round, did you notice the way how I hold my cards?

Bandeer: Oh, yeah, I did, was that for a reason too?

Todor: The reason was that I didn't know if we would get back the same cards in the second round as we used in the first. With holding the cards that way, I minimised how much oil the cards get so if I get new or at least not the same cards next round, then I will have as much oil on my hand to spread on them as I can. That is also the reason why I did not rip one of the cards on the first Round and not separated the layers at all.

Bandeer: You really thought about everything after all... planned out all of that beforehand... How long did it take to come up with it?

Todor: Not a lot, I will tell you that I had much more time than I needed to come up with it.

Bandeer: Just one more thing, your '4' and 'J' cards were not fully burned, they were recognizable. Was that intentional too?

Todor: Yeah, when I was shuffling them while on fire in my hands I made sure to not to burn them too much.

This is the ending of the "Joker's Gambit" matches, Todor once again showed why he is the "Perfect Perfectionist". Bending the game rules as much as it seems like that it's possible, or even that point where it should not be considered okay?

All the players had to wait until all the matches ended before they could make their way back to the Grand Hotel once again. Someone seems like already looking for somebody, not other than Adam this person is.

Adam: Greg? Where is Greg?

But before he could find him, the referee who always introduces the games, already starts the results.

Referee-1: ATTENTION! Now that all of you are here, and all of the matches are now over, I will announce the results!

Before this game, there was a total of 84 were still participating, but today 15 other people also got eliminated, their numbers are: [1, 7, 20, 31, 32, 47, 65, 68, 73, 79, 82, 83, 90, 97, 99]

So now there are only 69 of you still participating! How funny!

-OUT: 31 player

-OUT THIS ROUND: 15 player

-2 points: 28 player

-3 points: 23 player

-4 points: 13 player

-5 points: 5 player

-REMAINING: 69 player

Other than that, we also have the people who still succeeded to get max points that are currently possible and they are: "Amelia; Ethan; Oli; Sophia; Todor;" Congratulations to all of them!

Adam: What...? Does that mean that... Greg lost?

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