Sakamoto Kon’s Blue Team Wins Farming Simulator Food Tournament, 29 Points to 12

UNIRAID! — Sakamoto Kon’s team, Märchen Sweet Potato Yade, won the Autumn V-Agency Food Scramble Tournament on Sunday, helping the blue side beat red 29 points to 12 in a Farming Simulator 22 event that drew talents from 15 companies. Sakamoto played alongside 華鉈イオ and 闇夜メア.

The tournament split six teams of three, 18 players in all, between a red side and a blue side, with the sides announced on the day. In the team-based arena matches, players baled crops and delivered the bales to a silo while raising their score multipliers. The event also included an individual bale-stacking bonus round, one player per team, and a 15-question farming quiz. The winning side was playing for rice, mushrooms and a meat cake.

“I got to show that I’m not weak when it counts. I’m glad.” — Sakamoto Kon, on his chat stream after the tournament

Märchen Sweet Potato Yade topped 400 points in its first match on the main broadcast. In its next match it opened with a 141-point first bale and finished with 401.

In the bonus round, players said lag in the online lobby made the stage harder than their offline practice, and several stacks of bales toppled. Sakamoto finished first, and blue took the top two places. In the quiz, the team said it had studied on a farming-quiz website beforehand and met several of those questions, among them one on potassium and one on the four stomachs of a cow. By Sakamoto’s count the team answered ten of 15 correctly. Blue finished with 29 points, 11 of them from Sakamoto’s team, against red’s 12.

Sakamoto returned for a chat stream that evening and said he had built a tier list of the in-game items and planned each team’s tactics by time of day. He said the first-bale technique used in the second match is one used in world tournaments, that he kept it off his own streams, and that he practiced it after seeing it in a late-night practice stream the night before. He said he had managed only about 40 percent of his ability in past competitions. He also announced a *nijikai*, or afterparty stream, with his two teammates on the 30th.