41: No rush for the competition, let me start a live stream first!

The next day.

At five in the morning, prompted by Tang Xiaoyuan's phone call, Su Yu reluctantly climbed out of bed.

Although the rocket model competition officially started at nine, participants needed to transport their competition models to the site half an hour in advance for preparation.

Helpless, Su Yu had no choice but to wake up early before dawn and head to the laboratory.

After his rocket model was completed last night, Tang Xiaoyuan had sealed and packaged it.

Apart from the other Qingbei University students and Professor Tang who were present at the time, no one else had seen it.

Even Su Yu at this moment could only push a small cart, assembled from wooden strips and an acrylic box, to transport the rocket model outside.

The Qingbei University team students had also finished assembling their models after working overtime last night.

Although the final design was not as good-looking and elegant as Su Yu's rocket, it was considered complete.

Led by staff and teachers, everyone brought their rocket models and other necessary materials, then boarded the competition's special shuttle bus to head to the competition venue.

As the capital, Beijing has very strict security standards.

The inner ring is almost entirely a strictly prohibited no-fly zone.

Not to mention rocket models and model aircraft, even kites flying in the sky cannot exceed fifty meters in height!

Therefore, the Program Group and the competition organizing committee specifically set today's competition location in a very remote suburb in the outer ring, nearly three hours' drive from the city.

Because this area has not yet been developed, apart from a few flight paths occasionally passing overhead, the rest of the airspace is very suitable for aviation-related programs and competitions.

Su Yu had communicated with the Ace Pilot Program Group staff in advance.

To ensure the fairness of the competition, he needed to follow the rocket model Competition Group throughout the entire process and arrive at the destination together.

The Program Group fully agreed and understood this point.

The Program Group's recording start time was originally ten minutes later than the competition, so as long as Su Yu arrived at the scene, there would be no issue of delaying the program recording.

What's more, the Program Group and the competition organizing committee chose the same location, and the actual distance between the two programs was not even more than two kilometers.

With just a slight pan of the camera, one could even see the other's recording venue.

On the way, Su Yu and the Qingbei University students sat on the same bus.

"Senior Su, I heard that the Ace Pilot Program Group specifically rented the same venue as the Model Competition just to find you this time. You're too amazing!"

The speaker was a male student with glasses, and as he spoke to Su Yu, his small eyes occasionally glanced at the sealed model, full of brilliance.

Su Yu smiled and nodded, offering no explanation.

"Teacher Su Yu, are you really a senior who graduated from our Qingbei University? How old are you this year? What aspect does your rocket model focus on?"

Another female participant also asked, very gossipy.

Beside them, Tang Xiaoyuan, seeing this, stood out like a protective mother hen.

"Seniors, you didn't rest well last night. Why don't you get some sleep now while you have time? Be careful not to doze off during the competition and make operational errors!"

That's right.

This time, the university rocket model competition organizers did not explicitly specify what purpose the rocket model needed to achieve, what function it had, or what technology it carried.

The only requirement was that the model needed to be able to ignite and launch normally.

Everything was left to the students' free play.

However, although there were no substantive functional requirements, the final competition results were judged and scored through multiple channels.

In other words.

If you don't mind being at the bottom of the rankings, you just need to build a model that can fly into the sky.

Those who received competition invitations were all top students in their schools, so their goal naturally wouldn't be just to get the rocket model to fly into the sky.

Some aerospace majors focused on researching the rocket's flight trajectory and speed, putting a lot of effort into propulsion fuel.

Some transportation majors focused on researching rocket payload systems, hoping to complete long-distance cargo transport with the highest cost-effectiveness.

Some detection majors focused on researching the rocket's cruising and functional detection capabilities.

These were the different directions chosen by the participating students.

As for the final scoring results, they also needed to be evaluated in conjunction with the functional completeness of the rocket model.

The direction these Qingbei University students focused on was rocket fuel propulsion and precise control technology.

In other words, the characteristic of their rocket model was that it could maintain normal operation and precisely control the rocket's flight trajectory after launch.

Therefore, Tang Xiaoyuan would remind them.

As for what Su Yu's rocket model focused on, even he himself hadn't quite decided.

Soon.

The competition bus arrived at the venue that the program had set up in advance.

It was already eight o'clock when Su Yu and his group arrived at the scene.

As soon as they got off the bus, everyone noticed that many other schools' participating teams had already begun to set up their rocket launch pads one after another.

Outside the venue, many spectators had also come to watch the competition.

They were basically classmates or good friends of the participating contestants, numbering around a hundred people.

Personnel from the competition organizing committee received the Qingbei University students, and then, led by a teacher, everyone came to an open area.

"Qingbei University students, this is our on-site competition venue."

"Later, everyone needs to load and place the rocket models made by their teams in advance and confirm their positions."

"After the competition begins, the Program Group will draw lots and ignite the rockets in order."

"If there are students who need to operate their rockets, you need to complete the debugging and set up the operation platform yourselves in advance."

"If you have any questions, you can also ask the other staff members on site at any time."

After listening to the teacher from the Program Group, everyone immediately sprang into action without delay.

Time was limited; there was only one hour left until the competition began, and they needed to start building the rocket model launch platform from scratch, which was actually a test for them.

After the teacher left, the students of the Qingbei University team immediately got to work.

Su Yu, on the other hand, pushed his small cart to a relatively flat area, then sat down under the watchful eyes of the crowd.

Compared to teams that often consisted of five, six, seven, or eight people, his team for this competition only had three people.

Himself, Tang Xiaoyuan, plus Tang Tian.

Tang Tian initially wanted to refuse.

She just wanted to eat melon seeds and watch the excitement from the audience.

But later, she realized that Su Yu had too few people and was afraid that he might encounter some unexpected incidents during the competition, so in the end, she agreed to come and help.

However, she didn't know what she was supposed to do.

"Su Yu, they've all started building the launch platforms. Shouldn't we hurry up and get started?" Tang Tian looked at the bustling contestants around her and said worriedly.

Unexpectedly, Su Yu smiled slightly and took out his live streaming equipment from his backpack.

"The competition isn't urgent, Senior Tang. Let me start a live stream first!"