Chapter 163: The Genius Arena Plan

While Yan Xia was enjoying his sunbath, another event was brewing within the Civilisation Federation.

This was a grand celebration for all the geniuses of the Civilisation Federation.

It was called the Genius Arena Plan!

The emergence of this plan shocked the billions of citizens of the Civilisation Federation, as its scale was truly massive.

"In the history of the Federation, there has never been such a grand professional competition."

"Of course, who else but the Federation could afford to spend so much money on this?"

Looking at the rows of entries on the internet announcement, the citizens' teeth were chattering.

"Every week, each sector must hold a sector-level genius preliminary round. Participants of any age, occupation, or educational background are welcome. Each sector-level genius preliminary round will feature 726 sub-categories, including mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, quantum mechanics, quantum physics, mechanics, economics, meteorology, informatics, engineering, psychology, medicine, law, linguistics, logic, art, and philosophy."

"The content of each sub-category competition, promotion rules, winning rules, and prize money will vary. The first-place winner of each sector-level genius preliminary round will receive 10 energy coins, the second-place winner will receive 5 energy coins, the third-place winner will receive 3 energy coins, the fourth to tenth-place winners will receive 1 energy coin, and the 11th to 100th-place winners will receive a participation award of 0.1 energy coins. The top 10 winners from each sector-level preliminary round will advance to the monthly round, which is held four times a month. Each sector will have 40 qualifiers from the sector-level preliminary rounds, for a total of 29,040 qualifiers from the 726 sub-categories advancing to the district-level monthly preliminary round."

"The district-level monthly preliminary round will also select the top 10 from the numerous sub-categories. The first-place winner will receive 500 energy coins, the second-place winner will receive 300 energy coins, the third-place winner will receive 100 energy coins, the fourth to tenth-place winners will receive 30 energy coins, and the 11th to 100th-place winners will receive a participation award of 5 energy coins. The top 10 winners from each district-level monthly preliminary round will advance to the annual round, with a total of 120 qualifiers from each sub-category per year, for a total of 87,120 qualifiers from the 726 sub-categories advancing to the galaxy-level annual preliminary round."

"The galaxy-level annual preliminary round will still advance the top 10. The first-place winner will receive 10,000 energy coins, the second-place winner will receive 5,000 energy coins, the third-place winner will receive 2,000 energy coins, the fourth to tenth-place winners will receive 500 energy coins, and the 11th to 100th-place winners will receive a participation award of 50 energy coins. The top 10 winners from each galaxy-level annual preliminary round will earn a spot in the Genius Arena and receive an additional 1,000 energy coins in funding, as well as a 50-year scholarship to top schools and the Genius Medal."

"The Genius Arena will gather the top 100 geniuses from the 726 sub-categories over the past 100 years, and the competition will be held once every 101 years. After qualifying from the galaxy-level annual preliminary round, the geniuses will receive a life extension (for example, if A qualifies for the Genius Arena in the first year, they will receive a 99-year life extension, and if B qualifies in the 100th year, they will receive a 1-year life extension). The Genius Arena will select the top 10 geniuses from each sub-category, and these 10 geniuses will receive the Century Genius Medal for their respective sub-categories (for example, the top 10 in thermodynamics will receive the Thermodynamics Century Genius Medal). The first-place winner will receive 1 million energy coins, the second-place winner will receive 700,000 energy coins, the third-place winner will receive 500,000 energy coins, and the fourth to tenth-place winners will receive 300,000 energy coins."

Some citizens calculated that every 101 years, the Federation would allocate more than 6 billion energy coins in rewards for geniuses.

And this is just the surface-level reward; there are many more hidden benefits.

Geniuses who receive the Genius Medal will enjoy preferential treatment in various aspects, not to mention the recipients of the Century Genius Medal, who will undoubtedly be highly sought after by various companies, research institutions, and top schools.

At that time, the so-called prize money will be just a drop in the ocean for these Century Geniuses.

"The Federation is starting a comprehensive talent development plan."

"Not to mention the geniuses who make it to the top 10 in the galaxy-level annual preliminary round, even the ordinary citizens who make it to the top 100 in the sector-level preliminary round will attract the attention of some small companies and receive better job opportunities. This is a top-down talent screening plan, ensuring that no one with talent in the Federation is overlooked. It's truly impressive."

The preliminary rounds have no entry requirements, regardless of age, occupation, or educational background. It's almost like a celebration for the disheartened.

Especially with the scholar rankings in the Century Genius category, this is a complete promotion path.

In fact, Yan Xia and Ella had been preparing for the Genius Arena thousands of years ago, but the internal environment of the Civilisation Federation was not yet suitable for the arena.

The main reason was that the Federation was not yet fully stable, and the scale of the sector-level competitions had not reached the ideal state.

The Federation can also be seen as a massive company.

If the various departments within the company are still in an unstable state, it is certainly not appropriate to propose any incentive plans, and even the company's operational profits will be put on hold. The primary issue that the company needs to address is internal coordination.

Only after everything is settled can various plans be proposed.

For example, the Genius Arena.

After the Century Geniuses emerge, if there are no sectors to welcome them, what is the reason for their genius honour?

The Genius Arena appears to be a step-by-step selection process, but in reality, true geniuses are never overlooked. They already stand at the pinnacle of the Civilisation Federation's citizen pyramid, so the Genius Arena should not be considering "how to motivate those who originally had nothing to compete for the prize money" but rather "how to enable ranking scholars or those citizens who are not quite ranking scholars but have exceptional talent to increase their income from 10,000 energy coins per year to 100,000, 1 million, or even 10 million energy coins by participating in the Genius Arena."

Isn't the purpose of Yan Xia and Ella creating the Genius Arena to discover buried geniuses from the grassroots?

Of course, this is part of it.

But how much of this is there?

It's like selecting super geniuses worthy of a Nobel Prize from a global population of 8 billion in the 21st century, while also eliminating those who are already earning millions or billions due to their innate talent or those who are already successful in their fields. How many true geniuses are there in the civilian population?

Some might argue that there are so many geniuses in the world that many will inevitably miss out on the treatment they deserve.

But this speculation is based on the competition between geniuses, and it is also too extreme.

In reality, while a small portion of true geniuses may not receive the treatment they deserve, they are still far superior to ordinary people. Even if they don't get the biggest piece of the cake, they won't be pushed to the smaller piece of the cake and become failures there.

The disheartened geniuses are not as imagined, earning a million a year but only three thousand a month. Instead, they think, "Oh, there are too few million-a-year positions, and the competition is too fierce. I'll settle for a job that pays two or three hundred thousand a year and endure some hardship."

The truly talented individuals earning three thousand a month make up only a small percentage of the genius population, and most of them are overly confident, self-proclaimed geniuses who are actually ordinary people.

Therefore, while the Genius Arena does aim to discover this small percentage of geniuses, its primary purpose is to restore middle-tier geniuses to their rightful positions and push those at the top to even higher levels.

What does this mean for ordinary people?

Of course, it does!

A collective is like a high-rise building, where the height of the building is determined by the height of the individuals. By making the individuals taller, the building becomes taller, and the wealth of these tall individuals, which originally accounted for 60% of the total, can be increased to 70%. However, the remaining 20% of the taller building's wealth is still more than the 40% of the shorter building's wealth.

Of course, Yan Xia will not allow the wealth of the tall individuals to increase from 60% to 70%. The existence of the Federation is to balance this internal inequality.

Yan Xia will ensure that the wealth of these tall individuals remains at a certain percentage, with no more than a 5% fluctuation.

These are relatively simple and one-sided independent explanations. The real world is not solely defined by money when it comes to success and failure, and the geniuses selected by the Genius Arena are mostly scholars with specialised knowledge rather than businessmen. By giving these scholars more wealth, the Federation aims to become stronger, and as a result, the cake will naturally become bigger, benefiting not only the upper echelon but also the middle and lower levels.

However, this change is far from over.