Rewind the clock a bit, so let's turn our gaze back to three days ago......

At 0:00 on August 30, the "Team Personnel Change Request" function of Summit S2 was closed.

At the same time, the specific opening time and rules of S2's "preliminaries mode" were also released on the official website of Dream Company on time.

This night is destined to be a sleepless night......

As midnight approached, a large number of players were already standing in front of their computers, opening forums and web pages, eagerly waiting for first-hand consultations.

When the clock struck midnight and the relevant information was announced, the forum was silent for about three minutes...... What followed was an unprecedented outbreak.

Even if an exclusive discussion area is prepared, even if the light brain is also involved in the selection and management of posts, in the hour after midnight, the forum still falls into a state of being "exploded".

Publish it.

However, Brother Jue didn't pay attention to this aspect of the matter that night. He just calmly led his fellow partners on the Hell Front to brush up on two scripts, and then went offline to sleep.

Because...... He had already anticipated what would happen at the forum, so he simply chose to ignore it. Anyway, the announcement is on the official website, and it's too late to see it tomorrow, and it's not that it's gone late, so why bother with the excitement.

Therefore, it was not until the next morning, when Feng Bujue came back from morning exercise and finished breakfast, that he turned on the computer unhurriedly and read the rules......

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The schedule of this Pinnacle S2 is divided into three stages, namely "Preliminaries", "Semi-finals" and "Finals". The preliminaries are officially called "Heroes Gathering", and the format of the competition is a "completely random" team battle, and the overall rules are similar to the practice mode - two teams of five people will fight in 4v4.

The format of the preliminary round will be based on a point system, and the cycle is to complete 36 matches in 50 days. The points rules are similar to those of a soccer league, i.e. 3 points for a win. 1 point for a draw and 0 points for a loss.

Seeing this, some people will definitely ask, what is the situation of "Ping"? Let's first explain how the "draw" happens......

Generally speaking, there are three situations that lead to a draw.

First, if the two team members "die together" or "die at the same time" within a very short time difference (less than or equal to 10 seconds), the game will be considered a "draw", regardless of the trigger for such an outcome, and no matter which team member contributed to the outcome.

For example, in a game, there is only one player left in team A and three people left in team B; Then. The man from Team A rushed into the middle of Team B and blew himself up, and as a result, all four died in a short period of time, which can be regarded as a draw.

But if after the explosion, a member of one side ...... If all members of the enemy team are still alive for more than ten seconds after all members of the enemy team are judged to be "dead", then his team is considered the "winner" regardless of whether he is still alive at the eleventh second.

Second, both teams stayed in the script for a very long time, but they failed to kill all the enemy people. And it has fallen into a situation similar to the "three-step cycle" in Chinese chess, that is, a stalemate situation in which "whoever changes his move first will suffer......

If these conditions are met, the system will propose a "draw agreement" to the captains of both teams, if the captains of both teams agree. The game will end in a draw. But if one side disagrees, the one who disagrees must take the initiative to "change the trick" to break the deadlock, otherwise it will be judged as a negative game. In the same way, if both parties do not agree. Then both sides have to "change their tactics".

Third, although the probability is extremely low, there is also the possibility of a draw...... It's the case of the atomic bomb or something. That is, "both players are completely wiped out by a third-party mass destruction attack in the script at the same time". That's a draw too.

But let's be honest, trying to play that kind of situation can be harder than winning......

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So...... That's all for the draw, let's move on to the format.

As a game, if you ask players to do something on time every day for a period of fifty days...... It will undoubtedly cause psychological pressure and a certain amount of disgust. Therefore, Dream Company adopted a similar strategy as in the S1 preliminaries, using the rule of "play N games in N days" to allow players to allocate their time relatively freely.

In the S2 heats, "unfinished" teams can only play one match in a calendar day. Matches that start before midnight and run until the next day will be treated as "the previous day".

The above rule no longer applies to the "finisher" team that has already played 36 games. These teams can play as many games as they want in a day, but they don't get points whether they win or lose. However, if they win, they will receive a playthrough equal reward for the Nightmare Difficulty Team Mode.

Dream Company will add this setting, mainly to prevent a team from being unable to finish the match before the end of the preliminaries due to "unable to find an opponent". Say...... Some teams were still short of a game on the last night, and there were not many queues like them in the queue system at this time, and they couldn't wait for a long time...... In order to avoid this situation, Dream Corporation uses reward rules to encourage those teams that have "already finished" to remain in the queue and act as opponents for those teams that have not yet finished.

For the former, it's a sure-fire win. Win...... It can not only get great rewards, but also make it impossible for a team that may pose a threat to them in the future to get points; What about losing...... It's nothing more than a loss of game time, and it's better to play a practice match.

For the latter, it doesn't matter if the team they meet is a finisher or not, they have to win, so it doesn't make a difference.

Of course...... Even so, it is inevitable that some teams will not be able to finish the race in 50 days for various reasons. In this regard, Dream Company has already thought of countermeasures. At the end of the 50-day cycle, they will pick a time to give the teams that have played the full 35 games a chance to put them together for an extra round. If the number of these teams is odd, then send a GM team to fill the number (later it turned out to be an even number, so the GM team did not play).

But if you don't even play 35 games in 50 days, then I'm sorry, it seems that your team lacks the ability to finish the game, and you can't make it to the rematch and blame others.

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Next, let's talk about how the competition is ranked.

After all the matches in the preliminary round are completely completed, the system will select the top 256 points from the "finishing team" to enter the semi-finals.

If there is a situation with the same points, the system will look at the "small score", that is, who has more "wins"; If the number of consecutive wins is the same, the difference between the number of deaths between your own and your opponent in the thirty-six valid matches is calculated; And if even this number is the same...... The system will calculate the percentage of survival lost for each site.

In short, the ranking must be justified, and if you want to avoid being eliminated in the case of the same score, the way is to play every game seriously and do every detail well. Maybe these details add up...... You'll be able to squeeze out others to advance.

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Next, let's look at the prizes.

There were 256 teams in the preliminary round, but only the top 100 teams were able to win prizes.

As for the content of the prizes, which have also been mentioned above, they are:

Top 100 - Each member of the team will receive 1,000,000 in-game currency and a limited edition T-shirt.

Top 50 - Each member of the party will receive a random Elite gear corresponding to their level*2, as well as a 48-hour limited-time access to the new version of Thrillerland, Ragnarok.

Top 5 - Team members who have not reached the full level will be immediately promoted to the maximum level, and each team member will receive a piece of Perfection equipment.

It is worth mentioning that the announcement of August 30 specifically states...... The prizes in this preliminaries can be "stacked".

In other words, the top 50 teams, in addition to their own prizes, can also get the prizes of the "top 100" tier. The top five teams can get all the rewards of the above three tiers.

This arrangement...... It will undoubtedly make the competition in the preliminaries rise to a miserable one, and this ...... This is exactly the situation that Dream Company wants to see the most.

The game company wants players to give their all in every game, even those teams who finish the game will work hard to suppress the points of other teams that have not finished the game.

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Last but not least...... It's game time.

According to the announcement on August 30, the matchmaking system of [Heroes Gathering] will be opened at 0:00 on September 5 and closed at 0:00 on October 25. During this period, players can join the queue at any time during the fifty calendar days.

Of course, for the first 36 days, all teams were limited to one maximum per day. If you want to play two games in a row, you can consider lining up close to midnight, so that after the first game, it will basically be the next day.

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On the whole, these rules are reasonable and largely unexpected.

In the short term, there isn't much to plan. According to Brother Jue's estimation, as long as they play according to the rhythm of the practice mode on the Hell Front, they will be sure to enter the semifinals.

As for the rules of the semi-finals, Dream Company has not yet announced them, but judging from the number of teams that have advanced in the preliminaries, it is not difficult to guess that the semi-finals will adopt a knockout system.

Feng Bujue speculated...... If nothing else, the semi-finals should be rounds from four (to the top 16) to five (to determine the top eight). There is also the possibility of three rounds, but the number of 32 teams in the finals seems to be a bit much.

And how far the Hell Front can go in S2 depends on this rematch...... This is also the main stage for Feng Bujue to exert his analytical and planning skills.

Under the points-based system, the teams that can stay until the semi-finals are by no means idle, so the possibility of the strong meeting is extremely high. If the rematch is really the kind of "one elimination system" with no way out, then these rounds of games ...... It may be more dangerous and difficult than the final...... (To be continued......) R1071