In the entire conference room, there was only Wang Yafei's laughter, and no one else said anything.

Wang Yafei laughed for a long time, seeing that no one responded, he could only sigh the loneliness of ordinary people in this room who didn't understand the "potential superstar".

A few people stayed in the conference room for a while before they heard footsteps outside the door.

Tong Tong ran back to the conference room while wiping the sweat on his forehead, although he looked a little hurried and tired, Tong Tong had obviously dressed up deliberately today, so he gave people a feeling of "different".

"Wow, Sister Tong Tong, you just went to the blind date show." Wang Yafei made a joke for the first time.

"That's right, it's a pity I couldn't take you there." Tong Tong is also used to Wang Yafei's boring jokes.

"I can't, I'm going to be nervous about that kind of situation." Wang Yafei said very modestly.

"Then I should take you there, I didn't expect so many people today, this competition is quite formal, and I didn't expect the new sponsor to be so powerful, and he actually brought people from the Municipal Sports Association." Tong Tong gasped and said, it could be seen that she tried her best to make her breath as stable as possible.

"What are the sports associations doing here?" Wang Yafei asked, he felt that the sports association participated in this kind of activity completely out of the way.

"E-sports is also a nationally recognized sport, so they come, so it's more formal and professional." Tong Tong said that the other party did not come to eat.

"Okay, okay, I don't really care about that, but if they get involved, does that mean that the winner will get a gold medal?" Wang Yafei said very much expectantly.

"I'm afraid I don't have a gold medal, but if you want to win the championship, you should be able to take pictures with them."

"Go, it's not to take pictures with Beckham, who rarely takes pictures with them." Wang Yafei waved his hand to show his disdain.

"Let's not talk about that, let's get down to business first." Tong Tong unscrewed a bottle of mineral water and drank more than half of it in one go, this bold move was really a little out of tune with what she was dressed today.

"We're all waiting for you to get down to business, huh...... Sister Tong Tong, don't choke. Wang Yafei said with a wicked smile.

Tong Tong didn't care about Wang Yafei, she breathed a sigh of relief: "This year, because there are more schools that have signed up, the competition system will also make a breakthrough, and this year's campus competition will introduce the group stage competition system for the first time......"

As soon as he heard the words "group stage", Wang Yafei immediately put away his smile, because in Wang Yafei's eyes, "group stage" is a rather sacred statement.

"The World Cup includes the group stage." Wang Yafei thought in his heart.

"But the group stage is placed in the second stage, and before that, all participating teams except for the top three last year must participate in the first stage of the knockout stage, and the teams that advance can enter the second stage of the group stage."

Tong Tong's statement made Wang Yafei even more "excited".

"Hmm...... You have to play the qualifiers before you can participate in the World Cup. ”

"The first stage of the knockout round is the same as the previous format, a single round-robin, but this time it is a single elimination. So the format is even more brutal...... In other words, if you lose this game, there is no hope. In addition to last year's top three, there are still more than 30 teams to sign up......"

"Wait a minute, wait a minute...... I have something to say. Wang Yafei interrupted Tong Tong's words.

"In addition to last year's top three, there are still more than 30 teams to sign up, so after a round of elimination, there are not more than 15 teams left, and then counting last year's top three, there must be at least 18 teams, how will these 18 teams be grouped at that time?" Wang Yafei said very professionally.

In Wang Yafei's imagination, this event should be different from the World Cup, but like the European Championships, in the second stage, the sixteen teams are divided into four groups equally, and then the top two teams in the group successfully advance to the quarterfinals.

But Wang Yafei's voice fell, but the others didn't say anything, because except for Wang Yafei, the others didn't understand what he wanted to express at all.

"Wang Yafei, don't you always brag that you are good at math, how can you ask such a stupid question." Xue Nuo finally couldn't help but "scold".

"What's so stupid about that? Didn't the organizing committee think about it? Wang Yafei said very innocently.

Although Tong Tong didn't understand what Wang Yafei wanted to express, she still patiently explained.

"After the first stage of the single round-robin knockout, the winning team will be divided into four different groups along with last year's top three, and the top two teams in each group will qualify, followed by eight into four, four into two, and finally the final. Wang Yafei, although you haven't been exposed to Dota games before, you should have watched other sports games, which is not very difficult to understand. Tong Tong felt that Wang Yafei was usually quite clever no matter what he faced, but today he couldn't even understand such a very simple competition system.

"And if there are twenty teams in the end, not five teams in each group?" Wang Yafei asked with his mouth wide open.

"yes, what's wrong with that?" Tong Tong didn't understand what Wang Yafei was thinking at all.

"It's not a group stage, and there's a bye for every round?" Wang Yafei asked tirelessly.

"That's right." Tong Tong still didn't understand why Wang Yafei asked like this.

"If there are twenty-one teams in the second stage, then there will be three groups with five teams and another group with six teams! Such a problem is serious! Wang Yafei suddenly shouted loudly.

"You've been struggling with this problem, the teams in each group are not equal, which is a very common thing in Dota and even other esports competitions." Only then did Tong Tong understand what Wang Yafei was struggling with, so he explained.

"But in high-level sports competitions, this kind of thing can't happen, you see, whether it's the World Cup, the European Championship or the Champions League, it's absolutely impossible for a group to have four teams and another group to have five teams. After Wang Yafei finished speaking, he spread his hands, then nodded lightly, and made an expression of "Are you sure".

But everyone else in the room wanted to answer him with a "I don't understand".

Xie Ping couldn't help but pull Wang Yafei's clothes: "Brother Fei, there is no draw in e-sports, so it doesn't matter if you have a bye or not, and basically there will be no situation where you win me, I win him, and he wins you, there will always be a stronger team, so there is no possibility of fake matches." ”

"Is that so?" Wang Yafei asked suspiciously.

"Sister Tong Tong, don't listen to his nonsense, hurry up and get to the point, who is our opponent in the first round." If Xue Nuo had a smart remote control in her hand now, she would definitely choose to turn Wang Yafei into silent mode.

"If the five teams are divided into a group, then there will be a bye in each round, if the six teams are divided into a group, then there is no problem, and our opponent in the first round is Yunke High School......" Tong Tong said helplessly.

"No, Sister Tong Tong, why is your luck so bad......" Xue Nuo's tone suddenly became quite desperate.

"No one can say for sure that there is such a thing as drawing lots...... Tong Tong's expression was also very embarrassed.

"You see you weren't particularly upset when you walked in, and thought you drew a good lot." Xue Nuo said that her expression was very depressed now.

"I'm the captain, so naturally I can't be frustrated, and the game hasn't officially started yet, so we have to be confident." Tong Tong said.

"But didn't you say that this school is likely to be the dark horse of this year's competition, because they have a group of potential newcomers, and you also said that they defeated last year's runner-up Evergreen Private High School in the previous friendly match." Xue Nuo said a little nervously.

"Yes, they also played a game of BO3, and Yunke won a small game." Tong Tong nodded.

"If the opponent in the first round is stronger, then this signing is really not good for us, if we can successfully pass the first round we still have the group stage to play, but if we lose in the first round, we can only say goodbye to this competition." Wei Yushi nodded, he didn't have the heart to think about what a high-level sports competition was now, and Wei Yushi didn't watch football games.

"Yes, I was very happy when I first heard that the format was changed like this, because then if we win the first round, we have a group stage to play, so we can play at least four or five games...... But who knew that I was so unlucky to draw such an opponent. Tong Tong said slightly apologetically.

"You can't be blamed for this, no matter what the opponent is, we have to face it." Wei Yushi comforted.

"But it's still good for us because the games are played on weekends, so it's going to make the process longer than in the past, after the first round, we'll have a week to prepare for the group stage, and if we get through the group stage, we'll have another week to prepare for the knockout rounds, but if we lose in the first round, then we'll have to go out for a day trip like we used to." After Tong Tong finished speaking, he smiled very awkwardly as if he had done something wrong.

"What a tattered Yunke High School, it's not a professional team, we can get them in minutes. When we get them done, I'm going to talk to the organizing committee, and I think this first stage of the competition can be divided into two rounds, and finally 13 teams will be decided to advance to the next round, so that there will be just 16 teams. Wang Yafei said.

"Wang Yafei, do you have obsessive-compulsive disorder......" Xue Nuo said helplessly.

"You're obsessive-compulsive."

"Then why have you been struggling with this question, what does it matter to us whether there are sixteen teams participating in the group stage, what you want to think about now is to defeat our first opponent like this......" Xue Nuo glared, wanting to eat Wang Yafei.

"You are too inexperienced in organizing events, and when you defeat any Yunke High School, I will definitely negotiate with the organizers of the competition system......" Wang Yafei focused all his attention on studying the "competition system".