Just when Ning Yu was enjoying the love time in Jiangbei in advance and helping his mother take care of his father, the KPL draft held in the magic capital finally officially kicked off.

The draft lasts for nearly a month and is divided into four phases. Unlike the way many people speculated before, it is not that the 150 players who have been approved can directly enter the official stage of the draft, but must first go through a week-long pre-selection, which is to put it bluntly, that is, the audition.

Over the course of the week, the 150 rookies will be grouped according to their reported positions, and then shuffled and randomly divided into 30 teams for a high-intensity round-robin tournament.

With such a high intensity, it is very similar to the KPL academy that Ning Yu has participated in before. The difference is that in the original KPL academy, the players represented each team, but in this draft, the players only represented themselves.

With such an extra qualifier week, the good thing is that instead of the "up to 28 people" as many people had guessed before, there were 10 people in each position, for a total of 50 people. In other words, after the qualifier week, a total of 100 people will be eliminated.

And after the qualifier week, the draft moves into its second phase – training camp. In other words, from this moment on, the draft conference can be regarded as the official beginning.

In the training camp phase, in addition to the 50 players who will be selected from the qualifier week, 20 of the teams eliminated from the qualifiers will be invited to the draft, and the four new teams will receive a total of 10 invitations. That is to say, at this stage, a total of 80 people will participate in many rounds of competition, and in order to ensure fairness, the players will be disrupted and re-formed many times, and the survival of the fittest will be carried out according to the comprehensive score of individual performance.

It is also at this stage that representatives of 14 new and old KPL teams will be stationed in the draft to pay attention to the performance of each rookie player and exercise the power to score. In the end, the player who ranks first in each position will form a rookie team and play an open match against the KPL star team on the final day of the draft.

After the training camp stage, the draft will enter the third stage, where the leaders of each team will have the opportunity to communicate privately with their favorite players, and after the two sides reach an agreement, the rookie players will enter their respective KPL teams for a week or so of tryouts, so that both sides can improve their understanding and avoid the situation that both parties regret when they join the new team.

In fact, at this stage, the final ownership of the rookie player has basically been determined, after all, it is impossible for each club to take the risk of choosing a rookie who has not come to tryout, and it is impossible for the popular rookie player to go to a club that he does not know at all after making a decision and trying out.

After the trial period, the draft comes to an end, and all the players return to the rookie camp, first for the rookie team to play against the KPL star team, and then to determine the rookie players to join each team according to the signing order of each club.

The whole process seems a bit complicated, but it's actually fair because it borrows from the NBA's mature draft model.

On the day of the end of the first stage of the qualifier week, the GOOD club received a notice of the draft meeting, and Yu Zhengyi will start to enter the draft meeting on behalf of the GOOD club.

Yu Zhengyi has played in the second division as a player before, and this is the first time she has represented GOOD as an assistant coach and will have full authority to make some key decisions on behalf of the club, so she is very nervous before leaving.

As the head coach of the King Glory Branch of the GOOD Club, the soldier called Yu Zhengyi to the conference room for relevant arrangements and advice before Yu Zhengyi left.

"You are going to represent our GOOD club this time, not only to be responsible for the players, but also to represent the image of our club, and you must not be selfish." After the soldier closed the door of the conference room, he said directly to Yu Zhengyi.

After Yu Zhengyi became the assistant coach of the G-Crazy Wolf team through layers of competition and assessment, he actually didn't communicate much with the soldiers privately, and spent more time helping the girl with data analysis and research. After all, the GIs have been busy with a lot of things lately, and the daily training of the team is temporarily in charge of the girl. This time, Yu Zhengyi communicated with the GIs alone, and it was before leaving for the draft, so Yu Zhengyi was very nervous and uneasy. After listening to the soldier's words, she immediately stood up and said, "I will definitely not have any selfish intentions, and I will definitely not disappoint you and the club." ”

The soldier pressed down on his palm, signaled Yu Zhengyi not to be so restrained, and said with a smile: "You don't have to be so nervous, I want to ask, you should know why I said that to you just now, right?" ”

Yu Zhengyi was stunned, biting his lip and nodding slowly.

The GOOD club responded to the call of the draft conference and also sent two rookie players to the draft, namely Dongfang Bing and Shen Guohao of the G-two team, these two people are not only Yu Zhengyi's former teammates, among which Shen Guohao is Yu Zhengyi's boyfriend, which is no longer a secret, everyone in the club knows it.

The reason why the GI explained those words to Yu Zhengyi was because he was worried that Yu Zhengyi would be selfish and deliberately mention Dongfang Bing and Shen Guohao, while ignoring other rookie players with more potential, which was equivalent to losing the interests of the club for friendship or love, and the GI really didn't want to see that kind of situation. That will not only lose two valuable rookie spots, but also directly lose Yu Zhengyi, an assistant coach who is more satisfied with the GI in all aspects.

If it weren't for the fact that the club is now at a stage where there is a shortage of manpower, the soldier would say that he would not let Yu Zhengyi go to the draft, after all, there are many immeasurable risks in this, and he is completely gambling on Yu Zhengyi's character.

Yu Zhengyi was silent for a long time, sighed, and said, "Actually, Coach Soldier, even if you don't say it, I won't do that." If they really don't have this talent, they might as well do something else and give up this point of no return. ”

Talented players work hard in the professional arena and pursue their dreams, but the desperate persistence of players without talent is really squandering precious youth, wasting the most precious time in life, and making their future even more dusty.

The GI nodded, "If that's what you think, then I'm relieved." Okay, now let's get down to business, I have a few points that I need to explain......"

For this time to go to the draft to select players, the soldier gave Yu Zhengyi a lot of suggestions.

First of all, Yu had to try to observe every player and focus on the side that was headwinding in each game.

On the side of the tailwind, where every player can play brilliantly, there will be a lot of hidden problems. Only in a headwind situation will the players have the most authentic performance.

In this regard, the GI put forward the "three don'ts" principle: don't complain about your teammates, don't passively resist, and don't think clearly and out of touch with the whole team.

Secondly, Yu Zhengyi needs to pay special attention to each player's hero pool, and the deeper the hero pool, the more special attention is needed.

According to reliable sources, the KPL league is studying the change of the competition system, and there should be no adjustment of the competition system in the regular season, but the format of the playoffs will change very dramatically, and it is very likely that it will be: in a game, heroes who have been used by one side will not be allowed to use it in the future.

If that adjustment is made, the hero pool of every professional player will be greatly tested, the substitutes will get more opportunities to play, and the spectacle of the game will be greatly improved.

Imagine, if the BO7 game reaches the sixth game, there will be twenty-five heroes on both sides that cannot be selected, and the players in each position must know at least ten heroes to ensure that they are not targeted, which adds up to at least fifty heroes, accounting for more than half of the heroes, which will inevitably cover the heroes of the unconventional game.

Although this matter has not yet been finalized, and many details are still unclear, this must not be groundless, and the GIs must look at the playoffs to think about it in advance.

In the end, the GI asked Yu Zhengyi to chat with the representatives of other clubs as much as possible, and at the same time properly probe some of the tactical trends of other teams, release some * out to confuse the impression of other clubs about them.

Of these three requirements, except for the last one, the other two have a very large workload, and communication with the GIs must be maintained throughout the process. If necessary, GIs will take time out to go to the draft to observe the players for themselves.

Yu Zhengyi really felt at this time that this time he was really carrying a lot of weight on behalf of the club in the draft.

But is she afraid? Of course not, and even a little excited.

Yu Zhengyi stood up again and said solemnly in a sworn tone: "I promise to complete the task." ”

The soldier nodded in satisfaction, and after admonishing him on some details, he ended the conversation with a little relief.

After Yu Zhengyi said goodbye to the GI for a while, she returned to the dormitory to pack her luggage, and then took the car specially arranged for her by Liu Xiaoshuang, and galloped all the way to the location of the draft meeting.

The KPL league took this draft very seriously and chartered an entire hotel. As soon as you enter the main gate of the hotel, you can see the KPL draft poster in the lobby on the first floor of the hotel, and several people like her who are holding suitcases and registering at the check-in desk. It made her feel a little awkward that, at least for now, she hadn't seen a single woman. That is, it is quite possible that she will be the only female representative among the fourteen club representatives.

After going to the sign-in desk to complete the registration, the official staff gave Yu Zhengyi a thick document bag, which included the relevant information of the 150 players, the daily schedule and other documents, and then someone helped Yu Zhengyi complete the check-in.

Yu Zhengyi's room is on the third floor, and he has a room by himself.

Pulling her suitcase to the door of the room, she saw a sign with the words "G-Wolf" on the door, and next door to her left was "Five Doors" and next door to her right was "ER Coldplay", and it seemed that representatives of various clubs should be arranged on this floor.

Yu Zhengyi took out the room card and opened the door, and after entering the room, he did not rest immediately, but directly threw the suitcase aside, opened the file bag and began to read the documents inside.

Before she could take a few looks, she suddenly heard a knock on the door. She frowned, not knowing who would come looking for her, so she got up and said "Wait a minute" before coming to the door and looking out through the cat's eye on the door.