On the premise of not forcing the goal of entering the playoffs, in order to allow newcomers to accumulate experience through real practice, this is a reasonable thing.

Because not to mention WIN, looking at the entire IA league, how many clubs are not like this? In particular, the strong teams that are firmly in the playoffs tend to have a more focused trial of newcomers and substitutes at such times.

The only difference is that the training purpose of these strong teams is more inclined to observe the overall and individual performance of the newcomers in the team.

Because once these newcomers and substitutes are judged by the club's management to no longer have potential and value, then what awaits them, even if it is not a unilateral termination compensation proposed by the club, will be used as a bargaining chip for trading with other clubs during the free transfer period, and will definitely not care about the outcome of the game like WIN, let alone their performance on the field, just for the purpose of pure training.

It is undeniable that many clubs will start to test and examine active players during the end of the regular season, but it cannot be generalized, because there are many exceptions, such as Star and Guard, and Honglin and Handun, these four clubs are exceptions.

Because in the current standings, the points gap between the four clubs is not large, and at the same time, their rankings are all on the edge of the playoff place area, and even the seventh-ranked defense club is actually only less than ten points higher than the eighth-ranked Honglin club.

The difference of ten points is just the victory or defeat of one game, and the Shida and Han Dun, who are currently ranked ninth and tenth, are eyeing them after them, and may only need one or two games of complete victory and total defeat.

Therefore, when other clubs are concentrating on trials and investigations, for their four clubs, the remaining rounds of matches are definitely a must-fight for every game, and it is impossible to easily give away the points in their hands to others.

Of course, in addition to their four clubs, there are actually two clubs in the league that are still desperate at this time, but unlike the defense of Honglin, who are desperate for a playoff spot, the reason why these two clubs are desperate is because neither of them wants to be another club that has been forced to be relegated by the league.

These two clubs are Liyang Club and Baihua Club, which have previously lost to WIN and are currently ranked 18th and 19th respectively.

As for the Katie Club, which has no hope of relegation at the halfway point of the schedule and has locked the relegation place in advance, it is even more panicked at this time.

In the Katie club, where no one wants to be a player in the second league, those main players who have been looking for a good home have no intention of playing, and those who are still playing for Katie, except for some of the players who are waiting for the price and waiting for other olive branches, the fate of the remaining players seems to be the only way to follow Katie to the first division to continue to play.

Who will be relegated, who will be relegated, who will make the playoffs and who will stop in the regular season will all be revealed in the remaining five rounds.

But who would have thought that after the dust settled in the 36th round of the regular season and returned to 13th place in the standings, WIN had no hope of entering the playoffs and no possibility of relegation, but instead became the focus of attention of countless people.

Even among those who follow WIN, in addition to WIN's own fans, it also includes most of the fans of the two clubs of Guardian and Star.

The root cause of this phenomenon seems a little unbelievable to say, because defending the playoffs fate of the two clubs with Skadden is in the hands of WIN.

You know, with only two rounds left, the final standings of the clubs in the standings are roughly locked, and the clubs' rankings in the standings are also changing less and less.

Due to the excellent performance in the first three rounds, Honglin, who was originally ranked eighth, has locked the seventh place in the standings, even if the remaining two rounds of games are all defeated with zero, then Honglin can still enter the playoffs with the status of eighth.

As for the Han Dun Club, which was originally ranked tenth, it was because of the successive encounters with two strong teams in these rounds, Beacon and Thunder, which caused its ranking to fall instead of rising, and it has completely lost its qualification to fight for the playoffs.

So in this case, it seems that the only playoff spots can only be made between the two clubs, Star and Defense.

It's easy to say why WIN, which has nothing to do with the playoffs, is the focus of their two clubs' scores, as WIN will play against these two clubs in rounds 37 and 38.

In other words, whether the two of them can grab enough points in the hands of WIN is likely to be a crucial battle for them to make the playoffs.

And in addition to WIN, Skadden and Defend will face Peninsula FC in 15th place and Moshang FC in 16th place, respectively.

In the face of these two clubs that are far inferior to their own strength, they are full of confidence that they can win easily, and even do not rule out the possibility of a sweep, but only WIN, who has risen to prominence in the second half of the season, no one dares to say that it is nine out of ten.

Especially when WIN is sending out rookie players for a "big training", who can guarantee that they won't suddenly send the main lineup to face it?

If WIN deliberately releases water while deliberately waiting for the battle, then even if WIN is likely to be drowned by the saliva of countless fans after the game, it will still be useless, because which players to send to play is WIN's own business, not to mention fans, even the officials of the IA League have no right to intervene.

It's just that even if they believe that WIN will not do anything that violates professional ethics, they are still inevitably worried, so as soon as the 36th round of the game ended, both Xiong Tianci and Mu Qing received calls from the two clubs of Star and Defender, and even did not rule out the situation of a special visit from thousands of miles away.

From the manager and actual controller of the club, down to the captain and leader of the club, and even Wu Long, because he used to play for the defense club, he received a call suspected of "spying on military intelligence".

But no matter who calls, and no matter who receives the call, there is only one answer on the WIN side, that is, it will never take sides.

Even in order to prove that what he said was true, under the instruction of Mu Qing, Xiong Tianci even revealed the lineup that will play in the next two rounds.

It is really unimaginable to inform the opponent of your own arrangement, such a thing that goes against common sense, but such a thing really happened, and Xiong Tianci really arranged the roster according to such a lineup.

The specific arrangement of the name of the game is that Xiong Tianci and Wu Long will no longer rotate and rest, and will lead two newcomers to form a team to face each other at the same time, as for Xu Bowen and Bai Zhanpeng, although they will not play in the team competition, but they are also indispensable in the single competition.

Soon, the last two rounds of this regular season started one after another, and the lineup of players sent by the WIN side was the same as the result originally told by Xiong Tianci.

But I don't know if it's providence, or if WIN deliberately avoided suspicion, in short, in these two rounds, WIN lost to Star and Defense with a score of 4:9.

In this case, Skadden lost 2 points in the hands of Peninsula Club in the 38th round and finally missed the playoffs.

So far, all 38 rounds of this regular season have come to an end, and WIN has missed the playoffs half a month later with 14th place in the standings.

It's just that although all the games in this league have ended, it does not mean that the twelve super clubs, including WIN, will enter the holiday period of more than two months.

After all, even if the mid-season break is time, the regular season will only take nine months, and if every club really only has these hours to play, I am afraid that IA Athletic will never have the absolute influence it has now.

In addition to the professional leagues held by the IA League, there are still many competitions such as cups and challenge tournaments held at home and abroad, but no matter how high the prize money and event sharing offered by these competitions, they are still not comparable to the professional leagues.

So in order to attract enough influence, or strictly to survive in the cracks, these cups and challenges are often held between the end of the regular season of the current year and the start of the new season the following year.

Even if this arrangement does not avoid the timing of the playoffs, it will at least avoid the embarrassing situation of not having players and clubs signing up.

Among these dazzling competitions, the most concerned and the most formal competition is the national competition "Machine Youth Federation Championship" led by the National Machinery Committee and hosted by the IA Alliance.

The "Championship of the Youth Federation" is a knockout competition that is not held by clubs, and all players who want to participate in the tournament must register in their own name, and there is no limit to the identity of the players who register.

In other words, regardless of the nationality of the contestants who have signed up, and regardless of whether the contestants have the qualifications of professional players, as long as they are between the ages of 16 and 28, they can participate in the competition through online registration and on-site audit.

So in a way, the "Youth League Championship" is more like a kind of promotion event for professional qualification, because regardless of whether the player has professional qualifications before the tournament, as long as he can reach the finals of the tournament, he will be recognized as a professional player by the IA League, and he will also have the opportunity to choose to join any professional club and become an active player during the free transfer period.

And this is another way for ordinary people to become professional players in addition to professional qualification.

It's just that this road is by no means as "smooth" as the professional qualifiers, because the reason why the "Machine Youth Federation Championship" is called the "upgrade" event of the qualifying tournament is because it is really difficult to get a professional qualification from here.

Because according to the rules of the competition system, this event does not limit the identity of the players, so it often happens that non-professional players compete with professional players, and it is impossible to think about it if you want to fight your way out of this kind of event with many professional players at all levels.

After all, at the same time as this event, the playoffs of the IA League were also held at the same time, and in this kind of event without the participation of strong teams, the vast majority of players who did not enter the playoffs would choose to sign up, and even did not rule out the situation that clubs formed groups to register.

And even if those strong teams such as Beacon Silver Map really want to participate, then those who are often eligible to sign up are just some second- and third-tier substitute players.

In the absence of strong individual competitions, and on the premise that all competitive IAs are provided by the competition organizing committee, even if some people know that their strength is not good, it is harmless to choose to participate and try their luck.

Therefore, it is in this context that many WIN players, including Wu Long, all choose to sign up for the competition in their personal names, even Chen Pinquan and Guo Weiguang, who have no professional qualifications.