At nine o'clock in the morning, with the loud and elongated shouts of the host in the arena, the second day of the professional qualifying tournament officially began.

According to the schedule, there will be five rounds in one day today, with a total of 15 semi-finals.

As for the semi-finals, it will be a team competition that has never been seen before in professional qualifiers, where 150 players will form 30 teams and then compete in a 5v5 team competition, with the loser eliminated and the winner advancing to the final tomorrow.

Due to the large number of teams in the semi-finals, although the common team competition in the league is used, there are still certain differences, such as in terms of the time limit of the game, the original league is a three-hour time limit, while in the professional qualifying tournament, it is stipulated as a one-hour time limit.

In addition, the number of teams competing at the same time in the arena has also been adjusted, although the 5v5 team battle is still conducted in a team mode, but the entire arena is divided into three competitive areas by the system according to the facilities in the stadium.

In other words, at the same time, there will be 30 players from six teams competing in the arena at the same time, and each team must also complete the match with the opponent in the limited competition area to which their team belongs.

As for the final rules of victory and defeat, in fact, it is not much different from the regular league, that is, it does not matter how many IAs can stay on the field in the end, all the wins and losses will be determined according to the final remaining IA comprehensive loss value of the players, which side has more IA comprehensive loss value left, then it is the final winner.

Preserve yourself as much as possible and consume the other party as much as possible, this is the only purpose of this team match.

In order to balance the strength of each team, according to the grouping rules announced by the organizing committee, the members of each team will be assigned to form a team according to the ranking of the previous round of semi-finals, that is, the top players in each group in the previous round will be matched with the players ranked at the bottom of each group, and the other team members will be composed of players in the middle of the ranking, so as to avoid the emergence of teams with large strength gaps after random teaming.

It is undeniable that this arrangement definitely achieves the balance of power to the greatest extent and also makes the two sides on the field look more fair.

But in fact, this so-called fairness actually proves the imperfection of the competition system, because the team competition is often not the individual strength of the players, but the cooperation ability of the whole team, including the command of the team, the execution of the personnel and the mutual trust between the players.

Perhaps the starting point of the organizing committee of the event is good, because this can consider a player's team quality and make up for the lack of team awareness in the previous professional qualifiers, but in such an urgent environment, in the face of unfamiliar teammates, can you really rest assured that you can give your back to strangers?

Maybe the teams that play at the back of the line still have some time to get to know each other, but the first group of players who are about to play, let alone get to know their teammates, probably won't even remember the names of their teammates, let alone talk about their cooperation and tactics.

is a complete stranger, but he wants to play a team match that is about cooperation and trust, so it's no wonder that Hu Xiaopeng couldn't help but complain and scold when he saw the description of the competition system before.

And Hu Xiaopeng is by no means the only one who complains about the competition system, but what can he do? The competition still has to continue, and this year's professional qualifying tournament has not affected the registration of players because of these strange competition formats, but because of the expanded offline competition places, more people have actively participated, and the number of registrations at that time has far exceeded the previous ones.

"The fourth group of the blue side in Area B, hurry up and ......"

"The third group of Red in Area A, gather here......"

"Group 6 Area C ......"

"Get out of the way, I'm in the second group, I'm going to play soon......"

"Damn, I'm still in the first group, make way for Lao Tzu first, let me go out first."

With the announcement of the 30 teams on the big screen of the arena according to six groups, as well as the mode of red and blue against both sides, the originally quiet waiting area became as noisy as a vegetable market in an instant.

The players who have already seen their own team and group are shouting for other members of the same group to hurry up and gather somewhere, while those who have not seen their group are staring at the list that flashes on the big screen, looking for their names and familiar players.

And those thirty unlucky guys who were in the first group, a total of three war zones of ABC, at this time, they were shouting over and over again for their companions to leave the waiting area, because in more than half an hour, that is, at ten o'clock in the morning, they would play at the same time, and the more than half an hour before the game was the only time they had left to communicate and communicate.

They didn't gather their teammates like other players, because they had to go to the boarding area as quickly as possible to choose their IA, and they had to determine the organizational structure of the team in the shortest possible time, including determining who would command the temporary team, where they should search after the opening, what formation they should use when attacking, and a series of important things that can determine the outcome of the team.

Noisy, messy, this so-called semi-final, as if it was nonsense, this is the only thought in Hu Xiaopeng's heart at this time, but in the hearts of the other WIN people, at this moment, they are silently praying, praying that Hu Xiaopeng and they will not encounter the situation of being in the same room.

And not only WIN, but also all clubs, especially when the team list is announced little by little, not only in the waiting area of the stadium, but also in the club box in the stands.

Obviously, this is a certain club that has really encountered a situation of roommates, but the grouping has been completed and announced, even if they don't want to admit it, they can only accept it silently.

As for WIN's side, I don't know if Mu Qing's prayers have worked, or if it's really God bless WIN, in short, the five contestants sent by WIN have not encountered the situation of being in the same room, but two of them have been placed in the same group.

And these two people are Hu Xiaopeng, who ranked high in the last round of the semi-finals, and Hua Qingqing, who ranked at the bottom.

Hu Xiaopeng and Hua Qingqing actually want to play the game together, especially these two people can be regarded as the strongest players sent by WIN this time, which is of course good news for WIN.

Even the two of them have never cooperated, and even Hua Qingqing and Hu Xiaopeng don't know each other's strength at all, but no matter what, the two of them will never have a lack of trust.

"Master, you and Qingqing are from the red camp in the third group of Area C."

"Make a little noise, I'm not deaf or blind."

In the noisy waiting area, hearing Hou Ziang pulling his neck and shouting to himself, Hu Xiaopeng couldn't help but raise his foot and kick Hou Ziang lightly.

And Hou Ziang didn't dodge Hu Xiaopeng's flying feet at all, but after being kicked, he sat next to Hu Xiaopeng with a smile on his face and said to Hu Xiaopeng.

"Master, you're sure you'll make it to the finals, won't you?"

"What? You don't want me to make the cut? ”

"No, no, how could I not want you to advance, I mean ......"

"You mean, I have to work hard to get to the finals, or that girl won't be able to make the finals, right?"

Without waiting for Hou Ziang to finish speaking, Hu Xiaopeng turned his head to look at Hua Qingqing, who was standing with Chen Pinquan and Yuan Fei beside him, and chuckled softly at Hou Ziang with a wicked smile.

And Hou Ziang, who was pierced by Hu Xiaopeng, did not refute, but just smirked at Hu Xiaopeng, and seeing Hou Ziang like this, Hu Xiaopeng had no choice but to smile and say to him.

"Don't worry, even if I don't work hard, with her ability, it's not difficult to get into the finals, so I think you should still care about your own competition first, and if someone else enters the finals, you will be eliminated again."

"It's okay, I'm in the fifth group, and I can't start until three or four o'clock in the afternoon at the earliest, so I'll meet with my teammates and discuss tactics later."

As he spoke, Hou Ziang looked around, then turned around and left Hu Xiaopeng's side, as if he had discovered the other members of his group.

After Hou Ziang left, Hu Xiaopeng continued to look up at the big screen, continuing to look for the name of a person, and of course this person was none other than Bao Buping, who had not come back so far.

It's just that there are too many players on the list, Hu Xiaopeng didn't find Bao Buping's name at the first time, but saw a name in the list of camps in the same group that couldn't help but make him think about it, and this person was the foreign girl Chrissy who followed Hu Xiaopeng all the way in the semi-finals and eliminated him at the last minute before the end of the game.

It was she who "rescued" Hu Xiaopeng from the damaged IA, and it was she who made Hu Xiaopeng become blue and swollen.

Absolutely fresh in his memory, especially the moment when Chrissy hugged herself between her legs after saving herself, Hu Xiaopeng will probably never be able to forget the turbulent waves that appeared in front of him in his life.

"What are you thinking about......"

patted his cheek again and again, Hu Xiaopeng finally recovered from the memories at that time, and then looked up at the big screen and continued to look for Bao Buping's name.

And this time, Hu Xiaopeng finally saw Bao Buping's name appear in the second group of the blue team in Area B, and at the same time saw another familiar name Guo Weiguang in the same group as him, that is, the "prop player" who was carried by him for almost the entire game, and was inexplicably promoted in the end.

I don't know if the IA League and the organizing committee of the event deliberately arranged this way, or if it was really a complete coincidence, the players who were familiar with me or had an impression were invariably assigned to the same group.

According to the schedule of the game, Bao Buping's second group will start at 11:30 in the morning, and the time they need to enter the field to prepare is 11 o'clock at the end of the first group.

At this time, there was still more than an hour before eleven o'clock, and it stands to reason that such time was enough for a temporary team to get acquainted with each other, but Bao Buping at this time did not appear in the waiting area at all.

Walking to Hua Qingqing's side and briefly admonishing her, Hu Xiaopeng got up and left the waiting area, preparing to go to the diagnosis and treatment room to take a look at Bao Buping's situation.

But who knew that when Hu Xiaopeng came to the diagnosis and treatment room cautiously, he was told that Bao Buping had left a few minutes earlier, and as for his physical condition, the medical officer of the alliance said that the stun gun did not have much impact on his figure, but Bao Buping's own physical condition was not optimistic.

Perennial malnutrition, coupled with slightly severe hypoglycemia, if it had not been for the medical officer's infusion of glucose just now, Bao Buping at this time might not have been able to leave on his own.

At the same time, the medical officer of the alliance also told Hu Xiaopeng a piece of news that he didn't know before, that is, this Bao Buping seemed to have not eaten for several days, and his whole body seemed very weak, and his hypoglycemia performance was probably the result of failing to eat.

Bao Buping hasn't eaten for a few days? And have low blood sugar because you haven't eaten?

When he heard the words of the alliance's medical officer, Hu Xiaopeng secretly shouted in his heart that it was impossible, because in Hu Xiaopeng's opinion, if Bao Buping really hadn't eaten for a few days, how could he still have the ability to whirl the mop wheel of more than ten or twenty catties, like a green dragon glaive?

But in fact, although Hu Xiaopeng didn't want to believe it, he could only accept it, because the medical officer of the alliance had no reason to lie to himself, but why did this happen, in fact, Hu Xiaopeng also got the answer from the medical officer, that is, Bao Buping was almost penniless at this time.