Chapter 36: Qualifiers
The collegiate tournament is a single-elimination tournament in which competitors must win every game to win the championship. Nearly 300 players have signed up for the competition, and each grade will produce 32 seeded players, who will then be randomly drawn to match each other, from the round of 16 to the finals, the players will play four rounds, and five days later, each of the three grades will produce a champion, and the prize will be a championship medal and a monetary reward of 2,000 belongs.
During the competition, the college has a five-day break to renovate the competition venue and equip the facilities, during which students can go to the three competition venues to watch the competition of each grade and cheer for the players.
The members of the student union contributed a lot to the competition, and the preparation, review and schedule of the competition were all handled by them, and the vice president and activity secretary of the student union were responsible for the third and second year competition commentary respectively, and the first year of the competition was in charge of the president Ye Xuanlu.
The first-year students are more active than the other two years, and they are full of curiosity about anything new, which makes it easy for them to enjoy the game with a playful attitude and ignore the danger of the game.
There are two ways to win the game: one is to knock the opponent out of the ring, and the other is to knock the opponent's weapon to the ground.
There are barriers in the arena that reduce damage, so that the pain on the player's body is not obvious when attacked, but just in case, there is a medical clinic near the arena so that players who are injured during the match can be treated quickly.
The time limit of a match is 20 minutes, which means that the opponent must admit defeat or defeat the opponent within 20 minutes, if the two sides are dead in 20 minutes, the referee will decide the winner by the number of black points left on the uniforms of both sides, and the winner with fewer black points.
The players' white uniforms are made of special materials, which can be immune to some elemental spells, and also have a certain weakening effect on combat skills, when the players are hit, a black dot will be left on the uniform, and the strength of the two sides of the game depends entirely on who can leave more black spots on each other's clothes.
Before the official competition day, the players have to qualify, and only the top 32 in each grade will qualify for the official competition. So on the day of the qualifiers, the contestants and students of the college gathered together, and the teachers also put down their work and actively participated in the behind-the-scenes work of the competition.
It was the first time Shen Fangli had seen such a lively Elaniss Royal Academy, the students walked together in groups of three or five, talking about the competition, and she also met the Xianyin sisters and Tang Xuantang, who were all wearing the same competition clothes and the same white gloves as herself.
Judging from their expressions, they, like Shen Fangli, were also looking for the location of the report on the qualifiers, and Tang Xuancheng stepped forward to greet her and asked: "Do you know where the location of the report is?" The people in the student union are really sloppy, and they don't even notify the registration location in advance, where can people go to find it!"
"I don't know, let's look in the direction of the crowds, or ask others, and we'll know. ”
Just as the four of them were discussing which direction to go, they met Mu Yunxi, who politely said good morning to a few girls, and then said that he knew the location of the qualifiers.
Tang Xuancheng looked Mu Yunxi up and down, and saw that he was dressed in civilian clothes, not like he was going to participate in the competition, so he asked him why he didn't participate in the competition.
Mu Yunxi shrugged his shoulders and said, "It's too late when I signed up, and the registration form is gone." ”
"It's unlikely that you'll be late, I remember your class was the first to be notified of the competition, unless you deliberately didn't participate, or for some other reason. ”
Seeing that Tang Xuancheng still wanted to continue to investigate, Mu Yunxi hurriedly diverted the topic and said: "Let's go quickly! If it's late, it is estimated that we will not be able to draw a good lot, although I can't participate in the competition, but I will still cheer for you, ladies, work hard, I look forward to your performance!"
The Xianyin sisters made a grimace at Mu Yunxi at the same time to show their contempt for him, while Shen Fangli smiled helplessly at Mu Yunxi, and followed Tang Xuancheng towards the direction of Mu Yunxi's finger.
At the front of the line sat four students who were in charge of reviewing the entries of the contestants, all of whom were members of the student council, and it was tiring enough to review the entries of so many contestants, and there was no end in sight.
Shen Fangli and the other three girls were in the middle of one of the long lines, and the figures of the four of them looked a little small in front of the tall seniors and seniors, but occasionally they could find the figures of the students of the same level, and they all took their weapons and chatted and laughed to pass the long waiting time.
After about ten minutes, it was finally the turn of the four of them, starting with Tang Xuantang, the four of them submitted the registration form separately, and each drew a bamboo stick from the wooden bamboo tube in the hand of the girl in charge of the review work.
The whole selection competition is divided into eight groups, with the eight letters "A~H" indicating the name of the group, and the top four in each group are eligible to enter the official competition.
Tang Xuancheng was placed in Group A, known as the group of death, and she told the girl the letters on the bamboo stick, without showing any nervousness on her face, which was an absolute confidence in herself. The Xianyin sisters are all in Group C, they are worthy of being students in Class C of the Spell Department, and even the name of the group has a "C", and the twin sisters are worthy of being smart, and even the lottery can't separate the two of them.
Then it was Shen Fangli's turn, she looked at the bamboo stick in her hand, a big "H" was engraved on it, indicating that she was divided into Group H, this is the last group to play, she doesn't know whether this result is lucky or unfortunate for herself, in short, she can fully adjust her physical fitness during the time she is waiting for the game, and strive to play at the highest level.
After all the contestants were reported, the qualifiers officially began, and the contestants of the participating groups who did not have their turn came together to watch the group that began to play, the first was the competition of group A of each grade, Shen Fangli and the Xianyin sisters came to the competition venue of the first grade, waiting for Tang Xuancheng to play.
In the first two games, Tang Yutang did not play, and both games were duels between the sword spell master and the sword spell master, the first game made the sword boy shoot down the blade in the hand of the sword boy with a feather slash, and the second game made the sword boy shoot down the sword boy with an ice thorn and fell out of the ring. In these two games, the sword spellmaster won with combat skills, while the sword spell master had the advantage with spells, and it was impossible to judge which of the two major professions was superior or inferior.
In the next third game, it was Tang Yutang's turn to play, and when the referee read her name, the students of Class C of the Spell Department under the ring were boiling, and everyone shouted in unison: "Come on, squad leader!" The boys even blew a loud whistle from their mouths.
"Tachibana, you're going to have to cheer me on! Shen Fangli put her hands together and shouted with her lips, and the Xianyin sisters beside her also waved their right hands.
Tang Zhicheng beckoned to the classmates and said that she would do her best, and then she summoned the staff with the Yuan Jie Technique, holding it with her right hand, and she stared at the other side of the ring, at this time, the referee read a name that made the crowd of onlookers even more boiling.
"Class A of the Sword and Spell Department, Liu Yuhan, please play. ”
A shadow appeared from the other side of the ring, and Liu Yuhan pulled her long hair, and slowly walked to the ring.
There was a deafening cheer from the crowd in an instant, and the boys' whistles were louder than just now, and the students of Class A of the Sword and Spell Department wanted to overshadow the students of Class C of the Spell Department in terms of momentum, but the students of Class C of the Spell Department were not to be outdone, and they all shouted in support of their class leader.
For the students of other classes who stayed out of the way, this game was undoubtedly an early final, with bright red roses on one side and elegant white lilies on the other, both of whom were almost perfect girls in the hearts of the boys, so that they didn't know who to support.
This question is also difficult for Shen Fangli to choose, as a member of Class C of the spell department, of course she hopes that Tang Yuyu can win, but as a friend, she does not want to see Liu Yuhan get injured in the game.
As the whistle blew, the game officially began. Tang Xuancheng took the lead in attacking, and several flame-shaped arrows appeared at the tip of her staff to attack Liu Yuhan, and then took advantage of the momentum of the first move, and used the ice thorn one after another.
Tang Xuantang used two spells with opposite attributes, which was very rare in ordinary battles, and it was very difficult to crack, Shen Fangli could see from her eyes that she was really moving.
However, Liu Yuhan did not follow Tang Xuantang's way, she first used a wind wing, increasing her own movement speed to avoid Tang Xuantang's fire spell, although the attribute of the wind was overcome by fire, but because the wind wings are a blessing skill, the fire spell did not play much role, in order to deal with Tang Xuantang's ice thorn, she used the Yingbi sword to summon several stone walls to resist the ice picks under her feet.
Seeing Liu Yuhan approaching her at high speed, Tang Zhicheng realized that she had to slow down Liu Yuhan's movement, so she cast a binding spell on Liu Yuhan's feet, and then slashed her staff and attacked Liu Yuhan's jaw with a jaw break.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Liu Yuhan hurriedly dodged Tang Xuantang's staff combat technique with a backflip, and then attacked Tang Xuantang with a sword impact.
Although Tang Xuancheng barely avoided this move, the powerful sword aura actually cut through the corner of her clothes and left a black spot on her clothes.
"This trick is quite powerful, but ......" Tang Xuantang only said half a word and attacked Liu Yuhan with a mallet crack, leaving a black spot on Liu Yuhan's clothes with a strong aura.
At this point in the battle, the two sides were evenly matched, and Tang Yucheng had a slight advantage in attack, but all her attacks could not get the slightest advantage, Liu Yuhan fought for the initiative through defense, and gradually reversed the reverse trend.
Immediately after that, the battle situation was one-sided, Liu Yuhan attacked Tang Xuantang with a blow that Shen Fangli had never seen before, and successfully shot down the staff in Tang Xuantang's hand.
At the end of the game, Group A Liu Yuhan won. ”
As the referee announced the result of the game, Tang Zhicheng walked out of the ring in a low mood and said to the other students in the class: "I'm sorry, I lost!"
"It's okay, isn't there another chance? as long as you win the next round, it's fine. Shen Fangli hurriedly comforted a few words and asked the other students, "I remember that you will lose two rounds in the qualifiers before you will be eliminated, come on, class leader, you still have a chance." ”
All the students in Class C of the Spell Department applauded warmly, and in their hearts, the class leader's performance was already very good.
"Thank you, Fangli! Tang Xuancheng clenched his fists and turned to the Xianyin sisters, "And you two sisters, don't lose like me, the four seeds in our class have agreed to enter the official competition together." ”
Tang Xuancheng said and put the hands of the other three on his hands, the hands of the four of them were tightly folded, and they shouted three cheers at the same time, waving their hands downward.
In the laughter of Class C of the Spell Department, Liu Yuhan walked out of the ring, she smiled and looked at Shen Fangli and said, "I didn't expect your class to be quite united, I hope to see you in the official competition." ”
"Definitely. Shen Fangli replied firmly.
In the next match, Tang Yucheng did not disappoint, she won all the matches and successfully advanced to the official competition as the second place in Group A, and the performance of the Xianyin sisters was even more impressive, Duan Ruoyin and her sister Duan Ruoxian won the first and second place in Group C respectively.
In the end, only Shen Fangli was left, and the game in Group H started on time, and as the referee read her name, she walked to the ring, and there was still a small expectation in her tense heart.
This time she must prove herself in this ring.