By the time Carl and Ke Yuan finished their breakfast, the rest of the people came one after another.

The fourth one is Yi Lian, who officially joined relatively late, but he didn't expect to be so active.

"Good morning." He still had the same smile on his face as usual.

The fifth is Beichen, this guy doesn't seem to have anything special, but he also changed a set of Ex-ball equipment from head to toe. Others just mix and match a set of sweatshirts, and the back number is also drawn casually with a washable ink pen. Beichen is good, from the jersey, pants to sneakers, it is all a series, and there is a big "12" printed on the back of the jersey, which looks too professional. He's not a foot-based player, so he doesn't have to wear shin guards.

The sixth is Qingfan.

"Ah, am I late?" When she saw that so many people had come, she was obviously a little flustered.

"It's not too late, it's only 6:50." Sophie looked at the terminal.

Qingfan breathed a sigh of relief, and then began to rummage through his backpack.

"Give. When it's time to compete, you have to keep your energy up. ”

One by one, she handed out chocolates and sports drinks to those who had already arrived. This is all bought at her own expense, there are eight copies in total, and in the end, she has one for herself, and the remaining two copies are reserved for those who did not come.

Although Qingfan is now a reserve player, her job is still that of a manager. She is also studying hard to become a qualified manager.

The last one to come was Andrea. When she arrived, it was not yet seven o'clock. But she didn't seem surprised that someone else had come before her. However, she was still a little surprised when she received Qingfan's chocolate.

Sophie looked around and nodded, "Everyone should be there......"

Carl interjected: "Senior, isn't Xiao Wei still here?" ”

"Do you want to wait any longer?" Qingfan also asked in a low voice, she had prepared Victor's share of chocolate and didn't send it out.

Sophie hesitated and glanced at the terminal. From beginning to end, she still excluded Victor from the team, after all, this person did not appear in training, and there was no shadow of him today. Sophie still can't be completely reassured by this kind of person.

Andrea said lightly: "If he wants to come, he will appear." If he doesn't want to come, it's useless for anyone to shout. Instead of thinking about that guy every day, you should think more about the next game. Today was only the first day of the game and we could play without him. ”

Sophie nodded in agreement, and then got to business today.

"It's still a long way before the race lane opens, so I'll highlight a few more points.

Considering that there are too many participating teams and it is impossible to centralize and unify the competition venue, MEC's audition adopts an online mode, and most of the opponents are actually far away, but they are presented in front of us in the form of virtual projection. Although teammates can also communicate remotely online, it is easier to communicate and organize when they are together, which is why we are here today.

The online model is also for fairness and randomness. As long as each team forms a team, logs in to the game mode of the Ex-ball device, enters the MEC area, and clicks the "Start Matching" button when they are ready, they can be randomly matched with opponents to play. The design of the matching algorithm means that theoretically, two teams that have already competed will not be matched together.

For the first three days, the audition channel will be open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., and each team can arrange the time and place of the competition at will, as long as it is full and only ten games are played within the time limit every day. If you play less than 10 games, you can do it, but an additional 6 points will be deducted for each remaining game.

This will be the case in the following days, but given the decreasing number of teams playing each day, the opening hours of the subsequent matches may be adjusted.

Each game is a fifteen-minute innings. After the 10 p.m. match channel is closed, the total goal difference of the team on the settlement day will be used as points, and the team with non-positive points will be eliminated directly and will not enter the next day's competition. Points are reset to zero every day and recalculated the next day.

If there are only 10 or less teams left on that day, then on that day, these teams will have a wheel battle, and the final list will be determined according to the points ranking, and the audition will end early.

If there are more than 10 teams left on the seventh day, the system will arrange for you to play against teams that have not played before based on the history, and try to ensure that the teams left until the last day have already played against each other once in those seven days. The scoring algorithm for the last day has changed, and it counts your historical matches against all the remaining teams left on the last day, not just on the seventh day.

In other words, you can't let up in every game, because no one can say who will make it to the last day. In the unlikely event that your opponent makes it to the final day with you, your previous head-to-head record will be an important factor in your final standings. ”

Ke Yuan was already completely dizzy after listening to it for such a long time. Yilian, Qingfan, and Andrea had all studied the competition system on their own beforehand, but even so, they were still confused.

Carl raised his hand and asked, "Senior, is this kind of competition really fair?" Wouldn't it be miserable if there was a team that had bad luck and had the level to reach the last few rounds, but was matched with a lot of strong teams on the first day. ”

Sophie shrugged her shoulders and explained, "It can't be helped. In the final analysis, the real purpose of the MEC audition is to select the best two or three teams, and there is no way to bias the scores of other teams that are not enough. Points are recalculated daily, and the final qualifier is determined only based on the points scored in the last day's match between teams, in order to prevent too weak teams from sending too many points and affecting the accuracy of the data. The adoption of a point system instead of a single-round elimination system is also to examine the level of the team from a comprehensive perspective and avoid the situation that one game is determined for life.

"It's the most efficient and fair format in this situation."

She came to a helpless conclusion.

"It's so complicated, as long as you keep winning, isn't it?" Beichen frowned and said.

Sophie gave him a thumbs up: "Young man, very ambitious!" In the previous four editions, I had never heard of a team that could maintain a winning record in the audition! ”

She didn't mean to be sarcastic about Beichen, she just wanted them to recognize a reality:

The audition of MEC is not so easy.

Win all? This is naïve. Everyone has a time when a horse stumbles.

The runner-up of the 4th MEC World Series, the "Pegasos" team in the 50th district, is the team with the highest known achievement in the audition.

Their predecessor was also just a civilian amateur team. Generally speaking, even if the non-governmental amateur team qualifies for the audition, it is difficult to compete with other professional teams because of experience, funds and organizational management problems.

However, the players of the "Pegassos" team are very talented, and they have been soaring all the way, easily qualifying for auditions and regional competitions. Now they've got sponsorship and it's turned into a professional Ex-ball club. The experience of the "Pegasos" team can be said to be the dream goal of all the audition teams.

In the MEC auditions, the presence of the "Pegasos" team was a complete massacre.

Even so, historical data shows that "Pegasos" has drawn two games and lost one game in the auditions.

"Just try to enjoy the game. Don't be too burdened. ”

Carl was still smiling, not at all afraid of the upcoming challenge. No matter what, it can't frighten him.

"EXAP! Come on! ”