Normally, this competition is just to review the cultivation level of the disciples in the kingdom, and try to select more outstanding reserve talents for the kingdom to supplement the strength of the kingdom's central government. Therefore, it is very realistic for the Demon Source Sect to worry that Tong Yinxin will be favored by the Damen Sect.

There are more than 30 sects around the royal capital, such as the Sixiang Gate, the Sanyuan Gate, the Tiger King Gate, the Lion Emperor Gate, etc., all of which are "high gates" with a total number of more than 100,000 people and less than one million;

According to the results of previous competitions, they were all qualified to send dozens of disciples to participate in the competition. Those who have consistently performed well in the competition can only send 100 disciples to participate in the competition. The inferior middle sect either sent ten disciples to participate in the competition, or better, sent twenty disciples to participate in the competition.

Many large families, similar to the situation of sects. Individual super-large home decoration is not much worse than the royal family.

The military is considered a royal force, and it also accounts for more than 100 teams.

Then there are those guilds, various organizations, mercenary associations, chamber of commerce associations, sword alliances, sword alliances, war alliances, mage associations, Danshi associations, refining associations, talisman associations, formation associations, etc., which also occupy many places.

The difference is that there is a high-level official from the Fengwen Demon Yuan Gate who will come to Guang'an City to watch the game. It is said that the high-ranking person is a god-level high-ranking person!

This gossip soon spread in the royal capital.

A total of 25,600 disciples participated in the competition, and it is estimated that there should be a total of 30,000 people with all the accompanying elders, and the organizing committee reached an agreement with the barracks that 30,000 camp tents were vacated in the military camp of the colonel's military field for the participating disciples to live in during the competition.

The rental fee is very low, only one spirit stone per person per day. No matter how small the sect is, it should be able to live. But if you want to eat or something, you have to go out and find a tavern by yourself. There are many taverns in the royal capital, all over the street, large and small, there are all kinds of specifications, as long as there are spirit stones, you can eat whatever you want.

This place is different from other places, gold coins and silver coins are not in circulation, and only spirit stones are circulated everywhere, or they can be exchanged for precious herbs, materials or something, and it is better to be able to use high-level elixirs, talismans, utensils, etc., which are better than spirit stones.

The disciples from the big families, the big sects, and the big forces have already arrived. They were close to each other and came early, and no one went to the barracks to stay at a lower price, so they all found a high-ranking inn to stay; they practiced for a while during the day, and in the evening they came out in groups to drink and chat, and exchange information with each other.

Other things are easy, but the draw for the knockout round is knowledgeable and insider, and the organizing committee will arrange this matter as the biggest focus of each competition.

Now their staff is taking the first step to gather specific information about all the participating disciples.

It includes name, gender, age, region, faction, rank, customary weapon, and general strength assessment. The previous information has been transmitted to the royal capital through the Internet. The strength assessment is also simple, but it is divided into several major grades according to the rank.

The high-level disciples of the ninth and eighth orders of the holy level are basically concentrated in the big families, the big sects and the big forces, and the small families below rarely appear.

According to the level, nine, eight, seven, six, five, completely divided into five grades, there are many below the fifth order, and it is the lowest grade.

The competition is also divided into two stages, the first stage is eight consecutive rounds of elimination, each round eliminates half of the disciples, and after eight rounds, there are exactly one hundred people left.

Each time they pass a round of elimination, the disciple and his sect can get points, and the final results of his sect can be used as the basis for what level of pre-selection qualifications can be obtained in the next competition. The better the results, the more qualifiers you will have for the next competition.

For example, 1 point is awarded for passing the first round of elimination, 2 points for passing the second round of elimination, and so on.

The grades are easy to calculate, but most of the remote places always have very low grades, and they are always in the position of playing soy sauce. Generally, after one or two rounds of elimination, it is enough to be counted as the best in remote places.

The Emerald Wood City team has a disgraceful record of being shaved for two consecutive editions, and this tournament is bound to win, otherwise, they will be beaten to the lowest level, and they will not be able to mix. However, by this time, the whole team was full of confidence and ready for good results.

Originally, the outside world didn't know about it, and I thought that the competition had always adopted the knockout system, and there would be a lot of chance. Actually, it's not like that at all.

As mentioned earlier, there are more than 400 masters of the Ninth Order of the Holy Rank, more than 1,700 of the Eighth Order, more than 6,400 of the Seventh Order, more than 15,000 of the Sixth Order, only more than 1,000 of the Fifth Order, and dozens of even lower.

All 25,600 people were veritable elites from all over the world, almost all of them were under the age of sixty, middle and high-level masters of the Holy Rank. After gathering together, they are also divided into different grades. The closer you are to the center of the kingdom, the higher the level of the disciples.

The statisticians had long been accustomed to this, and there were more than four hundred young masters of the ninth order, and they had almost all heard of these names.

Their second step was to take the more than 2,000 people of the eighth and ninth levels as seeds, and all of them were divided into more than 2,000 groups, and each group first determined the position of a seed.

The third step is to divide most of the remaining people into each group one by one in proportion, and there are only eleven or two people in each group.

The fourth step is the specific first round of drawing.

The fifth step is the operation after the start of the game. The draw may continue according to the original group, or it may change, depending on the circumstances.

These steps have been implemented for a long time, and it cannot be said that there have never been problems, but they are quite perfect. At least it avoids the premature internal friction of the vast majority of strong players.

Most of the tweaks mentioned above are fine-tuning measures for the masters, and try to make sure that they don't meet early in the first four rounds. After the first four rounds, the eighth-order and half-order masters will inevitably encounter each other, and at that time, they can only "escort" more than four hundred ninth-order masters.

On a case-by-case basis, these measures are relatively fine. The problem is that after five or six rounds, there is likely to be a black-box operation.

It has been more than 5,700 years, and outside of the disciples of the Great Sect of the High Sect, no one in remote places has rushed into the top 100 truly elite disciples.

Now this tendency is getting more and more serious, not to mention the top 100 finals, even if there are 200 semi-finals, or even the top 400 and 800, it will be difficult for the "Hanmen" disciples to enter. Even if it is rare to have the strength of a ninth-order quasi-master, it is difficult to rush in.

It's true that there is some dirty dealing, but more often than not, it is a reflection of the overall power gap.

In addition, the organizing committee has to formulate the cliché rules of the competition. For example, there is also a prohibition of maliciously killing opponents, which is also the first rule. However, there is no mention of how to punish malicious violations. Experienced people know that this means acquiescing to private settlements outside the field.

If you have the ability to retaliate outside the city, you can do it yourself, and the officials will definitely ignore it. If you are incapable, you have to consider yourself unlucky. Seeing that the situation is not good, can we admit defeat as soon as possible? Why gamble with others?

The following are what are not allowed to use any auxiliary products that reach or exceed the first order of the god level, including all kinds of pills, utensils, talismans, formations, etc. Again, there is no direct explanation, what happens if someone violates the rules?

Why don't you just explain it? Hehe, the final interpretation belongs to the official. In this way, something comes out that it is easy to reach a compromise with the mud.

Finally, even if there are special means such as curses and poisons, it is also permissible, but it is not allowed to kill innocents indiscriminately, and after victory, it is required to save the opponent's life as much as possible. This one, too, is as broad as ever. Leaves a lot of holes to exploit.

In principle, all the information about the work of the organizing committee should be confidential, but in fact, many high-level people are well-informed and quickly understand the inside story.

Of course, there's nothing inherently remarkable about the information. There are two major departments that are more concerned about this preliminary information and need to be fully obtained; The first department is the Wang Family Newspaper.

The royal newspaper industry is directly under the royal family, and it is the largest newspaper industry in the royal capital. All such elite disciple competitions, competitions in various industries, etc., are the things they are most eager for, and most of the content materials of newspapers and periodicals come from these things.

They have no competitors, only a few subordinates. There was almost no decent entertainment in the Xiuzhen world, the Colosseum and the gladiatorial arena, even if it was a rare leisure place for most of the upper echelons of the royal capital, and then there were various auction conferences. There is not much news, and I can't afford to support too many media people.

The second department is the royal handicap, which also directly belongs to the royal family. They even have direct contact with the organizing committee. After the group draw was completed, they got the first-hand information, and combined with the large amount of relevant information about the key high-level disciples that they had paid a high price, they seized the time to formulate the odds.

The main job of a market maker is clear: to predict the outcome of the match, to predict the outcome of the bet, to grasp the outcome of the match, to influence the betting.

To put it simply, like casinos, they want to make an absolute profit.

Casinos, like handicaps, are not "every gamble must lose", but "long bets must lose". If it is true that "every gamble must lose", the casino and the handicap should be long gone.

The development of a handicap game is based on the results of probability theory!

The less you play, the more likely you are to win. For example, it is possible to open 5 times in a row (or to open 5 times in a row), and it is very possible. The fewer times you play, the more chance you have, the more likely you are to win.

Or to put it this way, you flip a coin. Toss five times, and it's probably all positive.

But, what about 100 tosses? 100 times is all positive odds, you know how small it is, right?

The more times it takes, the closer it gets to the theoretical value. And the theoretical value is the law of winning in the casino that is hidden behind the probability theory.

What casinos and handicaps have in common is that they are "legitimately" profitable because of the luck psychology and greed of most gamblers who try to get something for nothing.