At two o'clock in the afternoon, the semi-finals officially began.

The semi-finals, also known as the knockout round, are to select the top 16 from more than 100 players to enter the national team to participate in the training camp.

Of course, the top 16 still have to be finalized.

Because there were too many people, in the competition hall, ten sets of chessboards were directly arranged, and every ten groups, that is, twenty people started at the same time.

There will be two referees in each group watching the game, ensuring fairness and impartiality, and trying to discover the potential of the eliminated young players as much as possible.

Ding Huang's identity is a referee.

For example, Yao Jinyu, Su Wan'er and others are high-level chess players of the national team, and they do not need to participate in the initial selection tournament knockout round, so in the initial stage of the knockout round, Yao Jinyu and Su Wan'er also act as referees.

It's just that Su Wan'er has been expelled from Wang Qisheng, and her referee seat has been replaced by other high-level chess players.

More than 100 players need to win two in three sets, even if every ten groups are played at the same time, and it is already late at night after one round.

Meng Hao naturally succeeded in advancing without any suspense.

The next day afternoon continued with the knockout rounds.

It is still done in 10 sets at the same time.

In order to ensure the final production of the top 16, the former national team chess players also began to enter the lineup one after another.

At ten o'clock that night, the top 32 were successfully produced.

Among them, 26 were selected from the lower provinces and cities, and only eight were former national team players.

On the third day, the competition continued, and at 6 p.m., the round of 16 was officially produced, and two more national team players were eliminated.

The remaining ten young players selected from below can officially enter the national team for training.

However, the event is still ongoing.

At ten o'clock that night, the top eight were produced.

Four of them are former high-ranking players of the national team, and the other four are selected from below.

Being able to select four geniuses is already very worthwhile for Wang Qisheng and other senior leaders.

But the most eye-catching thing at this time is the standings hanging high on the game site.

Because the high-ranking players of the national team have entered the lineup one after another, the standings are calculated from the top 32.

Xu Yingchun and Chang Jie won all three rounds and nine games, ranking first and second.

The third place is Yao Jinyu, who also won all three rounds and nine games, but won a few fewer than Chang Jie and Xu Yingchun.

The fourth is a player selected from the following provinces and cities, named Liu Wei, who is only fifteen years old this year.

He is also a player that Wang Qisheng is very optimistic about, and as soon as he came out of the selection competition, Wang Qisheng took the initiative to accept him as a disciple.

His ability to achieve the fourth place in the standings is not unrelated to Wang Qisheng's personal guidance for nearly a month after the trials.

Meng Hao is ranked fifth, and like Liu Wei, he has eight wins and one loss in nine games in three rounds, but he has won a few fewer games than Liu Wei.

This ranking convinces some of the contestants who are still suspicious.

But I don't know why, in addition to Chang Jie and Xu Yingchun who have been eyeing Meng Hao, Liu Wei is also particularly hostile to Meng Hao.

The purpose of this undisclosed Go tournament is to select potential young players and enter the national team for key training.

But more importantly, it is necessary to select the strongest squad to participate in the International Go Championship in the near future.

Therefore, in order to ensure that the best players go to the end as much as possible, starting from the top 16, it is no longer a full draw, but divided into two groups according to the level of points.

The group with the lower number of points will draw lots to determine the player with the highest number of points.

That's one of the reasons why the standings are so impressive.

Meng Hao was ranked relatively high in the first two rounds, so he did not participate in the draw.

Until the eight-in-four game, Meng Hao ranked fifth, which was a group with low points, so he participated in the draw for the first time, and he happened to draw Liu Wei.

Liu Wei laughed out loud at the time and said openly: "Great, I just want to teach this guy a lesson!" He is nothing more than a trick to show weakness, deliberately acting very badly, first making people lose their vigilance, and then slowly luring people into the trap! Senior Brother Yao and Senior Sister Su were both defeated by him like this, and I will never eat him again! ”

His words naturally entered Meng Hao's ears through various channels.

Ding Huang and Ding Ying were extremely angry, if it weren't for Meng Hao to stop them, Ding Ying would have directly found this immature little guy and beat him up.

Wang Qisheng also heard the rumors, and called the little guy aside to teach him a lesson, vaguely telling him that Meng Hao was not his enemy, but was in the same camp as him.

Of course, it is impossible for Wang Qisheng to tell this little guy that the so-called "same camp" refers to the camp against Gu Liangyou.

But this little guy didn't know if he understood what Wang Qisheng meant, anyway, not only did he not change his attitude, but he hated Meng Hao even more.

So after the two of them sat on the competition seat, Liu Wei glared at Meng Hao directly and said: "The guy who has no strength is quite sloppy and sloppy, and he even sued me in front of my teacher!" I tell you, the more you do this, the more I will show no mercy, and I want you to taste the fiasco you have never had before! ”

Meng Hao naturally didn't hedge against this little brat, but just asked lightly: "Then have you ever tried a fiasco that you have never had before?" ”

"What do you mean?"

Liu Wei raised his eyebrows, "Let me tell you, if you want to repeat your old tricks, use your usual routines, and deliberately show weakness to lure people into the bait, I will definitely not be fooled!" I've already studied your so-called Zhenlong game thoroughly, didn't you win a game against Senior Sister Su in twenty minutes? I'm telling you, I can also win a game against you in twenty minutes! ”

"Then I wish you win!"

Meng Hao was still indifferent.

But he really wanted to teach this little guy a lesson, and couldn't help but send a wisp of voice directly into his ears.

"Believe me, Wang Qisheng is already regretting accepting you as a disciple, if you are eliminated by me with a fiasco, Wang Qisheng will brush you out of the national team, and will not give you the opportunity to participate in this tournament!"

His voice could only be heard by Liu Wei alone, but Liu Wei didn't know this, and couldn't help but look at Meng Hao with wide eyes, his originally childish face looked quite hideous at this time.

"Teacher Wang will accept me as a disciple, that is because I have taken a fancy to my talent, and I will win the world championship in the future, which will also make Teacher Wang proud of me! How old are you, a twenty-six-year-old man, somehow hooked up with Mr. Wang, and wanted to be on an equal footing with me, I'm phew! You don't even fucking know how good I am, you want to defeat me, don't fucking dream here! ”

His words were shouted directly in a loud voice, regardless of where he was.

In such a hurry, his coach had to run up and push him with his hand again and again.

But he insisted on finishing his sentence.

I could only hear the two referees frowning, and the other groups of players next to them either seemed to be smiling or shaking their heads again and again.

Soon the words reached the rostrum.

Gu Liangyou looked at Wang Qisheng's expression of looking at the joke, but Wang Qisheng couldn't help but secretly scold his mother in his heart, and sure enough, as Meng Hao said, he regretted that he should not take the initiative to accept this arrogant and ignorant guy as a disciple after he died.

Meng Hao did not continue to argue with Liu Wei, and as the referee gave orders, several groups of contestants all quieted down and entered the game wholeheartedly.

And the final result surprised Liu Wei and everyone who was not optimistic about Meng Hao again.

Especially Liu Wei, his future was buried in his own stinky mouth.