Chapter XXVI Drawing of lots
In the midst of Xu Wannian's doubts, the opening ceremony of the National University Martial Arts Conference started on time, first with the performance of the Songda Symphony Orchestra, and then the youthful and lively dance troupe showing its beautiful posture. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"After watching the dance, I can get some sleep. Cai Zongming yawned very experiencedly.
Lou Cheng also deliberately made a frightened expression: "At the opening ceremony, the principal talked nonsense for an hour and a half, if he is still like this today, will he be beaten?"
"I don't know if I'll be beaten, but he's not the only one who talks a lot of nonsense today, I flipped through last year's opening ceremony video a few days ago, and I still remember the long nonsense of the president of the Martial Arts Federation, and almost hypnotized me. Cai Zongming's face was "generous and righteous".
In the front row of the guest seat, the location of the martial arts club of Shanbei University, Xu Wannian listened to the speech of the president of Songcheng University, his eyes showed obvious tiredness, he wanted to sleep but did not dare to sleep, there is a live broadcast on the TV station today!
"It's too good to say......" The corner of the mouth of the handsome young man with freckles on his face twitched, "Senior Brother Xu, can you 'crow's mouth' that old man and make him forget his words and lose his manuscript High blood pressure attack or something." ā
Xu Wannian was silent for a moment, and sighed: "I want to too, TM is too far away!"
As he spoke, he looked at Peng Leyun next to him: "At this time, I envy and worship Senior Brother Peng the most, no matter whether there are people around him or not, he can think about life and wander outside the world, I suspect that he actually has the ability to sleep with his eyes open!"
"I also envy Brother Leyun, I can talk and be in a daze on the spot. The other members of the Martial Arts Club chimed in.
"Be quiet. The instructor of the Shanda Martial Arts Club, who was sitting in the front row, turned around and said, he was middle-aged and white-headed, with deep-set eye sockets, and an old-fashioned temperament, and his prestige in the martial arts club seemed to be quite good, and everyone was immediately silenced.
Half an hour later, Cai Zongming's eyes were dull and crumbling:
"Orange, let's talk, or I'll stand up and sleep and roll down the steps, and then I'll become the laughing stock of the whole country!"
"I see that the principal is almost finished, there are so many guests today, everyone has to say a few words, if he occupies too long, the opening ceremony will not be held until dawn?" Lou Cheng comforted himself.
The atmosphere created by the dance and music just now has dropped to freezing point.
As soon as Lou Cheng finished speaking, his speech seemed to really have a time limit, and the principal stopped abruptly, broke it to the end, and bowed down with an unfinished face.
Bang Bang Bang!
The stadium burst into sincere and enthusiastic applause, almost tearing off the roof.
Lou Cheng and Cai Zongming also applauded vigorously, feeling like they had escaped the catastrophe, and thanked the principal for keeping his life under his "mouth"!
Next, I would like to invite Mr. Fang Jinjue, President of the National University Martial Arts Federation, to deliver a speech. The host invited the next guest.
"......" Cai Zongming's mouth opened slightly, "Orange, let's chat." ā
Lou Cheng looked ahead, looked at the cameras in various positions, and said to himself:
"What are you going to talk about?"
"Did you know that there is a special format for the martial arts competition of team confrontation?" Cai Zongming chatted wholeheartedly.
"I didn't crawl out of the grave, how could I not know? Under normal circumstances, there are three warriors on each side, in order, single confrontation, the winner stays, and the loser goes down, which side of the three players are all eliminated and counted, but sometimes, you can apply for a special competition system in advance, and the three of them play at the same time to conduct group battles, so as to give full play to the advantages of some martial arts and joint formations. Lou Cheng listened to President Fang Jinjue's talk, and casually talked about the special competition system.
Cai Zongming smiled: "Then do you know the allusions about the special competition system?"
"What kind of allusion?" Lou Cheng suddenly became interested.
Cai Zongming said with a smile: "It is said that when the professional martial arts competition was first established, the Xuanwu faction found the master of the martial arts alliance at that time, that is, the old man of Lin Zhongxun Lin, who had the titles of martial saint and king, and said that this competition system is unfair.
"Well, that's right, some sects are better at forming formations than fighting alone, and the normal format is really unfair to them. Lou Cheng agreed.
Cai Zongming heaved: "Old Man Lin also thinks so, so he has set a special competition system, as long as you apply in advance, you can let three disciples play at the same time and lay out a sword formation, and the opponent can not only combine three people to break the formation, but also let the three martial artists on the bench go up together, and there are many people in the sword formation." ā
"It's fair to let the sect that is not good at formation have a numerical advantage, what's funny?" Lou Cheng glanced at Cai Zongming suspiciously, what are you laughing at?
Cai Zongming couldn't help but smile and said: "No, after hearing about this, the head of Kongtong Academy couldn't sit still, and he also went to Old Man Lin, saying that we can't favor one over the other, what our Kongtong Academy is good at is the 'Five Directions and Five Elements Array', and the three disciples can't arrange it at all." ā
"It's also ......," Lou Cheng hesitated.
Cai Zongming continued: "As soon as Kongtong Courtyard said this, the Shangqing Sect next to him didn't do it, why should he be wronged? Senior Lin, you have to consider our Shangqing Sect's 'Big Dipper Seven Star Sword Formation', you say, does this make Old Man Lin very embarrassed?"
"This difficulty is very specific, you have to think of a good and comprehensive competition system......" Lou Cheng frowned.
"At this time, the abbot of Daxing Temple followed in, and looked at Old Man Lin, Lord Lin, this, this, five hundred Arhats...... Cai Zongming clapped his hands, "Okay, Old Man Lin said at the time, you all get out of me!"
Lou Cheng couldn't help laughing: "Sure enough, there is nothing in the world that takes care of everything." ā
The two chatted in a low voice, and the smiles on their faces seemed to emerge because of their speeches, talking and laughing, and finally finished one guest after another, watched the songs and dances interspersed in between, and waited for the "Silent Night Light" Liang Yifan to appear.
There was no need for Yan Zheke and the others to take the lead in cheering and applauding, and the entire martial arts hall was like being blown up by the sound.
This is not only Liang Yifan's personal charm, but also the "hard work" of the previous guests!
"I'm not very good at talking, and everyone is anxious to see the results of the lottery, so let's just say one word, I wish the National University Martial Arts Association to do better and better, make martial arts more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and give young people who didn't have the opportunity to temper martial arts when they were young a chance to work hard!" Liang Yifan said concisely with an expression of "I understand".
"Okay!" Cai Zongming, Xu Wannian and others took the lead in applauding, all of them appeared, and the warmth of the atmosphere was enough to show the hearts of the people.
The projection turned on, and a screen appeared behind Liang Yifan, on which was the bracket of the divisional competition, but the two sides were still blank.
According to the format, there will be four groups in this district, the top four teams in last year's division will be seeded and directly enter the group stage, and the remaining schools will be eliminated in two or three rounds to enter the corresponding group, and those who are drawn to the left side will enjoy home field advantage during the draw.
The group stage adopts a single round-robin format, compared with last year's results, the top two appear, enter the quarterfinals, and the top two will represent the region in the national finals.
At this time, the emcee and the host put two boxes, one large and one small, on the lecture table in front of Liang Yifan, and asked him to draw out the seed teams of each group from the small boxes first.
"Group A. Liang Yifan put his hand inside, took out a note, spread it out, and said loudly, "Shannan University Martial Arts Club." ā
This was last year's third-place finish.
"Group B...... Shanbei University Martial Arts Club!" As soon as Liang Yifan's words fell, the coaches in the field looked at each other, and this group could only compete for second.
"Group C...... Sanjiang University...... Group D...... Haiyuan College. Liang Yifan finished drawing the seeds of each group, and then handed it over, and other guests drew the teams of each group of knockouts.
Lou Cheng raised his heart slightly, he was already a little concerned about the honor of the martial arts club.
The Songcheng University Martial Arts Club was not drawn from the knockout team in Group A, which made him feel a little regretful, compared to Shanbei and Sanjiang, the other two martial arts clubs were not so feared.
"Group B, the third knockout match, the home player ......" The guest pulled out a note, "Songcheng University Martial Arts Club!"
I went, and it turned out to be the most difficult group...... Lou Cheng was a little depressed.
"It's okay, maybe the other opponents are weak? Cai Zongming can think about it.
Next, the guests drew out Songda's opponent - Utsumi Normal School.
"It's ok. Seeing that it was a recognized weak team, Lou Chang sighed.
The opponents in the second round of the knockout round will be produced from two less strong schools such as Qin Yang, and there is a lot of hope for entering the group stage.
After the lottery was completed, it was already dark at night, and when they returned to the dormitory, they had no energy to pay attention to the news and fell asleep one after another.
At noon the next day, when he returned to the dormitory, Lou Chengcai had time to brush the forum and website, looking for news related to the opening ceremony of the National University Martial Arts Conference.
In the "Dragon and Tiger Club" forum, he found a related post at the bottom of the homepage, which contained video news and a special feature made by Songcheng TV.
"Special topic?" didn't have time to read the comments below, Lou Cheng first browsed the news video, and only after confirming that he didn't look like he and Cai Zongming were talking and laughing, he was relieved, but when he clicked on the special program of Songcheng TV, it was his own face that appeared in front of him!
"I'm excited, I'm excited, well, with honor. With a dumb smile, he said silly words.
Well, this is an interview given outside the Budo Club as a melon-eating crowd at the orientation party...... Lou Cheng recalled the past, hurriedly opened the door of the small bedroom, and shouted to the other side, "Mouth King! Xiao Ming! Come and watch, we are on TV!"
After the interview, the two of them were still looking forward to showing their faces on TV, watching the news of Matsucheng TV from time to time, but they didn't wait, and gradually forgot about it, who knew that this interview was part of the topic, and waited for the opening ceremony of the martial arts meeting to be edited and broadcast.
"Really?" Cai Zongming ran over and motioned for Lou Cheng to pull back, "Yo, yes, I'm really handsome with a smile, not like someone, stupid and stupid, look at the comments, is anyone praising me?"