Chapter 2018
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According to the rules of the martial arts tournament, each battalion had to send out twenty experts, which was equivalent to four small teams. These four teams would draw lots to determine their opponents in the preliminary round or the knockout round.
Now was the preliminary round, and there were a total of 20 participating teams. Because the competition was using a single elimination system, Li Zexuan only allowed Team 1 and Team 2 of each battalion to come up and draw lots. The numbers of Team 3 and Team 4 of each battalion were written on the lots in the drawing tube!
This meant that Team One and Team Two from each battalion could only draw Team Three and Team Four from other battalions. It was impossible for them to draw Team One and Two from other battalions. Of course, they could also draw Team Three and Team Four from their own battalions!
In this way, there would only be a total of ten matches in the preliminary round. According to a total of five competition venues, each venue would only have two matches. The winner would advance while the loser would be directly eliminated. This greatly reduced the competition time! After all, the main focus of the various battalions was to intensify their training and prepare for the Turkic War. Li Zexuan and Duan Zhixuan couldn't allow the martial arts tournament to take up too much of their training time.
Although Qiu Xinggong didn't learn new mathematics and didn't know much about probability theory and random events, he knew that the probability of the B Battalion drawing Team Three and Team Four from the E Battalion was relatively small. (From a probability perspective, the probability of the B Battalion drawing Team Three and Team Four from the E Battalion was only one in five. It was considered a small probability event.) Thus, he ordered someone to secretly tamper with the numbers on the lots. At the end of the lots for Team Three and Team Four from the E Battalion, there was a very shallow scratch that was hard to detect.
As Li Zexuan's voice fell, two sergeants walked out from the formation of the five camps. Under the gazes of the crowd, the ten sergeants came to the square table in order from the A Camp to the E Camp. They drew a bamboo stick and handed it to Li Zexuan. As Li Zexuan received the lot, he read it out loud.
"Team One from the A Battalion against Team Three from the B Battalion!"
"Team Two from the A Battalion against Team Four from the E Battalion!"
Actually, this order of drawing lots was extremely advantageous for the B Battalion, because only the A Battalion was in front of them, and the two captains of the A Battalion had a relatively low chance of drawing the E Battalion. When it was the turn of the B Battalion captains to draw lots, they could directly draw the E Battalion based on the secret mark on the bamboo lots.
But Qiu Xinggong didn't expect that this extremely low probability event would actually happen!
The A Battalion Team Two's captain drew Team Three from the E Battalion! In this way, in the preliminary round, it was very likely that only one team from the B Battalion would be able to draw the E Battalion!
What was even worse was that Team One of the A Battalion was actually matched up against Team Three of the B Battalion. In the Black Armored Army, the A Battalion was publicly acknowledged as the strongest battalion. Qiu Xinggong recognized the five soldiers of Team One of the A Battalion. They were all experts of Qi Transforming middle stage and above. Furthermore, they had all experienced hundreds of battles and were extremely experienced in battle. They could be considered as the 'hot favorites' for this year's fighting competition. Team Three of the B Battalion was matched up against Team One of the A Battalion. There was no doubt that Team Three of the B Battalion would be defeated!
In other words, after this first round of the preliminary round, not only would the B Battalion only be matched against the E Battalion, one of the B Battalion's teams would also be eliminated!
To Qiu Xinggong, this was a terrible result!
While Qiu Xinggong's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, the drawing of lots continued.
"Team One from the B Battalion against Team Three from the E Battalion!"
"Team Two from the B Battalion against Team Three from the A Battalion!"
"Pfft ~!"
Qiu Xinggong didn't think much of the first line of information. After all, it was within Qiu Xinggong's expectations. However, Li Zexuan's next line, "Second Battalion Second Battalion, VS A Battalion Third Battalion," almost caused Qiu Xinggong to vomit blood!
Did they have to be so unlucky?
Not only did the B Battalion not meet all the E Battalion's teams, they even had two teams that met the A Battalion?
If one had to describe Qiu Xinggong's current state of mind, it would really be f * cked up!
He even suspected that Li Zexuan had also done something to the drawing of lots. As for why he said 'also', hehe, that was very thought-provoking!
Even though he had his suspicions, he didn't have any proof. Furthermore, Qiu Xinggong was also feeling guilty. Thus, he could only grit his teeth and swallow it down.
However, with this, the B Battalion's situation could be said to be worrisome. This was because two of the B Battalion's teams had already met the 'strong opponent', the A Battalion. Even though the A Battalion's third team wasn't as strong as the A Battalion's first team, it was still a tough opponent. If the B Battalion's first team were to go up against it, it was hard to say who would win!
Qiu Xinggong, who had thought that everything was ready and that there would be a good opening, never expected that there would be such a bloody opening. After the first round of the preliminary round, it was very likely that two of the B Battalion's four teams would be eliminated directly. Moreover, it was very likely that they would only meet one team from the E Battalion!
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