Happy didn't know that Excellent Era would cause such a ruckus. But after recognizing Qiu Fei, Ye Xiu was able to confirm the identity of today's opponents. And in the battle against these quasi-pro players, the players from Excellent Era weren't at a disadvantage at all.
Wei Chen didn't need to be mentioned. Even though he was older, his many years of experience were more than enough to deal with the training camp.
As for Tang Rou and Bao Zi, they had started playing Glory when the tenth server opened. For them to reach this level now was shocking.
Defeating Excellent Era's training camp was a morale boost, so Ye Xiu obviously wouldn't keep it a secret. Even though Happy's undefeated streak had finally been broken, Happy had won more than he had lost, so the face slappers couldn't bring themselves to say anything.
On the contrary, through this battle, the players with some skill and insight finally had a clearer understanding of Happy's strength. In the past, the players who had been bullied couldn't see how strong Happy was. All they could see was how weak the players were.
And now, against a quasi-pro opponent like Excellent Era's training camp, Happy and the others had put in their all. At this point, ordinary players could finally get a general idea of the depths of their strength.
Even though there were still many who insisted that even with their skill level, it was wishful thinking for them to beat Excellent Era, the clamoring was much weaker.
Their strength was still far from Excellent Era's, but at least they could challenge them. If they were thrown into the crowd of players, they would be left alone. If they didn't challenge the pro scene, then what else could they do?
The voices supporting Happy were becoming more and more numerous. However, the majority of these people just wanted to see Excellent Era's misfortune. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, so they spoke up for Happy. They weren't Happy's true supporters. But it wasn't as if there weren't people who truly supported Excellent Era.
On the last day of the free event, when Chen Guo came to Happy Internet Cafe to finish up, a customer from the Internet Cafe said "Good luck" to Team Happy.
It was just a cheer.
Whether or not he was sincere, whether or not he was just being polite because of the free internet access, Chen Guo didn't know, but just this one sentence was enough to make her extremely moved.
Two weeks! In the beginning, they had been ridiculed by thousands of people. When Ye Qiu's identity was exposed and the Internet Cafe was blocked, Chen Guo had been a bit scared.
But today, they were finally able to receive a cheer. Even though they couldn't be sure of the other party's intentions, this was the first true cheer for Team Happy. This was what they had fought against the pressure of the villains for the past two weeks to obtain.
In the face of countless mockery, they used victory after victory to strike back powerfully.
Although there were still a lot of jeers and taunts, this simple cheer gave Chen Guo the courage to continue charging forward.
August 31st. Happy's free Internet Cafe event ended. The new season of the Glory Pro Alliance was about to begin. In reality, the first match of the new season wouldn't begin until Saturday, September 6th. However, the transfer window would close at midnight on September 1st.
The powerhouses that players paid a lot of attention to didn't make any big moves during the end of the summer transfer window. No matter if it was Blue Rain, who had lost Yu Feng, or Micrograss, who had lost two All Stars. After Micrograss bought 301 Degrees' Xu Bin, everyone hoped that these two guilds would continue to strengthen themselves. Who would have thought that until the end of the transfer window, the players wouldn't see any news about these two guilds' transfers on the official website. These two guilds had only made some small adjustments. Everyone was waiting for the big names to transfer!
Looking at the entire summer transfer window, the one that attracted the most attention was, without a doubt, Team Tyranny. Lin Jingyan's transfer, Zhang Jiale's return, and the original two Gods, Han Wenqing and Zhang Xinjie, made everyone dumbstruck. Vulgar names like the Four Heavenly Kings came out of nowhere. Team Tyranny was undoubtedly the team with the highest chance of winning the new season.
Next was last season's champion team, Samsara. Like a champion team, there weren't many changes to their roster. All of their first-string players were still there. However, the All Star Grappler character, Flying Drops, that was acquired from Micrograss, was undoubtedly a strong addition to their team. But no matter what, the label of Samsara as a one-man team was too obvious. Last year's triumphant victory in the playoffs was due to the outstanding performances of all the members, but Zhou Zekai's crucial performance was always the first to be mentioned. As a result, there weren't many players who thought highly of the champion team's chances of winning the title. Especially the more experienced players. They knew that if a team's ace player didn't perform well, the team would fall into a difficult situation. Even though Zhou Zekai's impeccable performance this season filled many people with confidence for the coming year, in the official rankings for the new season, Samsara lost to Tyranny and was ranked second.
Afterwards, Blue Rain and Micrograss were predicted to be ranked third and fourth, respectively. Even though their All Star players had left, they didn't make much of a difference. On paper, their strength did seem to have decreased. The predicted rankings of these two teams on the voting leaderboard could be considered to be a realistic representation of everyone's expectations for these two teams.
Then there were Team Wind Howl and Team Hundred Blossoms.
These two teams, no matter if they were transferred or not, had been in the limelight this summer. When there was limelight, there would be attention. When people took a look, the two teams that were organized in the end were quite decent as well. Wind Howl had the new generation's number one Brawler, Tang Hao, and the number one Brawler, Demon Subduer. They also had last season's Best Rookie, Zhao Yuzhe, who would definitely be put in an important position in the new season. Then there was the All Star player, Fang Rui, who was familiar with the team. Everyone looked forward to the new season.
Even though Team Hundred Blossoms had let go of Tang Hao and Dazzling Hundred Blossoms, by purchasing Yu Feng and bringing back the former number one Berserker, Blossoming Chaos, brought back memories of Team Hundred Blossoms' glory days. Because of this topic, Team Hundred Blossoms actually obtained a decent ranking. But in reality, in the end, Team Hundred Blossoms only had one All Star player, Yu Feng. Void's Ghostblade Duo, Misty Rain's Chu Yuxiu and Li Hua, were all better than Team Hundred Blossoms in terms of All Stars. But in the end, they actually lost to Team Hundred Blossoms in this poll. From this, it could be seen that this sort of poll was like the All Star voting, lacking in professionalism and authority. Rankings didn't necessarily reflect a team's strength. Sometimes, it reflected the amount of attention and anticipation the team received.
Starting from September 1st, all team members were finalized. The transfer of big names, the exchange of ordinary players, or the promotion of newbies in the training camp had to be completed on September 1st. The team's name list would also be finalized on this day.
Heavenly Swords' Loulan Slash and the others hadn't played much online since the last week. Now that they were finally official members of a pro team, they naturally had to make some professional preparations for the upcoming matches. Last season, Team Heavenly Swords had been hyping themselves up with all sorts of topics. The results were quite clear. This new team, without any famous pro players, actually managed to get tenth place in the new Pro League rankings. This was the best result for a new team that had just entered the Alliance.
Along with Heavenly Swords, Team Time joined the Alliance. They weren't new faces. Team Time had been relegated in the seventh season of the Alliance. After participating in the eighth season's Challenger League, they defeated Team Everlasting, who had been relegated in the same year as them, and successfully returned to the Alliance.
The new season's name list had been finalized. The officials quickly announced the new season's schedule. From now on, each team would begin making strategic arrangements according to the schedule. At the same time, the new season's Challenger League wouldn't fall behind. At midnight on September 1st, registration for the Challenger League ended. In the end, there were 14218 teams participating in the Challenger League. There were 1000 more teams than last year. Naturally, the Alliance used this as a sign of increasing their influence.
These 14218 teams would be randomly assigned to fight each other in pairs. After various adjustments and adjustments, the final number of teams would be limited to 20. These were the teams that would participate in the offline competition. At this time, the competition format would change. It would no longer be a simple fight against each other. In order to ensure that only outstanding teams would remain, they would be split into groups and carry out an elimination round.
In the past, the Challenger League wouldn't attract too much attention. Even though the relegated pro teams would still have some fans, since they were relegated weak teams, they naturally wouldn't receive much attention.
However, this year was different. First, there was Excellent Era, a giant with three All Stars, in the Challenger League. Second, there was the recently talked about Team Happy.
These two teams' opponents in the first round were all paid attention to, especially Team Happy. After all, Excellent Era was an existence that took away the suspense of the Challenger League. Paying attention to who their opponents were was just a formality. Would anyone worry about Excellent Era because of their opponent's strength?
As for Happy, there really were people who were worried about them. However, most of them were hoping for a strong team to appear.
Happy had beaten the face slappers to a pulp. Now, in the Challenger League, those who had been slapped hoped that Happy would meet a strong opponent and quickly eliminate Happy. That way, they would have a place to vent their anger from being slapped.
However, there were a lot of teams called Happy. Searching through them really made you want to cry. However, the face slappers were tenacious. In the end, they found the Happy team they were looking for. At first glance, they saw Happy's opponent. Team: Worldwide Insomnia.
Worldwide Insomnia. The face slappers who came for Happy were all suffering from insomnia. This pretentious team name wasn't serious at all. It was obvious that their strength wasn't that great. Forget it, let's continue to the next round!
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