When Happy's match ended, he didn't think that the other match in the same group would end even faster.
In this round, Team Mysterious Fantasy had a bye. The other match was between Team Trader and Team Cloud Xuan Pavilion. The strength of Trader's battle team was quite good. After winning 8: 2 against Ten Steps One Kill in the previous round, they were even bolder this round. They actually cleanly slaughtered Yunxuan Pavilion with a 10: 0 victory.
Thus, the two matches ended. In Group B, the Trader Battle Team was ranked first with 18 points. Happy and Team Mysterious Fantasy both had 9 points and were tied for second place. However, they had one less match than Team Trader. As for Ten Steps One Kill and Cloud Xuan Pavilion, they were pitiful. After two matches, one had 3 points and the other had 1 point. Their futures were bleak.
In the other groups that ended at the same time, Group A had Team Jade Dynasty, the so-called king of the revival tournament. It seemed that their strength was getting worse year by year. After two matches, even though they had 14 points and were in first place, they didn't display the strength that a pro team should have. Group A's situation wasn't clear yet.
As for the other half of the matches, Group C didn't have any pro teams, so they received the least attention. However, this group's matches were actually the most interesting. Because their strengths were similar, the matches between the two groups were very intense. The rankings were even more chaotic than Group A.
As for Group D … Excellent Era's strength couldn't be measured by their points. Getting all 10 points wasn't difficult for them at all. Their strength was reflected in the time they took to finish the matches. Their matches all ended within 20 minutes. It was like this for two consecutive rounds.
As a result, in the Monday edition of Esports Home, Excellent Era's overwhelming advantage in the Challenger League was reported under the headline "The Most Unsuspenseful Challenger League in History." As for the other groups, after the two reporters briefly mentioned the results, they lamented, "Do we need to care about these things?" These two had set their sights on Excellent Era's thigh and spared no effort in trying to ride on it. They were trying their best to curry favor with them.
As for Cao Guangcheng? Relying on his many years of connections and his identity as a reporter for Team Excellent Era, he opened a special column for this year's Challenger League. It was dedicated to reviewing Team Excellent Era.
Cao Guangcheng's comments were much calmer than the other two. He disdained to cheer at the top of his lungs like the other two. With the status and strength of the Excellent Era, wasn't it natural for him to have such a performance in the Challenger League? If the two of you are making such a big fuss, people who don't know will think that this is something new! Do you want to be sarcastic or slap my face?
Cao Guangcheng's comments were not focused on Excellent Era's victory in the Challenger League. After so many years of interviewing the Glory League, Cao Guangcheng had quite a bit of Glory knowledge. In his column, he mostly interpreted the matches and made the readers realize what an Excellent Era this was. Even when making comparisons, they would never use the teams in the Challenger League. Instead, they would use the strong teams in the Pro League as a reference.
This season, Excellent Era was actually one of the teams that had made a big move in the summer. Unfortunately, because they had sunk into the Challenger League, there hadn't been any reports on their technical and tactical aspects. But now, in the offline matches of the Challenger League, there was finally a special report. The tactics of the new Team Excellent Era were finally beginning to appear in front of the public.
As a result, Cao Guangcheng's column received great praise for its two consecutive episodes. However, Cao Guangcheng wasn't happy about this at all. Right now, he was more concerned about the two consecutive reports on Ye Qiu changing his name to Ye Xiu.
Cao Guangcheng had always thought that he was the reporter closest to Excellent Era, the reporter closest to Ye Qiu. But in the two reports on this incident, he wasn't involved at all.
In the first report, Cao Guangcheng could see that Excellent Era was using this incident to create pressure on Happy through the media. Cao Guangcheng was used to this kind of thing. But what made him depressed was that the two idiots were the ones who got the information. How did they find out about this? There weren't many people who could recognize Ye Qiu. If Excellent Era found out about this, then why didn't they contact him?
Compared to the first report, the second report from Happy's side made Cao Guangcheng even more depressed.
Ye Xiu, who was also Ye Qiu, actually accepted the interview personally? Even if you're the person involved! But in the past seasons, God Ye Qiu had always been the center of attention. When had he ever cooperated with the media like this? Why did he make an exception this time? And he even let that kid, Chang Xian, take advantage of it?
Cao Guangcheng was actually a pretty good senior. He had always been giving Chang Xian opportunities. But on that day, Chang Xian locked him out of the room and monopolized all the resources in the room. When Cao Guangcheng asked him about it, he just said, "It's nothing." And then, this guy actually got an interview with Ye Qiu …
"This kid …" Looking at Chang Xian's name in this issue of the Esports Home, Cao Guangcheng felt his teeth itch. In this issue, Chang Xian also commented on Happy's debut. Chang Xian didn't have as much Glory knowledge and foundation as Cao Guangcheng, but Happy had something to talk about! A Warlock with eight pieces of Silver equipment, a beautiful Battle Mage player, Qiao Yifan, who had joined Happy from the champion team Micrograss, and two people who hadn't appeared in this round: One was Deception, the guy who made countless people gnash their teeth in the Heavenly Domain, the guy who had made many teams want to recruit him, but had been rejected time and time again. Now, he had joined Happy? As for the other person, he was even more amazing. Sun Zheping! The former God who had made the three All Stars of Excellent Era call senior had also suddenly appeared in Team Happy. Looking through the information from the previous Challenger League, it could be confirmed that Team Happy didn't have such a member. But when it came to the offline matches, he couldn't be hidden anymore. A former God appeared out of nowhere. How many more aces did Happy have up his sleeve?
Cao Guangcheng couldn't help but admit that during the Challenger League, Happy was probably even more eye-catching than Excellent Era. Excellent Era's popularity mainly came from the attention and support of his original fans, but Happy used his fresh appearance to steal the attention of more neutral players.
The third round of the offline matches began the next day. In Group B, Team Mysterious Fantasy was up against Ten Steps One Kill, Team Happy was up against Trader, and Team Cloud Xuan Pavilion had the bye.
Against the two non-professional teams, Ten Steps One Kill and Cloud Xuan Pavilion, Team Trader had obtained a grand total of 18 points, displaying the valiance of a professional team. But in reality, this team wasn't strong enough to be a pro team. They were able to perform so well in the first two rounds because of their mentality.
Group B had Mysterious Fantasy and Happy. It was publicly known as the group of death. With these two teams locked in, the other teams were destined to be cannon fodder. They didn't have a chance. At the end of the day's drawing, the three teams in Group B all felt as if they had lost their parents.
But after this, Team Trader actively adjusted their mentality. Even if it was the group of death, they didn't give up facing opponents that they couldn't shake. In the first two rounds, they faced the other two cannon fodder teams in the same group. Team Trader displayed an even more proactive style. Compared to them, Ten Steps One Kill also used their usual strategy of guarding points against Trader, which didn't seem to be using their brains at all. With the situation in Group B, if they had any intentions, their three teams would have to do their best to crush the other two teams as cannon fodder. Then, when they faced off against Mysterious Fantasy and Happy, they would adopt a defensive strategy and sit back and watch the two tigers fight. Only then would they have a chance to win.
If Ten Steps One Kill didn't see the situation clearly and only guarded points, they would only end up as cannon fodder.
As for the proactive Team Trader, after two rounds, they already had a pretty good grasp of the situation. Next, they just needed to steal points from the two strong teams and then see how the two teams matched up against each other.
Team Trader had a great opportunity. Their players were in exceptional condition. In their match against Happy, they actually suppressed Happy with a score of 7 to 3.
The entire match was filled with twists and turns. Of the eight matches that day, this was the last one to end. But none of the teams that ended their matches early left. Everyone was attracted by this intense battle …...
The final team competition lasted for an entire hour and a half. When the results were announced, the six members of Team Trader crazily rushed off the stage and hugged their seventh member tightly. Like Ten Steps One Kill, Team Trader also had seven players. However, their seventh player wasn't just there to make up the numbers. He also had considerable skill. The final victory made the seven of them laugh heartily. They had done it. They had taken seven points from Team Happy. Their chances of advancing were very good.
The other match in Group B had already ended. Team Mysterious Fantasy won 10 to 0 against Seven Steps One Kill. They didn't give them any chances. After three rounds, Group B's Team Trader had won three rounds and had accumulated 25 points. They were the leaders of the group of death for two consecutive rounds. Their morale was incomparably high. Team Mysterious Fantasy had obtained 19 points in two rounds, which was what people expected of a pro team. On the other hand, Team Happy had originally thought that they would be a strong team, but in the end, they had only obtained 12 points.
This result actually caused the stadium to erupt in jubilation. Team Happy had never been popular, especially in a place where Excellent Era's fans gathered. They had been waiting for Happy to fail for a long time. But in the end, from the very beginning, the ones who had been slapped in the face were the fans. But now, in such an important offline competition, Happy had failed miserably. To them, this was even more exciting than Team Excellent Era obtaining 10 points.
The stadium was filled with jeers and jeers. Happy's six players, who had just finished the team competition, walked down the stage with their heads lowered. Chen Guo looked at Ye Xiu beside her. Her feelings were complicated.
In the team competition, Ye Xiu actually didn't arrange for her to go up. This made Chen Guo feel abnormally uneasy. But in the end, her premonition didn't come true. Happy had failed in the team competition and lost a large amount of points. How would Ye Xiu feel right now? Was he regretting that he didn't go up? Would he blame himself?
Seeing everyone come down, Chen Guo took the initiative to welcome them. She gave everyone a round of applause: "Everyone played very well."
"Don't talk nonsense ….." Ye Xiu's voice came from behind, "If you played well, you wouldn't have lost."
"You ….." Chen Guo turned her head. She was really a bit angry. How could this guy still be so direct at a time like this?
In the end, she saw Ye Xiu ignore the rule of not smoking in public places. He lit a cigarette and handed it to Wei Chen, who was walking down the stage: "Are you okay?"
"I'm so f * cking tired ….." Wei Chen took the cigarette and put it in his mouth. He directly flipped over to the side of the seat.
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