According to convention, the first thing the teams did after entering the arena was to introduce their teams, starting with their background, qualifications, and battle records.
Everyone here is a top-tier team, each with a glorious battle record. If I really had to make a fuss, I could make a fuss. But in order not to have my legs broken by the readers, I chose to skip this long paragraph.
After the team introductions were over, the nine qualified teams entered the arena one after another and sat in their seats.
The rules of the competition were the same as before.
For the sake of fairness, the competition would use a random draw system. The system would randomly choose two teams to compete.
However, every team had the right to challenge the team they wanted to challenge.
After the nine teams took their seats, the host on stage announced the start of the competition.
At the same time, the arena lights dimmed, and two pillars of light descended from the sky, landing on the positions of the teams.
"Wait!"
Just as the pillars of light were about to start the random draw, a voice suddenly rang out in the arena.
Everyone looked in the direction of the voice. The lights turned and landed in the direction of the voice. They saw Wade press the challenge button with one hand and point at Wang Yu and the others with the other. "We, the freelance team, want to challenge! We want to challenge Ragtag Team. "
"Whoa …"
Wade's words were met with boos in the arena.
Everyone knew that the Motley Crowd Battle Team was the only Battle Team that had qualified as an amateur amongst the nine Battle Teams.
As the name implied, the amateur team was just for fun. Compared to the professional team, they were naturally much weaker.
Such a "weak team" was definitely the weakest of the nine teams.
The teams present were all famous experts in the industry. As experts, they naturally had to have the dignity of an expert. Not bullying the weak was the basic principle of an expert.
If they were randomly assigned to an amateur team, then there was nothing they could do about it. The system was the best arrangement, so they could just treat it as a lucky day.
But to challenge an amateur team just because they were a professional team was a bit disdainful.
What was a challenge? A challenge was a fight against a stronger opponent out of confidence in one's own strength.
If the opponent's strength was far inferior, then what kind of challenge was that? That was bullying! Only those who were not confident in their own strength would use the weak as a stepping stone.
Bullying noobs was a despicable behavior in the eyes of ordinary players. Now that it had appeared in a top-tier professional competition, it was truly shocking.
Even the various pro players who were also part of the finalists didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"The freelance team is still as promising as ever. They actually challenged the amateur team. This is the funniest thing I've seen this year."
"I really don't know what this stupid donkey Wade is thinking …"
When the Pantheon members saw Wade jump out to challenge the motley crew, they also sighed. "What a brainless guy."
"He's not brainless." Rocky, the instigator, sneered, "If you didn't know that the Grandmaster of Combat was very strong, would you have challenged him in your shoes?"
"This …"
Hearing Loki's words, Uranus and the others were speechless.
It was human nature to bully the weak. Everyone wanted to be a gentleman because they couldn't bring themselves to do so. Of course, in Western culture, the gentleman should be changed to a knight. Actually, who didn't want to enter the next round easily? They just didn't have a good reason to convince themselves.
The freelance team was not a bunch of idiots. Of course, they wouldn't just be used like that. The reason why they jumped out to challenge the motley crew was entirely because someone had stirred up a fire. With a reason to beat them at their own game, the responsibility could be completely pushed to Pantheon in the end.
Rocky said they were very strong, that's why we challenged them … Wade had probably prepared dozens of such reasons.
Otherwise, wouldn't it be better for the freelance team to directly challenge Pantheon?
Never treat others like fools, because when you treat others like fools, you will become a fool.
"See, I told you so."
Being challenged by a freelance team was something expected.
As the parties involved, the motley crew was mentally prepared to be challenged yesterday. So when Wade named them to be challenged, everyone was not surprised at all. It was all expected.
Wade had taken the initiative to provoke them yesterday, obviously to prepare for today's challenge to the motley crew.
…
After the booing, everyone's eyes fell on the motley crew.
The host also asked on the stage, "I wonder if the motley crew will accept the challenge?"
According to the rules of the competition, the challenged party had the right to refuse the challenge, but the vast majority of battles would not do so.
This was a world-class competition, watched by billions of players around the world. Wouldn't they be ridiculed by the world if they did not dare to accept the challenge?
However, the motley crew did not need to care about such things. After all, they were originally the weakest amateur team. In this case, even if they refused to accept the challenge, it would be excusable. After all, no one wanted to be someone else's stepping stone, right? Who knows, they might even get a bye this round.
"Nonsense! Of course I'll accept the challenge! "
Just when everyone thought that the motley crew would reject the freelance team's challenge, Wang Yu did not even think about it and directly clicked accept the challenge.
"Wow!"
Seeing this scene, the audience boiled up again.
The eSports industry had developed for decades, and it was the first time that an amateur player was challenged by a top professional player. It was even more unheard of for an amateur player to accept a challenge from a top professional player.
How long had it been, and they had completed two historical achievements.
Everyone had seen the motley crew's previous matches. The audience had always held a disdainful attitude towards this amateur team.
It was not because of their strength, but because the way they played was really disgusting.
It was hard to imagine that such a group of trash could actually participate in a world-class professional league. If they had not seen how they defeated their opponents with their own eyes, everyone would have thought that this group of people had used their connections with the gaming company to get in through the back door.
One could imagine the reputation of such a team.
However, after Wang Yu decisively accepted the freelance team's challenge, everyone's original view of the motley crew suddenly changed.
Whether an athlete was great or not wasn't determined by their success or failure, but by their actions.
Knowing that the opponent was a top professional player, yet still daring to accept the challenge, this kind of spirit of facing difficulties and never giving up was the mentality that sports conveyed.
They could be defeated, but they would not admit defeat.
As a result, the motley crew's previous actions were seemingly forgiven by everyone.
In comparison, the freelance team that challenged amateur players as professional players seemed increasingly insignificant.
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