Valentine's Day was also the New Year … It had only been a few days, but everyone's lives were back on track.
Before the seventh day of the New Year, Xiao Tan and Xiao Ling returned from Europe.
Feng Bujue asked Xiao Tan why he didn't bring his wife on a honeymoon. Xiao Tan told him, "Actually, if you love the right person, you spend Valentine's Day every day." Then, Brother Jue used a beautiful combo on Xiao Tan that you might not even see in a fighting game.
Later, Feng Bujue heard from Ruo Yu that there were two reasons for this. First, most of the relatives and friends of the two families were present at the wedding. Everyone had a happy gathering, so they didn't have to visit relatives this year. Second, around the end of the year, the probability of all kinds of supernatural phenomena would increase greatly. This meant that … Jiu Ke would be very busy. Therefore, Xiao Tan, who had just joined Jiu Ke as an "intern", was called back by Chief Gu. He followed Bao Qing and Qi Zhi to "practice learning".
After saying these two objective reasons, Ruo Yu added, "Besides, as long as the couple is in love, every day is a honeymoon. Haven't you heard of the saying, 'Actually, if you love the right person, you spend Valentine's Day every day'?"
Feng Bujue heard this and immediately complained, "When you guys said this line so confidently, you should know that you're just quoting the lyrics, right? And that song is called 'Happy Breakup'! Also … you're the one who has the least right to quote this sentence, okay? You haven't broken the seal, so why are you talking about love with me? "
After he said that, Ruo Yu used a beautiful combo that you might not even see in a fighting game.
…
In short, the New Year passed in such a harmonious atmosphere.
During the Lunar New Year, the Dream Company was closed from New Year's Eve to the sixth day of the Lunar New Year as announced in advance.
Originally, Feng Bujue didn't think there was anything wrong with the game company taking a holiday during the New Year. However, after talking to Ruo Yu, and considering what she said, "The probability of all kinds of supernatural phenomena happening around the end of the year will greatly increase" … this holiday seemed more reasonable.
No matter what, at midnight on the seventh day of the new year, Thriller Paradise, Crazy Thoughts, and Dream Company's online shops reopened on time.
At the same time, the announcement that was released at the end of last month and had been on the front page of the official website, "The preliminary rules for Thriller Paradise's Tournament for the Best S3 will be announced after the New Year," was finally replaced.
What replaced it was an explanation of the Tournament for the Best S3.
The "mixed individual and team long-distance competition system" that all the major studios had been pondering for nearly a month had finally surfaced.
Just like the previous two times, the competition format this time surprised everyone once again.
First, the players had to form a team to participate in S3. Each team was limited to seven people, and there were no substitutes.
Secondly, there was no preliminary round for S3, or rather, the "preliminary round" had already started at a time that no one was aware of.
It was almost a year after the game was released that the Dream Company announced a shocking setting. Actually, since the earliest closed beta, Thriller Paradise had a built-in "hidden score" mechanism. This mechanism would give each character a score based on their 'performance' in the scenario, and this score … this score that the players themselves had no idea about was one of the important factors that the system used to generate the scenario. In other words, it was directly related to the difficulty of the scenario that the player was assigned to.
The "hidden score" was different from the "Player Combat Ability Ranking" and the later "Overall Player Ability Ranking". For example, 'a level one player killing a strengthened zombie with his bare hands' and 'a level fifty player using everything he had to fight a mini boss solo', other factors like level, equipment, and skill aside, the difficulty was similar from the perspective of the players involved. Even though from the perspective of 'combat ability' and 'overall ability', the two players were far apart, the Hidden Score that they would get would not be that different.
Other than that, the Hidden Score was calculated based on the average score and not the total score. It did not mean that the more scenarios one cleared, the more points one would get. Based on the Dream Company's attitude, this score was the most accurate way for the system to judge a player's overall ability because it had nothing to do with equipment or skill. It was purely based on the player's' performance '.
Of course, the players who were high on the ranking would not have a low Hidden Score. Even if a large part of a professional player's' actual ability 'could be supported by a studio, if the player's ability was not good enough, naturally, they would not get so many resources.
Then … turning back to the fact that there was no preliminary round, it was easier to explain.
Different from the previous two competitions where there was a 'threshold' and a 'preliminary round', this time, as long as one crossed the 'threshold', they would enter the semi-finals.
And the threshold was' the total Hidden Score of the seven players in a team is more than five hundred '. As long as a team fulfilled this condition, they would enter the elimination round directly.
What kind of concept was this' five hundred points'? Based on the data released by the Dream Company, excluding the players below level ten whose score was still unstable, the average Hidden Score of the players in Thriller Paradise was sixty-two points. As long as one's Hidden Score was higher than this, they would be considered to be above average.
Looking at it this way, even if there were seven players who were above average, the total Hidden Score of the team would be 434 points. Of course, that was not enough to qualify for the competition.
To participate in S3, the average Hidden Score of the seven players in a team had to be at least 71.43 points. Since the Hidden Score was not counted as a decimal point, it was basically seventy-two points per person.
Compared to S1 and S2, the 'threshold' this time was, in a way, lower. If there was someone in a team with a very high Hidden Score, for example, someone with a Hidden Score of more than one hundred points, then the requirement for the rest of the team would be relatively relaxed. This allowed those with a Hidden Score of less than seventy-two to participate.
After the threshold, it was time to move on to the competition format.
The competition format of S3 was very simple. It was a knockout competition. In every round, all the participating teams would face off against each other in pairs. The losing team would be directly eliminated, while the winning team would advance to the next round. The last remaining team would naturally be the champion.
The matchup was' completely random '. In other words … even though the probability was low, there was still the possibility of' Regulation VS Brahman 'in the first round.
Also, if there were an odd number of teams in any round, then after the random matchup, the team that was left behind would automatically advance to the next round.
Such a rule … undoubtedly increased the chance of a lot of accidents. It was very likely that the strong professional teams under the Workshop would encounter each other in the first round and one of them would be eliminated, while some teams of casual players would rely on defeating opponents who were weaker than them, or get a bye … to go further than the strong teams.
Regarding this, the major gaming studios would have some complaints, but on the other hand, the majority of players would be happy to see this happen.
There was a type of game in this world that relied on squeezing one percent of the money out of the hardcore players. The gameplay of this type of game was secondary; the player's experience was completely dependent on the amount of money invested into the game. Other than those who had invested a large amount of money into the game, the remaining ninety-nine percent of casual players were one of the features provided by the gaming company for the hardcore players. For games like this, the gaming company did not need to consider the casual players' experience or opinion. After all, after raking in some quick cash, they would close the server, change their shell, and release a new game.
But … Thriller Paradise was not that kind of game.
After the competition between S1 and S2, the Dream Company realized a problem. In the competition, the 'sense of participation' of the normal players was too low.
Based on the previous competition format, most of the non-professional players would have been eliminated in the preliminary round. Other than the extreme exception like Underworld Frontline, the other casual players … be it individual or team, even if they entered the semi-finals, they would be eliminated in the first round. In other words, from the semi-finals onward, the competition had become a battle between the various gaming studios and the professional players.
Even though this was normal, and the players liked to watch these kinds of high-level competitions, the Dream Company still felt that … changes had to be made.
Therefore, this new competition format, on the basis of ensuring that the standard of the participating players was higher than average, gave the ninety-nine percent of casual players a lot of room to perform. The principle of 'the strongest team will win' did not change. The difference was … this time, all kinds of teams, casual players, and weirdos who had trouble advancing to the next round under the previous format had a chance to enter the competition.
Finally, let's talk about the actual format of the competition.
The Tournament for the Best was like its name. Starting from S1, the main theme of the competition was combat, and this year was no exception.
S3 would use a duel format similar to S1's Battle of the Butterfly and the format of the Team Tennis Tournament.
In other words, there would be three rounds of singles and two rounds of doubles. Best of five.
The first round would be a 1v1 'Vanguard Battle'.
The second round would be a 2v2 'Backbone Battle'.
The third round would return to the 1v1 format, and it would be called the 'General Battle'.
At this point, if one team had won three rounds, then the competition would be over, and there would be no need for the next two rounds.
If there was still no winner, then the fourth round would be the 2v2 'Lieutenant Battle'.
If the first four rounds ended in a 2v2 tie, then there would be the last round — the 'General Battle'.
In that case … seven people would be needed to complete the five rounds.
Other than that, even though the order of the five rounds was fixed, the position of the members could be changed every round. For example, the vanguard in this round could be the general in the next round, or they could play in the doubles. There were no restrictions. However … the lineup for each round had to be submitted within ten minutes before the start of the competition. Once the lineup was confirmed, it could not be changed.
At this point, a lot of people had probably thought of this … Everyone had heard of the story of 'Tian Ji's Horse Racing'. If one could guess the opponent's lineup before the competition, then it was not impossible for the weaker team to defeat the stronger team. Similar to S2, the matchups for each round would be announced the day before the competition. This was the time for both teams to engage in information warfare and lineup games.
That was pretty much the first round of information about the Tournament for the Best S3 that the Dream Company had announced.
This time, the first thing Feng Bujue did was to go through the related rules, but after he finished reading it, a problem appeared before his eyes. Underworld Frontline currently only had six members, so where was he supposed to find the seventh member?
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