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Chapter 782 Chapter 319 The Secret of the Knockout Competition
"Chef Milne, this is Lanji. As the person in charge of Lanji's second grade, of course I have to come and see what kind of performance my students can perform in world-class competitions." Markus said loudly Said.

"Haha, yes." Milne nodded, "I took a look, and the three players from your school all performed well. Bayer has the strength to challenge for the championship."

"Catherine is also good, Mr. Orens and I are very optimistic about her." Marcus said.

"That's for next year too. There are quite a few powerful players in the top half." Mills shook his head, "Especially the Eastern player in Group A."

"Chef Milne, that contestant is Bage from Oriental Academy, of course he is very capable." Marcus explained.

"East? That's no wonder."

"There are three students from Dongfang and three students from Lanji in this venue. To some extent, this is also a competition between the two schools." Marcus said.

"There's no way around it. Dongfang, Lanji, and Lanji have always been ranked in the top two. It's just that Lanji has won more awards in the world in recent years, so it has a vague momentum of surpassing Dongfang." Milne said.

"Actually, in addition to Dongfang and Lanji, there are students from several schools who have achieved good results in the preliminaries." Orens explained.

"Really? I don't see it."

"In this competition, Yuanyue Academy also has two... no, three students, and they made it to the top [-]. It is equal to the number of Dongfang and Lanji. Chef Milne, aren't you surprised? ?”

"Ah? Yuanyue Academy? You don't mean the school that is undergoing changes right now?" Milne said in surprise.

"That's right, that's the school."

"Three students actually made it to the finals?" Milne still felt incredible.

Natalie was also a little surprised. She knew that Zheng Ke was a student of Yuanyue Academy. As for the other two, she really had no way of knowing.

Marcus walked to the window and looked down on the field.

"Hata Zhongying of Group B joined Yuanyue Academy after Nakiri Ji became the head coach, and is currently the fourth seat of the Yuanyue Ten Elites. Ye Qiuling of Group D, who just graduated from Yuanyue Academy this year, once served as Yuanyue Ten Chief Jay."

Milne moved his gaze following Marcus' fingers.

"Also, Zheng Ke, the fifth seat of Yuanyue Ten Heroes. By the way, last year, he competed with your daughter in a competition, and I served as the judge. To be honest, his dish made me feel very fond of Yuanyue Academy. There have been some changes, but I didn't expect him to enter the-blue finals." Marcus said softly, stroking the stubble that had just emerged.

"Really? Then he is very pitiful. He made an exquisite dish, but he still lost to Catherine." Milne said as a matter of course.

"No, no, I didn't say he lost the game, did I?" Marcus asked back.

"Ah? You wouldn't say that Catherine lost, right? Impossible, she is the strongest in her age group." Milne turned his head away, "Catherine will not lose to anyone."

"Actually, at that time, he was only good at Chinese cuisine, so the food he cooked was also Chinese food. In comparison, I liked Catherine's food better, so I gave it a tie." Marcus couldn't help but A smile appeared.

"Wait a minute...you mean you gave the rating because you liked Catherine's cooking?" Milne's face wrinkled.

The meaning of Marcus's words is very obvious. Catherine actually lost the competition.

"Don't be nervous. That's because Catherine didn't use her full strength. I heard that in the subsequent competition, Catherine won again." Marcus waved his hand.

"That doesn't work either, Zheng Ke...Which one is Zheng Ke?" Milne scanned the twenty people with his gaze.

Marcus pointed to Zheng Ke who was cooking beef, "That's him."

Natalie stuck out her tongue secretly. She was thinking about how to make Milne interested in Zheng Ke just now.After all, several other people are also quite good.

The sudden appearance of Marcus solved this problem, but the development of the matter seemed to be completely opposite to what Natalie had imagined.

At this moment, Zheng Ke had no idea that there were four people above the audience watching his every move.

He pours the freshly prepared sauce into a sauceboat (a metal container shaped like a boat that holds the sauce) and turns over the marinated steak.After the smell of seasoning entered the beef, Zheng Ke turned on the fire again and poured in salad oil.

"The player you are talking about is him?" Milne looked at Zheng Ke, "The basic skills are not bad, and it seems that he has a good grasp of the heat, but this dish is relatively common."

"It's just a group match, as long as you don't get eliminated." Orens waved his hand, apparently disagreeing with Milne's statement.

"Mr. Orens, you are wrong to say that - the results in the group stage are also a symbol of strength." Milne retorted.

"Chef Milne, let me ask you something. Do you think the grouping of the knockout round is regular?" Orens suddenly changed the question.

"The players in groups A and C are selected from the highest to the lowest, and the players in groups B and D are selected. Is this the rule?" Milne said uncertainly.

Orens shook his head, "Chef Milne, I admit that your cooking is very good, but sometimes you have to go one step further. The grouping in the first round of the knockout round will determine the opponent in the second round."

"Of course I know." Milne still didn't understand the meaning of Orens' words.

"The knockout rounds of the top [-] will be divided into upper and lower half-zones, and the winners of the two half-zones will meet in the final. Similarly, each half-zone can also be divided into two districts, and the winners of the two districts will be in They met in the semi-finals. Therefore, if you want to win the championship, the semi-finals are one hurdle and the finals are another hurdle.

"Let's take the upper half as an example. There are four groups of opponents in the first round of the knockout round. Among them, the winners of the first and second groups meet in the second round. Similarly, the winners of the third and fourth groups also meet. Meet in the second round. In order to ensure the excitement of the game, usually No.1 and No.4 of Group A will be divided into the first and second groups; No.2 and No.3 of Group A will be They are assigned to the third group and the fourth group. If all goes well, No.1 and No.2 in Group A will meet in the third round of the knockout round, which is the semi-final.

"In order to improve the final ranking as much as possible, each player must avoid meeting No.1 in the second round as soon as possible. Therefore, other players in Group A and C do not want to become No.4. And B, D Although the players in the two groups do not have the right to choose their opponents, they can try to avoid them as much as possible.

"Under normal circumstances, the promoted players in groups A and C will choose their opponents in reverse, No.1 will choose the weakest opponent, No.2 will choose the next weakest opponent, and so on. That is to say, the two groups of B and D The members want to get good results as much as possible, and getting the first place is not their best choice, because although he avoided the strongest person in the same half in the first round, he will definitely meet in the second round .”

Milne nodded, "That is to say, in the two groups B and D, the most advantageous seats are the second and No.3."

"That's right, that's why the players in groups A and C are cooking hard because they don't want to be No.4, while the players in groups B and D are controlling their cooking because they don't want to be No.1 and No. .4." Orens wiped his sweat and finally explained the matter clearly.

　I don't know if everyone understands the grouping, but I admit it's a bit messy.But I don't know how to describe it more clearly.In fact, the format of the knockout round can be referred to the knockout round of the Football World Cup. After the first round of matches, basically, it can be determined that there is no need to PK with those opponents, because they are no longer in the same half.

　　The competition of 16 players is basically sixteen to eight (1/8 finals), eight to four (quarter finals), four to two (semi-finals) and finals.The semi-finals will determine the strongest player in the same half.But for the viewing pleasure of the game, it is impossible for the most powerful people to meet each other at the time of 1 to 4 or 1 to 4, otherwise, the excitement of the semi-finals or finals will be affected.Therefore, usually No.2 will be with No.3, and No.[-] will be with No.[-]. This is somewhat similar to the NBA playoffs. After the round, under the premise that there is no dark horse, the first will play against the fourth, and the second will play against the third.

　　This is the situation now, how to avoid No.1, at least not before the semi-finals, can ensure that you can go further.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)