Pokémon: What should I do? My father-in-law always wants to tear me apart

After listening to Xia Menghui's explanation, everyone fell into a brief thought, with different expressions.

As expected, this year is the same as previous years. When the players are eliminated to the final 16, a free-for-all will be held to decide the champion.

The problem is that what is different this year is that before the main competition, that is, the qualifiers, are slightly different.

The first match was a one-on-one doubles match among approximately 1024 players to determine 512 of them.

Then, the 512 contestants were divided into groups of four, for a total of 128 groups.

Each group will be randomly matched and compete in a four-person team battle. The winner will advance to the main competition and the loser will be eliminated.

The most noteworthy thing is that the grouping here is completely random, which is different from the previous grouping by school.

In this case, we need to consider the cooperation between the players more. After all, it is unlikely that there will be tacit understanding when working with people you have never met.

At the same time, it also brings uncertainty to the competition. Even if the players are one level lower in strength, as long as they can do a good job of supporting and get the support of the big guys, they can still advance.

Likewise, if those strong players cannot cooperate with each other, they will most likely end up losing.

After this round of team battles, the main competition will begin.

128 groups were narrowed down to 64 groups, with a total of 256 people advancing. Then, just like the competitions in anime, the order was reshuffled and they played against each other in pairs until the final 16.

(I don’t know if it’s because my brain is still not awake this early in the morning, or if I’m just bad at math, but I spent half an hour thinking about this.)

“Compared to before, there are many new things.”

Lin Yi lowered his head and thought secretly.

"There has never been a doubles match before, and it even allows players who have never met to cooperate with each other. Even the setting of the resurrection match has been cancelled..."

As he thought about it, he looked at the crowd around him, feeling somewhat confused.

If it's purely random matching, is it possible that I might bump into someone from the same school?

On the other side, Mi Meng was typing frantically on her mobile phone keyboard at a very fast speed, until sparks came out of her hands, and she sent the rules to her sister.

Her face was excited and focused, and her fingers were moving rapidly, as if she wanted to convey all the information.

"I think you have digested it."

Xia Menghui stretched out a finger and said.

"I will send the detailed rules to the group later, remember to read it."

Hearing this, Mi Meng was stunned for a moment, with a look of surprise on her face.

Then her body began to stiffen with a slight crackling sound, as if the whole world had stopped.

If you hadn't told me there was a text earlier, my hands would have cramped from typing!

Mi Meng widened her eyes, her eyes filled with helplessness and regret.

She realized that she had just wasted so much effort. She could have easily read the text sent by Xia Menghui, but now she could only endure the pain in her hands.

Bitter washing --

"Today we won't do anything else but practice the first doubles match of the Little Phoenix King Cup. I guess you have never tried doubles before, right?"

Xia Menghui's voice fell on deaf ears. Judging from the silence of the crowd, her guess must have been correct.

He smiled, pulled a dozen postcards from his pocket and fanned them out.

"Come on, there are exactly as many postcards as your number. Those who draw the same number will form a group and fight in pairs."

Everyone looked at each other and stepped forward to draw postcards.

"Huh? I drew the super ball?"

"Then where is my high-level ball~"

"You're also a healing ball? Then the two of us are a team."

"Who has the first chance? Squeak!"

……

"Xiao Linzi, what are you?"

Ye Feng looked over curiously.

"Baitball, what about you?"

Lin Yi lowered his head and looked at the postcard in his hand with the blue and red bait ball printed on it. The workmanship was quite fine. If he wanted to collect the whole set, it would probably cost a lot of money.

"Bait ball? Too bad, I'm a diving ball."

Ye Feng muttered something and turned to look for his opponent.

Lin Yi raised his head and looked around, and was surprised to find that Ruan Yaoyao and Mi Yu were in the same group. What a coincidence.

Suddenly, a voice came from behind.

"Lin Yi, are you also a bait ball?"

"Hmm? Senyu?"

Lin Yi looked at the young man behind him with some surprise and smiled.

The young man in front of him was Senyu, who had previously asked Lin Yi to be his love strategist.

Although Lin Yi, the military advisor, didn't play much of a role in the end, it was still the big boss Ye Feng who stepped in to bring this young couple together.

"How are you and Tao Mengli doing lately?"

"How's it going? Hehehehehehe (o﹃o )"

As soon as Tao Mengli was mentioned, Senyu, who had been serious before, immediately showed his true colors. He stood there scratching his hair and grinning foolishly.

Seeing this, Lin Yi's mouth twitched.

Soon, everyone found their opponents and came to a special battle venue under the leadership of Xia Menghui.

By the way, Lin Yi and Ye Feng took the opportunity when Xia Menghui asked the staff for a venue to go to the infirmary to treat the injuries of Tornado and Charmeleon.

"Doubles?"

Lin Yi played with the postcard in his hand, looking at the boy on the other side, and pondered.

Now all the students have taken their positions on their respective battle fields, waiting for Xia Menghui to find a referee.

In fact, Xia Menghui had not originally planned to have everyone play doubles. This decision was made on a whim, otherwise he would have prepared the venue, referees and other conditions in advance.

Lin Yi remembered that Senyu had an octopus barrel that was quite powerful. Its double attack and racial values ​​were both 105, which made Lin Yi unclear about the route of this octopus barrel.

If it is a physical attack, Lin Yi will use the double intimidation of Tolcarnea and Gyarados to limit the opponent's output. If not, then he will consider other things.

After all, Lin Yi now has quite a few Pokémon. He has two dragon-type Pokémon, Fangy and Dragonite. He also has Pokémon with other attributes, so he doesn't have to worry about being restrained.

Moreover, while other rookie trainers had only captured 1 or 2 Pokémon, Lin Yi had already captured an entire team.

Although it takes much more energy than others, it has an advantage over others, which is that it can send out different Pokémon to form an advantageous position according to different opponents.

Soon, the referee arrived and suggested that the two of them play rock-paper-scissors to decide who would send out the Pokémon first.

If it were a formal competition, the format would change from rock-paper-scissors to random drawing, but since this is just a training exercise, there is no need to be so formal.

The two agreed, and the result of the rock-paper-scissors game was Lin Yi playing rock and Sen Yu playing scissors.

Well, this time I can safely confirm what kind of Pokémon the other one of my opponents is, which is a pleasant surprise.