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Over the years, the first week of September has always been the most anticipated, but this has nothing to do with the Challenger Tournament. The Challenger Tournament itself is for teams that have not yet entered the league, as well as some teams that have been eliminated from the league. Usually, teams that meet either of these conditions will not have many fans, so naturally they will not make any waves. Everyone still pays attention to the start of the new season of the league.

This year is different.

In the eighth season, the two teams that were eliminated with the last and second to last rankings were Jia Shi and Xuan Qi.

The Xuanqi team has never been a strong professional team, and it is common for them to jump back and forth between the regular season and the challenge season.

Excellent Era is different.

The powerful team that once won three consecutive championships and almost dominated the league not only never won the championship again, but even fell to the challenge tournament.

There is no need to say much about his fan base. The number of passers-by who are concerned about the future direction of this once glorious team is greater than the number of people who paid attention to the challenge match in the past.

The Excellent Era team, which had three all-star players, should have been a dominant force in the challenge tournament. Fans were expecting a cool plot along the lines of "Thirty years on the west side of the river, thirty years on the east side of the river, don't bully the young and poor", but in this script, a villain that was originally not played by anyone suddenly appeared in front of the public.

The person who came was a "nobody", or rather, a team of "nobodies".

The fledgling Internet cafe team has attracted much attention.

The arrival of the Excellent Era team may have caused a surge in the number of people paying attention to the Challenge Tournament, but not many Glory fans are really worried about the safety of Excellent Era. Although it is not as good as before, it still has three all-star players on the team, and teams that have been eliminated for many years, such as Xuanqi, cannot pose any threat at all. The outcome of the Challenge Tournament seems to be a foregone conclusion.

The appearance of Happy made everyone really start to pay attention to the progress of the competition. They were not worried about Happy being eliminated - they were actually hoping for this. Most of the audience was praying as if they were waiting for the draw for their home team's regular season match, praying that Happy would run into a strong team from the professional league in the first round and be immediately eliminated.

The teams received their first round draw results on Thursday night of the first week of September. The online part of the challenge tournament uses a single-elimination system to save time and effort. This draw will be repeated for multiple rounds until only 40 teams remain, marking the end of the online part. The offline part uses a group ranking elimination system, striving to ensure that the gold content of the championship can be recognized by the public and the alliance.

Offline competitions are a matter for the future. A failure in online competitions can make all efforts go to waste. Of course, Xingxin’s black fans are looking forward to this defeat.

In order to gloat over their misfortune, they even flipped through more than a dozen pages of search results on the challenge tournament's official website before they found the Xingxin team they were looking for.

When the haters saw the opponents that Xingxin would face in the first round, they immediately lost their anticipation. Just by looking at the ID of the opponent team, they knew that this was a team of players who came here to make fun of them. Why would they need to watch tomorrow's game?

Su Lan and the others had been sitting in front of their computers refreshing the webpage five minutes before the match list was released. When they saw that the name of the opposing team was not Excellent Era, nor any familiar name, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Regardless of their overall strength, it would be better to just get through the online competition without much trouble.

It's not a bad idea to occasionally have one or two decent opponents to practice with along the way.

After confirming the opponent's information, Su Lan and the others didn't actually need to make any preparations. They just used the professions of the opponent's team to talk about common lineup routines and response plans, providing Tang Rou and the others with an idea that they could learn from.

After seeing the unserious name "The Worldwide Insomnia Team", Chen Guo went straight to pay attention to their future powerful rival - the Excellent Era Team.

There are quite a few teams with the same name as Jia Shi in the Challenge Tournament, even more than those with the same name as Xingxin, but the ones with the same name as the former are definitely intentional.

Fortunately, the exposure of the Jia Shi team is still very high. The fans' recent continuous clicks have pushed the genuine Jia Shi team to the top of the search results, which is very convenient.

It is convenient for Chen Guo and others to do basic investigation.

Although it is called a survey, in fact, you can only see the basic information of the team, as well as the registered character names and occupations on the official website.

"Battle format, who is this?" Chen Guo was flipping through the Excellent Era roster and saw a character name that she had no impression of.

When I looked at his profession, I found out that he was a battle mage.

It must be said that everything has its limits. Before Chen Guo completely turned into a Jia Shi anti-fan, she was an ultimate Jia Shi fan. She remembered all the players on the list who were brought up from the second-tier substitutes, but this battle format was not among them.

"Oh, this is Qiu Fei." Ye Xiu took a look and found that ID very familiar to him.

"That youth training player? Has he been promoted to a regular player?" Chen Guo remembered the duel between Tang Rou and Qiu Fei. This youth training player was indeed amazing.

"He's probably just an intern." Ye Xiu explained, "You don't have to register as a professional player for the Challenger League. He may not have a contract yet, but was just brought into the team to test the waters."

"It seems like you take him seriously?" Chen Guo nodded thoughtfully.

"Maybe he wants him to use his emotional strength as a trump card against Old Ye." Su Lan interrupted.

"Alas, I lost that coaching match." Ye Xiu pretended to be regretful.

This was just a joke. Excellent Era had no choice but to promote Qiu Fei. During the transfer period, Xiao Shiqin came to Excellent Era, and Liu Hao and He Ming also left. In addition, Guo Yang chose to transfer to the Howling Team at the end of August. Excellent Era lost a total of three players. No matter how good Xiao Shiqin was, he couldn't make up for the three vacancies, and he couldn't play repeatedly.

Why not buy more players? Excellent Era is not without the financial resources, but does it need to buy more players to supplement the number of players for a challenge match?

In addition to bringing up the second-line substitutes to make up the numbers, we can also try out Qiu Fei, the top star of the youth training camp.

Judging from Excellent Era's strength on paper, there would be nothing to lose by allowing Qiu Fei, a youth player who had never played in a professional competition, to gain some experience.

"I've written the room code for the arena here, don't forget it." Su Lan picked up a whiteboard marker and wrote a combination of numbers and letters on the whiteboard at the front of the training room.

The online competition of the challenge is held in the arena in the game. The game has specially divided new areas for eligible characters to join. After that, each team enters the room code they will receive before each game, and the system will automatically arrange for the characters to enter.

Of course, there are seats for spectators in the room, but other than that, there are no real referees online. The system automatically reviews the images and judges the winners.

Since the system judges according to rigid rules, the time requirements for online competitions are also very strict. For example, in the first game, Xingxin encountered the Worldwide Insomnia Team, but they lost because several members overslept and missed the game, allowing Xingxin to get off to a good start without any effort.

As for this game that ended before it even began, the people in Xingxin were not really excited. Tang Rou and the others, who had been expecting the tension of a professional arena, were greatly disappointed.

"This is not a professional arena." Su Lan reminded, receiving sharp nods from Ye Xiu and Wei Chen.

This wasn't a professional competition, but it was an online challenge match. It had been like this for years, and half of the teams were eliminated for ridiculous reasons like this. Excellent Era was in a similar situation, and the teams they met didn't even think about coming to compete. It was more like a fan meeting.

As soon as the singles match started, the opponent's character put away his weapon and ran over to take a photo with Yi Ye Zhi Qiu. Sun Xiang had never seen such a scene before, and he interacted with the fans in a helpless manner. After the other party was satisfied with the interaction, he immediately clicked the "forfeit" button, and it was the next person's turn to take a photo with Mu Yu Cheng Feng, the second player to appear in Jia Shi.

The same is true for the ring match.

The team competition is slightly different, as we take a group photo.

Jia Shi finally won the first game easily.

The haters who wanted to see rivers of blood were greatly disappointed.