Chapter 1068 Gathering Momentum

Over at Happy, they had no idea about the commotion at Excellent Era. But after recognizing Qiu Fei, Ye Xiu naturally confirmed the origins of today's opponents. In this confrontation with these members of the training camp, who could be considered quasi-professional players, the Happy team hadn't lost out at all.

Wei Chen didn't need to be mentioned; even if he was older, his years of experience were enough to deal with training camp-level players.

As for Tang Rou and Baozi, they started playing Glory when the tenth server opened, and they were already at this level. Their progress could be described as shocking.

Defeating Excellent Era's training camp was a morale-boosting event, and Ye Xiu naturally wouldn't hide it. Although Happy's undefeated record had finally been broken in this battle, given Happy's overall winning streak, the face-smacking party was too embarrassed to make a fuss about a mere two victories.

On the contrary, through this series of duels, players with some skill and insight finally had a clearer understanding of Happy's strength. In the past, those who came were always bullied, and it was sometimes hard to see how strong Happy really was, only seeing that the players they were up against were weak.

But now, facing quasi-professional opponents from Excellent Era's training camp, Happy's players had done their best. Their strengths and weaknesses could finally be understood by ordinary players.

Although many people still insisted that even with this level of skill, defeating Excellent Era was wishful thinking, the air of arrogance had weakened considerably.

This kind of strength was indeed far from comparable to Excellent Era, but at least it was enough to issue a challenge. If you were thrown into a pile of regular players, you'd already be undefeated. What else would you do if you didn't attack the pro scene?

More and more voices were leaning towards Happy. However, the vast majority of these were simply looking forward to seeing Excellent Era suffer. In the spirit of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," they were helping Happy, but they couldn't be considered true supporters of Happy. However, there were also people who genuinely supported Excellent Era.

On the last day of the free event, when Chen Guo came to Happy Internet Cafe to oversee the final arrangements, one of the cafe's customers actually said "Good luck" to the Happy team.

Just one cheer.

Chen Guo wasn't sure if it was sincere, or if it was just because of the free internet access, but this one word was enough to move her to tears.

Two weeks! In the beginning, they were practically reviled by everyone. When Ye Qiu was exposed and the internet cafe was besieged, Chen Guo was even a little scared.

But today, they finally received a "Good luck." Although she couldn't be sure of the other person's intentions, this was truly the first blessing that Happy had received from ordinary players. This was what they had fought for, braving the pressure of being the villains for two weeks.

Faced with countless jeers, they used victory after victory to powerfully strike back.

Although mocking and sarcastic voices would still be common, this one ordinary cheer gave Chen Guo the courage to keep going.

August 31st. Happy's free internet event ended, and the new season of the Glory Professional Alliance was about to begin. In fact, the new season's matches wouldn't start until Saturday, September 6th, but the transfer window would close completely at 0:00 on September 1st.

Those wealthy teams that players were highly concerned about didn't seem to be making any big moves as the summer transfer season came to a close. Whether it was Blue Rain, which had lost Yu Feng, or Tiny Herb, which had lost two all-star players in a row. After Tiny Herb acquired Xu Bin from 301, everyone had been hoping that these two would continue to make a strong reinforcement. Who knew that until the transfer window closed, players wouldn't find any transfer news about these two on the official website. Both guilds had only made some minor adjustments. What everyone was expecting was a big transfer!

Looking back at the entire summer transfer season, the most eye-catching team was undoubtedly Tyranny. Lin Jingyan's transfer, coupled with Zhang Jiale's comeback, paired with the original Han Wenqing and Zhang Xinjie, left all the spectators dumbfounded. Clichéd titles like the Four Heavenly Kings were immediately used. Tyranny undoubtedly became the team with the highest expectations of winning the championship in the new season.

Next was last season's champion team, Samsara. As with the tradition of champion teams, there were no major changes in personnel. All of the first-team players were retained, but the all-star grappling character, Zhan Yi Luanfei, acquired from Tiny Herb, undoubtedly provided a strong reinforcement for their team. But no matter what, Samsara's label as a one-person team was still too obvious. Last year's postseason was a triumphant march all the way to the championship. Although the entire team performed outstandingly, Zhou Zekai's crucial performance would always be the first thing mentioned. As a result, not many players were optimistic about the champion team's defense of their title. In particular, some of the more knowledgeable veteran players knew what kind of trouble a team like this would fall into if its ace player underperformed. Although Zhou Zekai's flawless performance this season gave many people confidence for the coming year, in the official website's new season championship prediction poll, Samsara lost to Tyranny, ranking second.

Subsequently, Blue Rain and Tiny Herb were predicted to be third and fourth, respectively. Although they had each lost all-star-level players, and had not made any major reinforcements, their paper strength did seem to have declined. The prediction rankings for these two in the poll were a fairly accurate representation of everyone's expectations for these two teams.

After that, it was necessary to mention Team Howling and Team Hundred Blossoms.

Both of these teams, whether they were transferring in or out, had been in the spotlight this summer. With the attention, and after another look, the teams organized by the two looked quite decent. Howling had Tang Hao, the best rogue player of the new generation, and the perfect combination with the number one rogue character, Tang San Da, as well as Zhao Yuzhe, last season's best rookie. He would definitely be reused in the new season, and there was also Fang Rui, an all-star player who was familiar with the team. The new season was truly something to look forward to.

Although Team Hundred Blossoms had released Tang Hao and Dazzling Hundred Blossoms, they had acquired Yu Feng and resurrected the number one berserker, Fallen Flowers Wolf Fang, recalling countless old fans of Hundred Blossoms to the glorious era of Team Hundred Blossoms. Because of this topic, Team Hundred Blossoms actually achieved a good prediction ranking. But in fact, looking closely, Team Hundred Blossoms only had Yu Feng as their only all-star player. The Ghost Duo of Void, Chu Yunxiu and Li Hua of Misty Rain, had more all-star players than Team Hundred Blossoms, but in this prediction vote, they actually lost to Team Hundred Blossoms. It could be seen that this kind of prediction vote, like the All-Star selection, was somewhat lacking in professionalism and authority. Ranking didn't necessarily indicate strength, sometimes it reflected the team's popularity and expectations.

Starting from September 1st, all team personnel were finalized. Whether it was a big transfer, a common player exchange, or a newcomer from the training camp being promoted to the team, on September 1st, they had to be completely registered. The team's roster would also be officially determined on this day.

Team Yizhan, led by Zhan Lou Lan, had stopped playing online games in the last week. They were finally official members of a professional team, and of course, they had to carry out some professional preparations. And Team Yizhan's various publicity stunts during the previous season were still quite effective at this time. A new team with no famous professional players joining it actually got 10th place in the new league's prediction list, which was the best result predicted for a new team entering the alliance.

Along with Yizhan, the new team entering the alliance was Team Time. This wasn't a new face. Team Time was relegated in the seventh season. Through participating in the eighth season's challenger league, they ultimately defeated Team Wuji, who had been relegated with them in the same year, and successfully returned to the alliance.

All the rosters for the new season had been determined, and soon the official schedule for the new season would be announced. From this moment on, each team would begin to strategically plan according to the schedule. At the same time, the challenger league event for the new season wouldn't lag behind. The deadline for challenger league registration was 0:00 on September 1st. In the end, a total of 14,218 teams participated in this season's challenger league, more than 1,000 more than last year, which was naturally used by the alliance as a sign of further increasing influence.

These 14,218 teams would be randomly assigned to fight each other. After various adjustments and adjustments, the teams would eventually be locked at 20. This was the quota for teams that would participate in the final offline competition. At this time, the competition system would also undergo some changes and would no longer be a simple one-on-one battle. To ensure that the final teams left were outstanding teams, a group ranking elimination round would be held.

In previous years' challenger leagues, this kind of situation would definitely not attract too much attention. Although the relegated pro teams would have some fans, since they were relegated weak teams, they naturally wouldn't receive much attention.

But what was different this year was that Excellent Era, a behemoth with three all-stars, was crouching in the challenger league. Second, there was Team Happy, which had been the subject of much discussion recently.

The first round opponents of these two teams were given some attention, especially Team Happy, after all, Excellent Era had simply deprived this challenger league of suspense. Who their opponent was, taking note of it was just a formality. Would anyone worry about Excellent Era because of the strength of their opponent?

As for Team Happy, some people were really worried. However, the vast majority hoped for a strong team to appear.

Happy had been slapping the faces of the face-smacking party, leaving them in a sorry state. Now in the challenger league, the people who had been slapped in the face were all looking forward to Happy meeting a strong opponent so they could quickly eliminate Happy. This way, they would have a place to vent their grievances.

However, there were many teams called Happy, and searching for them was really tear-inducing. But the face-smacking party had a strong will, and finally found the Happy they were looking for. Looking at Happy's opponent, team: World Wide Sleeplessness.

The whole world didn't have insomnia, but all the face-smacking party who came to Happy had insomnia. This pretentious team name wasn't serious at all, and their strength obviously wasn't good. Forget it, let's continue to the next round!

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I'll be going to the Qidian annual meeting in the next few days, so updates may be a little less frequent.