Chapter 1 Glory!

When the words "Glory!" ultimately flashed across the screen during the team competition, Zhang Yiwei collapsed completely in his seat.

Although he had already seen the passivity of Xuanqi in the team competition and anticipated this kind of ending, there was always a glimmer of hope for a miracle in his heart until the very end. It wasn't until this moment that Zhang Yiwei truly felt disheartened.

This season's Challenger League had the Jia Shi team, which was a considerable blow to their chances of entering the professional league. The Xuanqi team had actually already prepared to participate in the Challenger League for another year. But now, they were eliminated without even facing the Jia Shi team, which was a bit unreasonable. Zhang Yiwei was the real backbone of Xuanqi; success meant the greatest credit, and failure meant inescapable responsibility. Moreover, this battle fully exposed the weakness of the coach's control over the situation under the current competition system. Zhang Yiwei felt that his future was much bleaker than that of the Xuanqi team.

The players from both sides left the stage one after another. The Xuanqi players consciously gathered around, only to find their coach sitting there in a terrifying silence, without saying a word. The others didn't dare to make a sound, and could only lower their heads one by one, waiting silently. Meanwhile, beside them, the Xing Xin team's player seats were naturally filled with laughter and cheers.

At the same time, in the audience, the few Xing Xin supporters and Ye Qiu's fans were shouting excitedly. Over in the media area, Chang Xian was so excited that he almost jumped on the table.

"We won, Xing Xin won, Brother Cao!" There were many media reporters around, so Chang Xian didn't dare to be too presumptuous. He just grabbed Cao Guangcheng next to him and eagerly shared his joy.

"Hehe, not bad." Cao Guangcheng squeezed out a smile. This round, Xing Xin actually took such a large score from Xuanqi, ensuring their elimination, which was actually a bit of a surprise to him. Could this Xing Xin really create some crisis for Jia Shi?

Cao Guangcheng couldn't help but feel a little uneasy. But looking at the other colleagues, they were quite happy about Xing Xin's advancement. It's just that their psychology was very different from Chang Xian's. Chang Xian had developed feelings for the Xing Xin team, and he sincerely hoped that this team could go further and further. As for the other reporters, it was all because they were looking forward to a match between Ye Qiu and Jia Shi, a match full of talking points, so they didn't want Xing Xin to be eliminated too early.

"10 to 0, Xing Xin finally defeated the Xuanqi team with such a large score. I think this result will surprise many people, right? But I have to say that this is a result that is completely in line with the trend of this game. The Xing Xin team is the biggest surprise of this season's Challenger League. Two professional teams have already fallen into their hands. What kind of expectations will their future journey bring us? Let's wait and see!" Over on the TV broadcast side, the commentator was giving the final summary. On the scene, some of the other seven games had already ended, and those that hadn't were almost over.

The final rankings of each group will be completely determined today. The electronic screens used for the broadcast displayed the scoreboards of each group in four directions. The teams that still had a chance were now at their most tense moment, but all of this had nothing to do with the Xuanqi team. After watching their coach Zhang Yiwei stare blankly for a long time, they finally heard instructions from the coach.

"Let's go!"

Zhang Yiwei got up and calmly greeted the players.

Criticism? It was too late to do anything about it now. Encouragement? He would wait until he had determined his own future first! They didn't even make it out of the group stage. Zhang Yiwei knew that this was definitely not an answer sheet that would satisfy the boss. Especially the many problems exposed in this game, whether he could still stand with these players would be a big question mark for their Xuanqi team.

The Xuanqi team left silently like that, and not many people noticed the departure of these losers. The audience was watching the remaining games while paying attention to the scoreboards of each group. Group B was the first group to determine the final qualifying situation, with Xing Xin in first place and Cao Pan Shou in second.

The second group to produce final results was Group D. Jia Shi's first place in this group was already locked in, and the full score of 40 further demonstrated Jia Shi's absolute advantage in the Challenger League. The suspense in this group was only in second place. As the last two games ended, the second team in Group D was determined, a team called Chu Shu.

The third group to clarify the situation was Group A. Zhu Xian team took the first place in the group with a not-too-large advantage, and the second place was a team called Liao Yuan.

And this team, according to the competition system, will be the next opponent of the Xing Xin team, which took the first place in Group B.

Group C had not ended for a long time, but not many people cared. There was the Jia Shi team in this half of the zone, and no one would think that the final result of Group C could affect Jia Shi's chances of advancing.

The top eight teams were finally decided on the same night, and the match schedule for the next round was automatically generated as a result.

The following Challenger League will continue the elimination system, with a single game determining the winner, regardless of home or away, and the game maps are designated by the organizer, all of which are specially made by the Glory game party for the event. It will be held once a week, and the final champion will be decided after three weeks. As for the competition method, it is a brand-new competition system, which will be used for the first time in the elimination stage of this offline competition.

The new competition system reduces the original three stages of the game to two stages. The individual competition is cancelled and changed to the stage competition and the team competition. However, the scale of the stage competition will be enlarged, from the original three-on-three to five-on-five.

The scoring method is a brand-new head-counting method.

For example, in the stage competition, if someone is domineering and mighty, and defeats all five opponents by himself, then his team will eventually get five points. If two people play and sweep the opponent's five people, they get four points; three people get three points, four people get two points, and five people get one point. If five people play and fail to sweep the opponent, they lose and get no points...

In the team competition, the number of characters left in the team is the final score obtained by the team, one point for each head.

The scores of the last two rounds are added together, and the one with the higher score wins.

Because of the change in the scoring method, this competition system is considered brand new. After the league revealed it, experts pointed out that this will cause a change in the Glory's tactics. Compared with simply pursuing the ultimate victory in the past, in this competition system, players need to consider more things, and the game will become more complex and the content will be richer. Overall, the commentators who are standing and talking without back pain appreciate this new competition system very much. However, for the actual participants - professional players, changing existing habits is always a troublesome thing, so whether the competition system is changed for the better or for the worse, they will not be too welcome. It's just that when it's changed for the worse, they can resist it with reason and evidence, but for this competition system that they can't find any faults with at the moment, they can only adapt to it silently.

The league's plan is to try using it in the Challenger League offline competition first to see the effect. If it's suitable, it will be introduced into the playoffs of the professional league. As for whether the competition system of the regular season should be changed, it will be studied further.

The new competition system is not a secret to surprise everyone, so when studying the plan early on, the league ran to major professional clubs to collect opinions, so as not to abruptly come up with a rule and cause resistance. Now that the plan can be taken out, it can be seen that there will be no resistance from the professional clubs. As for these player teams in the Challenger League, their words are insignificant, and of course they can only comply with the competition system.

Because of the addition of head points, the new competition system will indeed make the game more complicated, as experts have said. However, no matter how complicated the game is, it must ensure the victory of the game as a prerequisite. Stage competition, team competition, two rounds of competition, if you can win both, then you don't need to calculate any head points to know who the winner is.

The role of head points is only highlighted when each side wins one of the stage competition and the team competition. And to think that head points are only to determine the winner in this case is a bit too simple to see this competition system. If you can't determine the winner, you can add an additional game. The league doesn't mind having more games to provide more viewing. Otherwise, what's the point of having two rounds? Just one round of the team competition to determine the winner would be clean and simple.

The reason for not doing this is naturally because singles matches are also a popular game format that cannot be abandoned. As a result, this old competition system that strings together various game formats has created a situation where the game is killed in advance, especially last season when this phenomenon occurred even in the finals, which finally made the league determined to make changes.

Theoretically speaking, the new competition system may also have this phenomenon. For example, if you take all 5 heads in the stage competition, and then in the team competition, kill the opponent's two heads, then the game will end in advance.

However, the possibility of this theory is extremely low. In the professional league, it is rare to see a player defeating three opponents in a row in the stage competition. To defeat five opponents in a row, dare not say that it is absolutely impossible, at least the possibility is extremely low. Not to mention five points, four points, and three points are extremely difficult to get in the stage competition, after all, the stage competition is in a 1-on-1 background, and the game environment is absolutely fair. In the end, getting 1 to 2 heads should be the most common situation.

The team competition is different. In fact, it is easier to get head points in the team competition than in the stage competition. Because in the team competition, the fair situation only lasts at the beginning. When the number of people on the disadvantaged side begins to decrease, the disadvantage will be continuously magnified. It is quite common for the advantage side to eventually retain two, three, or even more heads. On the contrary, the tragic situation of only one person winning is quite rare.

In addition, the team competition itself is participated by six people, which is one more head than the stage competition. Considering so many factors, if you only get 1 or 2 head points in the stage competition, the impact on the team competition situation is actually not too great. In other words, the new competition system has a considerable decisive effect on the team competition. But if you want to have this decisive effect, the premise is that the stage competition cannot be too relaxed. In this way, with the front and rear pincers, the viewing and competitiveness of the game have been greatly guaranteed, and the possibility of killing the game in advance has been minimized. The league is full of confidence in the new competition system, and the final eight teams remaining in the Challenger League are fortunate to be the first to try this latest competition system.