Master of Trading Star Card Game

Chapter 187 Group List

The previous team competition system is that all teams play a big round in the regular season, and finally count the winning points ranking.In the eleventh season, due to the increase in the number of participating teams, the league divided the team competition into upper and lower halves. Therefore, the list of groups has become the focus of everyone's attention.

After clarifying the competition system, the official competition director will announce the group list soon.

Before the announcement of the groups, the contestants had a heated discussion in private. Shan Lan leaned into Master's ear and asked: "Master, do you think we will be divided into the upper half or the lower half?" Nie Yuandao said calmly: "Anyway, not It will be shared with Nirvana."

As soon as the voice fell, a group list appeared on the screen.

The upper half is Group A. There are old clubs Fenghua, Ghost Prison and Frost City, and six second-tier teams. Among them, the more famous teams are Phantom Team and Sanctuary Team. Xie Mingzhe has never heard of the remaining four teams. Pass.

In the lower half of Group B, the established clubs include Judgment, Pantheon, and Night City. Other teams, like Terminator, Peak, Wolf Clan, Glory, and Moon Night, are all second-tier teams that have never made it to the playoffs.However, Nirvana, which was just established this year, has attracted much attention due to the fame of Xie Mingzhe and Chen Xiao in the Masters.

Shan Lan: "..."

He shouldn't have asked the master so cheaply, he knew what the master said with a crow's mouth.

Nirvana and Judgment were not only assigned to the same district, but also the first match of Group B!

Xie Mingzhe really didn't mind which teams were in the same region. Anyway, in the regular season, he had to play a round-robin match with all the teams. However, he only played one game with the teams in the same region, and had to play two games with the teams in the same region.

After announcing the group list, the tournament director followed up with announcing the schedule for the regular season from April to June.

Seeing the dense schedule, Xie Mingzhe couldn't help feeling nervous—in April, there was a round-robin within the group, and he specifically selected Nirvana. Nirvana's most recent team match was scheduled for April 4, which is three days later At 4 o'clock in the evening, the opponent was a very strong verdict in the same district; followed by the battle against the Temple of Gods on April 4, the opponent on the 4th was Dark Night Capital, it was simply a powerful three-game battle!

After beating these three strong teams, although the next opponents are all second-tier teams, the schedule hardly gives them any time to rest and adjust. They will play one game every other day, and the entire group cycle will end on April 4. , enter the stage of the outer loop.

The first opponent in the outer circle of the group is the giant Fenghua of Group A...

Does the person who arranged the game in the league have a grudge against Nirvana?What a nightmare schedule!

Xie Mingzhe looked at Chen Xiao, leaned into his ear and said, "This schedule is a bit like a roller coaster. At the beginning, we challenged three strong teams in a row. After a few days of smooth transition, we started to challenge the three strong teams of Fenghua, Ghost Prison, and Frost City in a row. Team……"

Chen Xiao said calmly: "It's okay. Anyway, these powerful enemies will be encountered sooner or later. If we encounter them earlier, it will be convenient for us to learn lessons and adjust our tactics as soon as possible." He pointed to the first game on the schedule and said, "Follow This scene of the adjudication, you command."

Xie Mingzhe had a bitter face: "I have no confidence in beating God Nie!"

Chen Xiao said: "My style is too similar to God Nie. If you play head-to-head, you won't be able to win against the Judgment. You still have to rely on your wonderful tactics. Try to see if you can win a point from the Judgment."

Xie Mingzhe touched his chin and said, "How about we go back and discuss it with Master?"

Chen Xiao said: "Well, I will send the schedule to my brother and ask him to prepare it in advance!"

Xie Mingzhe nodded, and decided to go back and discuss the detailed plan with Master.

Immediately after the announcement of the schedule for the team competition, the schedule for the individual competition was announced.

Due to the large number of players who signed up for the individual competition this season - Nie Yuandao, Ling Jingtang, and Zheng Feng, these old players who made their debut before the third season actually all signed up; there are also great masters who have won individual championships, Tang Muzhou, Fang Yu, Liu Jingxu, Shan Lan, Pei Jingshan and other new-generation players were not absent. In addition, Xu Changfeng, Zhen Man, Ye Zhu, Xu Xingtu and other runner-up winners, almost all players with names in the alliance have signed up. Say it's star-studded!

Xie Mingzhe was blinded by the row of names, and couldn't help complaining in a low voice: "What happened this year? Did so many players sign up for the individual competition? It's twice as many as in the tenth season!"

Hearing his muttering, Tang Muzhou explained with a smile: "The league has been established for ten years, and the No.11 season can be regarded as the beginning of a new stage. It is normal that there are many applicants for the individual competition."

With so many great masters, it is not so difficult to win an award.

Fortunately, the individual competition is also divided into regular season and playoffs, which is consistent with the team competition. After finishing the regular season in the first half of the year, the most important playoffs will be played in the second half of the year. Therefore, Xie Mingzhe still has a long time to hone his skills and awareness.

There is no grouping in the individual competition. The competition system of the first stage is similar to that of the Masters. There are ten games drawn by lottery, and each game is two out of three games. Those who win more than six games will enter the next stage. After the top 32 are selected, it will be a group round robin. In the end, two people were selected from each group to form the top sixteen to play the playoffs in the second half of the year.

In the first stage, there were hundreds of players from all over the league who signed up for the competition. Apart from the masters, Xie Mingzhe was quite confident in winning the other players. It should not be difficult to win six out of ten games.The most difficult thing is that in the top 32 stage, four out of four teams will advance to two in the group stage. If you are in a group with a particularly powerful master, you have to kill the master in the same group if you want to qualify...

Xie Mingzhe rubbed his swollen and painful temples, no matter how he looked at it, he felt that his future was bleak.

Only one step at a time.

No matter what the final result is, it is always right to prepare carefully for every game. Anyway, when he comes to play the game, the most important thing is to make more people like his cards. It doesn't matter even if he can't win the championship, as long as he is worthy of himself and The fans are enough.

***

After the meeting, since Xie Mingzhe had said that he would take the initiative to treat guests to dinner, Tang Muzhou gave him an idea to invite him to a buffet. There is a hotel nearby that has a good buffet, and the form of buffet can also cater to the tastes of different players.

A group of people came to the hotel in a mighty way, chatting while eating.

Someone treats guests, of course everyone will not be polite, and they pick up the dinner plates one after another to forage.

Shan Lan took the initiative to find Xie Mingzhe, and asked with a smile: "The first team match is to fight our judgment. Will you take out Qin Keqing? My peacock is ready to hang itself."

Xie Mingzhe rubbed his nose with a dry smile: "Shen Lan was joking, please be gentle when the time comes, don't let us lose too badly."

Shan Lan said: "You don't necessarily lose, don't be humble."

The two were polite on their lips, but they didn't know what to do in their hearts.

It stands to reason that an old club like Judgment would beat a rookie like Nirvana 2:0, but the key point is that Nirvana has Chen Xiao, a player with first-class manipulation and awareness, and Xie Mingzhe's weird cards and creative...

If you switch to any club, you dare not guarantee that you will win Nirvana.

Other clubs are waiting and watching. After all, everyone knows the other old opponents. There is only Nirvana deck in the league, which is still unknown.

Lingshen from the Temple of the Gods in the same group, and Team Pei from the Night City also came to say hello to Xie Mingzhe and the others. They sat at a table to eat, and while chatting, took a look at the new cards and scenes of Nirvana.

Yu Ke is relatively short, and Ye Zhu's height is less than 165cm, so the "Alliance Double Short" consciously got together and chatted while holding cakes.

Ye Zhu pulled Yu Ke and said, "Our Dark Night City submitted five scene maps this year, all of which are newly developed and very interesting. What about you? How many have you submitted?"

Yu Ke said proudly: "We submitted dozens of G!"

Ye Zhu: "..."

Gui Sirui, who was passing by, pricked up his ears when he heard this, and immediately came over with a plate, smiled and held out his hand to Yu Ke: "Hello, Xiao Ke, I have been following your ghost cards for a long time, and you also like horror ghosts very much." Is it the style? We can leave a contact information and exchange horror film resources."

"Do you have the resources?" Yu Ke's eyes lit up, and he immediately left his contact number to Gui Sirui, thinking to himself, this great god really has no airs at all, and he is easy to talk to.

Gui Sirui sent Yu Ke a bunch of resource packs on the spot, all of which were horror movies and horror novels, and then pretended to casually ask after sending them out: "I just heard you talking with Xiao Zhu, you have made a lot of new maps, right? "

"Well, dozens of G!" Yu Ke happily sorted out the resources sent by the other party in his optical brain.

Gui Sirui was full of surprise: "It's so big, how many are there?"

Yu Ke scratched his head with a smile, and said, "There are so many, I can't even count them."

Gui Sirui: "..."

Ye Zhu: "..."

The little guy seems innocent, but he is actually quite clever, and he refuses to disclose any key information.

However, Gui Sirui and Ye Zhu were a little scared by the dozens of G maps he mentioned—how many maps did Nirvana make?It seems that this season, the Nirvana team, which has newly joined the league, is likely to become the most difficult dark horse to deal with.

***

The afternoon is for the press conferences of the major clubs. The league has arranged a unified conference room for the major clubs to hold press conferences in batches. Of course, the press conferences of the first-tier clubs are full of reporters, but Nirvana, a newly established team, The popularity is actually not weaker than other veteran teams.

When Xie Mingzhe, Chen Xiao, Yu Ke, and Qin Xuan came to the Nirvana press conference, they saw a large number of reporters waiting here, and the four of them were a little confused. They all looked up at the sign at the door to make sure they had gone the wrong way. .

After finding out that he was right, Yu Ke said nervously: "There are so many people! I don't know what questions will be asked, what should I do if I don't know how to answer them?" Qin Xuan said calmly beside him: "You just need to be the background board to answer the questions. Just leave the matter to Ah Zhe and Brother Chen." Yu Ke felt that it made sense, so he took a deep breath, followed Xie Mingzhe with a smile on his face, and minimized his sense of existence.

After all, Chen Xiao is a person who has seen big scenes. After entering the venue, he picked up the microphone and said with a graceful smile: "Hi everyone, we are the four professional players of Nirvana Club. If you have any questions, please be orderly." Raise your hand and ask."

Immediately, a girl raised her hand and said, "I heard that there are a lot of teams participating in the team competition this year. As a new team joining this season, Nirvana, what is your goal?"

Chen Xiaodao: "There are so many masters in the professional league. Our goal in the first half of the year is to try our best to qualify in the team and individual competitions and enter the playoffs."

While their real goal is to win a trophy, saying that from a new team just comes across as cocky.Advance to the playoffs in the first half of the year, and then go all out in the second half of the year to win an award, step by step.

Immediately afterwards, another reporter asked: "The schedule of the team competition has been released on the official website. I found out that Nirvana's opponent in the first team competition is Judgment. How much do you think the odds of winning this match are?"

Chen Xiao transferred the microphone to Xie Mingzhe, and Xie Mingzhe said frankly: "The ruling is a very strong opponent, but we will not sit still, we must prepare well when we go back. This is our first team match in Nirvana, no matter what the final result is, Everyone will definitely do their best, and it will be a teamwork exercise."

Xie Mingzhe's words were impeccable, and his teammates praised him behind his back.

The reporter followed up and asked: "Has Nirvana submitted a self-made map this season? I heard that Nirvana Club does not have a professional map research and development department. Will you suffer a disadvantage in terms of home maps?"

When the staff of the official map department, program department, and card department who were watching the live broadcast heard this, they all wanted to beat up the reporter.

Will they suffer on the map?What a joke!

The dozens of G maps completed by our three departments collectively working overtime to review are absolutely killing people and not paying for their lives!

Xie Mingzhe picked up the microphone, smiled slightly, and said modestly: "We have made some home maps, which have passed the official review, but compared to other clubs, the maps we made may not be as good. Competition, I hope the audience can be more tolerant to us, thank you."

Official staff: "..."

Just pretend!The last sentence is the point.Be more "tolerant" to your wonderful maps, so you have to accept the settings of cards to conceive and have children, cards to fall in love, cards to accompany the elderly to go shopping, etc.?

In the following question-and-answer session, some reporters also expressed curiosity about the new face Qin Xuan, but because Qin Xuan's face was paralyzed the whole time, he only answered the reporter's questions briefly with "yes" and "yes".It was Xie Mingzhe who looked friendly and answered all the questions he could answer very seriously, so the reporters crowded around and asked questions around Xie Mingzhe.

Since this press conference was a pre-match interview, the reporters were relatively gentle and did not ask too many sharp questions.It's just that after the press conference, there were a lot of reports about Nirvana on the Internet, and there were many posts on the forum, predicting the result of the team match between Nirvana and Judgment.

"Nirvana is so miserable, I met a boss like Judgment in the first game!"

"Xie Mingzhe and Chen Xiao are good individually, but the team competition is about cooperation. Nirvana's team competition is not strong!"

"Nirvana's situation in Group B is difficult. The support rate in the first team match is less than 30%. The schedule is arranged to challenge strong teams continuously. It can be called a nightmare schedule. I feel that their mentality will be broken in the first round of the regular season!"

"Nirvana encountered a ruling in the first game, what kind of answer will the fans give? I think 0:2 is more likely!"

The so-called "analysis posts" posted by reporters in the competition area of ​​the forum collectively sang Nirvana, which really made Yu Ke angry.

After reading these posts, Yu Ke couldn't help but said: "Isn't there a wise media that supports us in Nirvana to kill the verdict? Maybe we will be upset 2-0!"

Chen Xiao rubbed his head: "You think too much, how is 2:0 possible? Judgment's team battle is really strong, and Lao Nie is very calm and excellent in command. It is difficult for our new team to win in team battles. ruling."

Xie Mingzhe echoed: "That's right, team battles require cooperation, unlike individual battles, Nirvana's current support rate of 30% is considered relatively high. If you change to another new team to play against an old team, it is estimated that the support rate will be low." Less than 5%."

Yu Ke lowered his head and looked frustrated: "Then what do you mean, we will lose in the verdict?"

Xie Mingzhe smiled slightly: "That's not true. What we mean is, be prepared to lose, and then - try to win a game!"

Chen Xiao agreed with this very much, and said: "Prepare for the worst, and the final result will make us not too uncomfortable. This is called the lower the expectation value, the more surprising it will be."

Yu Ke complained: "You are the upper body of Captain Pei, what kind of philosophical dialectics are you learning!"

Chen Xiao raised his eyebrows: "Is what I said unreasonable?"

Just as he was talking, Chen Qianlin opened the door and came in. Chen Xiao immediately shut up, suppressed his smile, and pretended that he was a very serious person.Chen Qianlin glanced at him, raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and said, "Are you all back? There will be a meeting in the next meeting room in 5 minutes, so don't be late."