During the day on March 25th, various battle reports about the early morning round were released one after another.
Among them, the hottest topics are mainly three
1. Winning a match against an old enemy.
Both sides of the competition are among the top ten studios in the industry. Naturally, both the winner and the loser revealed a lot of news and related interviews after the game.
Second, they were swept by the dark horse.
A spokesman for the studio also admitted after the game that after losing Xu Huaishang, they were a little bit behind on the popular project "Thriller Paradise". There is still a long way to cultivate new aces and it will take time.
Third, who exactly are they?
This issue is of greatest concern to the majority of players now, but this mysterious team does not accept any form of interviews or communication, nor does it speak out through any channels. As a result, the media can only rely on fabricated nonsense and attention-grabbing headlines.
Reporting on them also makes the situation of this team even more confusing.
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At midnight on the 26th, the matching list for the fourth round was announced on time.
In this round, a total of 3339 teams participated, and the number of teams is still an odd number, so one team will still have a bye, and the remaining 3338 teams will fight against each other.
In this round, in addition to those seeded teams, many teams that performed well in the first three rounds...such as this kind of team...their matching situation has also become a concern.
And this... is exactly what Dream Company's operations department is looking forward to seeing.
The "completely random" matching mechanism is to allow casual players to get more opportunities to advance and show themselves; at this stage, this plan has been successful.
Compared with the previous two competitions, in S3, the sense of participation and participation of ordinary players have significantly improved... It is conceivable that when people see that such teams have been eliminated one after another, and many of them are at the same level as themselves (at least some
When a grassroots team is still advancing, the emotion of "I can do it if I can" is bound to rise, and this emotion is the catalyst that inspires people to become more invested in something.
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March 26th, evening, 11:55.
In five minutes, the fourth round of Peak Contest S3 will begin.
This round, there is only one focus battle, but there are two things about "matching" that need to be mentioned.
Let’s talk about the second thing first: I got a bye in this round.
This is indeed something worth mentioning, because no seeded team has had a bye in the first three rounds.
Of course, no one thinks this is a shady story... Since it is "completely random", it is only a matter of time that a seeded team gets a bye. Furthermore, from the perspective of ordinary players, it is a matter of time for a strong team to get a bye.
A good thing, after all...whoever encounters them will be unlucky.
Then, let's go back and talk about the first thing, that is, the two sides and the "focus battle".
These two teams are both teams that have reached the S2 finals, and they are in the final four of the S2 era with and... Therefore, the attention of this game is no less than that of vs. in the first round.
Since the s3 competition format requires the number of players to be expanded to seven, the lineups of both sides have also changed in this competition.
Let me talk about that first, although it is an outside studio, it has been stationed in Thriller Paradise for so long, so it naturally has a lot of local fans... Considering that most of the male fans come here for the four leading girls,,,
I definitely have to join the team with these four.
In addition to them, he naturally has to occupy a position. Not only is he the brains of the team, he is also among the top three in the team, so there is no reason to sit on the bench.
As for the remaining two vacancies... everyone in the original "Warring States Team 2" is interested in fighting for it; this is understandable, because the four of them were beaten badly in S2, so they all went to the battle to avenge their shame.
desire.
However, only one was selected in the end; the reason for his selection was not because he was stronger than the other members of the second team, but because he majored in reconnaissance and joining would make the team's structure more reasonable.
The player who became the seventh player in this competition, whose ID is... is a newcomer that the studio has trained since the S2 period; his positioning is somewhat similar to that of Guixiao, both are seventeen-year-old geniuses.
Players are also the ones we plan to focus on training in the future.
The above is the personnel configuration of the team.
Next, let’s talk about this…
The "Five Tigers" from the S2 era are all here this time, and... not a single one is left behind.
Some people may wonder why the old man who was originally used to "make up the numbers" is here again this time?
Let's put it this way...two reasons: first, because Lao Zhen is very popular (this reason is unexplained). Second, because today's Zhen Lao Shi... can indeed be used as a "strategic weapon"
to use.
As mentioned before, after S2, Lao Zhen has become a god-level figure in the joke world (there are also god-level people such as Brother Chun, King, Satan, Bucky the Clown, Chuck Norris, etc.)... I don’t know the reason, anyway.
99% of the players are willing to believe that he is strong and unfathomably strong.
The analysis teams of major studios also know very little about the upper limit of Jean's strength, ability characteristics and other information. Reasonable guesses and a large number of jokes make it difficult for them to make accurate judgments.
Of course, there are people who understand, such as Feng Bujue and Gui Xiao... However, they all choose to remain silent about the strength of Lao Shi; Brother Jue forgets it, and Gui Xiao, a professional player, even talks nonsense to the company.
, said, "I can't even see through the strength of Lao Shi," which made the people behind the scenes panic.
All in all, it is beyond reproach for those who can reach this level of gang paddling...
In addition, in addition to the "Five Tigers", the two new members are also old faces.
The first one is...that's right, the guy who won the S1 championship.
As we all know, Xiao Ma was originally a player in the studio, and everyone also knows the name of this "arsenal" in the e-sports circle. It stands to reason... After winning the S1 championship, Xiao Ma should be sold by them at a high price.
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However...the embarrassing thing is that no one bought him.
The reason is very simple. There are big differences between buyers and sellers on price; although Xiao Ma has a championship title, most of the studio's analysis team believes that from the actual performance, this single-minded guy is not
Worth the asking price.
On the other hand, there is no rush; anyway, their studio signs young, unknown, potential players, and the contracts they use are short-term and low-remuneration. Since no one buys them, they will keep them.
Just use it.
Therefore, Xiao Ma stayed in S2 until his contract was about to expire, and the studio felt that... something was wrong. If we don't sell him, he will become a free man.
But it would be difficult to sell him at this time... Everyone knows that the basic guarantee of the contract is extremely low, and its only attractive feature is the "transfer share" clause.
It’s a win-win situation for both the studio and the players, but the buyer has to be responsible for footing the bill.
To put it simply, the players who stay in this studio have a future, but they have no "money path"; the purpose of their hard work is to "get sold"... Once they are transferred, they can not only go to
Buying their studio will earn you a high salary, and you will also receive a considerable one-time transfer fee dividend.
However, Tianma Xingkong is a special case... When his value was at its highest, the buyer and seller could not reach a consensus on his value positioning, so he was delayed... When the contract is about to expire, whoever has taken advantage of him will still spend it.
Are you paying for him with membership fees? If you really want to sign him, why don't you just wait for him to terminate the contract and sign as a free agent? Anyway, that kind of low-paying short-term contract does not include a non-compete agreement.
To sum up, Tianma Xingkong has become an extremely rare player in recent years who automatically terminates his contract when the contract expires.
On the day when his contract expired, it was very close to the start date of the S3 competition... Most studios' team lineups had already been polished and registrations completed; even though many studios expressed their desire to sign him,
No one can provide him with a place in the competition.
At this time, the cunning Honghu (who had already found out the date of Xiao Ma's contract expiration through his connections in the circle) extended an olive branch to Xiao Ma as a friend and successfully won a Saint... Oh no
...a great general.
Finally, there is another new member of the team to introduce.
Yes, that's the Seven Kills.
This person came to the door by himself, and his reasons were very good... Since the studio did not plan to participate in the competition this time, and he personally hoped to compete with the masters in the competition, so, after approval from the leader,
He went out alone to find the team.
, was the first team that Qisha found. As a team that was more humane than utilitarian and seemed like a homeless shelter, they had a casual discussion and let Qisha join the team.
At this point, all seven people have been confirmed.
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When the bell rang at midnight, the fourth round also started.
Today, the team members who had a bye were already waiting in the conference room at the first second of the game and locked in the live broadcast channel of the game between China and Japan.
Not only them, the big screen in the game mall is also broadcasting the game at this moment, with two commentators.
The battle between these two powers seems to be imminent.
