No matter what Baihua will be called in the future, whether the newly merged team will be strong or weak will be decided next season.
What Wuxiao is most concerned about now is only the other playoff teams that will start the war first.
As long as Wuxiao can go all the way, sooner or later he will encounter one or two of them.
On June 21st, the first round between Tyranny and Yanyu started.
This year’s playoff format has one major adjustment and several minor adjustments.
The big aspect is, of course, to completely reproduce the new competition system of the second stage of the challenge, cancel the individual competition, expand the group competition to five people, and then calculate the points based on the head.
On a smaller scale, adjustments will be made to the match order, home and away arrangements, and schedule.
The order of the matches means that after the first round of knockout matches, the semi-finals in the second round will no longer draw lots, but the winners of 1 and 8 will face the winners of 4 and 5, and the winners of 2 and 7 will face the winners of 3 and 6.
The winner is equal to the regular season ranking, which completely determines the order of the playoffs.
The home and away arrangement is fixed so that the teams ranked lower in the regular season play home first and then home away, and the teams ranked higher in the regular season play first guest then home. This makes it easier to play the play-offs on the spot in the event of a draw in two rounds to avoid the hassle of traveling.
The adjustment of the schedule is to specifically set aside days for the play-offs, and take a break if there are no play-offs, instead of putting up the subsequent games.
In last year's finals, Samsara won the championship after only playing three individual matches in the second round. This was certainly a great story, but it also caused heavy losses to all stakeholders.
These adjustments this year can be regarded as the league’s official compensation and compromise to the sponsors.
Putting aside the off-field factors that have yet to be seen, the regular season championship is no longer a dispensable honor, but a real schedule advantage in the playoffs.
The top half of the regular season, where the first place is located, is relatively weak, and if they can reach the finals, there is a high possibility that they will have one more day of rest and one more day of preparation time than their opponents in the bottom half.
However, the advantage of being in the top half may not necessarily belong to the No. 1 position. The road must be walked step by step, and the games must be played one by one. At least in the first game, Tyranny has neither the right time nor the right location.
Yanyu obviously wants to have a black eight. Last year, they defeated Tyranny in the first round of the playoffs. There is no reason why they don't want to relive their old dream this year.
However, compared to last year, the strength of the two teams has advanced and retreated, completely separated. In the regular season, Tyranny defeated Yanyu at home and away, perfectly avenging last year's playoffs.
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However, although Chu Yunxiu is a female player with a soft temper, she is not someone who gives up easily. She still has some thoughts when facing Tyranny again this year.
On the night of the summer solstice, it was raining continuously in the Jianghuai area. Even if the air conditioning in the competition venue was fully turned on, it still felt hot and humid.
In this rainy season in the south of the Yangtze River, Team Yanyu played a beautiful home defense battle.
In the group competition, Li Hua was the first to appear, followed by Sun Liang, Lu Yining, Bai Qi and Chu Yunxiu.
After a season of training, Lu Yining and Bai Qi have made some progress. Facing Tyranny's two newcomers Qin Muyun and Song Qiying this year, they held on to the weak lead gained by Li Hua and Sun Liang, and provided support for captains Chu Yunxiu and Han Wen.
Qing's decisive battle created a 10% opening advantage.
In the end, Chu Yunxiu lived up to the efforts of his teammates and defeated Han Wenqing with remaining health, giving Yanyu a head start.
However, Tyranny in the team competition is the complete one. With master tactician Zhang Xinjie at the helm, the reincarnation of the same four All-Stars pales in comparison.
In the team competition, Yanyu fought fiercely and fiercely, taking full advantage of the home map, but still failed to bring about a victory.
If Fengcheng Yanyu hadn't relied on her powerful mobility and long-range attack power to kill Boundless Sea, who was still alive, Tyranny might have been able to win two kills in the team match.
At 10:10, the two teams were evenly matched in a battle. This result disappointed many fans who predicted that Tyranny would be unstoppable. However, the circle was still unanimously optimistic that Tyranny would qualify.
Yanyu had tried their best to achieve a draw at home. After losing the map selection advantage in the second round, their chances of winning were slim.
The playoffs are one game a day, and before the highlights of the previous night are enough to be recalled, the live broadcast of a new game starts again.
Tiny Herb vs. Samsara. The two teams ranked fourth and fifth in the regular season. They are very close in strength. They are also led by the Five Saints single-core team. There are a lot of things to watch.
Samsara has one more All-Star than Tiny Herb, but with Lu Boyuan, Tang Hao, Jiang Botao, Xu Bin, Liu Xiaobie, and Gao Yingjie, the first three battles between the two teams were fierce. Although they had the home court advantage, Samsara was still slightly behind.
However, the gap widened in the fourth formation. Wu Qi eliminated Gao Yingjie and Xiao Yun in succession. In the end, the battle between the gun king and the magician was won by the blood volume created by the fourth formation.
Tiny Herb is the team with the highest winning rate in the regular season arena. Although Samsara won against Tiny Herb at home, the arena was still won by Tiny Herb. In tonight's arena game, it was the first time in two years that Zhou Zekai scored points against Wang Jiexi.
Wuxiao's tactics classes have been suspended for the past few days, and they have instead watched the matches together. After the first half, Lin Jingyan looked left and right, and then said: "The arena under the new competition system is not easy to compete in. In the past, the arena
If you can't beat the competition, you can still focus on the individual competition. There is always room for scoring points, but now you have to go head-to-head. In today's arena, more emphasis is placed on the overall situation, especially on not having any shortcomings."
Fang Rui continued: "Actually, there are some tricks. If the overall strength is not as good as the opponent, then there is no need to pursue the final victory. It would be much simpler to set the goal to defeat four of the opponent. And in the team competition
This idea can also be used. It doesn’t need to be too complicated. It’s just a matter of exchange, simplifying the situation and forming a two-on-two or three-on-three duel. As long as you can ensure that the remaining professional combinations are appropriate, it will be easier to ensure that the two teams are better than playing as a whole.
Victory with more than one kill."
Several people in the room frowned when they heard Fang Rui's analysis, but no one refuted it. Because it sounded like a strategy that was going the wrong way, but it was indeed a relatively simple and easy-to-implement tactical policy in this competition system.
.Especially for a team like Wuxiao whose overall strength is not top-notch, it is more suitable for this type of play.
Veteran Sun Leshi said: "Tyranny Samsara, these two teams have such a strong substitute lineup. The level of the sixth man of other teams is actually in the middle. Tiny Herb's Xiao Yun is actually not weak.
Losing so badly tonight, apart from the fact that there is a certain gap in strength, has a lot to do with account strength and professional restraint."
Everyone said a few words, the intermission passed quickly, and the Tiny Herb Samsara battle entered the team competition stage.