The next day was the finals of the Dissidia World Championship.
Jiang Qiao only understood how popular the game Dissidia was when he watched the finals. Reports from various countries were like reporting on the World Cup...all attention was focused on the Dissidia finals.
The stage for the finals is not a stadium, but a holographic projection hall built by the official Dispute at an investment of hundreds of millions. This holographic projection hall uses Chinese technology and strives for the most realistic holographic projection experience.
The official Dispute has done it, and judging from the live broadcast effect, the holographic projection on the scene is very realistic, and there are even some equipment such as large hair dryers used to create the on-site effect.
The number of people watching the live broadcast of this match alone has reached 220 million! Dissidia officials can boast without exaggeration that this is the match with the most people watching since the advent of the Internet, and they are even planning to announce a Guinness World Record.
As for this most watched final in human history, the final result was that Leaping Nucleus won.
This victory was extremely tragic, with the score between Leaping Nuclear and Coke Mania being 6:6, and it was eventually dragged into an overtime round where an individual duel decided the winner.
In this overtime match, Juan Canyun was sent out to face Caramel... Juan Canyun finally defeated this guy with a slight advantage in health... a senior that he may need to look up to in the Chinese e-sports circle.
This may also mark the rise of newcomers in the e-sports circle. In any case, Juan Canyun won all the honors in this game!
On the night of the game, even though Jiang Qiao lived in a residential area two blocks away from Wuhan University, he could still hear the boys in the apartment building of Wuhan University shouting the slogan "Leaping Nuclear is awesome!"
Not only Wuhan University, all universities in China have entered the state of celebrating the New Year. There are also a lot of people on Weibo posting things like "My youth is complete."
Jiang Qiao also followed suit and posted a Weibo saying "Leaping Nuclear is awesome".
Unfortunately, not many people follow Jiang Qiao’s personal Weibo, except for some of Jiang Qiao’s college classmates. Speaking of college... Wanxiang’s college entrance examination ended some time ago.
However, the days of her being put in solitary confinement by her own mother have not yet ended. Perhaps Wanxiang will have to wait until the results of the college entrance examination are announced before she can land in Shengling.
During this period, Wanxiang could only use her mobile phone to send messages to Jiangqiao to inquire about matters related to the Holy Spirit.
Although Leaping Nuclear won the Dissidia World Championship, their schedule is far from over... In order to participate in the Holy Spirit Challenge, the players of Leaping Nuclear and Coke Fanatics even decided to hold the challenge directly in Eagle Country!
So on the second day after the conclusion of the Dissidia World Championship, when Chinese e-sports fans were still immersed in carnival celebrations, the Holy Spirit Challenge officially kicked off.
The challenge tournament uses a points system, and the points are the same as the ladder ranking...which means that the higher the ladder ranking, the more initial points you will get!
The eight players with the highest final points will be eligible to advance to the next round of eliminations.
The points race lasted about five days, and Jiang Qiao selectively broadcast some of the more exciting player duels on the Holy Spirit official live broadcast channel.
This included the competition between the ten professional players of the champion team Leaping Nuclear who had just returned. Jiang Qiao, the runner-up cola fanatic, of course did not miss it. The second was the incarnation of Freya.
This may be a live broadcast matchup higher than the members of the championship team Leaping Nuclear.
However, no matter how popular it is, the Holy Spirit Challenge is ultimately just an official event in the minds of most players and has nothing to do with professional competitions.
When he was at his most popular, he was not even as popular as Chen Meng, the host of the Holy Spirit Division. No... I don’t know how much lower he was than Chen Meng. His highest ranking was only around fifth or sixth.
Jiang Qiao didn't care much about the low popularity of the Holy Spirit Challenge. This competition was not intended to attract attention to the Holy Spirit. If the Holy Spirit really wanted to hold a professional competition, Jiang Qiao would not have done it so hastily.
Although it was sloppy, within five days of the official competition, the players who entered the quarterfinals gradually surfaced.
On the fifth day, Eternal Rosh and Eternal Huzel advanced to the knockout stage with an absolute points advantage and secured two places in the quarterfinals. Freya also successfully advanced that night thanks to the players' "crowdfunding winning streak".
On the sixth day, Lady Disaster, who had been fighting for almost half a month, successfully advanced to the knockout stage. However, Drake, whom she had invited to play the game together, was beaten up by players at the Grand Master level.
When Jiang Qiao was watching Drake's game, he felt that the Pirate King was hiding his moves. He did not take the game seriously, and his attitude towards losing in the end was a bit indifferent.
On the seventh day, a player finally confirmed his spot, and that was Caramel. He ultimately failed to maintain his number one position in the entire Holy Spirit server.
However, Jiang Qiao saw that Caramel had been frantically rushing to gain points on the ladder recently, and he should be planning to wash away his previous shame in the quarterfinals. The deeper reason might be that the defeat in the Dissidia World Championship made his concept of winning and losing become stronger.
This made Jiang Qiao very worried about his mental state, but Coke Fanatic had a special psychologist. When Coke Fanatic lost in the World Championship, Bubble, as the boss, also posted on Weibo saying, "I'm sorry we lost, we will pay attention to the players' condition."
Starting from the eighth day, Zhao Mingwei finally advanced into the top ten of the national server and qualified for the knockout round. That night, the rookie Juan Canyun, who was touted as the No. 1 e-sports player in contemporary China by various e-sports newspapers in China, also successfully qualified.
Starting from the ninth day, there was only one spot left in the quarterfinals. What surprised Jiang Qiao was that... the last spot did not belong to any Chinese e-sports giant, nor to an NPC, but to a high-scoring passerby player with the ID Jin Yi Cang Dao.
This high-ranking passerby player is a frequent visitor to the top ten strongest kings, but Jiang Qiao has never paid much attention to him. However, Jiang Qiao is not sure whether other professional clubs pay attention to him.
After all, the Holy Spirit doesn’t have any formal professional competitions yet, and Jiang Qiao has no plans to take the lead in organizing a Holy Spirit Professional League or something for the time being.
In short, the top eight contestants of the Holy Spirit Knockout Tournament have been announced in nine days, including Eternal Rosh, Eternal Huzel, the incarnations of Freya, Lady Disaster, Caramel, Happy Game, Juan Canyun and Jinyi Cangdao.
There are exactly four NPCs and four players.
Jiang Qiao directly pressed a random button to group the eight players, leaving it to the goddess of fate to decide.
The goddess of fate seems to be a god who likes to play pranks. The final result of the quarterfinals is...
Lady Disaster vs. the incarnation of Freya, Juan Canyun vs. Jin Yi Cang Dao are grouped in the left half.
Eternal Rosh vs. Happy Game, Eternal Huzel vs. Caramel on the right half.
"What the hell is this devilish grouping?" Jiang Qiao could already imagine a lot of weird plots when he saw the groups.
"I think it's okay. These two Eternals won't stand much chance of winning against the two strongest Holy Spirits on our side." Hai Lan didn't think there was anything wrong with this grouping.
"Uh... I mean... well, it's okay, just announce it like this."
Jiang Qiao thought for a while and felt that this kind of drama was what he wanted to see, so he directly announced the grouping for the quarterfinals.
(End of this chapter)