On March 20th, at zero o'clock, the registration for S3 ended on time.
The vast majority of teams have already submitted their registration applications N days ago, and the teams that signed up the latest were all completed during the daytime on the 19th; The registered team does not exist.
By 00:10, all participating players received a system prompt, informing them of the number of teams and their matching status in the first round.
This time, a total of 26,705 teams successfully passed the "hidden points" threshold and signed up for the competition.
Therefore, in the first round, there will be 26,704 teams competing, of which 13,352 teams will be eliminated, and one bye team will be lucky enough to advance with the remaining 13,352 teams.
The start time of the competition is just one day later, that is, at 0:00 on the 21st; after the first round is over, take a day off, and at 00:00 on the 22nd, the official will announce the matching situation of the next round, and then on the 23rd Then start the second round.
Each round thereafter follows the same rules until the champion is determined.
Leaving aside the bye factor, if you want to win the championship...you need to win 15 games in a row within a 30-day cycle; on the contrary, if you lose any game before winning 15 games, you will be eliminated directly.
From the perspective of the competition system, this kind of knockout match with random matches does not require any point calculation work, and there is no way to predict the promotion route in advance. This has saved the data teams of many studios.
Of course, their intelligence analysis work cannot be stopped; even if the opponent in the next round is a team composed of unknown casual players, they can't be careless, they have to check... Anyway, the total hidden score of their team It's over 500, and no matter how weak it is, it can't be weaker.
...
On the evening of the 20th, Xu Huaishang's meeting room.
The front line of hell is ready to go.
[Please note that the first round of the peak competition S3 will start in ten minutes (game time)]
At this moment, everyone received a double prompt of voice and dialogue.
Because the time ratio in sleep mode is 1:10, the players in the game world only received this message when the time in the real world was 11:59.
One minute after the game time, another system message was refreshed: [The player who is the captain is requested to submit the team lineup for this round of the game within the next nine minutes. If the relevant information is not submitted within the specified time, the team The lineup will be randomly sorted by the system]
"Hmm..." After listening, Feng Bujue murmured, glanced around at the teammates present, and said, "Then, I'll hand it in as previously discussed."
He quickly got confirmation from his teammates, and then submitted the list for the first round—
Vanguard Battle: [Snow]
The battle of the backbone: [Sigh in vain] [Bone of Sadness and Smile]
Participating in the battle: [Xu Huaishan]
Vice-General Battle: [Like the Rain] [Between the Flowers on the Stone]
Battle of Generals: [Crazy Unconscious]
Because Hellfront faced a team composed of unknown casual players in the first round, and the strength and characteristics of each member of the opponent were unknown, so this battle Juege used a relatively safe regular lineup to fight.
According to Feng Bujue's analysis, casual players' teams usually only have two types of formations. The first is the "regular balance type", which means playing from weak to strong to ensure that each formation has a stable combat power; The other is "top-heavy", that is, send the third, second, and first strongest lineups in the first three games, and strive to end the game 3:0.
From a tactical point of view, the "top-heavy" formation is obviously more "stealing". If the opponent is in a "regular balance" formation, it is very likely that they will be overwhelmed by this "Tian Ji horse racing" style of suppression.
But this kind of "stealing chicken" tactics naturally comes with corresponding risks; if there is a mistake in any of the first three games, then the "top-heavy" team is basically declared over, because they are arranged in the last two games The weakest person is the weakest, and he will definitely not be able to deal with the enemy's strong opponent who is responsible for holding the formation.
In addition, it is also very possible that two "top-heavy" teams will meet, so that it becomes no different from two "normally balanced" duels.
In the most extreme case... There may also be a third formation method specifically for the "top-heavy" team, which is to put the strongest team on your side in the first game, and eat the third strongest team from the "top-heavy" team First round, then two or three games are bad, and in four or five games, use your second and third strongest two teams to kill the opponent's weakest two teams.
All in all, when the strength of the two teams is close, the gap in formation can indeed determine the outcome, and the game... not only depends on psychological warfare, but also resourcefulness and luck.
Feng Bujue is a cautious person, he put Xu Huaishang in the key position of "participating in the general battle", he just thought it out... Even if there is such a possibility of one in a billion, today they encountered an unknown team. The hidden strong team, the whole team is a top-heavy lineup, and they defeated Hell Front in the first and second games... Well, it doesn't matter too much.
Because, looking at the entire thriller paradise, you can count on one hand the people who have a chance to beat Xu Huaishang in a heads-up; brother Jue knows all those people, but they are not in today's opponent team anyway.
Thinking about it this way... even in the worst case, the odds of winning here are still greater than 50%.
In fact, for Hellfront's opponents, when they saw the first-round match list, the "worst case" had already arrived.
Where in this world are there so many hidden strong players? They are just a team with an average hidden score of about 75. A few friends gathered together to participate in the competition. The enthusiasm was quite high, but when they saw the opponent - the last champion, the mood... that feeling... I really responded to that sentence "Death before leaving the teacher will make the hero burst into tears." If it weren't for the opportunity to fight against Goddess Xu, these few would have abstained directly.
...
Ten minutes passed quickly, and at zero o'clock, the system voice of [The game is about to start, please prepare to transmit] sounded.
Then there was a ten-second countdown, and when the system finished reading the countdown, the players disappeared from the meeting room.
This can be said to be a major reform implemented in this competition.
In the past, if players wanted to teleport to any scenario space, they had to return to their own elevator first, but this time, they can teleport collectively in the conference room.
It's a pity... Such a service is not supported when the book is usually arranged.
[Loading completed]
[Peak Contest S3, the first round]
[Venue: Cell Game Venue]
Compared with the previous two competitions, the loading voice this time was much more concise. When the voice fell, Snow was already standing on a "ring".
This is a square arena with a side length of more than 30 meters. It is made up of many square bricks one meter square. It looks like a chessboard from above; there are pillars standing at each of the four corners of the arena. A knight's gun, but it is many times thicker than a real knight's gun.
The area around the arena was basically a wasteland, with only rolling hills and some weeds as far as the eye could see, the sky was blue sky and white clouds, and the sun was shining brightly.
[You have entered the spectator mode]
A few seconds later, except for the two opponents in the first battle, everyone else heard this prompt.
At this time, the players of the two teams were teleported into two transparent cuboid containers. These two cubes were suspended in the mid-air on both sides of the field, so that they could see the duel on the ring from a bird's-eye view.
[Note that the spectator space and the battlefield are not in the same phase layer, players in the battlefield cannot communicate with teammates in the spectator space in any form]
What this means is that the person who is hitting can't see, hear, or touch the transparent cube, so everyone in the cube doesn't have to try to shout or give it away in other ways. Teammates help.
[The game will start in 30 seconds]
Immediately afterwards, the system gave the next prompt.
In the arena, Snow and his opponent [King Red] are also gearing up, ready to fight.
This "30-second preparation time" is naturally useful; during this time, the two players participating in the battle will be separated by a transparent barrier. Whether it is the player himself or any other object, it is definitely not possible to pass through the barrier, but... it is possible to release some "skills" in advance while taking advantage of this moment; especially for Snow who is mainly specialized in equipment and summoning For most players, these thirty seconds are precious.
Snow's brain is not slow, and he immediately understood the meaning of the preparation time. As soon as the system finished speaking, he took out a bunch of materials from his luggage, and used his [Sandbox Hammer] and [JQ-308 Military Shovel] Clinking and tinkering.
Although his summoning skills are not bad, but the main attack is equipment. The only passive skill he is equipped with [Craftsman Spirit], its special effect is "to enhance the various abilities of equipment-specialized creations, and to speed up the production of such creations." ".
In less than half a minute, Snow had made a thing out of a bunch of metals, parts, adhesives, and some strange materials.
[Name: Construction Technique - King of Mountain Roads]
[Skill Card Attribute: Active Skill, Permanent Mastery]
[Skill Category: Equipment]
[Effect: Create a high-performance land manned vehicle]
[Consumption: Lose 5 stamina every 10 seconds during the manufacturing process, no less than ten kilograms of metal, no less than five joint parts, other parts can be added as needed]
[Learning conditions: Equipment Specialization A]
[Remarks: I have a friend who runs a car repair shop. Every time he repairs a car, there will be a small box of parts that he doesn't know how to put back.
One day, I said to him, when you accumulate more parts, you can put together a new car.
So, he literally started stockpiling those parts until one day, he finally collected enough of them, and... got arrested.
So I often say that it is risky to engage in vehicle modification.
— A low-key old driver.]
Although this skill looks quite satisfactory, it has a very large room for manipulation and potential when it is actually used.
Under the premise of satisfying the consumption of skills, the things that Snow can make, the smaller ones can be skateboards, unicycles, bicycles; the bigger ones can be cars, sports cars, trucks; the bigger ones can be tanks, maglev Trains, mobile fortresses...
There is no cooldown time limit for this skill. Anyway, as long as he is physically capable and has enough materials, he can start building at any time. He can build as many things as he wants, and the same thing can be completed several times.
Right now, Snow has assembled an exquisitely shaped motorcycle in just over 20 seconds.
[Five... Four... Three...]
With five seconds left before the start of the battle, the system voice began to count down, and at this time, Snow had already stepped on the motorcycle, facing the opposite direction from the opponent... and started the car.
Brother Lei with the ID [King Lei De] on the opposite side also looked confused, thinking: "This guy... is he planning to run away?"
[Two... One... Fight!]
With the sound of "Fight", the barrier between the two disappeared, but two seconds before the barrier disappeared, Snow had already run away on his bike...
It can be said that he fully understood the meaning of the "30-second rule"; why did the system only set up a barrier between the two players, but did not restrict them from going to the area behind them? Quite simply, it is to give those players who use "stealth ambush" or "long-range sniper" as their combat style, and those who wish to use other devious tactics a period of time to distance themselves.
Of course, although the "battlefield" is large, it still has a limit, and the judgment of "passive game" is also included. If there are no these two restrictions, then the side with the upper hand in mobility "runs endlessly towards the sunset", and the game will be endless gone.
"This..." Looking at Snow's disappearing back, King Red thought to himself, "I didn't expect that..."
He just stood there, waiting blankly, not because he didn't want to pursue, but because he really couldn't catch up.
Red King is a very traditional fighting professional player with good combat power, but he has a shortcoming... that is, his speed is slow; if you ask him to chase someone, he may not be able to catch up, let alone chasing a car.
"Hmm... He won't be judged as a passive game like this, right?" Xiao Tan in the spectator room couldn't help but read as he looked at the figures standing still on the field.
"If you want to judge, you should also judge the one who turned and ran away, not the one who stood by." Feng Bujue continued.
"That's right." Xiao Ling also said, "It's obviously a disadvantage to chase the opponent on foot, even if you can catch up, it will consume a lot of your physical energy; therefore, it is a very correct judgment and decision for the opponent to stand by on the spot." Coping, it would be unfair to count this as a negative game."
While they were talking, King Red sat down on the field, and muttered: "Phew...then I will wait here, anyway, you are the one who ran first, and you will come back anyway; If you don't do it, you will be judged as a negative game first... "
His idea was correct, but... Snow, who was planning to build a missile silo, seemed to have no need to come back...
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