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Time goes back a little, let us look back three days ago...
At 00:00 on August 30th, the "Team Member Change Application" function of Apex Contest S2 was closed.
At the same time, the specific opening time and rules of the S2 "preliminary mode" were also published on the official website of Dream Company on time.
Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night...
As midnight approached, there were already a large number of players staying in front of their computers, opening forums and webpages, eagerly looking forward to first-hand consultations.
And when the clock struck midnight and the relevant information was released, the forum ushered in silence for about three minutes... Afterwards, there was a wave of unprecedented explosions.
Even though the exclusive discussion area was prepared, even if the optical brain participated in the screening and management of the posts, the forum still fell into a state of being "exploded" in the hour after midnight.
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However, Brother Jue didn't pay attention to this aspect tonight. He just calmly led his friends on the front line of hell to brush up two scripts, and then went offline to sleep.
Because... he had already anticipated what would happen on the forum, so he simply chose to ignore it. Anyway, the announcement is on the official website, and there is still time to read it tomorrow, and it’s not like it’s gone if you go late, so why bother to join in the fun.
Therefore, it wasn't until the next morning, when Feng Bujue came back from his morning exercise and finished his breakfast, that he turned on the computer leisurely and followed the rules...
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The schedule of the Peak Contest S2 is divided into three stages, namely "preliminaries", "rematch" and "finals". The official name of the preliminaries is [Heroes Gathering], and the form of the competition is a "completely random" team battle. The overall rules are similar to the practice mode - two teams of five will fight in a 4V4 battle.
The competition system of the preliminaries will adopt a points system, and the period is to complete 36 games within 50 days. The scoring rules are similar to football leagues, namely: 3 points for a win. 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss.
Seeing this, some people will definitely ask, what is the situation of "flat"? Let me first explain how the "tie" came about...
Generally speaking, there are three situations that lead to a draw.
First, if the members of the two teams "die at the same time" or "die at the same time" within a very short time difference (less than or equal to ten seconds), no matter what the cause of this result is, and no matter which team member contributed to this As a result, the game will all be considered a "draw".
For example: In a certain game, Team A has only one player left, and Team B has three players left; at this time. The person from team A rushed into the middle of the three members of team B and blew himself up. As a result, the four died one after another in a short period of time. This result can be regarded as a draw.
But if, after the explosion, a certain member of a certain party... has survived for more than ten seconds after all members of the enemy team have been judged to be "dead", then, no matter whether he is still alive at the eleventh second, his team is still alive. It is the "winner".
Second, the two teams stayed in the script for a very long time, but they couldn't kill all the enemy's people. And fell into a situation similar to the "three-step cycle" in Chinese chess, that is, the stalemate of "whoever changes his move first will suffer"...
Under the premise of meeting the above conditions, the system will propose a "draw agreement" to the captains of the two teams, if the captains of both teams agree. This game will end in a draw. But if one party disagrees, the party that disagrees has to take the initiative to "change tactics" to break the stalemate, otherwise it will be judged as a negative game. Similarly, if both parties disagree. Then both parties have to "change tactics".
Third, although the probability is extremely low, there is still a possibility of a tie... that is, the atomic bomb or the like. That is, "both players are completely wiped out by the third party's mass destruction attack in the script at the same time". That's also a draw.
But to be honest, if you want to play that kind of situation, it may be harder than winning...
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So... Let's stop here about the draw first, let's move on to the competition system.
As a game, if players are asked to do something on time every day in a period as long as fifty days... it will undoubtedly cause psychological pressure and a certain degree of disgust. Therefore, Dream Company adopted a strategy similar to the S1 preliminaries, using the rule of "playing N games within N days", allowing players to allocate time relatively freely.
In the preliminaries of S2, the "unfinished" teams can only play one game in a natural day. A game that starts before midnight and continues to the next day will be considered as played on the "previous day".
The above rule no longer applies to the "completion" team that has played 36 games. These teams can play as many games as they want in a day, but they don't get points whether they win or lose. However, if they win, they can get the same clearance reward as the "Nightmare Difficulty Team Mode".
Dream Company will add this setting, mainly to prevent some teams from being unable to complete the competition due to "cannot find opponents" before the end of the preliminaries period. For example... some teams missed a game on the last night, and there are not many teams similar to them in the queuing system at this time, and they can't get in after waiting for a long time... In order to avoid this situation, Dream Company will Use bonus rules to encourage those "finished" teams to stay in the queue and act as opponents for "not finished" teams.
For the former, it's a sure bet. Winning... not only can you get rich rewards, but also prevent a team that may pose a threat to you in the future from getting points;
For the latter, no matter whether the team they encounter is the finisher or not, they have to win, so there is no difference.
Of course... Even so, it is inevitable that some teams will not be able to finish the race within fifty days due to various reasons. In this regard, Dream Company has already thought of countermeasures. After the 50-day period, they will choose a time to give those teams that have played 35 games a chance to put these teams together for an extra round. If the number of these teams is an odd number, then send a GM team to fill the number (the actual situation later was an even number, so the GM team did not appear).
But if you haven't played 35 games within 50 days, I'm sorry. It seems that your team lacks the ability to finish the game, and you can't blame others for not making it to the semi-finals.
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Next, let's talk about the ranking method of the game.
After all the games in the preliminaries are completely over, the system will select the top 256 teams with the highest points to enter the semi-finals.
If there are the same points, the system will look at the "small points", that is, who has more "wins"; The number of deaths in each party is poor; and if even this data is the same... the system will calculate the percentage of survival value lost in each place.
In short, the ranking must be well-founded. If you want to avoid being eliminated in the case of the same score, the way is to play every game seriously and do every detail well. Maybe it's the little things that add up... that will make your team edge out everyone else.
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Next, look at the prizes.
A total of 256 teams have passed the preliminaries, but only the top 100 teams can get prizes.
As for the content of the prizes, it has also been mentioned in the previous article, which are:
Top 100 - Every member of the team can get 1,000,000 game coins and a limited edition T-shirt.
Top 50 - Every member of the team can get random excellent equipment*2 corresponding to their level, and a 48-hour limited-time experience opportunity of the new version of "Twilight of the Gods" in "Horror Paradise".
Top 5 - Players whose level is not up to level in the team will be upgraded to full level immediately, and each player can get a piece of perfect level equipment.
It is worth mentioning that the announcement on August 30th specifically pointed out... the prizes for this preliminaries can be "stacked".
In other words, the top 50 teams, in addition to their own prizes, can also get the "top 100" prizes. The top five teams can get all the rewards of the above three tiers.
This kind of arrangement... will undoubtedly raise the competition in the preliminaries to a tragic level, and this... is exactly what Dream Company wants to see the most.
The game company just hopes that the players will go all out for every game, even those teams that line up after the game will work hard to suppress the points of other teams that have not finished the game.
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Last but not least... game time.
According to the news announced on August 30, the matching system of [Heroes Gathering] will be opened at 0:00 on September 5 and will be closed at 0:00 on October 25. During the fifty natural days during this period, players can join the queue at any time.
Of course, in the first thirty-six days, all teams could only line up once a day. If you want to play two games in a row, you can consider queuing at a time close to midnight, so that after the first game, it will basically be the next day.
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Generally speaking, these rules are reasonable and basically within Feng Bujue's expectations.
In the short term, there isn't much to plan. According to Jue Ge's estimation, as long as they play the Hell Front according to the rhythm of the practice mode, they will be sure to enter the semi-finals.
As for the rules of the rematch, Dream Company has not announced yet, but judging from the number of teams that have advanced to the preliminaries, it is not difficult to guess that the rematch will adopt an elimination system.
Feng Bujue speculated... If nothing else happened, the rematch should be four (to determine the top 16) to five (to determine the top eight) rounds. There is also the possibility of three rounds, but 32 teams entered the finals, which seems to be a bit too many.
As for how far Hell Front can go in S2, the key depends on this rematch... This is also the main stage for Feng Bujue to display his analysis and planning skills.
Under the points-based competition system, the teams that can make it to the semi-finals are by no means idle, so the possibility of strong encounters is extremely high. If the rematch is really the kind of "one-elimination system" with no way out, then these rounds of competition...maybe more dangerous and difficult than the final... (… )R1071
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