Valentine's Day was also New Year's Day ... It had only been a few days, and everyone's life had returned to normal.
It was not even the seventh day of the new year when Xiao Tan and Ling returned from Europe.
Feng bujue asked Xiao Tan,"why don't you take your wife on a honeymoon?" Xiao Tan teased him,"if you love the right person, you'll celebrate Valentine's Day every day." Then brother Jue used a set of combo attacks on Xiao Tan that you might not even see in a fighting game.
After that, Feng bujue heard from RUO Yu that there were two reasons for this: Firstly, all the relatives and friends of the two families were present for the wedding. Since everyone had a happy gathering, they did not have to visit relatives for the new year this year. Secondly, the probability of various supernatural phenomena happening around the end of the year would increase significantly, which meant that ... The nine departments would be very busy. Therefore, Xiao Tan, the 'trainee' who had just joined Department 9, was called back by department leader Gu to follow Bao Qing and Qi Zhi to' practice '.
After explaining these two objective reasons, RUO Yu added,"besides, as long as a couple is in love, they go on their honeymoon every day. Haven't you heard of the saying 'if you love the right person, you'll celebrate Valentine's Day every day'?"
Hearing that, Feng bujue immediately said,""You guys should know that you're only quoting the lyrics when you say these lines so confidently, right? And that song was clearly called "happy breakup"! And ... You're the least qualified person to quote this sentence! Your seal hasn't been broken yet, so why are you discussing love with me?"
After he finished speaking, RUO Yu released a set of gorgeous combos that you might not even see in a fighting game.
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In short, the new year passed in such a harmonious atmosphere.
During the new year, dream Inc. Also took a break from New Year's Eve to the sixth day of the new year as they had been informed.
Initially, Feng bujue did not think that there was anything wrong with the game company taking a holiday for the new year, but after his conversation with RUO Yu and the fact that the probability of supernatural events happening around the new year would increase ... The holiday seemed to make more sense.
In any case, at midnight on the seventh day of the new year, the online stores of Thriller Paradise, crazy thoughts, and dream Inc. Reopened on time.
At the same time, the announcement that was released at the end of last month and had been hanging on the front page of the official website: The pre-selection rules for Thriller Paradise's S3 Championship will be announced after the new year.
The content that replaced it was the explanation for S3's tournament.
The "long-term competition system with a mix of individual and team" that the major studios had been pondering over for nearly a month had finally surfaced.
Just like the previous two times, the competition system this time surprised everyone again.
Firstly, the S3 competition required the participants to form a team. The number of participants was limited to seven people, and there were no substitutes.
Secondly, S3 actually 'didn't have a preliminaries', or rather, the 'elimination process' had already begun at a point in time that no one knew about ...
However, Thriller Paradise was not such a game.
After the S1 and S2 matches, dream Inc. Realized a problem. In the Kongtong competition, the normal players 'sense of participation was too low.
According to the previous competition system, most of the non-professional players would be eliminated in the preliminaries. Other than the extreme exceptions of "Hell's frontline,"the rest of the casual players ... Whether they were individual or team players, even if they entered the semi-finals, they would still be eliminated in the first round. It could be said that from the start of the semi-finals, the competition had completely become a showdown between the various studios and individual professional players.
Even though this was normal, and the players loved to watch such high-level competitions, dream Inc. Still felt that ... There was a need to change it.
Therefore, the new competition system would ensure that the level of the participating players was "higher than the average" and give the 99% of casual players a lot of space to perform. The fact that the 'strongest team will win' hadn't changed. The only difference was that ... This time, all kinds of teams, casual players, and weird players who had difficulty advancing in the past competition system, had the opportunity to appear.
Finally, let's talk about the specific form of the competition.
As its name suggested, the tournament's main theme from S1 onwards was battle, and this time was no exception.
S3 would adopt a duel mode similar to S1's "battle of the butterfly", as well as the same competition system as the tennis team competition.
Three singles, two doubles, best of five.
The first match was a 1V1 "Vanguard battle."
The second match was a 2V2 "mid-tier battle."
The third 1V1 game was called the "general battle".
At this point, if a team had already won three matches, the match would be over and there would be no need to fight the next two matches.
If there was no clear winner, then the fourth round would be the 2v2 "battle of the Vice generals."
If the first four matches ended in a tie of two to two, there would still be the final "battle of generals" for them.
In this way ... Seven people were needed to fight five matches.
In addition, although the order of the above five battles is fixed, the position of the team members can be changed every match. For example, the person who was the vanguard in this match could be a general in the next match or play doubles. There were no restrictions. However ... The arrangement of the appearances of each game must be submitted within ten minutes before the start of the game. Once the list was confirmed, there could be no substitution.
Everyone had heard of the story of 'Tian Ji's horse racing'. If one could guess the opponent's formation before the race, it was not impossible for the weak to win against the strong. Just like in season 2, the matchups for each round would be announced the day before the match, or even earlier. During this period of time, both teams would engage in information warfare and queue games.
That was the first wave of news about S3 that dream Inc. Was going to announce.
This time, Feng bujue read the related rules at once, but after reading it, a question immediately appeared before him. There were only six people in front of them, so where was he going to find the seventh member?