"As expected of Miss Karuna, the draw was very fair!" Guan Liyuan couldn't help but say as he watched the eight groups fight.

To some extent, Karuna's hands are simply poisonous. The third game: Yan Kai vs. Pachira!

The two participating Four Heavenly Kings from the Kalos region were drawn together...

and the fourth game also included Fu Ye from the Kalos region. This draw also determined the order of the subsequent duels. The top eight players from the first and second games will play in the next round of the quarterfinals, group three vs. group four, group five vs. group six... and so on.

In other words, only one of Fu Ye and the two Heavenly Kings can enter the semifinals!

When the results came out, the live broadcast atmosphere was very awkward, and the sound of gasping could be heard on the scene...

And what made Guan Liyuan very happy was that Kuseloski was also drawn for himself!

Although Kuseloski was able to advance, his strength was definitely not weak. According to the rules of the point ranking system, even if there was a possibility of "weak surpassing strong", the error would not be too large...

But in the eyes of most people, if the three weakest players were selected from the top 16, Kuseloski would definitely be among them.

The preliminary round of the open tournament also had two games a day. Guan Liyuan, who was in the seventh game, had been scheduled for the morning of the last day. The first game on the first day was Lao Long's "personal show"!

It is said that after losing to the fairy king, Lao Long traveled around the world and visited and studied at the dragon Pokémon holy places in various regions. He even won the recognition of the elders of the Dragon Village in the famous Unova region and was awarded the honorary title of "Dragon King"...

However, because he had not participated in open competitions for many years, his reputation was not prominent. Even in the preliminaries, he was not selected into the list of the top 50 seeded players because of the "shame of the dragon system".

Just breaking through the siege in the preliminaries, everyone didn't have a deep impression. However, in the first game of the open tournament, Lao Long also worked hard and defeated his opponent, a king from the Sinnoh region... This completely changed many people's views on him.

In the second game on the first afternoon, Guan Liyuan heard the familiar voice of Barbaro, the Phoenix host!

From the beginning of the game, Barbaro was intentionally or unintentionally encouraging one of the players, "Defu", and it was obvious that he seemed to be looking forward to Defu's victory...

Defu is a veteran gym leader in the Kalos region and an ice king himself, while his opponent is an electric king from the Hoenn region.

It is normal for Barbaro, as the home commentator, to be more inclined to Defu, but his performance is indeed a bit obvious...

In the end, as a guest, Mikoli couldn't help asking: "From what Mr. Barbaro said, it seems that he is very optimistic about Gym Leader Defu?"

During the four-day round of 16, the organizer invited different commentators every day, all of whom were celebrities from all over the world. The guest on the first day was Mikoli.

Mikoli is from the Hoenn region, and is a "fellow countryman" of Defu's opponent. Naturally, he has some instinctive aversion to Barbaro's tendency!

However... It is said that in the Kalos region, many people gradually like Barbaro's commentary style, so his value is rising all the way?

"Hahaha, it's not that I am optimistic or pessimistic... It's just that according to the rules, in the quarterfinals, the player Long Xiaolong will face the winner of this game... Hahahaha... Mr. Mikoli, think about it, if it is the ice-type Defu King, facing the Dragon Xiaolong King, wouldn't it be very interesting? Of course, what I said is interesting is completely out of goodwill... The Dragon Xiaolong King also hopes to avenge his shame in the form of reverse attributes, right?" Barbaro

couldn't help laughing as he said this. Mikoli:...

Well, the old dragon was defeated by the fairy-type king who severely restrained the dragon type, so at this time "can't help" hoping that an ice-type king who also restrains the dragon type will fight against the old dragon... I guess the old dragon king must not feel Barbaro's goodwill at this time!

I don't know whether it was the hope of Barbaro and other people with bad tastes that worked, or whether the old dragon was unlucky, but in the end, the winner of the second game was indeed the Ice King Defu...

The guest on the second day was Wusong, one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Sinnoh. The morning match was the "civil war" of the Four Heavenly Kings of Kalos that was complained about by Kalos trainers, Yan Kai vs. Pakira.

From Guan Liyuan's perspective, the strength of the Pokémon of both sides is almost the same, but Pakira's fire type restrains Yan Kai's steel type, so most of the time, Pakira has always been in control of the initiative.

Although Yan Kai performed better than Guan Liyuan imagined, he was still defeated by Pakira in the end...

Perhaps because they are both the Four Heavenly Kings of Kalos, Yan Kai usually sparred with Pakis in private, and he had a good idea before, so he didn't show too much frustration.

The reason why Guan Liyuan "underestimated" Yan Kai was because in the preliminaries, Yan Kai qualified as the second place, and was defeated by Deletta in the same group in the duel...

As for Deletta's situation... there is no conclusion. Before participating in this unlimited group competition, there was no record of participating in any public competitions, and he had not even challenged a gym. It was Ge Jihua who used the special recommendation power of the Four Heavenly Kings to obtain the qualification to participate in the competition! It

is similar in each region. Usually, the Four Heavenly Kings have the power of special recommendation in regional competitions, but most of them will not use players who can really get excellent results in the competition, and they will not collect enough badges, and the Four Heavenly Kings will not recommend players who are not strong enough to embarrass themselves. It

usually only applies to some special situations, such as a trainer who missed the gym competition for some reason, but his strength is at the level of "it would be a pity not to participate in the competition", and the Four Heavenly Kings will use the right of recommendation.

It is also worth mentioning that in this Kalos competition, the four kings all used their recommendation rights because many training masters came specifically for Guan Liyuan. A small number of them had never traveled to Kalos when they were young, or the gym badges they obtained when they traveled to Kalos were invalid due to changes in the official gym quota, so the four kings were asked to recommend...

The other three kings recommended well-known king-level trainers, only Ge Jihua recommended a local trainer in Kalos that no one knew, which caused some controversy.

However, now from the results, only Deletta recommended by Ge Jihua advanced to the open competition, and the original controversy has become a discussion about Deletta's origin!

At the end of the preliminaries, Guan Liyuan heard that Yan Kai not only lost, but also only got three points from Deletta. He thought Yan Kai should be weaker, but the actual situation was somewhat beyond Guan Liyuan's expectations.

"It seems that the evaluation of that Deletta should be overestimated..." Guan Liyuan muttered in the audience.

"Eh? So... in the quarterfinals, you might be facing that Dreta?" Xiaoxia asked.

"Well... hahaha, I don't know if it's Dreta, but that Gejihua's prediction ability is really a scam, right?" Guan Liyuan suddenly laughed.

That's right, the eighth group's match was "Delita vs. Ge Jihua", and the winner would be Guan Liyuan's opponent in the next round. Moreover, Delita was recommended by Ge Jihua to participate in the competition...

So... the prophecy that Ge Jihua had told him before was really because she had a crush on him but was too embarrassed to tell him, right? Guan Liyuan couldn't help but think so.