December of every year is the busiest month in the Star Card Game world.

The National Star Card Masters Invitational Tournament officially opened for registration on December 15th, and at the same time, the regular season finally came to an end. After several months of fierce competition, all participating clubs were ranked according to points, and the top six entered the playoffs.

Just like last year, the clubs that entered the playoffs in Season 10 are still Fenghua, Judgment, Ghost Hell, Dark Night City, Liushuang City and Temple of the Gods. They are worthy of being the "six giants" as netizens call them, and their strength is very stable.

Although the championship has been changing, the league's playoff spots have always been these six, and have remained so for three years.

This pattern is difficult to break for the time being. The key is that these six clubs have too many top players, especially original players. It is very difficult for other clubs to compete with them for a place in the playoffs.

The most promising Phantom Team, led by female commander Shao Mengchen, has a strong sense of purpose, but unfortunately the team's tactics are too extreme, and they are still ranked seventh this season, just one step away from the playoffs.

In the post-match interview, Shao Mengchen faced the reporters and said calmly: "It doesn't matter, we'll fight again next year."

Xie Mingzhe really admires this girl's courage. It is not easy for her to persist in a professional league full of top players for seven seasons.

Each regular season match is played in two rounds, and only wins count. The playoffs are a best-of-three elimination system, with six teams competing in pairs. The three winning teams advance directly to the semifinals, and the remaining three teams are sent to the loser group, where they compete for the last spot in a round-robin manner. After the semifinals are decided, a draw will be held to decide the season champion.

The playoffs were very intense. Teams had to give their best in every game, otherwise they would be eliminated. Therefore, all clubs tried their best and new tactics emerged one after another. Xie Mingzhe watched every game.

The six clubs have distinct styles. Fenghua's plant deck likes the control flow and cooling flow; Guiyu is a combination of marking flow and assassination flow; Dark Night City has Ye Zhu's tracking butterfly, combined with Pei Jingshan's insect poison explosion, it is a stacking poison + assassination flow; Judgment is the simplest and crudest, directly attacking from the front; Liushuang City is a combination of deathrattle flow and water freezing, and Temple of the Gods is a gold critical strike flow.

Among these basic playing methods, the card decks of each club will have many variations. The card decks for each game in the playoffs are different, which shows how rich the card pools of large clubs are.

Xie Mingzhe watched several games in a row and was deeply touched. With a learning attitude, he analyzed each game with his master and Brother Chen, and indeed gained a lot from it.

In the first round of elimination, Fenghua, Judgment and Guiji successfully advanced to the semi-finals, and the other three teams were relegated to the loser group. However, in the fight in the loser group, Liushuangcheng unexpectedly killed two opponents in a row and returned to the semi-finals!

This process was so thrilling and exciting that Xie Mingzhe was terrified.

As a senior in the alliance, Chen Qianlin also gave Fang Yu a high evaluation, saying: "Among Su Yang's four disciples, Fang Yu is the calmest and most rational one. His command style pays more attention to details. Many times, he even calculates the CD of skills to the second."

The attack and defense capabilities of water cards are not as good as those of other decks, but the control of water cards is very strong. However, the connection of control skills requires team members to have extremely high tacit understanding. If the connection is not good, the opponent may seize the opportunity to counterattack and kill.

When it comes to tacit understanding, no other club's four players can compare with the brothers from Liushuang City.

The four brothers usually went in and out together, trained together for many years, and their brain waves were almost synchronized. With Fang Yu's calm and detailed command, he used the water-based control style to defeat the Temple of the Gods, which had a strong explosive power, and the Dark Night City, which had a strong tracking and assassination ability.

After returning to the semi-finals, Liu Shuangcheng drew lots to face the referee.

The Judge is best at head-on combat, Fire versus Water, this match is also very interesting.

Xie Mingzhe and his teammates still came to the scene. In the first game, the referee chose a fast-paced map, which reduced the mental power of the entire map, forcing Liushuang City to summon all the cards. With an unexpected speed, Liushuang City's water deck was completely destroyed.

In the second game, Fang Yu chose the ocean water battle map, slowly controlling the tempo and finally killing the referee.

In the final decisive game, during a team fight at a crucial moment, the referee made some minor mistakes in coordination, which were seized by Fang Yu, who launched a comprehensive counterattack and advanced safely into the finals of the tenth season!

On the other side of the field, Fenghua and Guihei faced off.

In the regular season, Fenghua lost to Guiji 0:2. In this playoff match, the two sides played more fiercely. In the first two games, each team won 1 point. In the last game, Tang Muzhou used the invincible skill "Sacred Tree Protection" at the critical moment when the opponent was attacking with all his strength. Zhen Man's huge golden python followed closely with group fear. Xu Changfeng and Shen An teamed up to kill the joker of the opponent Gui Sirui and secured the victory.

The score of both semi-finals was 2:1. The final match will be a showdown between Fenghua and Liushuangcheng!

The final will be held on December 25th.

Everyone did not have any special reaction to this date, because this world is completely different from the Earth era. There are no festivals such as Christmas, Spring Festival, and Qingming Festival. The people here only pay attention to the New Year, which is January 1st, which symbolizes a new beginning. Only during the New Year will families gather together to celebrate. December 25th is just a very important finals day for professional athletes.

In the finals between Fenghua and Liushuangcheng, no one has a definite answer in their hearts. The former is the team champion of the sixth season, and the latter won the team championship in the seventh season. Today's duel will determine who will become the double champion of the team competition.

Both clubs are very popular, and in the pre-match voting stage, the support rate for both sides was close to 50%.

But Xie Mingzhe felt a little uneasy, as he always felt that Fenghua was not doing well.

Because, Liushuang City also hides a death card - Dou E.

When Fang Yu asked him to customize this deathrattle card, Xie Mingzhe thought that Liushuang City would use the new card this season. Unexpectedly, in so many games, including the regular season and the playoffs, the Dou E card never appeared.

Xie Mingzhe paid close attention to all the team competitions this season and did not miss a single one.

Xie Mingzhe didn't know whether Fang Yu didn't practice the combination of this card because of time constraints, or deliberately hid Dou E and used her as a secret weapon. Because he and Fang Yu had an agreement in advance that this card must be kept secret, he couldn't tell Tang Muzhou, so he could only wait until the finals to see if Fang Yu would really take it out.

In the blink of an eye it was December 25th.

Xie Mingzhe and his teammates came to the venue. The venue of the finals was much more lively than the regular season. The fans of Fenghua wore white uniforms with green patterns, which formed a sharp contrast with the aqua blue uniforms of the fans of Liushuangcheng. The fans held huge posters with the players' portraits printed on them. The atmosphere was comparable to a superstar's concert.

At 7:30 in the evening, the finals of the tenth season team competition officially began.

The female commentator gave a brief introduction to both clubs, while the male commentator analyzed the styles and commonly used decks of both sides.

Eight players came on stage one by one. Tang Muzhou still had a graceful smile on his face, but Fang Yu had a cold expression. Wearing a light blue team uniform, his pale face made people feel as if he was cold all over.

Fang Yu is a player with a rather cold personality. He likes to be alone and has no friends other than his teammates. He is not very good at socializing and is the "ultimate otaku" among otakus. However, no one dares to deny his ability in competitions.

The female commentator said excitedly: "Speaking of which, Tang Muzhou is the apprentice of Chen Qianlin, the founder of the Wood Element, and Fang Yu is the apprentice of Su Yang, the founder of the Water Element. The duel between the two apprentices should represent the strongest levels of the Wood Element and the Water Element!"

The male commentator said, "This match is really exciting. Next, we enter the first round of the finals. The two sides start drawing lots! Let's take a look at the results of the draw... Fang Yu drew blue. He has the first choice. What map will he choose?"

Fang Yu didn't hesitate much and directly chose an "ice room" map.

The design of this map is also very interesting. It is a pure "ice room" with walls and ground covered with ice. It looks very cold even in the middle of winter.

The temperature of this map is indeed very low. After players enter the map, the temperature of the entire map will continue to drop, adding a negative "cold" effect to all cards in the map. When the cold is stacked to three layers, all cards in the map will be frozen for 5 seconds, and the map cannot be unfrozen. Players can only be forced to wait for 5 seconds for the ice to melt.

Since the entire map is frozen, everyone turns into ice sculptures together, which is fair to both parties.

But the water system is best at freezing and controlling the field. If Fang Yu calculates the cooling time of the map well, and uses the water system's water poison stacking to control the opponents collectively while the opponents are frozen by the map, it is equivalent to combining and connecting "map control" and "card control", which can cause group freezing for up to 8 seconds!

If Fenghua wants to deal with this map, he must bring more control-releasing and control-free cards to prevent Fang Yu from connecting the continuous freeze. Tang Muzhou also knew this, and the moment he saw the opponent's map appear, he quickly adjusted his deck.

——A good commander must not only learn to use the existing deck to play the game, but also learn to adapt to circumstances and adjust at any time.

However, even though Tang Muzhou adjusted the deck, Fang Yu's mental arithmetic ability was so strong that it was abnormal!

There are 20 cards. He knows exactly which card has how many layers of negative water poison status and how long it will take to be frozen. It's like there is a calculator in his mind calculating it clearly, to the second.

He always manages to freeze Fenghua's key cards at the critical moment, causing great disruption to Fenghua's offensive rhythm.

The first game ended in 20 minutes, Liushuangcheng won, and Tang Muzhou was frozen to the point of losing his temper.

Shen An complained: "Every time I play against Liushuang City, I feel a chill down my spine. It's winter, and it's freezing me to death!"

The scene effects in the holographic game are very realistic, so in the "ice room" scene, everyone will experience the "cold" environment firsthand, which is also a psychological torture for the players. Tang Muzhou also had a headache. To be honest, there are so many strong clubs in the alliance, and what he hates most is to fight a team battle with Fang Yu.

In the second game, Tang Muzhou immediately chose a lively and sunny forest map to give everyone a break.

He didn't want to drag out the fight with Fang Yu, so he simply used the "Cooling Down" deck and asked Xu Changfeng to bring cards that reduced the CD of the group, and to fight quickly, destroying Fang Yu's core cards first, making it impossible for them to control the field.

The first two games were 1:1, which was also within Xie Mingzhe's expectations.

The finals are played in five games, and the third game is very crucial.

Fang Yu chose a snowy map, hoping to slowly grind in the late game, but was defeated by Tang Muzhou again with a cooling deck. Liushuang City's home court is the most difficult to play, and being able to win against Fang Yu at home also shows how strong Tang Muzhou's command is.

Fenghua beat Liushuangcheng 2:1 and took the lead in taking the match point.

However, in the fourth game, at Fenghua's home court, Liushuang City fought back and won another game, making the score of the first four games a 2:2 tie!

Chen Xiao couldn't help but sigh: "Fang Yu is indeed the most resilient player. The great players in the league privately nicknamed him 'the invincible hedgehog'. His deathrattle cards are really too annoying!"

If you attack him, his cards can still give all kinds of weird buffs to your teammates after they die. If you don't attack him, you can't win. How to deal with deathrattle cards is a headache for all the great players in the league.

In the first four rounds, both teams won one game at home and one game away. The last round will decide who will be the champion of this season!

There was a ten-minute break before the final round, and the fans on both sides cheered at the top of their lungs. The players on the stage all looked calm.

Fang Yu's brows were slightly wrinkled, as if he was thinking about something.

His second junior fellow apprentice Qiao Xi whispered something in his ear with a smile. After a moment, Fang Yu finally nodded, apparently having made an important decision.

When Xie Mingzhe saw this scene, he suddenly felt uneasy.

Why does he always have a bad feeling?