On October 25, the second round of the playoffs officially ended, and the list of the top four teams in the 11th season team competition was finally determined - Fenghua and Guijiu from Group A, and Judgment and Nirvana from Group B.

The league gave the four teams a week to prepare.

On Saturday, October 31 at 7pm, Fenghua vs. Guiji, and on Sunday, November 1 at 7pm, Nirvana vs. Judgment. The two semi-finals will select the group champions, and the two groups of champions will finally have the annual ultimate showdown to determine the ownership of the championship trophy.

At this point, the difference in strength between the four teams is actually very small. Who wins and who loses depends entirely on tactical arrangements and on-the-spot performance. The online voting channel for the prediction of this season's champion has been opened. Fenghua, Guiji and Judgment are all old clubs with many die-hard fans. The votes are evenly matched. What is rare is that Nirvana, a rookie team in the eleventh season, also occupies 25% of the support rate!

The victory over All-Temple in the last match gave Nirvana’s fans full confidence in this team.

Just like what was said online - Nirvana is a team that is good at creating miracles!

What's more, the endless mode of the match between Nirvana and the Temple of the Gods only used more than 40 cards, which accounts for less than one-third of the total card pool of Nirvana. There are still a large number of skills of the cards made by Xie Mingzhe that have not been announced, and fans are full of expectations.

At this time, Nirvana was nervously preparing tactics for the next game.

During the one-week training period, the four of them stayed indoors, almost cut off from the world, and focused on the running-in of their decks. Xie Mingzhe and Tang Muzhou also did not contact each other. Both of them understood each other very well. After all, Fenghua was also busy preparing for the competition, and the competition was the most urgent matter.

Time flies, and it is October 31st in a blink of an eye. The semi-finals of the playoffs officially begin!

Since both teams were very popular, tickets to the game were hard to come by, and the number of viewers for the online live broadcast broke the season record. Fortunately, professional players were allowed to watch the game from the backstage, and the four members of Nirvana also came to the scene together under the leadership of Chen Qianlin.

Fenghua vs. Guiji was even closer than Xie Mingzhe had expected. The score went from 1:1 to 2:2 until the final round. The number of death cards on both sides was very close. The 10-minute final round was extremely intense, with all kinds of plants, jokers, and monsters on the field.

In the final crucial team battle, Gui Sirui used Dr. Ghost to eat Tang Muzhou's invincible shield and collected five cards from Fenghua, narrowing the gap between the two sides to three cards. With only 10 seconds left in the game, Tang Muzhou used an unexpected counter-control to kill four cards from Guiyu in one breath, narrowing the gap to one card, and then used Ivy to connect all the cards for comprehensive defense!

——Until the last second of the game, the death card count on the big screen was confirmed to be 25:24, and Fenghua won!

Xie Mingzhe was terrified watching from the backstage.

If the senior brother had not been calm enough, when Guiyu took five cards from Fenghua in a row, Fenghua might have collapsed. It can be seen that Tang Muzhou's ability to seize opportunities in unfavorable situations is extremely terrifying, and the beautiful counterattack at the last moment is definitely a classic operation that ranks among the top five best team battles this season.

The hell can only stop here. Old Zheng smiled helplessly and said with emotion: "Young people are to be feared. I may really be old!"

Gui Sirui smiled and said, "Master, you are only thirty years old. You are the most reliable handsome single uncle in the eyes of girls. How can you say you are old?"

Zheng Feng was furious and patted his apprentice's shoulder hard, saying, "Don't mention the word 'single'. I, Zheng, have lived for 30 years, but I am not as emotionally rich as Xie Mingzhe's card."

Gui Sirui said: "I have lived for twenty-two years and have not had much emotional experience."

Liu Jingxu said expressionlessly: "Me too."

Everyone started to complain about Xie Mingzhe. Xie Mingzhe, who was watching the game in the backstage, sneezed for no apparent reason. It was strange. Why did he keep sneezing during the match between Guiji and Fenghua? Was this a bad sign?

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The next morning, Xie Mingzhe woke up in high spirits and called the team members to make final preparations.

The tactical error in the previous match against the Temple of the Gods taught Chen Qianlin a great lesson, so when dealing with the referee, he did not target any of the referees.

In the first half of the regular season, the players who took part in the team battle were Nie Yuandao, Shan Lan, Shao Dongyang, and newcomers Li Jiu/Le Tianyun.

Shao Dongyang is a player who debuted in the same batch as Tang Muzhou, but Tang Muzhou was too aggressive back then, which made Shao Dongyang look pale in comparison. But in fact, this player is very calm and low-key, and he is also the founder of the "Beast Summoning" style of play.

The so-called summoning flow is to let a main card summon a large number of sub-cards to cooperate in combat. The sub-cards will inherit some of the attributes of the main card. Moreover, Shao Dongyang's summoning beast cards are different from the summoning cards made by Xie Mingzhe.

Xie Mingzhe's summoning cards, such as Lu Junyi summoning five soldiers and Fengdu Dadi summoning five ghosts, will damage the main card after killing the soldiers/ghosts. However, the characteristic of Shao Dongyang's summoning cards is that after the summoned "pets" are killed, the main card will not be affected at all, that is to say, if you want to kill his card, you must kill the main card.

For example, the card "Wolf King" will summon a pack of wolves to attack. Killing the little wolf is useless. Killing the wolf king directly will completely kill this card. In a chaotic situation, it is not so easy to kill the main card directly. This is one of the reasons why Shao Dongyang is particularly annoying in the individual competition. He enters the top 16 of the individual competition every year, and his best result is the third place in the individual competition.

Among the judges, the popularity of Master Nie Lan and his apprentice is at the superstar level. Shao Dongyang has a face that is difficult to recognize in a crowd, and he is usually low-key, so his popularity is obviously not as good as these two. However, his strength is definitely not inferior to Ye Zhu, Zhen Man and other ace players of major clubs.

The other two newcomers, Li Jiu, whose ID in the Masters is Nine-Life Cat, played against Xie Mingzhe before. He is a newcomer who just debuted this season and his style is more offensive; Le Tianyun is a newcomer who debuted last year and usually controls defense and heal cards. The two newcomers were rotated several times in the regular season in the first half of the year. Nie Yuandao was probably preparing for his retirement and has been training the two newcomers this season.

There are two ways to play Judge. The first is for the four attackers Nie Yuandao, Shanlan, Shao Dongyang, and Li Jiu to directly confront each other head-on. Shanlan is responsible for air control and Shao Dongyang is responsible for ground control. There will be more than ten attack cards in the deck, and violence will be carried out to the end. The other is to replace Le Tianyun to be responsible for defense and win steadily.

No one could predict whether Nie Yuandao would attack violently and quickly or defend and focus on details when facing Nirvana until the official match. The referee's strongest point was the combination of land and air, so Chen Qianlin had to formulate tactics based on this.

Nirvana's pre-match preparation was very thorough, and the refereeing was equally thorough.

During this week, Nie Yuandao carefully analyzed Nirvana's existing decks and maps, and made rough responses to Nirvana's different tactical systems. November 1st arrived quickly, and players from both sides arrived at the competition venue at six o'clock.

The scene was packed with people, and fans of both sides brought a lot of support posters. The referee's posters had lots of lions, tigers, and flying birds drawn on them, just like a zoo.

The painting style of Nirvana is bizarre. The posters either show the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meeting on the Magpie Bridge, or Dong Yong and the Seven Fairies returning home together. There is also Lu Dongbin's "Life is like a big dream". Some fans even made a movie poster of "The Legend of White Snake"!

Xie Mingzhe: “…………”

On one side is the Zoo Concentration Camp, and on the other side is the Card Story Collection. Today's competition is really exciting!

Shanlan brought his laptop with him to play the pre-match guessing game.

He had been guessing who would lose recently, and since he was going to play against Nirvana today, he might as well give his opponent some bad luck. Shanlan bet all 1.5 million betting coins on Nirvana without hesitation - he couldn't guess who would win or lose in each round, but in the end, Nirvana would win. Once his curse power of guessing who would lose was activated, he might win.

Pei Jingshan saw Xiaolan lowering her head and playing seriously on the computer, and couldn't help but smile and said, "Xiaolan must have voted all the betting coins for Nirvana. This is a very wise move. If he guesses correctly, he will lose to Nirvana, but he will win the betting coins. If he guesses incorrectly, he will lose the betting coins, but he will win the game."

Ye Zhu: “…”

Brother Pei, won’t your tongue get tied if you talk like this?

Ye Zhu said solemnly, "Life is like a big dream. You don't need to be happy about what you get, and you don't need to be sad about what you lose. Whether you lose the coin guessing game or win the game, I believe Brother Lan will remain calm, because life still needs to move forward."

Pei Jingshan looked back at Ye Zhu in surprise: "Why are you so talkative all of a sudden?"

Ye Zhu was also stunned, and said, "You nag me every day, and Xie Mingzhe's cards have a terrible brainwashing effect. I don't know why I suddenly said this... By the way, what did I say just now?"

Pei Jingshan: “…”

It seems that Xiaozhu is a little mentally disturbed and needs to adjust himself.

The competition was about to begin. Shanlan put away his laptop and followed his master to the stage.

He was just playing pre-match guessing for fun, and didn't really believe in these curses and prophecies. In today's game, he had to rely on real strength to win. He knew in his heart that no matter whether he won or lost, it would be a fierce battle.