Chapter 205
At first, Jiang Yunu didn't understand what "league warm-up" meant. When she first heard this term, she showed an expression that was in line with the stereotype of "country girl" and did not hesitate to reveal her ignorance.
She directly pulled the resourceful Pei Ya aside and asked, "What do you mean by 'warm-up for the joint competition of advanced supernatural schools'?"
The senior league in the upper three zones is like using an old-fashioned liquefied gas stove to cook over high heat. Before you start cooking, you have to preheat the pan and wait for the oil to heat up or something?
Pei Ya had long been accustomed to Jiang Yunu's lack of common sense in this area, and was no longer surprised by her sudden questions.
Pei Ya patiently explained, "Before the Senior League officially began, there was always a promotional period. This was the largest student competition in the Upper Three Districts, and it allowed us to identify promising students who could be directly transferred to the three major associations after graduation, becoming the new generation of pillars of the associations."
Unlike the primary league which is related to students' academic advancement assessment, the senior league is also closely related to the graduation development of college students. Moreover, the latter has higher gold content, and the competition results are more convincing of personal talents.
"Some schools, despite not performing well in competitions, still insist on competing for league spots in the Challenge Cup," Pei Ya said. "Actually, this isn't about performance, but about getting students to show up in competitions and gain recognition."
The final result of the league is the team result, but even if the overall performance of the team is average, the outstanding individuals in it may not be without the opportunity to be remembered.
"Being seen" means that you are getting attention. If you get attention, then some opportunities related to personal development and future are knocking on your door.
Because the Senior League is such an important event with many participating schools, high attention, and covering a wide range of groups, in order to highlight its large scale and important nature, every time the Senior League is about to start, there must be publicity before it starts.
"The warm-up generally consists of two important parts." Pei Ya brought up the screen of her personal terminal and increased the size so that Jiang Yunu could lean over and watch with her. Pointing at the screen, she continued, "The first is to put out various promotions to announce the upcoming league. The second is to showcase the strength of this year's teams and create an atmosphere that the event will be exciting and eye-catching. We'll also hold a special exhibition match."
Jiang Yunu asked a clear yet foolish question: "Exhibition match? But our school doesn't seem to have received any notice, nor any instructions regarding preparations for the exhibition match?"
Pei Ya deadpanned, "Of course it is. A fantastic exhibition match that showcases the strength of this year's teams and the intensity of the competition—does this have anything to do with our school?"
The exhibition match not only has nothing to do with the "bottom-place goalkeeper" Golden Uriel Academy, it can be said that it has nothing to do with all schools except the first district.
Jiang Yunu then realized that this kind of promotional competition with adjectives such as "strong" and "intense and exciting" in front of it was only open to former championship contenders of the senior league.
Judging from the championship performance in previous senior leagues, it has basically been firmly welded to two schools - Duma College and Diyao College in the first district.
"If another school could make it to the finals of a league and get the chance to compete with one of these two schools for the championship trophy, then in the next senior league, this school might also be able to play in an exhibition match as the 'previous top two'." Pei Ya shrugged slightly. "What a pity..."
Ole Miss, who has a wide range of intelligence sources, did not continue speaking, but her body language and tone clearly told her: ...It's a pity that such a school has not appeared so far.
No one can shake the status of Duma and Diyao Academy in competing for the championship every year, and no one can break the "TOP2" ranking barrier that has been fixed for a long time.
Without new championship contenders, the exhibition game would of course belong only to those two specific schools.
Over time, the public has even tacitly accepted that "exhibition matches" only belong to the first region.
After all, who else could do this besides them? Who could truly live up to the reputation of being "powerful" and "intense and exciting"?
Jiang Yunu figured out the whole story behind the exhibition match. She sorted out the information and sighed, "I thought only resources were monopolized. How come even good reputations seem to be monopolized?"
"Because they have monopolized the resources first, and their status built up with the resources has been consolidated, the opportunities to build a good reputation are only for them. Over time, they will naturally have no shortage of resources, status, and reputation." Pei Ya said calmly.
"...It's broken." Jiang Yunu leaned on Pei Ya's shoulder. She suddenly said sinisterly, "It sounds like we're gossiping about others behind their backs, like we're saying sour things behind their backs."
Pei Ya's attitude was indifferent: "Then just consider it as me being jealous."
"I'm jealous too." Jiang Yunu agreed.
It is human nature to admit that you are a little unbalanced when facing a gap, and you don't have to deny your emotions.
The exhibition match was held on the weekend of the week when the senior league was being promoted. The participating schools were indeed Duma and Diyao from the first district. Other schools were not on the invitation list, and only a "holographic viewing invitation" was issued to each school.
Even the school team must attend this movie viewing.
With the mentality of "let me take a look", Jiang Yunu walked into the specially opened holographic viewing room with the school team members. After they entered the room, found seats and sat down, and put on holographic glasses, the surrounding scene automatically changed, and the original indoor space was transformed into an audience box with panoramic windows.
——This was indeed a very exciting exhibition match.
Jiang Yunu never believed that her school team had any real "fatal disadvantages." Even though many people, including the team members themselves, felt that they were weak in team combat and that their individual strengths could not match the strength of the "TOP2 teams," in her opinion, she felt that her team also had its own advantages, and those shortcomings in teamwork might not be irreconcilable.
She initially admitted that she was jealous of the "TOP2 team" status, but after watching the joint exhibition match between the two schools, she also admitted that the other side is indeed strong.
Both Duma Academy and Diyao Academy already seem to have the demeanor of a full-time supernatural team.
Duma Academy's fighting style is a "vanguard charge." No one in the entire team is a drag. Even the support staff possess a certain level of combat capability, capable of independently supporting both the damage and defense of a key point when necessary. While the support staff possesses this level of combat power, Duma Academy's core damage output is unmatched, their captain acting as the stabilizing force in battle.
Wherever the captain of Duma Academy is, Duma Academy will have a complete upper hand in the battle, forcing the opponent Diyao Academy to constantly change positions to avoid direct conflict with the area where Captain Duma is.
The Diyao Academy team possessed a stronger sense of unity, remaining tightly cohesive as a whole, like a barrel moving across a battlefield, a ground-based combat vehicle armed with robust firepower. Their collective movements were swift and stable, allowing them to engage in combat at will. During battle, their formations remained stable, allowing them to adapt their response strategies based on the number of enemy units.
All the members of Duma Academy are pioneers, but a lone pioneer will have a hard time against a mobile group.
The format of this exhibition match is "grab the point".
In the planned real-life combat area, the team that occupies more points before the end of the game timer will win.
During the game, you can also capture, plant and defend the opponent's "occupied" points.
"This competition system seems to allow the 'vanguard' to move more flexibly, but the 'iron bucket' can hold the largest points." Sorok commented softly while watching the exhibition match.
The points within the combat zone are naturally not evenly divided, and the areas vary in size.
In the end, Duma College won the game by occupying one more community.
Jiang Yunu had a strange sense of "no surprise" about the person who grabbed the extra area - that was the captain of Duma Academy, Shen Yijing.
When the exhibition match ended, the Golden Uriel team also automatically left the holographic viewing box.
Senior Ye Li was not far from Jiang Yunu. He took off his holographic glasses and said to Ao Liang, "Chen Yijing is more oppressive than he was in his freshman year. If it were me, I would also give up fighting with him for the community at the last minute."
Senior Ye Li's voice was full of avoidance towards Shen Yijing.
Senior Ouliang also said, "Yes."
Someone gently touched Jiang Yunu's shoulder. She turned around and found it was Senior Jin Qing.
Jin Qing asked, "What about you?"
Jiang Yunu tilted his head slightly.
Senior Jin Qing asked again: "If it were you, would you give up and fight with Captain Shen of Duma Academy for the things?"
The senior sister's tone was pure curiosity, and after Jiang Yunu listened, she thought for a few seconds and showed an expression that could be said to be shy to the senior sister.
"This is bad," she said. "If I had the chance to encounter it on the battlefield, I would really want to try it."
Jin Qing: "Try what?"
Jiang Yunu: "Just grab the things from him."
Just thinking about snatching something from someone who is generally recognized as being evasive is exciting!
After the exhibition match, there were less than ten days left before the players from each school set off for the league base.
As usual, Jiang Yunu took the time to make a series of reporting calls, informing everyone she should notify about her upcoming itinerary, and received a series of blessings from relatives and friends in the Seventh District.
When the call reached Zhou Jinxue, Jiang Yunu was particularly attentive and listened carefully to the senior sister's tone, intonation, and other subtle reactions on the phone.
She has been promoted to the second year of college at the beginning of this semester. Logically, Zhou Jinxue, who was already in graduation season last semester, should also be promoted to a senior school and enter the first year of a college this semester.
But Jiang Yunu was unable to send Zhou Jinxue his blessing for further studies.
Because when she was playing in the district competition during the summer vacation, she learned from the message sent by Xie Shi that Senior Zhou's father was seriously ill, so she applied to postpone the registration time of her new school. At the latest, she might not be able to go to school to complete the registration and registration this semester.
"Senior." Jiang Yunu waited for a long time before Zhou Jinxue answered the phone. She greeted her softly, "Are you okay? Am I disturbing you by calling at this hour?"
Zhou Jinxue said on the other end of the line, "No, I just happened to be free. I'm glad you called me."
Even without Jiang Yunu saying anything, Zhou Jinxue had already guessed the purpose of her call and proactively congratulated her, "Are you going to play in the senior school league? I saw the promotional video on the floating screen here a few days ago."
Jiang Yunu said, "Well, yes."
In fact, Jiang Yunu wanted to ask Zhou Jinxue more questions, such as the specific situation of the other party's family and whether there was anything she could help with from the senior sister. However, the senior sister avoided the topic and tactfully avoided it.
In the end, she didn't get anything out of her questions, so she had to respect the boundaries that Zhou Jinxue still maintained.
After reporting to relatives and friends, I continued to train on campus for another week with the members of the Golden Uriel school team.
The school began to notify the team members to pack up and prepare to leave for the league base.
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