Unlike Ah Yajun’s class teacher, Li Fan did not seek out Li Pu the night before the final.
Instead, he went along with Hidekatsu and Jia to indulge in the nightlife, experiencing the heavy cultural flavors of Zhongdu.
After all, in his view, this is just a small event, nothing too noteworthy or worth worrying about.
There are many card gas in life; this is just one of them.
Moreover, considering Li Pu’s season in this championship, having personally defeated platinum players, reaching the final four already ensures he can advance directly to the platinum rank through offline results, even if he only ends up fourth in this tournant.
As for Li Pu himself, he shut himself in his room.
He thoroughly studied the deck compositions and styles that his three opponents have displayed thus far.
He ca up with three different foundational tactical ideas for facing the three players.
Of course, the prepared tactics may be altered based on their on-site performance during tomorrow’s matches with others.
The next day, the day of the final arrived.
The audience seats were packed, and there was even a format never adopted during the elimination phase before.
They added two professional comntators.
These comntators, one male and one female, are quite renowned within Zhongdu’s cubic card player circle.
The male comntator is the vice president of the Cubic Card Association here, with many years of research into cubic cards, diamond rank.
The female comntator is the top player in the Zhongdu player rankings, known as Zhongdu’s Card King, master rank.
The finals consist of only six matches, so they are scheduled for the evening after dinner.
This way, players can get more rest, and it conveniently allows spectators to watch after work.
The Vice President: [Good evening, everyone!]
The Vice President: [I’m your familiar friend, the Vice President!]
Card King: [Good evening, everyone, I’m Xiaohu]
Card King: [It’s an honor to again be comnting on the annual Southwest Star Cup]
The Vice President: [Alright, I believe everyone has been waiting for a long ti, so now let’s welco our four players tonight!]
Under the Vice President’s passionate tone, the audience who had been waiting for a long ti finally erupted.
"Momo! Momo!" xN
"Ji Rougui! Show them the strength of the bros!" xN
"Wu Xing Wu Xing you’re the best! Wu Xing Wu Xing you’re the best!" xN
"Ah Ya Ah Ya, go for it!" xN
At this ti, the audience was divided into four camps, each choosing to support their favorite player.
Among them, Wu Xing and Li Pu’s cheers were the loudest.
Wu Xing is a young lady, and basically, 80% of the male audience stand by her.
As for Li Pu, it’s because he’s handso enough, sothing he can’t control.
Of course, the other two also have considerable cheers.
Xiong Gui attracted popularity with his unusually styled bro deck.
Ah Yajun is the strongest contender for the championship.
The Vice President: [Alright, now let’s have the staff co onto the stage to perform our draw!]
After introducing the four players, the host cued the staff.
Thus, a huge circular wheel was pushed onto the stage by a group of people.
The wheel is divided into many small grids, akin to the roulette wheel in a casino.
The numbers of the four players are evenly distributed in these circle grids.
The rotation of the wheel determines the order of the six finals today.
Under the staff’s arrangent, Li Pu as number 1 first approached the wheel.
The backstory of this number 1 is rather aningful.
It is based on the matches since the 2048 to 1024 elimination round, right until the 8 to 4 round, determined by the number of rounds.
The player with the fewer rounds has the more forward number.
Because Li Pu often made opponents surrender, sowhat unexpectedly, he used the fewest rounds.
Number 2 is Ah Yajun, his steady style actually consus rounds, but he has several records of quickly forcing opponents to surrender, so he didn’t use many rounds.
Number 3 is red-haired girl Wu Xing, her deck is aggressive, giving her an advantage in round usage.
Number 4 is naturally Xiong Gui; his journey to the final four was rather tumultuous, facing several opponents with entangling tactics, thus dragging down his round count.
With Li Pu’s spin, the first round’s schedule was determined.
First Round:
Li Pu VS Wu Xing
Ah Yajun VS Xiong Gui
The second spin by Ah Yajun.
Second Round:
Ah Yajun VS Wu Xing
Li Pu VS Xiong Gui
Players number 3 and 4 do not qualify to spin the wheel, because the third round’s schedule is determined by the results of the first two rounds.
Third Round:
Wu Xing VS Xiong Gui
Li Pu VS Ah Yajun
Once the schedule was fully decided, the matches officially began.
For the first ga, it’s Li Pu against Wu Xing.
Now the entire rectangular venue stage is like a card table magnified hundreds of tis.
An empty board with 3 rows and 6 columns appears on this card table through holographic projection technology.
Hanging on the depot is a four-sided big screen, used to broadcast the interaction between players.
As for Li Pu and Wu Xing, they arrived at the center of the stage, beside a regular card table enveloped in a custom protective shield.
The purpose of this protective shield is to isolate external interference.
To prevent players from hearing the audience or comntators during the match.
The Vice President: [The first ga is finally about to start. I wonder which side Card King favors?]
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