Chapter 451 Seed Ranking
"The Great Sword Demon has lost his ability to fight. The battle is over. The winner is Li Jing, the master of the Gusheng Gym!"
With the referee's final decision, the gym challenge came to an end. The audience seats around burst into thunderous cheers, celebrating the winner.
"Damn..."
The gloomy young man looked at the greatsword ghost who was unable to fight, his face became even gloomier, and he clenched his fists tightly.
"Huh... come back."
Then he took a deep breath, took back the elf, and walked out of the battlefield silently.
“Thank you, thank you for your support.”
Li Jing waved to the cheering audience around him and walked towards the exit of the battlefield.
"Dad, I just saw your fight, it was so cool!"
Li Fan and Lin Shi were waiting for Li Jing at the exit. As they watched him come out, Li Fan excitedly stepped forward and said.
"Haha... Of course, when did your dad become uncool?"
Li Jing smiled brightly, then turned his gaze to Lin Shi.
"This must be Lin Shi, right? I always hear Xiaofan talking about you. I heard that you have already obtained two official gym badges. You are really a young man to be feared. I can't help but admire you."
"Master Li Jing, you are too kind. It was just luck."
Lin Shi touched his nose and said modestly that he has always been low-key.
"By the way, Dad, who was that challenger just now? He doesn't look very old, but he is very strong."
Li Fan recalled and said that the young man just now looked about the same age as him, but he had already started challenging the gym, which surprised him a little.
"Oh, the challenger just now is called Duan Yiyang. He is a few years older than you. He is a contestant in this year's National Youth Championship, also in the Northeast Region."
Li Jing recalled the challenger's information and spoke slowly.
"Contestants? That's not right. Aren't auditions going to start in three days? Registration should have ended long ago. What's the point in challenging a gym now?"
Li Fan was stunned when he heard this, not quite understanding the situation.
"No, it's not."
It was Lin Shi who spoke this time. As a contestant who had already obtained two official gym badges, he knew more.
"Sister Ying told me about the competition. What you said just now is correct. The registration period has now closed."
"So even if he successfully obtained two official badges during this period, he would not be able to skip the auditions, but it would have other uses."
"Other uses?"
Li Fan asked in confusion. Although he had also signed up for the tournament, he really didn't know any of these things.
After all, his strength is there, and he doesn't plan to get very good results in this national championship. His goal is the next one or the one after that.
In fact, the fact that Lin Shi was able to possess such strength in his sophomore year is not enough to be described as a monster.
"Correct."
Lin Shi nodded and continued to explain.
"It also represents the seeding a player will receive."
The Shenzhou Alliance is too large and has a large population. It is not realistic for all contestants to directly enter the national-level competition. After all, this is not a small competition.
Therefore, each region must first conduct a selection, and only those who make it to the top eight in the region are eligible to enter the national competition.
There are generally only two types of people who can sign up for regional competitions. One is people like Lin Shilifan, who are local residents. As long as they meet the age requirements and have the registration qualifications, they can sign up directly.
The second type is if you are not a local, but a college student studying in a local university, you can also choose to participate in competitions in the area. The second type of rules is only limited to youth-level competitions and is not applicable to official competitions.
"You should know that if you obtain two official gym badges, you will compete after the regional competition begins, which means you will directly enter the top 128 in the region."
"These 128 players will be divided into two halves, and will be eliminated in pairs to determine the top eight."
"But there is a problem here. If we use a completely random distribution method, it may cause all the strong ones to be concentrated in the same half area, while the strength of the other half area will be relatively weak."
"In order to avoid this and allow the strongest players in the region to enter the national competition, all seven regions in Shenzhou have adopted this seed ranking method."
"Let the odd-numbered and even-numbered seeded players enter the upper and lower halves respectively, so as to ensure that the strong players can give full play to their strengths as much as possible."
"For example, I am seeded No. 5, so my opponents will be No. , No. , No. and No. ."
Lin Shi did not mention the No. 1 seed because the No. seed will not participate in the regional competition, he will directly enter the national competition as a recommendation.
Lin Shi finished speaking in one breath, leaving Li Fan dumbfounded. However, the rules were not difficult and he quickly understood them.
"So what you mean is that the challenger just now wanted to improve his ranking before the official competition?"
Li Fan understood.
"Yeah, that should be it." Lin Shi nodded and replied.
Ranking manipulation happens all the time, some do it to make their opponents more suitable, others just for the false reputation of a higher ranking.
In fact, Lin Shi now doesn’t understand why he is the No. 5 seed, but one thing is certain, the four people ahead of him must also have the strength to challenge and defeat the gym leader.
"So that's how it is. That's quite exciting." Li Fan licked his lips, as if rankings were always exciting.
"Haha...Okay, classmate Lin Shi has explained it to you clearly, so let's not stand here anymore. I've already arranged the food, let's eat and talk at the same time."
Li Jing smiled brightly, patted their shoulders and spoke.
"Excuse me, you guys go first, I'm going to the toilet first..."
"Wow..."
The sound of cool running water was heard as Lin Shi carefully washed his hands.
Suddenly a figure flashed past the toilet door. Lin Shi looked up and saw that it was the challenger from before.
I saw him holding the Greatsword Ghost and the Poké Ball tightly in his hand, with a ferocious look on his face, and saying something to the Poké Ball.
Seeing this scene, Lin Shi frowned. He didn't understand lip reading very well, but he could tell that he was scolding the elf because of the loss of the game just now.
Lin Shi is not in a position to comment on this kind of behavior, after all, every trainer has his own training methods and style.
But if we look at the battle just now, the trainer actually has a big problem. Although Lin Shi did not watch the entire battle, he was able to see the other two Pokémon used by Duan Yiyang.
They are Frog King and Lotte Kappa, plus Great Sword Ghost. It is not difficult to see that the system he uses should be the Rainy Day Team.
Therefore, the rainy weather at the end of the battle should not have been Li Jing's trick, but should have been used by his elf.
As a trainer, it is important to have the ability to deal with and anticipate such situations, and not just blame the Pokémon.
Of course, these were just Lin Shi's guesses, and he was not such a good teacher. After washing his hands, the other party had already left, and Lin Shi also returned to reunite with Li Fan.
Lin Shi did not plan to go to the Paleozoic Secret Realm today, because according to his plan, he would be in the Paleozoic Secret Realm for the next few days, so he was not in a hurry and would take a good rest first.
A few people were eating and chatting. Li Jing had already known about Lin Shi's entry into the secret realm, and he readily agreed.
He could see the potential in Lin Shi, so naturally he hoped that Li Fan could make friends with Lin Shi.
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