Chapter 589
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Ye Changfeng distributed leaflets to everyone, and they all looked at the schedule with serious expressions.
“Yuchi Shen, tell them about the current strength of each school this year,” Elder Luo said.
Yuchi Shen glanced emotionlessly at Xiang Beifei before he began to explain.
“But there’s a rule, a person can only participate in two matches at most, so when the time comes, I and the other teachers will need to analyze the situation and then decide how to allocate the order and opponents for the five of you,” he continued.
It was like Tian Ji’s horse racing, but not quite the same. During Tian Ji’s horse racing, there were three matches, allowing room for performance, but there was only one match between two schools, which was basically random. Generally, one would hope that other schools would face off against strong students from other schools first, using up their two chances, and when it was their turn, they could only employ weaker students.
Just like Qingzhou University and Liangzhou University, Qingzhou University had two SSRs this year, each needing to compete in two matches, meaning the two SSRs could at most fight in four matches.
Thus, Ye Changfeng hoped that Qingzhou University would use their four chances of the SSR’s appearances against the other seven schools, and by the time they faced his own team, Qingzhou University would have exhausted their slots and would only be able to send SRs, increasing his team’s chances of winning.
However, all the schools were elite, and the teachers in charge certainly understood this logic, so the allocation of who played when would essentially be a psychological game. Before the matches, no one could know whether the opponents would send the strong or the weak.
“As you must understand, our school does not have an SSR this year, which means our strength is weaker than other schools, and it will be hard for you to take advantage in individual matches,” Yuchi Shen said, his gaze fixed on Xiang Beifei.
“Apart from Qingzhou University, Yanzhou University, and Jizhou University, other schools also have only one SSR each, which means only one Meridian Opening stage student, so we don’t have to worry too much, thankfully we also have student Xiang Beifei,” Xi Keyao timidly added.
“The situation isn’t that simple,” Elder Luo stated, “The rules for individual matches are to play eight matches, one point per match, so the total score is very important. But have you considered, for other schools to aim for a higher total score, they will definitely find a way to secure this point, and whose point is almost guaranteed?”
Long Guocheng and the others realized: “At our Liangzhou University?”
Now all the other eight schools shared a common belief that Liangzhou University didn’t have an SSR this year, meaning no students at the Meridian Opening stage.
To secure an easy point, they would definitely send a Meridian Opening SSR to face Liangzhou University.
Because if an SSR faced another school, sometimes encountering another SSR opponent, both at the Meridian Opening stage, there would inevitably be a loss.
If it were their own loss, it wouldn’t be worthwhile.
But now, other schools believe that all students from Liangzhou University are only at the later stages of Qi-Controlling, so sending a Meridian Opening SSR to face only Qi-Controlling students from Liangzhou University was almost a certain victory.
Everyone wants to pick an easy target to secure an initial point!
“Exactly, which means our opponent in every match might be a Meridian Opening SSR!” Elder Luo said meaningfully.
“This…
The expressions on everyone’s faces turned grave.
Elder Luo continued, “Alright, next you five will need to discuss how to allocate players for the matches and how to break through this situation.”
“Really, why do they have to make a simple freshman competition so complicated?” Ma Ziqian muttered.
For them, martial artists, the most straightforward way was to go forth and fight a hard battle, which was the simplest method.
“Because this is also a tactic.”
Elder Luo said, “Facing opponents of unequal strength, how to arrange your players to break through this deadlock and secure more victories is a type of command strategy. Elite university competitions are not only about martial strength but also about the ability to adapt to various situations; how to most effectively use limited manpower tests both the leading teachers and the new students. Cultivating this kind of thinking can, in future confrontations with desolate beast waves, also be applied to fighting these waves.”
Elite university Martial Arts Colleges aim to cultivate pioneers and defenders, where the basic approach is combat-oriented.
In facing desolate beast waves, the desolate beasts’ strengths are unequal, so schools need to teach students how to use effective manpower to maximize combat power.
The rules of this freshman competition might seem unfair, with Meridian Opening stage facing Qi-Controlling stage, making the fights almost one-sided and not truly reflecting the freshmen’s actual strength.
But in fact, in facing desolate beasts, there’s never any notion of fairness!
In battles against desolate beasts, the beasts’ strength is often more formidable.
So how to win and secure the most points actually tests every university’s strategic planning abilities.
Which battles to forfeit, which battles to fight all-out, who to send against different opponents, learning which choices to make, engaging in psychological gamesmanship, they are competing not only in bravery but also in intelligence.
Elder Luo, although usually idle and not very serious, had once served as the chief commander in the Jiuzhou alliance against beast waves; his grasp of the overall situations in commanding battles was extremely potent.
As for what the original intentions of these elite school competitions were, he understood it better than anyone.