Xuan Mo had always prided herself to be an person who exercised restraint well . When she did see the rankings however, she still couldnât help but curse .
There were two leaderboards after the points-based knockout round ends, a board for points, and a board for the teams that won . The majority usually only paid attention to the points board . Though itâs good enough to win a battle, there were way too many knockout rounds played before the elimination round, and teams would usually win half the time, so whether they could proceed to the next round depended on the points .
The points calculation was incredibly complicated; it consisted of base building points, battle points, maintenance points, nutrients points⌠though the team that won would earn a large amount of points on top of everything else, it was still up to the system to determine the final points based on the teamsâ performance .
Xuan Mo along with Thunder team took the lightning-battle-sneaky-tricks route . As such, it was natural for them to end up with low points . Xuan Mo was not familiar with these, hence she believed that as long as they won, it was enough .
They won all three points-based knockout round .
Yet at the same time, they lost; they had one of the lowest scores among the teams that won all three rounds .
The other battles took half an hour each, whereas Xuan Mo wiped out the enemies within fifteen minutes . Though they didnât have much losses, how much points could they gain when their battles were half the time of others? Not only so, the other teams were seasoned and crafty; these points-centric teams would rather lose than earn less points than their opponents .
There were 370 slots on the points leaderboard, and 220 on the victory board . Thunder team scored worse than the teams that did not win all three of their battles .
âItâs ok, itâs ok, points only come into play when there is a tie in the number of victories . Weâll do fine! Even if the other teams have high scores, we are still the team that has more victories . â Xuan Moâs expression was poor when the others came over to console her .
Of course Xuan Mo was upset . She had well over a hundred battles under her belt; after a war, the only thing that would be talked about was the contribution of the soldier, who gave a damn about points?! Oh what, you earned one point if you defeated a plane, gained more points if you defeated a battleship, and youâd lose a point if you lose a soldier, where the heck did such a formula came about even?!
âHumph!â This was much more expressive than any other words of anger . Xuan Mo turned violently and strided out the internet cafe .
The few of them watched in a daze when Xuan Mo walked out . Ah La Lei scratched his head: âSay, Lu Yu Chen, whyâs your sis⌠soâŚâ
âSo what?!â Lu YU Chenâs face was cold, as though heâd pounce up at him to bite him if he were to speak poorly of Xuan Mo .
âUh, delicate, I was meaning to say delicateâŚâ
âYouâre the delicate one! And youâre a shota too!â Lu Yu Chen rebutted loudly . He bid Tan Lu En and the rest goodbye before he grabbed his jacket and rushed out .
Ah La Lei didnât know whether to laugh or cry: âReally, this guy⌠Iâm old enough to be an uncleâŚâ
Tan Lu En that had been viewing the spectacle from the side suddenly called: âAh La Lei, check the team channel . â
Every game would have their own team channel . Usually people would chat randomly . When the points-based knockout round started, it became the channel for the team members to communicate . Itâs usually not open to public, and would only be restricted to the team members .
A team called Qi Mei La reached out, and the team leader Qi Mei La sent them a message: âThis is flabbergasting, you guys actually managed to get into the top 500!â
Ah La Lei, quickly opened the leaderboards and searched Qi Mei La up . They scored 130 for their first round . Though they were average, Ah La Lei instantly laughed gleefully, for he had once been someone whoâd look up at this team from beyond the top 500: âAhaha, bro weâve been having intensive training, this is just us warming up . Just wait, weâll be begging to lose a round hahaha!â
âYeah sure, keep smoking, you liar! You didnât want to join when we invited you back then, and all you did was to bring your team participating in all sorts of competition all day⌠why? Who was the one who said they wonât join a team unless theyâre not a top-notch player? And whatâs with this sudden development, spill it, where dâyou get your training regime that got you this far, brother dark horse!â
âWhy?! I canât improve and become stronger? âNuff with the probing, Iâll show you how strong I am sooner or later!â
âHeh, say Ah La Lei, donât be so stingy . Let me tell you something, Iâm only interested in your game recording, heâs said that you guys are playing with a lightning game, how classic; you definitely have some incredibly strong guy commanding your team . Of course the person doesnât seem to be very good at StarCraft⌠you dug the person from Chinese Chess class didnât you, what rank is the guy?â
âThe hell! Whaâchu sayinâ, why canât it be my charisma that attracted a military elite student?â
âIf you were that charismatic, why did Na Na run off with someone else hahaha! ⌠. ⌠⌠the guyâs really a military elite student?â
Ah La Lei smoked him in glee: âOf course, they call this person the king of bullets, an elite! Games and whatnot, maneuvering and game awareness, these are nothing to my guy; this eliteâs amazing!â
âShit, when are you gonna intro me someone like that?â
âTryâna headhunt my guy? Impossible!â
âSince the guy is willing to stay with you, itâd be hard for other teams to dig him over too no, I just wanna widen my horizons . â
It was only then did Ah La Lei realise heâd exaggerated a little too much . She was a friendâs little sister; he didnât know her number, and hadnât even familiarised himself with her name yet, why would she appear just became he needed her to come overâŚ
The other team could definitely sense his hesitance, and so the other teamâs leader immediately added: âItâs fine, incredible people like them must be busy, itâs fine even if you canât get him down, why not you guys just come over to our place next time when thereâs a competition, everyone can play together and take care of each other in the future . â
When he thought about the battered up machines in his internet cafe, Ah La Lei had to admit that the equipment at their place was top-notch, no matter how much he wanted to deny it . And so, he nodded and agreed .