Chapter 383: Battle of Cocoon

Time passed quickly, and at midnight on May 16th, the preliminaries queue for the Peak Contest was closed.

The [Insect War] has come to an end.

May 16th is a rest day for the competition, and players can take a day off.

By the early morning of the 17th, the [Battle of Cocoon] will begin. Starting from the rematch, the game will be conducted on servers in sleep mode, and the time is scheduled from 1 to 2 a.m. Players who are not on standby in the landing space when the game begins will be deemed to have forfeited the game.

Every duel in [Battle of Cocoon] will be broadcast live. Players can watch any game on the screen in the login space or conference room. Players who like excitement can also go to the big screen in the game mall to watch. A popular game will be selected to be played on the main screen, and there will be two commentators from the game company to broadcast and comment.

Xiaotan's results in the preliminaries were quite satisfactory, but he failed to complete the winning streak and played all 50 games.

Although he has achieved nine consecutive victories and defeated professional players like Bu Tiange, as Brother Jue analyzed, it is inevitable to encounter players who restrain themselves...

In the end, Xiaotan's results were fixed at forty-two wins and eight losses. Anyway, according to Feng Bujue's theory, such a record is enough to qualify.

Because Xiaotan had to work overtime for a week continuously starting from May 8th, he had already finished all the preliminaries on the 7th. During the week of overtime work, he only played one or two scripts in sleep mode every day, and basically stopped going online during the day.

In the past seven or eight days, Brother Jue, Siyu, and Bei Ling have been lining up team bases together more often. If there are friends online, they will also call them to reduce the probability of meeting strangers... After all, Brother Jue Now that he is a celebrity, he is always asked questions by passers-by.

It is worth mentioning that just as the battle for supremacy is in full swing... Dream Company quietly launched their second game - Crazy Thinking.

Of course, it's just a trial version. Currently, players can only play practice mode with opponents simulated by optical brain, and the battle mode has not yet been opened.

This is a card battle game. The player plays the role of a "commander" with a "Duel Disk" on his arm. He leads his own "deck leader" and commands the monsters, traps, magic, etc. transformed into cards to fight against each other.

The game can be directly switched to the login space; lie down in the game cabin, and after completing the neural connection, just click [Welcome to the game login space, the following are all game projects provided by Dream Company, please choose to log in. ] In this step, just select [Crazy Thinking].

Feng Bujue said at the beginning that Meng Company was "very ambitious". That's right. The game cabins, game helmets and other hardware devices launched by Dream Company are all unique models, and the games they launch are all exclusive to their own hardware. Just imagine...if one day Dream Company's game cabins become compatible with games from other companies, then the hardware launched by other manufacturers will have no competitive advantage at all...

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It’s May 16th, it’s still five o’clock in the afternoon.

The list of 3,000 people who were successfully shortlisted for [Battle of Cocoon] was officially announced on the homepage of the official website.

actually. As early as an hour ago, each finalist had received an email informing them of their promotion, and it was also marked in red. The system voice will also give detailed prompts when they log in the last time.

Anyway. After the news was announced, some people were happy and some were sad.

The forum, which has gradually returned to stability recently, has once again started a posting frenzy.

Posts like "Hey... Didn't you really fail to advance after 35 wins?", "First, ten consecutive wins, and then four consecutive defeats.", "You rich people, are you going to let anyone live?"... or show off. , or angry, or looking for excuses... Anyway, everyone has participated in the [Insect War]. But those who failed to advance seemed to be suffering from great hatred. It seems that they have either been treated unfairly, or they have occasionally performed abnormally and have bad luck.

But as the devil - Mr. Simon once said: victory or defeat is victory or defeat. Loser. But that's it; winning means being strong.

The format of the preliminaries is quite reasonable, and most of the truly capable players have advanced. If you didn't make it, you can only blame yourself for not being strong enough. Making excuses won't change anything.

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At eight o'clock that night, the rules of [Battle of Cocoon] were also listed in detail.

The Cocoon Battle is divided into five rounds. There are two additional rounds of play-offs.

At one o'clock in the morning on May 17th, the first round of [Battle of Cocoon] began. Three thousand players will be randomly matched one-on-one to determine the winner group and the loser group, each with 1,500 players.

In the loser group, 1,380 players with poor preliminary results will be directly eliminated; the remaining 120 players will enter the play-offs.

At one o'clock in the morning on May 18th, the first round of the play-offs. The 120 people with the best preliminaries record in the loser group will be randomly matched one-on-one with the 120 people with the worst preliminary record in the winner group... The loser will be eliminated directly.

At one o'clock in the morning on May 19th, the second round of the playoffs. A rematch will be played between the remaining 120 players from the first round of the play-offs. The sixty players who survive the two rounds of play-offs can join the winner group.

At one o'clock in the morning on May 20th, the second round of [Battle of Cocoon]. There are 1,380 players in the winner group, plus 60 people who have passed the play-offs, a total of 1,440 players, participating in random matches. The loser will be eliminated directly.

At one o'clock in the morning on May 21st, the third round of [Battle of Cocoon]. Seven hundred and twenty into three hundred and sixty.

At 1:00 a.m. on May 22, the fourth round of [Battle of Cocoons]. 360 to 180.

At 1:00 a.m. on May 23, the fifth round of [Battle of Cocoons]. 180 to 90.

At this point, the [Battle of Cocoons] stage is over, and the last 90 players will be combined with 10 specially invited players to form the top 100 and enter the [Battle of Butterflies].

Basically speaking... in this rematch period, if you want to go further, you can't lose a single game...

These 3,000 people are all masters who have survived the test of time. I believe they also understand that every game is crucial. If you lose a game, you can only pay for it yourself.

Of course, the competition system still leaves a ray of leeway for the players.

Considering that the top players may meet too early in the first round, two rounds of playoffs are set up. Give them a chance to make a comeback. At the same time, the playoffs can also test the weaker players in the winner group.

In addition... it is about the concept of "record", which is the most controversial topic. At present, there are cases on the forum that... some players advance after winning 37 games, but some also win 37 games but fail to advance.

In this regard, Dream Company has provided convincing data. The system will make a comprehensive assessment based on the total survival value, physical value, combat time, and skill value acquisition of each player in the 50 preliminary matches. This assessment will also be used when deciding the play-off list. It is the basis for judging which player has a better record under the same win situation.

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In the early morning of May 17th.

Xiao Tan logged into the game in sleep mode, and with a nervous mood, he was ready to welcome his first [Cocoon Battle].

If the feeling of the preliminary match is not much different from the general 1v1 killing game, then this rematch... is very different.

This is a live broadcast. If the opponent randomly selected is a well-known player, then this duel may even be put on the main screen of the mall, and then under the commentary of the commentator, it will be watched by hundreds of thousands of people.

Xiao Tan has been quite low-key since childhood and has rarely been in the spotlight. At this time, it is inevitable that he will be a little nervous.

However, these psychological stage fright reactions should be quickly ignored when the real fight begins. Anyway, players can't see the audience or hear the commentary in the script; even if they are really drawn and appear on the main screen, they don't know.

For players, just focus on the battle itself.

[Important reminder: The first round of the cocoon battle is about to begin. Please be ready within the game time - ten minutes - and you will be teleported immediately after the countdown ends. ] The system voice sounded at 0:50.

After the reminder, Xiao Tan just needs to open the game menu to see the countdown displayed on the upper right. (To be continued...)