Ye Qiu, reborn as the King's Avatar, and his younger brother and sister-in-law Su Mucheng

Chapter 149 New Competition Format, Lin Jingyan, Fang Shiqian, Yang Cong, Debut [Revised]!!

Two months have passed in the blink of an eye.

The popularity of Team Happy has gradually faded.

Esports is already a niche sport in China, and Honor of Kings is just one of those niche programs.

Except for the month when Happy won the championship, when Honor of Kings was still popular, after a month, only a group of Honor of Kings players were discussing Honor of Kings. Outsiders seemed to have never heard of the game.

However, Honor's popularity is about to rebound.

Because the second season of Honor of Kings is about to begin!

Furthermore, the success of the first season of Glory attracted many teams to want to become professional teams.

Therefore, four teams registered as professional teams in the second season: Hundred Blossoms, Samsara, Thunder, and Howling.

This directly expanded the number of teams in Honor of Kings from eight to twelve.

Due to the increase in teams, the Glory Alliance has also made some regulations.

For example, the bottom-ranking elimination system.

In other words, the team that finishes last in the second season's regular season will be eliminated from the professional league and stripped of their professional status.

Of course, such institutional reforms will not deny these eliminated teams a chance.

Therefore, the Glory Alliance established a lower-level league, the Glory Challenge.

These lower-level leagues are like a youth league, mainly established to scout talent for the professional leagues.

Teams that are eliminated will be relegated to the next lower league. If they can stand out in the next lower league the following year and win the Challenger Tournament, they can re-enter the professional league.

This system aims to encourage the twelve teams in the professional league to play well, find ways to improve their team strength, prevent tanking, avoid dragging down the league's appeal, and increase the competitiveness of the matches.

The second goal is to extend the Glory League to every corner of the country, giving teenagers with professional dreams and internet cafe teams from all over the country the opportunity to experience Glory competitions, allowing the flame of Glory to spread more widely.

It must be said that the Honor Alliance's decision was very farsighted.

The fact that Honor of Kings was able to develop into a game for everyone is inseparable from the contributions and decisions of Feng Xianjun and his team.

In addition, the Honor Alliance has formulated other regulations.

That is the reform of the competition format for the new season.

In addition to the elimination of the last team in the new format, the league has also made some adjustments to the map selection for the matches.

That is to restrict the selection of maps by the home team.

First of all, in the Glory League, you can only select the same image a maximum of two times.

Furthermore, you can choose twice for the regular season, but only once for the arena.

In other words, you can choose the same map twice as your home map during the regular season, but you can no longer choose that map in the playoffs.

But if you don't select this map once during the regular season, you can only select it once during the playoffs.

In addition, a picture banning feature will be enabled during the playoffs.

That means that when the map is selected at the start of the match, the away team can choose to ban one map.

One map that has been banned in away games will be unavailable.

The image banning feature can be used in 1v1 matches, arena matches, and team matches.

This change in the competition format greatly increases the freshness and gameplay of the new season, as well as fairness.

In the first season, the advantage of choosing maps at home was too obvious.

Especially in the later matches, it almost became a situation where whoever played on home soil would win.

This greatly diminishes the excitement of the league.

So the league took action.

In the second season, teams will need to make a clear plan when choosing maps.

Which maps to use in the regular season and which to save for the playoffs need to be planned in order to ensure victory in every battle.

The addition of new teams, the establishment of new competition formats, and the development of the new league have undoubtedly propelled Honor of Kings to the forefront of popularity once again. This has also allowed many outsiders to see the development prospects of Honor of Kings, and many companies that were previously in a wait-and-see state have begun to pay attention to the Honor of Kings league and invest in it, betting on the future development of Honor of Kings.

So before the start of the new season, Happy received three more endorsement contracts.

With this, Happy has secured 16 endorsement deals.

Having secured a total endorsement fee of 20 million, I'm certain I'll never have to worry about not making money again.

But this money isn't so easy to get.

The members of Team Happy are required to endorse these products at all times.

For example, when receiving press conferences, one must wear the sponsor's clothes and shoes, and the sponsor's watch, which must be exposed from time to time and captured by the camera.

The same applies to beverages and snacks; you don't necessarily have to drink them in front of the camera, but you must make sure the camera captures the product.

Computer accessories such as keyboards and mice should also be brought to the competition.

Anyway, there are a lot of tedious things to do.

Fortunately, Chen Taohai had a dedicated assistant to handle these matters, so Ye Qiu and the others didn't need to worry about it.

However, hiring two assistants would be a considerable expense.

But that's how making money is; nothing is easy.

The second season will begin soon.

On August 28th, Team Happy also held a pre-match press conference.

During the press conference, Ye Qiu announced the roster for this season. In addition to the seven players from the first season, three new rookie players were added to the roster.

The three rising stars are Lin Jingyan, Fang Shiqian, and Yang Cong.

The reporters didn't pay much attention to the names of these three people.

To them, these three names were just unfamiliar names, unknown names. No one would take these three rookies seriously, nor would they think that these three rookies could cause any bloodshed in the Glory League.

But they will soon witness the talent of these three rookies, and the second season of the Glory League will be a massacre because of them.

Team Happy will completely dominate the entire league.

In addition, Ye Qiu also mentioned his goal for this season, which is undoubtedly to win the championship again and achieve a back-to-back title.

No one would question Ye Qiu's statement about winning the championship, since they had already won it once before.

In terms of championship experience, other teams can only look on with envy.

After answering some questions from reporters, the pre-match press conference came to a complete end.

On September 1st, the second season of Honor officially began.

The opening match consisted of four games.

Four matches a day—a huge treat for all Honor of Kings fans, so enjoy it to the fullest!

Just like a novelist updating four chapters a day, it's the same thing.

These four matches feature the top four teams from last season against the four rookie teams that joined the team this year.

That is, Team Happy, Team Excellent Era, Team Royal Wind, and Team Tyranny, versus Team Hundred Blossoms, Team Samsara, Team Thunder, and Team Howling.

Team Happy's opponent is Team Blossom.

However, this match is Team Happy's home game, so Ye Qiu and his team don't need to go to Yunnan.

Otherwise, they would have gone to Yunnan to visit the Dali Temple for the opening match.

At 9 PM on September 1st, at the Xiaoshan Gymnasium, the home stadium of Team Happy.

Ye Qiu and his team faced a challenge from the Hundred Flowers Team, who had traveled all the way from Yunnan.

Ye Qiu finally met the two prodigies of the Hundred Flowers Team.

Zhang Jiale and Sun Zheping!
　Love comes late, but I'll keep writing. I should be able to update around midnight!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)