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

"It's those two brothers, Ye Xiu and Ye Qiu, fighting in the finals again!"

"This is so unoriginal! I'm tired of watching these two in the finals!"

"Don't say that, it's only been two years, last year and this year."

"You said it was the same two last year, and it's the same two this year. What's so interesting about that?"

"There's really nothing to watch, because there's no need to watch; Happy is definitely going to be the champion."

"Even so, I'll still go see them in person, since they are both my idols."

"Fortunately, Happy will be leaving the league next year, so just bear with it, everything will be better next year."

As the results of the match between Excellent Era and Hundred Blossoms came out, similar sentiments arose in the Glory community.

Last year's finals were a clash between Happy and Excellent Era, and this year's finals are also a battle between Happy and Excellent Era.

This kind of repetitive competition program does indeed lack novelty for the audience.

They would prefer to see more diverse competitions and more players competing in the finals.

However, reality is cruel. Out of the sixteen teams in Glory, only two can enter the finals. It's impossible for the audience to choose whichever team they want to enter the finals.

Despite the widespread online criticism, tickets for the finals still sold very well.

More than 20,000 tickets for the first game of the finals were sold in just a few hours.

It's very possible that the number of tickets for this season's finals will exceed 4.

Ticket sales closed three hours before the start of the Glory Grand Finals, with a total of 4.16 tickets sold.

This is also a record for ticket sales since the establishment of the Glory Alliance.

It's clear that the Glory Alliance is developing better and better.

The final competition started promptly at 7:30 p.m.

The two teams are old friends. Not only are they both local teams from Hangzhou, but their captains are also twin brothers.

So the two teams didn't have much to say to each other on stage. Ye Qiu and Ye Xiu exchanged a few sarcastic remarks before the match began.

In the one-on-one match, Excellent Era still chose to place their three strongest singles players in the one-on-one match.

They did this mainly because they were afraid of getting zero points in the one-on-one matches. If that happened, even if they won the team match, they would have to play overtime to determine the winner.

Overtime would definitely be disadvantageous for Team Excellent Era.

Of course, the probability of getting zero points in an individual competition is very low.

But even a very low probability event can still occur.

Since individual competitions cannot be the key to determining the winner, then all possibilities that should not occur should be eliminated.

Even if there's only a one in ten thousand chance, as the team captain, Ye Xiu must prevent it.

In the final one-on-one match, Team Excellent Era secured two points on their home turf, but undoubtedly lost the arena match.

But Ye Xiu only needs to score 1 point in the individual competition.

Victory or defeat can only be determined in team competitions.

After the individual competitions concluded, the team competitions began soon afterward.

Team Excellent Era has prepared the Maple Forest Ancient Road map for this team match.

This map was originally a custom map for the Challenger Series, but because of its comprehensive nature, it was later adopted for the professional league.

A long, winding ancient path runs through two corners of the map, flanked by rows of neat maple trees whose bright red leaves rustle in the wind—hence the map's name. But a map can't consist of just one ancient path; beside the path, behind the maple trees, lie hillsides, rivers, mud pits, and rocky outcrops.

Is it appropriate to include all these different geographical features in one region at once? This is not a consideration in competitive maps.

The goal of competitive maps is to make the battlefield more diverse, especially for customized maps like these, which should not favor any particular style.

This would give teams that are well-suited to this style a home-field advantage.

However, this is a map without a home-field advantage, so why did Excellent Era choose it?
This was something that not only the audience didn't expect, but even Ye Qiu himself was caught off guard.

Excellent Era doesn't have many team match maps left this season. Ye Qiu believes that Excellent Era will choose a map like [Spring Flame Flag Sea], which relies on luck, or a map like [Muddy River Peninsula], which limits the performance of ranged classes.

They might even choose the extremely complex team map, "Perry Town Market".

However, to everyone's surprise, Excellent Era chose Maple Forest Ancient Road, a map with no home advantage whatsoever.

This caught Happy completely off guard.

"They actually chose this image. What tricks is Excellent Era playing?" Su Muqiu asked Ye Qiu, somewhat bewildered.

"I don't know!" Ye Qiu shook his head slightly. He couldn't understand what tricks Ye Xiu was up to either.

However, he was certain that Ye Xiu's choice of this map must have had a profound purpose and absolute confidence.

Ye Xiu could not possibly have chosen the Maple Forest Ancient Road on a whim. If it wasn't a whim, then it must have been premeditated.

In other words, Ye Xiu definitely had a premeditated plan on this map!
There's a wicked plan!
"No matter what tricks they use, they're all just empty show in the face of absolute strength!" Lin Jingyan chuckled, showing great disdain for Happy's gimmicks.

"We can't be careless. Others might not be a big deal, but when it comes to dealing with Ye Xiu, we must be on high alert and never underestimate him," Ye Qiu gently reprimanded.

Their team, Happy, is powerful, belonging to a class of their own within the Glory Alliance.

However, because Happy is too strong, it can easily make the players blindly arrogant, which is a bad thing.

A strong person can be confident, but must never be arrogant. A person who always maintains a humble heart is a true strong person.

Especially when facing an enemy like Ye Xiu, arrogance will lead to defeat.

Upon hearing Ye Qiu's reprimand, Lin Jingyan immediately shrank back.

Ye Qiu rarely scolds people, but when he does, it's always because your behavior has crossed his bottom line.

Ye Qiu softened his tone slightly and said, "Although we don't know their intention in choosing the map, as long as we stay vigilant, don't be careless, and face their attacks in a normal state, we can remain invincible."

In fact, it wasn't just the Happy team that didn't understand Ye Xiu's intention in choosing the Maple Forest Ancient Road.

Even the members of Excellent Era looked incredulous when they learned that Ye Xiu planned to use the Maple Forest Ancient Road map in the finals.

I think Ye Xiu's choice of this image was an overly impulsive one.

While catching an enemy off guard and launching a surprise attack can be a way to defeat them, it is definitely not the best way to deal with Happy.

Today is Excellent Era's home turf, yet instead of choosing a home map that's advantageous to them, they chose a neutral map.

On this map, Team Excellent Era has absolutely no chance of winning against Team Happy.

However, after Ye Xiu led them through a demonstration of the tactics, they immediately changed their minds.

Their thinking underwent a complete 180° reversal.

Ye Xiu's choice of this picture is absolutely brilliant!
They believed that, based on Ye Xiu's tactics and coordinated attacks on this Maple Forest Ancient Road, even against the formidable Team Happy, they had a 7% chance of defeating them.

Not long after the team competition began.

Excellent Era used a surprise tactic to quickly encircle and defeat Happy. (End of Chapter)