"If you have any questions, you can ask them later..."
After waiting for a long time, everyone finally heard that the most important link was coming.
Before the lottery started, the heads of each school had received the new rules for the Kanto Competition.
But no news has been revealed so far, which makes people very concerned.
What kind of rules are so mysteriously hidden?
"Um?"
Then, the staff picked up a thick stack of copy papers and distributed them one by one to the staff of each school.
"This is?"
But when they saw the additional new rules, everyone's expressions changed.
"This is really...a test of the group's strength."
Even Akashi and Shirazu had to face this new rule with caution.
[Explanation of the new rules of the Kanto Competition]
1. Each school needs to play five games!
2. Implement a scoring system for recording!
3. The points gained from winning a single round are the difference between the points scored by the opponent!
4. Record the total score of the five games to determine which school in the match advances to the next round!
5. The team that wins the tie-break will get 1 point!
6. In the event of a tie in total points, the two schools will send out substitutes for the play-offs!
This rule directly disrupted the formations of all previous schools.
"how so?"
"Isn't this just messing around?"
"Looking on the bright side, as long as the score is big enough, wouldn't it be said that we can win one more game?"
Discussions began to ring out in the conference room, and everyone had various questions.
Why did this Guandong Competition adopt such new rules?
(What is the principle behind this?)
Bai Jin remembered that this new rule did not exist in the plot of King of Nets at all.
This is obviously full of thoughts for each school to do its best to fight.
The winning score for a single game is the difference between the score and the opponent's score.
In other words, if you score 7-5, you will get 2 points.
If the next teammate's score is 3-6, the opponent will also get 3 points.
This means that if you win a game, your opponent will take the lead in scoring, and then your teammates will be required to win with a higher score in the next game.
This completely changed the previous single-game winning or losing system and turned it into a more detailed single-game scoring system.
This move can even wipe out those who have little knowledge of school horse racing.
If you dare to exchange a low-grade horse for the opposite high-grade horse, who will make up for the 6-point gap?
This new rule, to put it bluntly, allows each school to safely arrange strong players to compete in corresponding positions.
For example, if Seigaku fights Teikou, the first factor is to consider who will fight between Shirazu and Akashi.
Who can concede the fewest points from the opponent and win the game?
There is no doubt that Tezuka and Fuji are the absolute top choices.
They are bound to directly collide with Akashi and Shirazu.
Otherwise, once other people are sent up and they are eliminated, they will lose a lot of points, and it may also affect the total score of the entire game.
Now, everyone understood why each school was required to play five games.
Because this means that even a school that lost four games before, as long as the point difference does not exceed 6 points, can win back the points with a 6-0 in the final singles, maybe it can turn defeat into victory and advance.
The outcome of a single game is no longer important, but the ability to draw and chase points is more important.
This is a very severe test of the strength of individuals and teams.
Whether it is doubles or singles, you must show the corresponding strength to chase and pull points.
Unless you have defeated your opponent 18-0 in the first three games, then it is not impossible to fail in the remaining two games.
However, at this stage of the Kanto Competition, there are not many weak schools left in the true sense.
Starting from the second round, the "War of the Immortals" will begin.
"Is this the new rule that Coach Sakaki mentioned?"
"uh-huh!"
"interesting..."
Although Atobe occasionally heard some rumors from Coach Sakaki before, he didn't know the specific situation, but now it seems that Coach Sakaki is well prepared.
After all, it was Coach Sakaki himself who proposed this rule.
Atobe knew very well that there would be a youth selection contest after the Kanto Tournament.
At that time, strong school personnel from the Kanto Competition will be selected to form an "expedition team."
The person who coaches this team is Coach Sakaki himself.
For this reason, this is the reason why Coach Sakaki would go alone to watch the games every time before.
He needs to fully understand the strength of the personnel in each school and then judge who should participate in the youth selection competition.
And in a situation like Teikou's, where he directly defeated people in three games from the beginning of the Capital Tournament, no useful information could be observed at all.
So much so that in the Kanto Tournament, Coach Sakaki added this new rule, forcing all five games to be played, and asking him to try not to release or paddle as much as possible.
All I can say is that this new rule has indeed caught all the powerful schools.
"Well..."
Tezuka silently looked at the instruction manual in his hand, thinking inwardly.
This scoring system doesn't seem to be bad for them.
Because you don't mind the outcome of a single game at all, but focus on the scoring situation in the process.
Just like described before...
If there is a game, before Tezuka comes on the court, if his teammates can help him score two more points, the error tolerance rate of the players he is facing will be reduced.
It's equivalent to being born much more relaxed than the other person...
And even in a disadvantageous game, as long as the points difference between his teammates' losses is not big, Tezuka will have a chance to come back in the end and lead the team to advance.
"It's going to be a lot tougher for us."
Akashi was silent for a long time, and then spoke.
"Yes, there is no room for relaxation."
Bai Jin agreed with him and knew how "disadvantages" this rule had.
Their Emperor Guang has always defeated their opponents in three games, but once this rule came out, there was an element of instability.
Unless the first three games push the point difference to the point of no return in the last two games, the opponent will always have a chance to overtake.
I lost this game by 1 point? If your teammates come back with 2 points in the next game, then there will be no problem.
Especially when a strong school faces a weaker strong school, this rule reflects the confrontational nature.
The people in the conference room gradually dispersed, and everyone was thinking about the new rules.
At the same time, he brought the news back to the team and told everyone.
……………
"Is this really okay?"
"Do you mean?"
Coach Sakaki was sitting in the office drinking tea. He looked at the people in front of him and asked questions.
"Although this allows them to actively compete, will it be difficult to adapt to the sudden change in the competition system?"
"It's nothing. In the world of tennis, the winner stays and the loser retreats."
"If you can't adapt to this new rule, it proves that you don't need to participate in the subsequent youth trials."
"They are all the pioneers of a new era...I believe so..."
PS: I can’t write anything below, so I’ll fill in a little bit here. The text above is already over 2,000 words long.
It can only be said that we try to consider the factors of allowing five games to be played, so a new rule like this is added.
Otherwise, if a certain side is in the lead, it will end in three games and some people will not appear, which will feel meaningless.
Just like the current Teiko, Kagami, Aomine, Kise, and Shirazu paired with Kuroko in doubles basically have no chance of losing. After all, no school has ever forced a gaze inducer.
With Murasakihara's natural physique and defensive ability, it is difficult for opponents to score points even if they are serious.
Since you can win two doubles games for sure, then adding a strong player (Shirazu, Akaashi) to the three singles games will basically kill the game, so why bother playing two singles games and one singles game?
It's impossible to let the strongest players from each school play singles and third, and the second best in doubles every time, right?
