Regional Tournament
As the name implied, it was the largest competition within a region.
In the Yuhua Region alone, where they were located, there were eleven provinces.
And Hanggang City, where they currently were, was merely one of the twelve prefecture-level cities in Zhehai Province, one of those eleven provinces.
There were two requirements for participating in the Regional Tournament.
First, one had to be under forty and certified by the Alliance as at least a C-rank Pet Tamer.
That did not mean everyone participating in the Regional Tournament was a C-rank Pet Tamer under forty.
Rather, those were simply the minimum age and rank requirements.
There was an upper age limit, but only a lower limit for a Pet Tamer's rank.
Second, one had to obtain certified eligibility to compete from the Pet Tamer Center in their provincial capital.
Obtaining that eligibility was rather troublesome.
Within a year, one had to pass the competition assessments in every prefecture-level city in their province.
Taking Zhehai Province as an example, each of its twelve prefecture-level cities had a dedicated department at its local Pet Tamer Center responsible for eligibility assessments.
The assessment content varied, and every examiner had different standards for judging.
If you were lucky enough to encounter a soft-hearted examiner, they might let you pass after you caught a thief.
If you were unlucky enough to encounter a strict examiner, they might even have you steal an egg from a Dragon-type Extraordinary Creature.
Zhehai Province was still considered relatively manageable, with only twelve prefecture-level cities. On average, that gave you exactly one month to complete an assessment in each city.
Yongwu Province, which bordered Zhehai Province, had a full eighteen prefecture-level cities.
That worked out to only twenty days per city to finish the assessments, something no ordinary Pet