Before long, the China Class-A League regular season drew to a close.
The White Phoenix Team had missed five rounds. Its unbeaten run afterward was impressive, but its total points still fell short of traditional powerhouses like Thunder and Razor. It finished fourth in the regular season.
Under the rules, the White Phoenix Team would face the fifth-place team in the first round of the playoffs.
The Heaven's Mandate Team and the Demon Slayer Team were the two contenders for fifth place.
Online viewers were thrilled, joking that they were about to see another Oscar Exhibition Match.
Both teams had been taught a harsh lesson by the White Phoenix Team during the Super Cup Bubble Playoffs.
Now that the White Phoenix Team had grown even stronger, neither Class-A League team could want to face it in the first round. They would rather play the third-place Yangji Team; at least that would be a fight.
Many prediction posts online argued that both teams would deliberately throw the match, willingly take sixth place, and hand fifth to their opponent.
The entire White Phoenix Team watched the match.
To their credit, these Class-A League powerhouses had too much pride to throw the match as blatantly as the B-League teams had, feigning mistakes to gift their opponents a win.
At most, they played a little more casually than usual and used no items.
In the end, the Heaven's Mandate Team won the final regular-season match two to one, securing fifth place.
"The White Phoenix Team is a formidable opponent and a serious test for us in the first round of the playoffs. But we'll fight with everything we have. No one can call the outcome until the very end..."
That was what the Heaven's Mandate Team said in its interview.
There were few smiles