Resource Raid!

Bai Yanni smiled gently, "Duanmucheng, the captain of Wannan University, has disabled the King of the Hill Mode. As we all know, the King of the Hill Mode maximizes individual combat power. Captain Duanmu's decision to disable the defense mode can be seen as a great respect for the personal strength of Bai Xiaowen, the Jinghai University Captain."

The audience burst into laughter, and many of Bai Xiaowen's female fans waved banners and shouted slogans.

Make no mistake, Bai Xiaowen also has a group of enthusiastic fans at Jinghai University, mostly girls. Who can blame them when he's so handsome it's unfair?

Bai Yanni added, "Both modes for the SOLO Mode have been disabled. We will randomly select one of the four modes for the team competition as the mode for the first match."

"Unlike the qualifying rounds, which are decided in a single match, the National Championship's knockout stage will use a best-of-three format for each round. Two teams will play a maximum of three matches, and the first team to win two matches will advance to the next round."

"If a team finishes with one win, one loss, and one draw, an overtime period will be scheduled according to the rules. In the overtime period, each team will choose one player for a 1-on-1 match, and the winner of that match will be the final victor in this round of the knockout stage."

The qualifying rounds use a points system. After all the universities in a region have played each other, the top two teams in terms of points advance, which is fair in itself. Therefore, each round of matches between two universities is decided by a single game.

The National Championship uses a knockout system. If the teams are drawn against each other and only one match determines who advances and who is eliminated, luck plays a significant role, making it hard to believe. Furthermore, it's unreasonable for the visiting team to travel such a long distance and only play one match...

Therefore, the knockout stage adopts a best-of-three format with overtime, in order to minimize the influence of luck.

Bai Yanni pressed the button.

On the large screen, four game modes flashed alternately.

Wow!

The final image displayed on the screen clearly showed the six large characters: "Resource Raid Mode"!

"The first match will use Resource Raid Mode. Both team captains, please choose your faction. Following the order of the draw, Bai Xiaowen, the captain of Jinghai University, will choose his faction's spawn point first. You can choose either the blue faction at the north end of the map or the red faction at the south end of the map," Bai Yanni said.

"I choose the blue camp," Bai Xiaowen said with a smile.

Across from him, Duanmucheng frowned slightly. From Bai Xiaowen's smile, he seemed to have a bad feeling.

"Since the white team chose blue, the Anhui University team automatically became part of the red camp."

"Both players, please proceed to the entrance of the Psionic Training Ground. Please wait a moment, Psionic Training Ground will require some time to generate the resource-plundering map."

"During this time, I will briefly introduce the victory conditions for the Resource Raid Mode to all viewers..."

Bai Xiaowen was quite impressed with Bai Yanni. As a last-minute replacement, she had actually memorized every single competition mode, showing she had really put in a lot of effort.

Perhaps this opportunity will be the turning point in Bai Yanni's life—originally, she could only find a job after graduation, joining a guild as a lowly assistant. But if she could gain recognition by appearing in public as a competition host, her future would be much brighter...

However, Bai Xiaowen was only slightly surprised. He didn't care about Bai Yanni's future. His thoughts quickly returned to the competition.

Bai Xiaowen and his teammates had practiced the Resource Raid Mode several times, so they were quite familiar with the rules.

The two teams will enter a battlefield with an area of less than 10 square kilometers.

In the battlefield, there are five resource buildings that generate "Resource Point" over time. If a team occupies one of the resource buildings, Resource Point generated by that building will be accumulated under that team's name until ownership is taken away.

The first team to plunder 300 resources wins.

In Resource Raid Mode, respawning is possible. Therefore, killing enemies is not the primary objective; capturing resource buildings and protecting the flag are of utmost importance.

Of course, killing enemies is the most effective way to capture a building, because it takes 15 seconds to raise the flag when capturing a building. If you enter combat during this time, the flag raising process will be interrupted.

At this point, you have to take out the opponent first and get out of combat before raising the flag.

Moreover, resurrection is not without cost: time! The resurrection time for each team increases with the number of deaths, adding 1 minute for each additional death.

Specifically, the first person to die in a team will respawn at the team's spawn point (officially called the Main Base) one minute later.

If you die again, the resurrection time will be two minutes. If you die again, it will be three minutes, four minutes, and so on.

These five resource buildings are:

Mill, research institutes, Beast Pen, Forge, and Gold Mine.

Each of the five resource buildings has its own unique features.

The Mill produces 1 resource point per minute. After capturing it, all surviving members of the team receive a delicious snack, which immediately restores 30% of their maximum Life Value. Upon death, the snack is automatically lost, but upon respawning, the team automatically receives the delicious snack if they still control the Mill.

In other words, as long as the Mill is occupied, each member of the team has one chance to eat a snack to recover health.

The research institute produces 1 resource point per minute. After being occupied for 10 minutes, the institute will randomly produce a valuable magical item, which will be automatically placed into the team leader's Storage Space. If the research institute is occupied further, a second magical item will appear after another 10 minutes, with a stronger effect than the first one, and so on.

Of course, the magical items produced by the research institute are all virtual items and cannot be taken out of the battlefield; they can only be used within the current battlefield.

The Beast Pen produces 1 resource point per minute. Once captured, the entire team's movement speed is increased by 40% when not in combat.

The Forge produces 1 resource per minute. Once captured, the entire team's physical attack power increases by 20%, and armor increases by 20%.

Gold Mine, produces 2 resources per minute, with no other special effects.

Here's a breakdown of the locations of the various buildings on the battlefield.

There are five resource buildings, plus the two sides' Main Base (spawn points), making a total of seven buildings.

The Gold Mine is located in the very center of the battlefield. The other six buildings surround the Gold Mine, forming an upright regular hexagon. The six vertices of this regular hexagon are the locations of the six buildings.

The two northernmost and southernmost vertices are the Main Base of the two teams, with the northernmost being the blue team, which uses a blue flag, and the southernmost being the red team, which uses a red flag.

This is the only update today, sorry... Can anyone tell me why there are so many weddings and baby showers during the May Day holiday? I have to go to eat and eat tomorrow!