The upcoming Preliminary Tournament would take place on these five Spirit Fighting Platforms, with fourteen team Soul Fights held every day.
Twenty-nine teams were participating in this Elite Spirit Master Tournament, which would feature twenty-eight rounds of preliminary matches. Although one team would receive a bye each day, every team would eventually face all twenty-eight of the others.
In other words, each team needed to face twenty-eight opponents.
The Preliminary Tournament used a points system. A victory earned one point, while a loss earned none. After twenty-eight rounds, the five teams with the highest total scores would advance to the Qualifying Tournament. Reaching the Qualifying Tournament was effectively the same as reaching the Grand Finals.
The entire Preliminary Tournament would last a full month, a test for every academy's team.
Twenty-nine consecutive days of such tightly packed, high-intensity matches...
If the members lacked endurance, their team would very likely be worn down until its halberds broke and sank into the sand of defeat.
Today was the first official day of the Preliminary Tournament.
Much as they had before yesterday's opening ceremony, the spectators were already waiting eagerly outside when the Shrek Seven Devils and the others arrived at the Heaven Dou Great Soul Arena.
This time, however, they received a different reception.
Although they still wore their shit-green outfits, very few spectators gathered outside the Great Soul Arena dared to laugh or jeer at them anymore.
The stares that had felt like thorns in their backs had all but disappeared. Instead, the spectators' eyes now shone more with awe.
Such a dramatic change was entirely due to the madness, ferocity, and brutality the Shrek Seven Devils Team had displayed in yesterday's match. It had shaken everyone too deeply and left far too powerful an impression.
No one dared underestimate