Dinner Invitation and Preparations

"For the qualifiers, which group will our club be playing in?"

Eileen smiled as she watched the screen, where Angelite was playing a brutally difficult game called Fox Fox Secret Order. At the same time, she turned to Kraken and raised her empty cup.

Meow! Jiang Han curled her tail around another fresh bottle of alcohol and refilled Eileen's glass.

The First Witch nodded gently at her, while her hand very improperly stroked Mist Immortal Cat Lamp's fluffy great tail.

Holding her wineglass, Kraken's expression remained unchanged.

"This is already the era of the Witch Agency. How could we know which group the qualifiers will place us in before the tournament even begins? In a sense, a fast-paced championship first requires regional open qualifiers, regional preliminaries, regional group stages, and regional knockout rounds, before sixteen world-class teams are selected for a single-elimination round of sixteen. Since this is a world-class competition, the open qualifiers are naturally tightly controlled."

Eileen quietly listened to Kraken's lengthy speech without saying a word.

A few seconds later, Kraken finally murmured quickly:

"But we can make a small assumption. We should be in the same group as Forest People, facing four teams that were only formed this year."

"Assumptions are the finest tradition." Eileen chuckled. "Six teams, two advance, right? Heh, there's really plenty of room to operate."

Sitting beside them, Jiang Han rolled her eyes.

"I've heard that any team with Lin Zhaojun can never be eliminated in the open qualifiers. Back then, Absolute City had a terrible run in the qualifiers and started with three losses. Then the event organizers started fiddling with this whole 'revival round' concept. After Absolute City regained their form and qualified with three straight wins, that so-called revival round vanished!"

Kraken stroked Jiang Han's cat tail soothingly.

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