The round of 40 to 20 continued as scheduled. Even after a major incident like [Cup], the league's progress could not be disrupted.
Lotus City Light Institute had not been matched against any of their old rivals in the round of 40 to 20. Although no team in the top forty could be called weak, there were still gaps between the strong. This team was not enough to make them field their strongest lineup, so Xu Zhi could comfortably slack off for another match.
Compared to her own team's match, she was even more concerned about Dingchan's match.
Because of the Minjiang incident, public opinion online had now vaguely overshadowed the league. That had never happened in previous years. As the Minjiang incident unfolded, new regulations continued to emerge, most of them aimed at [Cup].
The matches could not stop. For the leaders of some cities, using the league to divert the public's curiosity about [Cup] was also a good approach.
Thus, the new round of 40-to-20 league promotion was carried out with tremendous fanfare, and the unusual team Dingchan became one of its main focuses.
An underdog story—and the greatest kind of underdog story, a team from a remote small city making it into the league's top forty. There was no audience member who did not look forward to Dingchan's next match.
What was more, perhaps by coincidence, the two "dark horses" had been matched against each other in this round of 40 to 20.
[Dingchan] VS [Deer Isle] Pure Color Team.
This undoubtedly maximized the spectacle. Even viewers who had previously held no interest in Dingchan became somewhat curious.
The league's renewed popularity also concealed the undercurrents beneath it. The public's attention seemed to have shifted from [Cup] to the league, but in a sense, that was only