"After this round, we should more or less be able to determine the final twenty-five people advancing, right?"
On the sixth day of the World Elite Four Challenge, Sui Yan had grown somewhat excited.
Although the matches had run very late yesterday, the second round had officially concluded.
Of course, there was a reason yesterday's matches had gone on so late.
Zhou Xiaopang's Stall Team had run into someone specializing in Water type Pokémon.
Neither side could do much to the other, and the entire match was spent constantly recovering stamina and switching Pokémon.
Since the World Elite Four Challenge used full six-versus-six Pokémon Battles, the matches were already quite slow to begin with.
With Zhou Xiaopang's Stall Team involved, their battle had not ended until nearly ten last night.
Fortunately, Zhou Xiaopang had been the final contestant to take the field in the second round. Otherwise, the remaining contestants would have suffered terribly.
"More or less. After the second round, each group has fifty-three people left. Once those fifty-three finish the third round, the winners will basically have qualified."
Su Qianyan smiled. "But after the third round, there will be ranking matches. Those who lose will have to play a second match, perhaps even a third."
After the third round, one of the fifty-three would receive a bye, leaving twenty-seven people.
Those twenty-seven would continue through several more rounds of battle to determine the rankings of the top twenty-five and eliminate the final two.
Those twenty-five would then advance to the Elite Four Ranking Tournament, joining the seventy-five qualifiers from the other three groups to form a hundred participants for the rankings.
The ranking tournament would return to Upper Capital and begin there. Lu Ba and Lu Ma would come watch Lu Ze compete then.
"Then I'll just keep