"Very clever."
At a later full meeting of the You Zui Hunting Team, Xiao Xiao analyzed the Student Union's thinking this way: "Because this year's School Hunt Competition rules have changed, allowing students with no experience whatsoever to form hunting teams and compete, this both breaks up the entrenched state of participating teams under the 'seniority point' system and livens up the Campus Cup atmosphere, making it better suited to its 'youthful' character."
Zheng Qing nodded in agreement.
As far as he knew, the hunting teams participating in the Campus Cup in previous years were almost always the same ones—aside from the School Hunt Team and the four academy teams, there were long-established teams such as Adjudication, Hemophilia, 3A, Demonic Energy, Fate, and YPO.
And of the teams that made it to the finals and won the Campus Cup, eight times out of ten it was the School Hunt Team. The other two victories generally alternated between Jiuyou Academy's hunting team and Alpha Academy's hunting team.
This greatly reduced the appeal of the whole hunting competition. When students attended the School Hunting Meet, they paid more attention to its side events, such as the Hunting Dance Party, the Hunting Painting Exhibition, and even hunting-flavor sharing events, among others.
"...At the same time, raising the Hunting Meet's level of activity will inevitably lead to a mixed bag of participants, with varying quality."
Xiao Xiao adjusted his glasses and continued explaining his views at an unhurried pace. "...As far as I know, our class alone has no fewer than five teams planning to form hunting teams for the competition... A simple calculation suggests that among second-years alone, the four academies will have seventy or eighty hunting teams... And that does not include the eager first-years, nor the third- and fourth-year students looking