"Now, the opening ceremony will resume! First, President Damalanqi will deliver his opening address!"
Under everyone's gaze, Damalanqi slowly stepped up to the oath-taking podium in the main stadium and looked solemnly at the contestants gathered below.
"The Pokémon League is a place where people who truly love Pokémon can test themselves against one another in battle. The sacred flame, the flame of Moltres, watches over us."
"Pokémon Trainers, battle fairly and openly, and leave yourselves no regrets!"
After the opening ceremony came the Pokémon Trainers' qualifying battles.
Over two hundred Pokémon Trainers had entered this Quartz Conference. There would be five rounds of battles, and only three Pokémon could be used in each round.
Before each Pokémon battle, a battlefield of a different type had to be drawn before the battle could take place.
Only after these five rounds would the top eight Pokémon Trainers be determined.
Only then would the full six-on-six battles begin, continuing until the champion of this Quartz Conference was decided.
Of course, anyone who looked into the Quartz Conference's competition format even a little would know all this. Only someone like Ash Ketchum would carelessly overlook these details.
After registering his information, Lin Guang drew his battlefield and ended up with the rock field. His time slot was also early: the first match, held at noon. His opponent was a man who looked about his age.
Mio Takamiya drew the ice field for the second match, scheduled for one in the afternoon. Her opponent was a ten-year-old girl who had just become a Pokémon Trainer.
Kaguya Ōtsutsuki drew the grass field for the third match, scheduled for two in the afternoon. Her opponent was a boy in his teens.
The three of them had conveniently staggered match times, and Lin Guang had the first