With that, the entire team was divided into three tiers.
If all the competitors were sorted into these three tiers, Ning Rongrong, Ma Hongjun, and Zhu Zhuqing would be the low-grade horses, Tang San the middle-grade horse, and the two Soul Ancestors, Xiao Wu and Dai Mubai, the high-grade horses. Oscar, meanwhile, was an exceptional horse above even the high-grade ones.
Of course, Oscar was not the only one above the high-grade horses. Feng Xiaotian and Victoria Academy's two captains, for example, might not match Oscar, but presumably would not fall too far short. In this kind of gauntlet match without any breathing room between bouts, even Oscar could not guarantee that he could face these top geniuses and still defeat all seven opponents single-handedly.
Their opponents would only be revealed before the match, but their lineup had to be submitted before the draw, leaving no opportunity to change it to counter one another. This really was a question that warranted considerable discussion.
The Shrek Seven Monsters discussed it enthusiastically, but even then, they could not guarantee a sure thing. Still, they finally settled on a lineup that should effectively handle all the major teams.
Once they had settled their tactics, everyone returned to their rooms to rest and prepare for the next day's battle.
Early the next morning, all sixteen competing teams finished assembling on the parade ground.
Unlike the preliminary rounds, where matches took place on several platforms simultaneously, the advancement rounds had only one competition arena. Thus, while one match was underway, all the other teams would watch there.
The military camp's parade ground had been remodeled, with a hundred-meter-diameter area marked out in the center as the arena. Compared with the platforms used in the preliminary rounds, it offered more space and made it easier to