"What? Burning Flame Academy? Wasn't our opponent Jixing Academy? Why did it suddenly change?"
The Dingchuan Academy students in the stands were instantly dumbfounded.
The mecha team members who had been rubbing their hands together in preparation to take the stage also frowned.
This victory was far too stifling. Surrendering the individual battle was one thing, but surrendering the Team Competition without even fighting? It had happened in the previous round, and now it was happening again.
Yet no one suspected anything strange was going on.
After all, looking across the entire venue, there was no shortage of surrenders. Some lower-ranked academies even put their strongest fighter in the first slot. If they won, they could fight two more matches, but if they were crushed in the first match, they might surrender the Combat Match, mecha battle, and mecha team battle all at once.
Some academies were even luckier. After barely making it into the next round and achieving a massive leap over their historical ranking, they might surrender without fighting a single match when facing a powerful opponent.
The Academy Exchange Competition's fundamental purpose was still to rank the existing academies and provide the vast number of eligible applicants with the most accurate reference possible.
From that perspective, as long as their ranking improved, everything was negotiable.
Therefore, for the sake of entertainment value, this competition was not open to the public at all. Only the internal networks of participating academies could watch the live broadcast.
"But we've never paid attention to this Burning Flame Academy before... Its academy ranking is 109th... That's even worse than Jixing Academy."
"To be precise, it's much worse. Its previous ranking rose only because its opponent had a bye. What a disgrace to that academy's name."
Several people discussed it animatedly. Clearly, this