This round will be the most formal round of the current Regional Competition.

By formal, it refers to the mechanism.

It is purely a 1v1 playing a 9+1 card game with no additional rules.

Four representative teams, with a total of 32 players.

The competition will continue in an elimination format until a champion is decided.

At the same time, strictly speaking, this is also the last round of the current competition.

All previous results are nullified, and the champion team of the City Competition will be the team with the highest total score in this round.

All players from the four representative teams have the opportunity to earn points for their teams.

The top 16 will get 1 point.

The top 8 will get 2 points.

The top 4 will get 3 points.

The top 2 will get 4 points.

And the winner will get 5 points.

Under such rules, teams with more players naturally have the chance to secure more points.

The Balance Representative Team, having won the most titles, retained 10 members.

Followed by the Wisdom Representative Team with 9 people, the Berserk Representative Team with 8 people, and Listening to the Wind Representative Team with 5 people.

Theoretically, naturally, the Balance Representative Team has the highest chance of winning the championship this time.

Moreover, they have Ree Shil, an undisputed top contestant in major competitions.

However, when the drawing lots results came out, it wasn’t so favorable for the Balance Representative Team.

Among their 10 players, 6 drew matches against each other.

Though this meant a stable gain of 3 points, it also reduced the chance of obtaining higher points.

It secured the bottom line but lost the upper limit.

Worst of all, the first and second-ranked players of the Balance Representative Team, Ree Shil and Xiao Jie, ended up in the same bracket.

Not just them; the first and second-ranked players from the Wisdom Representative Team, Snow Charm and Marsh, were also in this bracket.

This means that before a champion is decided, several hot favorite players must first engage in a fierce battle.

The hot favorite players here mainly refer to Ree Shil and Snow Charm.

There are no absolutes on the card table, even Ree Shil can’t say for sure that he can beat Snow Charm.

If estimated, his chances of winning are at most around 70%.

At this stage, no one will hold back anymore, and any secret weapons will inevitably be pulled out.

Ree Shil knows that this is especially true for himself.

If anyone faces him, they won’t hesitate to give their 100% in an all-out attempt.

So he too needs to be cautious until the very last moment against any opponent.

However, for the first round, it’s not that significant.

Because he is one of those who drew matches within his own team.

For the sake of collective achievement, the team unanimously agreed to give him a bye. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

Yet it can’t be too blatant, as Ree Shil has been warned and investigated for a staged match with Samuel Chess before.

Thus, this card game with his teammate still featured both sides using A Level card decks, with active engagement from both.

Although anyone with clear eyes could see that his teammate was throwing the game, there wasn’t much that could be said.

Then, in the second round, top 16 to top 8, Ree Shil faced another teammate.

Unquestionably, he was given another bye.

Internal conflicts were not exactly good news, but the team was happy to give bye to Ree Shil.

After all, it allowed them to preserve Ree Shil’s strength to the maximum extent, avoid revealing strategies externally, and also reduced the chances of an upset.

For the other representative teams, however, this was not good news.

They would prefer Ree Shil to expose his abilities sooner and be taken out by an upset.

In terms of score, it’s not a loss; after two rounds, the Balance and Wisdom Representative Teams were tied, both securing 9 points.

Currently, the Listening to the Wind Representative Team is trailing with the lowest score.

Moreover, Ree Shil heard that their 5th ranked player actually possessed an S-rank card.

But in the first round, before they had a chance to play it, they were eliminated.

It was genuinely a touch unlucky – they had hidden it for the whole tournament only to be eliminated without getting a chance to show it off even once.

At the same time, this also served as a warning to the other players: hold nothing back and do not underestimate any opponent that has made it this far.

Entering the third round, top 8 to top 4, Ree Shil finally faced an opponent.

It was the number one player of the Wisdom Representative Team, Snow Charm.

"We finally get to face each other at the official card table, it’s just a pity it’s not on the stage of the finals,"

Standing opposite at the card table, Snow Charm was both excited and regretful.

In fact, she and Ree Shil had a bit of a grudge.

Ree Shil would definitely not know about this.

The S-rank [Talent Potion] that awakened his [S-rank Expert] was actually from the Charm Family.

Snow Charm’s great-great-great-grandfather, the top person in charge of the Administrator Trading System, that old Deer, was the one who provided it.

That S-rank [Talent Potion] was originally a gift for Snow Charm.

But since there was temporarily none in stock at the Card Player’s Association, Deer had to pay out of his own pocket to make up for it to Ree Shil, and to this day he hasn’t been compensated.

Otherwise, Snow Charm might have been the one with two card player’s talents today, not Ree Shil.

"Come on, let’s reveal our cards,"

Ree Shil gestured for her to proceed.

This opponent was worth giving his all.

To go all out doesn’t necessarily mean using the strongest card deck.

Because his strongest deck, the Kung Fu Card Set, was completely exposed.

If the opponent is prepared, even the strongest deck won’t have the strongest effect.

So what Ree Shil was about to use was a mix of new and old.

The A-level combination of [Liu Bei] + [Guan Yu] took the stage.

Plus, he brought one [False Saint] card.

Hunchback Woman: "Wow, I didn’t expect Contestant 1 Henry Thompson to be so proactive in his first Reveal Card this time.

It’s a big departure from his usual go-to combo of Monk and Bear cards."