134: Swiss-system

"Isn't one hundred copies a bit too few? Your fans are now spread across all seven continents, and many of them are looking forward to receiving an autograph from the author."

Editor said this very tactfully, not forgetting to heap on some praise.

Ye Bai thought to himself that if he had to sign ten thousand copies, his hand would be ruined.

"How about this: five hundred copies. Let's stop haggling."

Editor: ...

To be honest, sometimes she really wanted to give the author a good beating.

"Alright, if you agree, we will prepare the online contract immediately. The first batch of physical books will probably be delivered to you in a month. I don't know if you have any intention of holding an autograph session? We can take full responsibility for organizing it for you."

Ye Bai: "That won't really work, I'll be busy then."

He would be busy with the honor of kings esports tournament then; where would he find the time?

Editor smiled, "Understood."

Ye Bai: "By the way, help me get in touch with someone. I have another book here that I want to publish."

Editor: "Is it journey to the west?"

She was also a fan of Ye Bai, so she guessed journey to the west immediately.

Ye Bai was taken aback. He had finished writing journey to the west, but he had forgotten to send it.

"You could say that. journey to the west, plus another fairy tale book."

Editor: "A fairy tale book?"

She originally wanted to say, Ye Bai can write fairy tales too?

But then she thought about it, Ye Bai had become famous because of animated works in the first place.

This wasn't surprising.

It could only be said that romance of the three kingdoms and journey to the west had too many adult fans, making people forget for a moment that there was also a smaller target audience.

"Very well," Editor smiled, "Please send it over as soon as possible, and we will evaluate it and discuss it for you."

Ye Bai: "OK."

After discussing this matter, he sent over journey to the west and one thousand and one nights.

In this way, Zhang Liang's skin would be able to go online very soon.

On the other end, Editor quickly opened the document for journey to the west and began to read.

She had only watched animated journey to the west; she didn't know if the novel was just as profound as romance of the three kingdoms.

Time quickly passed to the evening of November 8th.

Tonight was destined to be a sleepless night for honor of kings players.

One had to know that the professional honor of kings tournament would officially kick off tomorrow.

Holding a Gold Ring was under immense pressure right now. As a major Streamer for honor of kings, he was already under a lot of attention.

He had formed his own team; if he couldn't even win tomorrow's match, he would be finished.

He glanced at the participating teams, totaling over thirty million teams.

The officials had already released the tournament guidelines.

It mainly covered things like not allowing participants to cheat, and that failing to participate in the match within the designated time would be considered a forfeiture, and so on.

The tournament rules adopted a point-based system.

Ye Bai had actually considered using a direct elimination system at first, for example, Team A plays Team B, and the loser is eliminated.

But he quickly considered that if it were like that, it was highly possible for two strong teams to meet, and then one of the strong teams would be eliminated.

There might also be a "King of Luck," someone with poor skill who kept encountering even worse opponents, thereby entering the subsequent offline tournament.

That would be too unfair.

So after a series of considerations, he chose a pure Swiss-system tournament.

The basic principle of this tournament system was to avoid the situation where seeded players were eliminated right at the start.

Furthermore, subsequent matches would match corresponding teams based on points. For example, after one match, if Team A had 1 point, it would be matched with a team with 1 point, and would not be matched with a team with 0 points.

In this way, only 17 or 18 rounds of matches were needed to select the top 256 teams.

At first glance, it seemed complicated, but in reality, the schedule was very simple and easy to understand.

Just past midnight, Golden Ring couldn't wait to look at the tournament regulations.

"One round of matches every day for the first 9 days, and two rounds of matches every day for the last 4 days. The match time is from 6 PM to midnight every day?"

He didn't expect that he only had to play one match a day.

That shouldn't be a big problem, right?

Besides, it looked like it wasn't immediate elimination. Even though he might lose at the start, it didn't mean there was no hope of advancing.

At this moment, the internet was also buzzing with discussion.

[The honor of kings esports tournament is about to begin, with thirty million teams competing together!]

[Who will the two million prize money eventually go to? What will be the final result of our country's first gaming tournament? Stay tuned!]

[Is it necessary to have tournaments for games?]

Posts from Editors were published in droves; at this moment, honor of kings was red-hot.

The players were even more excited.

[Guys, the tournament is tomorrow. I'm so nervous, I can't sleep at all. Do you think if I win the championship, how should I spend that two million?]

[From 6 PM to midnight, Wandering God is quite considerate. This way, I can just participate after getting off work.]

[Thirty million plus teams, but only one team can become the champion. Oh my, how intense must this competition be.]

[Not to be rude, but where did so many people sign up from? Are there really that many Gold-ranked masters?]

[To the person above, honor of kings has billions of downloads, and there are Streamers teaching hand-in-hand, so it doesn't feel hard to reach Gold. My friend, in order to play in the tournament, kept gifting the Streamer, and the Streamer actually carried him up.]

[It looks intimidating, but in reality, most of them are just freeloaders.]

[I signed up too, but I feel like there's absolutely no hope. However, just being able to participate is quite exciting. It's a tournament after all, and what if I manage to enter the offline tournament? That would be so awesome.]

The internet was buzzing with discussion, and in honor of kings, everyone was not holding back on spending money.

There were already many people playing honor of kings, and now there were even more people getting into it because of the tournament.

People just love to join in the excitement.

Once they come in to play, there will always be a portion of players who stay, and among them, there will certainly be a consumer base.

At this moment, Hilda and the people in the company were truly busy off their feet.

They had to ensure that there were no problems with the tournament during this period.

Ye Bai was not idle either; he was checking the streaming software he had installed in honor of kings.

The tournament was about to start, so streaming definitely had to be arranged. Even though there was God Realm, there also had to be matches within honor of kings.

After all, not every player would download God Realm.

And besides them, Producers of other games were also watching from the sidelines.

If the honor of kings tournament could successfully conclude, it would probably have a drastic impact on the gaming circle.

Now, quite a few game Producers were starting to get envious.

Outsiders might not understand, but game Producers could see that basically every step Wandering God took was on the right path.

Quan Ou stared intently at the information for the honor of kings tournament, muttering non-stop, "A genius, truly a genius!"

"Didn't you already know that?" his friend Yaxiboen said.

Ever since Quan Ou was crushed by Wandering God at the Public Welfare Competition last time, he had been muttering every day about why he wasn't a genius, and things like that.

"No," Quan Ou raised his head, his eyes shining, "I mean he is not only a genius at game production, but also a marketing genius!"

"Look at how he made a mobile game in a place where everything was a holographic game at the beginning. This brought its own heat and impact, attracting quite a few people to download and watch."

"Later, he came up with many activities to give away skins, using the gimmick of free-to-play to attract players. And he also preheated the honor of kings tournament from the beginning, using two million in prize money to attract players to stay."

"Now the tournament has even more heat, sigh."

Speaking to this point, he lowered his head again, "Why didn't I grow such a smart brain?"