Chapter 378 All-Star Weekend

"Huh? How did they do?" Ye Xiu's reply revealed that he hadn't watched Yizhan's match. This round of matches had just ended. If watching the television broadcast, everyone would be focusing on the most popular matches. This round's Yizhan match wasn't one of them.

"Perfect victory!!!!" Lou Guan Ning's four exclamation marks expressed his uncontrollable excitement.

"Oh, so impressive!" Ye Xiu's praise was genuine. A perfect victory wasn't easy to achieve, even between teams with a large disparity in strength. There were too many factors that could influence the outcome of a match. Even a great god-level player could have a bad day and unexpectedly lose.

To achieve a perfect victory didn't necessarily mean that a team's strength was overwhelming, but the players' condition in this match was definitely red hot. There was no doubt about that.

"Hahaha, this is just too awesome." Lou Guan Ning was becoming more and more professional. A perfect victory wouldn't make him think that their team had already turned the tables, but the boost in morale that it brought still delighted him.

"Keep up the good work and maintain this state. You'll definitely make people look at you in a new light," Ye Xiu said.

Speaking of which, because Yizhan's promotional campaigns had been too strong before, people had too high expectations for them. The preseason prediction ranking that placed them in tenth was the best evidence of this. As a result, Yizhan's true performance could be described as starting strong and then fading away. They had been hovering around the relegation zone, no different from the new teams that joined the alliance each season. This round's ten points was a great victory, like sending charcoal in the snow for them, a weak team that had difficulty gaining points and easily losing them. Possessing such a strong victory was in line with people's initial positioning of Yizhan.

"Yes, yes, definitely. There's something else, Great God!" Lou Guan Ning continued.

"Oh, what is it?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Next week is the All-Star Weekend," Lou Guan Ning said.

"I know," Ye Xiu said.

The first week of every year was the Glory All-Star Weekend, which was a convention.

"This All-Star Weekend is hosted by Tiny Herb. Coincidentally, we and Tiny Herb are both in City B," Lou Guan Ning said.

"Yeah, I know that too."

"Great God, are you interested in coming to take a look!" Lou Guan Ning finally revealed his theme.

"Oh?" Ye Xiu didn't understand what he meant. Although the 24 All-Star players were the most eye-catching part of the All-Star Weekend, it was actually a weekend carnival for all professional players. So, even though Yizhan's players definitely couldn't be selected for the All-Star lineup, they would definitely attend this All-Star Weekend event.

"Hahaha, let's all communicate and have some fun! When we're done, if you have time, you can come to our Yizhan and give us some guidance," Lou Guan Ning said.

"Oh, is that so? I'll ask our boss!" Ye Xiu said.

"Your whole team can come. We'll provide full reception!" Lou Guan Ning said boldly.

"Okay, okay, thank you!" Ye Xiu wasn't too polite because he knew that this kind of thing was a small matter for Lou Guan Ning. Being too polite would seem like they were strangers.

Then he turned around and told the others at Happy about this matter.

"All-Star Weekend? Boring." Wei Chen scoffed first, mainly to show that he was once a glorious figure. He was no longer interested in events that many people eagerly hoped to participate in.

Mo Fan didn't need to be said. He didn't even lift his head when Ye Xiu told him about this.

Although Wu Chen had never been selected as an All-Star, he was still a professional player and had participated in the All-Star Weekend before. So, he naturally wasn't very interested in being a spectator. If he wanted to watch, the television broadcast was the same.

Although Qiao Yifan was a small transparent figure, he had been with Tiny Herb for a year and had seen many big scenes. He had even participated in the Rookie Challenge at the All-Star Weekend. Now, he was focused on making steady progress and didn't seem very enthusiastic about the gorgeous and lively All-Star Weekend.

Tang Rou had been there last year and even played on stage. She had a deep impression of that stage. However, it was just a deep impression. With Tang Rou's personality, how could she have much interest in an occasion that emphasized performance over actual combat?

Then there were Chen Guo and Bao Zi.

Chen Guo was a standard Glory fan. If she had time, she would buy a ticket to join in the fun. How could she refuse such an opportunity?

What about Bao Zi? No one was sure if he understood what was going on, but he just stroked his chin and muttered, "All-Star Weekend? Sounds exciting."

In this way, who would go and who wouldn't was obvious.

However, because Chen Guo wanted to go, she finally dragged Tang Rou along as a companion and even wanted to invite Su Mucheng to go with them.

Although Excellent Era's All-Stars had not been completely forgotten by the players and fans, they were, after all, a relegated team. Under normal circumstances, they wouldn't even have the qualifications to be invited to participate in the All-Star Weekend, let alone be selected as All-Stars.

Not having the qualifications to participate in the All-Star Weekend made everyone at Excellent Era feel extremely embarrassed. But even if they were invited, Excellent Era wouldn't want to save face. It was simply emphasizing their special status as a relegated team and was no different from sticking their face out to be slapped.

So, out of sight, out of mind, Excellent Era simply had a closed training session during the All-Star Weekend week. Su Mucheng was still a member of the Excellent Era team after all, so it was inconvenient for her to leave casually.

So, in the end, Ye Xiu, Bao Zi, Chen Guo, and Tang Rou formed a team and embarked on a trip to City B. Luo Ji's City T was quite close to City B, and he said that he would go over if he had the opportunity.

In addition, An Wenyi also really wanted to go, but for college students, January meant that the grueling final exams were approaching. An Wenyi wasn't a super top student like Luo Ji. He had sacrificed a lot of time to practice Glory on weekdays, so he had to cram a bit to cope with the exams. Before his professional career had really shown any signs, how could the rational and calm An Wenyi easily give up his studies? As for whether he could really embark on the path of a professional career, his choice probably wouldn't need anyone else to worry about.

Happy's schedule for the next week was temporarily arranged like this. The professional circle was also preparing to welcome this season's All-Star Weekend.

The voting for the 24 All-Stars was available online and in the Glory game. What was needed for voting was a Glory account card, with each card limited to one vote. The voting channel would open after the opening match of each season. However, the biggest reference for players who used their votes at this time wouldn't be this opening match, but rather the second half of the recently concluded season and the players' performance in the playoffs. So, the All-Star voting list could be roughly seen as reflecting the players' situation in the players' minds over the past year.

So, when this year completely ended and welcomed the first day of the new year, the voting channel would be closed. The 24 All-Stars wouldn't need to be announced by the official. Players could completely count them by looking at the list themselves.

However, under normal circumstances, the official would still create a promotional video for each period's 24 All-Stars as soon as possible. This time was no exception. On January 1st, the first day of the new year, the official video of the 24 All-Stars had quietly been uploaded to the Internet and was being watched and spread by players.

Zhou Zekai was undoubtedly the number one on the list. After winning the championship in the summer, people could almost foresee this. Samsara's vice-captain Jiang Botao also seemed to have risen in popularity due to winning the championship. He ranked fifth in the voting, surpassing many great gods.

And between them, in second, third, and fourth place respectively, were Huang Shaotian, Wang Jiexi, and Han Wenqing, the three leading great gods of the major teams. Their existing fame and prestige almost guaranteed that they could be sent into the All-Star seats by fans before they retired.

Ranked sixth was the current core ace player of Team Wind Howl: Tang Hao.

Tang Hao's votes weren't too far from the previous few, but he didn't have a championship like Jiang Botao, nor did he have a stable fan base like Huang Shaotian, Wang Jiexi, and Han Wenqing. As a player who had just transferred during the summer, Tang Hao had to win the support of his new team's fans while also losing the votes of some of his original team's fans. Even so, he still relied on his superior performance in the second half of the season to win the support of more and more viewers, officially joining the ranks of top great gods.

After Tang Hao were the two tactical masters in the alliance, Blue Rain's Yu Wenzhou and Tyranny's Zhang Xinjie. Although the two played pivotal roles in their teams, they weren't the kind of killer-level characters who could capture cities and seize strongholds, so their popularity would ultimately be slightly weaker. The situation was like how forwards were always more popular than defenders in the soccer world.

And these two were just a dividing line. The number of votes for the players after them was quite a bit different from those before them. The characters who could become the 24 All-Stars were all worthy of being called great gods, but there were also high and low rankings in the popularity of great gods. Among the remaining ones, there were also many regulars in the All-Star, but they were still a bit short of the top great god seat.

And among these people, the most talked about was Zhang Jiale.

After returning to the professional alliance after a year of retirement, this great god was still affected by a year of blank period. In addition, his decision to join Team Tyranny after his comeback was also a highly controversial decision. Even now, there are still posts on Glory's major forums ridiculing him. Zhang Jiale's popularity was greatly affected by this. Even though he was still using the well-known Launcher Dazzling Hundred Blossoms, his popularity was no longer as high as it used to be and he had retreated from the ranks of top great gods. However, this was only his popularity. The correctness of joining Tyranny was being powerfully proven through actual combat. Zhang Jiale, who had been affected by a year of blank period, had met a group of extremely experienced teammates. His condition was constantly being found in a very comfortable competition environment. The current Zhang Jiale didn't seem to be any different from when he retired. This caused his decision to retire to be brought up again and wildly cursed, but this didn't affect him in the slightest.

Amidst praise and criticism, Zhang Jiale steadily moved forward. Tyranny, which had undergone a series of major changes in the summer, was stable and efficient, like a team that had been fighting together for many years. They were currently leading the alliance and striving to create the most gorgeous regular season record in Glory's history. This All-Star Weekend, they had already created a history, with as many as four people selected into the 24 All-Star lineup. This was something that had never happened in Glory history.

However, these four were all regulars in the All-Star, and other than Zhang Jiale, the other three couldn't create any new topics. Everyone was more concerned about some of the new faces in this All-Star.