The next day was the finals of the World Dispute.
When Jiang Qiao saw the finals, he finally understood how popular the game was. The reports from various countries were as if they were reporting on the World Cup … all of their attention was focused on the finals of the World Dispute.
The stage for the finals was not a stadium, but a holographic projection hall that the Dispute officials had spent hundreds of millions to build. This holographic projection hall used Hua Nation's technology to achieve the most realistic holographic projection experience.
The Dispute officials managed to do it. From the live broadcast, the holographic projection was very realistic. There were even some equipment like a large hairdryer used to create the live effect.
The number of people watching the live broadcast of this match had reached 220 million!
It wasn't an exaggeration to boast that this was the most watched match in the history of the internet. They were even planning to announce a Guinness World Record.
As for the most watched final in human history, the final result was the victory of Bouncing Nuclei.
This victory was extremely tragic. The score between Bouncing Nuclei and Cola Fever was 6: 6. In the end, the match was dragged into overtime, and the winner was decided by an individual match.
In this overtime, Spinning Clouds was sent to face Caramel … In the end, Spinning Clouds defeated this senior in the Hua Nation's eSports circle by a hair's breadth.
This might also be a sign of the rise of a newcomer in the eSports circle. No matter what, Spinning Clouds won all the glory in this match!
On the night of the match, even though Jiang Qiao lived in a residential area two streets away from the university, he could still hear the guys in the university's apartment building shouting "Bouncing Nuclei is awesome!"
It was not just the martial arts universities. All the universities in the Hua Nation had entered a festive state. There were also a bunch of people on Weibo saying things like "My youth is complete".
Jiang Qiao also followed suit and posted "Bouncing Nuclei is awesome" on Weibo.
Unfortunately, Jiang Qiao's personal Weibo was not followed by many people. At most, there were some of Jiang Qiao's university classmates. Speaking of university … Wan Xiang's college entrance examination had already ended.
However, her days of being grounded by her own mother had not ended. Wan Xiang could only log into the Holy Spirit after the results of her college entrance examination were announced.
During this time, Wan Xiang could only use her phone to send messages to Jiang Qiao to ask about the Holy Spirit.
Although the Leaping Nuclei had won the World War Tournament, their schedule was far from over. In order to participate in the Holyspirit Challenge, the contestants of Leaping Nuclei and Cola Mania had even decided to fight in the Eagle Nation!
Therefore, on the second day of the World Dispute, while the Chinese esports fans were still immersed in celebration, the Holy Ghost Challenge officially kicked off.
The Challenge Competition used a point system. The points were linked to the Celestial Stairway ranking … This meant that the higher one's ranking was, the more points they would receive!
The eight contestants with the highest number of points would qualify for the next elimination round.
The points competition lasted for about five days. Jiang Qiao used the Holy Ghost's official live broadcast channel to broadcast some of the more exciting matches.
Of course, Jiang Qiao didn't miss the first place Cola Mania's players, followed by Freya's incarnation.
These matches were even more popular than the Leaping Nuclei members of the champion team.
However, no matter how popular it was, the Holy Ghost Challenge was only an official event in the eyes of most players. It had nothing to do with a professional competition.
At its peak, it wasn't even as popular as the Holy Ghost region's Sleeping Dream. No … it was much less popular than Sleeping Dream, and the highest it ranked was only fifth or sixth.
Jiang Qiao didn't really care about the low popularity of the Holy Ghost Challenge. After all, the competition wasn't for the Holy Ghost. If the Holy Ghost really wanted to hold a professional competition, Jiang Qiao wouldn't have done it so carelessly.
Although it was sloppy, in the five days since the competition officially started, the top eight contestants had surfaced one after another.
On the fifth day, Rose the Eternal and Heuzer the Eternal advanced to the knockout rounds with an absolute advantage in points, securing two spots in the top eight. Freya, on the other hand, advanced to the next round thanks to the Players' crowd-funding winning streak.
On the sixth day, Madam Calamity, who had been fighting for almost half a month, also advanced to the elimination round. However, Drake, who she had dragged along, was beaten up by the Grandmaster Players.
When Jiang Qiao watched Drake's match, he felt that the Pirate King was hiding his strength. He didn't take the match seriously, and he didn't seem to care even when he lost in the end.
On the seventh day, a confirmed player appeared. It was Caramel. In the end, he didn't manage to keep his first place in the Holy Ghost server.
However, Jiang Qiao could tell that Caramel had been trying to get more points on the Stairway Ladder recently. Caramel was probably planning to clear his name in the quarterfinals. The deeper reason was that he had lost in the World War, which had made him even more obsessed with winning and losing.
This made Jiang Qiao very worried about his mental state. However, Cola Mania had a professional psychologist. When Cola Mania lost in the World War, the boss, Air Bubble, posted on Weibo, "Sorry, we lost. We'll keep an eye on the contestants' condition."
On the eighth day, Zhao Mingwei also advanced to the top ten of the national server as he wished. At the same time, he qualified for the elimination round. That night, Whirling Cloud, who was touted as the number one esports player in China, also qualified for the elimination round.
On the ninth day, there was only one spot left in the top eight. What surprised Jiang Qiao was that the last spot didn't belong to any of the top esports clubs in China, nor did it belong to an NPC. It belonged to a random player with the ID Hidden Blade in Brocade Clothes.
This random player was a regular in the top ten, but Jiang Qiao didn't pay much attention to him. As for whether the other professional clubs paid attention … Jiang Qiao wasn't sure.
After all, Holy Ghost didn't have any official professional competitions. Jiang Qiao didn't plan to organize a Holy Ghost Pro League for now.
In short, the top eight contestants of the Holy Ghost elimination round were announced. Eternal Rose, Eternal Heuser, Freya's avatar, Madam Calamity, Caramel, Happy Game, Whirling Cloud, and Hidden Blade in Brocade Clothes.
There were four NPCs and four players.
Jiang Qiao pressed a random button for the matchups of the eight contestants to be decided by the Goddess of Destiny.
The Goddess of Destiny seemed to be a Goddess who liked to play pranks. The final matchups were …
Madam Calamity against Freya's avatar, Whirling Cloud against Hidden Blade in Brocade Clothes on the left side.
Eternal Rose against Happy Game, Eternal Heuser against Caramel on the right side.
"What kind of demonic grouping is this?" Jiang Qiao looked at the grouping and could already imagine a lot of strange scenarios.
"I don't think there's a problem. These two Eternals don't stand much of a chance against the two strongest Holy Ghosts on our side." Hai Lan didn't think there was anything wrong with this grouping.
"Uh … I mean … Alright, there's no problem. Let's just announce it."
Jiang Qiao thought for a while. This kind of drama seemed to be what he wanted to see, so he directly announced the grouping of the top eight.