"Let me see who's left… You, and you two teams, join the winners' bracket with the five teams from before."
Reed began assigning groups for the sixteen teams.
"As for the remaining eight teams, some of you are injured, out of breath, and in a mess. Though you survived, you're nothing but weaklings. Go to the losers' bracket, fight it out, and wait for the ones who drop from the winners' bracket to compete with you for rankings!"
Reed laughed maliciously, and the teams ridiculed by him looked sullen.
"I know why he got hit," Zoe said.
The sixteen Flowing Silver Combat Skill teams follow a double-elimination format, where the eight teams in the winners' bracket have a second chance if they lose once.
"Who will make it to the end? Will a team march triumphantly like a king to seize the championship, or will a team rise from the hell of the losers' bracket to come back? Let's wait and see!
"Now, let's begin the specific grouping."
