bookcurios Chapter 17: Internal Open Trials
Chapter 17: Internal Open Trials
After the plan was implemented, in just one week, Yukimura gained the support of most of the people in the club through special means, most of whom were first- and second-year members!
In fact, although Rikkai's tennis club seems to be doing well, many problems arose after the previous class of seniors graduated.
The starting positions are firmly occupied by third-year players. People below them will be suppressed even if they have talent, and can only be promoted to Team 2 at most. On the surface, it seems that strength is respected, but in fact, there are so many tricks involved that only people who have experienced it personally know.
Therefore, when a voice calling for reform emerged within the department, it quickly gained support from many people who were dissatisfied with the status quo.
Afterwards, Yukimura personally visited these members and drafted a proposal signed by all supporters. He also wrote down the problems of the tennis club and requested reforms, and submitted it to the Academic Affairs Office.
Because there were so many supporters, the Academic Affairs Office had to take this proposal seriously. After two days of consideration, the school committee finally decided to adopt this suggestion and issued a public notice, forcing the tennis department to try to make changes.
But this matter did not go so smoothly. There was still a stubborn resistance against the teaching department's reaching into the interior.
Among them, most are third-year students from the tennis club. After the implementation of the system, it will threaten the status of third-year students in the club to a great extent. So even though there are more first-year and second-year students, they still believe in their own abilities when facing these seniors with more experience.
This matter has become a dilemma, and the Academic Affairs Office is caught in the middle and it is difficult to handle it.
And at this moment, Yukimura stood up and made a call, proposing to decide the final right of speech through a competition!
As soon as these words were spoken, they were immediately recognized by all the members!
The Rikkai University Tennis Club actually has an unwritten rule, which is that the winner takes it all!
Almost since the school was founded, whenever there is something that cannot be resolved, the victory or defeat will be decided by strength. To put it bluntly, it is a competition to see who has the harder fist.
Although this doesn't make sense, it is simple and effective for a tennis club that values strength.
In tennis, strength is ultimately what matters.
In the end, the Academic Affairs Office adopted Yukimura's opinion and decided to launch a new round of open auditions. People from all clubs could participate. The final winner would have absolute say and would also be the new president of Rikkai University.
Thus, the decisive change began this week!
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Taking advantage of the time when there was no ball to pick up, Oreki Yu also signed up for the trials.
Afterwards, he saw a lot of familiar-looking guys at the registration venue.
Including Yukimura, Sanada, Marui, there are also Niou Masaji, Yanagi Renji, Yagyu Lubis, and Jack Kuwahara.
Almost all the future members of Rikkai University are gathered here.
The only one who hasn't come yet is Kirihara Akaya, who is still in elementary school.
Looking at these tiny characters from the original novel in front of him, Oreki Yu couldn't help but find it a little funny. In the original novel, he could only see their majestic side, but he had never seen them look like little kids.
When Oreki Yu thought that it was this group of people who won two consecutive national championships, he still found it a little unbelievable.
The reason why Rikkai University is so strong is certainly inseparable from the existence of Yukimura and Sanada, but you have to know that in most of the games they fought their way up with a score of 3:0.
From this we can see that even the other regular players are among the best in the country in terms of strength.
However, even as a champion team, there are still many regrets.
In the original work, the rise of Seigaku, the appearance of Echizen, and the illness of the captain Yukimura Seiichi, etc., led to Rikkai's failure to win the final three consecutive national championships.
It seems that everything is determined by fate. Winning three consecutive championships in Prince of Tennis seems to be an impossible feat. Even the previous champion Makuno Teng only won the national championship for two consecutive times under the leadership of Byodoin.
Rikkai University, led by Yukimura, eventually followed in his footsteps, failing to win the championship for the second time in a row and had to graduate with regret.
However, now with his joining, fate has changed slightly.
With him, Rikkai University will have at least 4 national-level luxury lineups in the future. By then, even Seigaku in its prime will not be able to stop them from winning the championship!
Moreover, with his advantage as a time traveler, he can "guide" other potential members in advance and accelerate their evolution. Rikkai's future strength will only be stronger.
Oreki Yu is confident that this time, Rikkai University will definitely have a different destiny.
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The next afternoon, the first round of trials officially began.
The qualifying competition adopts a group points system. There are more than 200 participants, divided into 8 groups. Round-robin competitions are carried out within the groups, and the 8 people with the most points will be selected for the knockout rounds.
The knockout stage is a one-match decider, with the loser being eliminated directly. The rankings are 64 to 32, 32 to 16, 16 to 8, 8 to 4, and 4 to 2.
After Oreki Yu picked up all the balls for today and made a net profit of more than 1000 yen, he learned that he was assigned to Group B. He took a look at the members of Group B, and he didn't know if it was fate, but he saw Marui Bunta's name on the list.
"Tsk, it's this guy..."
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group matches.
There are a total of 8 half-zones with each competing separately, and the progress is very fast.
Those with strong abilities continue to accumulate points, while those with weak abilities are quickly eliminated.
This even included many senior students who were squeezed out. In the past, they could rely on their seniority and thick skin to stay in the tennis club, but now it is no longer possible.
In the future of the tennis club, only the strong will survive!
Oreki Yu took advantage of the break in the game to visit the other half of the zone.
There is no doubt that Yukimura has won all the games. His current strength is probably at the national level like his. Except for the top two national-level third-year players in the tennis club, no one should be his opponent.
Sanada's strength is second only to Yukimura. Just the two moves of Feng and Lin make him the top strength in Kanto. In his group, he is almost invincible.
Although Lubis Yagyu is not a very experienced tennis player, he has excellent tennis qualities. Although he is an elegant and gentle person in daily life, he is a passionate man when playing a game. He does not spare his physical strength and sweats to his heart's content. He also wins every game and rarely loses.
As for Jack Kuwahara, he seems to be slightly inferior in strength, winning 10 out of 6 games.
Compared to others, he doesn't seem to have any outstanding qualities. Oreki Yu judges that he can only barely perform well in the group stage. As for how far he can go in the knockout rounds, it all depends on luck.
Of course, Oreki Yu did not forget to visit Yanagi Renji. After all, he was one of the three giants of Rikkai University in the future!
The result was just as he expected, with more wins than wins, 10 out of 9 games.
Oreki Yu had seen him play, and each shot seemed to be carefully calculated, with his opponents completely at his mercy. After the game, those seniors all looked extremely aggrieved.
The only time they lost was to a national-level player in the third grade, who was also the captain of the tennis club, Shinichi Yamada.
"Data tennis is indeed quite good, but it seems to still have many flaws..."
Oreki Yu guessed that Yanagi's current strength was only close to the Kanto level, and was far from being as powerful as "one of the three giants" in the original work.
But even so, Yanagi Renji will have no problem making it out of the group stage, and he's expected to go a long way in the knockout rounds.
In addition to the above people, there is actually another person who is known as the "court cheater" Niou Masaharu.
However, even Oreki Yuu was a little confused about him. After 10 games, he didn't win a single game and it was certain that he would not qualify for the group stage.
He also took a quick look at this guy's games, and it seemed that Nioh was not playing seriously at all, and was just doing some weird tricks.
It would be strange if we could win the game with this attitude!
Oreki Yu thought carefully about Niou's early experiences in the original work, and there didn't seem to be much information about it. However, judging from the situation, he would not be able to come to prominence in the short term.
Maybe, someone needs to tell him what it means to be serious.