After explaining the agenda of the tournament and how it will be schedule, the man list out all the events in the tournament for them.
"Just as always, we'll have no more than 5 events in the tournament and each event will determine the end result of this tournament.
Football, Martial Art, Dungeon Crawl, Knowledge Exchange and Talent Exhibition."
The two main event of this tournament are Football and Martial Art but participating in all five matters because each event contribute to the end result.
Just like how football is being played, each school will come with their team of fifteen to thirty five players, the minimum number of players a team can register is 15 while the maximum is 35.
The early stage of the football event is the trickiest as it focus on mass elimination and thus, a match of 1 hour will be played, the winner get to the next stage while the loser will the eliminated, a draw spell elimination for both teams.
Martial Art is also a team competition, a school will also come with no more than 10 student, during the early stage, there would be six different arenas where twenty five teams with ten members each will be place together in one arena and clash, the last 10 students remaining on the arena will qualify to the next stage of the tournament.
The last ten can be from different teams but there might be a lucky situation where the last ten will be from the same team.
Dungeon Crawl is a Virtual Reality game that would be held in a very dangerous arena, a school will have to form a team consisting of 20 students. In the early stage just like the man have said would be to eliminate as much team as possible, there would be different countless creatures in this event but the purpose is not to hunt down these monsters or kill one another. They are to explore the arena and find treasures hidden in the dungeons, there will be no more than fifty different treasures hidden in the dungeons and each team is to find one treasure before the time goes out.
There'll be a limited amount of time for all 150 teams of 20 members to find 50 treasures, they can fight one another, they can kill monsters but the main quest is to find the treasure hidden in the heart of the dungeons before the time goes out.
The teams who found a treasure before the end qualify to the next stage.
Knowledge Exchange is the intelligence and educational battle, the event includes questions on English, Maths, Science and General Knowledge, a team would also be formed like other events but this would only be a team of five students.
Talent Exhibition is the display of skills and talent in all various aspect. This is the only event that is individual, this is not a team event as not much people participate and also, this event does not create any point for the participating school like other events, the purpose of this event is to scout students with the best talent in various career, it doesn't help the schools in winning the tournament.
The man continued.
"Because of the nature of the Talent Exhibition even, we've made a little changes to it, now non participating students can also join the event, that is, any of your relatives or invitees below the age of 20 can also participate in this event."
Emmy and Sunny glanced at each other, then smiled.
This is the first time something like that is happening and it's a huge surprise for everyone, although, Emmy haven't been to any season of APST before, but he had read a lot about it and also heard a few stories from those brats in his class after coming back from last year APST.
"As some of you have already know that there won't be early stage in Talent Exhibition as there are few participants so it'll start in the middle stage."
"Now you can all go back to your room and prepare for tomorrow's exploration while your instructors register the name of participants for each event."
The man stepped back and the hall boom in applaud as the students move out in an orderly manner.
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The next day, all the students move out of their room as they were called to line up according to their school and city in the great hall, teachers and instructors of each school stood at the front behind the 20 officials.
It's time for them to explore Nara City and they're carefully being shared into groups of 100 students and there are more than 700 groups.
They were all mixed with different school, there should be no more than 5 students from the same school in a group, this is simply done to create a sense of interactions and formed relationship among the students. Some students don't have problem with this as they'll be quick to make friends while some will quickly form a small group of five among themselves from the same school, and for some, they might have been acquainted with other students from another school in their city before coming here, so it won't be much of a problem for them.
But for Emmy, not only is he an introverted boring guy who lack better communication skills but he had also been separated from his introvert fellow, Sunny who had also been taken to another group in the mix of an unknown students.
Emmy could not even form a small group of five with the other students from his school, now he is left alone. Sunny will also be in the same situation in the mixed of strangers.
"But that bastard will be having fun with those rich brats and gets more attention from the girls. Damn, if only we could exchange our face."
He knew Sunny will be happy dealing with those senseless brats that dare to trespass and also get more attention.
"Yeah, it would have been great if we could exchange our face."
A very thick voice said besides him.
"Huh sorry, didn't know I said that out."
Emmy replied and face his front, but the boy keep staring at him with a strange expression on his face and after a few minutes, he said.
"Emmy?"
His heart skipped for a couple seconds.
'Who the hell is this, how did he know my name.'
"Have we met before?"
Emmy asked calmly as he study the boy carefully trying to remember where they have met, he hadn't encounter many people in his life and even those he had encounter, only a few know his name so where had he met this guy.
"Huh, never mind, I thought you're the boy I met in the recently played local tournament."
The boy replied and turn away but then it clicks on Emmy's head.
"Wait, are you one of 36 Lions defenders?"
Emmy asked with a curious look, the boy smile and turn to him.
"Yes, it seems you've remember me."
This is also one of the boys who had been joined to United Squad among the three they chose, remembering this, Emmy return the smile and said.
"It seems we'll be playing together as a teammates in the Local League at the end of APST."
The boy nodded.
"Yes but it's such a shame that the other three are not together with me in your team, our ability works together and play a vital role in the local tournament which I'm sure it will also do here in the APST."
Emmy raised an eyebrow, surprised.
"What? Do you mean all four of you that held 36 Lions defense in the Local Tournament are from the same school and also will also play together in the APST?"
"Yes but our strikers are not as dangerous as those of the Lions."
'Damn, I pity the team paired against them.'
"Oh I've been meaning to ask, how did you manage to know about our ability and also counter it, infiltrating our defense, how?"
'Does their ability have something to do with their great defense?'
Before Emmy could reply, the line was already moving and the boy have been pushed forward.
He wanted to asked about their ability and how it works together because he didn't even know how to infiltrate their defense, he just know that he used a combination of his skills and only manage to score two goals with a bit of luck.