Chapter 662: One After Another
After defeating Nine-Tailed Fox, Starlight and Frost had successfully advanced to the semifinals of the Champions Cup!
For a team entering the Champions Cup for the first time, this was already a huge success if one relaxed the standards.
Especially as the matches progressed, the overall improvement of this team was visibly evident!
In the match against Nine-Tailed Fox, even Elara, a rotational player whose performance had been inconsistent, broke through herself and secured a crucial victory!
It could be said that everyone in Starlight and Frost was performing excellently right now!
But fans are always greedy.
Initially thinking reaching the semifinals would be a success, now that they were there, who wouldn't want to go a step further?
Another rest day arrived. Even walking on the streets of the Regal Alliance, Arthur and his team often heard blessings in the Kubfu language.
"Go for it! Starlight and Frost!"
"You must win the championship!"
"Arthur, I'm your die-hard fan!!"
Of course, shouts like the last one inevitably made Arthur want to cover his face and run.
Fans being too enthusiastic could sometimes be a burden.
But this enthusiasm was understandable, as they were now the hope of the whole village.
The results achieved by Kubfu so far this year were the best in this century.
If nothing else, all teams entering the knockout stage and advancing at least one round—this result was unimaginable thirty years ago!
However, as the saying goes: fans are always greedy.
The human heart is never satisfied!
Having come this far, who wouldn't want to see more of the scenery ahead?
For Starlight and Frost, who carried the hope of the whole village, everyone's expectation now was more than just the semifinals!
But having gone through so many storms and hardships along the way, the members of Starlight and Frost wouldn't be crushed by this pressure!
On the one-day rest day, everyone trained as they should, reviewed as they should, orderly and methodical.
Not affected by this heavy burden at all.
Moreover, they had a new advantage: the other three eliminated teams all volunteered to be sparring partners on this day.
The relationship between the four Kubfu teams this year was quite harmonious, and since no team was eliminated in the first round of the group stage, everyone was still here.
It was considered alternative good news.
Thus, after fulfilling training and analysis, the rest day ended. The next day, the knockout stage resumed!
This time, Starlight and Frost faced a veteran powerhouse from the Sinnoh Alliance: the Royal Rapidash Team.
They were also the famous Kubfu Killers in this Champions Cup!
Before Starlight and Frost, three Kubfu teams had been eliminated by them.
So before the match, their team operations very confidently posted an article on social platforms.
It was a poster showing a Rapidash stepping on the logos of three Kubfu teams, neighing domineeringly, looking down at an Alolan Ninetales in front.
The caption below read: Starlight and Frost, you're next!
The meaning of this image and text was self-evident.
It was quite provocative.
Their captain, Gwyneth, was always relatively modest, but the other key players in the team weren't so low-key.
Royal Rapidash was a Sinnoh club, after all.
And as everyone knew, the relationship between the three major alliances—Kubfu, Sinnoh, and White Eagle—had always been very delicate.
Previously, due to the friction in the Ashen Desert, there was already a hint of gunpowder between Kubfu and Sinnoh.
This year, Royal Rapidash eliminating three Kubfu teams in the loser's bracket had given their domestic media a good time.
Now, they wanted to make Starlight and Frost the next name on the victim list.
But Kubfu wouldn't agree to this calculation.
As soon as the players took the stage for this match, the venue erupted with deafening cheers and encouragement.
The teams remaining on the schedule were all the sole survivors of their respective regions.
At this time, the stance of fans from the same region was absolutely unified!
"Go Starlight and Frost! Go Kubfu!!"
"Royal Rapidash, victory! Sinnoh, victory!!"
The waves of sound from both sides were indistinguishable, both extremely enthusiastic.
This emotion was also infecting the opponents in the arena.
Both sides were the last hope of their respective alliances; neither had a reason to give up easily!
Then the match started!
First was the singles segment.
As soon as the Royal Rapidash singles player appeared, there was a significant difference in appearance compared to Starlight and Frost—
Over there were older uncles and grannies; some could even be grandparents.
Royal Rapidash was a veteran powerhouse. Unlike Starlight and Frost, full of young people, they had many elderly people, a bunch of long-famous veterans.
In the sport of Pokémon battling, a player's peak period could be stretched very long.
As long as your ace Pokémon lived long enough, theoretically, a trainer could fight in the arena until their seventies or eighties.
Of course, overly aged players were generally rare in reality.
Because this sport still had high requirements for reaction speed. Often, the trainer's reaction and prediction had to be ahead of the Pokémon.
Pokémon could have cooldown periods, but trainers' reactions couldn't have delayed cooldowns, or they would only become a burden to the Pokémon.
Human reaction speed inevitably slows down with age.
So generally in the arena, professional players over forty were rare, and top players who could maintain peak competitive form over forty-five were even rarer.
Starlight and Frost was even more exaggerated. Except for the captain, everyone was under thirty, with an average age in the early twenties.
However, Royal Rapidash was the complete opposite.
Gwyneth, a charming lady of thirty-two this year, was considered young among them.
The singles player who went on first today was almost fifty according to the introduction.
And Starlight and Frost started with Aaron today.
"Damn, putting these two avatars together, I feel like there's at least a generation gap."
Fans off the field looked at the avatars of the two players side by side on the big screen and couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
"Exactly? It even feels like an underdog challenge match."
Aaron on the field also curled his lips helplessly.
The age recorded in his official player information was fake. In fact, the opponent was twice his age, older than his father.
One side was a veteran who had fought for half a life, the other a rookie who appeared out of nowhere!
The two teams showed completely different styles in the first round of confrontation!
These were two teams with completely opposite temperaments!
And this seemed to signify that this would be a tit-for-tat, fierce match!
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