GMCL Qualification Comes To a Successful End and 3 Youth Teams Will Join in the Battle on Behalf of Mainland China
After intense online competition lasting for 2 days and 4 sessions, the 1st Mainland China Qualification of GMCL has come to a satisfactory end. Shuimu Community Team, Fangzhuang Club Team, China Xiaoyaolong Team have outstood from 8 strong squads and will take part in the peak battle against other 13 MIL national and regional membership squads from the five continents at online GB platform (gbmj.lianzhong.com) on behalf of Mainland China.
On the night of August 5, the 3rdsession of Qualification commenced after which only the teams ranking top 4 will participate in the struggle in the final session. After pilot battles in the first two sessions, each team all adopted targeted strategy in the critical 3rdsession. The promising team Yuetianyuyun failed in this session unexpectedly, for the win ratio was too low, though defense was tight, thus making integrals drop to No.5 and lose right to join in the final session.
Fangzhuang Club, due to successive mistakes in the former two sessions, made 40IMP difference from entry qualification before the 3rdsession. However, through players’ analyzing failure reasons and making personnel adjustment according to team players’ exercise features and combined with big courage, they succeeded in reversing the situation amazingly by recovering 48IMP in one session and ranked No.3 to enter the final session. Tianjin Maxie Team ranked No.4 in the first session, and the situation was improved much in the later several sessions. Both attack and defend of Qingdao Maxie Team and Shengdian Guobiao team were inhibited, making them not exert the normal level and failed then.
Team ranking after the 3rdsession
After a short break, the final session of Mainland China Qualification kicked off. In the final session, the integrals in the first 3 sessions were brought in 100%. The current ranking of all teams are Shuimu Community Team (60IMP), China Xiaoyaolong Team (24IMP), Fangzhuang Club Team (-3IMP) and Guangzhou Zimowang Team (-4IMP) in order. Shuimu Community Team, following the advantageous strategy to attach both importance to attack and defense, became No.1 successfully by overwhelmed advantages of 50 IMP and 27.7％highest win ratio and super-low shoot ratio. Fangzhuang Club Team, with good patience and taking the victorious chance to catch up, turned the defeat and became No.2 by 7IMP.
The most dramatic scene arose between China Xiaoyaolong Team and Guangzhou Zimowang Team. China Xiaoyaolong Team, keeping top 4 in previous sessions stably, saw consistently dropping integrals in the fourth session, perhaps because there were many MCRnew excellent players in team. At the last hand of tiles in the final session, Xiaoyaolong Team fell 18IMP behind Guangzhou Zimowang Team. Its victory only can be gotten when 2 players winand one of whom won by self-drawn, and none in Guangzhou Zimowang Team win. Eventually, with players’ full struggle, China Xiaoyaolong Team outstood only by excessive 1IMP and entered global GMCL official competition. However, Guangzhou Zimowang Team failed to keep their advantage in the first half match, and lost the game by 1IMP behind.
Within 24 hours after the competition, MIL Game Supervision conducted sampling inspection to the credibility game assurance degree of the top 4 teams according to the standard post-game sampling inspection flow. In sampling inspection, some issues were found including incomplete IP addresses submitted by some teams or refusal to submit IP addresses, some teams lacking understanding for submission of credibility game assurance deposit and the post-game sampling inspection work, some players failing to come to position timely, few players failing in the accuracy ratio to answer the interview of post-game sampling inspection, few players’ disputes such as suspected gathered battle, etc.
Given the GMCL Mainland China Qualification is a standardized mahjong network competition firstly held according to international sport game criteria globally and the game itself is of strong testing significance and guiding significance, MIL Game Committee organized internal arbitration meeting of qualification, and Game Supervision presented post-game sampling inspection report and controversial issues to the Qualification Arbitration Team (constituted by leaders of joined teams and game supervisors) and applied for arbitration. Through review and voting, Qualification Arbitration Team confirmed performances of all teams are effective, and conducted internal disposal to various disputes in the sampling inspection.
“With so developed electronic competitions nowadays, network game has been an important organizing form of mind sports. I am grateful to MIL to entrust “MCR Online” for the online part of this game. As a unique platform supporting duplicate format all over the world currently, “MCR Online” is glad to take full efforts to assist GMCL and promote mahjong to become one of world-recognized sport competitive items in an accelerated way”, said a principal of “MCR Online”, the host party for GMCL Mainland China Qualification.
This GMCL Mainland China Qualification is a perfect practice before commencement of GMCL official game, which qualification teams on behalf of China, and also conducted attempt to standardize mahjong network competitions, said Li Wenlong, MIL Secretary. This GMCL Mainland China Qualification adopted innovative methods like players’ self-discipline and credibility game assurance letter, team credibility game assurance deposit, real-name certification, IP registration and backstage audition, post-game tile profiles interview, etc. to conduct standardized design for game organizing, online platform supervision, post-game sampling inspection, providing a good reference to the upcoming GMCL global official game.
Final Ranking for GMCL Mainland China Qualification
The top 3 in Mainland China Qualification entered GMCL official game
After the conclusion of Mainland China Qualification, GMCL Division Normal Game will be officially started in the evening of August 17. Shuimu Community Team, Fangzhuang Club Team, China Xiaoyaolong Team have defeated all other teams in the qualification and will fight the battle on behalf of excellent tile players in Mainland China. May their good performance!