Pokémon: The Climb

"Okay, Yang Yan, if you want to hear it, I'll tell you!"

Gao Liu spoke enthusiastically. Unfortunately, most of them were about the fact that he met some powerful trainers, participated in interesting competitions in a certain area, etc. There was nothing Yang Yan wanted to hear.

"By the way, do you know how many trainers are participating in the conference this time?" Yang Yan couldn't stand Gao Liu's pile of "nonsense", so he quickly changed the subject: "As soon as I got out of the car, I found that there were really many people."

"That's not true," Yashu, who was sitting on the innermost side, smiled slightly and said confidently: "According to my understanding, as of this morning alone, the number of applicants has exceeded 2800, and until now, there have been more than people who have signed up. The number still shows no sign of declining."

Song Ming agreed: "So we guess that the number of participants in this conference is likely to exceed 4000!"

"4000 people," Yang Yan exclaimed, "It's truly the first alliance conference. There are so many people participating!"

Although Yang Yan didn't know much about the alliance conference, he had discussions with his classmates during school.

Yang Yan didn't know what happened to other alliances, but he still had an idea of ​​the number of applicants for the Fengyuan League every year, which was generally around 1700-2000 people.

This number of people is already considered to be a lot. Because so many people need to play several rounds of qualifiers to select the top 64 who will enter the main draw.

There were so many people in the Carlos Conference, which was certainly a bonus from the first edition, but it was mostly due to the lack of rigor in the gym.

Gym leaders do not just compete in gyms and issue badges, but they are also the first line of identification of trainers.

Those who can participate in the conference must at least have a team of Pokémon with intermediate strength or above. The responsibility of the gym leader is to eliminate most of the unqualified ones.

This is mainly done to maintain the integrity of the alliance conference.

After all, according to the rules of the alliance, even if you bring 6 basic or novice Pokémon, you can participate as long as you obtain 8 badges. But can a Pokémon of this strength lead to an exciting battle? Apparently not enough. So it is necessary to screen it again.

"But with so many people, there must be a lot of average players, so maybe we will be lucky enough to advance to the main draw without encountering any strong opponents." Jiumei joked.

According to past experience, "running companions" like Jiumei and Songming have little hope of passing the preliminaries. But when there are more people, it might actually be possible. After all, the number of powerful trainers is definitely less than the average ones.

"Just try your best to play as many rounds as possible, and leave the rest to God's will."

"Yes, there are so many competitors, and I'm worried that not many of us from other regions will be able to make it to the main competition..." Rina said with some worry.

Even people like Rina are starting to worry, which shows that the situation is really bad.

……

Unconsciously, it got dark, and everyone realized that they had been chatting for a long time.

Gao Liu suggested going to a restaurant, which was unanimously agreed by everyone.

We haven’t seen each other for a long time, and everyone has different experiences, so there are many topics to talk about at once.

The same goes for the next day.

This was mainly because the surrounding training grounds and battle halls were already occupied, so they did not let their Pokémon train today, just as they were recharging their energy for tomorrow's league meeting.

Of course, the exception is Yangyan's Pokémon.

Who allowed it to borrow the space of an unknown totem?

By the way, Kerni and Nilan had arrived in Baike City two days ago.

When they learned that Yang Yan had finally arrived, they invited Yang Yan to come over for a get-together. So in the afternoon, Yang Yan said goodbye to Jiumei and the others and went to Korni's place.

It's not that he doesn't want the two parties to meet, but he is worried that the two parties will dislike each other. Because there are many second-generation people in Kerni that I met last time.

The Alliance Conference is a grand event in the region. Since those second-generation family members can let them experience life and death, how can they miss the Alliance Conference, an excellent and insightful competition?

Thanks to Yang Yan's "wonderful performance" last time, those people's attitude towards him became much better. But he couldn't guarantee that those people would give Jiumei and others a good temper because of him.

Especially among them there are guys with the same bad temper as Gao Liu, as well as some people who have also signed up for the conference. If the two parties start fighting at the slightest disagreement, there will be big trouble. So what he did was a choice he made after careful consideration.

Kerni called Yang Yan over because she felt that after the incident last time, the relationship between Yang Yan and them should have eased a lot, so everyone could sit down and make friends.

Fortunately, Kerni was able to smooth things over in the end, and Yang Yan officially got to know a lot of people, so nothing unexpected happened throughout the afternoon.

And after this day.

Next is the day when the alliance meeting begins.

The conference time is very tight.

The opening ceremony will be in the morning, and the preliminaries will begin in the afternoon.

It's not yet dawn, but the city is already brightly lit, and there is a steady stream of people on the streets. These are the audience who are preparing to enter the venue.

The opening ceremony will start at 9 a.m., and because of the large number of spectators, ticket checking will begin at 6 a.m.

Yang Yan and the others can go a little later because they are contestants and can swipe their participation cards and go through the contestant-only channel.

Of course, the place they went to was not the auditorium, but the player waiting area.

They can only watch the opening ceremony on TV like other people who cannot reach the venue.

In addition, if you don’t want to watch the opening ceremony, you can come later. It’s just that almost no one does this.

After all, this is the very commemorative first Carlos Alliance Conference. If you don’t come, forget it. But if you come and don’t watch it, that would be a real pity.

Yang Yan and others set out for the contestants area at 7:.

There are 15 player areas in total, each of which can accommodate 300 people.

Therefore, you can roughly know the number of contestants through the contestant area.

After counting, there were more people than they expected, about 4300 people!

And when they entered one of the players' areas, the opening ceremony of the alliance meeting just started.

You can see through the screen that when the clock hands reached 8 o'clock, countless salutes were lit throughout the venue, weaving a short but gorgeous picture in the sky.

In the place that was originally a battlefield, a large-scale stage play was performed.

With the cooperation of people and Pokémon, vivid songs and dances are performed.

In the audience seats, the cheers rose one after another, showing people's uncontrollable excitement.

And here, even across the screen, many people's blood is boiling and they are cheering!

"It deserves to be an alliance conference and a grand event for trainers!"

"This is the stage we trainers should stand on!"

"I will let everyone see my strength!"

"My dream will come true here!"

……

Countless trainers were shouting excitedly!