The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3495

Chapter 3495: Diverse Pairings

Ves continued to chat with various other teams. He managed to get acquainted with many different mech designers in the short period of time before the start of the tournament.

Each of them were talented, capable, confident or well-prepared. They had to be in order to have the guts to compete in this kind of tournament.

The relatively low age restriction of the Wild Brawl Bowl did not attract as many weaklings as Ves initially thought. Even if the mech designers didn't have to compete against 99-year old Journeymen with many decades of experience under his belt, they still swore off in fear of ending at the bottom of the rankings.

None of the competitors could fall back on the excuse that they were only beaten because they had to confront mech designers who were three times older than themselves!

Although everyone who signed up for the Wild Brawl Bowl essentially belonged to the same generation, Ves still found it interesting to note the diversity of the teams.

Some of them consisted of family members. The Voikan Team was a good example. Ves expected them to display an impressive degree of cooperation in the tournament.

Others were apparently strangers who were forced to team up because they couldn't compete alone. Their coordination might not be up to standard but their skills were never in question.

Mech designers at this level didn't need to be familiar with each other to design a good mech. They just had to define each other's responsibilities beforehand so they could do their best without stepping on each other's toes.

As the main competition hall began to fill up, the Wild Brawl Bowl finally commenced!

[LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! GET READY TO WITNESS THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FINEST AND MOST BRUTAL MECHS IN CHANCE BAY!]

The opening ceremony was more festive and elaborate this time. Several notable bands stepped onto the stage and began to pump up the crowd with their high tempo music.

Ves had the illusion that he had mistakenly entered a rock concert rather than a mech design tournament.

If that wasn't enough, the Wild Fighter Association held an impromptu cage match tournament where numerous fighters entered a cage and began to beat each other up with great violence!

Although the violence and brutality of these cage matches were over-the-top, the risks to the fighters weren't actually great. As professional athletes, they underwent heavy, targeted augmentation that massively reinforced their heads and vital organs.

Concussions, bone fractures and organ failure were not a particularly great concern to them. Even if they screwed up, the Wild Fighter Association employed the same kind of protection system that ensured that mech duels remained death-free.

As a result, the fighters freely spilled a lot of blood! They not only knew how to fight, but also excelled at making their fight as spectacular as possible!

Once the audience enjoyed a good show, the main event of the Wild Brawl Bowl was about to start.

[Now that we've shown what we hope the upcoming competition mechs will display, let us introduce the 32 teams that shall be fighting to win our much-coveted bowl! First up is Team Blackspot!]

The pairs of mech designers went up the stage one by one. The announcers spent a considerable amount of effort into hyping them up. It helped that many of the mech designers were all notable in their own ways.

Several teams stood out to Ves. They were serious contenders who could easily produce a formidable competition mech.

[Team Voiken consists of Sara and Dulo Voiken! Hailing from the renowned mech designer family of the same name, both of them have grown up alongside many other passionate mech designers for their entire lives. The sister specializes in defensive systems while the brother excels in designing spearman mechs. Whatever mech they are about to design will probably be difficult to take down!]

Ves already experienced how annoying it was to fight against mechs with superior defenses. The ability to resist fatal blows and tank a lot more damage than their opponents gave them additional chances to win their matches.

However, it remained to be seen whether the presumed defensive focus of Team Voiken's mech still performed well in other aspects. A spearman mech needed to be at least decently fast and maneuverable in order to make full play of their strength in a dueling setting.

[Team Destiny is made up of a pair of best friends forever who have decided to see if they have what it takes to beat all of their peers! Janassa Pellier and Tifi Coslone are not only close friends, but also the direct disciples of a prominent Master Mech Designer back in the galactic rim of the old galaxy. The two of them have made the bold decision to leave their familiar pastures in order to find their own opportunities in the Red Ocean. Miss Pellier and Miss Coslone both excel at designing mechanically strong mechs.]

The combination between Janassa Pellier and Tifi Coslone followed a different pattern from many of the other teams.

Instead of pairing two different mech designers together, both members of the team possessed near-identical specialties.

Although they probably weren't able to attain the same degree of synergy as Team Voiken, they were probably so similar and familiar with each other that they were effectively the same mech designer!

Ves could already imagine the dynamic within their team. As students from the same teacher, they weren't capable of producing greater variety, but they were able to concentrate much more on their shared specialty!

"Perhaps the combination of their teamwork will produce a result that is similar to a single mech designer with twice as much time to design a mech."

Besides, who said that their design philosophies were completely identical? Every Journeyman had to find their own way. They would never be able to achieve greater success if they continued to rely on another mech designer's accomplishments.

[Team Hammerfall features the only dwarven mech designers in our lovely competition! Rondal Crenstin and his wife Gisella Crenstin have left the galactic heartland and come to our tournament to prove that heavy gravity variant humans can design a mean mech as well! Mrs. Crenstin specialization is no surprise. She excels in designing the typically dwarven hammerman mechs. What is more interesting is that Mr. Rondal Crenstin specializes in mobility systems! I suspect they will become their specialty to produce remarkably faster hammer-wielding mechs than usual!]

Ves ordinarily had no reason to pay attention to this random team, but the short and stocky statures of this husband and wife duo were absolutely unusual.

He hadn't seen any dwarves in Chance Bay up until now. Dwarves were much rarer than normal humans, but that didn't explain why there were so few in a busy star system like the Vulit Central Star Node.

Both Rondal and Gisella had already noticed Ves and Ketis. Their expressions grew grave and their eyes became filled with hatred as they stared daggers at the Larkinsons! _{ƒreewebηoveℓ.com}

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