How in hëll is it a tie? Si Chen team only has four members (him included). That's one C Rank and three E Ranks. Still they ended the trial in 21 minutes. Meanwhile the other team has one C Rank and four D Ranks, and they still took 35 minutes to clear the dungeon. I know the guy running the tests is biased as F but this is beyond absurd. If the author had any brains he would've at least said that the number of monsters is adjusted to the number of people per team, so as to at least pretend the other team took longer because they had to fight more monsters.
Comment by Grey5kull on Return of the Devourer - Chapter 20
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@Grey5kull
Yeah, I agree that 21 minutes vs 35 minutes clear time ending as a tie ridiculous. The only way I see that they can justify it is if they simply see this exam as a normal exam. When we take exams, SATs or Finals, you don't get bonus points for completing it sooner. I guess that's the view it here.
Also agreed that MVP shouldn't be a tie when Si Chen did 99% of the work compared to Gong Ting's 80%. But again, I can see the justification being that both teams needed these two for them to even have a chance to pass, and according to the school's data, Si Chen is C-ranked while Gong Ting is D-ranked, so they want to find justification to elevate them to management positions in the Imperial Guild.
I don't think the number of monsters can be adjusted, because the exam itself is basically a road trip to fight real monsters. Not simulations. Thats why why they had teleportation escape watches, and an officer ready to jump into the teleportation portal when told.
Just going to add this in here, because too lazy to make another comment. I thought Team Si Chen should have clearly won, because they defeated a C-ranked boss while Team Gong Ting defeated a D-ranked boss. But I went back and realized that other than Si Chen and his one friend, no one else know they fought a C-ranked Lich, because there were no cameras and the other roommates were frozen. As far as everyone else knows, they activated a trap set up by the D-ranked ape that got instakilled by Si Chen