After thinking about this clearly, when the eyes of the students on both sides of A and B met, their eyes were full of disdain for each other, as if they were all choosing their colleague to wash their dishes for a month.

Zhang Nan looked at the people like fighting cocks, and couldn't help but smile in his heart, what Zhang Nan wanted was such an effect.

The knockout round began on the second day, and the two groups of A and B each divided half of the table and began to conduct internal selection.

Zhang Nan doesn't even have to watch by their side, they will be strict with themselves, and the students in each group have selected the students who are most familiar with the rules to be the referees, so this makes every knockout match very formal.

They already thought very clearly in their hearts, they might be able to lose, but their faction definitely couldn't lose, they didn't want to choose a rookie and cause them to wash their opponent's dinner plate for a month.

Because everyone is a beginner, and everyone has only one chance, so everyone attaches great importance to their own game, which makes the knockout game very slow, originally usually, these people play ball is played on the score, it doesn't matter if you don't score, now it's good, every ball has to go through their precise consideration, eager to take a ruler to judge the direction of the white ball after hitting.

A game takes nearly an hour, excluding breakfast and reading time every morning, as well as lunch and lunch break at noon, and then adding dinner time in the evening, only four games can be played at one table a day.

The game, which was already slow, had new problems after the first day.

That is, after the fight, the two students who competed with each other still refused to accept one, so Zhang Nan had to adjust the rules of the knockout round again, and changed the one-game out to a three-game two-win system, Zhang Nan also has his own considerations in it, itself is a work that practice makes perfect, no matter how much Zhang Nan talks, it is not more than them to play a few more games, so Zhang Nan changed to a best-of-three system.

And in the next half a month, thanks to the blessing of the knockout round, Zhang Nan lived very easily, every day Zhang Nan went to the last court in the morning, and went to the academy after the next court, and wanted to watch the game for a while, if he was bored, Zhang Nan went to Li Yuan to chat and fart, and gave Li Yuan the possibility of running a gambling industry for Datang.

As for the work of the Ministry of Heavenly Engineering, Zhang Nan seems to be in a state of stagnation, but although Zhang Nan is not in the Ministry of Heavenly Engineering, the scientific research of the Ministry of Heavenly Engineering has not stopped, it seems that the steam car has made significant progress recently, and even the train has made a small model, according to Mozu's estimate, within a year, it will definitely be put into use.

Therefore, Zhang Nan is not worried about the scientific research pace of the Ministry of Heavenly Engineering, at least this steam engine is enough for these people from the Ministry of Heavenly Engineering to study for a while.

When Comrade Li Er heard that Zhang Nan held the first snooker competition in the academy, he said that he also wanted to join in the fun, but Zhang Nan refused, after all, the first game was not very formal, Zhang Nan also wanted to leave Comrade Li Er until the future when the horse racing venue and snooker competition venue were established and then call Li Er to come and show up, after all, Li Er's face such a golden signboard, Zhang Nan must cherish it when it is used, and strive to maximize benefits.

On the fifteenth day of the game, the knockout round is finally coming to an end.

When the representative of the action faction scored the last black ball in a bells and whistles, the whole knockout game came to an end. The representatives of the Technocracy were elected an hour in advance.

After learning the news, Zhang Nan came to the snooker classroom from his office, and Zhang Nan immediately smiled when he saw the representatives of the two factions.

Isn't this Liu Zhaocai of the shopkeeper Liu and Wang Bao of the shopkeeper Wang? These two people are also fateful, both of them are in business, and the parents of the two families are business partners, so the relationship between Liu Zhaocai and Wang Bao is also very good, even when they came to study in the academy, the two also chose a double room, which is enough to prove that the relationship between the two is really good.

However, in the choice of snooker's faction, the two also had a rare disagreement, so Liu Zhaocai became the representative of the technical faction, and Wang Bao became the representative of the action faction.

Zhang Nan looked at the excited two, patted the two of them on the shoulder with a smile, and said with a smile: "You two good buddies are good." ”

Being praised by Zhang Nan like this, the two of them were suddenly a little embarrassed, Liu Zhaocai scratched his head and said, "It's all sir, you teach well." ”

Zhang Nan nodded, and then said: "The day after tomorrow is the finals, tomorrow you have a good rest, this game is held in front of the teachers and students of the entire academy, and more than a thousand teachers and students of the whole academy will be present at that time, and you have to wear the costumes of the snooker competition at that time." ”

Although they had already been prepared for this matter, when Zhang Nan personally told the two of them to play in front of the teachers and students of the school, the two couldn't help but be excited.

And the rest of them all cast envious glances at the two.

That's in front of all the teachers and students of the school, if you win, won't this fame spread throughout the academy at once? And there is also the emperor's personal award, which is a supreme honor.

At this time, Zhang Nan suddenly thought of something, and added: "By the way, if you are not too troublesome, I can grant you a half-day leave today, so that you can go home and invite your parents to come to the academy to watch this game." ”

As soon as Zhang Nan's words fell, everyone suddenly jumped up happily, and they didn't know whether they were happy that they could invite their parents to watch the game, or that they were finally able to leave school, anyway, these students were very happy one by one.

So when Zhang Nan announced that they could go, all of the more than fifty students ran away.

In fact, it is understandable that they are so excited, after all, most of their parents did not come to visit the school during the open day, but sent them when they knew that they could send their children to the college.

Except for the opening day of the campus when the academy first opened, it was open to the public for one or two days, and the rest of the time, except for the faculty and staff of the Datang Royal Academy, who were allowed to enter and leave the school at will.

The security guard standing guard at the door is also a strong young man recruited by Zhang Nan from Chang'an City, after Zhang Nan's permission, this group of security guards doesn't care how much money you have at home, if you don't let in, you won't let in.

Before they entered the school, almost everyone's parents told them to stay in and not cause trouble, and when the college was on vacation, they came back and told them what it was like inside.

But now they have the opportunity to take advantage of this snooker competition to let their parents visit the academy in person, how can this group of children not run faster.