Excellent Era

**Excellent Era** (嘉世, Jīashì) is an Esports team that debuted during Season 1 of the Glory Professional Alliance.

## History

Excellent Era debuted in Season 1 with a roster comprising of Ye Qiu, Wu Xuefeng, Xue Mingkai, Qin Tianran, Xia Ming, Yin Xiong. Excellent Era was known as the dark horse team in the Glory Pro Alliance because they were a grassroots team with the minimum of six players, who are in-game experts.

In the early days of the Glory Professional Alliance, Excellent Era was dominant, winning three championships. During that time, the focus of the team was Ye Qiu, and many people thought that Excellent Era only won because of him. Players such as Wu Xuefeng were unappreciated and many online players said that they too could become Ye Qiu's partner.

In Season 4, the team reached the Grand Finals once again. This time, however, they were bested by Tyranny and did not win the Championship for the first time in history.

The team failed to enter the Grand Finals for the first time in Season 5, as they were eliminated by Hundred Blossoms in the Semi-Finals.

In Season 6, the team was eliminated in the Quarter-Finals as they failed to impress again.

During Season 7, the team was once again eliminated in the Quarter-Finals, this time in a horrible fashion by Tiny Herb.

The team was relegated after Season 8 as they placed 19th during the season. They participated in the Season 9 Challengers League.

In the online stage, they dominated all of their opponents 10:0, and defeated Duskfire in the last stage of the online qualifier. In the offline stage, they were placed in Group D and topped the group with 40 points out of 40. In the playoffs, they cruised their way to the Grand Finals, where they were lost to Happy after Sun Xiang purposely disconnected from the game.

After losing the qualifiers, Tao Xuan decided to transfer the players and accounts. He also sold off the in-game materials to other Clubs. As days passed, the guild storage shrank. Qiu Fei was the only one remaining in the team and was about to transfer to Tiny Herb, but Xia Zhongtian purchased the team and saved it.

With Xia Zhongtian becoming the new CEO, their funds became limited, as he was sponsoring them out of his own money, and not using his company. The team moved out of their location opposite Happy Internet Cafe and moved to somewhere roughly 20 km away from their former location. Qiu Fei became the new captain, and the new members of the team came from the training camp. 3 of their Technical Department members stayed behind to help the team. Together, they are known as 'New Excellent Era' (新嘉世, Xīn jiā shì). They won the Season 10 Challengers League on Match day 35 by defeating Mysterious Fantasy and will return during Season 11.

## Retired

\*-\*Originally signed a contract, though died before the season began

\*-\*\*Retired due to being forced out and created a new team

## Achievements

* Season 1 Champions (1st in Regular Season)
* Season 2 Champions (1st in Regular Season with 276 points)
* Season 3 Champions (2nd in Regular Season)
* Season 4 Runner-Up
* Season 5 - 3rd-4th
* Season 6 - 5-8th
* Season 7 - 5-8th (8th in Regular Season)
* Season 8 - 19th (Relegated)
* Season 9 Challengers League Runner-Up
* Season 10 Challengers League Champions

## Gallery

Ep1 3.JPGEEAll-Stars.pngExcellent Era at Season 8 All-Star WeekendFor the Glory.jpgExcellent Era in Season 1 (Poster from For the Glory)
## Trivia

* During Season 2, they had 9.2 points per match (for a total of 276 points) against the 15 other teams in the Alliance at this time.
	+ The author stated in an earlier chapter that they had gained a total of 314 points for an average of 8.26 points against 19 other teams.
* Sun Xiang was transferred to Excellent Era during Season 8 for seven million RMB.
* Eating is not allowed in the team's training room. Additionally, smoking is also not allowed after Ye Xiu left the team.
* After losing in the Challengers League the team went bankrupt. Ye Xiu asked Xia Zhongtian, a rich fan and sponsor of Excellent Era since Season 3, to buy the team in order to save it.
* Tao Xuan left the team after the scandals of losing in the Challengers League and the revelation of why Ye Xiu truly left Excellent Era. He opens a shop in the USA.
* Qiu Fei refused to leave the team, as others did after the team closed down. Though he almost joined Tiny Herb, after Xia Zhongtian buys Excellent Era, Qiu Fei remains on the team and becomes the captain.
* Ye Xiu helped depressed Excellent Era fans regain hope, and continued supporting the team with his words. Fans still respect him and see him as their captain for all he did for the team.
* During the Season 9 Challengers League Finals against Happy, Su Mucheng withdrew from the match after defeating Sun Zheping and announced her decision to cut ties with Excellent Era before moving to Happy's player seats.
	+ Simultaneously, in the Team Challenge, Sun Xiang also withdrew from the match after being placed in a 1v2 situation against Ye Xiu's Lord Grim and An Wenyi's Little Cold Hands despite his One Autumn Leaf having the HP advantage. This resulted in a win for Happy.
* Excellent Era is the first team to have two Master Tacticians play for the team (Ye Xiu and Xiao Shiqin).
	+ They are also the first Championship team to have been relegated.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 1174
2. ↑ Chapter 1360
3. ↑ Excellent Era on Baidu
4. ↑ Baidu Ye Xiu
5. ↑ Chapter 91-95
6. ↑ Chapter 119
7. ↑ Chapter 409
8. ↑ Chapter 608
9. ↑ Chapter 635
10. ↑ Chapter 893
11. ↑ Chapter 1069
12. ↑ Chapter 1084
13. ↑ Chapter 1052