Qi Peijia
Yeah this is kind of boring, I mean if you're a gamer sure you can recognize this type of hyped up drama but that's neat because your into the game. This is a webnovel and all we really care about is han xiao scamming others and smashing legends. Hope the original readers put the author in his place and this crap is skipped.
Rivervale was in the list of qualified teams. Han Xiao recalled that back in his own world, Rivervale never got into the regular season, and instead, a team with foreign players got in. Because it matters whether or not the team was from another country in a parallell timeline where you're not even part of that country.