The moment Branhano raised his hand in the air, the athletes' journey to the race began.

Like a gravitational arbitrary door being opened.

Each player will enter the door either actively or passively, and the player closest to the door will be the first warrior to reach the Colosseum.

Either way, the warrior deserves applause.

Under applause.

Ashley, the bearded No. 21 from Great Britain, has adjusted his mindset, and it can be seen from his expression that the muscles on both sides of his cheeks have relaxed a lot.

As a college student who has participated in piano competitions, his mental quality is already good.

The next player who walked out of the contestant seat was the No. 22 player, Feng Xiaopang from Huaguo.

The little fat man has a relaxed face, his steps are like the jazz swing rhythm under his fingertips, and his clothes are trendy and edgy, and he doesn't look like a classical pianist, and someone has seen him at this year's New Orleans Jazz Festival.

Behind Feng Xiaopang is a little Lori, whose cute appearance makes people feel that she should leave here by herself with her schoolbag.

The No. 23 woman from Brazil is under 150 tall, but no one can doubt the energy that lies beneath her tablet-like figure.

Many of the contestants from the Americas remembered her victory at the Brazilian TV Youth Piano Grand Prix last year.

She walked to Feng Ziyan's side and stopped, pushed the frame, and looked at the young man from Huaguo who was following her.

The appearance of the No. 24 player brought a bit of atmosphere.

Fang Zongyao still walks in the same gentlemanly manners.

A year of penance and love at Julia has dulled his sharpness a lot, and this young man who has just achieved excellent results in the Fifty States Piano Competition has to attract everyone's attention.

As soon as he walked out, he suppressed the top three players in his aura.

Next, one contestant after another walked out, either a little famous, or unknown, all with their own different temperaments.

After a while, the nine players were already standing in a row.

From left to right, they are No. 21-28.

They will be the first group to take the stage, and if you dig a little deeper, this group should be in category B.

After several staff members checked the identities of the first group of players, their competition schedule was entered into the computer.

They will officially start the first group of performances from 10:00 a.m. to 14:00 p.m. on October 3.

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The subsequent grouping situation has also been clarified.

Contestants from No. 29 to No. 36 will perform in the second group from 15:00 to 21:00 on the afternoon of October 3.

And so on.

The final round will be held on the afternoon of October 7, and due to the absence of three players, only five players from No. 16 to No. 20 will participate in the curtain call of the first round of the competition.

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Half an hour later, the first round of the 17th Chopin Competition was completed.

At this time, on the big screen, the information of the 10 groups of games is divided very clearly.

This time, you can see the status of the group division more intuitively.

While the reporters were 'clicking' at the big screen, the contestants were also commenting on the observation.

At a glance from top to bottom, it's not hard to see that there will be one or two favourites in most categories.

In contrast, only the second and tenth groups appear overly and dimly.

However, the group that is most concerning is the third group.

That's right, after sweeping the lap, almost every competitor turned their eyes back to the information of the nine players in the third group.

Let's take a look at what is going on from the beginning, and the following analysis is based on the preliminary performance of 77 players.

In the first group, there are Fang Zongyao and Brazilian Lori.

In the fourth group, there are Li Xianlong and Chinese Canadian Liang Kecheng.

In the fifth group, young Polish pianists Dimitri Robert and Qin Jian are included.

In the seventh group are Adams and Fred, the representative of the younger generation of Bach pianos in Germany.

In the eighth group, there are Natsuki Aso and South Korean rookie Park Chang-ki.

In the ninth group there is the Ukrainian intellectual beauty Estafeva.

They are all A-level players in the preliminary round, and based on the consistent performance of other players in the same group as them in the preliminary round, the above six groups can basically be positioned in the 'between A and B' groups.

The second group of players did not appear in the preliminary round too brightly, but their average performance was acceptable, so the second group can be tentatively classified as group B.

Due to the small number of people in the tenth group, and the performance of the players in the preliminary round is generally not remarkable, it was really not taken seriously by everyone, so it was naturally reduced to the C group.

But only the third group.

Only the third group.

Russia's Ivanov, who was ranked No. 9 before the tournament, was hailed as the No. 1 seed of the Russian national team, and the five pieces of the preliminary round were highly praised by the outside world as soon as they were announced.

The No. 10 Italian veteran Duggio entered the first round with the highest age of this Chopin competition, and it is worth mentioning that he participated in the 16th edition of the competition five years ago, but unfortunately left before the door of the third round, this time he made a comeback, no one would not be afraid of such an opponent, and the experience he showed in the preliminary round is worth learning from every young player.

No. 12 of the United States, since the moment she appeared in the preliminary competition, no one can ignore her, with a pair of rare purple pupils, she can always cast a faint layer of mystery on Chopin's music when she sits in front of the piano, Julia's proud daughter, the winner of the Fifty States Piano Competition, Steinway's new young artist, her own halo is undoubtedly the most dazzling one of the contestants, the New York Times said that 'Ricky will be the first candidate to win the Shaw Competition'.

Serial number 13 Hua Guo Xuan Ran, if you mention this name alone, it will not attract too many people's attention, but as long as you have heard the winter wind she played in the preliminary stage, then you will completely remember this Chinese girl with a different temperament, if you have a deeper understanding of it, you will know that her first piano teacher is called Shen Qingci, a man who has amazed the 14th Chopin Competition.

Another Polish player, Edmundo, who was not well-known before, was noticed in the preliminary round with a very dazzling 2.

All five of them performed in the preliminary round at the A level.

So how can the third group, which has these five people at the same time, not be noticed by everyone.

Therefore, the third group is also rightfully regarded as a category A group.

Even more than the group of deaths in category A.

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"I wish you all a happy afternoon. ”

After all the draws were completed, Pacenro announced the final countdown to the match.

The time that followed became a time for journalists from all over the world to interact with the contestants.

Tang Feng, a special reporter of the Chinese delegation, wanted to find Qin Jian and Fang Zongyao to chat about this morning's lottery ceremony as soon as possible after the meeting, but when he rushed to the outfield hall, there was no trace of anyone in the chaotic crowd.

But he is not in a hurry, he already has a number of today's reports.

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