Everyone noticed the name of the Japanese player.

Sure enough, Natsuki was in the first place. ”

Duan Ran said in his heart, his eyes couldn't help but look down the second column of the table.

Soon her gaze stopped at serial number 13.

‘Duan，CHN。 ’

Gotta say she likes the number.

Then she looked down for the serial number of the Qin key, and when her gaze swept to the position of the serial number 57, she saw 'JianQin, CHN. ’

However, she is not the only player who is looking at the 57 area at the same time.

These include Adams in the first row, Ricky in the second row, and a pair of dark brown pupils in the corner of the seventh row.

And Qin Jian's gaze swept over 57, and then returned to the area of '13'.

‘. Dora，USA‘

His eyes kept hovering back and forth between 13 and 12.

Although he had expected it before, he couldn't help but sigh at this time.

Duan Ran's first round of matches didn't seem to be too easy at this time.

Then.

Each player found their own group.

‘Zi-YanFeng，CHN’

‘Zong-YaoFang，CHN’

...

Xian-LongLi，SG’

‘ffaqEdo，SY’

...

‘FengQi，CHN’

...

‘damsYedda，AT’

‘YI-NuoZhao，CHN’

...

...

After confirming their information, each player will pay attention to the position of their companion or the pre-match favorite.

Everyone is making their own calculations, and everyone is thinking about their own problems or situations.

This is a problem they have to face, even though the draw has not yet begun.

The first round was divided into 10 groups over 5 days.

Once the draw is over, each player can determine which opponents will play in the same group as them according to the draw.

Although the organizer does not clearly stipulate the number of promotion places for each competition, in principle, the promotion is also after the first round of the competition, and the jury will summarize the results of all the players participating in the ten competitions, and finally sort and select the next round of promotion.

But every player sitting here knows very well -

When there are too many favourites in a group, the weaker players in that group will face a lot of competitive pressure. ’

Suppose that according to the density of popular players, Chengdu divides the 10 groups into three groups of ABC, and A is the group with the highest concentration of popular players.

Then, according to the performance of the players in the preliminary round, they will be divided into three levels of ABC, with A being the best.

It is not excluded that some players will deliberately use some unconventional performance modes to hide themselves in the preliminary, such as Qin Jian from Huaguo, such as Frey from Germany.

None of them showed their true self.

Of course.

The reality is more than one-sided.

There are also some players who have played a long time in the preliminary round, and they have been lucky to be noticed by the judges, when in reality they may not be as good as they were in the preliminary round.

Either way, they all advanced to the next round.

So let's deal with it as an average - according to their preliminary rounds, they are divided into three levels of ABC.

As a result, the following theoretical scenes will appear.

When an A-list player appears in the BC division, his or her chances of making the cut will inevitably increase.

When a B-level player appears in the A division, the pressure on him or her to face is infinitely magnified.

When a C-level player appears in the A division, then he or she has to fight to the death in the first round.

There may be people who have not aspired to win Warsaw, but no one wants to be out in the first round.

In this process, the judges' ears could not be objective - in five days and ten groups of thousands of minutes of listening, they could clearly remember the details of each contestant's performance.

So this makes it impossible to achieve complete fairness in the final first round of scoring.

This is the competition in music, which is more brutal than the competition in sports.

Does the last name alone affect your performance?

Yes。

Does this sound like a bit of fate, as if it wiped out more than a decade of hard work and sweat of some players before the main event even began?

Yes。

This is the Chopin Competition.

But one thing to say, there is room for reversal in everything.

For example, at this time, two staff members were pushing a cart with a clear glass jar in front of Pacenro.

This scene touched the hearts of many people.

The audience focused on 26 small white envelopes scattered inside glass jars.

Pacenro picked up the microphone again: "Now it's up to me to shuffle their order again." ”

With that, he put down the microphone and put his hands into the glass jar under the lens of the world.

At this time, the picture on the big screen is also a glass tube.

Paconro closed his eyes, religiously like a religious man, and his hands began to stir.

As he stirred, the position of the white envelope was shuffled over and over again.

After 20 seconds.

He stopped, stretched out his hands, turned to look at Branhano behind him, and stepped aside.

Brancano, the president of the jury of the Chopin competition, stepped forward in his place.

He stopped in front of the jar, and the hall fell silent.

I saw him then put his hand into the glass jar, and then gently grabbed an envelope from the middle with a relaxed expression.

The lottery ceremony went to the penultimate part.

The staff pushed the trolley to the left of the stage, and two staff members of the International Music Competition Arbitration Committee took over the glass tube.

Every step is being carried out in an orderly manner.

So far.

The end result was in the envelope in Branhano's hand.

The 77 people in the seat all looked at the envelope with different eyes or postures.

Someone drew a cross on his chest.

Someone doubles and folds their elbows on their legs.

Someone leaned back on a chair quilt.

Someone twitched his fingers with a calm face.

Someone looked to the side with a smile.

Someone plays with tattoos on their hands.

Branhano has also felt all this from the audience, so he understands the mentality of the players at this time.

He wasn't going to make it any more painful.

Moment.

"Good luck to you all. ”

As he spoke, he opened the envelope and took out a white piece of paper from it.

Qin Jian bet that this scene touched the hearts of many people, because he heard two rapid breaths behind him.

Branhano's eyes jumped when he saw the letters on the piece of paper.

Then he held the piece of paper with the handwriting on it high to the crowd.

On the big screen.

A capital "F" appears.

“F。 ”

Branhano finally spoke to the audience.

Instantaneous.

“F，F！”

“oh，god。 ”

“woqu～”

The sound of the camera, the voice of the human being, is densely mixed again!

The draw is over, and the first player to appear in this tournament has been determined.

“yFripp，UK。 ”

Clockwise, the second player will be No. 22 and the last player will be No. 20

In this order, starting with player number 21, every nine players will be divided into groups.

Branhano bowed slightly to the audience and handed Mike back to Pacenro.

Pacenro walked to the front of the stage and paused, looking at the audience and smiling.

"Then let's ask the players with the first letter F to come out of the ranks!"

Suddenly, the contestants were lively.

One figure after another stood up, Feng Ziyan and Fang Zongyao were all among the pedestrians.

The picture on the big screen also switched again at this time.

A short-haired male contestant with bushy hair was the center of attention at the draw.

His expression looked like he had won a jackpot, but it wasn't very pleasant.

Standing up in front of everyone's attention, he spread his hands slightly.

Then I walked to the front of the bench.

The player card in front of him reads '21. ’