Chapter 40: The Cruelty of the County Contest
The venue for the prefectural competition is a large gymnasium nearby, which is large and can accommodate about 9,000 people.
The tournament starts at 9 a.m. on Saturday and lasts until 5 p.m.
Nearly a week was spent to determine the places in the national competition.
In Japan, the time of the general league is basically set in spring and summer, and there are very few games in autumn and winter.
However, compared to winter, there will still be some activities in autumn, but not as often as in spring and summer.
Winter is a real time of activity.
It's the so-called winter break.
Therefore, the competitions held during this period of time have basically attracted a lot of attention.
Not to mention the extremely influential Dragon King Cup.
By the time the time the national competition comes, it is estimated that the venues of 30,000 or 40,000 will be full.
But now...... It's just a prefectural competition.
The attention is definitely not too high.
The venue of 9,000 people, in Su Ye's opinion, can fill up one-tenth of the seats at most, which is very remarkable.
Some other underdogs, the number of viewers, often does not exceed a hundred.
Although the Dragon King Cup is popular, the current competition is a county competition after all, and it will not attract too much attention.
However, to Su Ye's great surprise, the number of people who came to the gymnasium today exceeded five thousand.
The location of the gymnasium is more than halfway sitting!
It is said that there will also be a live broadcast on the Internet.
5,000 people sat in the seats of the gymnasium, and the black pressure was overwhelming, and the voices of the people were boiling and lively.
Many participating students who had never seen a big scene trembled in their hearts at this moment, and they were extremely nervous...... Even my legs are a little weak!
There are five students from elite private high schools.
They are Suba, Mizumi Chiyuki, Hasegawa Chiba, Ogata Chinami, and Hoshino Koyu.
Except for Su Ye, a boy, the rest are girls.
Before the start of the county competition, there will be a corresponding elimination selection, and not every member of the department is eligible to participate.
The boys in the track and field department, although they worked very hard during training, because of Su Ye's training, they made considerable progress.
Unfortunately, they still don't qualify for the county competition. It's cruel, but it's also something that can't be helped.
In fact, the next process of the county competition will be even more cruel for these students participating in the competition.
After all, the stage of the national competition is only reserved for a few people.
Although it is said that it is a 'prefectural competition', it is only used this term, but in fact, it cannot be said in the strict sense.
This is because Kyoto is not a prefecture, but a prefecture.
Kyoto Prefecture, like Osaka Prefecture, is a bit higher than the prefecture's administrative unit, and there is one more number of popular programs.
However, it is convenient to call it, and it is still used for the county competition.
There are 200 high schools in Kyoto Prefecture, and there are 150 high schools participating in the Dragon King Cup.
There were more than 600 participants.
Among the more than 600 people, it is not an easy thing to get a place in the national competition.
Su Ye didn't think it was anything, but Mizumi Chiyuki, Hasegawa Chiba, Ogata Chinami, and Hoshino Xiaoyu had a nervous expression on their faces, and they were very serious, and they didn't say a word from the time they came to the venue.
At Su Ye's elite private school, many students came to cheer for the track and field department.
Of course, the students who were not able to participate in the athletics department also came.
According to Su Ye's knowledge, her sister Su Xian'er also came over.
There is also dusk, Xia Xiaowei, and many people in the class took the time to come over to watch Su Ye's game.
Although Su Ye wanted to complain, this group of guys, as prospective candidates, were still in the mood to come over to watch the game, which was really optimistic.
However, they still have to thank Su Ye a little bit for coming here to support Su Ye.
The advisor, Mr. Tanaka, temporarily served as the coach and came to the lounge with the team.
Ayumi Mizumi was also with him.
As a former minister, she naturally can't rest assured that these members of the ministry are not at ease.
In the lounge, the atmosphere is very heavy, and here is one of several large lounges.
The students from other schools were obviously also very stressed, resting in their seats one by one, and from time to time they could hear the coaches cheering them on.
The format of the county competition is still a knockout round, but this knockout round is quite cruel.
More than 600 contestants participated in the county competition, divided into 80 groups.
On average, there were eight people per group.
In this, it is divided into a boys' group and a girls' group.
There are 50 in the boys' group and 30 in the girls' group.
This time, there are four main events in the Dragon King Cup Games, namely the 100-meter run, the 200-meter run, the 400-meter run, and the 110-meter hurdle run.
As for the 800-meter run, 1500-meter run, 5000-meter run, 10000-meter run, marathon run, 3000-meter obstacle run, 400-meter hurdle run, high jump, pole vault, long jump, triple jump, shot put, discus, hammer throw, javelin, decathlon, 20km race walk, 50km race walk, 4×100m relay, 4×400m relay, are events that do not attract much attention. Few people choose.
However, if you really want to go to the national competition, you can also choose to exercise these events.
After all, relatively speaking, there will be a lot less competition, as long as you get one or two places, you can enter the national competition.
For other projects, the competitiveness should not be too great.
Taking the 100-meter dash as an example, basically the students who came to participate in the Dragon King Cup this time all signed up.
Don't be too brutal in terms of competition compared to unpopular projects!
In the first round of the competition, only one person can advance to a group of eight people.
In other words, more than 500 people will be brushed off in the first round.
Of the more than six hundred, only eighty qualified for the next round.
Fifty boys, thirty girls.
As for those eliminated, there is a silver lining, and that is to participate in the repechage.
The repechage will lead directly to the finals, but there will still be a lot of selection, and in the end there will be six places to the finals.
Three for boys and three for girls.
It's a format that prevents two super talented people from having one group at the same time.
From the eighty people who passed the first round, they regrouped into ten groups to play the next competition.
The following matches have a total of four rounds, and the elimination rate is still very high.
In the end, five people from each of the boys' and girls' groups will go to the finals, and three people from the lower group will participate in the finals through the repechage.
The eight people who participated in the finals, and the top three could get tickets to the national competition.
If it is other counties, there are only two places.
There is a limit to the number of entries in the Dragon King Cup, and each person can only apply for 3 individual events and 2 team events.
Because there was only one boy who came to participate this time, Su Ye couldn't apply for the team event, and only reported the 100-meter run, 200-meter run, and 400-meter run.
As for the other four girls, after choosing a separate event, they also signed up for a team event such as the relay run.
However, no matter which category you want to stand out from and get a place in the national competition, it is still an unprecedented challenge.
In fact, before the game even started, several people were already extremely nervous.
With this kind of state, there will be no good results for the next games......
Ayumi Mizumi, who came here with her, naturally understands this and can't help but be a little worried.