At this stage, the judges have only one thing to get from the information sheet – they can use the coloured 'YES number' to determine which contestants are students from the jurors in the room.

For example, the sixth column of the ranking table.

‘2|16’

The '16' here is shown in red, which not only means that he received a yes from the 16 judges in the first round of the competition, but also that one of his teachers is someone on the judging panel of this competition.

But the first rule of the jury's scoring rules, 'Judges are not allowed to vote for their own students' scores.' ’

So this led to the fact that this player naturally lost one vote in this round of selection.

Maybe he could have been in the ranks of No. 1?

But that's the rule.

If a contestant has a teacher sitting in the judges' seat, then he is destined to accept one less vote in the first three rounds of voting.

And that's not all.

When there is a blue number in the 'yes' table, such as '15' in row 13, the blue '15' here not only means that the contestant in line 13 has 15 yes – it also means that he has two teachers on the jury of this competition.

Assuming that contestant A's teachers are judge J and judge H respectively, then he can only get a maximum of 15 votes in the first round.

This is the Chopin Competition.

Let's take another look.

From the sixth line to the fifteenth line.

'Rank|Yes’

6. '2|16[red]'

7.‘2|16’

8.‘2|16’

9.‘2|16’

10.‘2|16’

11.‘3|15’

12.‘3|15’

13. '3|15 [blue]'

14.‘3|15’

The top 15 players received the same number of votes as above, and the players with the same number of votes are ranked according to the average score.

Normally, during the competition phase, the judges do not know the exact average score of each contestant, and it is only after the end of the entire Chopin Competition that the contestants' scores for each round are made public.

Unless there is a dispute over the promotion, the jury will extract the specific average score of the contestant in the previous round in advance in the presence of a notary.

That's it.

All the judges' eyes were focused on columns 39 to 42 of the datasheet.

There are only 40 players who can advance to the second round, which means that by the end of the 40th column, the players after this have theoretically finished their 17th Shaw Race journey.

39.‘8|9’

40. '8|9 [red]'

41. '8|9 [Blue]'

42.‘8|9’

Only four players received 9 votes, and this time, it was 9 votes that stuck on the way to the second round.

This scene has long been commonplace, and the classic picture of 4 choices 2.

According to the rules of previous editions, the next process is for Branhano to have the impartial personnel present to disclose the information of the four players.

It is then determined whether each player's average score is 'normal'.

If the average score of each player is 'normal', then the data of the current players in columns 1-40 can be locked and sealed.

And the list of promotions will be announced at the results conference at 18:00 in the afternoon.

If a contestant's score is abnormal, the jury will have to take a precautionary measure – recounting.

In short, they must submit the list of 40 people for the next round to the notary one hour before today's results release.

['Normal or not' is announced by a notary public.] The notary will determine whether the average score of the contestant is normal based on the scores of the 17 judges on the same contestant.

[In principle, in the first round of the competition, if the judges' personal score of a contestant is more than 3 points away from their average score (2 points in the second round and 1 point in the third round), the judge's score will be adjusted, and the average score and ranking order of the contestant will be recalculated]

[Example: The average score of contestant A is 16, but after verification by the notary public, it is found that judge X scored 20 points for him, then the player's score will enter the abnormal ranks, and the impartial officer will subtract 1 point from judge X's score to calculate it as 19, and then calculate the score again]

...

At this time, on the projector, the four '9's are mixed with three colors, which is very interesting.

But even so, there is still no judge who can know exactly the specific situation of these four contestants at this time.

One of the German judges seemed to be in a hurry.

"Let's make their results public. ”

As he spoke, several young judges looked at Branhano and said, "Let's get started." ”

However, the other judges were silent, especially the Polish judges, who today are somewhat silent.

This is the first Chopin competition in which Branhano has been the president of the jury, and at this point it is really time for him to step up and say something, and he is ready.

However, at this moment, another Polish judge sitting next to him, Andrzej, the vice chairman of this year's jury, raised his hand.

Everyone's eyes turned to Andrzea again.

Andrzema, who looked like a kind old man with good eyebrows, looked like an old wise man, and he smiled and nodded at the two notaries, who were busy in front of the computer.

His move may have upset some of the young judges, but no one found it inappropriate.

After all, Andrzej was not only the chairman of the jury of the previous three Chopin competitions, but everyone present knew that he was also Brancano's piano teacher.

After a brief silence, everyone's eyes refocused on the projection.

After a while, the screen flashed.

Players from 39 to 42 were announced.

They are-

39. 'Player No. 48 from the UK, average score 17.24'

40. 'Player No. 67 from Russia, average score 16.9'

41. 'Player No. 56 from Poland, average score 16.6'

42. 'Player No. 3 from Canada, average score 16.1'

As soon as the picture was announced, the atmosphere at the scene was not unusual.

Although the difference between the results of several players is not large, it is not surprising that the results have come out.

Everyone may just not expect that this year's 'lucky winner' is a Polish player.

Branhano stared at No. 56, he remembered that the kid named Dimitri Robert, although the other party was not his student, but he did not think that this player should be out at this time, he did not think that the other party should be out at this time, he did not have such an idea because of the nationality of the other party or that the other party was a disciple of some two Polish colleagues, in his mind, Dimitri should play far better than the No. 34 British.

An Jieyi on the side also looked regretful.

However, at this moment, a notary, after verifying the average scores of the four players one by one, turned to Branhano and said, "Mr. Rafat, there is an objection to the score of the number 56. ”

As soon as these words came out, there was a discussion in the room.

The players who have had this kind of situation in the past have generally been promoted, and the situation at this time is really confusing.

The judges were curious, but they didn't have the right to find out which judge had made what kind of score at this stage led to the objection.

This time, Branhano stood up and motioned for the notary to recalculate the score of the '56 player. ’

A minute later.

The notary took the new result of the No. 56 player and looked at Branhano again.

For a moment, the entire conference room fell silent.

Andrzej's eyes fell on one of the Polish judges to Argerich's right, who also looked at him.

The two looked at each other.