Diamond Ace Takanono

Chapter 14 The Competition Begins

contest starts

Thursday is the draw day for the Kanto Conference. After the 100 teams in the Kanto area have determined the order of appearance, the opening ceremony will be held on Saturday morning. Three games will be held on Saturday, and the rest of the games will be held within two weeks. After the competition, the 3 winning teams will be determined for the next round of competition.

"Why are there 64 teams?" Takano asked.

"Because 28 teams will have byes in the first round, this will ensure that the number of teams will always be even in the second round." Shibasaki is assisting Takano to practice bench press, "Do a few more sets with this weight. "

The barbell that had reached the maximum load made Gao Zhiye unable to distract and respond. After the end of the set, he shook his head and refused to reduce the weight.

"That's right. You're making progress every day. You were dying a few days ago."

"Didn't Coach Nigong say that the principle of muscle strengthening is the recovery of the human body after the destruction of muscle tissue. I probably have recovered in the past few days."

"Haha, Coach Ninomiya is very interesting, teaching basic sports theory to a group of junior high school students."

"Indeed...but it's very useful. What have you learned before?"

"Each time, I extend a lot of sports knowledge based on a problem point. Sometimes if someone is injured, the next study meeting will tell the reason for his injury. Because there are examples around me, I don't feel boring."

Suddenly there were voices outside, a group of chattering voices drifted from far to near like dark clouds. When passing by the training room, Gao Zhiye saw Captain Yitang surrounded by a group of people, "Captain Yitang is about to leave Have you gone to the lottery?"

"Looks like he is, hopefully he gets as lucky this time as he did as captain."

"Is the previous captain lucky?"

"Well, we only met a strong team in the third round of the summer. Although we lost, the opponent had a hard time and was eliminated in the next round." Looking at Shibasaki's gentle smile, Gao Zhiye always felt that such a person showed obvious The aggressiveness is very different.

When the voices came back one after another, Takano and the two continued to practice the remaining two sets of bench press, "Shibasaki-kun, let me assist you with the bench press."

The weight of Shibasaki’s bench press is about the same as Takano’s. Although he came in much earlier than Takano, the effect of muscle gain has not been obvious. His family seems to have prepared a lot of extra meals. After more than a year of adjustments, he finally I got up slowly, but as long as I overtrained a little, my weight would drop off. Every day when I came to the team, the first thing Coach Fujii did was to ask him what was his weight on an empty stomach in the morning and what was his resting heart rate.

Resting heartbeat refers to the heartbeat that is measured just after waking up in the morning. If the resting heartbeat is faster than before for many consecutive days, it means that Shibasaki trained a little too much yesterday. Based on his physical considerations, the coaching staff will formulate Different training programs.

"I really envy you," Shibazaki said suddenly during a break. He tested a new round of ball speed yesterday, and his own speed was still around 125, while Takano had increased to around 123 after about ten days of training.

"Has Coach Ninomiya asked you to have a gastrointestinal examination?" Shibazaki's family seems to be naturally thinner. Shibazaki's height of about 1.72 is not conspicuous among pitchers, but standing next to his family is already a genetic breakthrough It exists, which probably can explain where his nutrition has gone.

"I can't help it, so I really envy you. I was normal before the fifth grade, and the situation became very obvious in the first grade of junior high school. Now my sister is also at this age and has a growth retardation. On growth hormone."

Gao Zhiye nodded and did not speak. He and Shibazaki often train together in the low ball speed group. After Shibazaki suffered a few days, he also learned a little bit, and gradually realized why Coach Ninomiya wanted to study the speed of rotation. This attribute, I probably don’t want to give up Shibazaki, and then study the training method of pitching accuracy, probably to help Sato find pitching confidence.

A simple analysis of the current situation of the team reveals a big problem. The two pitchers of the First Army, Nozawa and Black Stone, are both third-year juniors. New recruits will not be considered next summer. For the remaining pitchers, Sato can't exceed 60, Shibazaki couldn't improve the speed of the ball, and it seemed that he was the one who could top it.

'That's why there is a half-year plan for a straight ball. '

"However, among the pitchers, there are also soft pitchers. Coach Ninomiya has considered a lot for me. After mastering the high and low speed balls, I probably need to learn a few more change pitches that can be used."

"Well, but our team still has relatively few pitchers compared to fielders at certain positions."

Like there are already 7 guys at the shortstop position, why not consider getting some outfielders to practice pitching.

"In fact, some outfielders who are willing to be pitchers will also conduct regular pitching training, but it is relatively small. Coach Ninomiya still wants to let the players find their good positions early. After high school, they can be reused. After all, no matter which position requires a lot In junior high school, the training hours of the players are fixed, and it seems that people from the association are supervising it.”

"Wouldn't the team be a little troublesome?" But Gao Zhiye didn't say it out, and prepared to ask it in the next conversation.

After the day's training was over, the results of the lottery came out. Captain Yitang got an empty lottery in the first round, and Kinoshita had more time to prepare for the battle.

"Good job Captain."

"Yitang-jun, you're lucky."

"Quiet—" Coach Ninomiya said with a straight face, "Victory is won, not by luck. Although we have more preparation time than other teams, don't forget that the Marugame Little League in East Tokyo also has a bye. , we're going to meet Marugame, who is also rested, in the fourth round."

As soon as the coach said this, the joy in everyone's hearts sank immediately.

"Both our teams have undergone reorganization this year. They no longer have the 'Tokyo No. [-] Iron Catcher', but their strength is still not to be underestimated. Starting this week, we will add an hour of game video learning time every day."

"Hi--"

Another five laps of running were added this day, which broke up the impetuousness caused by the byes of the teenagers.

Soon, it was the Saturday of the opening ceremony of the Kanto Conference. After the Kinoshita Junior League gathered, they took a chartered car to the venue. The regular draftees could enter the venue as team representatives, while Hayakawa and Takano were sitting in the stands, facing the crowd. Sun, listen to the groggy speech of the old man on the stage.

It was so hot, and there were so many people, the crowded stands made the surrounding air even hotter. It seemed that the heat from the people behind talking was blowing onto Gao Zhiye's neck.

He couldn't take it anymore, so he used an excuse to buy a drink, and hid in the air-conditioned entrance hall. After sitting up and falling asleep, he dreamed that he was trapped in his brother's room, with all kinds of beautiful girl pictorials and hand-made figures in the middle of the road. Once Gao Zhiye passed by them, these dead creatures suddenly woke up as if they smelled the breath of a living person, and opened their mouths wide to gnaw a piece of his flesh and blood.

In the dream, he wanted to jump out of the window again, but just as he was about to stretch out his hand to pull the curtain, he noticed an unnatural bulge in front of the curtain. , outlining her figure, she stood there quietly, on the only way Gao Zhiye must pass, if Gao Zhiye hadn't noticed in advance, maybe he would directly bump into the woman's face as soon as he pulled the curtain. Gao Zhiye was so frightened that he woke up with an "ow".

"Scared—" Miyuki was also taken aback by him, "What's the matter, did you have a nightmare?"

Half of Takano's body was still trapped in that nightmare. When he heard the question, he subconsciously muttered: "My brother's pictorials have turned into things that can eat people, and there is a woman by the window..."

"Ha ha ha ha--"

Gao Zhiye was interrupted by laughter, and then stopped angrily: "Aren't you the glasses kid that day? Why are you here?"

"Are you sleepy? Today is the opening ceremony, and the opening ceremony has already begun. You are still sleeping here. Hahahaha, I laughed so hard."

When Takano heard that the time had passed for so long, he ran back quickly regardless of his sleepy body, and opened the door leading to the venue. The hot air rushed up, and his already cooled body seemed to have jumped into the oil. Like a pot, 'hiss—' hot sweat has begun to ooze out.

"Hey, it's so hot."

Back at the seat, Hayakawa quickly pulled him down, and Lang Zhi also said anxiously beside him, "Which corner did you go to? Just now, two groups of people went out to look for you, but they couldn't find you."

"Ah—" Two groups of people, the movement was loud enough, the coach must have known by now.

"Just now the coach said, let you record all three games today in the score book, and he will check it."

The surrounding people also restored the scene at that time in a hurry, and mentioned that the coach had just gone out to look for him and hadn't come back. Gao Zhiye suddenly covered his face: "It's enough, don't say it, I already regret it." died."

Shibazaki patted him on the shoulder, and handed over the record book in a considerate manner.

The commotion caused by Gao Zhiye only lasted for a while, and soon the wild ball boys concentrated on watching the game again.

The two sides of this opener are Edogawa Central and Kijima. It is already the third inning. .

'It's a massacre bureau. Gao Zhiye also slowly got into the game, completely oblivious to the movement behind, the coaches also rushed back when they heard the news of Gao Zhiye's return.

Speaking of which, why did the two groups of people fail to find Takano, because there are two entrances to this venue. Takano said before that he was going to buy drinks, and there is a vending machine near the entrance, so everyone is at this entrance Looking around, Takano thought it was not cool enough here, so he went around a big circle and went to another entrance. The bench happened to be behind some landscape potted plants, which made him fall asleep. Sleep.

Of course, after Takano left, Miyuki also thought this place was good, so he took a break here by the way, but his team was sitting not far from this exit, and soon he was supervised angrily. The messenger brought it back.

　In other words, I only noticed some things that I had never ignored before when I started writing novels, such as how the competition system is arranged (normally, I should go to see how the real situation is arranged, but I am too lazy to check), so the following things happened
　　[1] 100 teams, just keep dividing by 2 (how can there be an odd number after dividing twice)
　　【2】In the first round, let’s randomly have 4 byes. After the results are calculated, no, why should we also set up a bye team after that (this is when I started to seriously think about it)
　　【3】到比赛最后必须是2的倍数才行，而且必须在第一轮就把轮空设置完，离100最近的2的倍数是64。。。

　　【4】64=（100-x）/2+x，最后算出来第一轮轮空28个。。。。

　　If it is not for writing novels, I have never thought about the arrangement of the competition system before. . .This is also a windfall.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)