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Chapter 124 Fu Diao Is So Outrageous?

Among all the contestants, Fu Tiao should be the first batch to be invited. After all, many contestants already have their own school of music before starting the competition, such as Zhao Chengzhen, who successfully entered the French school of music and became one of them. After becoming a student of the core leading figures, this began his Chopin International Piano Competition schedule.

However, some players who failed to play did not receive such treatment at all, and they could only jump to graduate school to start their studies at most.

After Fu Tiao received these business cards in his pocket, he began to carefully observe all the contestants who could enter the final.

In fact, as many people predicted before the game, whether all players can enter the finals in the third round has actually been very clear.

In the second half, which started at [-] o'clock in the afternoon, the two players with the best performance were Aljoa Jurini from Croatia, and Aishi Kobayashi, the Japanese piano princess from Japan.

Kobayashi Aishi is worthy of the title of Dongying Piano Princess. Although her competition this year was not smooth, many people had high hopes that she could lead Dongying to stand up, but there are really too many players who performed well this year.

In particular, the confrontation between Fu Diao and Zhao Chengzhen made the situation of the Chopin International Piano Competition countless times more intense. Many contestants were taken away before they could react. Under the encouragement, he directly became stronger and more difficult to deal with.

Kobayashi Aishi fought with the mentality of sprinting to the final from the beginning, but by the time of the third round, she no longer had much desire in her heart, and being able to get the ranking is already considered good. As for the championship?Forget it, this thing is really too difficult.

And she still has a problem now, her score is not ranked high, only about seven or eight, this ranking has almost stabilized and there is no way to win the championship title, she is directly far away from the scores of Fu Diao and their level At about 5 points, this score is not something you can chase if you want to.

Even if Fu Tiao, Zhao Chengzhen, and Hamelin from behind did not perform well, each of them only got an average score of 18-20 points, she must get a high score of 23-25 ​​points to be able to move her score to the same level. The results of the three of Fu Diao are about the same.

And what are the chances that Fu Tiao, Zhao Chengzhen, and Hamelin will not perform well?
Probably about the same as the odds of winning another bottle.

Kobayashi Aishi has almost never won a similar award. Compared with her illusory luck, she hopes that she can get the highest score by virtue of her own strength.

It's just a pity...

After Kobayashi Aishi played the last note, with a helpless expression, she forced a smile to everyone off the stage and left the stage.

She has tried her best, but it is still too difficult to get a good ranking.

The first game ended, and the second day's game started as scheduled.

Kate Liu and Eric Lu were successfully divided into two divisions, one was the last place in the morning half, and the other was the first place in the afternoon half, so the two no longer had any considerations, and they didn't need to care Will my full exertion bring troubles to my comrades-in-arms, and directly exert their most perfect strength.

For a moment, countless spectators were a little shocked. They were surprised that these two players who were originally in excellent condition actually reached almost perfect condition at the end?
It's hard to imagine that this level of music came from the hands of these two people.

However, this also gave many people a relatively new concept of the level of strength of these two people. They probably knew what level they were in now and what state they should use to face him.

As far as the current strength of these two people is concerned, they are probably at the same level as Tony Yang, that is, Yang Yike.

Below the three, above the others.

For a moment, everyone was shocked.

But the most shocking thing is not the performance of these two men, but Hamelin's performance.

Hamelin, who had always been suppressed by Zhao Chengzhen, unexpectedly exploded in the third round, playing a performance not inferior to Zhao Chengzhen.

The work he chose was Chopin Mazurka Op33, which was the performance of the other two players on the first day. Their performance was not particularly good, but they were still in the first echelon.

Nocturne in E major shows a little bit of his stuff in it, but it is still in a good state, excellent, perfect, in line with his No.3 status, and it is not overstepped at all.

but……

After his Chopin Piano Sonata No. [-], he suddenly exploded, showing a state that no one could have imagined.

Just like Zhao Chengzhen's breakthrough in the second round, Hamelin also made a breakthrough in the third round.

He didn't achieve a breakthrough in all the works in the third round like Fu Tiao's. He just made a breakthrough in his Chopin sonata, which became very infectious, and it is hard to describe the shock in his heart.

In an instant, the expressions of countless judges changed slightly.

Hearing Zhao Chengzhen's performance at the beginning, everyone thought that this year Zhao Chengzhen would definitely win one of the three awards for best mazurka, best polonaise, and best piano sonata. Each of his performances reached the previous level. session, and even the ranking of the previous contestants.

But after hearing Fu Tiao's performance, they changed a little bit.

At least Zhao Chengzhen should not get the best mazurka. Fu Tiao's mazurka is much better than Zhao Chengzhen's. If they score, they must give the best mazurka to Fu Tiao instead of Zhao Chengzhen.

His best polonaise is also a little difficult, but there is a problem, that is, the main score of the best polonaise is placed in the second round, which is the round that specifically requires polonaise, and the polonaise in this round will be a little He received preferential treatment from the ground, so he was not completely defeated by Fu Tiao.

But now his Chopin sonatas...

There is no way to say anything, Zhao Chengzhen absolutely has no way to get Chopin's best piano sonata.

Whether it is Fu Diao or Hamelin who is playing now, their performances of Chopin's best piano sonatas are much stronger than his, and both of them are piano sonatas performed on the Chopin piano sonata wheel, and they will also receive preferential treatment.

Everything from the beginning is possible, and everything after that is a bit dangerous, but there is only a day's interval.

For a moment, the judges off the stage felt like they didn't know who was likely to win the Chopin International Piano Competition this year.

The No.1 in the previous two rounds is likely to get the third place this year?Or is it the strength he showed when he stabilized his breakthrough state?
What are you kidding?How can you play like this in normal games?
As Hamelin continued to play, the results of the competition gradually became confusing, and many judges could no longer predict who was more likely to win the Chopin International Piano Competition.

By the first half of the third day, when the last four players played, the third round of the match was completely over.

Xu Zi's complexion was not very good, he had been squatting in the corner after the game, frowning tightly, his expression was not good-looking.

Dmitry Shishkin, a player from Russia in front of him, performed very well, and had a great influence on Alex from the United States behind him, and had a lot of influence on him.

Behind him, Tony Yang and Yang Yike, Canadian Chinese from Canada, performed beyond everyone's expectations. Like Eric Lu and Kate Liu in front of him, he was full of personal characteristics carefully crafted by Deng Taishan. He was directly crushed into slag.

Obviously the list for the fourth round has not been announced yet, Xu Zi already has an illusion that he is about to be eliminated.

This feeling made him very uncomfortable, so he could only squat in the corner and rub his temples to calm himself down a little.

But there is no particularly great use, it should be uncomfortable or uncomfortable.

Fu Tiao and the others had no way to comfort Xu Zi, they could only shrug helplessly and let him be alone for a while.

With the end of Yang Yike's performance of the last note, the third round of the Chopin International Piano Competition was completely over, and all the judges entered the room of the organizing committee for the final scoring.

It is worth mentioning that some judges still did not participate in the decision of subsequent admissions, such as Argerich.

She called many contestants, including Xu Zi, and chatted with them one by one about their music.

After those players heard Argerich's summons, their expressions instantly became extremely bad.

Because according to the regulations, Argerich cannot rate the players she has contacted.

If that's the case... how many chances do those people she called over have to enter the finals?

Xu Zi's face became extremely ugly, but soon, he breathed a sigh of relief, shaking the hair on his forehead casually, and said helplessly. .

"Forget it, it's a blessing in disguise. Even if I didn't enter the finals of the Chopin International Piano Competition, at least I entered the third round and could receive an invitation from Argerich."

"Eh……"

Yu Tianyou looked at Xu Zi enviously, with a jealous expression: "Obviously I was eliminated, why didn't Argerich summon me and talk to me about music?"

"Maybe it's because...you're too good? Argerich isn't even interested in chatting with you after listening to your performance?"

"Hit me!"

Everyone was joking with each other, and the thick atmosphere of the game quickly dissipated a little, but there was still a little bit left.

After all, for them, being eliminated in the third round of the Chopin International Piano Competition, being eliminated in the closest situation to victory, is like wrestling at the final hurdle, falling short of success.

It's hard, but there's nothing you can do.

……

While everyone was chatting casually, Li Diyun finally arrived at Chopin International Airport from the plane in Huaguo, took the car of the organizing committee directly and entered the room of the organizing committee, looked at the table full of documents, and nodded slightly to everyone.

"Sorry, I'm late because something happened in my country."

"Li! You are finally here!" An old professor who seems to have a good relationship with Li Diyun stepped forward to give Li Diyun a slight hug, and then said with a little regret: "But I'm sorry, because you didn't participate in the scoring, so we can't let you You participated in the final voting and scoring, so... I'm sorry."

"fine."

Li Diyun waved his hand casually, indicating that he didn't care, then looked at the scoring information on the table, and asked curiously: "But can I take a look at the scoring situation? Just... curious?"

"Well... sorry, according to the relevant regulations, this is not very good, but after our news is announced, you can watch it, but you can watch our voting for the third round."

"Ok."

Li Diyun had no choice but to sit on the side, waiting for everyone to vote.

The voting in the first round of the Chopin International Piano Competition may be a little loose, but when it comes to the second and third rounds, the voting will become extremely strict, and it will no longer be as before as long as one person thinks he can be directly sent to the competition. next round.

Instead, in addition to the original score ranking, all the judges need to vote. If half of the judges think that the contestant is good, then that contestant will directly enter the next round.

If it is less than half, even if his score is higher, he will not have any chance to enter the next round.

Everyone sorted out the documents in their hands. After the scores of all the documents were confirmed, a very old judge with a plaid shirt and no hair at all. If you didn't say it, you might think he was a programmer, and the other judges stood up. The judges sat inside the judges' table and looked at the judge.

Those who are not eligible to vote, such as Li Diyun, stood directly on the outside and watched the final vote.

The judge who looked like a programmer held up the document in his hand and spoke.

"Next, I will announce the results of the third round of the Chopin International Piano Competition. Please judge whether you will advance."

"The first contestant, Galina Chistiakova from Russia?"

"Support, her performance is not bad, she can enter the next round."

"No, there is no Chopin in her music, she does not conform to the spirit of Chopin! I can only feel Russia from her music, not Poland! You can even say that there is no Poland!"

"No, the level is not enough, there are problems with the performance, although the results are not bad, but it is still not good enough among all the players, I do not agree with Galina to enter the next round, there are not enough places in the next round, but I agree with her as a candidate , if the number of people is insufficient, they can be directly selected."

"No, support entry candidate, no support direct entry."

Several people in the audience raised their hands, but not more than half, the judges took a look and said.

"Galina 40%, the next one is South Korea's Chengzhen Zhao?"

"support!"

"support!"

"support!"

"be opposed to!"

……

A bunch of people raised their hands, but Li Diyun looked at the group of people and found that not all of them raised their hands, but several did not raise their hands, and even shouted their objections.

In the end what happened?Why didn't Zhao Chengzhen, who was always number one, raise their hand?Obviously, in the first round when he was here, almost everyone raised their hands, but now his approval rating has dropped?

After a glance, the judge registered in his hand: "Chengzhen 93.3, tsk, the next one is Hua Guo, Dior Fu."

Whoa!
All hands were raised, Li Diyun was dumbfounded, looking at the scene in front of him in disbelief, it was hard to believe what he saw now.

and many more?

Didn't this group of people get their names wrong?
Obviously in the first round, it was Zhao Chengzhen who was recognized by everyone as being able to pass the competition. How many people in Fu Tiao did not agree, why did they just switch over now?
I just skipped the second and third rounds, so is there such a big difference in the competition?What are you kidding?
He didn't participate in the second round, so he didn't know the specific results, but Zhao Chengzhen is also No.1, so it's impossible for him to suddenly pull in the third round, right?

And the things that surprised him even more did not stop like this.

Aimi Kobayashi, who was previously recognized as the strongest in Japan, only had a 50% approval rating.

At the beginning, Eric Lu and Kate Liu, who were not particularly concerned by many people, had approval ratings of 92.9 and 100 respectively. They are the second players in the top [-] today.

The third player in the top 1 is Hamelin, but Hamelin and Li Diyun are not too surprised, because Hamelin has always been the No.100 after Zhao Chengzhen. He got a 100% approval rate in the first round. Now The third round is still [-]%, which should be relatively normal.

And the fourth one with 100% approval rate is Yang Yike.

Li Diyun felt that something was wrong with him.

Fu Diao, Kate Liu, Hamelin, Yang Yike, the four have a perfect approval rating, and Zhao Chengzhen, who has always been considered the number one, has an approval rating of only 93.3?

Isn't the world a little too crazy?
After hesitating for a moment, Li Diyun lightly poked another jury member beside him who was not qualified to score and vote, and whispered.

"Hello, I have a question... In the third round, did Zhao Chengzhen play poorly? Why does he seem to... not be favored?"

"Lee, Lee! You you you... are you talking to me?"

The jury didn't expect Li Diyun to talk to him, and Bozi turned pink for a while, as if he was very excited.

But soon, his excitement stopped, and he said to Li Diyun as calmly as possible: "Sorry, I'm a little excited, sorry, sorry, but what you said... I'm not very good at it."

"It's hard to say? Why?"

"Because I don't know either."

The jury members looked helplessly at the group of judges who were exchanging opinions.

"The situation in the third round is really too outrageous. I don't know what to say. A group of people gave Zhao Chengzhen a failed score. I even feel that it is reasonable."

"Reasonable?" Li Diyun was dumbfounded, never expecting such an answer.

"To be precise, the differences between all the judges became bigger, and they also had conflicts about the music they wanted. Zhao Chengzhen's performance was the biggest problem. Many judges began to think about what exactly the Chopin International Piano Competition needs, so... ..."

The two of them said that the jury had already decided on the results of the third round. After handing one of the copies to the waiting staff, the judge who had a good relationship with Li Diyun came over and smiled. Handed him the document in his hand, and said.

"Okay, Li, we have announced the results of the third round, so the results of the third round are lifted. This is the specific result of the third round. You can take a look, but you want to see the results of the third round There is nothing to do with a judge's score, that one has been banned and saved, unless there is a problem with the score, it is generally not shown to others, you know."

"Well, thank you very much."

Li Diyun gratefully took the document in the man's hand, and was taken aback when he saw the results typed out according to his name.

When he saw the results of Fu Tiao, Zhao Chengzhen, and Hamelin, he was completely stunned, unable to believe that what he saw was actually true.

Fu Tiao's grades... so outrageous?
(End of this chapter)