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Chapter 54 Illogical Recommendation

At 5:17 on May 17, the competition was suspended and it was time for a break. Mu Zhengguang turned on his phone and checked the message. Ying had found two contestants who could enter the finals, and Lu Hao had entered the third round. Everything was going well.

At 5:18 on May 9, the third round of competition supervised by Mu Zhengguang became history. He wrote down three main names: Qi Wenjing, Xia Mo, Chen Yu. There were also more than a dozen secondary names: Tang Jingming, Xiong Hong, Xia Yiming...

Today's game rules are different from yesterday's. Yesterday, each round of the game started at the hour, but today, there is no need to wait until the hour.

Mu Zhengguang thought that the organizers of the competition had a very different mindset. To put it nicely, they were adapting to circumstances. To put it bluntly, wasn't it just changing orders every day? Moreover, the gap between the two rounds of competition was very short, and the gap between the two games was also very short. In such a short time, they matched the contestants with opponents and sent the competition information to the contestants. The organizers were very efficient! Aren't they afraid of mistakes?
At 10:32, Xu Ying locked in three must-choose characters: Wang Xiaoyu, Zhao Zhuojin, and Wan Guoliang. In addition, there are many candidates: Mu Yincan, Yang Lan, Peng Yufan, Du Mingzhe... At 11:00, her arena also entered the fourth round of competition.

Mu Zhengguang concentrated his attention, carefully checked the battle situation, and carefully analyzed the strength of key figures, because the list would be submitted after this round of competition.

When Tang Jingming and Chen Yu met, Mu Zhengguang crossed out Tang Jingming's name. When Xia Yiming and Xia Mo fought, he crossed out Xia Yiming's name again.

At 13:52, Mu Zhengguang reported ten names. There were still eight minutes left before the next round of competition. He briefly described the situation of these ten people and sent it to Ying. There was no doubt that this was to let her do her homework in advance. In case she met them in the finals, she could be prepared in advance.

As to whether this behavior would affect the fairness of the game, Mu Zhengguang didn't care.

About an hour later, Xu Ying replied to his message, which also contained information about ten people. Her names, asymptotic entities, abilities, and battle situations were all recorded.

14:00, fifth round.

Chen Yu's game is very advanced.

After watching this match, Mu Zhengguang felt that the "recommendation" was completely unfounded: no matter from which angle you look at it, this is an unnecessary task. Chen Yu can kill people instantly, and Xia Mo and Qi Wenjing can also kill others instantly. No matter who is recommended, they will be killed instantly when they meet these people. Unless whoever is recommended is directly pushed into the finals, but this does not conform to the schedule. What is the organizer's plan? Is there another round of competition between the semi-finals and the finals? After the eighth round of competition, who can enter the finals and who cannot enter the finals is a foregone conclusion. Isn't it too late to "hand in the paper" at this time?

Xu Ying also had similar questions: The first four markings were a test of the administrators' vision, to see if they could identify the finalists early. The last four were recommendations, and the recommended people almost never made it to the finals, so what was the point of recommendations? Was it an extra game or other privileges?
The marked are stronger than the recommended. If the recommended have high privileges, then the marked should have more complex privileges, not just increased rewards. In the plan of the tournament, do these two types of people have different divisions of labor?

The organizers consider us as subordinates, but due to the existence of the recommendation task, the recommended person can also be considered as our subordinate. The organizers want the administrators to select their own subordinates? I think so, what is the basis? The organizers directly command the administrators, and the administrators command others, is this right? This possibility is not ruled out, but it is not certain.

If this is the case, the ten recommendation slots do not need to be given to people with outstanding abilities, but to people who are "pleasing to the eye". This is not recruiting workers for the boss, and the criterion of meritocracy does not apply. When we look for our partners and colleagues, their abilities are secondary. Even if we take a step back, the ability of the recommended person is unlikely to exceed that of the administrator, and the so-called "meritocracy" is only relative.

Xu Ying had already made up her mind. Before the fifth round started, she sent another message to Guang. There were only 24 matches in the fifth round. In this round, two of the ten people marked by Mu Zhengguang happened to meet, one was eliminated, and the other nine were fine. He was very satisfied with the result: I was right. As long as you don't play against each other, you can all advance.

The semi-finals were coming to an end and there were only a few contestants left. Mu Zhengguang was in a good mood: I wrote down all 48 contestants, and half of the contestants would be removed after each round. I would write a few more words to make the finishing work more comprehensive, so that the trip would be worthwhile.

After the fifth round, Mu Zhengguang picked up his phone and read the message. After careful consideration, he suddenly realized: Since we are selecting our own people, then strength is not important. I don't expect these people to help me improve my performance. I want to make friends through the modeling competition. This is what I want to do. The message from Ying came at the right time. Now there are 24 names on the paper. After removing the 9 marked ones, there are 15 left. If I received the message after the sixth round, it would be too late. After another round, the number of people will be halved to only 12, and the marked ones will be removed, so the upper limit of the number of recommendations will not be reached.

Mu Zhengguang and Xu Ying placed recommendations based on their personal preferences. This behavior was not noble, but it was not selfish either. Because they had the right to choose the colleagues they wanted, they had their own standards, and those who were not selected were those who did not meet their standards.

Xu Ying guessed the intention of the organizer of the competition, but she "missed" the original intention of the organizer. The organizer wanted the administrator to select strong people to work under him so that he could manage them in batches. But Guang Yuze did not choose strong people, but people who were pleasing to the eye.

As for the people inside the institute, namely the top ten, they all have problems with their work attitudes, without exception, which can be seen from the marking stage.

Zhao Tianyu, who won the false title of "No. 1 in the world", quietly turned down all the responsibilities of the administrator. During the semi-finals, Zhao Tianyu never went to the stadium or watched a game. He asked the staff to select players for him. He had no idea how many players were selected or who was selected.

Su Tao's work attitude was not much better than Zhao Tianyu's. He skipped the first three rounds and only watched the fourth round, marking ten people at once. The answer sheet he submitted was not verified, and its accuracy was only slightly higher than that of a random selection.

They have joined the institute and have gained power, so they are "fearless".

Although those who have not joined the institute and have not obtained power cannot be "fearless", they are also "confident".

The administrators in many competition venues have their own selection methods: some only choose the opposite sex, some only choose the same sex, some choose the strongest, some choose the weakest, some choose carefully, some choose blindly, some choose by drawing lots, some judge people by appearance, some don't choose anyone, and some decide to wait until the last two rounds... There are very few people who do things completely according to the organizer's wishes.

Zhou Xutong issued the tagging and recommendation tasks, but these great ideas were not his. He had two "partners": King Taihang Mountain and King Lancang River. King Taihang Mountain proposed tagging, and King Lancang River proposed recommendation.

Taihang Mountain King proposed the tag. His idea was to select a group of people with good work attitude and qualified vision from the final contestants to serve as management in the institute. The focus of these people's work is to maintain the normal operation of the huge institute.

The purpose of Lancangjiang King's recommendation is very simple: to select a group of people with good work attitude and qualified vision from the marked and recommended people to join the institute to share the workload. Otherwise, it would be almost impossible to effectively promote the development of the times with only those "companions" selected by the star master.

(End of this chapter)