I loaded up the life makeover game

Chapter 110 Plan to push all the way

After Chen Xiu'an listened to Jiang Zhi's words completely, she felt that this rule was not unfair.

At most, it can be said that there is a certain amount of luck involved.

Although it sounds a bit unreliable to leave the rating to the audience.

But it’s not completely ignorant listeners. The official selections are all students from conservatories, and some specially invited musicians, who still have certain musical literacy.

Of course, in terms of professionalism, it is definitely not as professional as those judges.

After all, although many people study music, they still can't talk about the so-called professional for the instrument of guitar.

Jiang Zhi has her own understanding of this point.

"Actually, the rules of such a knockout match are quite good."

"After all, music should not be high-profile, and the guitar is a very popular instrument."

"Leaving the audience to judge and estimate is also based on this consideration."

Chen Xiu'an nodded in agreement.

Regardless of whether you can listen or understand, a good performance must be able to move people and convey the emotions of the performer or the music itself through music.

If we think about it based on this point, in fact, such a link setting can be regarded as a relatively comprehensive point for the organizer to consider.

After all, if it is really a small number of judges who choose candidates, although it seems that they are professional enough.

But there is always a feeling that these people are just entertaining themselves.

Therefore, in the knockout round, it is not an unacceptable process to screen out most of the players through such competition rules.

Although there may be upsets, most of the strong players will definitely be able to enter the following competitions very smoothly.

"What about the rules for the rematch?"

Chen Xiuan asked.

"In the rematch, the top [-] will be divided into two groups and then confronted."

"The top five in each group will advance."

"The two groups of contestants can form teams freely, with three to five members in one team, up to eight teams, and then there will be two sessions of team harmony and individual performance."

"The judges will score each contestant based on their performance."

"The top five teams with the highest scores in each group advance to the finals."

Jiang Zhi said.

Chen Xiu'an said with some confusion: "Then the grouping still depends on drawing lots?"

Jiang Zhi shook her head and said, "No."

"The selection is based on the vote ranking of the knockout contestants."

"The ones with odd numbers are rented by A, and the ones with even numbers are group B."

After hearing this, Chen Xiuan felt that the competition rules and procedures of the college guitar competition were actually designed quite reasonably.

In the knockout round, in order to avoid the elimination of some powerful players being grouped together, there is no limit to the number of voters from the audience.

In other words, if all the players in a group perform very well, then the audience does not have to worry about who to vote for.

You can even vote for everyone in the show.

Although it is still unavoidable that some players will be accidentally eliminated because the strong players are grouped together, such rules can be regarded as trying to avoid this as much as possible.

The same goes for the subsequent rematches, which are not so-called random assignments.

Instead, he chose to distribute the top [-] votes in order of odd and even numbers.

The approximate strength of the players on both sides is almost the same, and in the end it also prevents the strong players from being in the same group. It is a pity to eliminate this point.

"The finals were pretty much the same as before."

"It's a piece of music that directly determines winning or losing."

"It all depends on everyone's performance at the time and the choice of songs, but it is quite fair."

As someone who participated once last year and reached the finals, Jiang Zhi has a clear understanding of the rules of the competition and has some analysis of her own.

"Actually, in last year's knockout round, our song selection was still very important."

"Because it's voted by the audience, the songs that are very popular among the professional judges for showing off skills don't take advantage of it so much."

"Many contestants will also consider some songs that are slightly more popular and have a better sense of hearing during this session."

"But this year it seems that our performance time has been extended. The upper limit is 10 minutes. 10 minutes should be enough for three songs."

"The time required for the entire knockout round has also become a week."

"Each player can prepare two to three songs."

"In addition to the consideration of the sense of hearing, in fact, it is not impossible to choose songs that show off skills."

"But how to make reasonable use of these 10 minutes has become a problem that needs to be considered."

Jiang Zhi said.

After all, the knockout round can be said to be the most competitive stage.

In the knockout round, only 300 contestants could be entered, and more than [-] contestants were directly wiped out most of them.

Everyone has to take this seriously, so it is some seeded players who are not weak in themselves.

After Chen Xiuan heard Jiang Zhi's words, he began to think about how he should choose the song in the knockout round.

As for why Jiang Zhi didn't specifically remind Chen Xiuan of the rules and procedures of the competition before, it was mainly because of Chen Xiuan's sudden improvement in guitar skills at that time, which made her feel that the knockout round should not be a big problem for Chen Xiuan.

"As for the subsequent rematch, in fact, it is the ensemble part that will test the players more."

"Strong teammates actually have advantages and disadvantages for the players."

"After all, if sometimes, teammates play too well, they will cover up their brilliance."

"But sometimes, when playing a piece of music together, if there is a master who brings it into the state, the performance itself will be better."

"And some players are very good when they play solo, but they don't have the habit of playing with others at all. Naturally, they are not used to it, which ultimately limits their scores in the ensemble."

"In short, the competition is still very comprehensive in considering the abilities of all players."

Jiang Zhi analyzed it to Chen Xiu'an.

While Chen Xiu'an and Jiang Zhi were talking about the process of the competition here, before the hundreds of contestants in the hotel could react, the organizer actually sent a notice to that contestant's group.

They didn't intend to give them a chance to react at all, so they randomly drew lots for all the players.

"Mine is the second show on the third day."

Chen Xiu'an found her name and said.

And Jiang Zhi searched for a long time, and also found her own name.

"Mine is the second of the sixth day."

Chen Xiuan suddenly realized that it seemed that they would have to wait for a few more days before it was their turn to perform.

Jiang Zhi even had to wait for six days.

Perhaps because of the lack of competition venues, Chen Xiuan felt that this was somewhat unreasonable.

Because this greatly lengthens the time period of the entire game.

"Why don't we study where to go tomorrow?"

Chen Xiuan suggested.

Jiang Zhize rolled her eyes at him.

"What are you thinking?"

"Give me a good practice of staying in the hotel these few days!"

"what?"

Chen Xiuan frowned.

For the next few days, Chen Xiu'an and Jiang Zhi basically stayed in the hotel.

Apart from practicing, the only fun may be eating and eating.

At night, the two went out to look for food together. Chen Xiu'an felt that the energy consumed by the morning run seemed to be doubled and returned.

By the way, because of staying on the train for a day, Chen Xiu'an thought that her self-discipline task would be terminated.

But I didn't expect that the system would send a request for leave due to special circumstances in a humane manner.

Still got it without doing any quests.

At that time, after sleeping on the train and waking up, I found that there were three more leave notes like this in the inventory.

[Item: Leave note (this note can only be used for self-discipline tasks, to deal with some sudden events)]

[Main task (no one is more disciplined than me): run at least 5000 meters in the morning every day, the longer you persist, the richer the rewards will be. (To be a self-disciplined person, start with a simple morning run.)]

[Currently, the number of consecutive morning jogging days: 53 days]

[Task reward: Entry-level sprint (180 days)]

Now Chen Xiu'an's morning run task is still far from being completed in half a year.

But Chen Xiu'an didn't feel any irritability.

On the contrary, if it weren't for the pop-up notification about the leave request, he would have almost forgotten about this mission.

He has basically developed a habit of running in the morning now, but if he doesn't run for more than five kilometers, he will feel uncomfortable all over.

Even now when she comes to the competition in Beijing, Chen Xiu'an still wakes up at 06:30 every morning to go for a morning jog nearby.

Time soon came to the third day of Chen Xiuan's competition.

In the past two days, Chen Xiu'an and Jiang Zhi actually watched one or two matches of other contestants.

There is no need to buy a ticket or anything, you can go in directly.

But there is no such thing as the right to vote.

Those who have the right to vote are students from some colleges and universities present, or musicians who are invited.

It has to be said that compared to the uneven level of the provincial contestants, those who can advance to the national contest are at least not weak.

Chen Xiu'an feels that most of them have reached the entry-level level.

If his guitar skills hadn't been upgraded before, it's likely that he stopped at this stage.

Because Jiang Zhi mentioned about the selection of songs, Chen Xiu'an actually paid attention to it, and found that many contestants will not only choose some more melodic songs this year, but also increase the corresponding songs that show off their skills.

But this creates a problem that is difficult to solve.

Because of the 10-minute performance time, if the styles of the two pieces played are too different.

When changing the song, it will make the audience feel that very obvious sense of separation.

Originally, a contestant who could win a high number of votes with one song would not vote for the contestant because some viewers were not interested in the second song.

After all, the 10-minute performance time is continuous, although it can be stopped in the middle, so that the audience can know that there are two pieces of music being performed.

But the contestants are always on the stage, which means that these 10 minutes are considered as a whole performance.

It is a test of the contestants' ideas in song selection and matching, as well as design.

Of course, some players discovered this early on.

So I chose a longer guitar piece.

Or two songs with a similar style, so that the style of the music will not be split in the performance.

Some people even made a medley of guitar songs, but the level was a bit low and made people feel nondescript. It was quite novel at first.

But the 10-minute performance time is very long. After 5 minutes, it makes people feel a little chaotic and nondescript, and the number of votes won in the end is not high.

But this problem is not a problem at all for those players with a very high level.

For example, in the performance that Chen Xiuan and the others watched the next day, the rhythm of the two songs was arranged perfectly.

This kind of person is very confident in his own strength.

The mood rises progressively, taking into account both the sense of hearing and the performance of the song perfectly.

Even if these audiences can't fully understand some of the players' difficult playing skills, they can still clearly feel the gap between him and some other players.

Not everyone is like this. At least most players, even if they are not weak, will still choose the songs for this link more carefully.

Even some players who were not weak in the eyes of Chen Xiu'an and Jiang Zhi also overturned.

Some players didn't seem to know how to solve this problem, so they just played one piece.

Although the playing time was a bit short, at least he was able to complete his performance relatively well and play to the level he should have.

However, the time for playing has been reduced, which naturally means that the impression left on the audience is not strong. Although some have scored high scores, most of them will be forgotten by the audience with voting rights.

However, the above questions were not a problem for Chen Xiuan.

His choice at the beginning was also very clear, that is to rely on his proficient guitar skills to abruptly enter the semi-finals.

I didn't plan to have any special design on song selection and performance.

In the end, I directly chose a classic piece called "Assassination", which lasted more than seven minutes.

The difficulty of this piece is actually not very high, but if you want to perform it to leave a deep impression and get high votes, it all depends on the performer's personal ability.

If he is still at the entry level, such a method is completely inapplicable.

After all, the level is limited, and playing this piece in a satisfactory manner does not have a great advantage among many players.

But now, even Jiang Zhi felt that as long as Chen Xiu'an played normally, he would basically be able to enter the semi-finals steadily.

If you are a proficient guitar player, you don’t need any fancy designs, just push it flat.

Although there are only ten contestants in the performance that Chen Xiu'an is about to start today.

But on the contrary, the competitors are not only these people, but all the players performing in this venue this week, they all need to make the final ranking together.

(End of this chapter)