137. The Underlying Foundation of Greatness Is So Solid (Request for Moon Ticket)
“Lost?”
Gan Yan Yu’s mouth gaped in disbelief as she mumbled.
“So that’s how it is.”
Lin Tian got it too.
Before the competition, Lin Tian and Gan Yan Yu had discussed this issue.
About whether classical music would be at a disadvantage during this event.
At that time, Gan Yan Yu concluded that:
“At least in our country, this kind of thing doesn’t happen often, not even at the level of a civilian competition like the Star Cup.”
But who would have thought that this year the situation had changed.
The domestic music scene had begun to follow the politically correct trend set by the international music association.
This led to a bunch of critics and magazine media people, who mainly focused on commenting, rating based on political correctness according to the standards set by the international association.
While traditionally trained individuals like professors from music academia and famous composers might grade more objectively, people with this background made up five out of twelve judges.
This had an enormous impact.
Obviously, Bai Xi’s innovative approach of adapting pop music for the cello caught everyone’s eye and was very popular among young people, perfectly in line with international music taste.
Like getting an annual game award recognition for designing a game where a little effeminate guy is beaten up by a big black pig.
The game, which could also be titled:
“The Vegetarian Transgender Who Also Has Pica Won’t Meet The Feminist Aesthetic Maximizer Sister”, and it includes elements like homosexuality and human-animal intimacy, fully conforming to minority rights and animal protection calls.
Winning the award was perfectly reasonable, albeit a bit absurd.
Though TGA might do such things normally, but the International Association isn’t quite as extreme.
Under such a high bonus, Bai Xi’s advantage was obviously exaggerated.
He Zhi Chen said, “Comparing two months worth of data from 18 recent events across the nation, the scoring pattern shows that ‘internationalist’ judges tend to give an extra 13.46-23.6% higher scores to modern music over classical music.”
Then, He Zhi Chen rapidly operated his tablet,
“Let’s suppose M is the score given to a modern music player and G to a classical music player. Assuming M’s score ranges between 113.46-123.6, G needs to reach a perfect score of 100.”
“And here’s what we get:”
He Zhi Chen showed the data to them, saying that
“Teacher Gan Yan Yu would need about a 1.85-5.85% better performance than Bai Xi to match her score.”
“Of course, the data is actually higher because the number of internationalist judges varies at each event.”
Seeing the data, Lin Tian was a bit stunned.
It wasn’t that complex. All that’s needed is the inverse version of Gan Yan Yu to slightly outperform Bai Xi!
And after calculations, it was proven that if you remove that 13.46-23.6% bonus, Bai Xi and Teacher Gan received almost identical scores.
From a performance perspective, it was a tie!
“A tie?”
Gan Yan Yu was completely stunned.
So did that mean…
her performance wasn’t worse than Bai Xi’s? She only lost on points, but it was a draw in cello duels.
Struggling to digest this, Gan Yan Yu dropped her head on the desk.
“Gan Teacher!!”
Lin Tian yelled in alarm and quickly held onto her.
“. ”
Gan Yan Yu lifted her head, tears running down a face with a radiant smile.
“Wuuu, I didn’t lose.”
Lin Tian laughed and cried.
Previously she always said it didn’t matter, but her heart was fiercer than anyone else’s.
“The cello match wasn’t lost, but the competition was lost, so we can’t be too relaxed,” Lin Tian said.
Then he turned to He Zhi Chen and asked,
“How many ‘internationalists’ are there among the judges of the Parrot Zither Cup?”
“Not sure yet, have to wait for the official list,” replied He Zhi Chen.
But then he added, “However, the Parrot Zither Cup is organized by the Chinese Music Association, so the judges will be more professional, there will likely be fewer media and critics. They’ll probably be fairer to classical music.”
With that comment alone, it was enough.
The loss at the Star Cup this time was indeed disappointing.
Gan Yan Yu also lost her “get another life” chance, with only the Dragon Zither Cup remaining as the path to qualify.
Therefore, to get into the Dragon Zither Cup,
they had to win at the Parrot Zither Cup.
There were no other options!
Gan Yan Yu’s challenge had ended.
Lin Tian’s challenge was coming soon.
With only two days left until the Art Examination,
Lin Tian’s preparation was nearing completion.
In the remaining days, the main focus would be on regulating one’s mindset, eating, drinking, and maintaining physical health.
Just at that moment, the long-silent system finally appeared on the interface showing the settlement results.
[“Sadness Value]: [513577/500000]
[Task Completed]: Created a music piece performed by partner, posted, and gathered 2 million likes and 500,000 sadness points.
[Skill Gained]: Makeup Mastery
Finally, the mission was completed.
Even sad emotions needed a solid 500k points; it was tough.
Unfortunately, few listened to “Cello Concerto in E Minor” within those first days, let alone felt any emotions from it.
It shouldn’t have taken more than 15 days for task completion.
Does that mean the deadline started when the music was released?
Lin Tian pondered this.
It looked like when receiving tasks, you could save them and use them when you found appropriate songs later.
As a refreshing feeling washed over him,
Lin Tian suddenly felt something remarkable.
Looking around his house,
he felt his aesthetic appreciation had improved.
Standing before the mirror, he noticed himself differently,
handsome beyond measure!
Wait, how could he be that handsome?
Proportional features, a nose at a perfect angle, eyes like a character out of a cartoon.
He’d be a supermodel for sure!
No wonder he never felt confident; it was his poor aesthetic sense!
Only with improved aesthetics did he realize his underlying handsome foundation was so good.
He should be more showy.
Seeing how good he looked, wouldn’t makeup make him unbeatable?
With that, Lin Tian immediately planned to test his new skill—how good was his mastery of makeup?
For music students, appearance was also important;
a handsome base was an advantage during the exam.
He didn’t have any makeup, so he called Gan Yan Yu,
“Gan Teacher, do you have makeup that I could borrow?”
(End of Chapter)
