Producer System: My Girlfriend is a Cellist-Chapter 728 - 453: BOSS Judge Overhauls Keller Cup!
89 points...
An unimagined score.
The moment the score was announced,
not only did the audience gasp, but the cellists backstage were utterly stunned.
"(Teacher Steven just arrived, and the entire judging panel's scoring style has changed so drastically, huh...)"
"(Teacher Meyer is fourth in Group B! If he only got 89 points, what about me?)"
"(This is too strict! I couldn't find any fault in Teacher Meyer's performance!)"
In the live stream,
Zhang Dong had already shown a look of despair.
"Modern pop music... public aesthetics, flawless performance... this was supposed to be the model answer."
"And he even has the International Music Association background!"
"If even such a cellist scores only 89, then what about the others..."
Zhang Dong didn't dare to continue.
All eyes were focused on the big screen, showing the judges' perspective.
The one who subtly led the previous scoring, Steven, calmly picked up his teacup and took a sip of hot water, without any expression on his weather-beaten face.
As if the "89 points" that stirred a tsunami just now had nothing to do with him.
...
"From a professional point of view, 89 points isn't without reason. Meyer's cello, though excellent, is too steady. In the finals, it lacks creativity. How many points it can get depends on the judges' personal preference for a 'steady play style'."
He Shumo stroked his chin and analyzed the previous performance earnestly,
"It's just that, I really didn't expect... to give an 89 right at the start of the competition..."
At this point, He Shumo couldn't help but curse "Damn!"
Performances like this "steady" one would be judged differently by different judges.
But usually, the lower limit wouldn't be that low, especially since Meyer is also a very outstanding cellist.
Even knowing that Steven might use a stricter standard in today's competition... no one expected that Meyer's performance would end up with such a low score.
This implies only one possibility.
Steven is determined to make this final something "different."
"As expected of Teacher Steven, coming in with an unexpected move."
Seeing this, Yao Han couldn't help but exclaim excitedly,
"It seems... today's competition will have a good show."
.....
Backstage in the lounge.
The Australian cellist Meyer pushed open the lounge door almost lifelessly and returned to the room.
Friends immediately surrounded him to comfort him, but Meyer merely raised his hand to stop them, swaying slightly as he walked back to his resting spot.
The whole time he kept his head down, expressionless, like a soulless tool.
"(So pitiful.....)"
Connor cast a sympathetic look.
"(Thinking he could at least secure a spot in the top three with a performance good enough for a trophy, only to not even reach 90 points...)"
Perez couldn't help but say,
"(His grandfather's face must be thoroughly lost, right?)"
Seeing Meyer like this.
The atmosphere in the lounge seemed to drop a few degrees.
Everyone's expressions turned solemn.
This was just the first contestant.....
What about those who follow?
Even Gan Yanyu felt the chill in the air, subconsciously hugged her arms, and whispered to Lin Tian:
"I'm a bit cold....."
Lin Tian immediately took off his suit jacket and draped it over Gan Yanyu.
"It must be the air conditioning set too low." Lin Tian said.
"Are you... nervous?"
Gan Yanyu carefully lifted her head to look into Lin Tian's eyes.
Almost every cellist could see it.
Today's sudden arrival of Teacher Steven seemed to target, quite possibly, Lin Tian and Gan Yanyu.
Now, the first victim of Steven had already appeared.
Everyone was trembling with fear.
As for Lin Tian and Gan Yanyu, who were directly in the target, they should be even more nervous than the other cellists.
After all, even modern pop music faced this fate, not to mention their classical music!
"What's there to be nervous about."
Lin Tian smiled,
"Don't you think we actually benefited instead?"
"Benefited?"
Gan Yanyu couldn't understand why Lin Tian would say that.
"Because with Teacher Steven's arrival, everyone's scores might drop, but whether he came or not, we were going to be targeted anyway."
"Now that he's here because of us, it's causing a lot of the originally normal cellists to become anxious too; everyone's mindset is now disturbed, don't you think we benefit?"
Lin Tian said with a smile.
It's like how poorly performing students treat a math test.
Some bottom-of-the-barrel students really hope that the annual entrance exam's math test will be even harder.
That way, average and top students would struggle with the difficult questions, causing the overall average score to be lower.
But for the underperforming students, since their exams are essentially guesswork...the probability for multiple-choice questions is always one-fourth! The harder the questions, what impact is there?
The more difficult, the less difference in scores.
Even if the underperforming students can't score points on what's usually the easiest set theory questions due to the difficult paper, the points lost are nowhere near the gap created by an exam that drives average and top students crazy.
