When the score belonging to Katowice appeared on the big screen, Katowice and the coach both looked embarrassed at the same time. After a pause, the coach of Katowice patted him on the shoulder and comforted him who was a little depressed.

For Katowice and his coach, 62.58 was a score far below what they expected.

Since planning to participate in this COC competition, Katowice has understood that his world ranking is relatively low, and the program was not arranged with a very high basic score. In addition, due to issues such as the order of appearance, the final score will definitely not be too high.

But even so, they expect the show to get a minimum score of around 72 points.

They did not expect that after strict scoring by the judges, they would only get a short program score of 62.58, which is also the lowest score in Katowice's history since it was promoted to the adult group to participate in international competitions.

When the two were leaving the waiting table, Katowice was still a little depressed. He said to the coach: "I thought I could get at least 70 points..."

If the judges were more lenient in scoring this program, the score should have been above 75 points. However, facing today's extremely strict judging panel, both the execution score (ge) of technical movements and the scores of a series of aspects in the program content, such as skating, connection, performance, etc., were deducted according to the most stringent standards.

The referee team seemed to be demonstrating the fairness of their law enforcement in this way and with this attitude. After seeing Katowice's score, all the players who had not yet played had to make the worst prediction in their hearts.

In the referee's booth, Anderson frowned and was a little troubled about the next score judging.

For Su Zhe who was making his debut, they applied stricter standards in scoring. This was not a big problem. Even the best players would need to be compared with other players when they first entered the competition to make sure that they did not make any serious mistakes or biases in their scoring and judgment of the player.

In today's world competitions, referees can only enforce the law relatively relaxedly when facing well-known players, because these players already have enough fame and enough competitions, and the referees have enough understanding of them to know what score is in line with the level of this player.

Anderson could say that he did not deliberately make things difficult for Su Zhe when he gave him a score. He just reduced his usual scoring standards a little, making the score he gave appear a little more cautious.

Anderson believes that other members of the refereeing panel share the same idea.

The only problem they overlooked was that this new player from China, Su Zhe, had a completely different level of competition from other ordinary new players.

After Su Zhe's score was announced and received a lot of boos from the audience, Anderson's heart was not actually greatly shaken. In his opinion, his refereeing was fair, and after watching the subsequent score judgments, the audience would surely understand the fairness and justice of the refereeing team.

But their only miscalculation was that Su Zhe was not just an ordinary rookie player. From his performance against Katowice, it could be seen that there was a visible gap in strength between Su Zhe and Katowice, a player currently ranked 35th in the world. This forced the judging panel to complete their scoring of him with the same strict standards after Katowice's performance.

In the live broadcast room of the sports channel, Lin Ya is still commenting on the current game with her calm voice and accent.

"Katowice from Sweden got the lowest score in his short program career in this competition, but judging from the overall program arrangement of "Pure City", the original target score of this short program should not be at this level."

"From the results of Su Zhe's short program "The Breeze" to the results of Swedish contestant Katowice's "Pure City", we can see that the COC judges are strict in enforcing the law. At the same time, we can also foresee that the next contestants will also face strict scrutiny from the judges."

“Let us all look forward to what kind of results the players will achieve in today’s competition.”

On the live broadcast screen, ordinary spectators did not hear the hidden meaning in Lin Ya's words, but the ice fans who were paying attention to the progress of the game, who had just denounced the referee's unfair and harsh enforcement in the forum not long ago, could not help but burst out laughing when they heard the fun revealed in Lin Ya's peaceful voice.

As a well-known commentator in figure skating, Lin Ya can recite beautiful poems at any time when praising athletes. And when satirizing the behavior of certain athletes and referees, her silent and seemingly calm attitude often requires ice fans to savor her words repeatedly to dig out the meaning.

Such a direct statement as today's is also a rare gesture by Lin Ya during commentary.

In the forum of the Ice and Snow Kingdom, after seeing Katowice's results, someone simply opened a post with the theme of "recording" in the forum and began to record all the results of the men's singles short program in today's COC competition.

No matter how difficult it was for Anderson and other referees, the game was always progressing normally.

The next four players to appear on stage were Kelvin from Canada, Petrov from Russia, Vincent from the United States and Wang Wei from China.

Starting with Calvin, the pressure that Suzhe brought to the players has not diminished in the slightest. The short program score in Katowice gave everyone a loud alarm - in today's competition, the referee team's enforcement will be stricter than ever before.

Although they had prepared for this, the players still could not avoid the psychological tension and pressure, so that most of the players' actual performances fell short of their original abilities. This gap might not be noticeable at ordinary times, but in the eyes of today's particularly strict refereeing team, it was directly reflected in the final scores of these players, causing many players to get long-lost low scores.

After finishing his short show, Wang Wei found Su Zhe in a daze, hugged Su Zhe and burst into tears.

"Brother Zhe, you are really my brother. I beg the judges to stop showing off next time. When I programmed this program, I expected the score to be around 88. I performed well today, but in the end I only got 78.13 points? The judges today are so cruel!"

Although Wang Wei was crying loudly, he was just joking. Both he and the other athletes who were affected knew that although the referee team's scoring today was very strict, in reality everyone was still following the same scoring standards.

Since the standards are unified and no one is given preferential treatment, the scores may fluctuate from time to time, but the final performance ranking is still convincing, and that's all.

Whether it was the ice fans who were watching the game on site or before the live broadcast, after seeing the continuous and stable results judging, their initial resentment gradually disappeared.

After all, everyone's initial dissatisfaction with Su Zhe's performance came from the comparison with the usual standards. Su Zhe's score was too harsh. Now that everyone is using this scoring standard, it doesn't matter.

After the first group of competitions ended, the top of the six contestants so far is still Su Zhe, who scored only 83.11 points, and the second is Wang Wei, also from China, whose short program score is 78.13 points.

In the Ice and Snow Kingdom forum, the forum member who opened the record post couldn't help laughing when he recorded this.

75L: [I found the final score sheet of the men's singles short program in previous COCs. You can all have a laugh about it (picture attached).]

From the picture attached by this forum user, we can see that in the previous COC competitions, there has never been a situation where only one player scored above 80 after the first group of 6 players finished their performance.

78L: [Currently, the first group of contestants has been completely defeated. I wonder if the second group of contestants can successfully defeat Su Zhe? Will the second group of contestants also be completely defeated in the end?]

Someone proposed this hypothesis in a joking tone, but this hypothesis was quickly denied by other relatively rational forum members.

80L: [From my personal understanding, Su Zhe's score is no problem to crush the first group of players. Among the second group of players, such as Kotsuru, the US team's Grant, and Spain's Jeff, their strength and program arrangement should not be able to surpass Su Zhe. However, Russia's Igor, Japan's Amami Tsubasa, and Tsukawa Yuto, these three either have outstanding skills, difficult program arrangement, or have outstanding artistic expression. Moreover, their strength has long been recognized. After they appear, they should gradually break Su Zhe's current temporary first place. ]

Let’s not talk about the discussions on the Internet.

At the COC competition, after the second group of players went on the ice to warm up, the cheers from the audience showed that there were also very popular players in the second group.

Although the spectators who came to watch the game were not familiar with these players, they could feel the atmosphere around them becoming heated again. They immediately perked up and began to focus their attention on the ice.

The six players on the ice are Xu Yihe from China, Grant from the United States, Jeff from Spain, Igor from Russia, and Tsubasa Amami and Yuto Tsukawa from Japan.

Compared to the players in the first group, the players in the second group looked much more confident and calm.

In fact, in figure skating grand prix competitions, there is usually an insurmountable gap in strength between the first group of athletes and the second group of athletes.

Although they already knew that the referees today would be very strict in enforcing the scoring standards, they were still confident that they could achieve an excellent result in the competition.

On the ice, Igor from Russia has light blonde semi-long hair. His outstanding appearance attracted many fans who came to the scene. Although Amami Tsubasa looks ordinary, he also looks clean and refreshing. During the warm-up process, he easily jumped a set of 4-week jumps on the ice, which aroused enthusiastic cheers from the fans on the scene.

Yuto Tsugawa lived up to his passionate title of "Fire Prince". During the warm-up exercises alone, his free and happy state on the ice attracted a lot of attention.

At the scene, Su Zhe, Chen En and Cui Yi had already sat in the reserved audience seats.

Cui Yi smiled and pointed at the figures of Yuto Tsukawa and others on the ice, and said to the two disciples beside him, "Today's short program results are nothing. Take a good look at their performance. In the future, these people will definitely be your strongest opponents."

Listening to Cui Yi's words, Su Zhe took a deep breath and turned his gaze to the ice surface with a slightly excited look.

The author has something to say: =w=……! I said fuck 6, so fuck 6, although it’s late, but this is the first update of the 25th

Speaking of the 25th, I just remembered that today is Christmas!

Merry Christmas to everyone!

The next update should theoretically be in the evening, so see you all in the next chapter~~

PS: I see many little angels urging me to rest early. I have seen it all! Ahem, if I can't hold on any longer, I will definitely ask for leave from everyone and then go to bed. I have received everyone's care and concern, =w= I love you all!