Since the second group of contestants took the stage, the contestants' strength and the overall difficulty of the program have been continuously improving. As the contestants' strength has increased, the judges' scores for the short programs have also begun to rise slowly.

Among the three contestants who took the stage in the second group, the one who had the highest score in the short program was Grant from the United States. His entire set of movements were choreographed and connected very smoothly. His performance in the short program was also very outstanding. Under the applause of the audience, he won the second score after Su Zhe to break 80 points, and ranked second with a score of 80.97.

Xu Yihe and Jeff from Spain took the stage later and scored 79.14 and 80.67 respectively.

At this stage of the competition, both the audience at the scene and the audience watching the live broadcast have already accepted the current scoring standards. From the audience's perspective, although they may not be professional, they also see the athletes' performances on the ice. The improvement in the quality and difficulty of the program, or more simply, the difficulty and success rate of the athletes' jumps, the speed and stability of the rotation, etc., all these contents can be seen and felt very intuitively by the audience.

Up to now, the short program scores and rankings of the players have been almost the same as their order of appearance. The only exception is Su Zhe, who appeared first but still ranks first in his personal short program score.

In the referee's booth, Anderson couldn't help but frown after looking at the current ranking of the players' performance - he didn't expect that until more than half of the second group of players had appeared, the player from China would still be the one who maintained the first place in the performance.

"What an amazing guy." Anderson glanced at Su Zhe's results, muttered to himself, and then continued to scan the ice.

Soon, the strongest competitors will appear on stage. Can this Chinese athlete maintain his first place?

Among the remaining three players, Tsubasa Amami, Igor and Yuto Tsukawa are currently ranked first, second and fourth in the world respectively. Therefore, the first one to appear among the three is Yuto Tsukawa, who is known as the Prince of Fire among the Japanese genius twins.

On the ice, Yuto Tsugawa has already gone on the ice for the final warm-up. After he came on the ice, many fans at the scene applauded him enthusiastically. Many Japanese fans were also shouting "Come on Yuto!" and the scene seemed very heated for a while.

Yuto Tsugawa has an extroverted personality that matches his title of "Prince of Fire". He is lively, enthusiastic, and occasionally a bit youthful. There is a small tuft of red highlights in his hair, and he wears a performance costume that is mainly black with red dots in between, like the occasional leaping flames, mischievous and dangerous.

When the audience shouted Yuto Tsukawa's name on the ice, he would occasionally put two fingers together and point to his forehead, greeting the ice fans in the audience, and give the audience a cute wink at the same time.

When he skates on the ice, he likes to spread his arms forward. Jogging and jumping on the ice are his favorite movements to use in his program choreography.

After the warm-up, Yuto Tsugawa returned to the backboard of the ice rink. His coach handed the drink in his hand to Yuto, letting him take a final sip before preparing to officially appear on the court.

"You have to give it your all today." The coach warned Yudou seriously while watching him drink water.

Of course, Yuto Tsugawa also understood why his coach said that.

In today's competition, not only was the refereeing team unprecedentedly strict, but the first player to appear on the stage, who was from China, was indeed one of the best in the world.

Whether it is him or Igor and Amami Tsubasa behind him, there may not be much difference in technology between them. The only difference between them may be that the program arrangement of this Chinese player is still a bit conservative in the difficulty arrangement.

"Don't worry, coach." Yuto Tsukawa said with a confident smile, "If he can continue to increase the difficulty of the program arrangement, then the difference between our scores may still be in doubt, but at least today, the program his team arranged for him cannot surpass mine in terms of score."

After saying that, Yuto Tsugawa put the basketball in his hand back into the coach's hand, then turned around and skated to the center of the ice rink.

In the center of the ice rink, Yuto Tsugawa raised his right hand high up, put his left hand behind his back, stood with his feet apart, and got ready.

As he finished getting ready, the music for his short program started playing.

Just like his extrovert personality, the music he prepared for the short program is also very passionate and unrestrained - it is a song called "Fire", which uses a mix of electronic music and has a strong rock style.

After the first note jumped out, Yuto Tsugawa was like a cluster of swaying sparks on the ice, blooming his passion wantonly on the ice.

The opening of the short program, accompanied by a fiery musical atmosphere, is a series of knife-tooth steps, small jumps, three turns, twists and cross rock steps. Matching his lively and extroverted steps are his equally flamboyant body movements. In coordination with the beat of the music, his right hand is even snapping his fingers, enjoying every step of his own to the music that makes people feel happy and flamboyant.

Small jumps, bracket steps, outside hook steps, Mohawks and lunges, every step of Yuto Tsukawa, his movements and smile all convey the free and unrestrained spirit of this music.

It should be said that Yuto Tsugawa is worthy of being called the genius twin in Japan. His musical expression and personal expression have reached a level that ordinary people can hardly catch up with.

When Yuto Tsukawa performed the short program "Fire", it was the moment when the audience was focused and attracted again after Su Zhe.

After Yuto Tsugawa's performance ended, commentator Lin Yaye couldn't help but praise him in the live broadcast room of the sports channel: "Japanese player Yuto Tsugawa maintained his usual flamboyant personality, which permeated his entire performance, and he was able to accurately convey this emotion and state to the audience. He has an outstanding talent in conveying this kind of passionate, unrestrained and free musical theme, and this feature was also fully reflected in today's performance."

At this point, Lin Ya paused and added: "So far, this is the contestant who is closest to Su Zhe in terms of musical expression. Although Jinchuan Yuto's advantage is that he can express this kind of passionate musical theme, his shortcoming is also that he is 'only good at' expressing this kind of passionate and bold musical theme."

“Compared to them, Su Zhe has already demonstrated his talent for performing under a variety of different musical themes in his current performances. This ability to convey most musical themes will definitely be a major advantage for Su Zhe when he officially steps into the world’s top competitions.”

After Yuto Tsukawa's performance, the audience gave him warm applause. Many ice fans who came to China from Japan to watch the game waved banners with Yuto Tsukawa's name on them and cheered for him loudly.

Even spectators who don't know much about figure skating can feel Yuto Tsugawa's excellent performance after watching this series of competitions.

In the forum of the Ice and Snow Kingdom, friends also praised Yuto Tsukawa's outstanding strength.

109L: [As expected of one of Japan's genius twins, Yuto Tsukawa's performance in this style of music is truly amazing. However, as Lin Yajie said, Yuto Tsukawa's limitation also lies here. I've seen him perform at this level when using slightly softer types of music before.]

113L: [Even so, being perfect in one genre is already good enough. He and his brother Yuto Tsukawa both achieved perfection in the same genre of music and have come to where they are now. As twins, both brothers have the same high talent in figure skating, but their styles of artistic expression are very different. This pair of twins is really amazing.]

115L: [Yuto Tsukawa's performance on this piece seems to be no less than Su Zhe's. I just paid attention to the difficulty of his arrangement, and it seems to be more difficult than the adapted "The Breeze Blows". So, after Yuto Tsukawa's results come out this time, Su Zhe's first place in the short program may be difficult to maintain...]

After discussing Yuto Tsugawa's personal performance style, the forum friends soon remembered the current short program score issue.

118L: [In fact, it is not easy for Su Zhe to still rank first. After all, this is his first time participating in an international competition. Although the overall difficulty of "The Breeze Blows" has increased a lot, it has not yet reached the extreme. At present, based on the difficulty of "Fire", if its short program score exceeds Su Zhe, I personally can still accept this result. ]

For ice hockey fans, fair and just scoring standards are an insurmountable benchmark in the hearts of many people. As long as the final score is indeed in line with the perceptions of the majority of people and the actual performance of the players, then such a score is acceptable to ice hockey fans.

At the scene, in the audience seats, Cui Yi, Su Zhe and Chen En were all looking at the big screen. The screen showed Yuto Tsugawa communicating with the coach at the seats, occasionally looking up with a smile and waving to the camera.

"What do you think?" Cui Yi asked with a smile.

After a moment of silence, Su Zhe said earnestly: "He has achieved the greatest unity between his personality and musical expression, allowing him to easily convey his unique expression in the field of music he is good at. This is not easy."

Cui Yi nodded: "Yes, this is the most powerful weapon of the Jinchuan brothers. In the field of music that they are good at, their artistic expression ability is comparable to yours. Today's short program has a higher difficulty level. He should surpass you in terms of basic points. Add in the program points, he should surpass you and come first..."

As soon as Cui Yi finished speaking, the on-site broadcast announced that the judges' scoring had been completed.

On the big screen, Yuto Tsukawa’s final results and rankings finally appeared - Yuto Tsukawa, with a total short program score of 84.37 points, is currently ranked first.

The author has something to say: rz Although it is very late, this is the second update for Christmas

The first update on the 26th will be about noon. QvQ has a bit of a cold today and is going to go to bed early tonight (cover his face). See you in the next chapter!

I will update early tomorrow at noon!! (loud fg)