Chapter 191
How famous JM Xu is can be seen from the number of people who registered. As soon as the registration time arrived at 9 o'clock, the registration port of JY Group collapsed in less than three minutes.
The network administrator took great pains to rescue the system after more than half an hour, but before ten o'clock, the system collapsed again.
Therefore, JY Group changed to diversion and divided the port into multiple entrances, which made the registration go smoothly.
By the time registration closed in the afternoon, a count showed that over 100 million people from all over the world had registered.
Because the preliminary round was scheduled for two days later, the PR department colleagues did not dare to neglect it and worked all night to count the number of participants. They also counted the works of all the participants and posted them online.
The first stage is for online users to vote, and the one with the most votes wins. JY Group will select 10,000 people from the contestants to participate in the actual preliminary round.
After that, it is divided into several limited sections. The first round of color tone comparison is carried out among 10,000 contestants, and 1,000 people are selected from them. In other words, one person is selected from every ten people. Then there is a comparison of craftsmanship, and the craftsmanship comparison is the same. One person is selected from ten people. In this round, the 1,000 people will become 100 people. Then there is the design, and 10 people are selected from the 100 people. In other words, only the ten people who can be shortlisted in the end can truly compete for the throne of JM Xu's apprentice.
Of course, these ten people are just the contestants in the online voting. In the end, JY Group, as the organizer, will also send a designer to participate in the competition, and it is said that JM Xu also has his own favorite candidate.
In addition to these ten people, two more candidates will be added.
Needless to say, the candidate for JM Xu is definitely Tong Zhenzhen, and as for JY Group, Xia Xue is the representative.
Of course, neither JM Xu nor JY Group directly mentioned the two candidates. It was only explained in the design process.
Although everyone was confused about this, most of the contestants were already very excited when they thought about JM Xu accepting an apprentice and having the opportunity to compete fairly.
Xia Xue only learned the news when 100 million participants participated in the competition.
She had no objection to this decision. This was a good thing, as it gave her more time to prepare.
However, unlike Tong Zhenzhen and Xia Xue, for the hundreds of millions of contestants, the principle of such a competition is simple but cruel, and the probability of elimination is very high.
Looking at the hundreds of millions of contestants, although JY Group is troubled by the huge workload, it is not overwhelmed, after all, this round is voted by netizens.
Therefore, the public relations and programming departments worked overnight and put all the contestants' works on the official website of JY Group that evening for the public to vote.
The voting period is only 24 hours, and all contestants can mobilize their relatives, friends and netizens to vote for them. The contest also invited the T City Fashion Association to act as a notary to supervise the results of the online voting.
Once the 24-hour period is up, the voting results will be automatically generated by the system and posted online.
Next comes the face-to-face competition.
Because JM Xu decided to recruit disciples in T City, but the participants were from all over the world. So JY Group was particularly humane and reserved three days for everyone after the online preliminary round was announced. This allowed people who were far away from T City to come over, while those who were close to T City could prepare.
Xia Xue stayed at home for the past two days. After knowing that she was studying fashion design and liked fashion design, Xiangye had someone decorate a room in their apartment into her exclusive design studio. The facilities in the studio were all top-notch, which allowed Xia Xue to stay at home and create seriously without worrying about being disturbed.
These days, Xiangye would stay at home when he had nothing to do, and work directly in Xia Xue's design studio, taking care of her daily life.
Knowing that Xia Xue needed to be quiet while creating, the Prime Minister gave her 100% support. In the past few days, under the Prime Minister's command, even the servants of the Prime Minister's Mansion had not appeared in the apartment. The three meals were all prepared by the Prime Minister, and Xia Xue was directly spoiled like a queen.
Because Xia Xue was thinking about the competition, she accepted everything the Prime Minister did almost heartlessly. She was so busy recently that she almost forgot to find fault with the Prime Minister and had no time to think about divorce.
The two of them lived in peace and harmony. During the day, they stayed in the same room, each busy with their own things. At night, the husband held her in his arms while she slept. After so long, she had gotten used to it.
No discomfort.
Soon, the online competition came to an end.
Xia Xue spent the past two days sorting out her thoughts while also paying attention to the works on the Internet. After all, when it comes to the final semi-finals, in addition to individual competitions, the twelve of them will be divided into three groups for PK, with one person from each group eliminated at a time. In the end, it becomes a three-person competition.
Because of this, Xia Xue has been paying special attention to the preliminary works these days.
"What's wrong?" Seeing Xia Xue staring at the computer for most of the day, the Prime Minister couldn't help but walk behind her and rub her shoulders.
These data are only the data of the participants. Tong Zhenzhen and her data have not been released. At this time, everyone's strength is known, except Tong Zhenzhen's strength.
Xia Xue couldn't help but ponder deeply.
As far as we know, Tong Zhenzhen was originally JM Xu's designated apprentice. Now JM Xu has gone through so many twists and turns that Xia Xue couldn't guess whether he really let everyone compete fairly or just went through the motions to let everyone know that Tong Zhenzhen won the competition.
There are two sides to everything. If JM Xu really has this selfish intention, then no matter how good Tong Zhenzhen's work is or how capable she is, she may get a chance to win first place in the end.
It's not her fault that she thinks this way, but she has lived so long and has a clear understanding of human nature.
At this point, she didn't know if her efforts would yield any results.
But thinking about it the other way around, no matter what, since JM Xu was willing to bring this matter to the table for a fair competition, it was a chance for her. It was better than accepting an apprentice without competing directly.
When Xia Xue thought of this, she felt relieved.
"Nothing much, just looking at the works of my competitors and making some corresponding preparations." After sitting for a whole day, it was really comfortable for her to hear the Prime Minister rubbing her shoulders.
She slowly relaxed, enjoying the tranquility of the moment.
The Prime Minister stood behind Xia Xue, rubbing her eyelids with a little strength. Seeing her eyelids getting heavier, he couldn't help but relax a little.
Xia Xue relaxed completely, and the massage from behind was just right. She felt her eyelids getting heavier, and soon she fell asleep.
Soon, the top 10,000 contestants were selected through online voting. JY Group was busy preparing for the actual competition.
Although these 10,000 contestants came on their own to participate in the competition, there is still a lot of work to prepare for the actual competition for so many contestants.
The first thing that the top 10,000 people will do is to compete in color matching. The competition is divided into two days, with 5,000 people participating each day. The competition is divided into ten competition sites, with ten people participating in each competition. The competition time for each group of players is also set within ten minutes. It can be said that the competition conditions are a bit harsh for the players. But because it is JM Xu's apprentice selection, this opportunity is rare. Therefore, the originally very harsh conditions have become acceptable under this premise.
The judges for the three preliminary rounds are designers selected by the T City Garment Association. For the sake of fairness, five designers will be assigned to each competition area. For each contestant's score, the highest and lowest scores will be removed, and the actual scores will be averaged to finally calculate the score of each contestant. The top 1,000 contestants with the highest scores will then enter the handmade stage of the competition.
That is to say, three days after the online review, JY Group not only needs to select ten venues for the competition, but the Fashion Association also needs to arrange fifty designers to score these contestants.
Because the contestants this time were all in the preliminary round, and Wu Yuezhen had just accumulated a good reputation in this season's fashion show, the Fashion Association asked her to be the deputy conductor of this show. She was so busy these days that she didn't even have the chance to call Xia Xue.
At this moment, after inspecting all the competition venues, she remembered to call Xia Xue.
However, after a long time of calling, no one answered the phone. She couldn't help but feel a little anxious. It was only then that she realized that she knew very little about Xia Xue.