btmnovel Chapter 174 The Eve of the Competition
Chapter 174 The Eve of the Competition
Chapter 174 The Eve of the Competition
On November 11, the Provincial Culinary Association held the opening of the Golden Shovel Competition in Sichuan Province.
190 Five contestants from various cities gathered here.
There are also twelve judges and other staff.
The provincial competition is more stringent.
The day before the competition, the list of contestants for the next day will be announced. After the announcement, these contestants will provide the two dishes for the competition, and the same will be provided by the provincial association.
The preparation time that is notified to everyone one day in advance is the same.
Otherwise, if they announce it together, they will know when they will compete and can prepare in advance.
This is somewhat fairer.
Besides, the order of appearance is determined by lottery, not by designation.
In fact, it is the same for everyone. After all, the probability of winning is exactly the same. If you are drawn in advance, you can only blame your bad luck.
Sometimes luck is also part of strength, this has to be admitted.
As for why there are twelve referees, it is also very simple.
It is to prevent other contestants from contacting these judges in advance, and in the end there will be a relatively large difference in scores.
The selection of the judges is not selected on the first day. Like the contestants, it is decided by drawing lots.
However, the time for drawing lots was put on the morning of the next day, that is to say, the judges would not be known until the competition officially started.
Although it is said that the twelve judges have participated in many sessions, basically there will be no problems, but this is still done to be on the safe side.
In addition, the number of judges participating in the scoring in each round increased from five to seven.
With more people, the effective points that come out mean that it has increased to three.
It is more able to reflect the authenticity of the score.
Even if one or two judges gave extremely low or extremely high scores, they should be removed anyway, as long as the scores of the middle ones are not much different.
For other masters, the impact may be very large.
But for Xu Yang, it didn't have any influence at all. Anyway, the taste of his cooking is the same, basically there is no problem.
He definitely hopes to be drawn later, so that he can accumulate reputation points for a few days, which will be more beneficial to the competition.
After this period of continuous accumulation, there are now 17 reputation points.
If the dish you win is a dish that has not been unlocked, you can only redeem it. If it is a dish that has been unlocked, you can directly redeem the experience points for upgrading.
The speech ended quickly, and then the vice president of the Provincial Cuisine Association took the stage.
"Everyone should understand the rules. In addition, I need to tell the masters that everyone's game time has been increased from one hour in the city competition to one hour and 15 minutes, which is equivalent to an extra 15 minutes. The main reason is that there is a random game. Dishes may take more time."
"The game time is from 9:10 to 10:12 in the morning for the first round, 2:3 to 3:5 for the second round, [-]:[-] to [-]:[-] in the afternoon for the third round, and [-]:[-] to [-]:[-] for the fourth round. , the number of people in each competition is ten, that is to say, there are forty masters in the competition every day, and it will last for five days in total, please know."
I have to say that the provincial competition is indeed different.
The city competition refers to one hour for each person. In fact, there is no interval in the middle. It may happen that some masters are less than an hour, and it is often only a few minutes.
Now everyone has been extended to an hour and 15 minutes, not to mention that everyone has been given 15 minutes of free time in advance. .
This is not comparable to the city competition.
But if you think about it carefully, you can understand it.
Provincial competitions can control the number of finalists, but municipal competitions cannot.
Because everyone can sign up, theoretically it is possible for 1000 people in a city to participate.
There are a large number of people, and there is not much time for the game, so it is necessary to compress the time as much as possible.
In order to achieve the completion of the game within the specified time.
It is different when it comes to the provincial competition.
One hundred masters can be promoted, two hundred masters can be promoted, and even three hundred masters can be promoted.
Now that the number of people can be controlled, it is possible to plan in advance how to compete.
"Today is the first day's lottery draw. After a while, the names of all the masters will appear on the big screen behind me, and the machine will randomly select them. There are five people each time for a total of eight times, and a total of 40 people will be selected for the first day. Please The selected masters will wait to my left, the unselected masters will wait in place, and the other selected masters will not appear again."
"Ok."
With the order of the vice president Ren Jian, the lucky draw began.
Soon five people appeared on the screen for all to see.
The above information includes which culinary association, name, age and other information, you can correct it yourself.
The five selected people came to the stage, and then the corresponding random dishes were drawn.
According to the meaning, there will be no particularly difficult dishes in these dishes, and it is also to prevent sudden situations.
Within a short time, forty people were drawn, and there were corresponding dishes.
Without Xu Yang and without Wang Dongjie.
It means that the two will play in the back.
This is of course the best.
They also don't want to play early.
Finally, Ren Jian said again: "Other chefs who have not been drawn, please pay attention to the phone and SMS notification at 3 pm tomorrow, and you will be notified of the drawn dishes and the competition time."
After disbanding, the two walked on the way back.
Wang Dongjie smiled and said: "The provincial competition is more stringent than I imagined. To be honest, I am a little nervous. As for advancing to the next competition, I think it should be impossible. After all, last year, only six people from our association advanced."
Xu Yang shook his head and said: "There is no way, there are so many people in the country, if more than a dozen people are promoted like now, the number of people in the final competition will be particularly large."
At first, Xu Yang and the others thought that there would be a lot of people advancing to the next round.
Because listening to Su Qiang's tone a few days ago, there must be no less anyway.
As a result, he found out today that only six people had the chance to advance, which surprised him very much.
The competition can be said to be very fierce.
He wasn't worried, but it was really difficult for Wang Dongjie.
In the last competition, they could only get the No.7 result, not to mention that this time, the masters who have been promoted from the whole province come to the competition together, it will be very difficult.
"It's okay, I'm actually satisfied to be able to advance. As for the latter, I didn't think about it at all, and it wasn't because of your encouragement to the two of us this time. I would definitely not come to participate, let alone the current situation. There is another thing, I received calls from three restaurants a few days ago."
Xu Yang was a little surprised to hear this.
He hadn't heard that Wang Dongjie had said anything about it.
"Brother Jie, did you invite you to work?"
Wang Dongjie nodded: "That's right, someone contacted me just a few days ago and asked if I was in that restaurant and where I could go to them, I said no, and then invited me, and the salary offered was even higher than I was much higher at the Jincheng Hotel before, and I was able to give me some conditions."
"Brother Jie, you should agree to such a good thing."
Wang Dongjie smiled: "Don't tell me, I'm really interested in one of the restaurants, because they promised to let Gao Yi go in with them. The conditions are slightly worse than mine, but they are also closer than Jincheng Hotel. , the most important thing is that it is near the house we are renting now."
"Of course you can. It's just right for you to go to work now. Anyway, the game will end soon, and I also arranged a nearby hotel. You can think about it."
Hearing Xu Yang's words, Wang Dongjie thought for a while.
Then he said: "Xu Yang, let's ask about the specific treatment and we will make a decision. In fact, Gao Yi and I also think that we can not bother you as much as possible. If the gap between the two is not particularly large , we will go to the one that sent the invitation, if the gap is really big, we will think about it again."
Regarding his words, Xu Yang nodded slightly and said: "Okay, then I will ask you as soon as possible, but if I ask, the salary may be higher, anyway, you can make your own judgment when the time comes."
"no problem."
Back home, Xu Yang thought about it and made a phone call.
"Hello, little boy."
"Hey, Brother Xu, why did you remember to call me?" Yang Xiaotian on the other end of the phone was very excited when he received the call from Xu Yang.
The two estimated that there was no contact for a week.
Xu Yang couldn't help smiling and said, "Xiao Tian, it's like this. I've been training in the Culinary Association for the past few days, and then I'll get a better ranking in the next provincial competition."
"I see. Speaking of which, brother Xu, when will your provincial competition start? Last time I said I would come to watch it, but it was delayed due to something."
Originally, it was agreed that he would go to see it, but because Yang Xiaotaitian had other important things to do, he could only let the pigeons go.
"I'm just going to tell you about this. Tomorrow is the first day of the provincial competition. I don't know when the competition will be. It will probably be in these two days. I will inform you in advance when the time comes. This time it shouldn't be too late. There will be problems."
Yang Xiaotian said bitterly: "Brother Xu, you also know that we are not like other stable jobs, and we may have to meet a new client at any time, and it is absolutely impossible not to, so I can only guarantee to see as much as possible. "
"It's okay. You are indeed in a special situation. Anyway, you can come if you can, and it's okay if you can't."
Of course Xu Yang could understand.
Generally speaking, Yang Xiaotian will definitely not refuse, but sometimes the situation is really special.
If they have no performance, their wages will be very low.
Although during this period of time, because of signing several big clients in a row, his status in the company has risen. Not only did he get a small position, but the percentage of commission was much higher than others.
As for the basic salary without the slightest increase, more of it is on the commission.
Without sales, there will naturally be no commission, and customers must be more important.
Moreover, their company also has regulations, such as this kind of customer's appointment cannot be shirked, even if this customer's cooperation order is not big, but after all, it is a process of slowly accumulating, and it is impossible to get a big deal in one go fat man.
"Okay, anyway, brother Xu, when you want to participate in the competition, just follow me and tell me, this time it's the provincial competition, I will definitely come, even if I can't make it, I will watch the live broadcast online, silly girl, I just watched the live broadcast Yes, Brother Xu, you are so good at cooking, the judges didn’t believe it was you who made the dishes, and they even conducted a special verification, and only after they were sure that you made the dishes did they dare to determine the score.”
"As soon as the score came out, everyone was shocked, including me. This time I have to watch it on the spot, otherwise I won't have a chance next time. After all, I won't continue the competition in Jincheng City."
"Hahaha, it's okay. Anyway, when you really want to go there, at worst, I'll invite everyone to go and watch it together."
This is something Xu Yang has considered a long time ago.
Although I really want to invite some people to go, I don't think it's necessary to go there at my own expense just to watch a game, but if I include various expenses, I won't worry about it.
Anyway, there won't be too many people invited, and it won't cost too much.
"Okay, I'll let you know as soon as my competition time comes out."
This provincial competition is different from the previous one that requires an appointment. The masters participating this time can bring their friends in to watch the competition, no more than five people.
Of course, it is still not possible to bring an assistant to participate in the competition. It is said that in the third round of the national competition, you can bring an assistant to the stage.
As soon as Xu Yang remembered this, he said to Yang Xiaotian: "Xiaotian, I forgot to tell you that there is no need to make an appointment this time, and I can take you in before the game, or if you have a girlfriend Take it with you."
Yang Xiaotian is different from Xu Yang.
He has a girlfriend, anyway, they just got together not long ago, so they haven't met like this.
Anyway, he can bring people over. He has five places, and there are only a few people who can give them out. Of course, there is no problem in giving him two places.
Hearing this sentence, Yang Xiaotian was a little surprised, and said with a smile: "Brother Xu is really okay?"
"Of course, and I just brought my siblings over to have a look. When the game is over, I will treat you to a meal. It can be regarded as the support for my work during this period of time."
"Brother Xu, what do you call this? What is support for your work? In our relationship, as long as you ask, I will definitely not refuse, unless there is really no other way, like the last competition. Others Things are definitely coming your way.”
Xu Yang laughed loudly and said, "Yes, I said something wrong, pay attention next time."
"That's about the same. Brother Xu, you can ask me to help explain that you still remember me. It seems that many people in the university have lost contact now, that is, the other people in our dormitory. I haven't contacted for a long time now."
Hearing this sentence, Xu Yang thought for a while and nodded slightly.
Indeed, since he went to learn to be a chef, his contact with this group of people has gradually decreased.
Until now, only the relationship with Yang Xiaotian is the best, and then some other relationships are slightly better. As for some of them, they don’t communicate much in school, and now they don’t have any contact at all.
"That's right. Anyway, my situation is similar to yours. We should indeed strengthen our relationship so that we don't gradually become estranged like everyone else."
At this moment, Yang Xiaotian on the other end of the phone suddenly said: "Brother Xu, I've already been in a relationship and found a girlfriend, when will you be able to get out of the singles?"
Xu Yang smiled immediately.
"Don't worry, don't worry, career is important now, and I pay more attention to fate, I believe I can get out of the order soon."
"That's fine."
(End of this chapter)