The notice was sent out in the morning, and the registration deadline was at 00:00 am. All Research Groups had only one day to discuss which events to register.
There were many team events in this sports meeting, including basketball, football, volleyball, cycling team racing, gymnastics team all-around race, synchronized swimming, team tug of war, 4×800 m track and field relay, 4×200 m swimming relay, archery team competition, rowing team competition and so on.
They could not play some of the events at all, and ball events were limited to three choices. After consulting with his teammates, Yue Xingwen finally decided to register for four team events——
4×800 m track and field relay, football, rowing and tug of war.
As for the individual events of the team members, Lin Manluo registered for swimming, Lan Yarong registered for table tennis and badminton singles, Qin Lu and Qin Miao registered for four doubles competitions such as table tennis doubles, tennis doubles. Most of the boys registered for athletics, Jiang Pingce registered for javelin, discus and shot put in addition to cooperating with Yue Xingwen in badminton doubles.
Yue Xingwen, Liu Zhaoqing, and Xu Yishen all registered for the individual marathon.
Zhang Xianian and Ke Shaobin, two students with poor physical fitness, also registered the least number of events.
Ke Shaobin said: “Although my Xiao Tu runs fast, but Xiao Tu can’t replace me ah, I still have to run slowly myself. I won’t go to make fun of myself, I’ll cheer on you guys then!”
Zhang Xiaonian was ashamed and said: “I’m not very good at sports, can’t I sit on a bulldozer to run track and field? I’ll be a cheerleader for everyone too, and I’ll cheer for the team events!”
Liu Zhaoqing was puzzled: “Why does Pingce register for all throwing events?”
Yue Xingwen explained: “This is my idea, throwing events like shot put, discus, etc, are essentially parabolic sports. Pingce can calculate the landing point of the coordinates as quickly as possible, win good results, and stabilize the gold medal in individual events.”
In fact, Jiang Pingce’s physical fitness was also very strong, he could do long-distance running and sprinting, but due to the fierce competition in long and short-distance running events, as well as the Geography Department who had a BUG skills, which could teleport ahead, Jiang Pingce did not have much advantage in track and field events.
Jiang Pingce said: “I’ll listen to Xingwen.”
Yue Xingwen smiled and said: “The team gold medal can be shared at the end anyway. It’s quite cost-effective to get more gold medals for credits.”
Xu Yishen said with a smile: “Cheer up everyone, I think we can win awards in the 4x800m relay, as for football, tug-of-war, and rowing, just do your best.”
After all, among the 12 of them, less than half of them could play football and rowing. And several of them were not very strong in tug-of-war.
The reason why Yue Xingwen registered for football instead of basketball was that football allowed 11 people to play at the same time, plus a substitute, and their entire team could participate. Even if someone couldn’t play football, everyone went up together, kicked around, and just played to have fun.
At 11:00 pm, Ke Shaobin submitted the event registration for all members of the Research Group through the tablet.
Everyone soon received a system message on their respective tablets——
“C-183 Research Group successfully registered for the first Sports Meeting. Please pay attention to the library’s announcement, and check in at the corresponding check-in counter before the event starts, and remember your athlete number. Classmate Yue Xingwen’s athlete number was C-183-1, Jiang Pingce was C-183-2, Ke Shaobin was C-183-3…”
The numbers of all athletes were the Research Group followed by a number, which was very easy to remember.
Before the dormitory was cut off, Yue Xingwen finally sent a message on the chat channel: “Everyone should rest early, gather for breakfast at 7:30 tomorrow morning. Pingce and I will go to the supermarket in advance to buy a box of water for everyone. Each person will take a few bottles at that time.”
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The next morning, everyone came to the canteen to have breakfast, and divided the water bought by Jiang Pingce. Each person took two bottles. Immediately after that, they heard the library announcement: “The first Library Sports Meeting will be open at 8:00 o’clock, please gather at the gymnasium on the -6th floor as soon as possible.”
The library building was previously open only to the -5th floor, and the -6th floor was only opened today.
Since registration for the competition was not mandatory, many students who were not physically fit and had no advantage in skills did not register for the events, but most of these students also went to the gymnasium on the -6th floor to watch the competition out of curiosity.
This was also the first time that Yue Xingwen had seen such a grand scene since he came to the library.
In the empty gymnasium, densely packed circular seats were neatly arranged, and the entire stadium was divided into areas A, B, and C, with Research Group’s numbers on the seats.
A mechanical voice sounded in their ears prompting: “Please take your seats as soon as possible according to your athlete number.”
Jiang Pingce’s gaze quickly swept around and said, “This gymnasium can accommodate about 40,000 people.”
Yue Xingwen replied, “It’s almost comparable to a superstar concert. Let’s find a seat first.”
Everyone went to area C and found the seat marked ‘C-183’ and took their seats in order according to their athlete number.
The students sitting in the front row were from the C-182 Research Group. Several of them took a look at Yue Xingwen and gathered together to whisper. After a while, a bold girl turned back and asked, “Are you the team leader of 183 Research Group, Yue Xingwen?”
Yue Xingwen smiled politely and replied, “Yes.”
The girl’s eyes glowed with excitement and she said, “We just finished the course at the Faculty of Architecture, thanks for your strategy, it’s very helpful!”
A student in the back row also took the initiative to greet, “Senior brother Jiang Pingce, we also walked out of the course <Endless Staircase> according to your maze strategy.”
Jiang Pingce nodded calmly.
As they often sent strategies in the forum, they had become ‘celebrity’ in the library. It was normal for them to be approached by other people.
Jiang Pingce did not care what others would think of him and responded very coldly to the matter of other teammates taking the initiative to greet. People who were not familiar with him still think he was putting on airs, and only those who were familiar with him know that he had always been indifferent to people. Only when he was with Yue Xingwen did his expression become gentler.
On the contrary, Yue Xingwen had an easy-going personality, and greeted the students in the front and back rows with a smile, alleviating the embarrassment of Jiang Pingce’s lack of interest in people, before turning back and focusing on the large playground in the middle.
He leaned into Jiang Pingce’s ear and whispered, “There are so many people today. It’s even bigger than our school’s Sports Meeting.”
Jiang Pingce said, “En, I hope there’s no chaos.”
At 8:00 am, a mechanical voice sounded in the gymnasium: “The first Library Sports Meeting has officially begun!”
Accompanied by the familiar background music of <March of the Athletes>, the library read the lines in an emotionless mechanical voice: “This is a long-awaited event, full of youthful vigor of students, will be reviewed by everyone with full enthusiasm and high fighting spirit! The first one to come out is, the intelligent robot phalanx of the Computer Department.”
They saw countless white robots lined up into a square formation, gliding around the playground on rollers for a long time, and lights lit up on the robots’ head, singing in unison: “Two tigers, two tigers, running fast, running fast.”
Students in the audience: “…”
Library, you are really enough, this opening ceremony is to be funny, right?
“Next, coming towards us, is the phalanx of the Polytechnic Department. They are brave, flying with fervor! The electricity in their hands can make people go up in smoke with a smile!”
The square formation of 9 rows x 9 columns appeared again at the scene, and robots in strange school uniforms were neatly lined up. As they passed the playground, the crackling sound of electricity formed a large high-voltage power grid directly on the playground, turning the lawn into coke.
Audience: “……”
Was this the original meaning of scattered ashes and dispersed smoke while talking and laughing?
“Just like a young student, in the prime of life! The students of the Chemistry Department are walking gallantly towards us, carrying flasks, holding spirit lamps, and working hard to do experiments. They will bloom their own style at the sports meeting!”
Xin Yan said coldly, “Can the library shut up?”
Yue Xingwen shook his head helplessly, “It pronounces these strange lines in a cold mechanical voice, which is really absurd.”
Liu Zhaoqign couldn’t help but laugh out loud and said, “I don’t know where the library found the lines. It is really hard work. It’s trying to give us a memorable opening ceremony for the Sports Meeting, but unfortunately it’s backfiring, and those robot phalanxes are getting stranger and stranger.”
A group of robots carrying flasks on their heads, and a spirit lamp followed their flight, so this ‘magical science fiction’ appearance effect shocked the audience into silence, not a single noise was heard.
The library was still coldly saying, “Let us continue to welcome the students of the Mathematics Department with warm applause! The mathematics students are lined up in a neat line, and they are walking towards us in a high spirit with their trigonometric rulers in hand!”
Jiang Pingce: “…”
They really couldn’t bear to look at it.
When it was the Chinese Department’s turn, all the robots carried thick dictionaries in their hands, opened the books, and read in unison as they walked: “Expand physical culture, enhance the physical fitness of students, exercise, and defend the library!”
Yue Xingwen: “…”
If the library had an entity, it was estimated that the whole audience wanted to grab it out and beat it up at this moment.
Defend the library?
What everyone wanted to do the most was to blow up this library of yours!
When the Environment Department appeared, they planted the trees on the playground as they walked; A row of cells were placed as the Law Department appeared; The students from the Geography Department teleported to the end with a whoosh!
The collective white coat of the Medicine Department was quite common, and the History Department actually let the robots collectively put on the Hanfu?
The Animal Husbandry Major leading cattle and sheep out of the field, and the audience was really full of question marks??
The Business Department almost blinded everyone as they scattered gold coins around while walking, but what was depressing was, the gold coins could not be used in the library at all. They could only use points to buy things in the library!
After the ‘weird opening ceremony’ that made everyone speechless, the mechanical voice finally said: “I declare the first Library Sports Meeting officially open! The first event this morning will be all track and field events, so please sign in on the tablet in front of your seat if you have registered for track and field events, or go to the field and watch if you didn’t register.”
Yue Xingwen reminded his teammates in a low voice, “Everyone who has registered for track and field signed in. I guess we are going to be pulled to the track and field arena.”
He guessed correctly.
It was impossible to finish so many events in two days, so the weekend games also took the form of ‘course examination’, with the wide track and field events being pulled into a separate space as a ‘course’, with time calculated independently.
In this way, even if the track and field competition was more than two days, the time in the library was only 2 hours.
After signing in, everyone arrived at a vast playground.
At the entrance of the playground was the check-in area for different events, surrounded by rows of seats in a circle.
The announcement rang in their ears: “The first event, the 400-meter sprint. Students who have registered for the 400-meter sprint can check in at checkpoint no.1 and get the group number.”
There were many students who registered for the sprint, and thousands of people gathered at the check-in counter in a flash. Only Xu Yishen in their group registered for the sprint. When they saw him get up to check in, Yue Xingwen smiled and extended his hand, “Go for it, senior brother.”
Xu Yishen gave him a high five and said, “Watch me!”
After senior brother Xu went down, Lin Manluo suddenly asked, “Xiao Lu, why didn’t you register for the sprint? Wouldn’t the plate movement of the Geography Department switch places to the finish line instantly?”
Qin Lu said, “I can only use my Geography Department’s skills 12 times a day, and I want to keep them in team events. Moreover, the Geography Department may not be able to switch places to the finish line instantly. I think people will definitely target the Geography Department and greet them with control skills.”
Lan Yarong agreed and said, “It makes sense. If there is a Geography student in the group with me, I will definitely lock that person in prison first. We all know that the Geography Department has the strongest displacement skills, and they are easiest to be attacked in the race. In the end, it’s difficult to get the championship instead.”
A prison from the Law Department could hold a person for at least 3 minutes, and the 400-meter race ended early.
If the students on the track and field had control skills, Qin Lu really couldn’t take advantage. The twin sisters registered in many double events, giving up the single competition and leaving the skills for the team events was actually more reasonable.
The library: “400-meter grouping is complete, announcing the rules of the competition: the run must be performed counterclockwise, and the special abilities can be used in the process. Regardless of the means, and the time taken from the start to the finish line is the final examination result. Group 1, ready to start!”
This playground was the same as the usual standard playground. The length of a lap was 400 meters, 10 tracks, and a group of 10 people to compete.
Yue Xingwen sat up straight with excitement and looked to the center of the field.
He was curious to see what kind of tactics athletes from different majors would use to participate in this ‘fun sports meeting’?
Yeah, time to have some fun!
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