After all, the competition was the next morning.
However, when the contestants returned to the hotel, the second round of the ga ntal math contest began.
This ti, more people gathered. Soon, Qiao Yu once again beca the defender of the arena, defeating all challengers.
Zhou Liang took advantage of the fun atmosphere to let the Huaxia Team mbers rest in batches, avoiding too much excitent. He, however, didn’t miss a mont.
One has to say Qiao Yu’s gaming skills are indeed impressive.
Several tis, as soon as the opponent showed up, Qiao Yu took them down with a few shots. As for doing ntal math during the ga, Zhou Liang didn’t pay much attention to it.
For soone who can solve Olympic Competition problems while playing gas, Zhou Liang considered it basic skill.
But the effect was quite good. By nightti, many people started taking it seriously and got anxious.
Unfortunately, the team leaders and coaches from various countries were present, and they took any child whose mindset seed off.
By around eight in the evening, the ga session ended. Nonetheless, Zhou Liang thought this was normal.
They couldn’t be underestimated, anyway. He didn’t expect any miraculous effect from this; it was better than nothing.
The competition results ultimately depended on how much these kids could perform.
From the recent training, Zhou Liang felt these kids shouldn’t have any problems.
...
The facts seed to agree.
After the first day of exams, Zhou Liang found Qiao Yu and asked, "How was it? What did you think of the difficulty of the questions this ti?"
"Hmm, a bit tricky. I have to consider which thod of solving will be recognized by the judges. After all, as you previously ntioned, the judges have a set of standard answers and marking steps."
Qiao Yu responded seriously.
Zhou Liang replied half-jokingly, "All the questions have already been analyzed. As long as the solutions are correct and don’t involve university-level content, they will score points."
"Then there’s no problem. I’m sure it’s all correct."
After the two chatted, the other Huaxia Team mbers ca out and started comparing answers with Qiao Yu.
Zhou Liang initially wanted to stop them, but then decided against it. He was relieved when he saw how happy everyone was after matching answers.
This at least indicated that everyone solved the three questions on the first day. Regardless of the process, the results should be pretty good.
The second day’s situation was similar.
However, Zhou Liang, as the team leader, had to get busy coordinating the grading of papers with leaders from other countries.
Assistant leader Zhang Zhuowei asked Qiao Yu to write down the solution process for all six questions and then let Qiao Yu go play gas in the hall on the eighth floor.
This year, the IMO did not require organization; whenever there was free ti, soone would surely be battling on the eighth floor.
It was said that so team mbers were even betting privately...
Others could see that Qiao Yu was here at the IMO just to relax, at least he had beco addicted to the gas, enjoying them thoroughly every day.
Others stayed behind to estimate their scores based on Qiao Yu’s answers.
The scores everyone ca up with delighted Zhang Zhuowei greatly. If no one made any mistakes, the total score this year would be high, reaching over 245 points.
Among them, Yu Wei, Gong Jiatao, and Zhang Yi all estimated they achieved perfect scores. Together with Qiao Yu, that made four people with perfect scores.
The other two were worried they might lose points in the process. Yu Yongjun estimated a score of 40 for himself, and another estimated 38.9 points.
Most likely, all six passed the gold dal line.
Of course, these were just estimated scores. Nonetheless, compared to last year’s 190 points, the score was sure to have improved significantly.
This put everyone in a good mood.
So, with a wave of his hand, Zhang Zhuowei sent everyone to the eighth floor to play gas, even Yu Wei, who usually didn’t like excitent, was dragged out by Yu Yongjun and Gong Jiatao.
In the past days, the leaders did not allow internal battles to avoid affecting their mindset; today, they were not worried about that.
Yet at this ti, Zhang Zhuowei felt a bit regretful.
So close, they nearly achieved a record of all six getting perfect gold dals again.
The first ti the record for full marks at the IMO was set by the Arican team, that was a thing of the past century.
However, Huaxia also achieved a full gold dal record at the 63rd IMO, tying the record.
If they could score 252 points this ti, it would surpass the record.
...
After three days of grading, coordination, and the final jury eting, the closing ceremony began on the afternoon of July 25th, and results were directly announced.
This year’s gold dal line was 34 points, with a total of 52 people receiving gold dals. The silver line was 27 points, with a total of 92 people, and the bronze line was 19 points, with 175 people.
The Huaxia Team’s actual scores were even better than expected, achieving five perfect scores and one with 38 points, totaling 248 to win the team first place.
Surprisingly, the second place this year went to Romania, with a total team score of 228. The United States ranked third with 222 points.
Actually, the Arican team perford quite well this ti, with four perfect scores and one gold dal with 37 points. However, unfortunately, one mber only scored 17 points...
Missing the bronze dal by two points.
During the awards ceremony, Zhou Liang could sense that this ti Professor Andre, leading the Arican team, was giving him odd looks.
After all, the look of soone who wants to stab you was hard to hide.
Zhou Liang only then realized that the one who scored only 17 points was the sa young man who clashed with Qiao Yu in the ga the other day.
Apparently, he tried to challenge again the next day but still couldn’t win and lost even more miserably.
As for the boy’s specific na, Zhou Liang had forgotten...
He seed to have heard Qiao Yu ntion it.
But it didn’t matter, they were returning ho the next day. It should be considered a lesson, and cultivating a child’s psychological endurance is important.
If a ga could break their mindset, how would they handle difficult math problems in the future?
As for Qiao Yu, he cared even less about such things.
He truly enjoyed this trip to the IMO, having totally relaxed after six months of intense pressure.
The only pity was that the ti was a bit too short. If it could be extended by two or three days, it would have been perfect.
After all, so international friends seed unconvinced by him...
Fortunately, the overall outco was still satisfying for everyone involved,
especially for his alma mater, which should be very pleased.
So after the awards, facing the press, Qiao Yu shyly said, "I’m very happy to achieve this result because it helped my alma mater, Star City Railway First Middle School, reach a breakthrough."
He certainly had a reason to be modest.
When the news reached back ho, Qiao Yu’s na was usually listed last among perfect scorers, almost described with the word "wait."
Perhaps many dia thought that for a guy who was on the seven o’clock news last month, getting an IMO full score gold dal wasn’t worth celebrating.
But Star City Railway First Middle School clearly didn’t see it that way.
As soon as the news returned ho, familiar bridge-shaped red balloons popped up again at the school gate, full of festive cheer!
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