After the anxious competition in the last few days, No. 1 Middle School once again won the championship without any danger.
Song Yimian and Gu Yi stood on the highest podium to receive their awards, with medals hanging around their necks and bouquets in their arms.
In total, I can already add a lot of points. By the winter vacation, there are still hundreds of bonuses available.
The situation on Tao You's side was not so smooth. ..
In the doubles match, with the help of Tang Hui, I was lucky enough to take third place.
In the women's singles competition, because her own strength was inconspicuous among the female players in all schools, she could only make it to the quarterfinals, and finally finished seventh.
She didn't participate in the team competition, so the extra points and bonuses she could get in the end were naturally incomparable to Song Yimian's.
But at least the hard work paid off. After studying the system for about a year, she got a pretty good ranking in the first competition and didn't hold back the team. She was very satisfied.
In order to increase the fun, the organizer specially added a mixed gender fun competition to be held in the afternoon after the prize collection on the last day.
Because the organizer mandated that each school send at least two groups of people to participate in this competition, several schools directly separated the women's doubles and men's doubles to form two teams.
There are also those like No. 1 Middle School who want to give newcomers more opportunities to play and accumulate amazing games, disrupting the process and re-forming the team.
Different from other formal competitions, each group of players in the fun competition has its own unique team name, and then a computer machine randomly draws lots to generate opponents and competition times.
The day of the fun game happened to be a rest day, perhaps because this form of competition had never appeared in the autumn league. It had already entered the final review stage. Students from various schools who were supposed to study at home appeared in the audience one after another as promised. , carrying various banners.
Hong Xiqi's banner plan was also implemented on the fourth day of the competition. The students from No. 1 Middle School in the audience held the banners with great momentum and shouted even more energetically.
With her taking the lead, students from other schools followed suit. Within a day, colorful cheering banners of various sizes were waved in the auditorium. It was dazzling and the atmosphere of the competition was even stronger. .
At the request of the school, after the game, the large banner that Hong Xiqi took the lead in making was taken away by the No. 1 Middle School Student Union and became the property of the school to be used as a support banner for the next autumn league. All costs incurred in making the banner were also reported. It is given to the school, and the school will bear the responsibility.
Regarding the fun competition without any ranking medals, Coach Tan did not put so much pressure on the players. After a few simple instructions, he handed over all the fun competition matters to Coach Sun, while he sat aside and planned it early. It’s about the team’s dinner together in the evening.
After Tao You and Zhou Hechang had been training together these days, they discovered that he was actually just too tall and too lazy to talk. Even his playing style was slow. Sometimes Tao You felt anxious just looking at him.
This fun competition required on-the-spot naming. Tao You was not good at naming. Coupled with Zhou Hechang, a lazy guy, the naming process between the two of them only took ten seconds. On the 8k size card paper, only The black marker pen marked a big, jet-black, solid black dot in the middle. When the staff came to collect it, they were speechless and silent for half a minute looking at the black dot. They confirmed with the two of them before taking the paper away.
When the lottery was announced on the big screen, a simple, ordinary black dot, among the cool, arrogant, non-mainstream, Martian team names, seemed particularly fresh and refined, and it was something that everyone would recognize. Stay at this point for two seconds longer.
But he is very patient with his friends and teammates, very easy to talk to, and he will also share the skills he learned secretly outside with the players who need them.
Without the rankings, medals and bonuses, and the supervision of the two coaches, Tao You and Zhou Hechang did it how they did with ease, how they could be lazy, and they had no intention of sweating in this kind of competition. Anyway, they achieved what everyone wanted to see. The effect will be fine.
At the end of the game, the contestants lined up, performed a brief closing ceremony amidst the exciting music, got on their respective school buses, and returned to the hotel to quickly pack their luggage and check out.
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Although the school's trophy wall is almost filled with the tennis team's trophies and the mascots of the annual autumn league, this does not affect the excitement of Coach Tan and Coach Sun when they receive the trophy again.
There was even a playlist played on the bus that would only be played in supermarkets during the Chinese New Year. All we have to do is beat gongs, drums and firecrackers to celebrate.
"Everyone has packed up and gathered in the lobby. Don't leave in a hurry. Everyone who can be present at the celebration party in the evening should be present!" When they were about to arrive at the hotel, Coach Tan stood up and spoke with a loudspeaker. He couldn't hide the smile lines on his face. "I've already informed your parents that if you have something to do tonight, you'll take the bus back with us later and get off when you get to school."
"Coach, it won't be another barbecue food stall this time, right?" Team A raised his hand and shouted.
The people around him started cheering.
The seniors in the team all know that Coach Tan loves a barbecue stall on the street next to the school that is twice their age. In the past few years, Coach Tan would take them there to have a meal after every competition. Convenient and affordable.
But they were tired of it.
"No!" Coach Sun next to him spoke up, "You, Coach Tan, have paid for it out of your own pocket this year and invited you to eat more delicious food!"
"He has been planning the dinner party tonight since noon! Everyone is coming! You will definitely not be disappointed!"
The word 'oh' was used by the team members to make eighteen turns, and many of them directly whistled to express their expectations for tonight's celebration banquet.
Team member B held on to the back of the seat, stood up and shouted to everyone, "Brothers, Lao Tan is so stingy, we all have to be there! We need to eat and drink even if we are not hungry!"
"Next time I meet Lao Tan, I won't even know it's the Year of the Monkey!"
"For those players who are determined to participate, please report to me before getting in the car and leaving!" Coach Sun shook his phone, "The car drove to the school, it was almost lunch time, we took the bus directly to the place to eat. Changing clothes and going to the bathroom can all be done at the hotel in a moment."
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Coach Tan finally stopped being so picky with the players, and almost everyone showed up in the evening.
Fried chicken restaurant!
Four long tables were booked.
Platefuls of fried chicken of various flavors were served on the table, along with other staple foods, side dishes, and drinks. The team members ate happily.
The cheering continued until ten o'clock in the evening, and the players showed no signs of ending.
In the end, it was with the decisive interception of Coach Tan and Coach Sun that the celebration banquet ended happily.
Everyone scattered in front of the fried chicken shop and went home.
The joyful atmosphere after the game ended here.
Early the next morning, all the team members lost the privileges given to them by the school during the game and returned to being ordinary and hard-working high school students.
Get up before dawn, put on your school uniform and school badge, yawn and go to school, and write articles silently with your classmates who go to and from school as usual. The teachers don't care about their situation. If they fail to write, they will be forced to memorize and write silently again.
After class, there are all kinds of homework, papers, notes, memorizing texts, and silent words...
Only then did they realize that the privileges during the competition were given by the school, not their teacher...
The game seems to be a blindfold, a temporary escape, gently blinding their eyes, allowing them to completely immerse themselves in a leisure life where they only need to compete and enjoy the rest.
The game is over, and the fog that blinded my eyes has completely dissipated...
Life goes on, and others no longer envy them for not having to do homework.
And they need to spend more effort and energy to catch up with the fast pace of life before.
Everyone regretted it. At night, I dreamed that I was playing various games and watching TV shows during the game, and I was slapped on my face and head.
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This year's competition is over, and the players have a period of rest. They don't have to go to training in the evening and morning.
Whether it is morning self-study, class break, lunch break, evening self-study... In every corner of the campus, you can always meet tennis team members who are tortured crazy by leftover homework and review.
From the warm greetings at the beginning, the students seemed to have seen the star with their own eyes, but in the end they were just pitiful and sympathetic. Some even took the initiative to help correct mistakes in their homework.
Staring at the dark circles under the eyes of the team members who were doing their homework on the audience stage next to the playground, only then did they understand the meaningful smile that Coach Tan showed them after the dinner that day, and the words, 'Don't be too happy too early, it's What's the meaning......
But for academics like Xu Yanxi, Song Yimian, and Tang Hui who have already planned their winter vacation and even how to study next semester, these tragic situations will never happen to them.
They completed homework and review content with high quality in the shortest possible time, and were set as good examples by teachers in every class. Students in other classes...
The time for final review was tight. Tao You only took a breather after finishing his homework, and then devoted himself to preparing for the exam again. He went to bed later than a dog and got up earlier than a chicken.
This is the first final exam since the split.
She just hoped that nothing would go wrong in this exam. She didn't dare to think about how she would survive the entire winter vacation under Mother Tao's piercing eyes and words.
Even the unexpected incident that happened during the competition, which left her confused and scratching her head, was completely forgotten by her. Before falling asleep every day, she thought about various formulas of mathematics and physics, and after waking up, she reviewed the Chinese Mixed English and English texts.
In addition to her own studies, Song Yimian still had the energy to help Tao You make a simple and complete review plan so that she would not be so messy in the final sprint.
At that moment, Tao You truly felt that even if Song Yimian didn't like her, he would always be her great benefactor if they separated in the future!
Even every time Tao's father brought a late-night snack, she remembered to give Song Yimian an extra portion, for fear that her dear teacher Song, who cooked the small stove for her, would not be full and unable to think clearly.
On the other side, Hong Xiqi uninstalled all her favorite and TV software, handed over her mobile phone to her parents, and immersed herself in the ocean of study.
Gu Yi also didn't show up in class for many days in a row. He was buried in last night's test papers and mock exams all day long. The callus on the middle finger of his right hand was getting bigger...
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