Brewing (Thanks to 'Bai Li Tongyun' for the Alliance Leader)
In the livestream, Le Jingchen was explaining the rules and procedure for the Sky Pillar round to the audience.
"For the Sky Pillar round, the specific procedure is... in the first round, the contestants each report their target weight, then take the stage one by one to hold up the Sky Pillar."
"This continues for three rounds in total. In the end, every contestant is scored according to their best result across the three rounds."
"One thing to note is... while reporting their target weight each round, contestants have no way of knowing what weight the other contestants have reported."
"In other words, before taking the stage each round, apart from the weight they themselves need to support, they will not know how much the other contestants are attempting, or whether it is higher or lower than theirs, until everyone has taken the stage."
Gang Shan, standing nearby, asked, "Then it seems that a crucial part of this round is judging the limits of one's own strength."
Gang Shan said slowly, "If you misjudge your limit and aim too low, your score will be low. But if you aim too high, you will fail to hold it up at all. That means wasting one chance to support the Sky Pillar, and you might even get hurt."
Le Jingchen nodded and agreed. "That's right. By my estimate, every contestant will report a relatively easy weight in the first round, using it to adapt and warm up. While conserving their strength, they can also judge the maximum weight of Sky Pillar they can support."
"In the second round, they will go for a weight close to their own limit, as a guaranteed result."
"Only in the third round will they throw caution