Standing in the audience section on the second floor and watching the members of the Wind Music Club sobbing into each other's shoulders below, Duanmu Huai said nothing.
Unlike soccer or basketball, wind music competitions did not have group stages, quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals. The selected schools gathered together, performed everything within a single day, and then the National Competition was over.
After all, this was a music competition, and each prefecture only had three representative schools. Each school performed two pieces, so the whole thing was over in a day.
To be honest, there was hardly any sense of tension. If it were soccer or basketball, perhaps he would have felt more like he had truly made it to the National Competition. But with wind music, after qualifying in the previous round, they went straight into the finals in the next one. Duanmu Huai found it somewhat difficult to adjust.
Of course, in the end, the Wind Music Club had won—Silver Award.
How should he put it? It was not outside Duanmu Huai's expectations.
According to the judges' comments, Mary and Kosaka Reina's duet in the selected piece had been outstanding and received extremely high praise. The problem, however, lay with the required piece. After all, the selected piece allowed the Wind Music Club to make the most of the trump cards' strengths, while the required piece demanded consideration of the entire band's overall ability.
In that regard, the Wind Music Club lacked experience and depth, revealing the weakness of its insufficient strength.
It was like a match between two soccer teams. His Wind Music Club was like a team whose two forwards were international superstars, while all its other players were only at the domestic level. Their opponent, meanwhile, was a star-studded galactic battleship, with famous stars from