The Solution and News from Antir

"Let's hear it." Since it looked like a dead end either way, he might as well hear what brilliant ideas this committee member had.

"We'll adjust the layout this time, print the second name on the back, and then order those newspapers to only publicize the top winner..."

"Fine, let's do that." This would at least minimize the fallout, so Gregory agreed immediately.

Gregory paced back and forth in the room without coming up with any better methods, let out a soft sigh, and walked straight out of the committee.

As things stood, if he wanted to eliminate the current negative impact, it was unlikely he would find a way within the committee; he needed to hurry and communicate with the newspaper departments outside.

In his view, Rost's previous suggestion could be adopted, but what mattered more was dealing with those newspapers.

He had to make the newspapers refrain from reporting the specific list of Hourglass Cup winners, and simply have them use a (work + first author's name) format instead, leaving that Felistin out of the papers entirely.

Furthermore, past Hourglass Cups had always been major competitions, with newspapers using their front pages to report the event's results.

Previously, this front page required him, the person in charge, to coordinate; after all, he also needed the competition to have a high degree of dissemination to reflect his duties and capabilities as the person in charge.

Right now, however, it was different; he would rather reduce that dissemination than fail to suppress the matter as much as possible.

After all, compared to the anger of the people above, letting one or two competitions run a little poorly were two errors that simply could not be compared.

When Gregory left the committee, Rost, who had just made the proposal, fell into