Most people in the hall sat in still silence, fearing the next few minutes. Having the fate of their future handed off to the audience didn't sit right with them.
Sure, those audiences would include empathetic people who might want to give the participants some grace and allow most of them to pass. But there would be more of them who wanted entertainment alone. They would want the competition to be cutthroat and thus fail a chunk of the participants right here.
Alex looked at the list before him, which now showed the Real Time instead of Final Time. Looking through it, the middle ground was around 55 minutes. While many had managed to perform greatly, the majority had failed to live up to that standard and had dragged the overall average down by a lot.
