Besides those three, there was another team who outstood among the participants, the one formed by the best the families subordinated to the Minister had to offer, compared to the Minister, in this event, Vincent was put in a strange spot.
Because, the crown prince is technically his grandnephew, as his mother is the daughter of a distant cousin of his, though they don't belong to the same branch, they are still from the same family.
Unfortunately, Vincent and that cousin never got along well to begin with, and the small interactions the old man had with Irma, weren't pleasant at all, not to mention when he took Annete and Mellie under his wing, their already bad relationship worsened.