With the first position claimed, Ezra and Jesse still fought fiercely for the second place. Ezra won by the smallest of margins.
Their battle was the only battle fought that Grey watched, discarding his thought process for the few minutes the battle was on.
The reason he watched it was to get an outer view of the light element. There is a difference between experiencing it up close and looking at it from a distance.
When the battles for the rankings of the Origin Plane concluded, the judges called those whose names were in the top ten to step into the stage to receive their rewards.
While Grey was outside, he asked Sylvia a question that was bothering him. He wanted to know how the stone worked since it was able to automatically move his name to the first place after he defeated Ezra.