"However, online voting only affects 30% of the final selection results; the real decisive key is still in the hands of the nine judges." On the NAA forum, after the first phase of the battle had ended, players began discussing the second phase of the selection process.
"Does anyone here know any of the nine judges? Best case scenario, 'one of the judges is somebody here's dad'—that level of solid connection."
"Stop kidding, even if we did know someone, it would be more likely that you were the judge's father, and a judge being your father can't change the voting outcome; there are too many layers of interests involved."
"Indeed, the stage with the biggest exposure of the year is something every artistic industry is dying to get on and win an award."