Plenty of people were gathered in a huge amphitheatre, which had on one side, an area full of chairs like the largest football stadium ever seen. All chairs for the students and the lodges specially created for the professors formed a huge semicircle, quite roomy even for the inhabitants of a small town.

Everyone gathered there came to see the Magic Contest, or to support their favourite team, hoping until the last moment it would be the winner.

That stadium had a snowy surface ...