This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Morgan Wick: If the first sentence is the trope, how is this any different from the general case of Chekhov's Gun? If it isn't, and the trope has more to do with the tournament, how can we re-format the entry to reflect this? If the trope is that if a tournament is mentioned, you will enter it, see the first question, but note that this may be another good old Splitter debate.
Yoshi348: The trope is basically that a tournament is a really really really common form of Chekhov's Gun in video games (especially RP Gs). It's a rather uniquely video game variant.
Man Called True: For the record, Morgan, I only used that first line because it was a good opening. The tournament is the trope.
Andrew Leprich: Personally, I think that we should somehow expand this to cover the fact that, if something is mentioned in a video game, it is always relevant and important, which is a very solid trope in and of itself. The Inevitable Tournament is a very good example or specific variant of it and deserves its own page, but the entire principle shouldn't be limited to just to tournaments IMHO. Edit: Disregard, I see that occurrence is more or less covered in Chekhov's Gun. I'm probably going to slightly edit that to reflect that it also applies to video games.
Ununnilium: Jiggered this a bit to sync up with what Man Called True said and with the existence of Infallible Babble.
nobody: On an unrelated note, I blame Akira Toriyama and his like for the proliferation of tournaments in fighting shows and video games. Thanks a lot, bub.
