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Since: May, 2014
MetaFour
MOD
(Old Master)
14th Apr, 2021 10:44:01 AM
Since it's the person who set up the contest in the first place, going against their own rules to declare the winner, Screw the Rules, I Make Them!. Also see New Rules as the Plot Demands.
Edited by MetaFour
A being of massive power selects a number of characters and makes them fight each other in a tournament style: a vs. b, c vs. d, first victor vs. second victor, etc. The final victor will receive a massive power boost.
However, when the story ends, and the last tiers are about to be resolved and the champion decided, this being selects the winner: one of the losers that were defeated in the first round. Which makes it seem as if the whole tournament was pointless and a waste of everyone's time.